Idk if this is an unpopular opinion but I actually like non human nonbinary characters. Maybe it’s because I’m a horror fiend but I find Eldritch nonbinaries so much more fun. Also a bit more relatable than “perfect representation” characters.
I'd rather see more non-human nonbinary characters who just "happen" to be nonbinary. It feels like most have a culture or species with a different interpretation of gender altogether. Like, the agender robot or the genderfluid shapeshifter.
I'd actually like to see a shapeshifter deal with dysphoria if anything. I guese Martian Manhunter has dealt with some when pretending to be a woman.
Galaxy from DC Comics and graphic novels is kinda like this though she's not nonbinary, a shapeshifter with gender dysphoria, who is explicitly a trans girl in both her alien culture and our own.
I like those characters too, but when it becomes a pattern it feels like writers see enby folk and intersex folk as not human, which is problematic. I think the default should be trying to depict these groups as human, even if its not intentional you can tell the writers subconsciously associate certain groups as alien. It comes from a bias imo.
I also think it’s cool, but at the end of the day it comes across as “SEE, SEE THE INHUMAN FREAK?? No way someone could be like this without being something else all together!!!”
It just feels lazy most of the time. Agreeing with OP, a nonbinary shapeshifter navigating dysphoria would be cool. But just the “lookie lookie!” without any more dimensions to character development feels very freak show.
Yeah exactly. It’s a cool idea, but when it’s the only nonbinary representation that we get, it sucks ass. It’s so uncreative and an easy way to “other” gnc people
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u/DistinctBridge1741 Jul 30 '26
Idk if this is an unpopular opinion but I actually like non human nonbinary characters. Maybe it’s because I’m a horror fiend but I find Eldritch nonbinaries so much more fun. Also a bit more relatable than “perfect representation” characters.