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A No Recent Examples rule applies to this trope. Examples for episodic works shouldn't be added until end of season for the season introducing the ambiguity (or after 3 months, for episodic works without seasons). This is to allow time for the story to develop the character and resolve ambiguity. There is no waiting time for non-episodic works.


  • Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog: Scratch seems to have a sexual interest in Dr. Robotnik at times. In "The Mobius 5000", when Grounder came up with an idea to both discredit the Racebots and get back in Robotnik's good graces, Scratch goes as far as to kiss Grounder on the nose in joy. This did, however, end up with Scratch's lips frozen to said nose.
  • Adventure Time:
    • Lemongrab and his clone are all but outright stated to be a couple, complete with Headbutt of Love within seconds of meeting each other, and Bubblegum saying "I made him, for you to be with". Then "All Your Fault" goes into full Adam and Eve Plot, with the two starting a family together (and bickering with each other over what to name their children). However, they at least once refer to each other as "brother."
    • Everything about Abracadaniel is soft and delicate, his speech included, he uses rainbow magic, is outright repulsed at the idea of kissing Bubblegum in "Wizard Battle", gets very chummy with Ice King very quickly in "Play Date", and is shaped like a giant pink penis.
    • Peppermint Butler appears to be very attracted to Braco's monster form (telling him "I want to have your babies", even) and blushes at the thought of getting to meet the Vampire King in person.
  • All Hail King Julien: Karl, King Julien's arch nemesis seems to have such an intense crush on Julien that in one episode, he lays in bed with Julien and spoons him to get his attention.
  • Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet the Wolfman: The school play director has a lisp, is noticeably feminine, calls the principal "sister", and works in the Always Camp role of over-zealous school play director.
  • The Amazing World of Gumball:
    • Leslie is an effeminate flower boy with pink petals. In a deleted scene of "The Saint", he is the only one out of the boys AND girls that liked being kissed by Darwin. In "The Upgrade", Bobert marries him with Alan, who also seemed to be happy despite having a girlfriend. In "The Mustache", Leslie gets impressed by Gumball's butt growing. According to "The Petals", he is a high-fashion Drag Queen, and after a medical emergency he gets annoyed when Gumball stops giving him mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. In one of the first episodes, "The Pressure", he hangs out with the girls at Molly's treehouse, and claims he, along with the girls also made up his boyfriend (though he never talked about his fake boyfriend earlier in the episode, unlike the other girls). He also is seen in the girls' bathroom in "The Fight".
    • Hotdog Guy has his awkward relationship with Gumball and in one episode, is seen in line for Gumball and Darwin's kissing booth.
  • Saturday Night Live's TV Funhouse has Ambiguously Gay Duo:
    • Superheroes Ace and Gary fight crime with an array of phallically-suggestive vehicles and gadgets while engaging in plenty of homoerotic behavior, all the while their villains (except their Arch-Enemy Mad Scientist Bighead) dance around the obviousness of their gay-ness.
    "What's everybody looking at?"
    "Nothing!"
    • On the commentary for the "Best of TV Funhouse" DVD, SNL writer Robert Smigel said "one of them is gay, and one of them is straight, which will lead to a breakup". He refused to say which was which.
  • Amphibia:
    • Marcy is shown to be very touchy-feely with Anne and Sasha at times, and even their more normal interactions have a little subtext sprinkled in. Though Anne says that she used to help out her friends with break ups, it's possible that Anne was not referring to Marcy as she seems to have other mutual friends at home besides her and Sasha, and Marcy states that she struggles with making connections due to her hyperactive personality also makes it unlikely she was ever in a romantic relationship with anyone. And unlike Anne and Sasha, Marcy never shows any interest in boys her age and her Journal Entries has her describing her friends in a very detailed manner such as gushing on about Anne's athletic abilities and Sasha's Cerulean Blue eyes. She even draws pictures of herself blushing at them several times in a very admiring way. And in "Olivia & Yunan", when she is confronted by illusionary projections of Anne and Sasha in a simulated school hallway, a locker has a prom poster with "yes or yes" covered in hearts. When Projection Anne and Projection Sasha merge together, the Saint James escutcheon emblem on their now-shared torso inexplicably changes to being heart-shaped. In addition, her real-life journal notes go into vivid detail of Sasha's features in a rather admiring tone when she shows up in "The Third Temple" and slays some of the lava worms, with hearts even drawn around her illustration of Sasha slaying one of the worms. She also refers to Anne and Sasha as "my loves", though whether its meant to be platonic or romantic in tone is not necessarily clear, but implied to be the latter, or at least somewhere in between.
    • In "All In", a Freeze-Frame Bonus of Mr. X's phone shows one of his contacts as being named "Hubby", implying that he's married to a man.
