Few of these characters are 'out,' per sé - there's a lot of projecting going on - but that doesn’t make them any less meaningful to the queer community. Perhaps more than any other gaming system, Nintendo is particularly (if unconsciously) adept at generating queer and trans characters and memes. There are, to put it roughly, zillions of them. That’s according to Tumblr, which still maintains one of the internet’s largest de facto libraries of queer Nintendo memes.
