You are implying that being a shapeshifter meant having no sexuality whatsoever (both man and woman in the same time)? This is a weird concept. In DC's mithology, Martians are shapeshifter, and they still have define sexualities. If you take J'onn (Martian Man Hunter) as an example, he is a straight male, and he even mentioned having a wife and kids in Absolute Justice while talking to Doctor Fate. He also had a niece in former continuity (I don't know if Miss Martian exists in the DCnU), and in Young Justice she was portrayed as a straight female (even though she is a shapeshifter) and in love with Superboy.
Even if you were right, and shapeshifter had no sexuality at all, you still have to remember Tina wasn't born a shapeshifter. She was born a regular girl with a sickness that affected her bones. She became a meteor freak because of the meteor shower.
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As far as I know, becoming a shape shifter doesn't mean your sexuality is unexistant. She was still a female, probably still had her XX chromossomes in her DNA, but she was able to alter her physical appearance. In another words, she looked like a man without actually becoming one. Usually, in fiction, shape shifter alter their appearances, but they don't change at molecular level. In another words, even though Tina looked like Lex, Whitney or Clark, her DNA was still the same, and didn't become theirs. Of course, shape shifter don't exist in real life, so, anyone could alter this at any given time in a work of fiction. I am only talking about what I've usually seen and read about fictional shape shifters, and about what I've seen in DC so far about the subject. If you think about shape shifting as disguising yourself as someone else, as opposed to actually becoming them, that means Tina was still a girl, whether she looked like a male or not.
Tina Greer was born a female, and her DNA was female. She wanted to be with Lana, and she knew Lana was straight, so she pretended to be whoever Lana was in love with, be it Whitney or Clark. Therefore, if she, a girl, fell in love with Lana, she was gay or at the very least bissexual.
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I agree about the subtext. There were also very suggestive scenes between Clark and Lex and Lois and Tess. It is no wonder those two pairings got so many followers (especially Clark/Lex).
Even if you were right, and shapeshifter had no sexuality at all, you still have to remember Tina wasn't born a shapeshifter. She was born a regular girl with a sickness that affected her bones. She became a meteor freak because of the meteor shower.
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Martha: That's probably because Tina was born with a soft bone disease. They had that poor girl on all these experimental drugs. Doctors didn't believe she'd live to see first grade.
Jonathan: She did get better right around her third birthday.
Clark: That was right after the meteor shower, wasn't it?
Jonathan: She did get better right around her third birthday.
Clark: That was right after the meteor shower, wasn't it?
Tina Greer was born a female, and her DNA was female. She wanted to be with Lana, and she knew Lana was straight, so she pretended to be whoever Lana was in love with, be it Whitney or Clark. Therefore, if she, a girl, fell in love with Lana, she was gay or at the very least bissexual.
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Clark: Tina, don't do this.
Tina: If I want to be with Lana, I don't have a choice.
Clark: Last year, you tried to kill her.
Tina: Yeah. It was the worst mistake of my life. She rejected me and I acted without thinking. But I love her, and I'll do anything to be with her. I finally figured out who Lana wants to be with.
Tina: If I want to be with Lana, I don't have a choice.
Clark: Last year, you tried to kill her.
Tina: Yeah. It was the worst mistake of my life. She rejected me and I acted without thinking. But I love her, and I'll do anything to be with her. I finally figured out who Lana wants to be with.
I agree about the subtext. There were also very suggestive scenes between Clark and Lex and Lois and Tess. It is no wonder those two pairings got so many followers (especially Clark/Lex).
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