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| 10 | [[quoteright:324:[[Webcomic/CaptainStupendous https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Not_gay_really_6097.jpg]]]] |
| 11 | [[caption-width-right:324:[[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial Thanks for pointing that out.]]]] |
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| 13 | ->'''Girls:''' So what are you guys out doing today?\ |
| 14 | '''Joey:''' Oh we're not out! No, no, we're just two heterosexual guys hanging with the son of our other heterosexual friend doing the usual "straight guy" stuff.\ |
| 15 | '''Chandler:''' You done? |
| 16 | -->-- ''Series/{{Friends}}'', "[[Recap/FriendsS2E6TheOneWithTheBabyOnTheBus The One with the Baby on the Bus]]"[[note]]To be fair, they were [[MistakenForGay mistaken for a gay couple]] in the previous scene[[/note]] |
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| 18 | Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today is a trope that takes place in a genre filled to the brim with HomoeroticSubtext. So, to compensate for this, every other line of dialogue comments on how some character is straight and their relationship with someone else is platonic. Every other cast member ''also'' comments on how this person is in fact in a totally normal-type relationship. NotThatTheresAnythingWrongWithThat, but they aren't. |
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| 20 | This isn't just a story that turns someone straight or just takes a hardline on ShipTease...this is a story where nobody will shut up about it, ever. Naturally, because of SuspiciouslySpecificDenial, many people will interpret this as a case of TransparentCloset whether the character is gay or not. As with similar tropes, like MostDefinitelyNotAVillain and HughMann, many writers play this trope straight on purpose. Sometimes this Trope is connected with IfItsYouItsOkay. |
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| 22 | If they're not just trying to convince people which way they swing but that they swing ''at all'', it's HaveIMentionedIAmSexuallyActiveToday. |
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| 24 | This trope sometimes accompanies various GenderBlendingTropes (e.g., WholesomeCrossdresser) as a way of lampshading that the character does ''not'' conform to stereotypes like TransEqualsGay, is ''not'' a DragQueen, etc. |
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| 26 | If a character achieves this through acting gay, that is GayBravado. Contrast ArmouredClosetGay when the person is both gay and homophobic. For a character constantly reminding everyone they ''are'' gay but getting into a lot of heterosexual situations (or no situations at all), see HaveIMentionedIAmGay. |
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| 28 | Compare NotThatKindOfPartner. |
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| 32 | !!Examples: |
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| 34 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 35 | |
| 36 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 37 | * In ''Anime/AngelBeats'', Hinata has to continually reinforce to Otanashi that he isn't like that, subverted later in the series. |
| 38 | * Kaorin from ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'' says she's straight, though it's quite obviously a cover-up. |
| 39 | * Ryo from ''Manga/{{FAKE}}'' claims to be straight whenever Dee comes onto him. He's not very convincing seeing how he always lets Dee kiss him and voluntarily kisses Dee at times too. [[spoiler: He eventually gives in to Dee and considers himself a gay man despite having past hetero relationships.]] |
| 40 | * A slight variation: In the hentai anime ''Frantic, Frustrated, Female'' and its sequels, the main character regularly refer to her friend as "onee-chan" (sister) and her landlady as "okaa-san" (mother), which is the emotional relationship she has with them. Every time she uses these words, the subtitling is quick to point out that ''they're not related'', and thus the lesbian sex scenes do not imply incest. M'kay? |
| 41 | * Yuki of ''Manga/{{Gravitation}}'' spends the first couple of books reminding Shuichi about how straight he is. Less ironically, Hiro is also very conscious about his status as the token heterosexual around. |
| 42 | * In ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'' Fujiwara states that despite she supporting LGBT, she is heterosexual after Hayasaka tried to kiss her, eventually in chapter 255 she finally admits she'd be okay with Hayasaka kissing her. |
| 43 | * In ''Manga/LuckyStar'' Konata once stated while she is a {{yuri fan}}girl, she is not a lesbian. Her various interactions with [[{{Tsundere}} Kagami]] really suggest otherwise. |
| 44 | * Arashi from ''Manga/ParadiseKiss'' has to remind both the readers and George that ''he is heterosexual, thank you'', about as often as the latter brings up the subject that he plays for both teams -- i.e., fairly often. |
| 45 | * ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'': |
| 46 | ** Utena makes sure to tell Anthy that she, despite all appearances, is just into normal boys. PlayedForDrama: Utena is only 14 and simply doesn't know what love is yet, and her desire to be straight leaves her wide open to the destructive sexual manipulation done by Anthy's brother Akio. |
| 47 | ** PlayedForLaughs when Touga claims to be straight. Even though his HomoeroticSubtext with Akio is ''through the roof'', and the two are actually seen rolling around on a bed together with their pants undone. This gets worse in the second light novel, where Touga asks Saionji out on a double date then denies swinging that way, [[spoiler: despite the fact that he's nailing Miki]]. |
| 48 | * The ''Manga/SailorMoon'' Season 3 Cloverway dub had everyone, even random [[MonsterOfTheWeek monsters of the week]], blessed with the knowledge and the compulsion to comment on how not only is "Amara" the cousin of "Michelle", but so were Sailors Uranus and Neptune cousins. The fact that the dubbers were ''lazy'' and forgot to remove many LesYay scenes made it even more of a farce. |
| 49 | * Gojyo from ''Manga/{{Saiyuki}}'' lives to constantly remind everyone in the Sanzo Party that he loves the ladies, yet outside of one episode not canon to the comics, Gojyo has never been with a woman despite his good looks. He has the strongest gay vibes of anyone in the group, picking to a particular person to shovel that on to. It doesn't help that the mangaka has a history in BL mangas. |
| 50 | * In ''Manga/TheSevenDeadlySins'', Nadja was very insistent that her effeminate-looking {{Love Interest|s}} wear ''male'' clothes. |
| 51 | * While not actually ''said'', ''Manga/ShugoChara'' made it clear that Nagihiko is straight in episode 56 when he's assigned as the newest Jack's Chair. He refuses, and Tadase, as an attempt to change his mind, shows off his BishieSparkle. However, Nagihiko isn't at all amused by this. Later, when Tadase and Kukai tell Amu, a girl, about Nagihiko being the new Jack, Amu lets out her own BishieSparkle, to which Nagihiko cannot resist. This alone counts as enough evidence that, yes, he likes girls. |
| 52 | * In ''Manga/TheTyrantFallsInLove'', the main character Tatsumi, even after he has consensual sex with Morinaga, insists that he "is not a damned homo!". |
| 53 | [[/folder]] |
| 54 | |
| 55 | [[folder:Comedy]] |
| 56 | * Creator/JohnMulaney: "But I'm not gay. I have a girlfriend, and she is a female person." He does, however, state that [[CampStraight he was clearly]] ''[[CampStraight supposed]]'' [[CampStraight to be gay]], but whatever angel was in charge of putting him together before he was born just forgot to flip that switch before sending him down to Earth. |
| 57 | * ''{{Inverted|Trope}}'' by straight comedian Doug Stanhope in ''Beer Hall Putsch''. Following a [[ItMakesSenseInContext gay fantasy bit]], he suddenly starts insisting he's gay [[PlayedForLaughs for laughs]][[note]]Specifically, he goes on to talk about how he has a hobby of coming out because it enforces the idea that [[HaveYouTriedNotBeingAMonster gay people are "normal" like you]].[[/note]] simply because people wouldn't expect it: |
| 58 | -->"I hope I didn't ruffle any feathers, but as an openly gay comedian I feel a responsibility to talk about a lot of issues that -- what, are you gonna test me? You don't know if I'm lying. I can be as gay as I want to be up here, fuck you. What, are you gonna strap me to a chair and [[CrossesTheLineTwice blow loads in my face]] to see if I'm fibbing when I say I love it?" |
| 59 | * Also downplayed with Creator/RonWhite; in one bit he commented on his own clothing choices and said he was actually surprised he wasn't gay. Then there's his bit about how "[[EveryoneIsBi We're all gay]], it's just 'To what ''extent'' are you gay?'" where he asks his homophobic friend a series of questions about his tastes in porn until he finally admits, to his own surprise, [[YouAreWhatYouHate that he likes to see big, hard, throbbing cocks]]. |
| 60 | ** Ron also told a story about how his grandmother would take his temperature with [[AssShove an old-fashioned rectal thermometer]]. "And I hated it!...''at first''..." |
| 61 | * Music/BoBurnham's song "Oh, Bo" has this lyric: |
| 62 | -->''I make all the ladies say "Oh, Bo"\ |
| 63 | And if I were gay\ |
| 64 | Though I swear I'm straight\ |
| 65 | I'd make the fellas say "Oh, Bo"'' |
| 66 | [[/folder]] |
| 67 | |
| 68 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 69 | * ''ComicBook/{{Batwoman}}'': This was pretty much the entire reason the original Batwoman existed: cultural commentators of the day had been calling out the HoYay in ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' stories of the era, what with the total lack of long-term non-villainous female presence in his life and the focus on his close, trusting relationship with his sidekick, and so the writers introduced a female character to serve as his ImpliedLoveInterest. Unfortunately, the fact that it was so heavily forced as a romance, combined with its [[StayInTheKitchen very dated writing]], meant that most modern commentators have found it looked a lot less like true love and more like a guy stuck with TheBeard against his will. In a somewhat ironic reversal, the Batwoman introduced in the modern era is an out and proud lesbian. |
| 70 | * ''ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey'': One issue has Characters/BlackCanary going up against [[Characters/BatmanTaliaAlGhul Talia Al-Ghul]]. Talia's main power appears to be wearing {{stripperiffic}} outfits and dominating people with her vampy dialog. But Canary isn't the least impressed with her because "I'm heterosexual to the bone!" [[WordOfGod Gail Simone]] stated that the original line was "seventy-five percent heterosexual", but a mix-up with the placeholder dialog replaced it. |
| 71 | * Used repeatedly in several [[https://web.archive.org/web/20070309124025/http://www.captainexcelsior.com/?id=1 CAPTAIN EXCELSIOR]] strips after Ward [[spoiler:sleeps with the owner of the Homosexual Intercourse]]. [[https://web.archive.org/web/20080117100338/http://www.captainexcelsior.com/?id=50 #47]] [[https://web.archive.org/web/20191015063006/http://www.captainexcelsior.com/?id=51 #48]] [[https://web.archive.org/web/20080208070628/https://www.captainexcelsior.com/?id=54 #51]] [[https://web.archive.org/web/20080220215851/http://www.captainexcelsior.com/?id=55 #52]] |
| 72 | * ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'': [[Characters/MarvelComicsDeadpool Deadpool]] cracks jokes about his HoYay with people half the time, and spends the other half saying homoerotic stuff about Cable[=/=]Weasel[=/=]Spider-Man[=/=]Thor, only to immediately insist that he's straight. If this sounds contradictory, remember that this is [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Deadpool.]] Possibly the best example came when the Black Mamba's powers made him picture his greatest fantasy -- rubbing suntan lotion on Cable's back at the beach. "That was ''not'' my fantasy! It was you -- that Darkforce stuff planted that image in my head!" |
| 73 | * ''ComicBook/GothamCitySirens'': This seems to strike the series alot; when Creator/PaulDini isn't writing, [[Characters/BatmanPoisonIvy Poison Ivy]] must mention how she likes guys or fall for a male plant alien or yell about how she's forever alone. Some people really can't handle the Ivy/Characters/{{Harley|QuinnTheCharacter}} relationship. |
| 74 | * ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'': In ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueElite'', Menagerie insists that she's not into girls... after cuddling with Vera-Lynn Black, albeit while the latter was disguised as Deathstroke. This might be explained by the fact that she has a SplitPersonality. |
| 75 | * ''ComicBook/{{Wanted}}'': The series starts with one of these: a character who we are informed is the world's best assassin is giving a completely inexplicable monologue to a pair of male prostitutes explaining, at length, that just because he is about to have sex with them doesn't mean he's gay, [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial far from it]], it's just that he has sex with soooooooo many women every day and every night all the time banging hot babes nonstop that he likes to occasionally bang dudes just to remind himself of how much he likes the ladies. This does not appear to be played as a gag, mind you, we are apparently meant to take this monologue at face value. |
| 76 | * ''ComicBook/YoungAvengers'': [[Characters/MarvelComicsKateBishop Kate Bishop]] has a moment of this at the end of Volume 2, where she wonders out loud if she's the token straight of the CastFullOfGay. America's response? |
| 77 | -->'''[[Characters/YoungAvengersTitleTeam America Chavez]]:''' Princess. I've seen the way you look at me. [[AmbiguouslyBi You're not that straight]]. |
| 78 | [[/folder]] |
| 79 | |
| 80 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 81 | * ''The Girl Who Lived'': Rose Potter, who despite ogling naked girls and going to sleep with Ginny and waking up in a spooning position, is not a lesbian. |
| 82 | * In ''Fanfic/HowHogwartsBecameANudistColony'', Draco insists that he is "quite straight now." The RunningGag is that he actually has considerable HoYay with Ron. |
| 83 | * ''Fanfic/LightAndDarkTheAdventuresOfDarkYagami'': [[MartyStu Dark Yagami]] could have this trope renamed in his dubious honor: |
| 84 | -->Light's parents had made light's bed into a double bed (I know what your thinking sickos no theres no slash!)\ |