  • As Told by Ginger
    • Brandon Higsby. He is rather girly looking, is extremely hyper, is always neatly dressed and mentioned in one episode that he dreams about purple unicorns and he likes the color pink and teddy bear pencils.
    • Blake Gripling always seemed a little too obsessed with winning Carl's friendship and hates Carl's best friend Hoodsey.
  • Babar has Pompadour, an incredibly effeminate and sissy elephant with Louis XV-like attire, very proud of his wigs, obsessed with protocol and cleanness. And of course mangos!
  • Bob's Burgers: There's a pair of male raccoons living behind the titular restaurant that Linda assumes are gay, but it's never outright confirmed that she's right.
  • Bunsen Is a Beast: Muckledunk's news anchors Bob and Ken live together and are never indicated to be attracted to women, plus Ken in one episode says something about him and Bob not having his mother's approval.
  • Carmen Sandiego:
    • Villains El Topo and Le Chèvre. The two only work together and prioritize each other's safety over their missions. In another moment, Dr. Bellum refers to El Topo as Le Chèvre's "Dear Boy".
    • Carmen herself has this with Julia, and vice versa. A lot of their moments together are laced with romantic subtext, and don't show any romantic interest in men. The interactive special "To Steal Or Not To Steal" emphasizes this quite a bit. Most notably, Carmen has a fantasy where she engages in a much more lively dance, and Julia smiles and nods in approval. The Golden Ending also emphasizes this, where Carmen leaves everything she stole for Julia, and gives her a bouquet of roses. And then she blushes. What's more, Julie's debut from Carmen Sandiego Treassures Of Knowledge, reveals that both she and Carmen were partners, and her entire arc is begging Carmen to go back to the side of Acme that seems to be framed as them being ex-lovers.
  • Eddie the Squirrel from CatDog seems to have an eye for Cliff.
  • ChalkZone:
  • Chowder: Officer Snow Leopard displays this trait in both of his appearances, speaking with a bit of a lisp and giving a flirtatious "rawr" when correcting the captain on being a snow leopard.
  • Mr. Greenrind of Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island lives a rather artistic lifestyle.
  • Henrietta von Marzipan from Codename: Kids Next Door. She's introduced to the audience as a boy and subsequently has a lot of tension with Numbuh Five. In her last episode, she is returned to her true gender via the lifting of a curse, and finally makes up with Abby in a very sweet scene. She never gets a male romantic interest, either.
  • Cow and Chicken: The Red Guy also from the I Am Weasel show, he declares himself upon arrival "the king...and queen...of Cheese"; quite fitting, in more ways than one.
  • Craig of the Creek:
    • Kelsey is implied to have a crush on Wildernessa a few times.
    • Stacks might have a crush on Kelsey. "Fire and Ice" confirms that it's the other way around. They start dating by episode's end.
    • The Junk Lord in his second appearance, was cuddling a pillow of a male samurai.
    • The Witches of the Creeks have their subtext until "The Haunted Dollhouse", they kissed.
    • The Honeysuckle Rangers are viewed as romantic in "Return of the Honeysuckle Rangers".
  • In the banned Dexter's Laboratory episode "Barbequor", the title character's sidekick The Silver Spooner (a Silver Surfer parody) was extremely effeminate and campy, including the limp wrist, he skipped when excited and raised one leg, walking on his tiptoes while swinging his hips, and slapping Monkey to prevent him from getting to his master.
  • Dogs in Space: Chonies seems to have a crush on Garbage, as shown in the episode "Watch Me".
  • Droids: C-3PO became a gay icon shortly after his film debut, but the 1985 spinoff cartoon Droids takes the implications further. In addition to being mincing and prissy, Threepio has limp wrists, seems legitimately uncomfortable when a woman hugs him, harbors a fondness for fashion accessories, and shares a surprising amount of chemistry with R2-D2.
  • DuckTales (2017) introduces Storkules, a Greek Hunk, who is glad to see his best friend Donald Duck, who he is fond of hugging and patting. The fact that he also made a musclebound sculpture of Donald wearing nothing but a fig leaf that he looks lovingly at it is a bit of a tip off.
  • Apple White from Ever After High has a surprising amount of Les Yay despite being destined to marry Daring. She isn't dating Daring due to the belief that they will have forever to be together after high school and she also doesn't bat an eye towards his flirtatious nature towards other girls. Apple White leans towards this more than Ambiguously Bi, especially since Dragon Games has her being resuscitated by Darling's Kiss of Life instead of her brother Daring's kiss.
  • The Fairly OddParents!:
    • Sanjay. The fact that he's way too into Timmy and is OK with wearing girls' clothes should tip you off.
