Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 4 (click to see context) from:
* ComicBook/IronMan and ComicBook/CaptainAmerica [[HoYay/ComicBooks have a tendency]] to go on about each others' eyes, risk life and limb for each other, do "buddy breathing", and that's not even touching on the time Cap rescued Tony from a burning building and the cover made it look like a romance novel, or Tony's speech to Steve's dead body in ''Comicbook/CivilWar: Confessions''. In an AlternateContinuity, Captain America ''married'' a female version of Tony Stark. Not only that, but Civil War never happened because they were together, and the world was actually a better place with their combined awesome.
to:
* ComicBook/IronMan and ComicBook/CaptainAmerica [[HoYay/ComicBooks have a tendency]] to go on about each others' eyes, risk life and limb for each other, do "buddy breathing", and that's not even touching on the time Cap rescued Tony from a burning building and the cover made it look like a romance novel, or Tony's speech to Steve's dead body in ''Comicbook/CivilWar: ''ComicBook/{{Civil War|2006}}: Confessions''. In an AlternateContinuity, Captain America ''married'' a female version of Tony Stark. Not only that, but Civil War ''Civil War'' never happened because they were together, and the world was actually a better place with their combined awesome.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
PlatonicWritingRomanticReading in ComicBooks.
----
----
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 10 (click to see context) from:
* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogIDW'': Dr Starline idolizes Dr Eggman, forgoing sleep just to find Mr Tinker and restore him to his former glory (i.e Dr Eggman). When he succeeds, he happily helps his idol to create a ZombieApocalypse only to go behind his back to summon The Deadly Six to control the Metal Virus. After getting fired for effectively making everything far worse, he takes it badly with reaction to Eggman giving him the boot is often compared to that of a jilted lover. In Bad Guys, Zavok even tells Starline that he doesn't need everyone with Starline acting as though Dr Eggman broke up with him. Imposter Syndrome shows that his plans are heavily inspired by his idol and that he acts as though Eggman rejected him and that Metal Sonic is the third wheel in their "relationship" and has a relapse after finding out that Dr Eggman kept the action figure of him. Issue 50 takes this to it's logical conclusion with Dr Starline's dialogue reading like AStalkerWithACrush pleading with and trying to please their crush, with Dr Eggman rejecting him completely and calling him clingily. If anything, Dr Starline is one of the biggest examples of HoYay in the entire comic and his entire character arc is basically a limerent obsession that very much ends in [[spoiler:his death.]]
to:
* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogIDW'': Dr Starline idolizes Dr Eggman, forgoing sleep just to find Mr Tinker and restore him to his former glory (i.e Dr Eggman). When he succeeds, he happily helps his idol to create a ZombieApocalypse only to go behind his back to summon The Deadly Six to control the Metal Virus. After getting fired for effectively making everything far worse, he takes it badly with reaction to Eggman giving him the boot is often compared to that of a jilted lover. In Bad Guys, Zavok even tells Starline that he doesn't need everyone with Starline acting as though Dr Eggman broke up with him. Imposter Syndrome shows that his plans are heavily inspired by his idol and that he acts as though Eggman rejected him and that Metal Sonic is the third wheel in their "relationship" and has a relapse after finding out that Dr Eggman kept the action figure of him. Issue 50 takes this to it's logical conclusion with Dr Starline's dialogue reading like AStalkerWithACrush a StalkerWithACrush pleading with and trying to please their crush, with Dr Eggman rejecting him completely and calling him clingily. If anything, Dr Starline is one of the biggest examples of HoYay in the entire comic and his entire character arc is basically a limerent obsession that very much ends in [[spoiler:his death.]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 9 (click to see context) from:
* ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'': Betty and Jughead have never been depicted as a couple or implied to have feelings towards each other, with most fans even interpreting Jughead as being gay or asexual. However, it's very easy for readers to pin them as a BetaCouple to Archie/Veronica, and they've been shown to be close friends in many issues and different series. For example, ''ComicBook/LifeWithArchieTheMarriedLife'' has Betty state that the person she missed most in Riverdale was Jughead. As AscendedFanon, the live-action adaptation ''Series/{{Riverdale}}'' pairs them up.
to:
* ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'': Betty and Jughead have never been depicted as a couple or implied to have feelings towards each other, with most fans even interpreting Jughead as being gay or asexual. However, it's very easy for readers to pin them as a BetaCouple to Archie/Veronica, and they've been shown to be close friends in many issues and different series. For example, ''ComicBook/LifeWithArchieTheMarriedLife'' has Betty state that the person she missed most in Riverdale was Jughead. As AscendedFanon, the live-action adaptation ''Series/{{Riverdale}}'' pairs them up.up.
* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogIDW'': Dr Starline idolizes Dr Eggman, forgoing sleep just to find Mr Tinker and restore him to his former glory (i.e Dr Eggman). When he succeeds, he happily helps his idol to create a ZombieApocalypse only to go behind his back to summon The Deadly Six to control the Metal Virus. After getting fired for effectively making everything far worse, he takes it badly with reaction to Eggman giving him the boot is often compared to that of a jilted lover. In Bad Guys, Zavok even tells Starline that he doesn't need everyone with Starline acting as though Dr Eggman broke up with him. Imposter Syndrome shows that his plans are heavily inspired by his idol and that he acts as though Eggman rejected him and that Metal Sonic is the third wheel in their "relationship" and has a relapse after finding out that Dr Eggman kept the action figure of him. Issue 50 takes this to it's logical conclusion with Dr Starline's dialogue reading like AStalkerWithACrush pleading with and trying to please their crush, with Dr Eggman rejecting him completely and calling him clingily. If anything, Dr Starline is one of the biggest examples of HoYay in the entire comic and his entire character arc is basically a limerent obsession that very much ends in [[spoiler:his death.]]
* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogIDW'': Dr Starline idolizes Dr Eggman, forgoing sleep just to find Mr Tinker and restore him to his former glory (i.e Dr Eggman). When he succeeds, he happily helps his idol to create a ZombieApocalypse only to go behind his back to summon The Deadly Six to control the Metal Virus. After getting fired for effectively making everything far worse, he takes it badly with reaction to Eggman giving him the boot is often compared to that of a jilted lover. In Bad Guys, Zavok even tells Starline that he doesn't need everyone with Starline acting as though Dr Eggman broke up with him. Imposter Syndrome shows that his plans are heavily inspired by his idol and that he acts as though Eggman rejected him and that Metal Sonic is the third wheel in their "relationship" and has a relapse after finding out that Dr Eggman kept the action figure of him. Issue 50 takes this to it's logical conclusion with Dr Starline's dialogue reading like AStalkerWithACrush pleading with and trying to please their crush, with Dr Eggman rejecting him completely and calling him clingily. If anything, Dr Starline is one of the biggest examples of HoYay in the entire comic and his entire character arc is basically a limerent obsession that very much ends in [[spoiler:his death.]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Changed line(s) 4,6 (click to see context) from:
* ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'': Creator/CarlBarks was apparently stunned by the implications the censors found in ''Back to the Klondike'', wondering how he could have missed it all. In the original, Scrooge kidnapped Goldie and made her work in his gold claim for a month to pay off a debt. As the censors rightfully questioned, what did they do at night? Watch television?
* Franchise/{{Batman}} and Robin have [[HoYay/{{Batman}} literally decades of this trope behind them]]. Jokes about Robin's short-shorts aside, for most of the time the two are the most important people in each others' lives.
** A non-romantic examples can also occur. It has become sort of a RunningGag among Batman fandom that the louder a writer insists Bruce and Duke Thomas are on enteirly professional terms with one another and do not have a father-son type relationship, the more likely that creator is to write Bruce acting like a surrogate father to Duke.
* Franchise/{{Batman}} and Robin have [[HoYay/{{Batman}} literally decades of this trope behind them]]. Jokes about Robin's short-shorts aside, for most of the time the two are the most important people in each others' lives.
** A non-romantic examples can also occur. It has become sort of a RunningGag among Batman fandom that the louder a writer insists Bruce and Duke Thomas are on enteirly professional terms with one another and do not have a father-son type relationship, the more likely that creator is to write Bruce acting like a surrogate father to Duke.
to:
*
** A non-romantic examples can also occur. It has become sort of a RunningGag among Batman fandom that the louder a writer insists Bruce and Duke Thomas are on enteirly professional terms with one another and do not have a father-son type relationship, the more likely that creator is to write Bruce acting like a surrogate father to Duke.
Deleted line(s) 9,11 (click to see context) :
* Marv Wolfman [[ShipSinking sunk]] the ComicBook/{{Cyborg}}/Sarah Simms relationship in ''ComicBook/TeenTitans''; Wolfman eventually hooked Cyborg up with black scientist Sarah Charles instead (at least for a while).