| 85 | Light and Dark were in bed together but only because there parents were to poor to get separate rooms its not like their gay or anything!\ |
| 86 | he loved Dark which maybe he did a little but not really cos Darks not gay!!!! SERIOUSLY\ |
| 87 | "I am not gay" Darksaid because the readers at home might think so other ways.\ |
| 88 | "Where did you get him he is very hansom!" dark said but only because he was a clone of him HES NOT GAY." |
| 89 | * ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'': |
| 90 | ** Marik constantly denies that he's gay, despite a penchant for ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'', tight clothes, and his evil BFF Bakura, as well as a fondness for reading {{yaoi}}. |
| 91 | --->'''Marik:''' Wait a second, are you coming onto me? I already ''told'' you, Bakura, I'm not gay!\ |
| 92 | '''Bakura:''' Could've fooled me.\ |
| 93 | '''Melvin:''' ''And'' me!\ |
| 94 | '''Marik:''' Hey, shut up, you don't know anything about me!\ |
| 95 | '''Bakura:''' Marik, he ''is'' you! He knows everything about you.\ |
| 96 | '''Marik:''' ''He'' is the gay one! |
| 97 | ** Yuusei and Jack from ''Bonds Before Time Abridged''. Yuusei starts the movie by assuring Jack that liking ''Film/TopGun'' isn't gay, as how could a movie about men calling each other cute nicknames, playing half-naked volleyball, and riding phallic vehicles at high speed be anything but straight? He spends the final duel engaging in a ''lot'' of HoYay with Yami, before repeatedly waving it away with a 'no homo'. Yami is... [[DepravedBisexual much less insecure.]] |
| 98 | --->'''Yami:''' You know, you always were my favorite protagonist.\ |
| 99 | '''Yuusei:''' Right back at you, Yugi. It feels so good to know you'll be playing with me. ''[[[{{Sexophone}} sexy music,]] intense eye contact]'' No homo!\ |
| 100 | '''Yami:''' Ah, yes... no homo... indeed.\ |
| 101 | ''[[[RunningGag later]]]''\ |
| 102 | '''Yuusei:''' You can ride with me anytime, Yugi. ''[sexy music, intense eye contact]''... no homo.\ |
| 103 | '''Yami:''' Ah yes, I was just about to say, uh, no homo.\ |
| 104 | ''[[[RuleOfThree later]]]''\ |
| 105 | '''Yuusei:''' [[Film/TopGun You can be my wingman anytime]], Yugi.\ |
| 106 | '''Yami:''' No, Yusei. You can be mine. ''[sexy music, intense eye contact]''\ |
| 107 | '''Yuusei:''' No homo, right?\ |
| 108 | '''Yami:''' '''[[SubvertedTrope All of the homo!]]''' |
| 109 | ** In the possibly-canon ''Bakura and Marik go to Censored Town'', Bakura claims that he's [[IfItsYouItsOkay only interested in]] [[TransparentCloset Marik]]. |
| 110 | --->'''Bakura:''' Otherwise, totally hetero. |
| 111 | ** Pegasus actually ''inverts'' this trope. While screaming at the top of his lungs "HaveIMentionedIAmGay" in every single episode, [[CampStraight he's as straight as they get.]] This prompts him into nearly killing some characters for discovering his true sexuality. |
| 112 | * In ''FanFic/ThoseLackingSpines'', Riku of [[HighSchoolAU Destiny Sanctuary Peak High School Academy Grammar School]] always tries to convince others he is straight, even though he obviously isn't. |
| 113 | -->'''Sora:''' Right -- and what are we betting?\ |
| 114 | '''Riku:''' A kiss.\ |
| 115 | '''Sora:''' What?\ |
| 116 | '''Riku:''' I mean... a kick. In the ass. I'll kick your ass if you don't. Because I'm not gay or anything.\ |
| 117 | '''Sora:''' Who said you were?\ |
| 118 | '''Riku:''' Nobody. Because I'm not. Yeah. Totally straight. I love chicks. Yay boobs. |
| 119 | * An ImagineSpot in the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfic ''Fanfic/{{Progress}}'' has [[{{Tomboy}} Rainbow Dash]] loudly proclaim that she's not gay and that she'll "do every colt in Equestria to prove it". |
| 120 | * Fancomic ''In Uneighson'' has [[http://hewhoerasesmost.deviantart.com/art/In-Uneighson-Page-22-299037755 Lyra]] [[http://hewhoerasesmost.deviantart.com/art/In-Uneighson-Page-25-301187694 doing]] [[http://hewhoerasesmost.deviantart.com/art/In-Uneighson-Page-27-303659735 this]] to the [[http://hewhoerasesmost.deviantart.com/art/In-Uneighson-Page-28-304430228 obvious conclusion.]] |
| 121 | * ''Fanfic/BecomingFemale'': "[[Literature/HarryPotter Draco Malfoy]] smirked at me. He was the hottest guy in school and all the girls wanted him, but I was a boy and not gay so we couldn't be together." [[JumpingTheGenderBarrier Guess what happens later.]] |
| 122 | * [[Manga/DeathNote Light]] in ''Fanfic/AllYouNeedIsLove'': |
| 123 | -->'''Light:''' [[FreudianSlipperySlope I am not blatantly homosexual! I just wear nice clothing!]] |
| 124 | * Occurs at least once per chapter in the infamous ''Fanfic/SupperSmashBrosMishonhFromGod''. As the narrator is a blatant AuthorAvatar, we can infer that the same goes for the author -- though you should be able to figure that out anyway from the homophobic content. |
| 125 | * In ''Fanfic/UzumakiHarry'' Harry feels the need to remind everyone that he is "not gay" every other chapter. |
| 126 | * In ''FanFic/TheJadedEyesSeries'' Sirius is totally straight! [[CasanovaWannabe All the ladies love him, totally!]] That stuff about [[HoYay him and Remus]] is an unfounded rumor probably started by Snivellus! |
| 127 | * Voldemort in ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2580020/1/The-Horrible-Interpretation-of-the-Prophecy The Horrible Interpretation Of The Prophecy]]'': |
| 128 | -->'''Voldemort's letter:''' ''Dear Sworn Enemy,\ |
| 129 | It has recently come to my attention that you are gay.\ |
| 130 | This is of great concern to me. I know you have repeatedly said you will not join me, but I am still worried. I know I am dead sexy -- but I feel obliged to tell you that I am straight.\ |
| 131 | Now, I am unsure of how much Dumbledore has told you, but I have another reason for concern. A prophecy exists involving us.\ |
| 132 | I know what the first half says. To summarize, someone has the power to vanquish me.\ |
| 133 | Now, my reason for concern is that I fear you are the one who is suppose to vanquish me. I fear you are going to try and do this through sex. That is the reason for this letter.\ |
| 134 | I also would like to tell you that I have several followers who are, um, indecisive in regards to their preferred gender. While it is good that you have picked one, I must say I believe you made the wrong decision. Women are great. Just the other day, I was remembering my later years at Hogwarts. There is a broom cupboard that is perfect for--''\ |
| 135 | '''Harry:''' NO. I'm not reading the rest of it. There are two pages that go into great detail regarding why I shouldn't be gay.\ |
| 136 | '''Hermione:''' Skip ahead.\ |
| 137 | '''Voldemort's letter:''' ''In conclusion, do not be gay. If you neglect this piece of advice, take another. Do not be gay with me. It will anger me, but it will not vanquish me. Now I turn the rest of the parchment over to Wormtail, who so generously wrote this for me, as I still lack a body. That does not make me any less sexy, though.'' |
| 138 | * ''Fanfic/FeverDreams'' has [[IntoxicationEnsues poor drunk]] Matsuda: |
| 139 | -->'''Matsuda:''' It was so horrible. I-- I feel like I've violated Misa-Misa just by listening to those lies being told to her... I don't want to have sex with two men and Misa-Misa at the same time... ''[everyone stares]'' No, no, I'm not with this guy, he's just my friend who has sex with my other male friend. I really like women a lot [[ThatCameOutWrong and any women who want to be with me, I'll respect them incredibly hard and skillfully with all the right respectful lines that I'm going to learn.]]\ |
| 140 | '''Light:''' I don't think you should return to this bar anytime soon. |
| 141 | * The ''ComicBook/CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew'' fanfic ''The Harmony Trap'' features a male bank teller looking at the bank's security guards and telling himself that he's not gay, he just likes uniforms... |
| 142 | * Fanfic, in general, has a trend like this where fics, usually those focusing on the friendship between characters who usually ''are'' paired romantically, make a big deal out of telling you the story is Not Slash, despite the fact that an actual decent summary would fix that. Then there are just oddball summaries like "[[Literature/HarryPotter A Death Eaters' meeting]]. No slash." Why would you even assume there ''would'' be? Admittedly there are some popular pairings involving two people who are both Death Eaters, but why would they be [[MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces doing that at the meeting?]] |
| 143 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8038419/5/The-Journey-Begins The Journey Begins]]'' Cormac makes frequent remarks about his not being gay, due to his mother's firm belief that he ''is'' and the resultant teasing by actually-gay friends. |
| 144 | * ''Fanfic/ThePowerOfSeven'' features a few downplayed examples of this; |
| 145 | ** Petunia's reaction to [[spoiler:Fleur coming to Privet Drive to rescue Harry, Fleur in full allure and wearing nothing]] confirms that she's completely straight. |
| 146 | ** While the harem have no problem watching each other get Harry off, Hermione and Susan soon realise that they have no attraction to other women as they don't get aroused seeing the others do anything on their own. Ginny and Luna are at least strongly implied to be bi as they have been seen masturbating each other, and Fleur comes to realise that she is at least academically curious about how her allure affects other women, while Demelza and Katie have no problem watching or engaging in sexual activities with the others during a group session without showing much interest in doing anything to the other girls on their own initiative. |
| 147 | * In ''Fanfic/CodeGeassThePreparedRebellion'', Kallen is adamant she is not bi-curious; C.C. calls her out by saying Kallen liked the attention and didn't throw C.C. off despite having the strength to do so. Kallen still says she isn't despite having a hard time keeping her eyes away from C.C.'s SupermodelStrut. |
| 148 | -->"With that, she sashayed out of the room, an extra sway in her hips that Kallen found she had a hard time ignoring." |
| 149 | * In ''Fanfic/TheRWBYLoops'' there is a brief instance of this when Weiss and Ruby reassure each other they are not romantically attracted to each other. To be fair, every other partner pair they knew in that loop had started dating, so they felt a need to establish it pretty quickly; later loops have them express [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend amused exasperation]] when anyone else ships them together, despite Ruby's insistence on celibacy and Weiss's repeated one loop stands. |
| 150 | * In ''Fanfic/ButYouWontHaveToDoItAlone'', Rei's obsession with boys is a way of overcompensating because she fears her attraction towards girls. |
| 151 | * Whenever Sara of ''Fanfic/SupperSmashBrosMishonhFromGod'' refers to her best friend (or another female character) as pretty, she immediately follows it up with "not because I'm a lesbian or anything, homosexuality is wrong!" This is enough to convince everyone but the readers. |
| 152 | * RyĹŤga of ''WebVideo/RanmaOneHalfAbridged'' persistently double-checks with his [[InnerMonologue inner monologuing]] voice that what he's doing could only be construed as the actions of a straight man, and inserts his justifications into casual conversation. |
| 153 | -->''[holding up pages of Yaoi]''\ |
| 154 | '''RyĹŤga:''' Where can I find this? And I like women. |
| 155 | * PlayedForDrama in the ''Mean Girls'' fic ''Fanfic/RipHerToShreds''. In middle school, Regina became "boy crazy" as a way to deflect attention away from her attraction towards girls. |
| 156 | * PlayedForDrama in ''Fanfic/WhiteNoise''. Yang is lesbian but when [[UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} she began transitioning]] she really wanted to be seen as an "average woman" and began trying to act this way towards men. |
| 157 | * In ''Fanfic/TangledUpInIndigo'', Mio tries too hard to prove the band is straight. It doesn't work. When the girls decide to dress very girly in an attempt to dissuade their fans from assuming they're lesbian, they instead find a newsletter titled "[[LipstickLesbian Lesbian rockers go super-femme]]." |
| 158 | * ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12849081/5/Third-Year-in-Harmony Third Year in Harmony]]'': |
| 159 | -->'''Harry:''' [Ron] wasn't completely clear about it, but the night I got the Firebolt back, before the big argument, he told me he'd always thought we would date. He and I. So. I think that must be part of why he reacted so badly when us two started dating.\ |
| 160 | '''Hermione:''' I'm sorry. This shouldn't be funny. It makes sense. He told me myriads of times this year that he liked girls and wasn't a 'poofter.' I wondered why he was bringing it up. Now I understand. He was in denial. I'm surprised he would be so honest with himself, never mind with you. That was very brave of him to admit. If we start talking again, we'll have to make clear we support him and don't think any less of him for it. |
| 161 | * Played with in ''FanFic/WithPearlAndRubyGlowing'': [[{{WesternAnimation/Ballerina}} Rudi]] actually is straight, but is assaulted by {{Heteronormative Crusader}}s for being a ballerino and thus supposedly a "sissy", after which he develops a compulsion to have sex with as many girls as possible to make it clear to himself and others that he's not gay so no one will assault him again. [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior Which is bad enough before taking into account that he started this around age nine.]] |
| 162 | [[/folder]] |
| 163 | |
| 164 | [[folder:Films -- Animated]] |
| 165 | * Obviously actual sex isn't an issue because the characters are LivingToys and it's a family movie, but in ''WesternAnimation/RaggedyAnnAndAndyAMusicalAdventure'', Andy feels the need to insist (in song, no less) that even though he's a soft, cuddly ragdoll owned by a girl who's into dresses and tea parties and all the finest in stereotyped little girl interests, he's "No Girl's Toy". |
| 166 | -->''You may not like it much, but I'm my own best boy\ |
| 167 | And not some sugar-and-spice-y, lacy-and-nice-y\ |
| 168 | Sissy you're gonna enjoy\ |
| 169 | No, I'm no girl's toy!'' |
| 170 | [[/folder]] |
| 171 | |
| 172 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 173 | * Near the end of ''Film/Bruno2009'', the main character claims to have achieved his goal of [[spoiler:becoming heterosexual. In fact, he proves it by hosting a cage-fighting show called [[TestosteronePoisoning Straight Dave's Man Slammin' Maxout]], and giving the audience a speech about how hetero he is. [[PoesLaw The audience loves him at first]], but become [[HateDumb enraged]] when he [[FanDisservice passionately makes out with another man]] in the cage]]. |
