sexual orientation. The writers compromised, depicting the same-sex kiss on-panel and silhouetted. Marvel eventually decided to scrap the issues, intending to release issue 10 as issue 8. The writers objected, noting that issue 10 featured the school still dealing with Anole's suicide and would leave Josh's change in character unexplained. Weir and DeFilippis convinced editors to allow them to write a new story last minute from the artwork of the old storyline and changed the dialogue while removing all references to the suicide and changing the reasons for Josh's reformation. Weir and DeFilippis later stated that they were happier with losing this plot, as they did not like the direction it would have taken Julian as a character, noting that, "[t]he Julian who developed since then is not a guy who'd have a problem with Victor being gay. In fact, he'd wipe the walls with anyone who did." Pink Kryptonite staff writer Megan Parker ("Elf Girl") expressed displeasure with the original storyline and relief with the final changes, stating that, "[killing] off a gay character to further a straight character's development to a 'better human being,'" was understandable as an intended message about intolerance, but "just a bit overused." Other versions Although Anole is a character in the main Marvel Universe continuity (also called "Earth-616,"), he has also been depicted in other fictional universes and alternate futures. House of M When the Scarlet Witch changed reality to one where mutants were the dominant species, Anole was a Junior S.H.I.E.L.D. operative being trained by Northstar. Young X-Men "End of Days" In a dystopic future depicted in the final two issues of Young X-Men, an adult Anole is one of only four remaining mutants on "Xaviera," a former mutant safe-haven independent state and utopia. Both his arms are now super-sized. He remains on a team of X-Men with Graymalkin, Emma Frost (now calling herself "Diamondheart"), Wolverine, and an incapacitated and greatly aged Ink. Dust suddenly appears, now greatly changed in her appearance and persona with altered powers, and proceeds to confront and easily kill each member. Anole tries in vain to reason with her. Defeated, he asks her why she is doing this and she replies that mutants are a "plague upon the earth" and that she has become "the cure", before killing him with her powers. See also LGBT themes in comics LGBT themes in American mainstream comics References External links