Deadpool will be pansexual in his upcoming movie.

[Erttheking]

What rating is this movie?

Its a hard R-rating.

The last time this came up, it did not go well.

You're expecting them to use critical thinking regarding sexual orientation when it comes to science-fiction. You have to give them a 120year old blue alien to fuck before they might think about that.

Nerds - we'll argue to death about whether that crossguard in the new Star Wars is effective but heaven forbid we try to apply critical thought in science-fiction when its relative to real world circumstances.

There's something I've always thought that was kind of weird. People act like they want science fiction to be nothing but escapist fantasy and that people who inject commentary in are ruining it or just pandering to a specific demographic (and as is typical it's never pandering if it's pandering to the speaker). Even though most of the science fiction classics were making commentary of some kind. Starship Troopers, the Forever War, 1984, Fahrenheit 451, Brave New World, etc etc. And Star Trek...I mean just look at this.

https://31.media.tumblr.com/b5f9c6d3def7823ba068d7ef9620cb2a/tumblr_inline_n5ce83W5S21rj4yy7.png

And this.

http://autostralianchristmas.tumblr.com/post/132029799573/geekygothgirl-ellidfics-chandri

 

[Something Amyss]

You're expecting them to use critical thinking regarding sexual orientation when it comes to science-fiction. You have to give them a 120year old blue alien to fuck before they might think about that.

Nerds - we'll argue to death about whether that crossguard in the new Star Wars is effective but heaven forbid we try to apply critical thought in science-fiction when its relative to real world circumstances.

Actually, I expect this to go bad. I was just bracing ert. Also, speak for yourself. I am totally a fake nerd. I don't even know who this Deathkill guy is. I just came in here to force pansexual representation on the nerd community on behalf of my special snowflake pansexual partner. Something something Tumblr.

There's something I've always thought that was kind of weird. People act like they want science fiction to be nothing but escapist fantasy and that people who inject commentary in are ruining it or just pandering to a specific demographic (and as is typical it's never pandering if it's pandering to the speaker). Even though most of the science fiction classics were making commentary of some kind. Starship Troopers, the Forever War, 1984, Fahrenheit 451, Brave New World, etc etc. And Star Trek...I mean just look at this.

https://31.media.tumblr.com/b5f9c6d3def7823ba068d7ef9620cb2a/tumblr_inline_n5ce83W5S21rj4yy7.png

And this.

http://autostralianchristmas.tumblr.com/post/132029799573/geekygothgirl-ellidfics-chandri

It's all about what we find acceptable. Remember, people did complain about most of those, some quite heavily. We tend to look back at the old stuff as safe because we're past a lot of those points. Not to mention, this seems to almost always be used to complain about something that the person in question doesn't like. Not quite the same thing as what Mars is bringing up, which is also valid.

Personally, I would think Escapist fantasy would be the perfect place for anyone to shine. But it's only truly escapist if it's a very narrow type of person...which is pretty limiting.

 

[kris40k]

Dude wants to bone Death. He swings ALL the ways. It fits.

Knowing Deadpool, this could mean a sexual attraction to cookware.

Or Peter Pan.

This.

I mean really, my first thought was that Deadpool would probably fuck a toaster just so he could make a joke about "that was HOT!"

Captcha: Coffee Mug

Yes, Captcha, probably the coffee mug, too.

 

[ReservoirAngel]

Knowing Deadpool, this could mean a sexual attraction to cookware.

Or Peter Pan.

Well...

Couldn't blame the guy.

OT: I'm no Deadpool comics afficionado but I've always been under the impression that his primary character trait, or one of them, was that he was physically incapable of even pretending to give a fuck about how he comes across. Honestly from all I've heard of the character it just kind of makes logical sense that he's the kind of guy who doesn't really care about what gender someone he's slipping it to happens to be.

 

[Tsun Tzu]

Well this is nothing I didn't know already.

Deadpool fucks pans.

Perhaps pots as well.

We got it. Stop rubbing our collective faces in it.

 

[Knight Captain Kerr]

So wait, whats the difference between Pansexual and just sexual?

I'm assuming you meant to say bisexual.

From what I can find, pansexual is a term used by people who want to say that they're also attracted to intersex people, transexual people and everyone else that doesn't fit into simply male or female.

Bisexual = Two or more genders (that can mean all genders.)
Pansexual = All genders.

That's it. That's what the words mean. Now you know.

Anyway, it's nice to see not all non-monosexual fictional characters get their sexuality erased in film and television adaptations. I know that happened to John Constantine.

 

[RedRockRun]

Wait... Deadpool isn't already pansexual?

 

[Ihateregistering1]

What rating is this movie?

Its a hard R-rating.

The last time this came up, it did not go well.