| 174 | * In ''Film/ClassAct'', hip-hop culture is ''so'' foreign to Duncan's father that when Duncan begins associating with Blade, his father thinks Duncan might be ''gay!'' He finds out the hard way at the end when he catches Duncan having sex with ''his girlfriend Damita''. |
| 175 | * Jay of Film/TheViewAskewniverse. In ''Film/{{Clerks}}'', he rambles about performing oral sex on Silent Bob (who remains completely deadpan throughout, suggesting he does this a lot), then leaps away, flexes menacingly, and shouts, "I hate guys! I LOVE WOMEN!" In ''Film/{{Dogma}}'' his response to being accused of fantasizing about men is "not all the time," which is as good as an admission that he does ''some'' of the time. Then there's his habit of referring to Silent Bob as his "[[HeterosexualLifePartners Hetero life-mate]]." |
| 176 | * The last line of one of the endings in ''Film/{{Clue}}'' has the supposedly gay Mr. Green declare, "I'm going to go home and sleep with my wife," revealing that his whole identity was a cover. Maybe. |
| 177 | * Played for drama in ''Film/EasternPromises'' wherein Kirill, the closeted son of TheDon, desperately tries to cultivate a reputation as a libertine due to the violently homophobic Russian gangster culture. |
| 178 | * ''Film/LifeAsAHouse'': Sam is a {{Goth}} kid with eye makeup and multiple piercings, prompting a GenderedInsult from his stepfather. He also briefly engages in male [[TheOldestProfession prostitution]] when he's in need of money. The film makes a point to emphasize Sam's heterosexuality when he goes to use the shower of his next-door-neighbor and crush, Alyssa [[note]]because the shower at his dad's place is an outdoor shower[[/note]]. Alyssa decides to join Sam in the shower and asks him if he's gay or not. Sam points [[RagingStiffie downward]] to prove to her that he is obviously straight. |
| 179 | * ''[[Literature/{{Gor}} Outlaw of Gor]]''. Watney Smith is trying a little too hard to declare how turned on he is by girls, despite being the [[UnwantedAssistance annoying sidekick]] of muscular blond hunk Cabot ("CABOT!") |
| 180 | -->'''Watney:''' ''[looking at a blond girl]'' Oooh, yeah, I love 'em!\ |
| 181 | '''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Tom Servo]]:''' I am ''so'' heterosexual! |
| 182 | * In ''Film/{{Orgazmo}}'', Dave the Lighting Guy has a habit of prefacing everything he's about to say with "I don't wanna sound like a queer or nothin'..." with [[RunningGag everything he says following this statement becoming increasingly homoerotic as the movie progresses.]] |
| 183 | * In ''Film/PlanB'', Pablo, despite having a very homoerotic friendship with Bruno and telling at least one of his friends that he once slept with another man, insists to Bruno that he's never kissed or had a thing with another man or even thought about doing it. Right after he agreed to kiss Bruno despite Bruno's claim of needing [[PracticeKiss kissing practice]] for an acting role being a [[BlatantLies transparent lie]]. Bruno doesn't believe him for a second. [[spoiler:It turns out that Pablo ''was'' telling the truth about never having made out with another man before... but also that he was almost certainly lying about never having thought of doing it.]] |
| 184 | * Played for laughs in ''Film/PlanesTrainsAndAutomobiles'' after the two main characters, Neal and Del, wake up in each other's arms after a drunken night of bonding in a hotel room. Both men actually are straight, and had been dreaming of reuniting with their wives -- but they are also early-middle-aged men in the 1980s, so experience a moment of gay panic which ends with the two puffing their chests up and beginning to discuss football in deep manly-man voices. They also woke up realizing that Del's hand was ''between Neal's butt cheeks'', making their shock even more relatable. |
| 185 | * Hilariously skewered in ''Film/PopstarNeverStopNeverStopping'', where rapper [[Music/TheLonelyIsland Conner4Real]] has a music video, "Equal Rights" ([[TheCameo Featuring a cameo from Pink!]]) which tries to promote a GayAesop. However, the message becomes undermined with Conner repeatedly assuring his own heterosexuality throughout the song. |
| 186 | -->"I'm not gay!" |
| 187 | * Done horribly (as with everything else) in the cheesy sci-fi movie ''Film/{{ROTOR}}'' |
| 188 | -->'''Shoeboogie:''' Either I'm an Indian or I'm a sissy! |
| 189 | * WebVideo/RedLetterMedia has pointed to several films that seem to include plot details solely to show that certain characters are heterosexual. They call this "the Not-Gays." |
| 190 | ** Nearly all male characters in ''Film/StarTrek2009'' find some way to imply their heterosexuality. |
| 191 | ** In the first two Franchise/BillAndTed films, Bill and Ted are given British girlfriends from the Middle Ages who contribute nothing to the plot, apparently just to show moral guardians that the two boys who do absolutely everything together are totally straight. |
| 192 | * In ''Film/StageFright2014'', Sam takes every opportunity to tell people that he definitely sleeps with women despite being interested in musical theatre. [[spoiler:It's an act. He actually is gay.]] |
| 193 | * Through the course of the ''Franchise/StarWars'' sequel trilogy, a subset of fans increasingly shipped Finn and Poe as a gay couple in spite of Finn having a different female love interest in each of the first two films (in the first film he's crushing on Rey, and in the second he and Rose are all but explicitly put together). By the third, the shipping had reached a fever pitch, and even the actors playing the roles began supporting the idea. Instead, the final film introduces new female love interests for both Poe and Finn (bringing Finn's total to three), in the process giving Poe a heretofore unmentioned backstory of having briefly been a smuggler when he'd always given the impression of being New Republic/Resistance military through and through like both his parents and not even the ''[[ComicBook/StarWarsPoeDameron Poe Dameron]]'' comic book had even hinted at this. And then the film doesn't bother giving either of them [[NoRomanticResolution any romantic resolution]] with any of their prospective love interests, raising accusations that the half-hearted third-film love interests were added solely to [[{{Jossed}} Joss]] Poe and Finn as a couple. One would think that just having Finn stay with Rose would have settled the matter more elegantly. Poe's shoehorned love interest never even removes her helmet, making her literally faceless. |
| 194 | * The supernatural thriller ''Film/{{Stigmata}}'' is about a young woman called Frankie, whose boyfriend Stephen mainly exists to mention that she is heterosexual. Frankie and Stephen have a sex scene early in the film, and after that, he is barely mentioned. Frankie's best friend Donna, meanwhile, has a lot more scenes with Frankie, is shown to care about her well-being, and even shares Frankie's bed after bringing her back from the hospital. But Frankie has a boyfriend, SO THEY'RE NOT LESBIANS, RIGHT? |
| 195 | * Seth in ''Film/{{Superbad}}'': 90% of his dialogue is about how much he wants to have sex with girls who are out of his league, with the remaining 10% being devoted to his ''obsession'' with his "best friend" Evan. |
| 196 | * Halfway through the "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLa8jMYQcfY I Like Boys]]" number in ''Film/TeenWitch'', you'll be thinking those girls are obviously in serious denial. |
| 197 | --> '''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick:''' Movie, stop! You're trying way too hard! |
| 198 | :: From the comments section... "Having never seen the movie, this is from I can only assume that this musical follows the story of a lonely lesbian girl who must deny her true passions while watching girls in leotards dance around the women's locker room singing about their heterosexuality." |
| 199 | * Rapper Alpa Chino in ''Film/TropicThunder'' has built his career around this trope. [[spoiler:He's gay.]] |
| 200 | -->''I love the puss (hell yeah)/I love the pussy (hell yeah)/I love the pussy rollin' down to the floor'' |
| 201 | * ''Film/{{Troy}}'' has Achilles bedding numerous ladies and treating his cousin Patroclus like a kid brother to avoid the traditionally inferred homosexual relationship between them. |
| 202 | [[/folder]] |
| 203 | |
| 204 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 205 | * ''Literature/TwentySixSixtySix'': Lola Amalfitano writes this in her first letter to her husband...after she’s run off on a lifelong adventure with her female best friend. |
| 206 | * Despite being surrounded by [[EveryoneIsBi hawt bisexual men]], Literature/AnitaBlake goes out of her way to mention that by the way, she doesn't like girls at ''all'' and she isn't bisexual and so on and so forth. This doesn't stop her from snogging a gorgeous siren, or "holding fingertips" and gazing into the eyes of a stripper who's offering her a free lap dance, but... she's really straight, dammit! |
| 207 | ** Bella Morte, fountain of blood for a line of vampires with sexually-based powers, gave her mind-boggling oral sex in a magical dream. |
| 208 | * PlayedForLaughs in ''Literature/{{Baccano}}'' with Christopher Shouldered. Being under the impression that his {{Vitriolic Best Bud|s}} Chi might have a crush on him, Christopher tends to punctuate any sort of statement of affection with the fact that he's not into men, lest Chi gets his hopes up. Chi just begrudgingly puts up with it like the rest of Christopher's [[CloudCuckoolander eccentric behavior.]] |
| 209 | * ''Literature/BeMoreChill'': Jeremy seems to be pretty insecure about people possibly thinking he's gay. He literally comments to the [[MakesSenseInContext computerized voice of Keanu Reeves in his brain]] that walking in a certain posture makes him feel gay. When he answers the phone to his male best friend while...having some fun...and doesn't stop, he makes a point to clarify himself to the reader. |
| 210 | --> "I'm masturbating still, watching a video, but it's not like I'm masturbating ''to'' Michael. I'm multitasking masturbating." |
| 211 | * In ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresHumanNature Human Nature]]'', Alexander has a reputation as a ladies' man who values free love. Since it's 1913, this makes him a bit of a social outcast, but he doesn't seem to care. Main character Literature/BerniceSummerfield eventually realizes that Alexander is just gay and overcompensating with his denial, and Alexander's boyfriend is very confused as to why everyone thinks that Alex is some kind of womanizing libertine. |
| 212 | * In the original ''Literature/DirtyPair'' light novel, Kei's narration at one point has to say that she and Yuri aren't lesbians - right after saying how inseparable they were, and shortly after narrating how she often has a StupidSexyFlanders moment when looking at her. |
| 213 | * In ''Literature/TheFamiliarOfZero'' has the flamboyantly CampGay stereotype bar owner Scarron, who wears dresses and has his all-female staff refer to him as "mademoiselle". Come to the surprise of the cast that Jessica is his daughter. |
| 214 | * In one of the original ''Greyhawk'' novels, the protagonist begins acting as stereotypically masculine as he possibly can -- openly leering at women, deliberately wearing worn out or dirty clothing, etc. -- because he's worried that a [[MacGuffin gem he's been using to increase his magic]] is turning him into a woman. [[spoiler:It isn't.]] |
| 215 | * In ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'', sexually insecure teenage {{narrator}} Kyon is very careful to remind the reader of his heterosexuality in this story where men seem to be constantly be implying attraction to him, either through OutOfContextEavesdropping or just being [[AmbiguouslyGay Itsuki Koizumi]]. |
| 216 | -->'''Kyon:''' Now let me set the record straight, I am an absolutely normal heterosexual male. My preference for "the same team" weighs less than that of a hummingbird, in other words, it's non-existent. Whether subconsciously or unconsciously, my preference has been "straight". See? Aren't I right? My body would go hot just thinking about [[{{Moe}} Asahina-san.]] If [[AmbiguouslyGay Koizumi]] had called me saying such stuff, I would've hung up already. By the way, [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial I'm not bisexual either.]] Do I make myself clear? |
| 217 | * In ''Literature/TheHollows'' series, Rachel repeatedly mentions not being 'wired that way' regarding Ivy (especially after she invites the vampiric Ivy to bite her in ''A Fistful of Charms''). |
| 218 | * ''Literature/IClaudius'' has a passage where the title character expresses distaste for the noblemen who take young men as lovers, describing the latter as being blatant {{Gold Digger}}s and stating he has never seen the appeal of such an arrangement. While you might assume this is WriterOnBoard by Robert Graves, [[ShownTheirWork Claudius is one of the few Roman Emperors who was never known to have had any male lovers, which was remarked upon by contemporaries as odd.]] (Not to mention Graves -- who self-identified as heterosexual -- candidly recollected his own passionate love for a schoolmate in ''Literature/GoodbyeToAllThat''. He was a pretty open-minded chap.) |
| 219 | * Yuuri, the main character of ''Literature/KyoKaraMaoh'', finds his cries largely ignored in a world where, apparently, EveryoneIsBi. It doesn't help that he's got an [[UnwantedHarem all-male harem]]. Or a male [[AccidentalMarriage fiancee]]. Who he adopted a child with. |
| 220 | * In ''Literature/LambTheGospelAccordingToBiff'', John, after being in an awkward gay moment, says things like, "Well, she looks like a nubile wench!" while pointing at an adulteress. (She ''was'' nubile, so points to John for working outside of his element.) |
| 221 | * In ''Literature/MarriedThriceToSaltedFish'', Lin Qingyu and Lu Wancheng both claim at first that they're straight and their ArrangedMarriage will never become anything more than an in-name-only one and Lu Wancheng even talks Lin Qingyu into doing a "sworn brothers" ceremony together to affirm how very platonic their bond is. Given that this is a [[YaoiGenre danmei]] novel, it should come as no surprise that the two of them end up falling in love and having sex. |
