• MissesAutumnRains@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    8 months

    A show about big fighting mechs isn’t complete if the pilots aren’t gay and in love and hate each other and exclusively communicate through monologues of their ideals on the current political climate.

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      8 months

      Battletech is basically all of that except gay. I’m trying to think of any gay characters in Battletech…Rhonda Snord? Maybe a couple of the clanners?

      Katherine Steiner-Davion (Victor’s crazy sister; not her grandmother, Actual Katrina Steiner) might be considered aromantic…or a psychopath, which I think is an overriding factor.

      I wonder if it’s more illegal to be gay in the Draconis Combine or in the Capellan Confederation.

      There’s a “rumored” lesbian love affair between Heather Durant and Terens Amaris which results in house Amaris ruling over the Rim Worlds Republic, teeing up her great x5 grandson Stefan to essentially ruin civilization forever. So that’s…kind of canon.

    • hansolo@lemmy.today
      8 months

      The human drama is the central focus, the mechs is just changing the set pieces.

      there’s only so many plots.

      For example: It’s a standard workplace love story exploring the ego and id. It’s just that the workplace is an underground base where some dudes are letting teenagers pilot alien hybrid mechs to bring about the end of humanity.

    • Apeman42@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8 months

      If this is supposed to prove a mecha show with no gay stuff, I’m sure I can dig up some fanfic to argue otherwise.

  • rosco385@lemmy.wtf
    8 months

    It’s sad to see the proud Sgt. Aguado reduced to flipping burgers. Sure, he didn’t solve the Snowflake case and didn’t realize his Lieutenant was an escaped criminal dressed as a woman, but still…

    • Grail@multiverse.soulism.netEnglish
      8 months

      Pacific Rim. If two straight people merge their minds through a psychic bridge, they both become bigender and then it’s gay. Sorry, I don’t make the rules.

      • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
        8 months

        What happens if only one of the robits gets a roberection? Is that gay enough I don’t know how the cybersex is supposed to work my great aunt warned me about people like me

        • Grail@multiverse.soulism.netEnglish
          8 months

          Look, it’s really simple. Master Chief’s suit has a fleshlight built into it and Cortana can control it. It’s called the autojacker. Read Fall of Reach, it’s all in there.

    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
      8 months

      The most popular recent one is Brave Bang Bravern.

      Keep in mind Japan has heavy censorship so a lot of the “gay mechas” are implied and subversive theming instead of openly gay.

        • brown567@sh.itjust.works
          8 months

          Censorship rules always end up stupid because individual morality isn’t consistent and blacklists are never comprehensive

  • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    8 months

    No, that still leaves underage pilots going into combat and suffering immense mental trauma.

    • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      8 months

      Or you can take that out and backfill with 90s era pop culture satire. Megas XLR is a masterpiece.

    • Godort@lemmy.ca
      8 months

      Is that the one that feels like Char is recounting the story of 0079 but in a way that makes him seem way more cool and badass than he was?