* ''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures'': Donald is supposed to be in a relationship with Daisy, [[OfficialCouple as always]]. However, [[PhysicalGod Xadhoom]] is a {{tsundere}} for him and most of their dialogue come off as flirting (she is the biggest offender, but he does return it and never seems to mind) and she straight up kisses him on one occasion. His only complaint is her high body temperature.
* Franchise/SpiderMan [[DatingCatwoman and]] ComicBook/BlackCat had a fling in the 80s up until Peter realized that [[LovesMyAlterEgo she wasn't interested in having a normal relationship.]] Sounds simple enough, but even after getting HappilyMarried to ComicBook/{{Mary Jane|Watson}}, Peter ''still'' had baggage over the fact that Felicia liked Spider-Man more than him, leaving the implication that he wasn't as over her as he kept implying. Creator/KevinSmith even [[LampshadeHanging cast a lampshade]] over it in his Black Cat mini-series.
* ''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures'': Donald is supposed to be in a relationship with Daisy, [[OfficialCouple as always]]. However, [[PhysicalGod Xadhoom]] is a {{tsundere}} for him and most of their dialogue come off as flirting (she is the biggest offender, but he does return it and never seems to mind) and she straight up kisses him on one occasion. His only complaint is her high body temperature.
* Franchise/SpiderMan [[DatingCatwoman and]] ComicBook/BlackCat had a fling in the 80s up until Peter realized that [[LovesMyAlterEgo she wasn't interested in having a normal relationship.]] Sounds simple enough, but even after getting HappilyMarried to ComicBook/{{Mary Jane|Watson}}, Peter ''still'' had baggage over the fact that Felicia liked Spider-Man more than him, leaving the implication that he wasn't as over her as he kept implying. Creator/KevinSmith even [[LampshadeHanging cast a lampshade]] over it in his Black Cat mini-series.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* The fan community of the Franchise/MarvelUniverse has long had rumblings of accusations that twins ComicBook/{{Quicksilver}} and the ComicBook/ScarletWitch were more than a little too close to be "just" siblings. This becomes canon in ''ComicBook/TheUltimates''.
* ComicBook/IronMan and ComicBook/CaptainAmerica [[HoYay/ComicBooks have a tendency]] to go on about each others' eyes, risk life and limb for each other, do "buddy breathing", and that's not even touching on the time Cap rescued Tony from a burning building and the cover made it look like a romance novel, or Tony's speech to Steve's dead body in ''Comicbook/CivilWar: Confessions''. In an AlternateContinuity, Captain America ''married'' a female version of Tony Stark. Not only that, but Civil War never happened because they were together, and the world was actually a better place with their combined awesome.
* ''ComicBook/XMen'' characters Juggernaut and Black Tom practically lived in [[HoYay/XMen Ho Yay]] territory. Their concern for each other was unusual for villains and went beyond concern for a friend. Cain was so frantic when Tom's powers went haywire that he went to the X-Men for help, and Wolverine even called him out for caring more about his "boyfriend" than his own stepbrother. When he slept with ComicBook/SheHulk (later {{Retcon}}ned into an alternate Jennifer), the way he said "Sometimes women are just plain better" sounded like he actually tried both.
* ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'': Creator/CarlBarks was apparently stunned by the implications the censors found in ''Back to the Klondike'', wondering how he could have missed it all. In the original, Scrooge kidnapped Goldie and made her work in his gold claim for a month to pay off a debt. As the censors rightfully questioned, what did they do at night? Watch television?
* Franchise/{{Batman}} and Robin have [[HoYay/{{Batman}} literally decades of this trope behind them]]. Jokes about Robin's short-shorts aside, for most of the time the two are the most important people in each others' lives.
** A non-romantic examples can also occur. It has become sort of a RunningGag among Batman fandom that the louder a writer insists Bruce and Duke Thomas are on enteirly professional terms with one another and do not have a father-son type relationship, the more likely that creator is to write Bruce acting like a surrogate father to Duke.
* Batman and Franchise/{{Superman}} aren't as prolific, but they have their fair share of Fumbling. There is an Elseworlds set in medieval-ish Japan where "Superman" made out with a female "Batman".
* Lenore and Ragamuffin from ''ComicBook/LenoreTheCuteLittleDeadGirl''. Ragamuffin is portrayed as a monster at first, a vampire who massacres and eats people alive. He also wants to kill Lenore in the very first episode in which he appears, even though he doesn't succeed because he's trapped in a rag doll. In the later volumes, he cares for her so much that he becomes [[KnightTemplarParent overprotective]] and focused only on defending her when she gets in reckless situations. Even when he returns to his old vampire self, [[TheNotLoveInterest he remains by her side and puts himself in danger for her]].
