Marvel Delivers Young Lesbian Romance On Screen in ‘Runaways’

Runaways is everything, fam. I’ve already gone in on the greatness of the first three episodes, but I need to give even more props to the TV show that did what Marvel said they’d do in one of their billion-dollar grossing movies: include a superhero that identifies with the LGBTQIA community. Of course, they’ve made billions of dollars in the last decade and conveniently and egregiously “forgotten” to include a gay, lesbian, trans, or even openly bisexual character. I say egregiously because the perfect platform was slapping them in the face with Thor: Ragnarok’s Valkyrie. She was rumored to be queer but the final cut was unsurprisingly missing all of Tessa Thompson’s woman-loving scenes.

Let’s get one thing out the way: I rep that gay ally shit. You can miss me with that weak ass “I don’t have a problem with gay people, but I’m uncomfortable with seeing gay love or affection” shit. Or even worse, “Hell yeah, I love lesbians but naaah I don’t fuck with gay dudes” shit. That’s nonsense. You and your opinion can go kick rainbow-colored rocks while RuPaul twerks on your girl in the club.

Ok, back to our regularly scheduled Runaways appreciation. Runaways doe?! They said fuck outta here with that pussyfooting BS. The seeds of gay love were planted as early as episode 1 if you were paying attention to the signs (or read the comic). But it all really pops off in the episode “Metamorphosis,” where Karolina, the Salvador Dali colored alien, has a moment with Nico. It seems there i…