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.
Wolverine and Hercules – the Earth-12025 universe
Over the years, comic book writers are more and more willing to create ethnically diverse characters of virtually any sexual orientation. Unfortunately, completely new and unknown heroes can fall under the pressure of those who have been readers’ favorites for decades. Of course, you can take a mainstream character and make some “modifications” to it, but such treatments are usually criticized by die-hard fans. So what to do to use a common name and rewrite something at the same time? The multiverse comes to the rescue – a collection of virtually infinite alternative versions of the world. An example is the Marvel’s Earth-12025, which is inhabited by the Governor General of Canada James Howlett (i.e. the local version of Wolverine) and Hercules. This world is technologically similar to ours at the end of the 19th century. Here, the British queen banned same-sex relationships, and Zeus forbade his kinsmen to bond with people (of course, this was not the case). So what makes the heroes of this world different from those of Earth-616 (Marvel’s main world)? Well, the aforementioned Howlett and Hercules, forced to hide their orientation, finally reveal themselves in a truly romantic way – with the carcass of the giant dragon they defeated earlier. When news of his son and a mutant from Canada came to him, Zeus was so furious that he sent them both to Tartarus. There, for years, they fought together the souls of the damned, and then began their journey and struggle in various corners of the multiverse. – So what makes the heroes of this world different from those of Earth-616 (Marvel’s main world)? Well, the aforementioned Howlett and Hercules, forced to hide their orientation, finally reveal themselves in a truly romantic way – with the carcass of the giant dragon they defeated earlier. When news of his son and a mutant from Canada came to him, Zeus was so furious that he sent them both to Tartarus. There, for years, they fought together the souls of the damned, and then began their journey and struggle in various corners of the multiverse. – So what makes the heroes of this world different from those of Earth-616 (Marvel’s main world)? Well, the aforementioned Howlett and Hercules, forced to hide their orientation, finally reveal themselves in a truly romantic way – with the carcass of the giant dragon they defeated earlier. When news of his son and a mutant from Canada came to him, Zeus was so furious that he sent them both to Tartarus. There, for years, they fought together the souls of the damned, and then began their journey and struggle in various corners of the multiverse. – There, for years, they fought together the souls of the damned, and then began their journey and struggle in various corners of the multiverse. – There, for years, they fought together the souls of the damned, and then began their journey and struggle in various corners of the multiverse. –Krzysztof Płociński