| 222 | * ''Literature/MyNextLifeAsAVillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom'': Katarina is so consistent about mentioning she's straight when talking about how her female friends cause her to swoon a little that the question becomes more whether she's in denial about being bisexual or whether she genuinely doesn't realize it than whether she's ''actually'' straight or not. Take a drink every time she thinks to herself "if I was a guy, I'd marry her", and you'll probably pass out. |
| 223 | * ''[[Literature/TheScumVillainsSelfSavingSystemRenZhaFanpaiZijiuXitong The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System]]'': After Shen Qingqiu learns to his great shock that Luo Binghe, the original male protagonist of the novel he got [[MediaTransmigration transmigrated]] into, has fallen in love with him, he repeatedly insists in his internal narration that he's completely straight and this revelation has in no way affected this at all. One of the things he cites as definitive proof of his heterosexuality is that he read a two-million-words long [[HaremGenre stallion novel]] that had lots of heterosexual sex scenes... conveniently ignoring that virtually every single other mention of this novel he makes is about how much he hated these sex scenes and how the only cool things in it were the worldbuilding and its extremely handsome protagonist Luo Binghe. |
| 224 | * Richard Papen, the main character and narrator of ''Literature/TheSecretHistory'', mentions that he is not attracted to men, every time he mentions someone who is. Or if he's wondering if someone is gay. Or if he just hasn't mentioned it in a bit. He also makes the extraordinary claim that he has really good {{gaydar}} ''because'' he's ''so not gay'' himself. |
| 225 | * In ''Stark'' by Creator/BenElton, Toole phones a contact in the British Secret Service and endures a lengthy preamble about how he and his colleagues are getting ''so much'' pussy right now. Especially him. |
| 226 | [[/folder]] |
| 227 | |
| 228 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 229 | * Frat boys Eric & Jeremy of ''Series/TheAmazingRace 9'' spent roughly 90% of their screen time talking about how much they liked girls. Seriously, you could probably make a drinking game out of it. |
| 230 | * ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' has a RunningGag of Raj being AmbiguouslyBi. They play with this in the episode "The Thespian Catalyst" which had Raj have fantasies involving Wolowitz's girlfriend Bernadette. The last one involved a Bollywood musical piece. |
| 231 | -->'''Raj:''' Dance number aside, I'm so not gay. |
| 232 | * A variant occurs with the {{narrator}} of ''Breaking the Magician's Code''. The male narrator takes the opportunity in every episode to mention to us just how much he appreciates the Masked Magician's [[LovelyAssistant hot female assistants]]. This is accompanied by the camera work adopting a MaleGaze. This just makes things more hilarious when he says something like "the secret to this illusion is hidden in the Magician's pants". |
| 233 | * ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'': When Captain Holt has to go into witness protection, his new identity is straight. While Holt is normally StraightGay, he clearly has no idea how to ''actually'' be straight. He spends most of his time talking about breasts, and how wonderful and "heavy" they are. When he needs money, he flatly tells a member of his walking group that he "impregnated a woman" because he couldn't resist her "firm, heavy breasts." |
| 234 | -->'''Jake:''' Heterosexual you is a ''dog''. |
| 235 | ** Later on he has to fake straightness again, this time with a guy. He talks about how he loves a thigh gap because "There's nothing more intoxicating than the clear absence of a penis." |
| 236 | * On ''Series/TheColbertReport'', Stephen Colbert isn't gay, but he does claim that "Men know what men like". He also claims that the "Gay Agenda" (e.g. baby carrots) is to turn him, specifically, gay. |
| 237 | ** In the Christmas special, he repeatedly gets caught under the mistletoe with his special guests. Eventually, he makes out with [[spoiler:[[BearsAreBadNews a grizzly bear]]]]. The end credits make a point of noting that [[spoiler:"Female Bear" was played by Matt Brady]]. |
| 238 | ** Then there's the rainbow-themed closet parties he threw in college. Or the spectacular line "refuting" the gay-rights argument that nobody accuses straight people of ''choosing'' to be straight -- it went something like, "Damn right I chose to be straight! I wake up ''every morning'' and fight those urges!" Or [[https://www.cc.com/video/7q4jt1/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-fruit-juice this]] ''Daily Show'' piece which contains the classic line, "We don't ''hate'' gay people. [[StupidSexyFlanders We're just angry at the ones who turn us on.]]" |
| 239 | ** Played with on [[https://www.cc.com/video/fbk80n/the-colbert-report-ricky-martin-is-gay this segment]][[note]] March 30, 2010[[/note]] when Music/RickyMartin came out of the closet. (Skip to 01:50) |
| 240 | --->"Just look at him on the cover of ''Rolling Stone''! Surrounded by naked women... who I'm sure he is just seconds away from noticing! Right now, he's too busy staring straight into the viewers' eyes as if to say, "You and me man, both totally straight! Ha-cha!" |
| 241 | ** Or his verse at the 2011 Tony Awards production number, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6S5caRGpK4 "Not just for gays anymore"]]: |
| 242 | --->"I enjoy the theater, I've enjoyed it all my life,\ |
| 243 | I enjoy it with my female woman wife!" |
| 244 | ** And while we're on the subject, [[AuthorAvatar Tek]] [[MartyStu Jansen]] has obviously had hundreds of girlfriends. |
| 245 | * ''Series/TheDayToday'' featured an unusual third-person variant with regards to its Gay News presenter Colin Poppshed. After Colin has given his report (of such nonsense as the current gay elements, walls, and seas), main anchor Chris Morris thanks him and then adds, "He's not gay, by the way. We wouldn't employ a homosexual." |
| 246 | * The Creator/DisneyChannel has a feature where kids talk about their special talents. Whenever they have a boy with a hobby usually viewed as feminine (like gymnastics), they tend to drop the occasional line about how girls are into them for their talent. Interestingly, whenever they have a girl talk about any masculine talents, [[DoubleStandard they never feel the need to proclaim their heterosexuality]]. |
| 247 | * This is Uncle Mel's catchphrase on ''Series/EverybodyLovesRaymond''. It is generally a RunningGag. |
| 248 | * Tomboy character Jo from ''Series/TheFactsOfLife'' balances out her butch behavior when she first arrives by constantly referring to her boyfriend Eddie, and getting into relationships with men more frequently than the other characters. Efforts to femme her up became increasingly blatant in later seasons. By the final season, she was married and wearing a skirt. Presumably, this was either to make her more marketable or to discredit the LesYay {{subtext}} between Jo and Blair. |
| 249 | * Inverted by Agent Clements in ''Series/TheFamily'', StraightGay to an extreme that the only indications to the contrary are his OncePerEpisode mentions of his husband. (One of the more prolonged ones suggests that said husband is the CampGay of the relationship, but he never appears in the series.) |
| 250 | * The song "Bret You Got It Going On" from ''Music/FlightOfTheConchords'' starts with this, ends with this, and is filled with a truly remarkable amount of HoYay. As mentioned several times in the episode, [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial it's not gay]] when Jemaine puts a wig on Bret and spoons him, because he's imagining Bret's a ''woman''. |
| 251 | * ''Series/{{Friends}}'': |
| 252 | ** In one episode, when Chandler is trying to get a date for Rachel: |
| 253 | --->'''Chandler:''' I say, Drew! Are you seeing anybody right now? ''[Drew looks at him]'' Og-ee-op, I'm not asking for me, I'm? I mean? No, I'm--I'm not gay, I'm not asking you out. I'm not--I'm not--I'm not gay!\ |
| 254 | '''Drew:''' I didn't think you were gay. I do now. |
| 255 | ** There's also "The One With the Baby on the Bus"; a woman mistakes Joey and Chandler for a couple while they're out with Ben, so later when two women start talking to them, this occurs: |
| 256 | --->'''Woman:''' So what are you guys out doing today?\ |
| 257 | '''Joey:''' Oh we're not out. No, no. We're just uh, two heterosexual guys, hanging with the son of our other heterosexual friend, doin' the usual straight guy stuff. |
| 258 | * ''Series/GameOfThrones''. Jon Snow and Samwell Tarly have a conversation about girls after others have made sarcastic comments about their relationship. Even InUniverse when Samwell hastens to explain that he likes girls, he just hasn't had sex with any. |
| 259 | * An almost laughable use of this trope in one episode of ''Series/TheGeorgeLopezShow'', where a girl that can easily be confused for having two fathers has one or both of the men say some line that assures the audience that they sleep with tons of women all the time, multiple times, in every scene that they were in. |
| 260 | * This trope is played with by a character itself, not the creators of the show, in an episode of ''Series/{{Glee}}'', where gay character Kurt, after coming out of the closet, decides to act like a stereotypical straight guy, wearing flannel shirts and attempting to speak with a deep voice, even making out with a girl, in an attempt to fit in better and believing it would make his father love him more. Throughout the episode, he constantly asserts his newfound "macho" status, but no one really buys it (except [[TheDitz Brittany]].) [[spoiler:He goes back to his normal, flamboyantly gay self in the end.]] |
| 261 | ** Earlier in the series, before he comes out, Kurt calls the club's disco routine "really gay". After Kurt comes out to Mercedes but before he does to his dad, Kurt tells Finn he isn't gay. |
| 262 | ** Santana, who tip-toed out of her [[ArmouredClosetGay Armored Closet]] in order to confess her love for Brittany, only to leap back into it when she was turned down. The next time the two met, she blamed the whole thing on temporary insanity and made sure to point out that she was now going to write an awesome ''heterosexual'' song about her [[TheBeard boyfriend]]. She then got so flustered by Brittany looking at her that she asked her to look away in order for her to remember her locker combination. |
| 263 | * ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'': |
| 264 | ** In one episode, Frank and Charlie pretend Frank has AIDS in order to skip the line on a waterslide. While doing this, Frank is very insistent about not having the "gay kind" of AIDS. |
| 265 | ** In "The Gang Makes Lethal Weapon 6", the film is positively laden with HomoeroticSubtext, including a shower scene that cuts off as Riggs and Murtagh [[ShowerOfLove start playfully wrestling]]. To make up for this, they add a scene where they go to a strip club where both of them seem pretty bored and a wedding scene where Riggs never actually manages to kiss the bride. |
| 266 | --->'''Murtagh:''' I sure am glad we came to this strip club, Riggs. |
| 267 | --->'''Riggs:''' I do like looking at beautiful naked women. |
| 268 | --->'''Murtagh:''' That's because we're not gay. |
| 269 | ** Mac was pretty heavy on this in the days when he was still in the TransparentCloset. He would frequently show up with girlfriends that he clearly didn't like, and once accused a trans woman and a cis man of being homosexual (even though he'd had sex with her when she wasn't as far along in her surgery). There's also his insistence that wanting to look at gorgeous beefcakey hunks is definitely just appreciation of their fitness. |
| 270 | * One ''Series/KeyAndPeele'' sketch involves an R&B duo, both of them men, performing a love song... with one half clearly directing the lyrics to the other, eventually dispensing with any veneer of subtlety and improvising lyrics about how he's singing to a bald person, going out of his way to explain that it should be clear he is, in fact, talking about one person in particular, "'cause ''you are bald and you are here!''" After he's met with awkward silence from both his partner and the audience, he backpedals on his effective confession by sheepishly singing about how [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial he's directing the song to a woman - definitely a woman - because he is a man who likes women, he has never liked a man in his life before, and he doesn't like one now.]] |
| 271 | * Jack Benjamin, crown prince of Gilboa in ''Series/{{Kings}}'', does this as a matter of policy, making a big show of what a boozy, party-hard womanizer he is. He gets a horrible surprise when he finds out his father [[TransparentCloset has known all along]]. Quoth King Silas: "I've been keeping pictures of our family out of the free press for years... wrestle it to the ground, numb it with ice, but you ''cannot'' be what God made you. Not if you mean to take my place." Jack is the HoYay interpretation of King Saul's son Jonathan, who had a covenant and very... hands-on relationship with David -- even while David was Saul's biggest enemy. |
| 272 | * Creator/CraigFerguson of ''Series/{{The Late Late Show|WithCraigFerguson}}'' often inverts this as a gag. |
| 273 | * Justified in the pilot of ''Series/LostGirl'' when Bo accepts Kenzi's suggestion [[FireForgedFriends that they team up]]. However as Bo is a [[HornyDevils succubus]] who's shown she's willing to seduce both men and women, Kenzi makes a point of adding that she's only into guys. |
| 274 | -->'''Bo:''' ''(amused)'' I'll try to contain my disappointment. |
| 275 | * ''Series/{{MADtv|1995}}'' parodied Music/MichaelJackson's "You Rock My World" and its video as "I Do Like Girls", referencing the tendency of several of his videos (including this one) to portray him as a ladykiller, while his RealLife behavior suggested he kept that part of his private life, well, private. (Anything that did go off-message was too odd to tell.) |
| 276 | * Klinger from ''Series/{{MASH}}'' spent much of the series crossdressing in an attempt to appear insane and get a psychiatric discharge from the army. When an actual psychicatrist comes to the MASH in one episode, Klinger spends the entire episode following him around and acting as crazy as possible in the hopes of getting a Section 8. The guy isn't fooled, but he eventually gets so sick of Klinger's harassment that he offers to file a report stating that Klinger is a homosexual [[TransEqualsGay transvestite]], which would be an [[ValuesDissonance automatic discharge]]. Klinger refuses to go along with it, insisting he is straight, just "crazy". |
