>>115885411>The joke is never that they are gay.They go back to Sergeant Hatred's pedophilia constantly, it's his most prominent character trait his backstory of why he left OSI, etc. Sure, the joke isn't that 'he's a homosexual pedophile' it's that he's a loser that just happens to be a loser because of his homosexual pedophilia, but that's splitting hairs.
>the show uses gay characters better than most.I'll agree with the character The Alchemist. He isn't a joke (more than anyone else on the show), his gayness isn't a joke, and he isn't a stereotype (Dana may be lisping a little with the lines, but it's not too much). But nearly everyone else is either a stereotype or their gayness is the joke as in "wouldn't it be funny if this character was really, really gay?" In the OSI vs Sphinx (GI Joe vs Cobra) storylines, they make some obvious swipes at GI Joe characters. One was Shore-Leave, a direct ripoff of GI Joe character "Gung-Ho" only really, really gay. And that's the joke. His gayness isn't a detriment, he's no less effective of a soldier, but they simply took a character from another IP and decided the joke was he's "really gay."
