Descendants 2 gay kiss

When Descendants 2 premiered on the Disney Channel on July 21st fans didn’t know there was one major lip lock missing from the movie. What fans saw was Dove Cameron’s character Mal and Mitchell. In the novelization of Descendants 2, Harry and Gil do share a kiss. The book was released on June Thomas posted the kissing photo with Dylan on Instagram and captioned it, “What will.

When it comes to Descendants 2 romances, it was all about Mal and Ben, Evie and Doug, and Carlos and Jane in the hit movie. But there was one romance we didn't get to see on screen based on a. Two male characters, Harry Hook (Thomas Doherty) and Gil (Dylan Playfair), were supposed to share a kiss in the final cut, but the scene got axed.

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Rumors about a same-sex romance in the movie have been swirling since last summer, with fans hoping that the film would feature openly gay characters. And it seems that a same-sex kiss between. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. It has earned a fortune retelling not only classic fairytale stories but reboots and rewrites of its own retellings that few people need.

It has even cashed in on reboot-remix fever through a series of Disney Channel Original Movies: the Descendants trilogy , which revolves around the children of all the famous Disney heroes and villains, who inexplicably live in a world much like our own. I am not going to pretend that Descendants makes sense. Yet, my love for these movies is r-i-d-i-c-u-l-o-u-s.

It has been almost four months since the final Descendants movie first aired, and despite my short attention span, I still find myself thinking about this franchise. I am not alone.

There is so much more and better media discuss in this day and age, yet I can still find people on Twitter talking about the end of Descendants 3 like it just came out yesterday. Many of these people are in their late teens or even older— definitely not the target audience for a Disney Channel movie. Perhaps this is best shown through the statistics for Descendants fanfiction on Archive of Our Own.

At time of writing, there were more fanfics about Swan Queen on Archive of Our Own than about any other ship. Even someone like me, who likes neither Swan Queen nor Captain Swan, can acknowledge the significant difference in fan work. The cause for these discrepancies is simple: anywhere there exists gay fan content, there exist gay fans.

What makes these certain fairytale-based productions matter to LGBTQ fandom, in spite of their blatant heterosexuality, is their subversion of classic fairy tale tropes. Much of this is because her narrative is written in a way that subverts our expectations for what a typical Disney story is. She ends the original Frozen without a canonical love interest. Her storyline in the first Frozen film is more typical of a Disney villain than a Disney heroine.

She has powers she cannot control, plunges her kingdom into an eternal winter, and nearly kills her sister with her magic. It would have been easy to follow typical Disney form and write Elsa as a villain like in the original Snow Queen fairytale. However, because she ended the film as a hero regardless, she is inherently a subversive character.

That, combined with her lack of canonical love interest, makes her ripe for interpretation as gay. Therefore, she has to be one of us. That can be seen as a mission statement for the franchise as a whole. Descendants is not trying to be like the stories that inspired it. It instead wants to subvert the tropes of its predecessors. One of the things that makes Descendants unique in its efforts to put a new spin on old stories is its perceptions of romance.

While traditional fairytales and Disney movies are often all about the love story, the romantic subplot is near-nonexistent after the first Descendants film. In Descendants 2 , the emotional duet that anchors the movie is not between its main couple, but between protagonist Mal and her female best friend Evie. The subversive nature of Descendants in general basically encourages such a reading.

Love is a major part of most fairytales. Updating the fairytale for the modern era without explicitly updating the fairytale perception of true love is weak storytelling.