| 277 | * ''Series/{{Misfits}}'': |
| 278 | ** In series five one of the members of Rudy Too's support group is a man who insisted so much on stating he wasn't gay that the storm gave him a very ironic power: every time he said he wasn't gay, he involuntarily teleports into the nearest closet. |
| 279 | ** Also, there's [[MrFanservice Alex]] and [[MotorMouth Finn]] insisting that they aren't gay, despite the fact that they ''did'' have sex in the Series 5 premiere. ItMakesSenseInContext. Sort of. |
| 280 | * Played with (and played for laughs) in an episode of ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'' when someone misinterprets Leslie and Ann's HeterosexualLifePartners relationship and queries if they're a lesbian couple, to which Leslie's response both makes it clear that they are both straight and equally that if they weren't they would be all over that action: |
| 281 | -->'''Leslie:''' ''Tragically'', we are both straight. |
| 282 | * In the ''Series/{{Poirot}}'' adaptation of ''Literature/CardsOnTheTable'', Poirot deduces that [[spoiler: Dr. Roberts]] is gay and is having an affair with another man. He initially became suspicious because the man won't shut up about what a ladies man he is, and yet he's blatantly ignoring his SexySecretary who's made no secret of her own interest in him. |
| 283 | * In the ''Series/RavensHome'' episode "Adventures in Mommy-Sitting", Raven and Chelsea go to a club together. When they get kicked out, Chelsea yells "We're just good friends!" In this case, they really are just good friends who are MistakenForGay. |
| 284 | * A ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' sketch features Kim Jong-un (played by Bobby Moynihan) announcing that he's lifting UsefulNotes/NorthKorea's ban on same-sex marriage. He then goes on to emphasize that he is "as heterosexual as a person can be" and describes all the AnatomicallyImpossibleSex he supposedly has. |
| 285 | * ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'': |
| 286 | ** Turk and J.D. Oh, Turk and J.D. |
| 287 | --->'''J.D.:''' ''[waking from an ImagineSpot]'' STOP IT! I DON'T HAVE GAY JUNGLE FEVER!\ |
| 288 | '''Turk:''' ''[to Carla]'' Okay, we should go! |
| 289 | ** Even in the MusicalEpisode in which they have ''a song'' celebrating their "Guy Love", they find it necessary to mention that "There's nothing gay about it/In our eyes". |
| 290 | * In most of his appearances on ''Series/{{SCTV}}'', Johnny [=LaRue=] (Creator/JohnCandy) makes it a point to emphatically deny rumors that he is gay. |
| 291 | * ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' gives us this gem: |
| 292 | -->'''Jerry:''' This jacket has completely changed my life.\ |
| 293 | '''George:''' Can I say one thing to you? And I say this with an unblemished record of staunch heterosexuality.\ |
| 294 | '''Jerry:''' Of course.\ |
| 295 | '''George:''' It's fabulous. |
| 296 | * ''Series/ShamelessUS'' has Mickey Milkovich, who pretends to be straight in the eyes of everyone when he's actually gay. Whenever there's a crowd (especially in front of his father), he makes comments about women or the sort just to remind them that he likes women. One of the series best portrayal of this is when Mickey, Ian, Lip, Mandy, and a whole lot of their neighbours go after a pedophile recently released from prison, but upon arriving discover that [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale the pedophile is actually a woman, so everyone quits on it]]. On their way back, Mickey keeps commenting that the whole story of the woman and her underage student turned him so on that he needed to sleep with a woman right now and goes after the first one that he crosses. Lip's reaction to this, because he found out about Mickey being gay only a little before this episode, is particularly hilarious. |
| 297 | * ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'': |
| 298 | ** John Watson is very adamant about his straightness. Unfortunately, few believe him, including his [[GirlOfTheWeek girlfriends]], at least one of whom used that as an excuse to ditch him when in reality it's more because they can't stand his flatmate and [[LivingEmotionalCrutch best friend,]] Sherlock. Sherlock's done this too and is very adamant about his sexuality (or perhaps, lack thereof). Heck, [[FemmeFatale Irene]] seems to think he's got a thing for John, as well as [[TeamMom Mrs. Hudson,]] and plenty more. |
| 299 | * For most of her first season on ''Series/{{Skins}}'', Naomi Campbell made numerous protestations of her heterosexuality. Since she'd say this in between passionate make-out sessions and sex with Emily, neither Emily nor the audience was inclined to believe her. |
| 300 | * Parodied in a sketch on ''Series/SmackThePony'', involving two female actresses filming a lesbian kiss scene. One of them, clearly somewhat homophobic, is given to loudly expressing how disgusting she finds the whole process once the cameras have stopped filming, and at one point demands that an aide call her fiancee and "tell him I love him." Unfortunately for her, her co-star is [[LesYay clearly nursing quite a heavy crush on her]] at least, and keeps suggesting that they might need to retake the scene a little too frequently and eagerly. |
| 301 | * ''Franchise/StarTrek'': |
| 302 | ** ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''. In the episode "The Chute", where Tom Paris and Harry Kim are thrown into prison and have to spend a lot of time [[HurtComfortFic treating wounds and comforting each other]], they have a conversation about the [[TwinThreesomeFantasy Delaney sisters]] to avert the inevitable prison HoYay. |
| 303 | ** It was rumored that ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' was going to have the franchise's first openly gay main character and that this character was Malcolm. In fact, it transpired the possibility had been discussed with the actor but was eventually rejected. In what may or may not have been a response to this, the writers started to show him talking about women or flirting with women pretty often. His actor, Dominic Keating, however, [[SarcasticConfession declared]] that he played Reed gay anyway, and, considering his interactions with [[SlapSlapKiss Tucker]], [[NoSenseOfPersonalSpace Archer]], and [[LoveAtFirstPunch Hayes]], fans tend to believe him. |
| 304 | ** However, one episode involving the future crew being descended from the current crew as a result of time travel stated that he died a bachelor, causing him to look disappointed and vaguely pensive. It could be taken as an implication of his true sexuality, though that's probably not what was intended. |
| 305 | ** On the other hand, in the episode "Shuttlepod One", Malcolm -- stranded in space with Tucker, and believing that they're going to die -- spends hours writing letters to old girlfriends. At one point, while drunk, says "I think T'Pol's got a nice bum. Don't you?" |
| 306 | ** {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in the final episode in which Riker is speaking to Malcolm and then appears to ask him if he found Trip attractive -- we discover however the scene has secretly changed, and Riker is now addressing Hoshi. |
| 307 | * Virtually every single episode of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' features some little scene or line of dialogue for Dean to assert his heterosexuality/masculinity. |
| 308 | ** "My Heart Will Go On" has "Besides, ''Film/{{Titanic|1997}}'' didn't suck that bad." ''[cue Sam looking at Dean funny]'' "Winslet's rack?" |
| 309 | ** "Out With the Old" continues this trend: |
| 310 | --->'''Dean:''' I saw ''Film/BlackSwan''. Twice.\ |
| 311 | ''[Sam gives Dean a strange look]''\ |
| 312 | '''Dean:''' Hot tutu-on-tutu action. Come on, Sam, what's wrong with you? |
| 313 | ** In "Let It Bleed", we also get "I was too busy having sex, with women." (Naturally, fans have often interpreted this as SuspiciouslySpecificDenial for Dean.) |
| 314 | * ''Series/TedLasso'': Colin, a closeted gay footballer, makes a big show of engaging in locker room banter about women with his straight teammates. |
| 315 | * ''Series/UnbreakableKimmySchmidt'': In "Kimmy's in a Love Triangle!", Titus gets overlooked for a new role at the restaurant because he can't "play straight." He seeks out help from a "straight coach," [[Creator/DeanNorris M. La Loup]], who uses drill sergeant-style tactics and roleplay scenarios to teach Titus how to pass for straight. |
| 316 | * ''Series/TheWestWing'': |
| 317 | ** One episode has CJ "outed" on a blog -- based on not much more than the fact that she is tall, unmarried, and in a position of power. She spends the episode agonizing over a way to flatly deny the outing in the media while avoiding invoking this trope. In the end, she tells the reporters that it's none of their business, and then goes on a date with the man she is currently in a relationship with. |
| 318 | ** Another episode has President Bartlet and Leo, two long-standing old friends, agree to have dinner together one night, only to find when they get to the dining room that the servers -- believing Bartlet to have been dining with his wife -- have set up an intimate romantic candlelit scene. Bartlet insists that they can just pretend the candles and such aren't there, leading Leo quip that they can ''also'' pretend that they're "not paranoid homophobes in any way". Amusingly, the two then go on to spend the dinner bickering LikeAnOldMarriedCouple with each other. |
| 319 | * With all of the [[HoYay/WhoseLineIsItAnyway Ho Yay]] on ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway'', Colin Mochrie has reassured the audience that he is heterosexual when things have gotten waaay over-the-top. |
| 320 | ** After Ryan talks about how much he and Colin love show tunes: |
| 321 | --->'''Colin:''' I'm married! |
| 322 | ** After Ryan kisses him on the lips to incite a Drew Carey SpitTake: |
| 323 | --->'''Colin:''' I need to get home to my wife... |
| 324 | ** In one episode, Colin's CD pitchman character doubles this trope with SuspiciouslySpecificDenial. |
| 325 | --->'''Ryan:''' That sounds great, doesn't it?\ |
| 326 | '''Colin:''' It sure does! [[NonSequitur I'm not confused about my sexuality at all]]! |
| 327 | ** Finally gets {{lampshade|Hanging}}d in a session of ''Weird Newscasters'' where weatherman Ryan is "trying to quell rumors that he's gay". |
| 328 | ---> '''Drew:''' Nice try, Ryan. |
| 329 | ** After Drew called ''Whose Line'' the "gayest show on television" (after Colin has had to repeatedly kiss Ryan and Wayne, followed by Drew himself kissing him), Colin, Ryan, and Wayne all hold up their hands to show their wedding bands. Jeff looks sad at not having one, then kisses Colin just to be cheeky. |
| 330 | * ''Series/WynonnaEarp'' in one early episode has Waverly repeatedly mention her boyfriend during a conversation where she and the hot female deputy are pretty heavily flirting with each other. Of course, [[FeministFantasy this show being what it is]], this turned out to be an intentionally {{invoked|Trope}} use of this trope -- [[spoiler: Waverly came out as bi/gay shortly later and has been in a relationship with said hot officer ever since]]. |
| 331 | * One of the many, ''many'' [[StrawMisogynist Straw Misogynists]] the Series/DesigningWomen crossed paths with was a rival design firm made up of men who constantly acted in an over-the-top macho fashion, just so people wouldn't get the wrong idea about them for being male decorators. |
| 332 | [[/folder]] |
| 333 | |
| 334 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 335 | * "I Like Goils" by Music/TypeONegative fits this to a T, written after frontman Peter Steele (R.I.P) posed nude for ''Playgirl'' and discovered a great percentage of the readers were male. Whether or not it is a parody of hypermasculinity and homophobia or played straight is anyone's guess nowadays. |
| 336 | * The song "[[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CTIncDdEWHI I'm Not Gay]]" by Jesse Pepe has the singer talk about enacting various homoerotic situations while insisting he's not gay, and that he "like(s) vag more than a porn star scandal", etc. [[spoiler: Until the end, where he declares "I'm fucking gay!"]] |
| 337 | * In Music/FrankZappa's song, "Punky's Whips", the male narrator of the song (sung by drummer Terry Bozzio) sings about how he'd like to have sex with the titular Punky (Angel guitarist Punky Meadows), but vehemently insists "I ain't queer!" |
| 338 | * Music/KatyPerry's "I Kissed a Girl": A song about girl-on-girl kissing that implies she is drunk and so "lost [her] discretion", doesn't even know the girl's name, that the name doesn't matter anyway, that it "ain't no big deal", that she hopes her boyfriend doesn't mind (got that, right? her ''boy''friend) and that it doesn't mean she's in love tonight. The video pushes it further -- while not featuring even a single kiss, as it still ends as AllJustADream, and she wakes up beside her ''boy''friend. |
| 339 | ** The Music/CobraStarship cover, "I Kissed a Boy", makes the original look like a bastion of gay representation in comparison. The lyrics are [[TheCoverChangesTheMeaning changed]] so that the singer not only kisses a guy solely to start a bar fight and get female attention from {{Yaoi Fangirl}}s, but brags about how he's ''totally'' going to steal the guy's girlfriend too. |
| 340 | * Ironically Music/{{Macklemore}} mentions his heterosexuality multiple times in his Main/GayAesop song "Same Love." We get it, you like girls despite...also liking to draw (?!?) |
| 341 | * Anytime a rapper says "no homo", it's this trope. |
| 342 | ** Unintentionally (and hilariously) subverted by radio stations who started blocking out "no homo" as a slur. |
| 343 | ** Also parodied in a sketch by Funny Or Die. |
| 344 | * ''If I were gay, I would give you my heart/And if I were gay, you'd be my work of art/And if I were gay, we would swim in romance/But I'm not gay, so get your hand out of my pants.'' Courtesy of Stephen Lynch [[spoiler:who ends up shagging the friend he's talking to in the song]]. |
| 345 | * Music/TheLonelyIsland loves this joke. |
| 346 | ** The song "No Homo", in which a bunch of male friends get together and do increasingly homoerotic things (up to and including both having gay sex and actually ''coming out of the closet''), all under the justification "no homo", which means they were just kidding. |
| 347 | ** "The Compliments", where all the members compliment each other in increasingly sexual ways, under the pretense of making themselves more attractive to women. The guest rapper Music/TooShort [[LampshadeHanging hangs a lampshade on it]]. |
