Will the next Batman be a non-binary person of color?

[John_Doesnt]

I'm noticing a trend in Hollywood and I'm wondering if they will change all superheroes names from Blank-man to Blank-Nonbinary. Will Superman become Supernonbinary?

I've been saying Superman was gay for decades! I called it years ago!

[Soteris]

No you are not noticing a trend. Comic books were like this from the very start, you just did not read them. Comic books has always been about shacking things up which includes sexuality, ethnicity and literally everything else. It is part of the foundation of the whole industry and now you want to act surprised?

[Soteris]

Unfortunate typo but honestly just makes it funnier

[exitseven]

No, comic books were wholesome entertainment in the 70s.

[Soteris]

@exitseven Ahahaha! Sure they were. Its not like half the characters were homosexuals/bisexuals and had gender/race flipped at least once. Tell me you dont know about comics without telling me you dont know about comics.

[exitseven]

I mostly remember the comics from the 70s. I know there was talk about Batman's relationship with his ward Dick Grayson but I never believed it.

[Soteris]

@exitseven Why not?

[exitseven]

Batman was and still is a warrior and he would not diddle a little kid. Besides he was too busy snagging Catwoman.

[Soteris]

@exitseven Yet he kept taking on young boy sidekicks. Just saying.

[exitseven]

In reality, they had Batman have a sidekick so he would have someone to talk to. Otherwise he would be beating up bad guys without saying a word and that would not be very entertaining

[Sasahara]

@Soteris Where did you get the idea that half of the characters in comics are gay / bi and has been gender / race bent at least once? You do realize there are a lot of comics made worldwide right?

[John_Doesnt]

@Sasahara nobody cares about foreigner comics. We're only talking about DC and Marvel

[Soteris]

@exitseven There are a million and one ways you can make a sidekick or even write a story without one. They made the choice to tag in a kid in spandex with flamboyant personality.

[exitseven]

@Soteris I refuse to believe that the characters that I used to read about as a kid were really degenerates.

[Soteris]

@Sasahara I am mostly speaking in regards to the American DC and Marvel comics since they are kind of a genre in its own and has a long history of being "woke". Mainly, the core figures behind the industry like Denny O’Neil or Dave Cockrum etc.. were all "woke" and regularly tackled political and social issues including climate change and even capitalism. I mean, Scooby-Doo for example is basically just an entire series bashing capitalism and religion with the villain basically always being an entitled white guy trying to get rich and all the mysticism always turns out to be fake.

As such, the comics are naturally filled with a diverse cast of characters and to mess with their core identities is just a fairly small jump from there, especially if you are trying to keep the same old story going for almost a century now. Some examples of this, in 1992 Miguel O’Hara was Spider-Man 2099 who is an Irish-Mexican. In 2009 I think we get the Red She-Hulk or whatever. There has been many Aquagirls ever since the first version appeared in 1959. In 1998 we get American Dream which is a female version of Captain America.

We have several female versions of pretty much every major super hero in fact. Sexuality however is a bit rarer since the editors and publishers were often much more conservative than the writers and artists so it was more often a case of certain people being "roommates" or whatever rather than outright saying that they had a same sex relationship which is why its usually coming out closer to now rather than back then such as when Velma in Scooby-Doo came out as gay recently.

[Soteris]

@exitseven They were written by "degenerates" so I would not hold my breath dude.

[exitseven]

I used to read them back in the Stan Lee days. He would not have written that trash.

[Soteris]

@exitseven Yes he would. He definitely would. You apparently dont know Stan Lee very well do you? Out of curiosity, have you ever considered what the X-men were meant to be?

[exitseven]

They were a metaphor for misfits. Stan Lee was enjoying the success of Spiderman so he wrote about a whole group of misfits that had various backstories.

[Soteris]

@exitseven Then why the heavy emphasis on the prosecution of mutants and their suffering at the hands of a hostile society?

[exitseven]

@Soteris Stan Lee had the idea that there were a lot of kids out there that were misfits. Kids that were not athletic and kids that didn't have many friends. He created a group of young people who were different. Then he started the narrative that they were persecuted because they were different. It is no wonder that sales soared almost from the first issue.

[Soteris]

@exitseven Sounds like a collection of every minority group in existence to me. Black people. Transsexuals. Gays. Anyone who is oppressed in society for just being who they are.

Dont know mate, sounds pretty woke to me.

[exitseven]

Damn, maybe I was one of those disenfranched youths who automatically identified with a weird looking monkey boy and a freakish kid with a pair of wings or a kid who couldn't control the energy bursts coming out of his eyes. It was a long time ago, long before anybody was woke.

[Soteris]

@exitseven You would be surprised. Also, once again.. the comic book artists were extremely woke. Same with the people behind shows like Sesame street or Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.

[exitseven]

I don't know if WW2 guys like Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Joe Simon and others were all that woke. I stopped reading comics in the 80s.

[Soteris]

@exitseven Oh, they were super woke. Probably far more than currently even.

[exitseven]

These guys were not woke. A lot of them were in the military in ww2. they were the opposite of woke

[Soteris]

@exitseven And you dont think people in the military was woke? Especially those fighting the actual nazis?

[exitseven]

nope, when I was a kid growing up all the fathers including my own were all WW2 vets. They all were the opposite of woke. These guys were the real deal.

[Soteris]

@exitseven That says more about them than it does about Stan Lee I guess.

[exitseven]

Batman will always be a rich white guy.

I'm Batman

[purplepoppy]

Superman was an alien who banged Lois Lane. She's not even the same species, he might as well fucked a goat

[John_Doesnt]

still totally gay

[Anonymous]

Yes, because Democrats will be excited by that.

[gorydetails]

I hope the next batman is a transgendered lesbian fat acceptance counselor who is afraid of the night.

[lightbulb27]

I hope not, but "Jimmy Cracks corn, and I don't _____".

[Msputiton]

That is superman's son. Not superman

[BarryLiverstone]

Nope