#queer coded villains

[sassylittlecanary]

Made this for a presentation night with friends but decided it’s too good not to post. So here’s my in-depth analysis on whatever the heck was going on in Smallville regarding Lex’s sexuality.

Uploaded as a video because any other formatting wasn’t working with the included gifs (also, massive credit to basically every Clex gifmaker on this site, especially @lexkent — y’all contributed to the “no words are needed to express how gay this is” part of this slideshow).

[disneyfemslashcomics]

This isn’t crossover, but it’s WLW and in my opinion, underrated: Maleficent X Queen Leah?

I love Leah x Maleficent so so so much!!!

Gonna nerd out about fairy tales for a bit:

In some versions of Sleeping Beauty Carabosse (evil fairy before Disney) helps the king and queen to be able to conceive a child. This in combination with Carabosse being a man's role traditionally in the ballet comes off with Maleficent always being very trans coded to me, implying some relations with Leah.

Plus, if Maleficent were to have assisted in the conception of the child, it gives more reason for her to be angry with Leah and Stefan for not inviting her to Aurora's christening, and want to take her away from her parents. If I were a fairy and someone didn't appreciate my gifting them with a baby, and wanted to exclude me from public life and being seen with that baby and them, I would be pretty miffed too. Especially if I had caught feelings for the dutifully married queen.

I do think that this makes the story significantly sadder though than Maleficent just being vindictively murderous about not being invited to a party. A lot of transforming the queerness of villains from coding into text is like that though, which is part of why I think it's important to queer up the more het coded "good" characters too, queer people deserve some happiness!

[unhinged-soapbox]

So like. When you go to Royal Advisor School, do they have a class called "Gay? Evil? Both? Your Place in the Royal Court"

[coquettethatcher-official]

Ngl if Maggie was a campy high drama Disney villain and not a real person with real consequences, I'd Stan the hell out of her

Up there with Ursula, scar, and cruella de vil

so you worship me. thank you

[xemylixa]

Noticed an amusingly apt subtle difference between Potop the book and Potop the movie, with regards to Kmicic meeting Kuklinowski

in the book, we have a whole minor point of tension where Kmicic can't help but almost shoot a retreating annoying messenger with a cannon because he's 💅🤷‍♀️quirky🤷‍♀️💅 like that (and a goddam Marty Stu since he suffers no consequences)

and that's why Kuklinowski, when it's his turn, says he doesn't feel safe as an envoy and wants someone to escort him in and out - leading to the "private" conversation with Kmicic at the end of which he's rolling down a hill on his ass

BUT. the movie omits this bit entirely

so, without it, what we get is that Kuklinowski enters the enemy fortress, encounters a handsome young nobleman half his age, and spontaneously decides to stay in his company for an extra minute

okay sure, we didn't ask but we ain't complaining thanks

[themousefromfantasyland]

I talked about this before, but I think I didn't leave things clear enough, and I don't think many people understood me right away, so I'll post about this again.

It bothers me that in fiction, when there's a clear distinction between the "Forces of Good", and the "Forces of Evil", the Forces of Good are chaste, patriarchal, and heteronormative, and the Forces of Evil are sexually promiscuous, matriarchal, and sexually deviant.

And even modern works that seem to twist on this formula sometimes seem to just reinforce it. The Forces of Good are still patriarchal and chaste, but now they are depicted as also hypocritical and nasty, while the queer-coded, sexually deviant Forces of Evil are still villains, but with a sad backstory and reasonable motive.

I know that villains are more fun and all, but does the funny, queer-coded, sassy character have to be a villain all the time? If your character has a point, why depict them immediately as the villain?

I propose the opposite. The Forces of Good are diverse, happy, and sexually liberated, while the Forces of Evil are petty, always angry, and repressed as hell.

The heroes celebrate in a sacred orgy, while the villains gather together in a mega church to sulk.

@ariel-seagull-wings @thealmightyemprex @the-blue-fairie @princesssarisa @mask131 @maimoncat @theancientvaleofsoulmaking

[transmascpolls]

Transmascs: do you tend to relate / sympathize more with characters presented as evil / evil-coded characters?*

Yes

No

Unsure / maybe

Other answer

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Voting ended onSep 3, 2025

* as compared to traditionally heroic characters in media

[ravings-of-a-mad-scientist]

Queer coded villains make the best role models.

I say that because they were the only relatable characters I had growing up which is why I am now a queer coded villain.