Previous Post > > > Then there's the Living Lightning who Slott (or Austen) outed. > > It was Slott. > > >>I tend to assume anything these guys put out is happening in an alternative reality anyway (the land that dialogue forgot). Lightning is the only Avenger on record to invite a girl back to his room and turn up at the breakfast table with her the next morning. > > Yep, Miguel did have girlfriends before coming out...but that is hardly an unusual situation for young gay men in the closet. I think we need to table the Living Lightning debate until his sexuality isn't the punchline of a dumb joke. Slott had a joke to tell and used an Avenger no one cared about. When a writer has a more serious storyline use for Miguel we'll see if he's gay or straight then.

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> > > Then there's the Living Lightning who Slott (or Austen) outed.
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> > It was Slott.
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> > >>I tend to assume anything these guys put out is happening in an alternative reality anyway (the land that dialogue forgot). Lightning is the only Avenger on record to invite a girl back to his room and turn up at the breakfast table with her the next morning.
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> > Yep, Miguel did have girlfriends before coming out...but that is hardly an unusual situation for young gay men in the closet.
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> I think we need to table the Living Lightning debate until his sexuality isn't the punchline of a dumb joke. Slott had a joke to tell and used an Avenger no one cared about. When a writer has a more serious storyline use for Miguel we'll see if he's gay or straight then.

You said it very well. Let's let a writer who really wants to develop Living Lightning as a character decide his orientation.



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