Pinning this just to address comments I keep getting 😊 1. I should have worded that section in Dead by Daylight better to specify the issue was that all the canonical relationships were hetero-presenting, which doesn’t necessarily mean they were all straight. 2. Baptiste is bisexual, not homosexual. Mauga is gay, that brings Overwatch up to 17.5% 3. Alter is asexual, which brings Apex up to 35%. (I started working on this video when she was newly announced and hadn’t been confirmed as ace and then I didn’t think to double check before finalizing the video) 4. Chamber from Valorant was given lines to HEAVILY suggest he is bi or pan, and I said there are 25 when there are actually 24. So depending on how you interpret heavy implication, Valo is actually 12.5% or 16.7% 5. I am sorry for not including game X, Y, or Z. First draft of this video had Mortal Kombat 1 but other than that anything not included was not considered due to me not having much knowledge of the game or because I was keeping the scope on multiplayer games with a bunch of original characters. 6. There are several others implied but I didn't want to include them without concrete confirmation. I appreciate you guys for addressing these points respectfully!
Add in octane from apex because not only does he have a voice line saying creo que te amo(I think I love you) but in the story he's like mirage and questions himself currently thinks he's bi/pan idrk the difference between either
@NotFrickingNick ngl I that joke sent me had to show my gf lol, but thank you for making respectful lgbt+ jokes, I appreciate your content and sub keep up the good work
not you not knowing lol thats funny. Catalyst even has an intro line where she's like "Im the trans witch your parents warned you about" honestly dont know why tf it sounds so aggressive
Yep! I was just looking at original characters though, even though DBD players jokingly claim Tub as one of their since his R6S release got delayed and he came to DBD first.
Great video! Definitely was well researched and edited and everything, one thing I would say as a member of the lgbt community is that better wording would be how queer something would be rather than how gay, because that encompasses more than just sexuality, but that’s a small nitpick, I really enjoyed this video!
I knew apex would win, but I also love how in the actual game, they state that their characters are queer. For the most part, the other games have it so the only way you'd know a character was queer is if you'd read a backstory or comic. But in Apex, the character will straight up say their sexuality and gender as well as flirt with their partners if they are on the same team. I like how in your face they make it.
At least I feel it's getting better, all rainbow 6 queer characters are stated in the in-game lore (psyche analysis) and DBD got a 50/50 of one revealed in a tome which is the unlockable lore through battle passes and then Susie got revealed in a spinoff comic which might or might not be canon because of how inconsistent it is with the legion's in game lore (but at least we already know that Susie is gay regardless of the canonicity of the comic)
@mateuszkrytyk5711 it's important to remember the people who create the character's stories and personalities, and the people who balance the gameplay are two separate groups.
@yuppykins the thing is that some of these people DIDN'T create these characters and make them gay regardless, it's similar to how spongebob is reported to be lgbtq after the creator died
Wanna know a game franchise with a surprising amount of queer rep? Borderlands. 2 had a playable bi dude with Axton, 3 had a non-binary robot with Flak, both Tiny Tina and Moxxi are implied to be bi, I'm pretty sure Mister Torgue is gay, the Pre-Sequel and Tales from the Borderlands had Janey and Athena as girlfriends, Hammerlock and Wainright have an entire dlc in 3 dedicated to their wedding, Lors (originally Lorelai in 3) is a trans man, etc etc. It got to the point during 2's heyday that some would say all the characters in the borderlands universe are bi unless otherwise stated!
What I like about Borderlands in general is that the representation is somethins so casual. With the protagonists, the background characters, mission characters, eco's, it's so good dude
He even has a flirty moment with Mercy too, where he says he knows someone with several doctorates (like himself) as well as his interaction with lifeweaver. I'm not one to assume people's sexualities, cause it's not something I focus on, but I wasn't shocked either when it was revealed lol
Glad you enjoyed it! I asked several lgbtq friends to look over the script and video to give feedback and make sure I was doing right by everyone, so shoutout to them 🙂
As a lesbian, I'm really thankful you made this video as a straight man. It's important to have out allies support us, so thank you once again. I enjoyed the video :)
you are like the coolest ally?? you're super funny and totally open minded and your closing comments are so crazy accurate i was not expecting to hear them from a straight person today. i hope you have many awesome straight adventures ya little woman liker ❤
A straight guy making a video listing many lgbtq characters in video games, I'm impressed. And that's coming from a gay guy. Awesome video dude but their is one thing that I hate when representing lgbtq. Hear me out, I like they are representing lgbtq but it's always the females. I'm not joking. You see alot of female characters representing lbtq but very less male characters. Like glad they are showing lesbains and bisexual female characters. But you rarely see gay and bisexual guys. Like ok we get it, I'm done seeing females representing for us. Where are the males? Even girls that support us agreed with me on this topic. Now there's an idea for your video
Can I ask you something, Why should games represant you or anyone? Does a straight character automatically represent me? No, it doesnt. Such things shouldnt be given any focus at all, what they like to fuck.