You're expecting them to use critical thinking regarding sexual orientation when it comes to science-fiction. You have to give them a 120year old blue alien to fuck before they might think about that.

Nerds - we'll argue to death about whether that crossguard in the new Star Wars is effective but heaven forbid we try to apply critical thought in science-fiction when its relative to real world circumstances.

There's something I've always thought that was kind of weird. People act like they want science fiction to be nothing but escapist fantasy and that people who inject commentary in are ruining it or just pandering to a specific demographic (and as is typical it's never pandering if it's pandering to the speaker). Even though most of the science fiction classics were making commentary of some kind. Starship Troopers, the Forever War, 1984, Fahrenheit 451, Brave New World, etc etc. And Star Trek...I mean just look at this.

https://31.media.tumblr.com/b5f9c6d3def7823ba068d7ef9620cb2a/tumblr_inline_n5ce83W5S21rj4yy7.png

And this.

http://autostralianchristmas.tumblr.com/post/132029799573/geekygothgirl-ellidfics-chandri

I think the mileage can sort of vary in that regard. I don't think people necessarily have a problem with using sci-fi to bring up topical and interesting ideas and make you think, I think it bugs people when they take existing sci-fi/fantasy properties and seemingly out of nowhere try and inject political or social topics into them that weren't there before, and that goes double if you try to take something that's meant to be ridiculous (like Deadpool) and all of the sudden try and have serious topics addressed in it. Admittedly, yes, Mutants and the X-Men universe have always had social topics involved, but Deadpool was so far removed from that I've always just accepted him as the class clown of the whole thing. I think it's worth noting that all those books you listed were basically stand-alone sci-fi books that weren't really part of any established IP (though I think Brave New World had a forgettable sequel), except Star Trek, which (if I remember correctly) Roddenberry made clear right off the bat that Trek was supposed to represent a utopian ideal future where racism and sexism were largely a thing of the past.

It'd be like if they made the Lord of the Rings movies somehow be a giant metaphor for the importance of gun control. Even if I agree with their stance, my first thought would be "where the hell did this come from?".

 

[PapaGreg096]

So bisexual then. Wait I forgot, you have to pander to tumblr and saying bisexual isn't radical enough these days.

You do know that Pansexual is an actual thing and Deadpool lives in a universe where there is an entire species that can shapeshift and his wife true form looks like a purple ram demon

 

[PapaGreg096]

I need more. What's his political alignment? Does he recycle? What's his least favorite Beatles song? Is he a John or a Paul?

Anarchist-Capitalistic, no, he thinks all of them are good, and Paul

 

[Shugoo]

So wait, whats the difference between Pansexual and just sexual?

I'm assuming you meant to say bisexual.

From what I can find, pansexual is a term used by people who want to say that they're also attracted to intersex people, transexual people and everyone else that doesn't fit into simply male or female.

Bisexual = Two or more genders (that can mean all genders.)
Pansexual = All genders.

That's it. That's what the words mean. Now you know.

Anyway, it's nice to see not all non-monosexual fictional characters get their sexuality erased in film and television adaptations. I know that happened to John Constantine.

I thought what Silentpony was getting at was more in the vein of if Pansexual means everything, then it explains nothing.

In which case just claiming Deadpool is sexual is more than descriptive enough.

On the other hand I could have read into it way too much.

 

[Angelblaze]

I'll go ahead and be the cyncial one, but this sounds like one of those things where at first people are going to be really happy and excited about it, because it shows more acceptance for people who identify as 'pansexual', plus it shows that a character who isn't standard heterosexual can still be ultra-badass. And then...

those same people will realize that Deadpool is completely bat-shit insane, and then they'll get offended because now they'll claim it's implying that only people who are mentally deranged would identify as pansexual.

I've got $15 on my theory. Who's in?

I'll put $50 on people being asspained, but I'll also move it up to way earlier than movie release, and it probably dying down after release or even before because something new came out for said people to get shitty about.

I, being one of those people who the ignorant will call a 'tumblrina', will add 100 dollars to the pot that we'll have people who will try and call themselves comic book nerds claiming Deadpool is and has always been 100 percent heterosexual despite;

1. kissing Spiderman, helping him and - from this readers perspective having a strangely nice relationship with him. (in a rather non-sexual way, to be honest. Source: Deadpool Annual #2.)

2. Having an annual book literally entitled with a 'ship' name. (Spideypool. See again: Deadpool Annual #2) and having a Spiderman/Deadpool book (as in, Marvel is literally calling it that) due to be released soon. (http://marvel.com/news/comics/24874/sdcc_2015_spider-mandeadpool)

3. Over the course of the past decade, making multiple insinuations that he was attracted to Spiderman, though given the nature of well, Deadpool, the mileage on that may very.