    • Cupid, such as in the "Wishology" trilogy where Cupid and Juandissimo had a scene in "The Exciting Middle Part" eating in an outdoor cafe together, acting very much like a dating couple (which would make Juandissimo Ambiguously Bi).
    • Chester doesn't like being too close to girls because he gets rashes and an episode had Chester cross-dressing and dancing with AJ when the two needed dance partners.
    • Mr. Bickles is a flamboyant drama teacher who's more interested in his artistic dreams (and honoring the buff action hero Ryan McLane with a musical adaptation) than pursuing any women.
  • In Family Guy, Stewie Griffin is very often put in comedic situations revolving around his sexual preference for men (and secretly Brian and his doll Rupert). While he does have some one-off heterosexual crushes from time to time, his homosexuality appears too often.
  • Franklin: Bear is very close and attached to Franklin, more than best friends usually are, and exclusively hangs out with Franklin for most of his time. He is tender, sensitive, effeminate, and doesn't have any interest in girls unlike Franklin. Bear dresses flamboyantly in a small and unbuttoned blue sleeveless vest. note  (This is even more odd considering that the characters don’t really need to wear clothes. It’s definitely not going to keep him very warm anyways which means it could be a gaudy fashion statement.) Bear also likes to get very touchy-feely with Franklin and routinely tickles him, in odd positions.
  • Futurama Fry's not-actually grandfather, Enos is worth a mention. He's dating the woman who will become Fry's grandmother, but says things like "you ever get the feeling you're only going with girls 'cause you're supposed to" and when shown a pin-up calendar, he is more interested in the male pin-ups than the female ones. Unfortunately, he gets killed before we can ever find out.
  • George and Martha: Oscar & Wilde. Apparently in the short lived cartoon series, there is a pair of alligator characters who give off so many clear signs that there is definitely something more to their relationship. They live together, they go on vacation together, one is never seen without the other, and there's even a scene in one episode where the two are dressed up in outfits straight out of the Village People. The kicker? Their names are Oscar and Wilde.
  • Gravity Falls: Tyler Cutebiker is often seen around Manly Dan, no man in Gravity Falls wears shorts as short as his, and he was seen at the Sev'ral Timez concert.
  • Hanna-Barbera character Snagglepuss. Heavens to Murgatroyd! He's pink, has good taste, moves very softly and talks like this, even. The fact that he shows interest in a lioness a few times has not deterred peoples' views on the matter.
  • Harvey Beaks:
    • Dade seems to really, really like the main character.
    Dade: Don't get me wrong, Harvey. You know there's nothing I'd like more than to make a beautiful life with you, my friend. But I got a family down there and a life to live, and so do you.
    • Fee is the only one of Harvey's female friends who hasn't displayed interest in a boy. In "Nightclub Night", she is quite impressed by the club's female bouncer, so when Harvey tries to encourage her to talk to the bouncer, the whole discussion comes off like Harvey encouraging Fee to talk to someone she has a crush on.
  • He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983): Though looking back, the "ambiguously" was incredibly tenuous sometimes. (A running gag on Cracked is that whenever He-Man is brought up, they will inevitably mention that the show taught the children of the '80s that being gay is okay.) At best, Prince Adam was a Camp Straight who wore a pink vest and lilac pantyhose! When he became He-Man he basically stripped down to fur bikini briefs and a harness, with a magical spray-on tan! Years later, the parody cartoon VH1 ILL-ustrated, would do a spoof segment of Queer Eye For The Straight Guy where they show up on Eternia to makeover He-Man
    Carson: Have five other gay guys already been here?
  • Hey Arnold!: Eugene has a room decorated with rainbows and unicorns, and often takes interest in anything related to dancing and musicals.
  • Home Movies: Walter and Perry are a bit young for any real sexual identity, but they're way beyond 'ambiguous'.
  • Jem:
    • Stormer is the only major female not to have any male love interests, be it long term or a passing glance; the closest we get is her saying love is hard for her. Instead she has an episode with Kimber where she essentially plays the 'delinquent boyfriend' out of a 50s movie. The Les Yay is so thick it can't seem anything but intentional. Stormer even longingly looks at a picture of her and Kimber together (that she keeps by her bedside!) after their singing duo splits up. The 2015 IDW reboot outright made them a couple and few fans complained.
    • Rapture makes an off-hand comment early on that she and Riot are meant to be together, however that could be choked up as Characterization Marches On because Word of God also states that The Stingers feel no romantic feelings towards each other. Rapture is the only Stinger not to have a love interest at all.
