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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything:

** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0418.html This strip]] has so much no-so-InnocentInnuendo that Belkar had to give a ShoutOut in response to ''not'' witnessing it.
** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0616.html And here]], Crystal treats being murdered much the way you'd expect people to treat sex.
** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0516.html Also]]:
--->'''Tsukiko:''' Is that him? Is that the one who turned you, my little one?\\
'''Wight:''' Uh huh! He made me feel funny inside!\\
'''Tsukiko:''' You big bully! He's just a child! I only made him four weeks ago!
** They {{break the fourth wall}} to emphasize how corny [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0123.html this one]] is. From her mother, Haley inherited some nice, round, smooth... jewels. She shows them to and discusses them with V while the guys listen through the inn wall.
** In [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0763.html this one]], General Tarquin describes the relationship between himself and [[spoiler:his son, Elan]].
--->'''Tarquin:''' [[Franchise/StarWars Think about it. An epic for the ages! Father vs. Son! Hero vs. villain! One rebel vs. the force of an empire!]]

* WebComic/{{The Glass Scientists}} not only has explicitly queer characters, but there are lots of story elements that makes it easy to read as a metaphor for queer identity. One example is the narrative of the protagonist, Dr. Jekyll, who is actually canonically bisexual. His main conflict maps nicely onto a metaphor for issues bisexual people face in the real world. Jekyll tries to fit in with high London society, while at the same time pursuing his passion for mad science, which is seen as abnormal and even dangerous. But he’s ended up feeling alienated from both circles. He’s too strange and unbalanced to be a proper gentleman, but other mad scientists see him as too square and concerned with public image. Feeling alienated from both the mainstream and the community of outsiders you supposedly belong to is a common experience for bisexual people. Straight people reject them for being gay, while gay people reject them being “too close to straight”. It’s very common for both groups to simply not believe bisexuality exists and accuse bisexuals of “faking” it. Jekyll is both accused of being a fake by other scientists and pressured to keep his passion for mad science hidden by upperclass disdain for it. It’s a doublebind that leaves him feeling like he’s broken and hollow behind the facade he puts up.

* K'seliss the lizardman has an embarrassing instinctual reflex happen when he's threatened by mechanical bugs in the current dungeon crawl in Goblins; his head crest raises. Since he'd previously said that he doesn't "swing that way" (he only kills what he can eat, and considers fighting, eating and sex to be subsets of the same category,) he blames his reaction to inedible war machines to be caused by thinking of a "battle he had AGES ago." And he takes time out to see if the other party members have noticed his gallant reflex.

--->'''Tarquin:''' [[StarWars Think about it. An epic for the ages! Father vs. Son! Hero vs. villain! One rebel vs. the force of an empire!]]

* ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'' does this in [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/3/3/ "Forbidden Fruit"]]
** Oh, this HoYay has been building [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2003/10/20/ for a while now]]...
** And [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2012/04/06/ consummation]]! (Commentary may now be getting meta around the trope.)

* [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-06-14 This installment]] of ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'' is possibly the only thing in existence to blur the distinction between astronomy and sex.

* In [[http://wapsisquare.com/comic/09082004/ this]] ''Webcomic/{{Wapsi Square}}'' strip Monica and Shelly overhear an interesting exchange between Tina and Jacqui.

** They {{break the fourth wall}} to emphasize how corny [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0123.html this one]] is.

* [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0418.html This strip]] of ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' has so much no-so-InnocentInnuendo that Belkar had to give a ShoutOut in response to ''not'' witnessing it.

* ''Webcomic/ErrantStory'' has a few of these, one of the better ones coming when Sarine [[http://www.errantstory.com/2007-03-26/637 observes]] Jon fondling her MagicSword, which has the cool property of expanding from a small crystal to a taut, vibrating focus for magical energy when turned on (so to speak). You couldn't ''possibly'' imagine that there might be UnresolvedSexualTension between those two, could you?

** [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080829 This strip]] and it's implications using Death Rays:

%%* [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1600 This]] ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'' strip is actually entitled "SUBTEXT!"
* [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0418.html This strip]] of ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' has so much no-so-InnocentInnuendo that Belkar had to give a ShoutOut in response to ''not'' witnessing it.
** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0616.html And here]], Crystal treats being murdered much the way you'd expect people to treat sex.
** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0516.html Also]]:
--->'''Tsukiko:''' Is that him? Is that the one who turned you, my little one?\\
'''Wight:''' Uh huh! He made me feel funny inside!\\
'''Tsukiko:''' You big bully! He's just a child! I only made him four weeks ago!
** They {{break the fourth wall}} to emphasize how corny [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0123.html this one]] is.
** In [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0763.html this one]], General Tarquin describes the relationship between himself and [[spoiler:his son, Elan]].
--->'''Tarquin:''' [[StarWars Think about it. An epic for the ages! Father vs. Son! Hero vs. villain! One rebel vs. the force of an empire!]]

