History PlayingWith / ArmouredClosetGay

** Bob acts heterophobic in order to conceal the fact that he is heterosexual.

** [[TroubledAbuser Bob]] was initially making steps towards coming out of the closet and moving on from his Gayngst internalized homophobia, but he still has many more personal flaws and [[DarkAndTroubledPast past trauma baggage from his homophobic upbringing]] for himself and his ClosetKey (and LivingEmotionalCrutch) Alan to deal with. Ultimately, Alan could not deal with Bob's abusive behavior anymore, and ends up breaking up with him and leaving him. Alan also warns other people about the sheer amount of domestic abuse that Bob put Alan through, and Bob ended up making himself too much of a pariah to ever find love with another man ever again. In the aftermath of breaking his own heart by mistreating the man he claimed to love, Bob welds himself back into the closet with bloody spikes and doubling down on his homophobic ways worse than ever before. With no options left for finding a new love interest, Bob [[MoralEventHorizon turns himself]] into a horrifyingly ruthless and twistedly hypocritical HeteronormativeCrusader; a RightWingMilitiaFanatic in public, and a DepravedHomosexual with a bloodthirsty penchant for [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil sexually assaulting other men]] - [[YouAreWhatYouHate especially other gay men]] - in private.

** [[TroubledAbuser Bob]] was initially making steps towards coming out of the closet and moving on from his Gayngst internalized homophobia, but he still has many more personal flaws and [[DarkAndTroubledPast past trauma baggage from his homophobic upbringing]] for himself and his ClosetKey (and LivingEmotionalCrutch) Alan to deal with. Ultimately, Alan could not deal with Bob's abusive behavior anymore, and ends up breaking up with him and leaving him. Alan also warns other people about the sheer amount of domestic abuse that Bob put Alan through, and Bob ended up making himself too much of a pariah to ever find love with another man ever again. In the aftermath of breaking his own heart by mistreating the man he claimed to love, Bob welds himself back into the closet with bloody spikes and doubling down on his homophobic ways worse than ever before. With no options left for finding a new love interest, Bob [[Moral Event Horizon turns himself]] into a horrifyingly ruthless and twistedly hypocritical HeteronormativeCrusader; a RightWingMilitiaFanatic in public, and a DepravedHomosexual with a bloodthirsty penchant for [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil sexually assaulting other men]] - [[YouAreWhatYouHate especially other gay men]] - in private.

** [[TroubledAbuser Bob]] was initially making steps towards coming out of the closet and moving on from his [[Gayngst internalized homophobia]], but he still has many more personal flaws and [[DarkAndTroubledPast past trauma baggage from his homophobic upbringing]] for himself and his ClosetKey (and LivingEmotionalCrutch) Alan to deal with. Ultimately, Alan could not deal with Bob's abusive behavior anymore, and ends up breaking up with him and leaving him. Alan also warns other people about the sheer amount of domestic abuse that Bob put Alan through, and Bob ended up making himself too much of a pariah to ever find love with another man ever again. In the aftermath of breaking his own heart by mistreating the man he claimed to love, Bob welds himself back into the closet with bloody spikes and doubling down on his homophobic ways worse than ever before. With no options left for finding a new love interest, Bob [[Moral Event Horizon turns himself]] into a horrifyingly ruthless and twistedly hypocritical HeteronormativeCrusader; a RightWingMilitiaFanatic in public, and a DepravedHomosexual with a bloodthirsty penchant for [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil sexually assaulting other men]] - [[YouAreWhatYouHate especially other gay men]] - in private.

** [[TroubledAbuser Bob]] was initially making steps towards coming out of the closet and moving on from his [[Gayngst internalized homophobia, but he still has many more personal flaws]] and [[DarkAndTroubledPast past trauma baggage from his homophobic upbringing]] for himself and his ClosetKey (and LivingEmotionalCrutch) Alan to deal with. Ultimately, Alan could not deal with Bob's abusive behavior anymore, and ends up breaking up with him and leaving him. Alan also warns other people about the sheer amount of domestic abuse that Bob put Alan through, and Bob ended up making himself too much of a pariah to ever find love with another man ever again. In the aftermath of breaking his own heart by mistreating the man he claimed to love, Bob welds himself back into the closet with bloody spikes and doubling down on his homophobic ways worse than ever before. With no options left for finding a new love interest, Bob [[Moral Event Horizon turns himself]] into a horrifyingly ruthless and twistedly hypocritical HeteronormativeCrusader; a RightWingMilitiaFanatic in public, and a DepravedHomosexual with a bloodthirsty penchant for [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil sexually assaulting other men]] - [[YouAreWhatYouHate especially other gay men]] - in private.

* '''Inverted''': [[RussianReversal Bob acts gay to conceal that he's homophobic.]]

* '''Parodied''': Bob spontaneously burst into an elaborate and flamboyant musical number [[VillainSong to describe his hatred for gays]]. When an unsuspecting audience member lampshades AllGaysLoveTheater, Bob proceeds to bust his kneecaps, and then he goes back to his number.

* '''Implied''': Bob is a homophobe, but at one point he seems to check out a gay man in the midst of condemning him.

* '''Played For Drama''': Hating himself but eventually coming to terms with his sexuality is a large part of Bob's character arc.

