PurestEvil wrote: ↑Sat Aug 13, 2022 4:54 pmThe reason why we started arguing with you is because you think that making Jiren gay would feel forced no matter how they actually did it, and proceeded to display your own ignorance with all the following replies.
Clearly you haven't been paying attention.
The issue is that this is a series where such a thing is largely irrelevant. If it's not for the purpose of throwing two characters together to make a offspring or for some joke then it's hardly a thing.
And yet now Jiren should be gay in the show for no reason other than because it's the current year.
Sure, Jiren doesn’t need to be gay to be a good character, but it wouldn’t be detrimental to the story if he was.
And I never said it would. As you said, he does not need to be gay just like he does not need to be straight.
Neither does Tien, Hit, Broly, Frieza, Whis, Granolah, Raditz etc because it is irrelevant.
With this criterion, any gay character that was added to any show dominated by straight characters is shoehorning.
It's not shoehorning if there's a genuine reason for it. There is no genuine reason for Jiren being gay other than "representation".
Of which I said the show does not need to represent anybody. There are no black characters and that's not stopped the show from being highly popular with black people.
You start with this and how far does it go? Well there's no lesbian characters, no transexual characters, no black characters, no middle eastern characters, no disabled characters, no hispanic characters....do they have to add a character from each minority group?
Or does it not matter whatsoever in a series that features a purple cat, a green alien, a pink blob, robots, a talking pig and white lizards?