  • Johnny Bravo: Carl pounces on Johnny constantly (as in "Johnny Goes to Camp"), is very clingy despite Johnny shoving him away, all-too-into playing Johnny's pretend date ("Charm School Johnny") or wife ("Chain Gang Johnny"), is impervious to the wiles of chicks, often thinking they're evil ("Forest Chump"), and even said he loved Johnny while standing up for him against an angry mob in "Lodge Brother Johnny". Heck, the episode "Carl Be Not Proud" is practically nothing BUT Homoerotic Subtext.
  • Johnny Test:
    • Zizrar the mole king and the mole people. Zizrar is flamboyant and dresses very camp while most of his minions dress in biker leather. Plus no female members of their species had onscreen appearances. What makes them ambiguous is that they never flirted with anyone.
    • Nobeard and his pirate crew. Their ship is colored pink and their flag has a skull with flowers on it. The crew dreams of using whatever treasure they find on kitchens, classical dance lessons, and opera theater. The crew also dresses very camp and many of them wear pink and purple. They also lightly slap their opponents rather than sword fight them.
  • The Legend of Korra:
    • Wei Beifong (and possibly by extension his twin Wing) visibly flirts with Bolin when the latter rescues him from Kuvira. Given that there are confirmed LGBT characters in the show (i.e. Korra and Asami), the ambiguity here is quite justified, since there is a legitimate precedent.
    • In the 'Turf Wars' sequel comic, mobster Jarala Omo sits on Asami's desk, calls her "sweetheart," and generally behaves flirtatiously towards her.
  • Let's Go Luna!: Senor Fabuloso, the ringmaster of the Circo Fabuloso, comes off as this due to his Large Ham over-dramatic tendencies and campy style of dress. Andy describes him as "flamboyant" in the episode "Meet the Presses". He is implied to be attracted to men too. The way he talks about Don Magnifico in "Time of Goodbye" makes him sound like a bitter ex-lover (He has kissed the female Luna once, but it was out of desperation rather than romantic interest). In "The Mystery of the Mask", he celebrates his "friendaversary" with Mr. Hockbar and explicitly mentions that when he first met Hockbar, he was enamored with him.
    Senor Fabuloso: Way back when I started my Circo Fabuloso, I was searching for a special act. I became enamored with a unique Khon dancer I found in Thailand, and asked him to join my troupe. He wore that very mask, and that man became my best friend who helps me run my Circo to this very day. Yes, children, that very Khon dancer was none other than, the incomparable Mr. Hockbar!
  • Kulipari: An Army of Frogs: Gee does not have a canon love interest and did not show attraction to girls but he exhibited Homoerotic Subtext towards his best friend Darel, as he offered to give Darel a back scratch and Gee really enjoyed a massage that was given to him by a male Kulipari healer named Ponto.
  • Kung Fu Panda: The Paws of Destiny: Wing and Wong, the two warthog minions of Rooster. But the only reason it's "ambiguous" is because in the same episode (A Game of Fists) that they blatantly state that they're in love and a couple after Rooster brings up their lost wedding gift, Rooster later muddles it by saying he just made up the wedding to garner sympathy, with most people assuming that Wing and Wong were going along with the lie. As the show goes on the ambiguity lessens enough that it's likely they really are a couple, but it's muddled again due to some lines where Wong suggests they're pregnant, leading many people to believe that Wong is actually a girl. As incredibly unlikely as it is that Wong was serious, it cannot be 100% deconfirmed due to the fact that Wong and Wong alone is never referred to as any gender specific pronoun. The entire thing isn't helped by the fact that they're strongly implied to be brothers in their introduction episode.
  • Legion of Super Heroes (2006) has Color Kid, who wears a rainbow on his chest, as well as speaking and gesturing flamboyantly. He's also concerned at one point that he may not have used the precisely appropriate shade of green.
  • Miraculous Ladybug
    • Goth girl Juleka Couffaine has a ton of ambiguous moments with her best friend Rose (who is Ambiguously Bi, since unlike Juleka she's been shown crushing on at least one boy) that heavily imply the two are a couple, but nothing's been explicitly confirmed within the show itself, although the staff have heavily hinted that this is the case.
    • Vincent Aza, who behaves like a Stalker with a Crush toward Jagged Stone, and also dyed the tips of his hair pink.
    • Wayhem is just as obsessed with Adrien as Marinette, if not even more so, to the point of dressing exactly like him.
  • My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
    • Stephen Magnet, the Sea Serpent from part 2 of the pilot. He's pinkish-purple, speaks in an effeminate voice, and cries when his fabulous mustache is ruined.
    • Gilda acts like a jealous girlfriend to Rainbow Dash in "Griffon the Brush Off", bordering on Psycho Ex-Girlfriend, but no romantic feelings are ever mentioned. Which only added to the already-rampant speculation about Rainbow Dash's tomboy personality and connection with rainbows (however, Dashie has some Ship Tease with male characters, nudging her into a slightly different trope).
