Former Superman Dean Cain has weighed in on DC’s choice to make the brand new Superman bisexual within the comics, saying it’s “bandwagoning.”
Cain, 55, who performed Clark Kent/Superman in ABC’s Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman between 1993 and 1997, spoke out concerning the new comedian’s revelation in an interview with Fox & Buddies. Watch above.
“They mentioned it is a daring new path, I say they’re bandwagoning,” Cain mentioned.
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“Robin simply got here out as bi — who’s actually shocked about that one?” Cain continued.
“The brand new Captain America is homosexual. My daughter in [the TV series] Supergirl, the place I performed the daddy, was homosexual. So I do not assume it is daring or courageous or some loopy new path. If they’d completed this 20 years in the past, maybe that may be daring or courageous.”
The Supergirl star clarified that combating for the rights of the LGBTQI+ neighborhood in Iran, the place same-sex relationships are punishable by fines, imprisonment, corporal punishment or demise, can be “courageous.”
“They’re speaking about having [Superman] struggle local weather change and the deportation of refugees and he is relationship a hacktivist — no matter a hacktivist is,” Cain mentioned.
A hacktivist is somebody who accesses digital recordsdata or networks, unauthorised, for social or political causes.
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Cain then pivoted his rant claiming DC Comics are virtue-signalling to at least one about politics typically, particularly Afghanistan.
“Why do not they’ve [Superman] struggle the injustices that created the refugees whose deportation he is protesting?” Cain requested.
“That may be courageous, I might learn that. Or combating for the rights of girls to attend faculty and have the flexibility to work and reside and boys to not be raped by males beneath the brand new heat and fuzzy Taliban — that may be courageous.”
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Cain’s opinions come after yesterday’s announcement that the brand new Superman, 17-year-old Jon Kent — son of Clark Kent — is bisexual.
Jon Kent will come out within the subject Superman: Son of Kal-El #5, which is because of be revealed on November 9.
Within the comedian, the youthful Kent will begin a romantic relationship with reporter Jay Nakamura.
Superman’s popping out is essentially the most high-profile instance to date of comedian e book publishers increasing their scope of LGBTQI+ illustration.
DC not too long ago revealed a difficulty through which Tim Drake — additionally recognized Robin, Batman’s loyal sidekick — got here out as bisexual in August.
Different main LGBTQI+ comedian characters within the DC Comics universe contains Batwoman, Harley Quinn and Alan Scott (the primary Inexperienced Lantern), and in Marvel‘s area, Iceman, America Chavez (Miss America) and Northstar — one of many very first overtly homosexual comedian e book characters when he got here out in 1992.
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