The wannabe hardcore nerd bitching is gonna be great.

 

[Loop Stricken]

Typhoid Mary (although it was more of her boning him)

Raped, mate. She raped him.

Oh that crazy Deadpool!

 

[The Almighty Aardvark]

https://31.media.tumblr.com/b5f9c6d3def7823ba068d7ef9620cb2a/tumblr_inline_n5ce83W5S21rj4yy7.png

I was talking to my Dad this morning about the Sad/Rabid Puppies Hugo Awards business and remarked on how weird it is for people to get up in arms over diversity in a genre where one of the most recognizable series in science fiction was a complete melting pot of different ethnicities. As well as a show that made waves by sneaking in the first interracial kiss onto TV.

Though, who am I kidding? People were probably complaining just the same amount about it back then too.

EDIT:
https://www.facebook.com/BigThinkdotcom/videos/10153071557783527/ Turns out they were

 

[KyuubiNoKitsune-Hime]

So bisexual then. Wait I forgot, you have to pander to tumblr and saying bisexual isn't radical enough these days.

Pansexual means that one is attracted transfolk, both MtF and FtM, intersex, agender, men, women, genderfluid, and/or basically anyone, to be absolutely clear it means that biological sex phenotype and gender identity have totally no bearing on attraction.

Completely unnecessary but ok, anything to please the tumblrinas

You know except for the fact that it's basically canon already, it's well known that Deadpool will bone anyone, or anything if he gets the chance.

Deadpool is a fictional character, so sure, he can have a fictional sexuality too.

I know quite a few people who openly profess to be pansexual, it's not a fictional sexuality. Also as one of the asexual people on these forums, I find your attitude on the subject downright insulting. Especially, because I'm also panromantic(Same idea as pansexual without the sexual part.) and polyromantic(I'm down with the idea of romantic relationships involving more than two people directly). Calling someone's sexual, or romantic identity fictional is like saying that transgender folk, bisexuals, or homosexuals are fictional. Because they prove that sexuality, gender identity, and romantic identity are a spectrum, not some black and white divider.

I'll go ahead and be the cyncial one, but this sounds like one of those things where at first people are going to be really happy and excited about it, because it shows more acceptance for people who identify as 'pansexual', plus it shows that a character who isn't standard heterosexual can still be ultra-badass. And then...

those same people will realize that Deadpool is completely bat-shit insane, and then they'll get offended because now they'll claim it's implying that only people who are mentally deranged would identify as pansexual.

I've got $15 on my theory. Who's in?

Unfortunately I think you might be right, but only for a subset of the people who talk about it, mainly internet activists, but most people I know who are pansexual openly wear the insane tag too, also I know none who don't adore Deadpool. So I'll back you on the theory, but I'll add the wild card that there are people who will defend it, because honestly everyone is insane, at least to them.

On topic: Well this is actually nice, not because it adds visibility to pansexuals, instead because it's totally accurate to the character. The care they're taking with Marvel characters being accurate in movie portrayals to their comic book portrayals is a good thing. This is why Marvel succeeds and DC is dying a sad corporate focus group death. Well that and Marvel characters have actual character, while DC characters are bland as wallpaper paste.

 

[Thaluikhain]

There's something I've always thought that was kind of weird. People act like they want science fiction to be nothing but escapist fantasy and that people who inject commentary in are ruining it or just pandering to a specific demographic (and as is typical it's never pandering if it's pandering to the speaker). Even though most of the science fiction classics were making commentary of some kind. Starship Troopers, the Forever War, 1984, Fahrenheit 451, Brave New World, etc etc. And Star Trek...I mean just look at this.

Sci-fi nowdays is about strange new realms which have to be exactly the same as all the other strange new realms we've seen. Or there is sulking.

You get to pretend to be progressive by having a story where humans and aliens aren't so different, as long as you don't have too many people who aren't cishet and white, cause fuck that PC bullshit.

 

[Rebel_Raven]

I can't recall D Piddy being attracted to guys, but I'm not complaining. He's awesome.

 

[Erttheking]

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Fair enough, but from what I can tell, Deadpool was pansexual in the comics. This isn't introducing something new, this is just keeping him in character. Announcing that he was going to be pansexual was like announcing that he was going to be breaking the fourth wall. Reassurances that he was going to be in character.

 

[VVThoughtBox]

Why is this news? I don't care about the private sexual lives of comic book characters. It doesn't add any dimension or depth to them.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Why is this news? I don't care about the private sexual lives of comic book characters. It doesn't add any dimension or depth to them.

Er...almost every comic book movie has their sex (or at least romance) lives be an issue.

Notable exception of the first Blade film (and the last one), though.