Supergirl Burying & erasing lgbt characters
You may not have noticed it before but supergirl is guilty of erasing a few lgbt characters & guilty of killing off even more
They get away with it because most of them are back ground characters out of 6 confirmed lgbt characters 4 of them were killed. 3 of them were killed in brutal ways only 1 got a rather decent death.
Iâm going to break down each character killed & erased
Fake Irisâs dads: they were the first lgbt characters that supergirl killed off. The sg writers & flash writers that is. They died in the big finale shoot out. Their deaths could easily have been skipped since the plot no longer needed any of the musical universe characters
The prison warden: after being introduced as a crooked warden & after Kara dropped that he had a husband he was brutally killed by Otis graves. The plot would have been the exact same if they had simply knocked him out instead of killing him
Female brainy: a big thing about brainyâs episode was us getting female brainy being gay & having been married. She died by the end though being obsorbed into our brainy. This death is harder to avoid but if the writers had thought it out they could have sent each brainy to new worlds
There are also characters like Livewire & Pestilence who were heavily implied to be gay then killed off but since that was never stated as explicitly canon I canât say whether or not it is a full bury your gays
Now for the erased lgbt characters
This is a shorter list thankfully but only slightly shorter
Brainiac 5: yeah not female brainy weâre talking main universe male brainy who is known to be bi in comics something that the show seems to be completely unwilling to confirm in the two & a half seasons that brainy has been on the show
Maxima: yes queen maxima yah the one that in every old show chased after marrying Superman weâll back in 2015 or 2014 she had a giant coming out arc in supergirl comics an arc that supergirl quickly ignored so that instead they could include a joke about maxima wanting to mate Clark a joke that could have been just switched to her making the same offer to Kara but quickly being defeated in the fight
Finally we reach Ayla Ranzz: aka lightning lass Ayla was name dropped as Winnâs wife. Ayla is famous for being one of comics very first lgbt characters & one of the very first lgbt heroes shown in a relationship she has had a long running romance with shrinking violet Salu Digby sheâs bi but as everyone knows if you donât say or show a character as lgbt then they arenât. One of Winnâs many unnescissary scenes could easily have included a joke about his wife having an ex girlfriend but they didnât even do that
Now if this makes you as mad as it makes me then sign the petition to change supergirls treatment of lgbt characters & fandoms
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