Falling in love with a mutant boy doesn’t fit into anyone’s idea of those duties, but through all their series, the love between these two has only grown, culminating in a romantic kiss and wedding proposal in the final issue of Avengers: Children’s Crusade. He only got the name because he was strong and green, but no gamma radiation was involved: he’s half-Skrull, and half-Kree, so he has a legacy to fulfill the legend of Captain Marvel on one side, and the expectations of Super-Skrull warriors on the other. And while Wiccan was sort of predictably the gay inheritor of his mother’s witchiness (while brother Speed was rebellious and coded as straight, taking after Uncle Quicksilver more than mom), even if his spells were laughably simplistic (basically just self-help affirmations he had to stammer out, lacking his mother’s style), Hulkling’s family dynamic made being gay more of an issue. While the Young Avengers were formed out of adversity to fill the gap left by Disassembled, Billy/Teddy were a sub-group within the underground team, there for each other in a way that was only an intensification (as only teenage emotions can do) of the loyalty felt by the whole team.
What was cool about these two is that they were together from the start.
