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The X-Men Broke the Avengers' First Gay Couple - Can They Recover?
WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Hulkling and Wiccan #1, available now on Marvel Unlimited.
From the moment they were confirmed to be a couple in Young Avengers #6, by Allan Heinberg, Jim Chueng, John Dell, Dave Meikis, Jay Leisten, Justin Ponsor, and Cory Petit, Hulkling and Wiccan have maintained one of the healthiest relationships in Marvel history. Through consistent communication and reassuring gestures of affection, Hukling and Wiccan have avoided many of the emotional pitfalls that have eroded other superheroes' relationships with their partners and built a relationship of adj understanding and loyalty that culminated in the two's long-awaited marriage during the Empyre crossover event.
Marriage is a difficult affair, however, and the added complications that Hulkling and Wiccan face as the co-rulers of the newly-declared Kree/Skrull Alliance are already putting pressure on their new life together. When the husband of the X-Men's Northstar asks a question about the two's living arra
Wiccan and Hulkling Are Marvel LGBT+ Trailblazers
For years, Marvel Comics has highlighted voices of minorities through race, gender, and sexual orientation. They aim to show representation, not only through their creators, but through their characters as well. In , Marvel introduced a new series titled Young Avengers. Two of them possess become not only one of Marvel's most iconic couples but a source of inspiration for individuals in the LGBT+ community.
Wiccan and Hulkling have been together for nearly two decades, and are now living happily ever after. Their recent exploits are depicted in Hulkling and Wiccan Infinity Comic #1 (by writer Josh Trujillo and artists Jodi Nishijima, Matt Milla, and VC's Ariana Maher), in which they even explore a life without the other. Throughout their struggles as individuals and as a couple, they manage to appear out on top with their bond becoming stronger than before. Their coupling has withstood the test of time and truly become an iconic development in Marvel comic books.
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They’re Married!
After 8 years of waiting, LGBTQ comic book fans got the gay wedding of their dreams.
In the recently released Empyre #4 by Al Ewing, Dan Slott, Valerio Schiti, Marte Gracia and VC&#;s Joe Caramanga, Marvel superheroes Wiccan and Hulkling got married! The moment is revealed when Wiccan is concerned that Hulkling has been replaced with a body-double. Wiccan then utters the words, “That is NOT the man I MARRIED,” over a photo of him and Hulkling kissing at a miniature ceremony.
For fans of the series, this moment has been a long time coming. In April of , Marvel Comics published Young Avengers #1. The comic series by Allan Heinberg and artist Jim Cheung introduced comic book and superhero fans to Billy Kaplan and Teddy Altman, aka Wiccan and Hulkling. Starting out as founding members of the Young Avengers group, the two have served within multiple rosters of the team and eventually moved onto other groups like the New Avengers or Strikeforce.
Simultaneously, the characters have been depicted as a couple for the majority of their existence. Then in , Hulkli
LGBT History of Superheroes: Hulkling
The half-Kree, half-Skrull love-child of a forbidden affair. Hulkling has become half of one of Marvel’s foremost represented gay relationships.
Simply believing himself to be some sort of enhanced human, Theodore “Teddy” Altman grew up living an ordinary human life until he discovered his true origins.
Before this though, Teddy was recruited to the Immature Avengers. This was discovered to be by design as the Avengers Fail-Safe program which was implemented to find a recent team of superheroes listed him as one of the recruits. He joined the team under the codename Hulkling and began a relationship with teammate Wiccan.
His origins were explored when the fearsome Super-Skrull came to Planet claiming Teddy was a Skrull. This proved to be half-true as it was discovered that not only were his living and adoptive mothers both Skrulls, with his adoptive mother being his biological mother Princess Anelle’s handmaiden who under instruction took Teddy to Earth to preserve him as she conceived him after a brief affair with Mar-Vell aka the origin