Jack, Mass Effect Trilogy

Jack from Mass Effect is a character who sets off the common queer internal struggle of: Do I want to date this person or be them or both? With her shaved head, full-body tats, and semi-terrifying attitude, she is very much a queer icon in every sense of the word. As freelance editor Carli Velocci says, it’s “a real shame” that Mass Effect 2 won’t let you romance the buzz cut babe.

Unfortunately, Jack was meant to be pansexual but was changed late in the sequel’s development, as confirmed last year by former BioWare writer Brian Kindregan. “It was actually very late [in development] that [Jack’s romance] became a male/female-only romance,” Kindregan, who was the main writer on Jack’s story, explained. “She was essentially pansexual for most of the development of that romance.”

It’s so damn obvious that Jack was written to be into everyone that it’s even more frustrating we couldn’t have space sex.