* Marv Wolfman [[ShipSinking sunk]] the ComicBook/{{Cyborg}}/Sarah Simms relationship in ''ComicBook/TeenTitans''; Wolfman eventually hooked Cyborg up with black scientist Sarah Charles instead (at least for a while).
* ''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures'': Donald is supposed to be in a relationship with Daisy, [[OfficialCouple as always]]. However, [[PhysicalGod Xadhoom]] is a {{tsundere}} for him and most of their dialogue come off as flirting (she is the biggest offender, but he does return it and never seems to mind) and she straight up kisses him on one occasion. His only complaint is her high body temperature.
* Franchise/SpiderMan [[DatingCatwoman and]] ComicBook/BlackCat had a fling in the 80s up until Peter realized that [[LovesMyAlterEgo she wasn't interested in having a normal relationship.]] Sounds simple enough, but even after getting HappilyMarried to ComicBook/{{Mary Jane|Watson}}, Peter ''still'' had baggage over the fact that Felicia liked Spider-Man more than him, leaving the implication that he wasn't as over her as he kept implying. Creator/KevinSmith even [[LampshadeHanging cast a lampshade]] over it in his Black Cat mini-series.
* ComicBook/{{Venom}}, or more specifically, Eddie Brock and the Venom symbiote. While at face value nothing about them seems like anything hints at romance, especially with other adaptations where the symbiote is usually portrayed as a feral parasite, these two have a lot of moments where one could assume that their bond is romantic, to start, the symbiote had a long history of wanting to be with Spider-man and Eddie's first encounter with the symbiote was on a church of all places, they eventually start developing a very close bond to the point one could even die for the other and don't like to be apart, and on top of that, Eddie is usually bare naked under the symbiote. Its unknow if Venom's creator Davi Michelinie intended it to be romantic, but in Venom's second arc, there's a psychologist that describes the symbiote's feelings for Peter as similar to romantic and Peter tries to convince it into leaving Eddie by undressing himself. And this doesn't stop, by now, plenty of other writers not only have hinted it as being romantic but state it, having Eddie describe his bond with the symbiote as something beyond marriage or the symbiote describing their first bonding in the church to be similar marriage. Even writers who want to write their bond as toxic still keep the romantic overtones in some way or form.
* ''ComicBook/AForce'' managed to do this ''twice''. During the ''ComicBook/SecretWars2015'' miniseries, Lady Loki and America Chavez's relationship came off as way too friendly to pass for a mother-daughter relationship, and in the ANAD continuity, Singularity is supposed to come off as a little-sister figure to Nico, but was so chummy that one letter asked if they were going to become an official couple.
* ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'': Betty and Jughead have never been depicted as a couple or implied to have feelings towards each other, with most fans even interpreting Jughead as being gay or asexual. However, it's very easy for readers to pin them as a BetaCouple to Archie/Veronica, and they've been shown to be close friends in many issues and different series. For example, ''ComicBook/LifeWithArchieTheMarriedLife'' has Betty state that the person she missed most in Riverdale was Jughead. As AscendedFanon, the live-action adaptation ''Series/{{Riverdale}}'' pairs them up.
* ComicBook/IronMan and ComicBook/CaptainAmerica [[HoYay/ComicBooks have a tendency]] to go on about each others' eyes, risk life and limb for each other, do "buddy breathing", and that's not even touching on the time Cap rescued Tony from a burning building and the cover made it look like a romance novel, or Tony's speech to Steve's dead body in ''Comicbook/CivilWar: Confessions''. In an AlternateContinuity, Captain America ''married'' a female version of Tony Stark. Not only that, but Civil War never happened because they were together, and the world was actually a better place with their combined awesome.
* ''ComicBook/XMen'' characters Juggernaut and Black Tom practically lived in [[HoYay/XMen Ho Yay]] territory. Their concern for each other was unusual for villains and went beyond concern for a friend. Cain was so frantic when Tom's powers went haywire that he went to the X-Men for help, and Wolverine even called him out for caring more about his "boyfriend" than his own stepbrother. When he slept with ComicBook/SheHulk (later {{Retcon}}ned into an alternate Jennifer), the way he said "Sometimes women are just plain better" sounded like he actually tried both.
* ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'': Creator/CarlBarks was apparently stunned by the implications the censors found in ''Back to the Klondike'', wondering how he could have missed it all. In the original, Scrooge kidnapped Goldie and made her work in his gold claim for a month to pay off a debt. As the censors rightfully questioned, what did they do at night? Watch television?
