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Celebrating DC's non binary actors

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  Image description: Actors clockwise from top left, Ezra Miller, Quintessa Swindell, Chella Man, Ruby Rose. Celebrating DC's non binary actors With the news of DC/HBO Max casting trans actress Ivory Aquino to play the first trans character in a DC feature film, I also wanted to do a post celebrating all the non binary and genderqueer DC actors. Listing is done by their first appearances in DC live action, both movies and TV shows.  - Ezra Miller : Ezra Miller , who plays Barry Allen/The Flash. First appearances: cameos in Batman vs. Superman (2016), Justice League (2017). Upcoming movie: The Flash (November 2022). Miller came out as queer in 2012 and has since spoken about their identity and pronouns in interviews (such as the GQ interview in 2018 ), also stating they do not use the label 'queer' other than to reject gendered labels. "Queer just means no, I don't do that. I don't identify as a man. I don't identify as a woman." Miller uses they

Batgirl Movie Casts Ivory Aquino

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'Batgirl' Casts Ivory Aquino as First Trans Character in a DC Comics Feature Film Barbara Gordon has officially found her roommate. Ivory Aquino ('Tales of the City', 'When We Rise') has been cast in the HBO Max feature film Batgirl as Alysia Yeoh, the best friend of the titular superhero, a.k.a. Barbara Gordon (Leslie Grace). Both Aquino and Yeoh are transgender, marking the first time a live-action feature film adaptation of a DC Comics title will feature an openly trans character. Yeoh first appeared in a 2011 issue of Batgirl written by Gail Simone and pencilled by Ardian Syaf Source: Variety - Congratulations, Ivory Aquino! This makes Ivory the FOURTH trans actor to be playing a named character in a DC superhero live action. So far we've had the pleasure to see: Dreamer/Nia Nal , played by Nicole Maines , and her roommate Yvette played by RoxyWood .  First appearances: Supergirl season 4 Then on Titans season 2 we had Jericho played by Che

About That Ben/Phastos Discourse...

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No, fans aren't 'racist' if they're unbothered about Ben/Phastos, it's simply a lacklustre ship. We are barely into 2022 and I see a worrying trend among fans of Marvel Studios/The MCU claiming that any fan not fully supporting one particular 'ship in The MCU is a racist. Wow! How come? Well this latest stan Twitter row is due to recent MCU movie Eternals, which was only released two months ago. Some more vocal fans of The MCU are currently claiming that fans who don't care about new couple, Phastos/Ben, are racist. They claim that fans have shown more support to the recent Loki show on Disney Plus than they have to Phastos/Ben in the Eternals movie, claiming it's because Loki is white while Phastos and Ben are not (the actors are Black and Lebanese respectively). The same fans claim that MCU Loki has more fans generally than Phastos and his walk-on-character-husband named Ben. (Well, obviously? Loki has been a fan favorite for ten years.