Often, villains were queer-coded not to make queerness seem bad, but rather to allow queer and creators to sneak positive queer rep into shows. Queer characters need to be 'punished' by the end of the episode otherwise bigots will complain so just make the queer characters the baddies=no complaints
January 12, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Often, villains were queer-coded not to make queerness seem bad, but rather to allow queer and creators to sneak positive queer rep into shows. Queer characters need to be 'punished' by the end of the episode otherwise bigots will complain so just make the queer characters the baddies=no complaints