* Franchise/{{Batman}} and Robin have [[HoYay/{{Batman}} literally decades of this trope behind them]]. Jokes about Robin's short-shorts aside, for most of the time the two are the most important people in each others' lives.
** A non-romantic examples can also occur. It has become sort of a RunningGag among Batman fandom that the louder a writer insists Bruce and Duke Thomas are on enteirly professional terms with one another and do not have a father-son type relationship, the more likely that creator is to write Bruce acting like a surrogate father to Duke.
* Batman and Franchise/{{Superman}} aren't as prolific, but they have their fair share of Fumbling. There is an Elseworlds set in medieval-ish Japan where "Superman" made out with a female "Batman".
* Lenore and Ragamuffin from ''ComicBook/LenoreTheCuteLittleDeadGirl''. Ragamuffin is portrayed as a monster at first, a vampire who massacres and eats people alive. He also wants to kill Lenore in the very first episode in which he appears, even though he doesn't succeed because he's trapped in a rag doll. In the later volumes, he cares for her so much that he becomes [[KnightTemplarParent overprotective]] and focused only on defending her when she gets in reckless situations. Even when he returns to his old vampire self, [[TheNotLoveInterest he remains by her side and puts himself in danger for her]].
* Marv Wolfman [[ShipSinking sunk]] the ComicBook/{{Cyborg}}/Sarah Simms relationship in ''ComicBook/TeenTitans''; Wolfman eventually hooked Cyborg up with black scientist Sarah Charles instead (at least for a while).
* ''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures'': Donald is supposed to be in a relationship with Daisy, [[OfficialCouple as always]]. However, [[PhysicalGod Xadhoom]] is a {{tsundere}} for him and most of their dialogue come off as flirting (she is the biggest offender, but he does return it and never seems to mind) and she straight up kisses him on one occasion. His only complaint is her high body temperature.
* Franchise/SpiderMan [[DatingCatwoman and]] ComicBook/BlackCat had a fling in the 80s up until Peter realized that [[LovesMyAlterEgo she wasn't interested in having a normal relationship.]] Sounds simple enough, but even after getting HappilyMarried to ComicBook/{{Mary Jane|Watson}}, Peter ''still'' had baggage over the fact that Felicia liked Spider-Man more than him, leaving the implication that he wasn't as over her as he kept implying. Creator/KevinSmith even [[LampshadeHanging cast a lampshade]] over it in his Black Cat mini-series.
* ComicBook/{{Venom}}, or more specifically, Eddie Brock and the Venom symbiote. While at face value nothing about them seems like anything hints at romance, especially with other adaptations where the symbiote is usually portrayed as a feral parasite, these two have a lot of moments where one could assume that their bond is romantic, to start, the symbiote had a long history of wanting to be with Spider-man and Eddie's first encounter with the symbiote was on a church of all places, they eventually start developing a very close bond to the point one could even die for the other and don't like to be apart, and on top of that, Eddie is usually bare naked under the symbiote. Its unknow if Venom's creator Davi Michelinie intended it to be romantic, but in Venom's second arc, there's a psychologist that describes the symbiote's feelings for Peter as similar to romantic and Peter tries to convince it into leaving Eddie by undressing himself. And this doesn't stop, by now, plenty of other writers not only have hinted it as being romantic but state it, having Eddie describe his bond with the symbiote as something beyond marriage or the symbiote describing their first bonding in the church to be similar marriage. Even writers who want to write their bond as toxic still keep the romantic overtones in some way or form.
* ''ComicBook/AForce'' managed to do this ''twice''. During the ''ComicBook/SecretWars2015'' miniseries, Lady Loki and America Chavez's relationship came off as way too friendly to pass for a mother-daughter relationship, and in the ANAD continuity, Singularity is supposed to come off as a little-sister figure to Nico, but was so chummy that one letter asked if they were going to become an official couple.
* ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'': Betty and Jughead have never been depicted as a couple or implied to have feelings towards each other, with most fans even interpreting Jughead as being gay or asexual. However, it's very easy for readers to pin them as a BetaCouple to Archie/Veronica, and they've been shown to be close friends in many issues and different series. For example, ''ComicBook/LifeWithArchieTheMarriedLife'' has Betty state that the person she missed most in Riverdale was Jughead. As AscendedFanon, the live-action adaptation ''Series/{{Riverdale}}'' pairs them up.
