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It's time for a Zarana & Zandar 2-pack
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03-13-2021, 02:50 AM
Otomo
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Zandar's been subtly hinted as being gay in one of the comics.
Not in any comics that I would ever choose to acknowledge or that matter in the grand scheme of things.
Larry Hama's Zandar (and 99% of his characters for that matter) were motivated by duty or honor or power....not by their genitals. I assume many of the Joes/Cobras had perfectly normal sex lives. Many of them might have been into some kink. Who knows? None of my business. And Larry knew it had nothing to do with telling good stories to a mostly children's audience while trying to sell toys to said children.
I know it is/was "fashionable" for IDW to take their licensed Hasbro properties and turn them into woke caricatures of what they were 35 years ago. This includes making all the members of Jem lesbians, and making some of them ugly and fat, and then introducing the concept of "gay" Transformers and even later "Trans-Transformers" which to me is so blitheringly stupid I can't really even fathom it.
DT, I've always admired your passion, but the whole "weird incesty twins that speak their own private twin language, and the gay boy twin has a weird crush on the girl twin" thing might go over extremely well in anime, but in GI Joe it's just plain.....weird!!
Of course you're absolutely free to feel however you want about any of these characters, but a lot of ARAH fans are pretty old school leftovers from Reagan's 80s, and might not necessarily be into the whole anime/incesty thing.
But you're right...head canon is head canon...it's your own personal thing. In MY Joe universe, Zarana and Zandar are no more "brother and sister" to Zartan then Buzzer or Ripper. I've always thought Zandar especially was the lamest form of 3rd rate knockoff, and he pretty much doesn't even exist to me.
Having said that, I do hope one day you get the perfect two-pack you've always dreamed of, cause you'll be thrilled and it won't affect my collection or "canon" in the slightest.
And on one last personal note, my brother has twins, a boy and a girl, about a year and a half old. I sincerely hope they grow up without any kind of weird attachment to each other and the boy doesn't walk around all day with pieces of the girl's clothes on him. I hope they grow up into healthy, confident individuals that surely feel a bond for their twin, but nothing creepy or obsessive.
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