>>150144191
>I don't know if there is a trope for this but there have been cases where people joke about x character being goofy for long enough that they end up in positions like this where the literal joke ends up defining them, almost by sheer momentum.
My theory is almost entirely that it is an aesthetics thing which creates a joke and eventually someone takes a joke seriously.
>OG Bobby would look like a snowman often.
>He evolved into his cueball look.
>Cueball look feels goofy as fuck and was mocked.
>People begin to associate corny or goofy looking characters with stereotypes or things they think are bad.
>So Iceman is goofy and therefore he is gay.
>If you wanted to play X-men with your friends, you want to be Wolverine, not Iceman, he looks gay.
So I fully believe that the weird or goofy one gets joked about as "being gay" and then becomes it. I'm sure some revisionist would say it is "reclaiming the weird queer one" or something, but I think it is almost like letting the joke get taken seriously. It wouldn't be the first time a writer took a joke seriously, I don't think it was reclaiming anything, I think Bobby just looked goofy to people.

People tried to make Bobby look icey/jagged as almost a movement away from cueball goofball. And now we have gone to super twink, pure zest Bobby. I think his character developed because of perceptions of the damn aesthetic.