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In fiction, the practice of straightwashing has particularly been noted in screenplays based on comic books.<ref name="PinkNews"/> The [[X-Men]] character [[Mystique (comics)|Mystique]] is depicted as bisexual in the comic books, but in the films, she is shown as straight.<ref name="PinkNews"/> Within the comic books published by [[Marvel Comics|Marvel comics]], Mystique had romantic relationships with both male and female characters. Her most prominent relationship was with [[Destiny (Irene Adler)|Destiny]], a female "fellow member of the [[Brotherhood of Evil Mutants]] with whom she raised a child."<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/2017/5/16/19-queer-characters-straightwashed-tv-and-film|title=19 Queer Characters Straightwashed for TV and Film|date=2017-05-16|website=www.advocate.com|language=en|access-date=2019-03-31}}</ref> Within the [[X-Men (film series)|X-Men films]] that date back to the year 2000, the character Mystique, now played by the actress [[Jennifer Lawrence]], has not had any relationship or interest in another female character.<ref name=":0" />
The 2015 film ''[[Stonewall (2015 film)|Stonewall]]'' was accused of straightwashing and of the related practice of "ciswashing" for not including a representation of the two black and trans activists who activists claim launched the [[Stonewall riots]], despite no historical verification of said claim.<ref name="PinkNews"/> The NBC TV drama ''[[Rise (U.S. TV series)|Rise]]'' has been criticized for changing the basis of the production, a "real-life gay drama teacher" in a working class town, into a straight man; ''Out'' magazine calls it "cultural theft and [gay] erasure" that "should have been the story of a complicated LGBTQ hero".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.out.com/out-exclusives/2018/3/21/rises-straightwashing-stunning-letdown-original-gay-stories |title=Rise's Straightwashing is a Stunning Letdown For Original Gay Stories |last=Russell |first=John |date=21 March 2018 |website=www.out.com |publisher=Out |quote=It's sincere and measured. Characters deepen as the season progresses and I'm here for that evolution. At the same time, though, I will never be able to let go of Katim's original sin: coopting the story of a gay man and rewriting it in his own heterosexual image.}}</ref>
In Stuart Richard's article "The Imitation Game and the 'straightwashing' of film", about the film ''[[The Imitation Game]]'', Richards states that
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