Even if you say you're just a straight cis guy, I can guarantee you put a lot of effort and respect in talking about queer identities and it shows This video is one of the best examples of allyship on RUclips and overall a really great video that treats LGBTQ themes very lightheartedly but with a lot of respect Edit : the conclusion is truly beautiful too, I wish more people would understand the complexities of rainbow capitalism *and* the fact it's not the shareholders that try to convey meaningful queer stories
I'd say Chamber would also count as queer when it comes to the Valorant roster. The man flirts with half of the games cast, including half of the female agents, as well as fellow male agents Yoru and Iso, on top of already being french It's not confirmed or anything, but a new voiceline added around pride month in which Chamber proudly proclaims: "I'll swing any way that feels good" is prolly something to go of off
Also, there are only 24 characters in Valorant, not 25. Clove the most recent, is 'Agent 25' but 'Agent 8' hasn't been released yet. That means Valorant's is actually 4/24, or 16.7% gay
I don’t know much about the other games but I knew that my game Apex was going to be the top one 😂 I find it weird when people complain about every new character is gay or LGBTQ+ and as someone who’s straight…….. idgaf 💀 like as long as the character is a good legend with abilities I could care less about what they love or what they are 😭 and if you don’t like it then play a different game 🤡
I love the fact that apex characters have such a great story and background, and their sexuality isn’t that “important” but something natural and common. And the representation is respectful. The game continues the story of Titanfall and I expect it to continue for many more years, I’m still waiting for a third titanfall game. My favorite character is definitely Catalyst!
its funny because dbd is 2% gay but the community is 90% gay not a single game when someone doesnt have the pride/lesbian/trans/gay etc charm (not saying this as something bad)
I would like to point out that mario party superstars has a higher percentage than half of these games with 1/10 of the playable characters being in the community
Just a lil info for the apex section but I might be wrong since I haven’t played since season 14 and stopped keeping track of lore around season 18 As far as what I know about Bangalore, she fits “questioning” more than actually being lesbian, since Loba was going to give her flowers and confess to her in one of the comics, but overheard her saying that “they’re just friends” but from voice lines found later in the game, it sounded like Bangalore still liked Loba, but didn’t want to display any feelings for her openly (perhaps worrying what the others would think)
Little known fact (which was probably intentional): Ezreal and Ekko are ex-boyfriends in one of their shared skin universes, and it’s been stated by the devs that sexualities are consistent across all universes. This would imply that they’re both most likely bi since they both have girl crushes as well. Most other things are just heavily implied like Taliyah being trans (4 instances at this point but never outright stated), Kai’sa/Akali being a couple in Star Guardian, Irelia being lesbian, etc etc
Man forgot the guilty gear series 😭 Venom is a gay man Testament is NB or Agender (don't remember) Bridget is a trans woman (There's probably more I'm forgetting)
@@evilded2 hol' up, we have Ky with Dizzy, Jack-O with Sol, Zato with Millia, May with Johnny, Anji with Baiken, Axl with I-no, Jam with pretty boys in general, Giovanna with some potential guy to settle down with in the future, apparently, Slayer with Sharon and ABA with Paracelsus (I think that counts? Paracelsus seems to present as a man and ABA as a woman). Granted, all of these are "straight" on account of us assuming that they aren't bi. Some characters that are unconfirmed but are of interest: we've got likely Elphelt, who, I believe with her win screen or Instant Kill animation offers characters of just about any identity a wedding contract (although I'm iffy about that one, she was canonically to be wed to a man, though), as well as Raven, who is into kink and gets excited over pain in general, including when coming from masculine presenting characters, so... maybe, possibly?
@@thosebloodybadgers8499 I can only buy Johnny, Jam, Aba and maybe Milla. They are aggressively straight. Also are you really going to claim Anji and Baiken's relationship is romantic?
@@evilded2 Well, it doesn't seem to be reciprocated from Baiken's side but Anji's feelings about her are definitely romantically coded. Like, listen to his theme in Strive - if that ain't supposed to be an expression of what an intense childhood crush is, then idk. Bro follows her around like a tail, they're inseparable ever since Anji decided to just butt himself into her whole "reveeenge!" arc. Not counting Ky is questionable to me though, ngl. Definitely big straight vibes to me. He's a Christian camp boyscout - he crosses the road only after looking four times both ways, he eats on a healthy diet that's so ingrained, the addition of any spices would likely send him into a shock, his favorite band is the Beatles and he definitely hides and is very ashamed of his intimate stash of edgy drawings of his OC that embodies everything he's been told is inappropriate. Which, like, I can see how that can slot him into the trope of the "closeted Christian queer with tons of unadressed Catholic guilt", especially with how his larger arc if focused around accepting himself and this minority group that he's attracted to and once opposed violently, but, idk, man's a husband with his own little, bizarre nuclear family, picketed fence and all.
this is highly uncomfirmed, but Gekko from Valorant's voice actor is openly gay, and has said "I love playing gay characters" and it is given that the voice actor's identity loosely and/or officially reflect on the characters they portray.
Something interesting about league is that this year they said that a champions sexuality doesn’t change through skin lines. Which increases the gay count by more than double since some characters are at the very least bi or even trans in some of their skins.
It’s interesting because according to the Gallup study the younger the more likely to be openly lgbt. Around 20% of gen z so in terms of the stats verifying by age brackets could possibly show some different results !
