Marvels Voices: Pride is releasing a new one-shot comic, X-Men: The Wedding Special #1 , and fans are finally getting to see the wedding of one of the most famous queer couples in comics Mystique and Destiny.
In the comics, Mystique and Destiny have been together for over a hundred years, and now, we finally get to see when they secretly married and a new renewal of those vows. This marks the first woman-to-woman wedding in Marvel Comics history!
While the issue focuses on the love between Mystique and Destiny, a lot of fans online have been distracted by a certain muscular hunk and a cute twink that grace one of the issues variant covers.
In this cover, drawn and colored by Russell Dauterman, many queer Marvel characters like America Chavez, Loki, Black Cat, Nico and Karolina from The Runaways, Spider-Gwen, and Web-Weaver stand in front of a colorful background.
In the middle of these characters is a smugly smiling Hercules with his arm around a pleasantly pleased Iceman. And just like that the internet has a new favorite Marvel couple.
Of course, fans across social media are freaking out about this new pair. At first, fans were just loving the couple, but the love quickly turned into an argument over who would be the top and who would be the bottom.
So, what do you think? Who's the bottom here?
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Isn't Mystique a villain?I would like to know as well.
lolDepends on which arc you are reading. Technically the X-Men are going to war with humans. So who is the good guy?
I would like to know as well.
Isn't Mystique a villain?This is Marvel, they switch sides all the time.
Obviously Hercules is the top and Iceman is the bottom. The other way makes no god damn senseMuscle bottoms are far more common than you think
When did Spider-Gwen become queer ? Also I hate Mystique the person. The character is already. But they need to keep reminding people she is a pretty horrible person. And since he is also a father would that make her a top. Not sure how that works.Yeah it's pretty cheap to make a shapeshifter their prominent lesbian character
Yeah it's pretty cheap to make a shapeshifter their prominent lesbian characterYea, it's weird. At least in the 90s cartoon sequel they are going more for the obvious genderfluid angle with Morph.
What does it mean they have been together for a century? I dont remember this destiny character at all, but I wasnt that into the comics.They mean in universe.
Yea, it's weird. At least in the 90s cartoon sequel they are going more for the obvious genderfluid angle with Morph.
They mean in universe.
So they are both over 100 in story? They look great for their age.Technically Destiny has been dead for a few in universe decades with Mystique bringing her back to life during the current weird immortal racial supremacist sex cult arc the x men have been going through recently.
So they are both over 100 in story? They look great for their age.I don't know much about comics but I'd assume a shapeshifter is whatever age they wanna be
I don't know much about comics but I'd assume a shapeshifter is whatever age they wanna be
When did Spider-Gwen become queer ?I believe that's Gwenpool.
So they are both over 100 in story? They look great for their age.Not only that, but to give you a hint as to how old they both really are, Destiny's real name of "Irene Adler" isn't just a reference to the original Sherlock Holmes stories (where she was one of the only people to ever outsmart Holmes), but in the Marvel Universe, she was the very same character. Mystique was also known to have used Sherlock's identity, but it's unclear whether there was a real Sherlock Holmes in-universe that she was impersonating, or if she made up the identity herself.
Mistique is lesbian now? I thought she was bi/pan.She is, but Marvel likes to score brownie points every now and then, despite having already existing lesbian characters.
This is Marvel, they switch sides all the time.
Mistique is lesbian now? I thought she was bi/pan.The wedding is lesbian since both participants are female. It's not a description of each individual person's preferences. Like if a male bisexual and female bisexual get married it's still a straight wedding.
The wedding is lesbian since both participants are female. It's not a description of each individual person's preferences. Like if a male bisexual and female bisexual get married it's still a straight wedding.But it kinda muddies the representation. Hets, gays, and lesbians get represented, while bisexuals and pansexuals get overshadowed.
Like if a male bisexual and female bisexual get married it's still a straight wedding."A wedding where neither participant is straight is still a straight wedding" is an...odd take.
"A wedding where neither participant is straight is still a straight wedding" is an...odd take.... it's not even a take. Just how words work.
... it's not even a take. Just how words work.Not straight + not straight = straight is how words work?
When did Spider-Gwen become queer?
I think that is a mistake in the article. The art TC posted shows Gwenpool who is asexual. I assume whoever wrote the article had a slip up on the nameNot necessarily.
Not necessarily.tc posted the art the article referenced, and Spider Gwen is 100% not in it.
Queer nowadays is used as an umbrella term, so any orientation or identity that isn't straight and cis can and do use it, and Ace is indeed an orientation.
I know some trans people who identify first and foremost as queer.
Isn't Mystique a villain?
... it's not even a take. Just how words work.That's not at all how words work.
tc posted the art the article referenced, and Spider Gwen is 100% not in it.Could have meant Gwenpool.
Neither people are straight."Heterosexual wedding" might still be accurate but by and large it's fairly meaningless to bring up in the first place.
It's weird that so many superheroes went to the wedding of a remorseless assassin who has literally killed some of their friends.Right?
If I was Marvel I would probably have chosen a different lesbian couple for their big first lesbian wedding.
It's weird that so many superheroes went to the wedding of a remorseless assassin who has literally killed some of their friends.Apocalypse was a prominent member of the X-Men recently. They have pretty low standards these days.
If I was Marvel I would probably have chosen a different lesbian couple for their big first lesbian wedding.
Apocalypse was a prominent member of the X-Men recently. They have pretty low standards these days.It does lend a certain something to their negotiating style.
I thought they retconned that whole Jean Grey using her telepathic powers to force Ice Man to be gay arc because it was so poorly received?https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/0/0d470272.jpg
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