I love the Hellaverse shows, but I have a bit of a Hot Take about them.
Disclaimer: I am in NO way homophobic. These are just my thoughts on how they handle pride. Otherwise I love the shows.
You know the Hellaverse Pride sales?
I know, they’re great! Here’s my slight gripe about some of the character’s sexualities. While it’s good that there’s this much representation, I feel like not every character needs to be LGBTQ+.
“But what about Niffty and Millie?”, I hear you guys shouting. That’s the issue, there’s only one straight ally character per show. One. And something tells me that the only reason even they’re straight is because Vivzie was externally encouraged to add one token straight per show. Otherwise, they likely would’ve been added to the Bi/Pan list too.
The Bi/Pan characters in these shows are a bit overdone, when there are a select few of them that easily could’ve just been straight. Now, the characters that have confirmed/blossoming relationships (Charlie, Blitzø, Husk, Asmodeus, Moxxie, etc.) are fine. There are even some characters where I could genuinely see them being Bi or Pan (Beezelbub, Lucifer, Loona, etc.). And of course, Sallie May is in the clear.
But Cherri, Pentious, Barbie Wire, and many others not shown in the pictures above are canonically Bi/Pan, and I feel like it was thrown in there. I personally don’t see some of them as Bi/Pan. Again, I’m not homophobic in any way.
The reason I’m complaining about this? THEY’RE LITERALLY IN FUCKING HELL. THIS IS KINDA SUPPORTING THE CHRISTIANS’ BELIEFS THAT ALL GAYS END UP IN HELL!!!
Anywaysssss thank you for coming to my Ted Talk, please don’t kill me for my opinions.