The only thing that was incorrect that I saw was Baptiste is actually bisexual. He has the bisexual flag for the name card in the game and I believe he does mention how he likes both men and women I just don't remember where. Not trying to criticize, just being infomative. :3
The ending monologue is especially great! I hope some people with hateful prejudices git to the part and maybe got to reflect on themselves a bit. Well done
There are like 3 characters in Overwatch that are hinted to be queer and a, I think, director said back in Ow1 days that they already have a member for every letter (if you just take LBGT) in the game but not confirmed yet. I also think Baptiste is Bi, not gay so the only person missing from the letters is a trans person. And since it’s Ow1 they do not mean venture. The hinted characters are all queer love wise tho, so we have one unknown trans character. Hope they will confirm or deny these three soon and announce who’s trans, can’t wait to see more dude bros crying :3 Also fun fact: If I’m not mistaken Tracer is one of two characters in the roster who is actually currently in a relationship, her girlfriend is featured in 2 sprays for Tracer and in many in-game interactions throughout both games. In Ow1 more than in Ow2 sadly
You HAVE to do Destiny 2 because so so so many of the characters are either Gay or Unconfirmed it actually does make you wonder “where are the straight people”
one thing that may matter with the survey shown near the start is also what city they're from, and age range as older people will tend to stay in the closet and such, but love this vid regardless
From my understanding, Gallup randomly selected 12,000 phone numbers encompassing every area code in the United States, but yeah there will always be some sort of bias!
As a bi woman, I really appreciate this video. We need more allies like you in the world! Thank you for making this, and that conclusion was fantastic. It made my day! ❤ Also if we were to include not multi-player games in this discussion I'm pretty sure Super Lesbian Animal RPG is the gayest game.... or Hades... or Ace Attorney..... or Life is Strange.... or Celeste.
I should’ve looked into it! That’s a game I hear a lot about but have never looked into the lore or characters so it didn’t really cross my mind when coming up with this video idea.
Oh boy, what a way to find out that Caveira is a lesbian, but hey, better than knowing it late. And as a Straight/Heterosexual person, I found this video enjoyable to watch, Thanks for making it!
It's Apex. I'm at the start of the video and I know it's apex. Then overwatch/siege. Then idk enough about league, dbd or valorant to judge those. But the gayest is absolutely apex
Destiny 2 gotta be my gayest/queerest game. Whether that be the characters in lore or the playerbase. Wish the leadership of Bungie was that cool though 😭
what do you mean wish the leadership of bungie was that cool? they actively ban people for biggotry and numerous times feature a transwoman in their vidocs. i dont know what else they could really do to be more lgbt supportive?
@@NatiTheCutie Bungie is very inclusive as well as charitable, but leadership regularly comes under fire for how they handle releases as well as a massive wave of short-notice layoffs that happened about a year ago.
I actually thought dbd and overwatch had more LGBTQ characters ngl! But knowing and playing way too much Apex and the lore of it, I knew the fight was already over if they were in this list
Valkyrie and Loba I believe have broken up, not sure what will happen with them in the future but maybe Rampart is going to name a new weapon after Loba
Someone who works at riot said that characters in League of Legends share their sexuality across all their skinlines, so Sett and Aphelios can be assumed to be a part of the community, tho I understand why they're not included on the list because the subject is up to debate. We don't talk Abt Ekko and Ez tho.
And yet people say there's such thing as Straight Errasure. Mayhe in pandering but no one likes pandering I personally have found that about 1 out of 10-15 people is some form of LGBT and I think it's fair to represent them in groups of multiple characters
for the DBD portion, there's like nothing wrong with what you said, but having a partner of the opposite gender doesn't make you straight you can be a bi man and settle down with a woman/vice versa/everything in between
Yes I agree that was poorly-phrased and I should have instead said they did purely hetero-passing relationships (idk what the correct phrasing is for that), thanks for pointing that out.
Idk if there's enough evidence to include them, but it's implied that Lee Sin and Udyr had an intimate relationship with each other while they trained together in Ionia
Yui Kimura hasn’t been confirmed to be anything at this point, just is widely believed to be a lesbian, but her new Tome lore is going to leak on Tuesday the 16th so that could change things!
It's funny how Mauga and Gibraltar are both giant, gay polynesian men who are characters in two separate games. Oceanic culture didn't really care about homosexuality until Europeans came to colonize
I actually got supper bored bc of insomnia and made a quizizz as well as a PowerPoint that looked at all the queer characters in League of Legends. It included characters that were both confirmed and implied to be queer as well as different games under the league of legends umbrella such as Legends of Runeterra and Riot Forge. Overall it lead to a total of about 52 characters. I don’t know at the top of my head how many are canonical since a few were confirmed on twitter by either the writers or voice actors or in a different skin line (riot themselves said that characters identities are the same regardless of universes. For example Ezreal are *heavily implied* to be dating in the pulsefire universe and both canonically have feelings for women, Lux and Jinx respectively, so both are at the very least bisexual). This doesn’t mean that it’s good, Taliyah was supposed to be trans but it got cut by Riot bc China is very anti trans and they didn’t want to lose their largest audience, so instead she was confirmed by a drawing in a music video for Star Guardians that you have to look for. The other five are monsters or robots and the other four are from LOR. A lot of the other queer characters are from LOR as well or thi bc s that imply them to be queer comes from the voice lines in that game. For instance Miss Fortune has some very flirtatious lines with Vi where she asks if Vi is going to arrest her and Vi replies with “I think you like being in cuffs” or something along those lines. This game is retry much dying btw and Riot Forge was shut down after like four games so ya know that nice. But yea. Main games it’s twelve confirmed characters but the other games revel a lot more characters both confirmed and implied.
