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The Best Twitter Takes on Gay Captain America, Lesbian Elsa

The Best Twitter Takes on Gay Captain America, Lesbian Elsa

The Best Twitter Takes on Gay Captain America, Lesbian Elsa

Come on, Marvel and Disney, don't make us beg.

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Twitter may have thought #givecaptainamericaaboyfriend and #giveelsaagirlfriend were fun distractions, but we took it very seriously -- we want to see these movie icons on our team! For starters, GLAAD called out Disney in its annual Studio Accountability Index for having exactly zero LGBT characters in its movies. Apparently, though, we're not the only ones so vested in the love lives of fictional characters. Here's our favorite social media longing:

Stephen Colbert's Late Show is already trying to guess who Cap's new boyfriend will be. Is there a Captain Brazil?

The day after #givecaptainamericaaboyfriend started trending, Marvel comics revealed Captain America to be an agent of the evil Hydra instead. The Nerdist replaces his instantly-infamous "Hail Hydra" with the sentence fans really wanted.

Patton Oswalt's comedian brother Matt gets to the root of the real question we all have about this issue. What do you think?

This Disney enthusiast points out the problem with a major argument against #giveelsaagirlfriend:

Melanie Gorsalitz pitches the Frozen/Rent crossover we didn't know we needed.

E! Online editor Jenna Mullins points out that maybe the whole discussion is moot. (Do they hold hands in this gif? Let's go with they hold hands.)

Chris Hardwick gets a bunch of jokes in on the idea on his Comedy Central show @midnight. "No word who will voice the couple's matching French bulldogs."

Comedian Dillon Stevenson has an idea for a more timely hashtag:

Finally, this prolific Twitter user, like most of us, is just looking out for number one:

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