![]() ![]() Nowadays she’s a former soldier, a lesbian, kicking a lot of ass, and wearing arguably the best costume in comics today. Like Lilith-who was cursed with infertility and forced to haunt the night collecting semen spilled during masturbation, becoming mother to the seductive sex demons the incubi and succubi (and grandmother, then, to all the vampires)-Batwoman, too, has a more interesting side story. But she was too equal, and eventually the publisher wrote her out, recapitulating the biblical myth of Lilith, Adam’s all-too-equal wife in the Garden of Eden before he complained to God and had her kicked out in favor of Eve, who was nominally more compliant until the whole apple thing. Now, before Batgirl there was a Batwoman, created as a foil and love interest for Batman (and to show that there was nothing untoward going on between Batman and Robin). She started out as the Cat and then got needlessly specific.) (A major exception: Catwoman, Batman’s forever foe and romantic partner. And so too we had Batgirl, Hawkgirl, Miss Arrowette, Miss Martian, Mary Marvel, Spider-Girl, She-Hulk, She-Thing … the naming was uncreative at best, infantilizing at worst. Did Superman have a Superwoman? No! (Well, yes, but it’s complicated.) He had Supergirl. For years, decades even, women superheroes were often gender-swapped versions of existing male characters. The naming of women superheroes is, as TS Eliot kind of said, a serious matter. (See: Frankenstein.) DC Entertainment's Shazam movie comes out in April, and as far as I know he’ll be the only superhero who can’t say his own name without losing his powers. ![]() DC eventually absorbed Fawcett and the Marvel family into mainline Superman/Batman/Wonder Woman continuity, but eventual legal trouble with Marvel Comics resulted, decades later, in the character being known only as Shazam, which had been the name of the Wizard. Created just a year after Superman by CC Beck and Bill Parker for Fawcett Comics, that Captain Marvel couldn’t defeat the lawsuit that DC launched in the 1950s, claiming infringement on Superman. When Billy said the word “Shazam!”-an acronym for the abilities of Samson, Hercules, Atlas, Zeus, Achilles, Mercury, and yes, I know-he was transformed into a strapping, red-besuited monster fighter. we so cute".Another wrinkle: this Captain Marvel isn’t DC Comics' Captain Marvel, who also had an augmented Superman powerset but was actually a plucky orphan named Billy Batson gifted with magic powers by a wizard. Brie shared the photo with the adorable comment: "We cute Tessa then joined in the shipping by retweeting the photo with the comment: "WHAT. In it, Captain Marvel holds Valkyrie in her arms and they both stare lovingly into each others eyes. It all started with Brie retweeting an adorable piece of Captain Marvel and Valkyrie fan art. And thirdly, Brie and Tessa have just encouraged the Valkyrie and Carol theories on social media. Second some fans think that Carol and Maria were more than just friends (they essentially raised a child together!). So why do fans think Captain Marvel is lesbian? Well first of all, why not? The film never establishes her sexuality, so there is just as much of a chance that she could be gay or queer as there is that she could be straight. Is Captain Marvel gay? Does she fall in love with Valkyrie? ![]() And now Brie and Tessa have low-key alluded to it. Not only that but there are theories that Captain Marvel falls in love with Valkyrie. She is straight in the comic books but, many of the comic variations of Captain Marvel are queer, and it's not unheard of for Marvel to change things up on screen. ![]() Long before Captain Marvel even came out, MCU fans have speculated that Carol Danvers may be lesbian or sit somewhere on the LGBTQ+ spectrum. ![]()
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