| 348 | ** "3-Way (The Golden Rule)", which is about two friends banging the same girl and justifying it because "it's not gaywhen it's in a 3-way". |
| 349 | ** The aforementioned "Equal Rights" from ''Film/PopstarNeverStopNeverStopping''; ostensibly a gay rights song where the singer spends most of it reaffirming that he isn't gay and that he's just singing on behalf of gay people. |
| 350 | * The song "Heterosexual Man" by Odds parodies this. Bonus points for having Series/TheKidsInTheHall in the music video, the Kids being infamous for gender-bending comedy. |
| 351 | -->''I wanna make every woman I know'' |
| 352 | -->''I'll make it with them [[AboveTheInfluence unless they say no]]'' |
| 353 | -->''Coz I'm a Heterosexual Man'' |
| 354 | -->''It's just a problem with my glands'' |
| 355 | * The ''Film/TeamAmericaWorldPolice'' song "Only a Woman" plays this for laughs: ''Only a woman can brighten up my day/Only a woman can touch me the right way/Only a woman is allowed to touch me there/All I ask is that you're a woman. (Or a man.)'' |
| 356 | * Music/JonLajoie's character MC Vagina in the song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC03hmS1Brk I Kill People]]": |
| 357 | -->''So if you'll come at me I'll trip you then I'll suck your nuts'' |
| 358 | -->''I-I mean I'll punch your nuts'' |
| 359 | -->''Sucking them would be gay and I'm totally not gay'' |
| 360 | -->''I'm all about V-A-G-I-N-A'' |
| 361 | ** Later on in the song, he gives us this gem: |
| 362 | --->''If a guy messes with me'' |
| 363 | --->''I'll shoot him with my load'' |
| 364 | --->''All over his face and neck'' |
| 365 | --->''[[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything And down his throat]]'' |
| 366 | * In "I Don't Wanna Be a Homosexual" by Sloppy Seconds, the narrator is desperate to dispel rumors that he's gay. Towards the end, he starts believing the rumors, himself, and even lampshades the implication of the lyrics with, "Why did I write this song if I don't wanna be a homosexual?" |
| 367 | * Chester See's "Bromance". |
| 368 | -->''Bromance'' |
| 369 | -->''Nothing really gay about it'' |
| 370 | -->''Not that there's anything wrong with being gay (gay)'' |
| 371 | -->''Bro-o-o-omance'' |
| 372 | -->''Shouldn't be ashamed or hide it'' |
| 373 | -->''I love you in the most heterosexual way'' |
| 374 | * Some of the biggest parts of the glam metal style were makeup, meticulously styled hair, names like Tracii, Nikki, and CeCe, and tight, gaudy clothing; and yet the vast majority of glam lyrics centered around how "I fuck tons of FEMALE groupies because I'm very heterosexual and I like women" (stated through cheesy, thinly-veiled euphemisms, of course). |
| 375 | * The songs "Please Stop Calling Me Gay" and "D I C C W E T T 0 1" by [[WebVideo/FilthyFrank Pink Guy]] are both about the narrator furiously denying being gay and talking about how much they absolutely love having sex with women (and not men). |
| 376 | --> '''From "Please Stop Calling Me Gay"''': ''Please stop calling me gay/I touched a willy in high school once/And it was just a little mistake/So please stop calling me gay'' |
| 377 | --> '''From "D I C C W E T T 0 1"''': ''No, I am not gay/'Cause when I get my dick wet I don't get it wet in a man's ass/Yeah, 'cause it's wet from the pussy'' |
| 378 | * Brazilian song "CalĂşnias (Telma Eu NĂŁo Sou Gay)" ("Slander [Telma, I'm not gay ]" - parodying a song called "Tell Me Once Again") has its narrator telling Telma he might've looked gay in the past, but he only has eyes for her now. To make sure the joke lands, its original singer was the [[CampGay flamboyant]] Ney Matogrosso. |
| 379 | * The lyrics of Music/OliviaRodrigo's "Ballad of a Homeschooled Girl" convey frustration and confusion in navigating social interactions and romantic interests. The protagonist expresses feelings of disappointment and self-doubt, particularly regarding compatibility and timing. The repeated lines emphasize a sense of misfortune and anxiety about the outcomes of interactions: |
| 380 | -->I laughed at the wrong time, sat with the wrong guy (uh-huh) |
| 381 | -->Searching "How to start a conversation?" on a website (how to flirt?) |
| 382 | -->I talked to this hot guy, swore I was his type |
| 383 | -->Guess that he was making out with boys, like, the whole night (oh) |
| 384 | -->Everything I do is tragic (oh) |
| 385 | -->Every guy I like is gay |
| 386 | -->The morning after, I panic (oh) |
| 387 | -->Oh, God, what did I say? (Oh, whoa, yeah) |
| 388 | * On Music/InsaneClownPosse's "[[Music/FearlessFredFury Be Safe]]", Shaggy 2 Dope gets so into his rap that he blurts out "[[HoYay I might suck a dick]]--" followed by a RecordNeedleScratch, as Shaggy realizes what he just rapped, then corrects himself, "--[[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments uh, I would never suck a dick!]]" HilariousInHindsight if you remember [[https://youtu.be/Psan7unZdNI?si=dzf5bknWMUGzglCy that Ken Kaniff skit]] Music/{{Eminem}} made for ''Music/TheMarshallMathersLP''. |
| 389 | [[/folder]] |
| 390 | |
| 391 | [[folder:Podcasts]] |
| 392 | * In ''Podcast/TheAdventureZoneBalance'''s Boston Live Stunt Spectacular, to get behind the scenes, Taako disguises himself as a genial backstage worker he names 'Tuff Greg' and who is apparently, unlike Taako, straight: |
| 393 | -->'''Taako:''' Well as I always say to the wife before I hop into bed, make room for Greg! |
| 394 | [[/folder]] |
| 395 | |
| 396 | [[folder:Pro Wrestling]] |
| 397 | * This is the purpose of the GorgeousGeorge gimmick, if not outright to claim to be heterosexual, then at least to constantly present ''[[AmbiguouslyGay reasonable]]'' doubt that you are homosexual. Wrestling/GeorgeWagner openly admits to getting the idea for the gimmick from a guy who acted gay but was constantly flanked by females and while George did without that particular bit, several of his successors such as Wrestling/ExoticAdrianStreet, Wrestling/{{Goldust}} and Wrestling/RicoConstantino at least brought in one woman, Miss Linda, [[Wrestling/TerriRunnels Marlena]] or Wrestling/LunaVachon, [[Wrestling/JackieGayda Miss Jackie]] who they'd get up close with in between their harassment of men. |
| 398 | * [[Wrestling/JessicaKresa ODB]] really loves men. Just the sound of one can cause her to grab her breasts in pleasure and one of her signature moves, the dirty dozen, involves ramming another woman's head into the top turnbuckle while she sits on it for their pleasure, figuratively but not putting their faces in her crotch. ODB is vocally disgusted by contact with bosoms of other females as well as the notion of letting them touch her own. |
| 399 | * [[Wrestling/KevinOwens Kevin Steen]] and Wrestling/TheYoungBucks said they would force all who got in the way of Wrestling/ProWrestlingGuerilla Champion Wrestling/AdamCole to suck Cole's dick, but ''they'' don't actually do that kind of thing. They also told all the fans [[XPacHeat who had not appreciated]] them prior and or not bought their {{merchandise|driven}} to suck their dicks, but not literally as Cole's the only one who actually does that sort of thing. |
| 400 | [[/folder]] |
| 401 | |
| 402 | [[folder:Puppet Shows]] |
| 403 | * This lyric from the "Pretty Bunsun" number on ''Series/MuppetsTonight'': |
| 404 | -->'''Jonny Fiama:''' ''Pretty Bunsun... I'm not really into that...'' |
| 405 | [[/folder]] |
| 406 | |
| 407 | [[folder:Roleplay]] |
| 408 | * Jae from ''Roleplay/DawnOfANewAgeOldportBlues'' is a lesbian with a crush on her meek classmate Ivy. However, she's spent so long rebelling against her parents that she's worried her sexuality is just a phase and another way to rebel, and so she tries to act like the straightest girl around (fooling approximately no-one). |
| 409 | * Milagros Ferrant in ''Roleplay/WeAreAllPokemonTrainers'' says that Mason seems nice, but gets flustered when he thinks it sounded kind of gay. |
| 410 | [[/folder]] |
| 411 | |
| 412 | [[folder:Theater]] |
| 413 | * ''Theatre/AvenueQ''. "I wish you could meet my girlfriend, [[GirlfriendInCanada but you can't because she is in Canada]]!" |
| 414 | ** "She's my girlfriend, my wonderful girlfriend, yes, I have a girlfriend, who lives in Canada! And I can't wait to eat her pussy again!" |
| 415 | ** {{Beat}}. [[QuieterThanSilence Beat]]. [[OverlyLongGag Beat]]. [[[LastNoteHilarity orchestra hit]]]. |
| 416 | *** Not in the cast album, but onstage, not only the characters, but also their puppeteers, ''the whole orchestra'', and '''''the conductor''''' stare slack-jawed in a seemingly endless awkward moment. Drives it home. |
| 417 | ** Also in ''Avenue Q'', in the song "If You Were Gay", Nicky sings about NotThatTheresAnythingWrongWithThat (about Rod being gay) while taking every opportunity to point out that he himself is ''not'' gay. |
| 418 | * ''Theatre/BareAPopOpera'': Jason, an ArmouredClosetGay, provides a depressingly realistic example of this. [[spoiler:He sleeps with Ivy after fighting with Peter, his boyfriend, about the future of their relationship and is fast to deny said relationship when Matt outs him.]] |
| 419 | * ''Theatre/DearEvanHansen'': In "Sincerely Me", Evan and Connor sing how "Our friendship goes beyond your average kind of bond", but clarify that they're not gay and "the only man that I love is my dad!" |
| 420 | * ''Theatre/TheProducers'': In the Opening Number: "King of Broadway", there is this Line: "There was a Time when i was young and gay...But straight." |
| 421 | [[/folder]] |
| 422 | |
| 423 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 424 | * Taichi from ''VideoGame/{{A3}}'' spends every other sentence talking about how much he wants a girlfriend or how much he hopes that his latest hobby or activity will make him more popular with girls. Given how Taichi's first love was actually a boy he [[DudeLooksLikeALady mistook for a girl]] and how he still seems pretty eager to hang out with said boy even when he doesn't know he's the same "girl" he fell in love with all these years ago, many fans interpret this as him trying a little too hard to convince others (and himself) that he's 100% heterosexual. |
| 425 | * Mallory from ''VideoGame/BlackCloset'' is a recent transfer student to an all-girls boarding school, and as a result is somewhat unsettled by the rather...homoerotic culture that seems to be the norm. Eventually, she arranges a formal meeting with you to come out as straight, and if you flirt with her expresses exasperation that the ''entire school'' appears to be gay. |
| 426 | * Kaoru in ''VideoGame/EnsembleStars'' is the flirtatious type who early in his character development claims to only care about dating girls. Given that he goes to an all-boys' school where the AudienceSurrogate is the only female character out of a HoYay-filled CastFullOfPrettyBoys, this leads to a ''lot'' of scenes of him talking at length about how much he loves girls and has no interest in guys at all in a way that starts to sound like a SuspiciouslySpecificDenial after a time. It kicks into ''very'' high gear in any scene he shares with Souma, who he initially tried to hit on thinking he was a girl, and who he still seems to be kind of attracted to, judging by the way he can't shut up about how Souma's hair is super silky and unusual for a guy and how Kaoru would kiss him if he were a girl but he won't because he's totally not into guys and only likes girls, obviously! |
| 427 | * ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar 2'' does this. After the raft of jokes about the homoerotic "macho man" overtones of the first game, the second repeatedly refers to Dom's Wife and hints at a romance between Marcus and Anya that never serves any purpose beyond re-enforcing his heterosexuality. |
| 428 | ** The achievements for the Co-Op Campaign go the other way with names like "Dom-Curious" in [=GoW=] 1, and "One Night Stand", "Open Relationship", and "Friends with Benefits" in [=GoW=] 2, leading to a darkly hilarious (and ''probably'' unintentional) moment in 2 where [[spoiler:the tragic scene in which Dom has to MercyKill his wife]] is immediately followed by the game informing you of the progress you've made towards the 'Friends with Benefits' achievement. Speaking of which... |
| 429 | * Brucie in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'' will brag about his female sexual conquests whenever anybody questions his sexuality. Notably, in the DLC "The Ballad of Gay Tony" Luis notices him trying to come on to him, so Brucie defensively claims that he was simply trying to see if Luis was gay. |
| 430 | ** Also Luis himself in "The Ballad Of Gay Tony." Although many jokes are made by friends about Luis's sexuality, they drown the story with "Luis, you're such a straight skirt-chasing idiot." and filling the gameplay with sex. Notably, Tony has a stereotypically gay side earring and Luis only has a straight side earring, although it bears pointing out that in reality, there is no standardized "earring code." |
| 431 | * ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel II'' has one in a bonding event with Rean and Princess Alfin at Roer while they were both playing a card game. Alfin asks what [[TheRival Crow]] is for Rean and he explains that he's his most important person and because of that, he has to fight him, comparing their relationship to the card game that they've been playing. Alfin then says that she's jealous of Crow which Rean does hear and claims that guys don't like being shipped that way. However, it just reinforces Rean to sway a bit much towards Crow. |
| 432 | * ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' -- James Vega is inconsistent about this. His friendship with Steve Cortez is free of "no homo" dialogue, but if [=Male!Shep=] takes him on the casino mission in ''Citadel'' he gets a little defensive afterwards. |
| 433 | --> "Hey, I shouldn't read too much into being your "date" tonight, right? Because James Vega is all about the ladies." |
| 434 | ** Vega will blatantly hit on [=Fem!Shep=], but isn't actually a romance option. [=Fem!Shep=] can even call him out on his being all talk. |
| 435 | ** He's also adamant, later on in ''Citadel'', that he really wants to try the hot tub without Cortez. ''Specifically'' Cortez. |
| 436 | * Taken to almost absurd levels in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots''. Snake and Otacon are living together with an adopted daughter at the start of the game, so rumor has it that Otacon was hooked up with [[spoiler: Naomi]] in an attempt to sink the Snake/Otacon ship, [[spoiler:she dies]] three-quarters of the way of the game, leaving Otacon free to dedicate himself to staying by Snake's side in the Epilogue. |
