Marvel Comics Introduces New Non-Binary/Transgender Warriors
Mar 27, 2020
Marvel Comics is about to unleash unique twin superheroes as part of its New Warriors series, and you won’t believe the names.
One twin is called Snowflake, who dresses in blue, while the other twin is called—we kid you not—Safespace, who dresses in pink. While Snowflake slings sharp ice crystals, Safespace materializes pink forcefields to keep others safe. It seems that newly ‘woke’ Marvel intentionally picked the colors blue and pink, normally used to represent male and female, to turn biology on its head. The characters were created by writer Daniel Kibblesmith and artist Luciano Vecchio.
On the Marvel Comics website, Kibblesmith describes the new characters this way: “Safespace is a big, burly, sort of stereotypical jock. He can create forcefields, but he can only trigger them if he's protecting somebody else. Snowflake is non-binary and goes by they/them, and has the power to generate individual crystalized snowflake-shaped shurikens. The connotations of the word 'snowflake' in our culture right now are something fragile, and this is a character who is turning it into something sharp.”
Kibblesmith continues, "Snowflake is the person who has the more offensive power, and Safespace is the person who has the more defensive power. The idea is that they would mirror each other and complement each other."
The print and digital releases of the new comic book, New Warriors (2020) #1, featuring these new non-binary twins hit the streets on April 15.
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New Warriors (2020) #1 (of 5)
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Meet Snowflake and Safespace, Marvel’s new superheroes
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Marvel goes full social justice with transgender New Warrior ‘Snowflake’
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One twin is called Snowflake, who dresses in blue, while the other twin is called—we kid you not—Safespace, who dresses in pink. While Snowflake slings sharp ice crystals, Safespace materializes pink forcefields to keep others safe. It seems that newly ‘woke’ Marvel intentionally picked the colors blue and pink, normally used to represent male and female, to turn biology on its head. The characters were created by writer Daniel Kibblesmith and artist Luciano Vecchio.
On the Marvel Comics website, Kibblesmith describes the new characters this way: “Safespace is a big, burly, sort of stereotypical jock. He can create forcefields, but he can only trigger them if he's protecting somebody else. Snowflake is non-binary and goes by they/them, and has the power to generate individual crystalized snowflake-shaped shurikens. The connotations of the word 'snowflake' in our culture right now are something fragile, and this is a character who is turning it into something sharp.”
Kibblesmith continues, "Snowflake is the person who has the more offensive power, and Safespace is the person who has the more defensive power. The idea is that they would mirror each other and complement each other."
The print and digital releases of the new comic book, New Warriors (2020) #1, featuring these new non-binary twins hit the streets on April 15.
News Sources
Introducing the New ‘New Warriors’Marvel
New Warriors (2020) #1 (of 5)
Marvel’s Digital Comics Shop
Meet Snowflake and Safespace, Marvel’s new superheroes
The Blaze
Marvel goes full social justice with transgender New Warrior ‘Snowflake’
LifeSiteNews
NOTE: FACT provides links to external websites for educational purposes only. The inclusion of any links to other websites does not necessarily constitute an endorsement.