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* '''[[ConsummateLiar Straight]]''':
** Bob routinely goes on long diatribes about how he hates homosexuality. He turns out to be gay himself.
** Bob is a [[TheFundamentalist fundamentalist preacher]] infamous for using Literature/TheBible [[AsTheGoodBookSays as an excuse]] to bash gay people. It comes out that he has a history of paying for male escorts.
* '''Exaggerated''': [[DepravedHomosexual Bob]] kills gay people for the fun of it. He's as gay as they come.
* '''Downplayed''':
** Bob has mentioned once or twice that he thinks homosexuality is morally wrong but doesn't really get in arguments about it, and is actually gay (or bi-curious) himself.
** Bob is a closeted biphobic/homophobic bisexual.
** Bob isn't homophobic, but [[HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday tries to act as masculine and heterosexual as possible]] to hide his homosexuality.
* '''Justified''':
** Bob grew up in a very conservative household, so bashing gays is his way to cope.
** Bob doesn't want anyone to know he's gay. So he acts as manly as he can or lets everyone know how manly he is and {{pretend|Prejudice}}s he hates gays. [[BoomerangBigot After all, who would be]] [[YouAreWhatYouHate prejudiced towards a group]] [[InternalizedCategorism they're in, right?]]
* '''Inverted''':
** [[CampStraight Bob acts ridiculously flamboyant at all times]], [[GayBravado but turns out to be straight]].
** Bob is in denial about his heterosexuality.
** [[RussianReversal Bob acts gay to conceal that he’s homophobic.]]

* '''Subverted''': Bob routinely goes on long diatribes about how he hates homosexuality. Other people suspect it may be due to his own hidden sexuality. But he turns out to be straight.
** Bob frequently rails against gay people. It turns out that [[HaveAGayOldTime he is using the period accurate sense]] as railing against joyfully frivolous people. [[HypocriticalHumor He doesn't have anything against men who have sex with men as it doesn't affect him any way.]]
** Bob is genuinely very [[MachoGay macho]] and [[BoomerangBigot homophobic]], and openly [[AtLeastIAdmitIt admits to his own sexual orientation when threatened]].
* '''Double Subverted''': …or so it would seem. Just take a look at his internet history, and you'll see gay sites…
* '''Parodied''':
** Bob spontaneously burst into an elaborate and flamboyant musical number [[VillainSong to describe his hatred for gays]]. When an unsuspecting audience member lampshades the inherent queerness of his act, Bob proceeds to bust his kneecaps, and then he goes back to his number.
** Bob acts like a militiant Islamophobe, but one day gets caught face-deep in a prayer mat.
** Someone suggests Bob is queer. He jumps into a spiked closet on wheels and rams into them.
* '''Zig Zagged''': Bob spends his entire teenaged years harassing the gay kids in his school while crushing on the quarterback of the football team. When said quarterback comes out of the closet, Bob considers doing the same until the quarterback dies in a vicious gay-bashing incident. He grows up, gets married, and has affairs on the side with men he meets at seedy bars while beating his son for being gay, while at work he fires someone under him for harassing a lesbian co-worker…
** Bob is very macho and looks down upon gays. But it turns out he looks down on heterosexuals as well. It turns out that he has binormist cultural views with their own sets of prejudices which consider consider gay men weak and straight men close minded, foolish, and easily seduced, and the asexual childish simpletons. Yet he himself hasn't had any relationship with men but he insists it is because he hasn't found the right guy yet, and his own relationships with women are shallow even by his culture's standard.
* '''Averted''': He's not overly hateful; or he isn't gay.
* '''Enforced''': "It's time for the gay rights episode -- but I can't think about who we should make gay!"\\
"Let's have that macho guy who's always beating up gay people come out."

** Bob finally comes out only to be both rejected by his homophobic friends and family, and other gay people who don't forgive him for how he acted before despite now knowing it was an act.

* '''Implied''': Bob is a nasty homophobe, but at one point he seems to check out a gay man in the midst of condemning him.

* '''[[ConsummateLiar Straight]]''': Bob routinely goes on long diatribes about how he hates homosexuality. He turns out to be gay himself.

** [[HetIsEw Bob is in denial about his heterosexuality]].

%%* '''Implied''': ???

* '''Parodied''': Bob spontaneously burst into an elaborate and flamboyant musical number [[VillainSong to describe his hatred for gays]]. When an unsuspecting audience member lampshades the inherent queerness of his act, Bob proceeds to bust his kneecaps, and then he goes back to his number.

** Bob frequently rails against gay people. It turns out that [[HaveAGayOldTime he is using the period accurate sense]] as railing against joyfully frivolous people. [[HypocritalHumor He doesn't have anything against men who have sex with men as it doesn't affect him any way.]]

** Bob finally comes out only to be both rejected by his homophobic friends and family, and other gay people who don't forgive him for how he acted before despite now knowing it was a JerkassFacade.

* '''Exploited''': Bob's coworker, who know's he's gay, provokes Bob into harassing a gay coworker so that Bob will be fired and he can take Bob's promotion.

** Bob doesn't want anyone to know he's gay. So he acts as manly as he can or lets everyone know how manly he is and {{pretend|Prejudice}}s he hates gays. [[BoomerangBigot After all, who would be]] [[YouAreWhatYouHate prejudice towards a group]] [[InternalizedCategorism they're in, right?]]

* ''Gender Inverted'': Alice acts ridiculously feminine and constantly scoffs about lesbians while being secretly attracted to women herself.

* '''Deconstructed''': Bob's shame over his orientation leads him to be DrivenToSuicide because he can't reconcile his hatred of gays with the fact that he himself is gay.
* '''Reconstructed''': Bob is ManlyGay, but believes being openly flamboyant is disgusting. So as long as you act like a man and keep your homosexuality in private, he's fine with it.