Eccentric portrayal in films and television has had an uneven street. Almost immediately, strange coded characters were much of the time strutting miscreants whose remarkableness made them interesting yet in addition othered them. In Disney motion pictures, this pattern was most clear during the '90s with The Little Mermaid's Ursula, The Lion Lord's Scar, and Aladdin's Jafar. During the 2010s, eccentric characters turned into a piece of the set dressing, with apparently same-sex couples springing up behind the scenes of Zootopia, Tracking down Dory, and Toy Story 4. At the point when it came to fundamental characters, crowds have needed to look further for qualities regularly coded as strange to see themselves onscreen, thus watchers have proclaimed Elsa from Frozen, the young men of Luca, and the fighting young ladies of Raya and the Last Mythical serpent to be LGBTQ.

On the other hand, there was the humiliation that was Josh Stray as the surprisingly realistic LeFou in 2017's Excellence and the Monster, which chief Bill Condon broadcasted would have a "decent, solely gay second." That implied a squint and-you'd-miss-it bit where LeFou — Gaston's clownish companion whose name in a real sense signifies "the numb-skull" in French — momentarily hitting the dance floor with another man. A strange affirmed reprobate's companion wasn't precisely basically as notable as Condon would have trusted.

This "only gay second" acquired eye rolls from the LGBTQ people group, as did the announcement that the Russo Brothers. would present the MCU's first straightforwardly gay person in Quite a while: Final stage. Ends up, that implied an anonymous person in a sadness support bunch who was played by chief Joe Russo. It was bologna portrayal, particularly as reports released that Disney had cut eccentric substance from Thor: Ragnarok that would have made it MCU ordinance that Valkyrie is bi, as well as some femme-on-femme tease between two Dora Milaje fighters in Dark Jaguar. It was only after 2021's Eternals that the MCU offered a standardly eccentric superhuman with Phastos, played by Brian Tyree Henry.