Mortal Kombat reveals first gay character

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Wright said:

sc94597 said:

Has a video game ever done a coming out of the closet story? I think that would be a much more interesting way to introduce a character as gay. Maybe they are part of the story for a while, and then they come out the closet for whichever reason, and then the other characters deal with it in a respectable manner. I honestly don't see the point of making a new character and then saying, "oh by the way, he/she is homosexual/bisexual!" Alright, why do I care about his/her sexual orientation? I'd like for a gay/bisexual/lesbian chracter that is rounded and normal, who just realistically struggles with social norms which have ostracized them for this one portion of their being. That would interest me. Just labeling a character as non-heterosexual is not interesting. Making them a stereotype is even worse.

This Mortal Kombat character in particular can't come out of the closet due to backlash, on which Raiden replies that he should not care about it at all.

I didn't really mean Motal Kombat. Never heard of anyone playing Mortal Kombat for the story. I meant an actual story-heavy game. The details of this Mortal Kombat game made me think about how it would be interesting to have a side-story/side-quest in a story-heavy game in which coming out of the closet is done realistically with positive and negative feedback from different characters.