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[Edited by Fighteer]
Edited by Fighteer on Dec 15th 2022 at 9:55:58 AM
Jaded Techie Fox
Awww. That picture is precious. 
Oh, that's why Thor said he liked her. He was looking for someone to hook Valkyrie up with.
Love is Love is Love
Thor Odinson: Lesbian Icon.
My various fanfics.
Well, he did say he fantasized about becoming a Valkyrie when he grew up...
Lost in Space
I don't think Larson is specifically stating that Carol Danvers is gay in the MCU, just giving fuel to shippers. That said, it would be cool.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Carol x Maria would be cool, but given that Carol is seemingly immortal thanks to her tesseract/infinity stone powers it'd probably get weird quick. (forgive any spelling errors, I just had my eyes dilated and am relying on muscle memory and heavy squinting to read and type.)
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Carol x Maria would be cool, but given that Carol is seemingly immortal thanks to her tesseract/infinity stone powers it'd probably get weird quick.
If consent is given to either party, should it even matter?
Edited by HallowHawk on Mar 19th 2019 at 1:50:34 AM
I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out.
Also, it wouldn't get weird quick. It would get weird after a long time has passed.
Lost in Space
Carol x Maria would be fine given that they are roughly the same mental age. Of course, Maria would get old and die, while Carol would not. It's not quite the same as Thor dating Jane Foster, since he's already over a thousand years old at the time, making it a true Mayfly–December Romance.
If Carol dates Valkyrie, then you have a different kind of of weirdness, since they are both immortal but Carol is much younger in absolute terms. That said, Carol is an adult, so she can be presumed to make her own choices in that regard.
Edited by Fighteer on Mar 18th 2019 at 2:11:51 PM
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
I actually love that theory XD
OTOH, Thor has about the same emotional maturity as Jane, if not less.
Google "big ears"
I do headcanon Maria as bisexual. Monica exists after all.
Uni cat
Might’ve been from a donor. Dykes to Watch Out For showed this as an option for married women couples in the 80s.
It's possible she had Monica first, then split up/divorced the father because she realized she was predominantly homosexual and the relationship wasn't going to work out. Of course it's all speculation and there's no hard evidence in any direction to behave exclusionarily of other headcanons over.
Screaming Into The Void
My aunt was married with a son before coming out back in the nineties. It happens.
Seems like Ms Larson is taking up Mr Downey role of lifting up the slash ships.
...F/F ships are also slash ships, right?
So did mine. T'was before I was born, though.
Brightness
As bisexual person, I’d personally like more bisexual characters, but whatever.
PSN ID: FateSeraph | Switch friendcode: SW-0145-8835-0610 Congratulations! She/They
Now that you mention it, I think the fans tend to have a bit of a No Bisexuals mentality going on.
Not just from the MCU, but all-around. Seems like it is always "either-or" whenever a character shows signs of same-gender attraction.
Society in general tends to forget about the existence of bisexuality. I suspect part of it is that homosexuals are seen as more 'different' from a straight person and so attention is drawn to them, whereas bisexuals are more 'normal'.
Another part with media representation is if a story has a character in merely a single romance, their attraction to other genders can be odd. For example, in a story I was making (for a game) I was (and actually am) considering having the protagonist's girlfriend be bisexual. But, since said character is in a relationship with a man, it was hard to portray in a meaningful way. I did consider a gag where the heroes run into an attractive woman or something and the males can't help but stare, another female on the team declares All Men Are Perverts, but then the protagonist's girlfriend is staring as well. Not sure if that'd be a good gag or not, though.
Edited by Protagonist506 on Mar 18th 2019 at 5:01:36 AM
"Any campaign world where an orc samurai can leap off a landcruiser to fight a herd of Bulbasaurs will always have my vote of confidence"
I definitely see some of the characters in the films like Steve and Okoye as bi. And more, but it’d take too long to list where all the characters fall. 
Wow, I was really behind on this thread.
Regarding the Chris Pratt situation- it's actually a lot worse than it seems. While I don't think he'd ever truly want to support something like this, Hillsong has vocally praised conversion therapy and actually practiced it up until about seven years ago. Ellen Page is right that Hillsong is famously anti-LGBT to an extreme degree.
Chris Pratt seems like an overall good person, so I'm honestly kind of shocked that he's doubled down on the "my church loves and accepts everyone" bs when that's pretty blatantly untrue. The weirdest part was when he tried to use his divorce as proof that they don't discriminate, as if the church being nice to rich megastar Chris Pratt during a divorce (something that a lot of modern churches already ignore, despite explicitly being a sin) means that they don't actively discriminate against LGBT people. Come on Chris, do better.
"In 900 years of time and space I've never met anyone who wasn't important."
I dig, personally.
Ehh, dunno about Steve, but Okoye definitely. IIRC, she dates a woman in the comics, and was shown as having a (very shoehorn in) relationship with that dude that has the same actor as the protagonist of Get Out.
Another one I'd like to see portrayed as bisexual is Thor, because the most macho character in the MCU liking men seems like a fun idea.
Edited by HailMuffins on Mar 18th 2019 at 9:15:27 AM
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