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This is a compilation I made because I love that we're getting more queer rep in animation these days! (It also served as a thank you for over 500 subscribers!)
These are all the coming out scenes I've seen in animation. There are many queer animated characters who never have coming out scenes, and that's cool too, but there's something important about showing these moments where characters share their truth with the world (particularly when words like 'gay', 'bi' and 'trans' are actually used in kids' shows - shout out to Kipo, The Owl House, and Dead End: Paranormal Park!)
Obviously, we still have a looong way to go, particularly with all the cancellations (so mad we lost Dead End), but it's cool to see how far we've come, even if it's overdue - all these scenes happened in the 2020s! (Benson and May in 2020, and the rest in 2022).
All the shows, characters and identities are shown in the video, but here are a few extra notes:
- Benson's and Yaz's scenes were originally much longer, but the video got copyright-blocked on the basis of them, so I cut them short, added background music, and flipped the Camp Cretaceous scenes to (hopefully) avoid this happening again. Sorry everybody, copyright sucks :/
- I'm aware that Barney's scene might not technically be a coming out scene, given that he says 'everyone at school knows' and Norma goes to school with him, but it definitely feels like one, and was the moment he came out to the audience, so I thought it was a valid one to include!
- I put Yaz as 'mspec' (an umbrella term for people attracted to multiple genders!) because she hasn't been specifically labelled as anything, as far as I know!
- The second Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous scene also features Sammy Gutierrez, another canon sapphic character and Yaz's girlfriend, but it's unclear whether or not she was already out! (Whereas Yaz canonically wasn't until the scene we see in the show, so that scene serves as her coming out to her mother!)
- The audio in the second Camp Cretaceous scene also might confuse anyone who hasn't watched, but basically that scene is part of the ending montage and has a voiceover of Darius, another main character, talking about dinosaurs.
- I extended Norma's first scene to include the bit where she admits she has a crush, not just where she says she's bi, because she accidentally reveals who it is and so technically tells Logs she likes girls before she actually tells him. Also, it's an important part of the whole conversation!
As always, I own nothing except the editing. The clips come from Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts, RWBY, Dead End: Paranormal Park, Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous, The Owl House, Wendell & Wild, and The Dragon Prince.
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