Ngl you forget a lot of the characters are gay in apex tbh, been playing since release and i still forget that some of them are gay until i get into the story of them when someone asks lol
League of legends, also has some heavily implied Lgbtq characters, which depending on if you count them increases the number these are the ones i know about Evelynn, flirts with Kaisa in Legends of Runeterra(LOR), ( though rather this makes Evelynn gay is debatable as she is a demon and seduction is just her hunting strategi) Sett flirts with Aphelios in both LOR and his spirit blossom legendary skin Miss fortune Flirts with a female follower card in LOR (though this can just be teasing) Taliyah is extremely Transcoded (sources the Star guardian event and Neeko's voice lines)
Just a lil comment, Baptiste (ow) is bisexual and one of the writers confirmed that Mauga is his ex so he's another lgbt character! fun vid to watch. and defo ow is the gay XD PD: u can also hear lots of Baptiste lines in game flirting with literally everyone.
doing a bunch of MP games and not mentioning Destiny 2 is surprising. The current seasonal story is about 2 gay men's relationship and a lesbian villain looking for her wife lol
Pinning this just to address comments I keep getting 😊
1. I should have worded that section in Dead by Daylight better to specify the issue was that all the canonical relationships were hetero-presenting, which doesn’t necessarily mean they were all straight.
2. Baptiste is bisexual, not homosexual. Mauga is gay, that brings Overwatch up to 17.5%
3. Alter is asexual, which brings Apex up to 35%. (I started working on this video when she was newly announced and hadn’t been confirmed as ace and then I didn’t think to double check before finalizing the video)
4. Chamber from Valorant was given lines to HEAVILY suggest he is bi or pan, and I said there are 25 when there are actually 24. So depending on how you interpret heavy implication, Valo is actually 12.5% or 16.7%
5. I am sorry for not including game X, Y, or Z. First draft of this video had Mortal Kombat 1 but other than that anything not included was not considered due to me not having much knowledge of the game or because I was keeping the scope on multiplayer games with a bunch of original characters.
6. There are several others implied but I didn't want to include them without concrete confirmation.
I appreciate you guys for addressing these points respectfully!
There's no official statement about Mauga being gay. It's just widely theorized based on the one-sided manipulativeness of Mauga to Baptiste.
Add in octane from apex because not only does he have a voice line saying creo que te amo(I think I love you) but in the story he's like mirage and questions himself currently thinks he's bi/pan idrk the difference between either
Mauga ain't gay bro
Mauga isn’t gay
mauga isn't confirmed gay, people just speculate because the way people talk about his and bap's past is suggestive.
If you look at fanart every game is 100% gay.
The “rainbow six” joke was great. Great video.
Thanks, glad you liked it!
😂 just realised that.
The way I almost choked. I read this comment before I reached this part of the video and the joke STILL hit me like a truck. 😭
I had to pause the video at that because I was laughing so hard
@NotFrickingNick ngl I that joke sent me had to show my gf lol, but thank you for making respectful lgbt+ jokes, I appreciate your content and sub keep up the good work
casually playing apex without knowing half of these characters are gay but now I think I will check their stories out more
The lore for Apex is really cool though IMO but Titanfall 2 is probably my favorite shooter of all time so I am biased.
@@NotFrickingNickTitanfall 1 & 2 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Apex
You will be surprised at how many characters are apart of the lgbtq in apex
not you not knowing lol thats funny. Catalyst even has an intro line where she's like "Im the trans witch your parents warned you about" honestly dont know why tf it sounds so aggressive
@@VVinterl3earimo, it’s a bit too much of in ur face than it needs to be
Lifeweaver and Baptiste also have lines in game where they flirt with each other, hinting that there maybe something between them as well.
in-game voice lines aren't entirely canon, sadly we don't know if they have met in lore (yet (hopefully they do))
Mauga's going to be jealous.
also bap is bi, theres a pride namecard and his colors are bi
They should both get with Cassidy and make out
I just love how Bap flirts with everything that breathes 😆
Tubarao is technically in dbd if you count legendary Skins
Yep! I was just looking at original characters though, even though DBD players jokingly claim Tub as one of their since his R6S release got delayed and he came to DBD first.
Tubarao’s voice in dbd is kinda horrible though
i love how you addressed the homophobes who use religion as an excuse its hilarious
14:10 Actually you forgot about the newest legend, Alter. She was confirmed to be Asexual by her creator.
i think this is the first asexual character in video games i hear of
@@Tapood74 Yeah, probably the first and only.
@@THE_SABRETOOTH_SPECTREgood. 🫥
@@Tapood74 what the fuck is asexual?
@@Tapood74I think maya from borderlands is ace too!
If we're counting story games then it's absolutely the Life is Strange series
Oh definitely. That or Goodbye Volcano High or something.
That's the first thing I thought lmao.
Great video! Definitely was well researched and edited and everything, one thing I would say as a member of the lgbt community is that better wording would be how queer something would be rather than how gay, because that encompasses more than just sexuality, but that’s a small nitpick, I really enjoyed this video!
I knew apex would win, but I also love how in the actual game, they state that their characters are queer. For the most part, the other games have it so the only way you'd know a character was queer is if you'd read a backstory or comic. But in Apex, the character will straight up say their sexuality and gender as well as flirt with their partners if they are on the same team. I like how in your face they make it.
At least I feel it's getting better, all rainbow 6 queer characters are stated in the in-game lore (psyche analysis) and DBD got a 50/50 of one revealed in a tome which is the unlockable lore through battle passes and then Susie got revealed in a spinoff comic which might or might not be canon because of how inconsistent it is with the legion's in game lore (but at least we already know that Susie is gay regardless of the canonicity of the comic)
Except for the Chinese mobile game and other Eastern servers.