* Look at the second panel of this ''Webcomic/NerfNow'' [[http://nerfnow.com/comic/170 comic]]. If you can't figure it out, just look at the photo notes on it.
* ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'' does this in [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/3/3/ "Forbidden Fruit"]]
** Oh, this HoYay has been building [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2003/10/20/ for a while now]]...
** And [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2012/04/06/ consummation]]! (Commentary may now be getting meta around the trope.)
* ''Webcomic/TheNonAdventuresOfWonderella'' treats Hitlerella fighting another superhero (and kidnapping her sidekick) as [[http://nonadventures.com/2008/01/26/beware-the-ides-of-arch/ infidelity in a romantic relationship]]. This only escalates their already enormous levels of FoeYay.

** [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080829 This strip]] and it's implications useing Death Rays:

* [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in [[http://web.archive.org/web/20080709051409/http://drmcninja.com/page.php?pageNum=17&issue=2 this]] strip from ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja''.
-->"I think he's gay too"
* In post-hiatus ''Webcomic/{{Fans}}'', due to a totally broken {{masquerade}} and a well-respected polyamorous "triad," the hot-button issues seem to be ''polygamous'' and ''vampire'' marriage. Gay marriage hasn't been mentioned, although it's been implied gay rights have made impressive leaps over the TimeSkip. A point of irony is that both [[Literature/{{Twilight}} vampires]] and [[UnfortunateImplications polygamists]] seem to enjoy Mormon ''support''.
* [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-06-14 This installment]] of ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'' is possibly the only thing in existence to blur the distinction between astronomy and sex.
* [[http://www.misfile.com/?date=2004-09-15 This]] ''Webcomic/{{Misfile}}'' strip:
-->'''Ash:''' I got it all set up for you. Just slip it in.\\
'''Emily:''' All right already. Just give me a second. It's the first time I've done something like this.\\
'''Ash:''' That's perfect.\\
'''Emily:''' I still don't know what I'm allowed to touch and what I can't. It's so gross and oily.\\
'''Ash:''' That's perfect. Now put in another one.\\
'''Emily:''' This is making my fingers all slippery.\\
'''Ash:''' You get used to it when you do this for a while.\\
'''Rumisiel:''' ''(listens in, drooling)''
** The awesome topper to this conversation is when Ash's dad arrives, asks Ash to go pick up dinner, and asks Emily, "Do you eat fish?"

* In ''WebComic/{{Amazoness}}!'', the Amazons' attitude to heterosexual relationships mirrors modern intolerance of homosexuality: teenagers find it [[http://amazoness.co.uk/95.htm hilarious and perverse]], and parents are [[http://amazoness.co.uk/113.htm mortified at the thought of it]].
* In ''Webcomic/ComingUpViolet'' a mini-sex scandal develops around the titular character when her boyfriend starts spreading lies about their first date, the boyfriend is on the lacrosse team. Many Americans will most likely remember something similar happening at a certain university in 2006.
* The whole "Comic in Crisis" [[StoryArc mini-arc]] from ''WebComic/SluggyFreelance'' (beginning [[http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/19980202 here]]) bares more than a few similarities to the Monica Lewinsky scandal that was going on at the time.
* The "Prop-NA" storyarc in ''Webcomic/{{Nukees}}'', where based on the oft-cited axiom that marriage is a religious institution, [[{{Yandere}} Cecilia]] ([[HypocriticalHumor who isn't 100% straight]]) starts a movement to ban atheists from marrying [[WomanScorned for fairly blatant personal reasons]]... and actually ''[[CrapsackWorld gains popular support]]'' (that's [[HollywoodCalifornia California]]).
* K'seliss the lizardman has an embarrassing instinctual reflex happen when he's threatened by mechanical bugs in the current dungeon crawl in Goblins; his head crest raises. Since he'd previously said that he doesn't "swing that way" (he only kills what he can eat, and considers fighting, eating and sex to be subsets of the same category,) he blames his reaction to inedible war machines to be caused by thinking of a "battle he had AGES ago." And he takes time out to see if the other party members have noticed his gallant reflex.
* ''WebComic/OzyAndMillie'' turned a MattressTagGag into one of these; Llewellyn (who has declared his property to be a sovereign country) decides to legalize cutting tags off mattresses. The U.S. is not happy with this, and ends up deploying border patrols to prevent people from smuggling mattresses between the two countries. In case you're confused, this arc was written around the time Canada was considering legalizing marijuana. (It failed, but still.)