| 437 | * ''VideoGame/RobotUnicornAttack'' is specifically designed to induce this trope in a heterosexual male player. ''VideoGame/RobotUnicornAttackHeavyMetalEdition'' is a pretty good way to mention that you're heterosexual. |
| 438 | * The heroines of ''VisualNovel/ShiningSongStarnova'' are all romantically interested in their male producer, but a few are hinted to be bisexual, which they deny: |
| 439 | ** Julie loudly complains that she doesn't spin that way and has "ab-so-lut-ley" no interest in girls when Mr. Producer informs her that she'll have to kiss Natsuki for a yuri-themed gravure shoot. Once the shoot gets underway and Natsuki turns on the charm, however, [[{{Tsundere}} Julie's]] [[LuminescentBlush flustered]] [[CrushFilter reactions]] begin to tell a different story. |
| 440 | ** Sasami protests that she isn't into girls when her rival Shiro starts coming on to her and offering to teach her proper kissing technique, not that this stops Sasami from taking Shiro up on her offer (and doing considerably more than that) in the name of "practice". |
| 441 | * Mocked and subverted (in that it brings forth more HoYay rather than denying it), in ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphoniaDawnOfTheNewWorld''. In a sketch after discovering that [[TheAtoner Regal]] killed a loved one, Emil begins to wonder if he could kill [[FriendlyEnemy Richter]]... At which point he lamely tries to explain the difference between his like for Richter and actual romantic affection. This is his InnerMonologue... |
| 442 | ** In the first game, one of the things Zelos says in his first encounter with the party is "I'm not interested in talking to guys", which is occasionally taken as borderline SuspiciouslySpecificDenial, or at least protesting a bit too much. This becomes especially notable in the Japanese version of the game, where Zelos later on openly begins referring to Lloyd as his "Honey", a term he usually reserves for the (female) members of his Harem in Meltokio... |
| 443 | ** Guy Cecil in ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheAbyss'' also reminds people this at times, seeing as simple contact from a girl [[AllergicToLove causes him to shout and jump away from her]], though in his case it's a ''major'' DudeNotFunny moment. [[spoiler:When he was a kid, his sister and all the maids in his house sacrificed themselves to protect him while Duke Fabre was committing genocide against them. He ended up ''being covered by their bodies for several days on end''.]] |
| 444 | [[/folder]] |
| 445 | |
| 446 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 447 | * ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'': Strong Bad tries to assert his heterosexuality as much as he can, particularly after flirtatious scenes between him and Homestar. And then there's [[VerySpecialEpisode Email brianrietta]]... |
| 448 | * Subverted at the very last moment in the ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'' review of ''VideoGame/GuitarHero [=III=]''. Mentioning several times how he got together with guy friends to play the game, in a manly and completely heterosexual way, he finishes the review with: |
| 449 | -->"...but it's just not as much fun as tonguing another man's balls. [{{beat}}] I mean, as it used to be. ...''I'm not gay''". |
| 450 | ** Also mentioned occasionally and in an off-handed way in subsequent reviews. Often just a quick "Not gay" thrown in after a particularity gay statement. |
| 451 | ** After a possibly love-hurt NonSequitur in his ''Sims 3'' review where concludes that all women are evil, he ends "Incidentally, I'm still not gay." (His animated character starts lifting weights as a manly activity.) |
| 452 | ** Even in his ''Extra Punctuation'' coverage of ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', where he talks about how he pursued a homosexual romance with a male character and did a little roleplay on it, to show how roleplay in video games shouldn't reflect on what kind of person you are in real life... he still mentioned his heterosexuality quite a few times...and then stated that Music/DavidBowie used to be an extremely sexy man. |
| 453 | [[/folder]] |
| 454 | |
| 455 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 456 | * In ''Webcomic/DumbingOfAge'', Ethan and Danny feel the need to stress they're not gay after a SuggestiveCollision. Ethan is lying, while Danny [[ExactWords technically isn't]]. |
| 457 | * ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'': |
| 458 | ** Subverted -- Nanase was constantly reminding herself she's straight and blames her attraction to Ellen on Ellen's [[LoveIsInTheAir pheromonic powers]], only to find out Ellen doesn't have them anymore, which means she really ''is'' a lesbian. |
| 459 | ** Played straight with Tedd, who has often denied being gay because of his [[{{Bishonen}} appearance]]. Considering what [[GenderBender regularly]] [[TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody happens]] in this webcomic, the sexuality of any main cast member, at some point, becomes quite debatable. There's every indication that Tedd really ''is'' straight (at least, again, [[GenderBender inasmuch as orientation applies with EGS]]), and secure in what there is of his masculinity too. He only brings it up constantly because people are constantly questioning it. Amusingly, Tedd is often romantically involved with Elliot in alternate universes... but '''always''' heterosexually (i.e., when one of them is a girl). The Tedd in Ellen's AU "childhood dreams" had a crush on AU Ellen (Elliot's clone) but she didn't reciprocate. Either the author is having fun (not only the readers but other characters have been treated to Elliot/Tess or Tedd/Ellen, to their squick and/or amusement) or he's implying that the qualities that make Tedd and Elliot such close friends would also make them a great couple, if only parts and preferences worked out. |
| 460 | ** The commentary on [[http://www.egscomics.com/sketchbook.php?id=856 this]] sketchbook entry has Dan himself doing it. |
| 461 | --->Odds are good this won't be the last we'll see of super beefy George. And, ah, girly Justin! Yes. Girly Justin is clearly the one I'm staring at. Yes. Of course. OBVIOUSLY.\ |
| 462 | ''So beefy...'' |
| 463 | * In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', Jake gets like this in his first conversation with the autoresponder. |
| 464 | -->'''GT:''' *Blows smoke off red hot irony pistol.*\ |
| 465 | '''GT:''' *NONSUGGESTIVELY!!!!!*\ |
| 466 | '''GT:''' Um.\ |
| 467 | '''GT:''' Yeah. |
| 468 | * In ''Webcomic/JerkCity'', the characters occasionally talk about how heterosexual they are before getting back to talking about their love of sucking dick, as usual. And Spigot will often say he's gay, despite the female Harriet apparently being his significant other. |
| 469 | * The (fictional) publisher of ''Webcomic/JetDream'' comic books created comics loaded with GenderBender and WholesomeCrossdresser characters, but strictly limited boy-on-boy contact (even when one of the boys looked just like a girl) to "D-F-K" (Dance-Flirt-Kiss), and then only for "training purposes." This was apparently due to his idiosyncratic belief that at the dawn of TheSeventies, men needed to adopt a [[WeCanRuleTogether "Fem Is In!"]] lifestyle to survive in the [[{{Cloudcuckooland}} brave new mostly-female world]] that would ultimately arise from Women's Lib, sperm banks, test-tube babies, and cloning. |
| 470 | * ''Webcomic/KidRadd'': |
| 471 | ** Gnarl and Kobayashi realize they're very similar to each other, much to their delight. The two then have {{Imagine Spot}}s about hanging out together and Kobayashi jumping out of Gnarl's birthday cake. |
| 472 | -->'''Gnarl:''' Er, did I mention my unquenchable love of the ladies?\ |
| 473 | '''Kobayashi:''' Uh, me too! |
| 474 | ** As well as Radd and [[spoiler:his player]]. |
| 475 | * ''Webcomic/MenageA3'' uses the joke more than once: |
| 476 | ** In an interesting inversion, [[DoesNotLikeMen Yuki]] is afraid that she's turning ''straight'' ([[EveryoneIsBi or bisexual]]) for Gary, as shown in strip #300, May 13, 2010 (NSFW). Well, Zii had previously said "She's not a lesbian, she just doesn't sleep with men", mainly due to [[AllAnimeIsNaughtyTentacles childhood trauma]]. |
| 477 | ** However, it's Sonya who invokes the trope in pure form, as her personal signature, and despite ''obviously'' being in deep denial. She first denies being a lesbian ''while eating Zii out'' and repeats the denial regularly after that, sometimes while leering at or fondling another woman, despite claiming that Zii is [[IfItsYouItsOkay a sole exception]]. She seems interested when someone mentions the word "bisexual" once but soon forgets about that. |
| 478 | --->'''Sonya:''' Thanks to ''you'', I eat ''pussy'' on a ''nightly basis!''\ |
| 479 | ''['''*CRASH*''' as her waitress friend overhears and [[DramaticDrop drops a pot of coffee]]]''\ |
| 480 | '''Sonya:''' I'm... I'm really not a lesbian! |
| 481 | * In ''Webcomic/{{Misfile}}'' Emily made sure to frequently remind everyone that she and Ash are JustFriends and she had [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial no romantic feelings whatsoever]], [[BlatantLies none at all]], [[TransparentCloset nuh-uh, no way]] for Ash. There was some {{justifi|edTrope}}cation. Ash suffered an accidental GenderBender, and fully intends to reverse it, so there are complications if Emily is attracted to Ash. Fortunately, it now seems like Emily also wants a relationship with Ash now. It bears pointing out that Ash is still mentally a guy, and he never embraced the [[SecondLawOfGenderBending second]] or [[ThirdLawOfGenderBending third laws of gender-bending]], at least while in front of those who know about the misfile (since everyone else remembers Ash as a {{tomboy}}, cis girl). So Emily is attracted to Ash's male personality, not really to his female body. |
| 482 | * Theo of ''Webcomic/MyImpossibleSoulmate'' *insists* he's straight. |
| 483 | * Mocked mercilessly in ''Webcomic/NSFWComix'' with "The Bros", who will literally go down on each other and offset it solely though "No homo!" to the point that the punchline is an extended {{Beat}} where one doesn't say it, worrying the other two... before finally saying it. |
| 484 | * ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'': |
| 485 | ** Belkar Bitterleaf, despite being a shameless womanizer, is adamant about asserting his masculinity at every turn, displaying {{Squick}} at the slightest signs of HoYay. He seems far more concerned about it than anyone else in the cast. And yet, when Roy gets turned into a woman, Belkar hits on Roy, even though he knows it's Roy, just to mess with him, and claims he's secure enough in his manhood to be able to do that. Hmm. |
| 486 | ** Likewise, when General Tarquin wonders why they are staring at him (he looks like Elan with a different palette), Belkar fields the question by explaining that they are staring at him because he's hot. From Tarquin's response, this is actually quite common and Belkar again takes great joy in tormenting Roy about it, to the point of responding to Roy's threats with "[[ThatsWhatSheSaid That's what he said]]." |
| 487 | * Faz of ''Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}'' seems to go out of his way to pursue women simply to reinforce his belief that he's straight, even though all evidence (including his actual sexual relations in the past) contradicts this. Specifically, he chose purity over sleeping with Galasso's hot daughter and slept with Ninja Rick. However, the latter was only so he could become a TwoferTokenMinority (gay and Asian) and keep his job, and he has made repeated advances on Amber, which she hasn't reciprocated. He also seemed sad when Amber hugged him and [[http://www.shortpacked.com/2010/comic/book-12/03-minorities-report/mom-2/ he revealed he's never touched a woman as much as a simple hug before.]] Bottom line is that he may be straight, bi, or gay, but he ''is'' clearly messed up. |
| 488 | -->'''Faz:''' Faz requires platonic intimacy. |
| 489 | * Monette of ''Webcomic/SomethingPositive'' originally made a point of reassuring everyone she met that she was not ''straight''. And she failed miserably because she always slept with every guy within reach... [[NoodleIncident and a koala]] (as [[DeadpanSnarker Davan]] pointed out, it wasn't even a female koala). She has since improved on keeping her or just met the right woman. She finally decided not to label herself as either gay or straight and settled on identifying herself as bisexual. |
| 490 | * In the later issues of ''Webcomic/{{Sonichu}},'' every handful of pages is guaranteed to have more than a few carefully veiled hints that the main characters ''and'' the comic creator is straight, and usually more than a few not-so-carefully veiled hints, along the lines of "I, Christian Weston Chandler, am straight". He sure brings this up a lot for some reason. Christine Weston Chandler eventually identified as a bisexual transwoman, a change that would be reflected in her AuthorAvatar. |
| 491 | * Hunter of ''Webcomic/SuicideForHire'' does this to some extent when explaining why he defended homosexuality by holding a congregation of protesters at gunpoint. JustifiedTrope in this case because he's a teenage boy discussing his actions with his best friend who is also a teenage boy, and possibly also because a flashback shows his father's, er, enthusiastic attempts to ensure his son's heterosexuality (by giving him porn when he was thirteen). |
| 492 | * In ''Webcomic/{{Sunstone}}'' Anna has shades of this in earlier chapters in her insistence that she is heterosexual, but this is a playing-with case as her portrayal of her sexuality is rarely consistent. Moreover, due to the strong BDSM themes of the comic, this also applies to the few recurring characters not in the scene who tend to be ''introduced'' by stating they are not into BDSM. Again this applies to Anna in a TransparentCloset way as her growing interest in the scene goes hand in hand with her insistence she has no interest what so ever. |
| 493 | * Played with in this ''Webcomic/TerminalLance'' [[http://terminallance.com/2010/04/30/terminal-lance-34-its-already-gay/ strip]]. |
| 494 | * ''Webcomic/ThinkingTooMuchToThinkPositively'': Xan's past self is guilty of denying she was a closeted trans woman. Examples from [[https://comicsbyxan.com/comic/lies-i-told-myself/ "Lies I Told Myself"]]: |
| 495 | --> I only play as girl characters because they look cooler.\ |
| 496 | My discomfort with masculinity is just because I'm a feminist.\ |
| 497 | Cosplaying exclusively as female characters is just a bit of fun. Everyone does it! |
