NoScans: New CW Seed cartoon series to feature gay lead character

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Comics Alliance is reporting that, after The Vixen, whose most recent iteration is moving from recent animated debut to live action version in Arrow, a new web series featuring a Golden Age hero will launch and also lead to live action

It's Freedom Fighters: The Ray!



Raymond “Ray” Terrill was a reporter who discovered a group of government scientists working on a secret project to turn light into a weapon of mass destruction. But before he could report on his findings, the project head exposed Ray to a “genetic light bomb.” The bomb failed to kill him and instead gifted Ray with light-based powers. With these abilities, Ray realized he could go beyond reporting on injustice – he could take action to help stop it. Calling himself The Ray, he was recruited by Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters to fight violence and oppression wherever it exists.

And it is confirmed that he will be depicted as a gay man too.

Sounds promising!

Comments

[flint_marko]

Obsidian is showing up in Legends of Tomorrow, and that kind of rules out them making Alan Scott gay (if they can even use a Green Lantern).

I also can't really picture Midnighter or Apollo showing up in the Arrowverse, but who knows.

[icon_uk]

It doesn't rule it out per se.

They could either make Alan bisexual, or a gay man who came into his queerness after he'd been married and had kids... and it just hadn't worked out. It might make better story potential than "Alan keeps guilting out about not being there for kids he never even knew he had until they were in their 20's, thanks to his crazy ex wife faking her death before he knew she was pregnant"

[flint_marko]

Well, I just found out they cast Lance Henricksen as Obsidian, so unless Obsidian's CGI and they're just using his voice I don't know what they're thinking there, especially since all the other JSA members they've cast are younger. :/

http://www.comicbookresources.com/article/legends-of-tomorrow-casts-lance-henriksen-as-obsidian

[long_silence]

Well Legends of Tomorrow's premise is based on time travel

Henricksen could be playing Obsidian in the modern day and they could also cast a younger actor to play him in the past.

[monsieur_safior]

Ugh the changing of sexuallity of Alan Scoot was so pointless and cut him away for one who was great aboot this character, the fact he was a father, in a time when super parent was rare.

I think the worst thing is the reason for why they change it, just to spit on Marvel who have married Northstar month ago before new52 and making him the first gay character to be married in mainstream comics.

[flint_marko]

His being a father would have been erased anyway when they decided to reboot the JSA, making them younger and putting them on Earth 2. That's one of the reasons why they made him gay, to make up for Obsidian being gone.

http://www.newsarama.com/9595-alan-scott-is-gay-other-gender-race-changes-coming-to-dc.html

[bruinsfan]

Yeah, if Todd is around it'd probably be best for his dad to be presented with his original orientation if he shows up at all. Though I do recall thinking that when they re-imagined Alan as a gay man in the Nu52 there was a bit more wiggle room for that not violating the previous characterization than most heroes would have had. IIRC, he never had a real love interest from his introduction until the 60s, and his later marriage to Harlequin was presented as her having pursued him for years in Pepe le Pew fashion before she wore him down into saying yes. That didn't strike me as that unlikely a life course for a closeted gay man in the mid-20th century.