* ''Webcomic/ErrantStory'' has a few of these, one of the better ones coming when Sarine [[http://www.errantstory.com/2007-03-26/637 observes]] Jon fondling her MagicSword, which has the cool property of expanding from a small crystal to a taut, vibrating focus for magical energy when turned on (so to speak). You couldn't ''possibly'' imagine that there might be UnresolvedSexualTension between those two, could you?
-->'''Sarine:''' Please don't put your finger there.
* ''Webcomic/SchoolBites'': the vampire schoolgirls are given potions to control their bloodlust, so they only have to drink blood [[AllPeriodsArePMS once a month]].

* ''Unlife'' has a woman electing to become a zombie (zombies retain their sentience). The dialogue sounds a lot like a woman having sex for the first time... [[MoodWhiplash at first]].
* Many readers have noticed the ambiguous meaning of [[http://www.blindsprings.com/comic/blindsprings-annotation-twenty Harris]]' AnimalMotif in ''Webcomic/{{Blindsprings}}''. A falcon seating over an encaged quail. Tammy's own bird is a quail; so is the falcon preying on the quail? Or it is protecting it?
* ''Webcomic/CopperEyes'': Much like with real-life takers of prescribed depressants, Darcy seems to suffer from a form of depression and emotional numbness due to his continuous taking of Loveless.

* WebComic/{{The Glass Scientists}} not only has explicitly queer characters, but there are lots of story elements that makes it easy to read as a metaphor for queer identity. One example is the narrative of the protagonist, Dr. Jekyll, who is actually canonically bisexual. His main conflict maps nicely onto a metaphor for issues bisexual people face in the real world. Jekyll tries to fit in with high London society, while at the same time pursuing his passion for mad science, which is seen as abnormal or even downright dangerous. But he’s ended up feeling alienated from both circles. He’s too strange and unbalanced to be a proper gentleman, but other mad scientists see him as too square and concerned with public image. Feeling alienated from both the mainstream and the community of outsiders you supposedly belong to is a common experience for bisexual people. Straight people reject them for being gay, while gay people reject them being “too close to straight”. It’s very common for both groups to simply not believe bisexuality exists and accuse bisexuals of “faking” it. Jekyll is both accused of being a fake by other scientists and pressured to keep his passion for mad science hidden by upperclass disdain for it. It’s a doublebind that leaves him feeling like he’s broken and hollow behind the facade he puts up.

* WebComic/{{The Glass Scientists}} not only has explicitly queer characters, but there are lots of story elements that makes it easy to read as a metaphor for queer identity. One example is the narrative of the protagonist, Dr. Jekyll, who is actually canonically bisexual. His main conflict maps nicely onto a metaphor for issues bisexual people face in the real world. Jekyll tries to fit in with high London society, while at the same time pursuing his passion for mad science, which is seen as abnormal or even downright dangerous. But he’s ended up feeling alienated from both circles. He’s too strange and unbalanced to be a proper gentleman, but he has trouble getting along with other mad scientists, who see him as too square and concerned with public image. Feeling alienated from both the mainstream and the community of outsiders you supposedly belong to is a common experience for bisexual people. Straight people reject them for being gay, while gay people reject them being “too close to straight”. It’s very common for both groups to simply not believe bisexuality exists and accuse bisexuals of “faking” it. Jekyll is both accused of being a fake by other scientists and pressured to keep his passion for mad science hidden by upperclass disdain for it. It’s a doublebind that leaves him feeling like he’s broken and hollow behind the facade he puts up.

* WebComic/{{The Glass Scientists}} not only has explicitly queer characters, but there are lots of story elements that makes it easy to read as a metaphor for queer identity. One example is the narrative of the protagonist, Dr. Jekyll, who is actually canonically bisexual. His main conflict maps nicely onto a metaphor for issues bisexual people face in the real world. Jekyll tries to fit in with high London society, while at the same time pursuing his passion for mad science, which is seen as abnormal or even downright dangerous. But he’s ended up feeling alienated from both circles. He’s too strange and unbalanced to be a proper gentleman, but he has trouble getting along with other mad scientists, who see him as too square and concerned with public image. Feeling alienated from both the mainstream and the community of outsiders you supposedly belong to is a common experience for bisexual people. Straight people reject them for being gay, while gay people reject them being “too close to straight”. It’s very common for both groups to simply not believe bisexuality exists and accuse bisexuals of “faking” it. Jekyll is both accused of being a fake by other mad scientists and pressured to keep his passion hidden by upperclass disdain for mad science. It’s a doublebind that leaves him feeling like he’s broken and hollow behind the facade he puts up.

