I think the “iconic” characters in DC are fairly limited (and the real list as far as the general public is concerned is probably smaller) –
Superman
Batman and Robin
Wonder Woman and Wonder Girl
Green Lantern
Flash and Kid Flash
Aquaman and Aqualad
Green Arrow and Speedy
Hawkman and Hawkwoman/girl
Captain Marvel/Shazam
Joker
Lex Luthor
Riddler
Atom
Supergirl
Batgirl
Doctor Fate
Spectre
Phantom Stranger
Superboy
Sandman
Catwoman
Deadman
Poison Ivy
Penguin
It’s been years since I read any of the relevant comics, so I’m out of whatever the current rules of continuity are.
How about Proty? That’s mess with everyone’s heads. Can you be gay if you can completely change your physical makeup?
Sorry if this is seen as a thread***t but my first thought when I saw this in the news was “why is this news, DC already has more gay characters than Glee.” It really doesn’t matter who it is, chances are it will get ret-conned out the next time DC reboots the universe, which happens about every year or so.
This is just another cheap stunt to get them in the news like Superman dying, changing to an electric costume, Batman dying, Wonder Woman changing her costume again, or the other gay characters that they announced to media hype. They don’t come off as progressive, or tolerant, they come off as Stephen Colbert posing next to his “gay friend.” Really it’s a sad cry for attention.
My guess is either Hitlerman or Rentboy.
If I had to bet money, I’d go with Hitlerman.
Yes, there are a number of characters who they’re going against the ‘iconic’ version for some reason or another - Robin (as part of the minimizing the shakeups in the Bat family - notice that aside from Bruce and Selina forgetting each other’s identities, all the ‘reversions’ are given ‘and, that happened, now we go forward’ explanations), Aquaman (actively fighting against the ‘iconic’ version, in this case), interestingly enough, Wonder Woman (in her own title, at least…none of it’s really coming through in JL), a couple others - but that’s what they mean when they say ‘iconic’.
Yeah, but Orion isn’t anything close to “iconic”
It’s that beatnik guy who used to hang around with the JLA, Skipper, Zipper, Flipper, whatever his name was.
“Snapper” Carr.
I’m going to guess that it’s going to be a Green Lantern. There’s tons of those, so they have plenty of options, but the typical man-on-the-street doesn’t know that there are tons of them, so they can point to whichever one they choose and say that he’s the iconic Green Lantern.
Now, which Green Lantern, I’m not enough of a comics nerd to say.
Metamorpho.
I’d guess John Stewart or Guy Gardner.
Gardner would actually be perfect.
Alan Scott might, possibly, be bi-sexual. He, Jay Garrick, and Wonder Woman used to have a somewhat…cozy…looking relationship back in the day. OTOH, it might simply have been that a woman of Diana’s appetites needed more than one man. In any case, I don’t think he’s gay. Booster Gold would be my guess. He’s been rather fabulous since his first appearance.
Can’t be either. They’ve all appeared since the reboot. All 4 of the major GLs have.
Rentboy: Able to lift tons of luggage with his bare hands…
Bahhh…everybody knows that Marvel’s Uhaul is a much better superhero. He doesn’t even us his hands to lift things if you know what I mean. And FTR my hometown had an infamous local gay bar called the Green Lantern. Just sayin.
That fact that they thought a character like that was something we could “relate” to, and that we even needed a character like that to relate to, really brought home to me how clueless and out of touch with their readers those old comics guys were. But as much as I detested “Snapper”, I’d still rather have that than the gritted teeth and angst and airbrushed look of today.
Didn’t they ditch Snapper in the '70s when DC stories started getting serious?
Pretty sure they wrote Snapper out with a bizarre auto-erotic asphyxiation accident in an effort to make things “edgier” and more “today.”
Duh, it’s right there in his name: Martian Manhunter.
Is it definitely a super hero? If not, how about Alfred?