They focused more on being progressive than on making a good game 💀
@mateuszkrytyk5711 it's important to remember the people who create the character's stories and personalities, and the people who balance the gameplay are two separate groups.
@yuppykins the thing is that some of these people DIDN'T create these characters and make them gay regardless, it's similar to how spongebob is reported to be lgbtq after the creator died
Wanna know a game franchise with a surprising amount of queer rep? Borderlands. 2 had a playable bi dude with Axton, 3 had a non-binary robot with Flak, both Tiny Tina and Moxxi are implied to be bi, I'm pretty sure Mister Torgue is gay, the Pre-Sequel and Tales from the Borderlands had Janey and Athena as girlfriends, Hammerlock and Wainright have an entire dlc in 3 dedicated to their wedding, Lors (originally Lorelai in 3) is a trans man, etc etc. It got to the point during 2's heyday that some would say all the characters in the borderlands universe are bi unless otherwise stated!
loved reading this, ty for this comment
What I like about Borderlands in general is that the representation is somethins so casual. With the protagonists, the background characters, mission characters, eco's, it's so good dude
Dbd is 4% gay itself but the community is 90% lgbtq 😂
Apex’s new character alter is also confirmed to be asexual! As well as that bloodhound and fuse are in an openly queer relationship!
Valk and loba:
@@redactedsucksatrivalscatalyst, seer, gibraltar, etc: 🧍
@@InterventionIV me: 🧍♀️
And the other 3/4ths of the roster that’s not straight except for the robots. (🗿robots)
@@redactedsucksatrivalshonestly real
I was a little sus about a straight white guy doing this video but i think you addressed the limitations well and i’m glad you put this out!
Little correction: Baptiste is actually Bisexual, not Gay. Great video nonetheless :)
He even has a flirty moment with Mercy too, where he says he knows someone with several doctorates (like himself) as well as his interaction with lifeweaver. I'm not one to assume people's sexualities, cause it's not something I focus on, but I wasn't shocked either when it was revealed lol
@@gatoisboredhe also does the same with Ana sayin sum along the lines of “I heard about you but I didn’t know how truly beautiful you were.”
This is the single best video on queer rep I have ever seen! Love your style of humor, the "Rainbow Six" absolutely killed me
Glad you enjoyed it! I asked several lgbtq friends to look over the script and video to give feedback and make sure I was doing right by everyone, so shoutout to them 🙂
DBD had many crossover characters, I believe many would have pre defined preferences.
As a lesbian, I'm really thankful you made this video as a straight man. It's important to have out allies support us, so thank you once again. I enjoyed the video :)
you are like the coolest ally?? you're super funny and totally open minded and your closing comments are so crazy accurate i was not expecting to hear them from a straight person today. i hope you have many awesome straight adventures ya little woman liker ❤
I watched the 2011 Josh Hutcherson Straight but not Narrow videos on a loop for four hours before making this and I hope my efforts reflect that.
A straight guy making a video listing many lgbtq characters in video games, I'm impressed. And that's coming from a gay guy. Awesome video dude but their is one thing that I hate when representing lgbtq. Hear me out, I like they are representing lgbtq but it's always the females. I'm not joking. You see alot of female characters representing lbtq but very less male characters. Like glad they are showing lesbains and bisexual female characters. But you rarely see gay and bisexual guys. Like ok we get it, I'm done seeing females representing for us. Where are the males? Even girls that support us agreed with me on this topic. Now there's an idea for your video
Can I ask you something, Why should games represant you or anyone? Does a straight character automatically represent me? No, it doesnt. Such things shouldnt be given any focus at all, what they like to fuck.
Even if you say you're just a straight cis guy, I can guarantee you put a lot of effort and respect in talking about queer identities and it shows
This video is one of the best examples of allyship on RUclips and overall a really great video that treats LGBTQ themes very lightheartedly but with a lot of respect
Edit : the conclusion is truly beautiful too, I wish more people would understand the complexities of rainbow capitalism *and* the fact it's not the shareholders that try to convey meaningful queer stories
Thank you! I sent the script to a good 10 or so people before finalizing it to try to make sure I was doing right by my LGBTQ friends 🫶
I'd say Chamber would also count as queer when it comes to the Valorant roster. The man flirts with half of the games cast, including half of the female agents, as well as fellow male agents Yoru and Iso, on top of already being french
It's not confirmed or anything, but a new voiceline added around pride month in which Chamber proudly proclaims: "I'll swing any way that feels good" is prolly something to go of off
Also, there are only 24 characters in Valorant, not 25. Clove the most recent, is 'Agent 25' but 'Agent 8' hasn't been released yet. That means Valorant's is actually 4/24, or 16.7% gay
"On top of already being french" Bruh.
also Gekko's voice actor has loosely said that "I love playing gay characters" as he is also gay, this loosely confirms that Gekko is also queer
@@velky_reeds as a gekko main there is no way that man is straight. Theres a line between eccentric and flamboyant, and whatever that mf is doing
So he’s bi
Before i even clicked i knew overwatch and apex would be the gayest
I don’t know much about the other games but I knew that my game Apex was going to be the top one 😂 I find it weird when people complain about every new character is gay or LGBTQ+ and as someone who’s straight…….. idgaf 💀 like as long as the character is a good legend with abilities I could care less about what they love or what they are 😭 and if you don’t like it then play a different game 🤡
I love the fact that apex characters have such a great story and background, and their sexuality isn’t that “important” but something natural and common.