* WebComic/{{The Glass Scientists}} not only has explicitly queer characters, but there are lots of story elements that makes it easy to read as a metaphor for queer identity. One example is the narrative of the protagonist, Dr. Jekyll, who is actually canonically bisexual. His main conflict maps nicely onto a metaphor for issues bisexual people face in the real world. Jekyll tries to fit in with high London society, while at the same time pursuing his passion for mad science, which is seen as abnormal or even downright dangerous. But he’s ends up feeling alienated from both circles. He’s too strange and unbalanced to be a proper gentleman, and too square and concerned with public image to fit in with the other mad scientists, eventhough he sees himself as one of them. Feeling alienated from both the mainstream and the community of outsiders you supposedly belong to is a common experience for bisexual people. Straight people reject them for being gay, while gay people reject them being “too close to straight”. It’s very common for both groups to simply not believe bisexuality exists and accuse bisexuals of “faking” it. Jekyll gets accused by Frankenstein of not being a real mad scientist, while at the same time having to tone down his passion for science in upperclass circles so they wont view him as weird or frightening. It’s a doublebind that’s left him feeling like he’s broken and empty behind the facade he puts up.

* WebComic/{{The Glass Scientists}} has explicitly queer characters, but there are also lots of story elements that makes it easy to read as a metaphor for queer identity. Just one example is the narrative of the protagonist, Dr. Jekyll (and Mr. Hyde), who is actually bisexual in canon. His main conflict maps nicely onto a metaphor for isues bisexual people face in the real world. Jekyll is trying to fit in with high society, while at the same time pursuing his passion for mad science. But he’s ended up feeling alienated from both communities. He’s too strange and unbalanced to be a proper gentleman, and too square and concerned with public image to fit in with the other mad scientists, eventhough he sees himself as one of them. Feeling alienated from both the mainstream and the community of outsiders you supposedly belong to is a common experience for bisexual people. Straight people reject them for being gay, while gay people reject them being “too close to straight”. Its also very common for both groups to simply not believe bisexuality exists and accuse bisexuals of “faking” it. Jekyll gets accused by Frankenstein of not being a real mad scientist, while at the same time having to tone down his passion for science in upperclass circles so they wont view him as weird and potentially dangerous. It’s a doublebind that’s left him feeling like he’s broken and empty behind the facade he puts up.

* WebComic/{{The Glass Scientists}} The protagonist, Dr. Jekyll, is actually bisexual in canon, but his main conflict is also very easy to read as a metaphorical for isues bisexual people face in the real world. Jekyll is trying to fit in with high society, while at the same time pursuing his passion for mad science. But he’s ended up feeling alienated from both communities. He’s too strange and unbalanced to be a proper gentleman, and too square and concerned with public image to fit in with the other mad scientists, eventhough he sees himself as one of them. Feeling alienated from both the mainstream and the community of outsiders you supposedly belong to is a very common experience for bisexual people. Straight people reject them for being gay, while gay people reject them being “too straight”. Its also very common for both groups to simply not believe bisexuality exists and accuse bisexuals of “faking” it. Jekyll gets accused by Frankenstein of not being a real mad scientist, while at the same time having to largely hide or tone down his passion for science in upperclass circles so they wont view him as weird and potentially dangerous. It’s a doublebind that’s left him feeling like he’s broken and empty behind the facade he puts up.

* WebComic/{{The Glass Scientists}} skirts the line by both having explicitly queer characters, but also having an overaching plot that can easily be read as a metaphor for dealing with the internalized shame and repression that come with being queer in a homophobic society, as well as how marginalized people have to navigate acceptability politics to achieve anything when they’re perceived as dangerous and abnormal by the mainstream.

* ‘’Webcomic/{{TheGlassScientists}}’’ skirts the line by both having explicitly queer characters, but also having an overaching plot that can easily be read as a metaphor for dealing with the internalized shame and repression that come with being queer in a homophobic society, as well as how marginalized people have to navigate acceptability politics to achieve anything when they’re perceived as dangerous and abnormal by the mainstream.

* [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1600 This]] ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'' strip is actually entitled "SUBTEXT!"

** [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080829 This strip]]:

* Look at the second panel of this ''NerfNow'' [[http://nerfnow.com/comic/170 comic]]. If you can't figure it out, just look at the photo notes on it.

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* [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in [[http://drmcninja.com/page.php?pageNum=17&issue=2 this]] strip from ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja''.

* [[http://xninjared.deviantart.com/art/Happy-Birthday-APinkishBlue-157267248 Used in this comic.]] The girl notices what it looks like, the boy doesn't...

* [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080829 This strip]] of ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'':
-->'''Agatha:''' [[HeIsNotMyBoyfriend I hardly know him!]]\\

'''Agatha:''' ... That's... That's '''hardly''' a basis for a stable relationship. [Blushes]