    • Male bit characters tend to be modeled after flamboyant celebrities like Sigfried and Roy, Charles Nelson Reilly, and Andy Dick. Others that aren't explicitly based on celebs also often have effeminate voices and mannerisms, though there's usually a justification of being in an Always Camp industry like hairdressing or fashion.
    • One-shot character Rolling Thunder, who appears in "The Washouts", winks at a mare in the audience (who immediately faints) just before one stunt.
    • Applejack, unlike the rest of the mane cast (aside from Spike), has no really noticeable Ship Tease with any male characters (even Fluttershy has more than her) and is totally uninterested when she does get a stallion's attention. By contrast, her Vitriolic Best Buds dynamic with Rarity and Rainbow Dash nudges dangerously close to Belligerent Sexual Tension at times note . The Distant Finale implies that she is married to, or at least living with, Rainbow Dash with the two bickering Like an Old Married Couple, crew members on Twitter confirming this was intentional but left to interptiation.
    • Thorax, judging by his soft sentimental personality and the way he acts around Spike compared to the rest female characters.
  • Every single pony from G1 My Little Pony 'n Friends and My Little Pony TV Specials, though a few stand out:
    • Applejack licked Glory in the beginning of the first special, though it seems like it's just affection and because she's covered in apple juice — it seems innocent until you notice some official figurines have Glory marrying Moondancer, another mare.
    • There's also Gusty, who fits for most of the same reason Dash does in G4 (plus she has an androgynous voice).
  • Nature Cat: The titular character is overdramatic and sensitive. He is heavily implied to have a crush on Hal, because he clings to him, hugs him, and even kisses him frequently. It is suggested that Hal feels the same way towards Nature Cat, because he is extremely loyal to him. Sometimes he even says to him "O captain, my captain."
  • OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes:
    • A Real Magic Skeleton and Brandon are kinda close to each other, especially the prom episode and "RMS and Brandon's First Episode".
    • Elodie might have a crush on Enid.
    • Miss Pastel and Koala Princess are very close to each other and fangirling over Elodie.
  • Vice-Principal Zeigler from Pelswick has a lot of stereotypical mannerisms, was just as excited if not more than the middle-school girls to see the boy band, N*Talented (whom all the other guys at least tried to hate), and occasionally dresses in a fairy costume. In one episode, Ace voices suspicions that Pelswick's online girlfriend might actually be a guy, and the hypothetical scenario involved the guy in question being him in the fairy costume. In another, Pelswick's grandmother refers to him as a "fruitcake."
  • The Owl House has a lot of openly queer characters, but there a few people whose sexuality is somewhat ambiguous. For example, Edric mentions having a date with somebody who is only referred to as "they", and it's never made clear if his date is a boy, girl or non-binary.
  • The Penguins of Madagascar:
    • Mort might be a close second, though he's only interested in Julien's feet specifically, not the rest of him.
    • Roger the alligator, who doesn't want to scare anyone; he wants to bake muffins for bullies, and wants to sing on Broadway.
    • All the penguins have their moments, but those made the biggest deal of are Private and Rico - Private could be acting babyish, but it's just funny for the Dumb Muscle to have quite the number of notable 'gay' moments.
  • Phineas and Ferb: Bobbi Fabulous, former member of the 1980s rock band Love Händel, is an effeminate, fashionable Large Ham hairdresser whose primary concerns are making sure he and his clients look, well, fabulous. The show never suggests he wants anything to do with women besides style their hair.
  • Pig Goat Banana Cricket: Banana seems to have admiration for Avacado and hesitates to give him a mouth-to-mouth. He is flattered when Ranger Rhino ask him to go to the concert with him.
  • The Powerpuff Girls (1998):
    • The series has Him, also fitting the Sissy Villain trope. Him was also based heavily on the Chief Blue Meanie from Yellow Submarine, who is mentioned in the Animated Films section.
    • The episode "Equal Fights" has a Straw Feminist who hates men and has a picture of two cats grooming on her wall.
    • There's also an episode where a few criminals long to be like the Powerpuff Girls. While the others imagine the power and skills they would gain, one of the criminals is more interested in emulating their hairstyles, shoes, and bows.
  • The Problem Solverz has Roba, the most sensitive member of the team and is frequently anxious about being loved and accepted. He practically had a man crush on master funny face artist Tony Marv, and becomes upset in another episode because he wouldn't be able to wear a salsa hat if Bad Cat went undefeated. Roba was also completely turned off by Katrina Rad's amorous advances (although she was crazy), and is quick is criticize Alfe's fashion sense. His high-pitched voice and effeminate hand gestures are additional traits.
  • The Proud Family: Michael the "sissy" sole male cheerleader and son of the macho coach (who he can't call "Dad" in public).
  • Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja:
    • Viceroy, McFist's henchmen, who's super sassy and has an effeminate voice and equally effeminate manners.
    • Julian also has a ton of feminine mannerisms, is extremely expressive, rather androgynous-looking and speaks in an effeminate voice (seriously, he's even dubbed by a woman in the Mandarin Chinese version). It also doesn't really help how clingy he is with Randy in "Snow-Klahoma!", going so far as to ask to be carried by him.
  • Mikey from Recess is a deeply flamboyant, theatrically sensitive and emotional character who is hard not to read as this. It may run in his family — in "Parents' Night" we see that his father is a small, equally effeminate man married to a large, masculine woman.
  • The Reluctant Dragon: In the Disney animated short, the title character is rather effeminate and very campy, singing in a high voice, reciting poetry, dancing on his tiptoes, doing the stereotypical gay wave, etc.
  • The title characters of The Ren & Stimpy Show, whose ever ambiguous status as a couple was something of a Running Gag throughout the series. When asked about fan rumors that they were a gay couple their creator reportedly just gave a Shrug of God and said "I don't know, it's none of my business". In the Adult Party Cartoon, however, it was made... quite explicit... that the duo were in fact lovers. This kind of ruined the joke, though.
  • Rocko's Modern Life
    • The Chameleon Brothers, two skinny flamboyant European-accented chameleons who seem to prefer artistic endeavors like model photoshoots.
    • Peter Wolfe, Heffer's adopted brother who does cheerleading and ballet. It's unknown whether he's actually Camp Gay or just a Wholesome Crossdresser.
    • Clean Gene the hygiene genie from "Scrubbin' Down Under" has the stereotypical lispy voice and flamboyant personality.
  • Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat: Lik-Lik speaks in a effeminate voice and has speaking manners similar to the average Camp Gay stereotypes, and in addition he wears a hat and scarf while Hun-Hun is the only other alley cat who wears clothes.
  • Samurai Jack: Scaramouche, a robot assassin who was hired by Aku to kill Jack, has some signs of it. He frequently teased Jack in a flirtatious tone during his fight with him, often calling him "baby" and he also has several flamboyant mannerisms.
  • Scaredy Squirrel: Dave the Fat Idiot skunk shows quite a few Camp Gay mannerisms like a lispy voice, crying out mascara, and crossdressing.
  • Hot Dog Water from Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated is a quirky nerdy girl seems to have a crush on Velma. Word of Gay later confirmed they did become a couple.
  • The Simpsons:
    • Lenny is often portrayed as a tad effeminate and also being quite obsessed with his co-worker/best friend Carl.
    • Writers began playing up this aspect of the effeminate and sissy nerd Martin Prince. In one episode, after fantasizing about becoming a basketball star, Martin imagines himself holding hands with a boy and a girl, though he only checks out the former. He is sometimes implied to have a crush on Nelson as well.
    • Nelson himself, despite having dated Lisa, is sometimes shown as having a secret effeminate side of which he is very embarrassed of.
    • It's a running gag that Rod and Todd Flanders might be heading in this direction, somewhat to the befuddlement of their conservative religious father (in one Flash Forward episode he did a favor for Bart but added that it was to compensate him for not outing his sons). However, Rod had a girlfriend when the family briefly moved out of town.
    • Martin rarely shows interest in women while being incredibly effeminate. He's said to have had a crush on Mrs. Hoover in "Lisa's Wedding". In "There's Something About Marrying" Nelson assumes he's gay but he says he's "not anything yet", and in "Replacable You" he fantasizes about becoming an athlete and gaining the attention of both female and male cheerleaders (but is clearly more interested in the male).
  • Skunk Fu!: Baboon is known to behave very effeminately at times, the hand gestures, the hip swings, the fact that he was willing to teach a monkey how to act like a girl and dressed up like one for Dragon's birthday, on the other hand he has been shown to have a crush on Fox the youngest shapely female character in the show.
  • Slugterra: Pronto Geronimole has a very effeminate attitude most of the time, has not been shown to have any interest in any girls throughout the whole series (or any of the movies), ogled a bejeweled purse at the mall, and when he crossdressed as a disguise his only complaint was that the shoes were too "Matchy-Matchy"
  • The Smurfs (1981): Vanity Smurf is very effeminate, has the stereotypically affected voice of a "gay man", has a flower on his hat, is obsessed with his own beauty, and is always looking at himself in the mirror. Next to The Smurfette Principle and the alleged Communist propaganda, Vanity's sexuality is one of the most joked-about aspects of the franchise.
