“Milestone reflected the times it was created in,” he noted, “and we want these new series to reflect these times. Milestone isn’t just black and brown characters, there were gay characters way before that was the norm.”

As a former Blizzard Game Master, allow me to give you a little more info about the legacy of the D3 launch:

This video premiered right after Diablo III’s disastrous launch.

Oh yeah — don’t get me wrong, I’m all for making a lead WoW character part of the LGBTQ community, I’m just worried it’s not enough to “normalize” it for the community as a whole.

One of the issues here is that most of WoW’s non-heteronormative inclusions are lesbians. Lesbians aren’t “as big a deal” to many male (developers) as homosexual men are. Lorewise, night elf lesbianism can also be “explained away” by a lack of men — for about 10,000 years, a good chunk of the male night elf population…

If they do Jabberjaw, they should take Cartoon Network’s original spin on it...