This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
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- Another canon example - this time in the original - in Revolutionary Girl Utena, the episode "Nanami's Egg". When Nanami tells her elder brother that she, too, prefers girls, Touga very sternly informs her that "God made both men and women, because that is the most ideal combination". This would, perhaps, have more impact were Touga not the very same person we see lounging in various levels of deshabille on Akio's bed.
Because a) Touga isn't shipped with anyone here, and, more to the point, b) he mentions it once. Besides, what with those Touga-and-Akio scenes mentioned above, Touga's statement was almost certainly meant to ring false.
Pteryx: As this is supposedly one of the Fanfic Tropes, I'm tempted to include something I see come up now and again in Super Mario Bros stuff that takes any cues from Lakitu's Defection. Basically, in LD Lakitu and new character Tineeko become Heterosexual Life-Partners... but people kind of read too much into it. Thus, to compensate, many people seem to take an indirect approach to this trope — not by having either character loudly proclaim their heterosexuality, but by having Tineeko loudly proclaim that he's Christian, on the apparent assumption that no real Christian can be gay.
How about the overabundance of CCS fanfic that ships Tomoyo to Eriol, of which this trope can realy be the only way that the pairing can work. (that is, if they have not just written her OOC to start with, which is likely with most of them)
Didn't know if I should put this on the actual entry, but I once read a fanfic where the author paired Haruka and Michiru together, but changed Haruka's gender since they didn't like yuri pairings.
Is there any reason for this to be primarily defined as a Fanfic trope? Not only does it occur in plenty of non-Fanfic settings, but there's really nothing that inherently makes it exclusive to fanfiction.
Trouser Wearing Barbarian: Yeah, I always about to ask the same thing. This trope is hardly restricted to fanfiction.
I'm not sure the page quote from Dogma counts as an example of this trope, because "not all the time" is as good as a verbal admission that he's NOT entirely hetero (whether the character realises this or not). The bit from Clerks where he makes inappropriate comments to Bob and then accuses him of being the "faggot" might work better.
Duckay: The moment in Dogma that would count is when Bethany and Rufus get back from having a nice heart to heart to find that Jay and Silent Bob have wandered into a strip club so Jay can "prove to this tubby bastard I ain't gay".