  • South Park:
    • Jimbo and Ned. They're unrelated, live together, evidently have hospital visitation rights worked out. And then, Jimbo can say "fag" without getting bleeped, which according to Mr(s). Garrison means that he is one. All the other guys at the bar are bleeped when they say fag. After an awkward silence, Mr(s). Garrison says "Well, we've certainly learned something about Jimbo today."
  • Spongebob Squarepants: Spongebob has plenty of effeminate manners and there have been many times that hint that he is romantically interested in both Patrick and Squidward. It’s gotten to the point that various hardline religious groups have made efforts to get SpongeBob taken off the air for its perceived support of the so-called "gay agenda". Word of God has said that calling SpongeBob "gay" or "straight" doesn't make sense, since he's a sea sponge that reproduces asexually. Later official information mentions that Spongebob has a crush on Sandy, a girl.
  • Storm Hawks:
    • Master Cyclonis is very interested in the female Piper, who's a similar case herself. It starts in Episode 6 where she infiltrates the Storm Hawks and becomes close to Piper, to the point when she tried to kill her with a special crystal it fails because, in Piper's words, it can't hurt someone you consider a friend. Their later appearances have both of them throwing out almost flirty dialogue in the midst of battle with a bit of inappropriate touching here and there. And then there's the time she scraped some food off Piper's cheek and tasted it. Notable in that the closest relationship Cyclonis has with a man would be her dragon, The Dark Ace, and that relationship is strictly professional, if amicable.
    • Arygyn the Skeelur, in Episode 25, "The Lesson", Arygyn (voiced by Scott McNeil) appears to the Storm Hawks team to train them. He is rather flamboyant in his mannerisms and clothing style, and often makes comments about someone's lousy hairstyle or the need for more decorations on the Condor.
  • Summer Camp Island: Word of God is that Oscar's close relationship with his female best friend Hedgehog is platonic. In one episode, Oscar compliments Ghost by calling him a "babe".
  • Super Noobs: The Incredibly Amazing Man wears a purple supersuit, does not pay attention to any of the women swooning over him, positively accepts Kevin's "sidekick proposal" and is very narcissistic.
  • Symbionic Titan: Todd the decorator of the student council from the episode "Under The Three Moons". He wears a pink shirt and tight pants. he's very flamboyant, speaks with a lisp, and skips when excited.
  • Tangled: The Series: Cassandra shows no interest in men except for an episode where she fakes attraction to one in order to expose his plot of treason, then beats him up. Storyboard artist Amber Vucinich has a number of tweets confirming the intentional coding of Cassandra as gay, claiming "there was an unspoken creed w[ith] all the female board artists to just throw all the sapphic looks" at Cassandra "because even if they can’t explicitly state she’s gay, you’ll know".
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles:
    • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012): Rocksteady has a very close relationship with his partner Bebop, such as hugging each other when the planet was about to be destroyed and, unlike his warthog companion, never shows interest in women. The fact that the two are even living together in season 5 paints them almost like a couple.
    • Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles:
      • This series' depiction of Leonardo is much more flamboyant and, unlike his 2012 counterpart, never shows any romantic interest in girls. He also fawned over the appearance of Don Suave alongside Big Mama.
      • Baron Draxum is shown ogling over Lou Jitsu after seeing him compete in the Battle Nexus. While Draxum himself despises humans, one could make the argument he was more intrigued by his fighting prowess. However, he doesn't respond well to when Big Mama attempts to flirt with him, though it's likely he wanted to keep things professional.
      • Neither of them have anything on Warren Stone. The episode "Warren and Hypno Sitting in a Tree" reveals that he's become very close since to Hypno-potamus since their fight in their introductory episode, living in the same apartment, defending each other when Draxum shows up for Warren's piece of the Dark Armor, and spending basically the entire episode concerned for each other's safety. Really, the only reason it's ambiguous at all is because it's never explicitly stated. Unlike Warren, Hypno has shown interest in females, as he was fooled by Michelangelo disguised as another mutant hippo, clearly thinking it's a woman.
  • Time Squad has Larry 3000, especially in the second season. The first season did have its share of gay innuendo with Larry, but not as much as Season 2; it's like the writers knew the show was getting cancelled and they wanted to get as much as they could past the censors. While Larry never expresses overt romantic interest in men, he can be described as extremely effeminate and one can read into his interactions with males in a romantic sense. The biggest example being "Ex Marks The Spot", an episode that was pure Homoerotic Subtext with Tuddrussel and even ended with the line that he would be "sleeping on the couch tonight"; the nightclub scene from "Day of the Larrys" is a close second. The actors have even joked about there being no ambiguity with regard to his sexual preference.
  • Total Drama: Topher, a contestant on Pahkitew Island, has a huge amount of hero worship towards Chris. It does look as if Topher wants to take over Chris' job as host of the series but he has behaved effeminately and made some questionable comments towards Chris.
  • Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race:
  • Transformers:
    • Blitzwing, or more precisely, one third of him. When he's in his "Random" persona he has a high-pitched giggly voice, enjoys flamboyant dancing, is "light on his oscillating servos" and on one occasion referred to a crane as "big, bold, and sassy" — before he realized that the crane was an inanimate object and not a fellow Transformer. Blitzwing's other two personas have not expressed any sexual preference, but he seems actively repulsed by Blackarachnia. However this may be more because of her technoorganic form rather than her female persona. Oddly, while his other two personas seem actively repulsed by Blackarachnia it is the Random persona who wanted to "express his feelings for her in song". Said song being The Itsy-Bitsy Spider.
    • Starscream, who, as well as being on occasion quite flamboyantly fabulous, made five clones meant to represent different aspects of his personality — one of which was distinctly female. Which part of his personality was she? The answer given was "guess".
    • Prowl has some questionably gay habits in Transformers: Animated.
    • Lockdown, the bounty hunter appears to have a bit of a thing for Prowl.
    • Grandus, who fanboys over famous singer Rosanna and Screams Like a Little Girl when he sees a human, and his voice is even based on famous gay actor Paul Lynde.
    • Knock Out. In Transformers: Prime he not only incredibly vain and effeminate (he ran another driver off the road for scratching his paint job), but he actually wolf-whistled at Optimus Prime's alt, admiring his rims. The clincher on this is that he didn't admire Arcee's.
    • Generation 1 Tracks is famously this. Fan constantly either joke or say that he's secretly gay despite the fact that Word of God says this isn't true (or at least wasn't intended).
    • Blades from Transformers: Rescue Bots. He's effeminate, gets along most with the one female on the main team, and gets flustered when around Bumblebee.
  • Tutenstein: Luxor the cat shows signs of this in the "Cleo's Catastrophe" episode where he thinks about dating Jake.
  • Ugly Americans: Twayne is deliberately written as an ambiguous homosexual (or at least bisexual, given his attraction to Callie) as a running joke. He embodies a number of stereotypes about gay men, such as watching Oprah, being a poor athlete, and is even shown wearing a dress as a child. Additionally, most, if not all of his close friends are women and he even belongs to an all-female social club called "The Girls Club".
  • Wander over Yonder:
    • Lord Dominator is a female alien with a masculine name and armored form. She dresses in a very punk-style with her hair being half-shaved on one half. She also detests when males admit an interest in her, citing with annoyance or mockery whenever Hater makes hopeless attempts to get her to fall for him. The only person she ever showed a relatively friendly side to was Sylvia (while in disguise) and the two met and grew close before Dominator abandoned her to save her own skin.
    • Commander Peepers hasn't shown any romantic interest in women, but his Villainous Friendship with Lord Hater has undertones of one-sided attraction. According to Word of God, this was very intentional.
  • Watership Down: Cowslip from the animated adaptation acts like an elderly gay gentleman. He gets very excited when Hazel says they have no does (female rabbits) with them; he also hates getting wet and often brushes his ears back like an effeminate man would do with his hair. He was possibly intended to be more "intellectual snob" than gay, but that's what the viewers saw there.
  • The Weekenders:
    • Carver is into fashion, especially shoes but also mostly all of it, and gets caught wearing and/or buying women's clothes repeatedly, claiming they're for his sister.
    • Tino comes from a broken family, dominated by his trying-hard-to-be-unorthodox mother, and also has a very submissive/dependant personality that hints at a back-burner relationship or fascination with the local bully rough trade (as hinted at in said bully's not-declined offer of "Take me to the concert, and I'll beat you up" when Tino found that he had an extra ticket for a local concert... Tino's response was "I'll think it over").
  • Claude Pertwee from Where's Huddles?. He hates football and is voiced by Paul Lynde. 'Nuff said.
  • Xiaolin Showdown:
    • Dojo. He admires Master Fung a lot and gets super jealous when other dragons hang out with Fung. Its ambiguous though because his admiration of Master Fung seems to be a reference to Chinese lore about eastern dragons loving the elderly. Its heavily downplayed in "Showdown" but flanderized in "Chronicles".
    • The white suited henchman of Pandabubba. He screams like a girl when given a wedgie and his underwear is pink colored. One scene that was cut from the official episode he appeared in had him mention how much he liked flying with the black suited henchman.
  • Young Justice (2010): Impulse. He has an incredibly close relationship with Blue Beetle that is practically subtext. He is one of the few characters in the show that is shown to have no romantic interest in any girl. On a mission to Bialya (where there's Queen Bee, who can brainwash anyone who is attracted women) he is one of the only boys to openly be a part of it. And Greg Weisman has stated that his sexuality is a spoiler.

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