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glumshoe:
Precisely, you get it. My one regret is that I cannot grow a mustache to twirl, and my goatee isn’t impressive enough to deserve stroking.
potion-junkie:
Like, you kiss your boyfriend then do this:
glumshoe:
No, no, I think my villainy has to be implied rather than overt, and never conclusively revealed.
A gay-coded villain is a villain that seems gay, flirting with gay stereotypes and aesthetics and perhaps having some homoerotic subtext but whose sexuality is never openly confirmed, or who turns out to be effectively straight.
A villain-coded gay is openly homosexual but embodies many of the trappings of cartoonish villainy without actually… doing bad things or hurting people… like the Addams Family’s gay cousin.
triplestaff:
You’re that background character with questionable intent that turns out to be the real villain in the second season
glumshoe:
I might not do anything actually malicious but from my aesthetics and mannerisms you just know I’m heavily implied to be evil
glumshoe:
i’m a villain-coded gay
glumshoe:
Precisely, you get it. My one regret is that I cannot grow a mustache to twirl, and my goatee isn’t impressive enough to deserve stroking.
potion-junkie:
Like, you kiss your boyfriend then do this:
glumshoe:
No, no, I think my villainy has to be implied rather than overt, and never conclusively revealed.
A gay-coded villain is a villain that seems gay, flirting with gay stereotypes and aesthetics and perhaps having some homoerotic subtext but whose sexuality is never openly confirmed, or who turns out to be effectively straight.
A villain-coded gay is openly homosexual but embodies many of the trappings of cartoonish villainy without actually… doing bad things or hurting people… like the Addams Family’s gay cousin.
triplestaff:
You’re that background character with questionable intent that turns out to be the real villain in the second season
glumshoe:
I might not do anything actually malicious but from my aesthetics and mannerisms you just know I’m heavily implied to be evil
glumshoe:
i’m a villain-coded gay