And the representation is respectful.
The game continues the story of Titanfall and I expect it to continue for many more years, I’m still waiting for a third titanfall game.
My favorite character is definitely Catalyst!
its funny because dbd is 2% gay but the community is 90% gay not a single game when someone doesnt have the pride/lesbian/trans/gay etc charm (not saying this as something bad)
A lot of people use the charms even tho they are not from LGBT+
I would like to point out that mario party superstars has a higher percentage than half of these games with 1/10 of the playable characters being in the community
Which one? Birdo?
@@reesespuffs7992 yes
Just a lil info for the apex section but I might be wrong since I haven’t played since season 14 and stopped keeping track of lore around season 18
As far as what I know about Bangalore, she fits “questioning” more than actually being lesbian, since Loba was going to give her flowers and confess to her in one of the comics, but overheard her saying that “they’re just friends” but from voice lines found later in the game, it sounded like Bangalore still liked Loba, but didn’t want to display any feelings for her openly (perhaps worrying what the others would think)
0:03 answer: all the free to play games
Love em tho lol
Great vid, also Mauga from OW2 is confirmed to be gay be the lead writer
Little known fact (which was probably intentional): Ezreal and Ekko are ex-boyfriends in one of their shared skin universes, and it’s been stated by the devs that sexualities are consistent across all universes. This would imply that they’re both most likely bi since they both have girl crushes as well.
Most other things are just heavily implied like Taliyah being trans (4 instances at this point but never outright stated), Kai’sa/Akali being a couple in Star Guardian, Irelia being lesbian, etc etc
Aphelios and Sett are a couple in Heartsteel. So that's another two.
@@WraithReaper09 oh yeah, they're together in spirit blossom as well i believe!
Akali and Kai'Sa are not in a relationship in SG. They're childhood best friends, stated multiple times
Man forgot the guilty gear series 😭
Venom is a gay man
Testament is NB or Agender (don't remember)
Bridget is a trans woman
(There's probably more I'm forgetting)
@@LeahPaar there are only like 5 straights in guilty Gear
@@evilded2 hol' up, we have Ky with Dizzy, Jack-O with Sol, Zato with Millia, May with Johnny, Anji with Baiken, Axl with I-no, Jam with pretty boys in general, Giovanna with some potential guy to settle down with in the future, apparently, Slayer with Sharon and ABA with Paracelsus (I think that counts? Paracelsus seems to present as a man and ABA as a woman).
Granted, all of these are "straight" on account of us assuming that they aren't bi.
Some characters that are unconfirmed but are of interest:
we've got likely Elphelt, who, I believe with her win screen or Instant Kill animation offers characters of just about any identity a wedding contract (although I'm iffy about that one, she was canonically to be wed to a man, though), as well as Raven, who is into kink and gets excited over pain in general, including when coming from masculine presenting characters, so... maybe, possibly?
@@thosebloodybadgers8499 I can only buy Johnny, Jam, Aba and maybe Milla. They are aggressively straight. Also are you really going to claim Anji and Baiken's relationship is romantic?
@@evilded2 Well, it doesn't seem to be reciprocated from Baiken's side but Anji's feelings about her are definitely romantically coded. Like, listen to his theme in Strive - if that ain't supposed to be an expression of what an intense childhood crush is, then idk. Bro follows her around like a tail, they're inseparable ever since Anji decided to just butt himself into her whole "reveeenge!" arc.
Not counting Ky is questionable to me though, ngl. Definitely big straight vibes to me. He's a Christian camp boyscout - he crosses the road only after looking four times both ways, he eats on a healthy diet that's so ingrained, the addition of any spices would likely send him into a shock, his favorite band is the Beatles and he definitely hides and is very ashamed of his intimate stash of edgy drawings of his OC that embodies everything he's been told is inappropriate.
Which, like, I can see how that can slot him into the trope of the "closeted Christian queer with tons of unadressed Catholic guilt", especially with how his larger arc if focused around accepting himself and this minority group that he's attracted to and once opposed violently, but, idk, man's a husband with his own little, bizarre nuclear family, picketed fence and all.
this is highly uncomfirmed, but Gekko from Valorant's voice actor is openly gay, and has said "I love playing gay characters" and it is given that the voice actor's identity loosely and/or officially reflect on the characters they portray.
something that was confirmed, however, is that ash from siege is bissexual.
These games are so gay
11:57 correction, Baptiste is Bisexual, as he flirts with both genders via in game interactions
That video was very well made and very interesting to watch, really enjoyed the watch
idk if this is 100% confirmed but i think mauga is also gay because it was hinted at that him and bap were together at some point but idk
8:28 as a croat, i was more than dissapointed with her. Thats not a croat woman at all.
Udyr and Master Yi were heavily implied to have had a fling in one of League's short stories.
udyr and lee sin also get some heavy hints towards romantic feelings
As a gay man this was really funny rainbow six sent me also apex has more
Something interesting about league is that this year they said that a champions sexuality doesn’t change through skin lines. Which increases the gay count by more than double since some characters are at the very least bi or even trans in some of their skins.
It’s interesting because according to the Gallup study the younger the more likely to be openly lgbt. Around 20% of gen z so in terms of the stats verifying by age brackets could possibly show some different results !
