On the occasion of the Pride Month, the editors of the Last Tavern invite you to familiarize yourself with our favorite LGBT + characters and plots in fantasy. Maybe something will inspire you to reach for a previously unknown title or to return to a long-unread comic book or series.
Wątki LGBT w serialu animowanym She-Ra i księżniczki mocy
When cartoonist and producer Noelle Stevenson unveiled the first artwork for She-Ry and the Princesses of Power , she was hit by a wave of criticism for how visually it differed in character design from the original 1985 series.
The first episodes (and then the next four seasons) showed that Stevenson and her team thought carefully about how to introduce the title princesses (and Bow!) Not only visual variety, but also their characters, so that as many young viewers as possible could identify with them .
Stevenson did not hesitate to introduce characters who identify themselves in the LGBT + spectrum.
The series features a pair of princesses, Netossa and Spinnerella, who, it turns out in later episodes, are married. It’s a very warm relationship. Both heroines take great care of each other, even in the face of war. However, this does not prevent them from competing with each other on the battlefield in the number of defeated opponents.
Another same-sex married couple shown on the show are Bow fathers, George and Lance.
In season four, the first non-binary character, Double Trouble, was presented, which in the original version uses the pronoun they (in this case it is a singular form, often used by non-binary speakers who speak English). Double Trouble has the ability to change shape into any character, it considers itself an actor and the whole world its stage.
The extremely complicated relationship between Catra and Adora deserves a detailed description in a separate text. With each episode, both characters begin to realize how much they care about each other. And here comes the turn that many fans of the series were waiting for. Noelle Stevenson gives them an ending in which first friends and then rivals find their way to each other and profess love when the world around them begins to fall apart. – Aleksandra Kozłowska