| 498 | [[/folder]] |
| 499 | |
| 500 | [[folder:Web Originals]] |
| 501 | * ''Blog/BloggingTwilight'' has the writer describing "The curve of [Jacob's] bicep looking like a roller coaster track that eyes, and perhaps fingers, cannot help but ride... um... GIRLS HAVE BOOBS AND I LIKE BOOBS!" |
| 502 | * One {{Website/Cracked}} contributor does this in an article about scientifically proven ways men can become more attractive to women. One tip he gives has to do with the AnimalChickMagnet effect, using Bradley Cooper and a hypothetical adorable Dachshund as an example. The entire paragraph concerning Bradley Cooper relays the author's apparent desire to have sex with him, despite being a "straight online comedy writer". |
| 503 | * In [=YouTuber=] Room604's ''Yet Another Neon Genesis Evangelion Abridged Series'', Maya Ibuki constantly makes remarks about sleeping with men in a futile attempt to closet her lesbianism. For example in EP20 ''Solvent'': |
| 504 | ->'''Maya:''' The entry plug isn't ejecting ma'am, which isn't a problem any man has had when they're with me. |
| 505 | * ''Website/TheOnion'' article "[[http://www.theonion.com/articles/why-do-all-these-homosexuals-keep-sucking-my-cock,10861/ Why Do All These Homosexuals Keep Sucking My Cock?]]" parodies this. |
| 506 | * Mackenzie Blaise from ''Literature/TalesOfMU'' spends a lot of time [[UnreliableNarrator reminding the readers that she isn't a lesbian]], but her relationships with women say otherwise, She goes into some pretty heavy denial at first -- For example, upon having sex with Amaranth for the first time, her initial reaction is to deny that what they'd done counted as sex, and then to inquire into whether Amaranth possessed any special abilities that cause otherwise straight girls to be attracted to her. Eventually, she gets over it. |
| 507 | * Website/YouTube personality Cult Of Dusty in his video [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCsC3T13Dug&t=638s Conservatism Is NOT The New "Counter Culture" (You Fucking Morons!)]] he keeps saying "I want to do (some sexual thing here) with Paul, If I were gay, [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial which I'm not!]] |
| 508 | * There's a common joke among Trans and Gay people on ''Website/{{Tumblr}}'' and ''Website/{{Reddit}}'' that a very common sign of being trans or gay is thinking "I wish I was a boy/girl/nonbinary" or "I wish I was attracted to boys/girls." The common response to such thinking is "Do I have some news for you" |
| 509 | [[/folder]] |
| 510 | |
| 511 | [[folder:Web Videos]] |
| 512 | * ''WebVideo/AngelartsVALetsPlayEarthbound'': Jeff repeatedly denies he's gay, and he insists that his relationship with Tony is purely platonic. Ness and the others aren't convinced by this in the slightest. |
| 513 | * Justified-ish in the Athena #1 review on ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall''. Linkara takes a moment to announce that his dislike of female objectification and pointless nudity is ''not'' due to having a disinterest in the female form since he is not gay. [[NotThatTheresAnythingWrongWithThat He then apologized to his male gay and bisexual viewers for this]], because he's nice like that. |
| 514 | * ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdL6BjupD1E Celery]]'' by FND Films is nothing if not this trope in a distilled form. Until the characters start making out, anyway. |
| 515 | * In ''WebVideo/GameGrumps'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fI-2YC78Z80 at the end of their Ninja Breadman episode]] Creator/{{Egoraptor}} explains how when he was younger (as an ironic jab against bullies accusing him and his friends of being gay) he and his friends formed The D-Club which consisted mostly of just showing each other their penises and going "Yep, still not gay." A rather bizarre use of this trope and one which [[Music/NinjaSexParty Danny]] was convinced was still very homoerotic. They spent [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbPy1eEz9Ao an entire episode of Katamari Damacy]] debating whether or not The D-Club was actually gay, though Danny seemed to just be playing devil's advocate because he found Arin's flustered defenses hilarious. It didn't help Arin's case that he admitted that [[DiggingYourselfDeeper wieners had touched at some point.]] |
| 516 | * The episode of ''Series/JamesGunnsPGPorn'', "Squeal Happy Whores", features a guy [[MusicalEpisode singing]] about the sex he plans to have with the girl he's singing to: "I'll be so rough, you'll gag / cause I'm the opposite of a fag!" |
| 517 | * ''WebVideo/TheJokerBlogs'': In Thomas Eliot's [[ADayInTheLimelight day in the limelight]] short [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHVwLTCFsi0&feature=g-subs-u The Doctor is in]] he is shown bedding every man that he lay his eyes on. He later shares a drink with [[Characters/CatwomanSelinaKyle Selina Kyle]]. |
| 518 | -->'''Selina:''' I've been watching you. Call me crazy, [[{{Gaydar}} but I don't think you are interested in bringing a girl home tonight.]] \ |
| 519 | '''Thomas:''' ... Maybe I was interested in bringing home two or three girls. \ |
| 520 | '''Selina:''' ''[Scoffs]'' Now you are just overcompensating. |
| 521 | * ''Man in the Box'': Cameron. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GFbrqoPYR4]] |
| 522 | * In [[WebVideo/MisterPlinkettReviews Harry Plinkett's]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_qxcafA9Ws review]] of ''Film/StarTrek2009'', he has an entire segment about how the producers felt a need to give every single character a "case of the not-gays" -- that is to say, nearly every major male character has a scene where they mention a girlfriend, a wife, an ex-wife, or a nonspecific interest in women. He suspected this was an attempt to ward off the franchise's massive slash following (when the movie already focuses extensively on Kirk and Spock's relationship), or the subtext of a villain who's [[HelloSailor spent years stuck aboard a spaceship]] with a bunch of [[HellBentForLeather muscular men in tight black leather.]] |
| 523 | ** Stoklasa brought it back for a retrospective review of ''Film/BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure'', pointing out that the "historical babes" don't seem to have any real purpose in the narrative (their romance is really underdeveloped and the two of them have [[SatelliteLoveInterest no discernible personality]]) aside from showing that Bill and Ted aren't gay. |
| 524 | * When WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic reviews ''Film/IndependenceDay'', he [[StupidSexyFlanders fawns over]] Creator/WillSmith for a minute before slapping himself and reminding himself, "Boobs! You like boobs!" Amusingly, Creator/DougWalker tends to go the [[FauxYay opposite]] way. While Spoony and Linkara mention Scarlett, Liz, and their fangirls quite often, his fiancée isn't mentioned that much. He'd rather say that there was a Mr. Critic or that he has a "lucky" boyfriend while making an oral joke or striptease for his [[IncestSubtext brother]] for laughs. |
| 525 | * Rational Wiki has a category called [[https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Category:Completely_heterosexual Completely heterosexual]]. |
| 526 | * ''WebVideo/RenegadeCut'''s "Queer Theory in '80s and '90s Action Movies" video observes that this was very common in 1980-90s action movies like ''Film/{{Commando}}'' and ''Film/{{Predator}}'': male characters would get scenes where they either acted homophobically or showed interest in women that served no purpose other than to assure straight male viewers that these men were definitely not gay despite having [[HeterosexualLifePartners extremely close friendships with other men]]. The possibility that these men could still be bisexual or pansexual was [[NoBisexuals roundly ignored]] by both filmmakers and audiences in these times. |
| 527 | * The [title of show] Show's "What is [title of show]?" [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlqXHKstV-o]] bit from Episode 3: "Hey Jim, I'm straight, did you watch the game last night?" |
| 528 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_P1OhKUw6I This]] parody of Music/BadRomance is all about this trope and HeterosexualLifePartners. |
| 529 | * There's also [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCPY96Frtyw&feature=channel this]] parody of a Jason Derulo song that might be even more heavy-handed on it. |
| 530 | [[/folder]] |
| 531 | |
| 532 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 533 | * Jeremy in ''WesternAnimation/AllenGregory'' is self-described as 'straight as an arrow' at least until Richard stalked and harassed him into leaving his wife and kids for a gay relationship. |
| 534 | * In ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'' Carl is always quick to point out he's not gay whenever the subject comes up, even when it has nothing to do with him. |
| 535 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' has had some fun with this one. [[VerbalTic (No homo.)]] |
| 536 | * From the ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'' episode "[[Recap/DariaS1E13 The Misery Chick]]": |
| 537 | -->'''Kevin Thompson:''' I mean, the guy was a hero. A really good quarterback, everybody liked him, kinda hunky, you know. Not that I would notice something like that. |
| 538 | * One episode of ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' had this gem of a line: |
| 539 | -->'''Eddy:''' I'd tell ya I love ya, Ed, but I ain't that kind of guy! |
| 540 | * It is somewhat suspicious that a love interest was added only in ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewSchool'' after Kuzco expressed no interest in women in his original movie. |
| 541 | * ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': |
| 542 | ** In "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS7E13StewRoids Stew-Roids]]", one of the James Woods Regional High School jocks constantly makes homophobic comments culminating in "everyone's gay but me!" before coming out of the closet in his final appearance. |
| 543 | ** There's also an episode showing Creator/GeorgeTakei when he was in the closet. It's ridiculously over the top, like most of the rest of ''Family Guy''. |
| 544 | * William Murderface in ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}''. It shows in at least five episodes, including a time where he won't eat any food that is longer than it is wide because it's too close to a penis. Pickles notes that for this to bother him so much, he must be thinking about dicks in mouths all the time. And when the group is hiding in a closet, they hear an odd noise... only to turn the lights on and see [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything Murderface licking a hotdog]]. When Dethklok reveals that they will be designing a line of clothing, Murderface takes the podium and assures everyone that even though he is about to enter the fashion industry, he is not gay. |
| 545 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E9SliceOfLife Slice of Life]]", [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbXfdKROeyM Lyra and Bon Bon claim to be best friends]]. The fandom doesn't buy it. Of course, this was after the Equestria Girls versions in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRainbowRocks'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwAOtd4f7M8 seemed to be a bit closer than friends as well]]. [[spoiler:They end up proposing to each other and getting married near the end of the series.]] |
| 546 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Pasila}}'': Rauno Repomies is interviewed for television, but since someone mentioned the possibility that they might suggest that he's gay, he spends most of the interviews proclaiming he's not, until [[spoiler: the only way to get out of the situation with honour is to admit that he is, even though it's not even true]]. |
| 547 | * [[WordOfGay According to the creators]] of ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'', this was done intentionally with Velma, though it's far more PlayedForDrama than most other takes: she spends a lot of the first part of the first season insisting that she and Shaggy are absolutely, definitely boyfriend and girlfriend despite the fact that it's clear she's not really getting anything out of it romance-wise. Notably, when they break up, she's rather firmly in AmicableExes territory before long, and forms a fairly strong relationship with two other women. |
| 548 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' plays with this in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS16E15FutureDrama Future-Drama]]": |
| 549 | -->''[Waylon Smithers enters with a woman holding his arm]''\ |
| 550 | '''Bart:''' Mr. Smithers? I thought you were, you know-- uh...\ |
| 551 | '''Smithers:''' Ha ha, no, I'm straight! As long as I [[CureYourGays take these injections every ten minutes]]. ''[he injects himself]'' I LOVE BOOBIES! |
| 552 | * ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': |
| 553 | ** In the first few seasons, Mr. Garrison ''massively'' overcompensates for his closet homosexuality by constantly talking about how straight he is. He mentions, apropos of nothing, how he's always on the hunt for "poontang" as well as [[HeteronormativeCrusader bashing gay people]] whenever he can. It's a surprise to zero people when he comes out. |
| 554 | ** Kyle Broflovski is often MistakenForGay with his mortal enemy/frenemy, Eric Cartman. Whether or not it's because [[ItMakesSenseInContext Cartman gave him AIDS]], or because Cartman sabotages Kyle's date with a girl by singing to him in front of thousands of people, Kyle would like you to know that he is definitely not in any way involved with Eric Cartman. Now [[AmbiguouslyGay Cartman, on the other hand...]] |
| 555 | * Since ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock'' couldn't show Richie [[HideYourGays being]] [[AnimationAgeGhetto gay]], they used this to help get that facet of his character across. (Confirmed by WordOfGod.) |
| 556 | * ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'': |
| 557 | ** Owen gets like this when the beautiful [[EvenTheGuysWantHim Justin]] is around, which is so often and thorough that Owen falls under AmbiguouslyBi. |
| 558 | ** Tyler is helped up by the charming Alejandro in "[[Recap/TotalDramaWalkLikeAnEgyptianPartOne Walk Like An Egyptian - Part 1]]", prompting him to insist that he likes girls. |
| 559 | [[/folder]] |
| 560 | |
| 561 | ---- |
| 562 | |
| 563 | ->[[TheStinger No homo]]. |
| 564 |
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