The only thing that was incorrect that I saw was Baptiste is actually bisexual. He has the bisexual flag for the name card in the game and I believe he does mention how he likes both men and women I just don't remember where. Not trying to criticize, just being infomative. :3
This was really well made. Loved the vid
Oh the fuck ass cackle I let out whenever you made that “rainbow six” joke bru…😭😭
The ending monologue is especially great! I hope some people with hateful prejudices git to the part and maybe got to reflect on themselves a bit. Well done
There are like 3 characters in Overwatch that are hinted to be queer and a, I think, director said back in Ow1 days that they already have a member for every letter (if you just take LBGT) in the game but not confirmed yet. I also think Baptiste is Bi, not gay so the only person missing from the letters is a trans person. And since it’s Ow1 they do not mean venture. The hinted characters are all queer love wise tho, so we have one unknown trans character. Hope they will confirm or deny these three soon and announce who’s trans, can’t wait to see more dude bros crying :3
Also fun fact: If I’m not mistaken Tracer is one of two characters in the roster who is actually currently in a relationship, her girlfriend is featured in 2 sprays for Tracer and in many in-game interactions throughout both games. In Ow1 more than in Ow2 sadly
You HAVE to do Destiny 2 because so so so many of the characters are either Gay or Unconfirmed it actually does make you wonder “where are the straight people”
The vineboom sfx whenever fanart or art is presented is hilarious😭
If we include licaensed killers for dbd
Chucky, Tiffany, Chatterer and debatably some stranger things characters are gay
How is a misoginistic killer gay?
@@wojtekhiow496why not. killers can be gay too
Great video and such a nice break from the bigoted trash I usually have to hear when watching videos like this.
Thanks for being awesome.
You did not just use a happy death day scene in this video. That movie is criminally underrated imo
Dead by Daylight has the trans guy as a mythic skin so isnt that *technically* 3 characters?
it doesn’t really count to the lore I’d say, It’s a collaboration after all
@@maxime_627 bc of the whole multiverse stuff in dbd every single skin is canon
@@Feeble_Weeble but that character already belongs to another game, that’s too easy
this video is really really great, i almost cried at your conclusion
the new Saints Row has 100% gay
Rainbow Six Siege is clearly the gayest
one thing that may matter with the survey shown near the start is also what city they're from, and age range as older people will tend to stay in the closet and such, but love this vid regardless
From my understanding, Gallup randomly selected 12,000 phone numbers encompassing every area code in the United States, but yeah there will always be some sort of bias!
@@NotFrickingNick good to know! ty
As a bi woman, I really appreciate this video. We need more allies like you in the world! Thank you for making this, and that conclusion was fantastic. It made my day! ❤
Also if we were to include not multi-player games in this discussion I'm pretty sure Super Lesbian Animal RPG is the gayest game.... or Hades... or Ace Attorney..... or Life is Strange.... or Celeste.
Kinda crazy that guilty gear didn't even made it into the list
I should’ve looked into it! That’s a game I hear a lot about but have never looked into the lore or characters so it didn’t really cross my mind when coming up with this video idea.
@@NotFrickingNick you should make a part 2!
Love how Dbd literally admitted: We couldve made a new character that was gay, but we didnt want to.
6:14 I loved the reference! I was hoping clicking on this video it would be here, and I laughed so hard when it was.
Actually, The chatterer which is a skin for Pinhead in DBD, is canonically gay in the hellraiser series
Baptiste is bi actually, and they've hinted that he used to have a thing with Mauga and is flirting with Lifeweaver
Oh boy, what a way to find out that Caveira is a lesbian, but hey, better than knowing it late.
And as a Straight/Heterosexual person, I found this video enjoyable to watch, Thanks for making it!
It's Apex. I'm at the start of the video and I know it's apex. Then overwatch/siege. Then idk enough about league, dbd or valorant to judge those.
But the gayest is absolutely apex
and when you think that life is strange appeared in 2015..
Fun fact Tahliah from league was suppose to be trans in concept. It ended up being left out in the release unfortunately.
I GASPED AT THAT ART IN THE DEAD BY DAYLIGHT SECTION???
GIRL IM GAY AND I WAS SCARED
actually, last year loba and valkury broke up in the kill code cinematic line
Destiny 2 gotta be my gayest/queerest game. Whether that be the characters in lore or the playerbase. Wish the leadership of Bungie was that cool though 😭
Its got a high number but tbf they also have a LOT of characters so the percentage wouldn't be that high
what do you mean wish the leadership of bungie was that cool? they actively ban people for biggotry and numerous times feature a transwoman in their vidocs. i dont know what else they could really do to be more lgbt supportive?
@@NatiTheCutie Bungie is very inclusive as well as charitable, but leadership regularly comes under fire for how they handle releases as well as a massive wave of short-notice layoffs that happened about a year ago.
@@ClaireNighten oh yea i knew that its just i assume the comment was asking for bungie to be more cool lgbt-wise, which they very much already are.
Update on Apex Legends' LGBTQIA Representation:
- Bloodhound and Fuse got married this season (S23).
- Alter is asexual as confirmed by the Devs.
