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queenursula (queenursula) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-11-03 17:36:00

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char: captain america/steve rogers, char: deadpool/wade wilson, char: lady deadpool, creator: rob liefeld, publisher: marvel comics

Introducing Lady Deadpool!

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deepspaceartist
2009-11-07 02:53 am UTC (link)

But does the fact that he was grown in a gestation chamber not allow for possible genetic engineering that would remove such drives? And since the world he's from has been enslaved by Mojo for an undefined period of time and is a century in the future, it's possible that sexuality has been engineered out by that point for easier control.

I'm not defending Liefeld for raising a stink about this, but if he had actually wrote 'no sexuality' into Shatterstar's past he would have some right to be upset at his work being erased. But as it is, Shatterstar's worlds sexuality has never been established, so PAD is free to write whatever he wants with the charcters.

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	scottyquick 2009-11-07 02:59 am UTC (link)
	Yes, except the way he wrote it was that "he was raised without sex" and that's not how humans work. GE wasn't mentioned. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	deepspaceartist 2009-11-07 04:03 am UTC (link)
	That's true. But 'raised without sex' dosn't mention how he would have done it in the story. GE wasn't mentioned, but it wasn't excluded. But I'm just saying that a future dystopian society where sex isn't a factor is definitely a possibility as far as fiction goes. And I honestly think that a charcter from such a place could be an interesting one. (Reply to this) (Parent)

xdoop
2009-11-07 06:21 pm UTC (link)

Nicieza was pretty up front with the matter with fans at the time, so it is a shame that the matter gets confused to this day, but, for the record, Nicieza's take on Shatterstar was as follows: Shatterstar was, for all intents and purposes, raised asexual. There were no notions of sexuality in Shatterstar's upbringing, so Shatterstar was going to have to learn as he went along on Earth. Nicieza's position was that Shatterstar did not, as of yet, have feelings, heterosexual OR homosexual.

Nicieza was planning on exploring that more if he stayed on X-Force, and it might very well have resulted in Shatterstar being gay, but it was not necessarily Nicieza's intent (you know, like he had not already determined, "He is unsure, but when he figures it out, it'll definitely be that he's gay), and it was not why he left the title.

http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/10/18/comic-book-urban-legends-revealed-125/

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	deepspaceartist 2009-11-07 08:35 pm UTC (link)
	Thanks! That clears it up a lot for me. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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