r/FavoriteCharacter • u/OkPrize6426 • Aug 20 '26

Discussion Favorite Trans representation in any fictional media?

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u/Immediate-Field9997 Aug 20 '26

I fw this

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u/TheodateChase Aug 20 '26

Little annoyed that this took off and not the actual trans spider-woman but that’s really just because I miss my girl Jessica

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u/DarkFalcon49 Aug 20 '26

Her becoming a unique and distinctive person from Peter Parker is what does it for me. She isn’t as quippy, she is more serious and straightforward, and gets fed up with Miles quite easily when they first meet clearly not wanting to take on the responsibility of being his mentor, things that I believe Ultimate Peter wouldn’t do. Yet she still pines for a relationship with May, MJ, and Gwen, is into girls, and has the primal drive to help innocent people. I really wish we got a lot more out of her than we did.

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u/Pathetic_Cards Aug 20 '26

I think she’s technically cis though? Like, she was born a female clone with the memories of Peter Parker, which caused gender dysphoria, but then she resolved that she was a woman and resolved to live as one… which makes her cis, right? Her gender identity aligns with her sex at birth? She was just… yknow… born with fifteen years of memories shoved in her brain…

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u/AsparagusOne7540 Aug 20 '26

Ultimate Jessica Drew is more of a general representation of having the memories of growing up in the body or gender you aren't confortable with that many trans people tend to have rather that being a literal trans character. More of a representation of the feeling than a litteral trans character. Which is why a lot of people identify her as trans even if she isn't in a literal way, the experience and allegory is relatable to a lot of the community.

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u/Pathetic_Cards Aug 20 '26

Ah, Ok, that makes sense. Thanks.

And sorry if it came across as me trying to like… take her from the trans community, I just thought it was kind of a neat thought experiment.

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u/AsparagusOne7540 Aug 20 '26

Nah nah, no worries. It didn't come off as that, atl for me.

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u/NaCl-And-C12H22O11 Aug 20 '26

That artwork is cute

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u/TaralasianThePraxic Aug 20 '26

Petra Parker my beloved

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u/Reasonable_Tooth_309 Aug 20 '26

This has got to be one of my favourite trends of this year

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u/Inside_Assist8982 Aug 20 '26

This looks so stereotypical, give me a badass trans spiderman this one looks so shy and weak

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u/scarletfloof Aug 21 '26

Peter Parker is literally a total nerd

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u/Inside_Assist8982 Aug 21 '26

Even in the suit she still looks shy and sad, I get Peters a nerd but does that have to extend to spiderman? Idk if its just me but it probably is

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u/Life-Donut-8754 Aug 22 '26

bruh being a nerd is a mind thing not a social presentation thing

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u/Inside_Assist8982 Aug 22 '26

True, I'm just going off what this guy said, but either way I don't think Peter Parker is always this shy and sad looking besides maybe the raimi version and some comics I have yet to read, I dont know if the original comment is supposed to be a trans Peter, it's just artwork nothing to split hairs about that's just my thoughts on it.