I thought Baptiste was pan or bi, since he has a voiceline hitting on Mercy
I actually thought dbd and overwatch had more LGBTQ characters ngl! But knowing and playing way too much Apex and the lore of it, I knew the fight was already over if they were in this list
1:07 who else immediately saw Among Us 😭
Valkyrie and Loba I believe have broken up, not sure what will happen with them in the future but maybe Rampart is going to name a new weapon after Loba
Valve should make Heavy x Medic canon smh. Like fully just make them get married in the last comic or something
For Muaga he might be gay or bi. I think lore wise its hinted he and Baptiste may have been together. But thats just speculation.
Answer: 16:56 Christian crusades against the heretics summed up:
What god commands the Jewish to do to Babylonian babies 16:57
Someone who works at riot said that characters in League of Legends share their sexuality across all their skinlines, so Sett and Aphelios can be assumed to be a part of the community, tho I understand why they're not included on the list because the subject is up to debate. We don't talk Abt Ekko and Ez tho.
And yet people say there's such thing as Straight Errasure.
Mayhe in pandering but no one likes pandering
I personally have found that about 1 out of 10-15 people is some form of LGBT and I think it's fair to represent them in groups of multiple characters
Really enjoyed every second in this video 💁♂
6 gay characters in rainbow 6? Alright no more. That's perfect.
The true answer is any JoJo game
for the DBD portion, there's like nothing wrong with what you said, but having a partner of the opposite gender doesn't make you straight
you can be a bi man and settle down with a woman/vice versa/everything in between
Yes I agree that was poorly-phrased and I should have instead said they did purely hetero-passing relationships (idk what the correct phrasing is for that), thanks for pointing that out.
@@NotFrickingNick ofc!!! i loved the video and look forward to seeing more of your content :)
Idk if there's enough evidence to include them, but it's implied that Lee Sin and Udyr had an intimate relationship with each other while they trained together in Ionia
I’m a bi man and this was a pretty funny video but you forgot that that one lady from the oni’s chapter is a lesbian
Yui
You mean Yui
Yui Kimura hasn’t been confirmed to be anything at this point, just is widely believed to be a lesbian, but her new Tome lore is going to leak on Tuesday the 16th so that could change things!
@@NotFrickingNick oh my mistake could’ve sworn she was
It's funny how Mauga and Gibraltar are both giant, gay polynesian men who are characters in two separate games. Oceanic culture didn't really care about homosexuality until Europeans came to colonize
btw in Legend Of Runterra Miss Fortune show some interest into some women we can count her as well
Pathfinder might be Pansexual and Asexual at the same time because he loves everybody but probably in a literal sense rather than a sexual manner.
I actually got supper bored bc of insomnia and made a quizizz as well as a PowerPoint that looked at all the queer characters in League of Legends. It included characters that were both confirmed and implied to be queer as well as different games under the league of legends umbrella such as Legends of Runeterra and Riot Forge.
Overall it lead to a total of about 52 characters. I don’t know at the top of my head how many are canonical since a few were confirmed on twitter by either the writers or voice actors or in a different skin line (riot themselves said that characters identities are the same regardless of universes. For example Ezreal are *heavily implied* to be dating in the pulsefire universe and both canonically have feelings for women, Lux and Jinx respectively, so both are at the very least bisexual).
This doesn’t mean that it’s good, Taliyah was supposed to be trans but it got cut by Riot bc China is very anti trans and they didn’t want to lose their largest audience, so instead she was confirmed by a drawing in a music video for Star Guardians that you have to look for. The other five are monsters or robots and the other four are from LOR. A lot of the other queer characters are from LOR as well or thi bc s that imply them to be queer comes from the voice lines in that game. For instance Miss Fortune has some very flirtatious lines with Vi where she asks if Vi is going to arrest her and Vi replies with “I think you like being in cuffs” or something along those lines. This game is retry much dying btw and Riot Forge was shut down after like four games so ya know that nice.
But yea. Main games it’s twelve confirmed characters but the other games revel a lot more characters both confirmed and implied.
Ngl you forget a lot of the characters are gay in apex tbh, been playing since release and i still forget that some of them are gay until i get into the story of them when someone asks lol
League of legends, also has some heavily implied Lgbtq characters, which depending on if you count them increases the number these are the ones i know about
Evelynn, flirts with Kaisa in Legends of Runeterra(LOR), ( though rather this makes Evelynn gay is debatable as she is a demon and seduction is just her hunting strategi)
Sett flirts with Aphelios in both LOR and his spirit blossom legendary skin
Miss fortune Flirts with a female follower card in LOR (though this can just be teasing)
Taliyah is extremely Transcoded (sources the Star guardian event and Neeko's voice lines)
Sett and Aphelios are straight up boyfriends in Heartsteel.
There is also Udyr and Lee sin
@user-pi8pi3wj7h oh yeah I missed those two
btw in overwatch u have lgbtq name cards that show heros who are canonicly lgbtq so u messed up with baptist cuz hes actually bi
its very fucking obvious, Team Fortress 2
My go-to answer is the
The Metal Gear Franchise
RUclips has definitely misunderstood my taste for recommendations.
Just a lil comment, Baptiste (ow) is bisexual and one of the writers confirmed that Mauga is his ex so he's another lgbt character! fun vid to watch. and defo ow is the gay XD
PD: u can also hear lots of Baptiste lines in game flirting with literally everyone.
doing a bunch of MP games and not mentioning Destiny 2 is surprising. The current seasonal story is about 2 gay men's relationship and a lesbian villain looking for her wife lol
Chamber is French so he counts (he’s also confirmed bi from voice lines)