To retcon a character in a work and make them represent a minority community of the creator’s choice all along, even if it wasn’t mentioned at all in the source material.
Named after the character Prof. Dumbledore from the Harry Potter series, when author JK Rowling announced that Dumbledore is gay without explicitly stating or hinting it in the source text.
Named after the character Prof. Dumbledore from the Harry Potter series, when author JK Rowling announced that Dumbledore is gay without explicitly stating or hinting it in the source text.
Blizzard has been Dumbledoring many of their characters in Overwatch recently. First Tracer is a Lesbian and then Symmetra is an autist. Now words confirmed that Soldier 76 is gay.
by CTRLee February 24, 2019
Get the Dumbledoring mug.The act of ret-conning a character or historical figure as being homosexual (or some other sexuality) after the fact for the sake of being inclusive or feeing included with little regard for any evidence to the contrary.
Disney has recently ret-conned Donald Duck as being trans. I’m tired of all this Dumbledoring going on.
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An intense desire to die or to be killed as a means of escape from something worse than death, as seen in The Half-Blood Prince when Dumbledore screams "Kill me!" while drinking the poisoned water.
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Get the dumbledorin' mug.Tim: Did you see that nasty guys diz in the changing room?
Tom: Yeah, that was one helluva dumbledonger.
Tom: Yeah, that was one helluva dumbledonger.
by Storm1979 July 26, 2011
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He wasn't able to get his dumbledong up.
His dumbledong was too thicc to penetrate Harry's anus.
He wasn't able to get his dumbledong up.
His dumbledong was too thicc to penetrate Harry's anus.
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