This is the final battle in our quest to determine the better magical element, ice or earth. And since the score is currently tied, this will determine which element wins.
Naturally, the most important question when deciding the better element (or anything else) is this: which side is sexiest? It’s like survival of the fittest, except survival of the hottest.
So, let’s see whether ice or earth has the sexier characters. (And if you’re wondering why we’re doing this, the inspiration for this competition comes from my novel, The Frost or the Bite. The main character is a wizard who must decide between ice and earth magic, so we’re answering which is better for ourselves, for funsies.)
Ice’s Sexiest Guys
There are all kinds of frosty badasses with ice powers. There are so many that I was even able to select attractive characters who are in the queer realm.
Captain Cold
First is Leonard Snart from The Flash and Legends of Tomorrow. He’s a thief turned hero who freezes stuff with a cold gun. Played by Wentworth Miller who is gay and possibly the most gorgeous person in existence, Cold is snarky and has chemistry with basically every single other character he comes into contact with. For simplicity’s sake, I’m just going to say that one or more versions of his character are somewhere in the range of pansexual and gay since I am terrible at keeping track of all the alternate timelines and dopplegangers.
Iceman
Iceman from the X-Men comics is a gay superhero who has basically all the ice powers ever. Shawn Ashmore plays him in the movies. For the longest time, I thought I was just terrible at telling him apart from his sibling Aaron Ashmore, but it turns out they’re identical twins.
The Penguin
Okay, maybe The Penguin doesn’t fit a conventional definition of sexy but I totally fell in love with him on Gotham. I’m not sure how a murdering, bloodthirsty crime boss can be such a sweetheart but he is just precious. (Or maybe I’m just demented to find him adorable.) I wish they’d have let him have a boyfriend but otherwise he was pretty perfect.
‘Honorable’ Mention: Ice King
Okay, this crazy ice wizard isn’t very sexy, or gay, but he lives in an ice lair and has penguin minions so that’s something. I’m mostly including him as an LOL candidate. And because I recently watched Fiona and Cake, which is very gay and apparently getting a second season, which makes me very happy.
Earth Characters?
Sometime in the middle of thinking of characters, I realized there was a clear winner. Earth just so obviously gets its ass kicked by ice here. The only legitimate earth-y character I could think of was Prince Sylvain from Nazri Noor’s Wild Hearts Series. And the less good options were Captain Planet and The Lorax.
Are there any sexy icy characters I missed? Or were you better at thinking of some cool earth characters than I was? Let me know!
The winner is… Ice!
So ice won this round, which means that the ice element pulls ahead to beat earth. Ice wins, at least for us. But that doesn’t mean Jack will make the same decision in the novel The Frost or the Bite. Especially when he meets wolf shifter Ewan who is drawn to his earth magic. Will Jack pick ice too or will he go in a different direction? Find out now!
I’m not a huge comic book person, so I had no idea about the newest version of the Superman character until I heard a stray comment on TV from a critical pundit. He said something like, “Superman is bi now but nobody cares.”
Well unfortunately, homophobes gonna homophobe (slightly less catchy but just as true as haters gonna hate) so somebody always cares and has a problem when our world gets publicly gayer. But people mostly seem to be reacting well, which is awesome. And perhaps by ‘nobody cares’, he meant ‘an angry mob isn’t freaking out and clutching their pearls’ and this is just being treated as a regular thing humans experience, which is even more awesome. I originally assumed this meant Clark Kent was bisexual but apparently his son is the new Superman and likes his friend with pink hair.
More bi representation is awesome, though my only experience with Superman is the ooooold show with Dean Cain and Terri Hatcher. I’d eventually like to watch the newer program with Tyler Hoechlin because he looks very Superman-y and I adore almost everything about him as a person and beautiful human being.
So incredibly pretty, right?
So seeing as I don’t have a big interest in Superman, the comment about nobody caring got me thinking. Which other heroes could come out and generate more excitement? I came up with 5 heroes that the whole world… or at least fans… or at least me would care about extremely if they were gay.
5 Superheroes who should come out already
1. Spiderman (Peter Parker)
Come on, Spidey! Deadpool is already canonically pansexual and he’s waiting for you!
2. Captain America (Steve Rogers)
Despite only seeing a handful of Marvel superhero movies, I caught onto support for bi Steve Rogers being a thing and am wholeheartedly in favor of this development.
3. The Falcon (Sam Wilson)
Not having Disney+, I can’t say how gay the series The Falcon and The Winter Soldier is, so this isn’t the reason I think he should be queer. It’s more because… I got confused somehow and definitely believed he was already canonically gay? I’m not sure what happened but the only thing I (thought) I knew about him when Anthony Mackie first started appearing in the movies was that The Falcon was one of the earliest black gay superheroes. I even remember an interview where Mackie said he wanted his character to hook up with Black Widow and everybody laughed uproariously as if this was hilarious and impossible, and I have literally no idea what the joke was if he wasn’t being comically ignorant about his character’s sexuality. I only realized Sam Wilson wasn’t gay like a year ago and it’s still slightly weird he’s apparently straight.
4. & 5. Old Married Mutants
I ended up seeing First Class randomly in theaters because friends wanted to watch it. I had no idea what to expect and was surprised how good, and gay, the movie was. I remember turning to my friend twice when Professor X and Magneto seemed really in love and saying ‘is it just me…’ and each time she told me I wasn’t crazy, they were acting hella gay (blog title!) Seeing as she is straight and more objective than me, this is totally proof.
Gay Paranormal Romance 