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- A few of the comics featuring Scrooge McDuck imply Scrooge and Magica De Spell have what appears to be a mutual attraction. Magica might even have better chances than most villains since Don Rosa's Scrooge actually has had hatesex.
- The Joker and Batman, full-stop. The Joker's come to base his entire existence on tormenting Batman and messing with his head and admits he wouldn't have a reason to live without him. And he frequently calls Batman by mockingly affectionate terms like "Batsy"... or "darling." In Outsiders vol. 3 #3, Lex Luthor remarks to Joker while the latter is torturing him, "Does it ever bother you... bother you at all, really... that Batman likes Catwoman better? [laughs madly as Joker flies into a rage] He'll never love you, sweetheart! You can keep screwing with his city, but he's never gonna take you to the prom!" Then there's Arkham Asylum, where Joker slaps Batman on the butt and says, "Loosen up, tight ass!", and the extended script of Grant Morrison originally calls for the character to be dressed in lurid, S&M women's bondage wear — emphasizing the character's sexualised nature as a foil to Batman's own discomfort with sex and women, a problem caused by the traumatic murder of his mother. (This Troper can't be the only one who's thankful that idea didn't go through?) In Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns, the Joker is portrayed as having a sort of sexual fascination with Batman; eg: the Joker emerges from catatonia following news of the return of Batman
 ◊. Frank Miller has described the relationship between Batman and the Joker as a "homophobic nightmare;" he views the character (Batman) as sublimating his sexual urges into crime fighting, concluding, "He'd be much healthier if he were gay." Of course, Frank Miller has issues of that nature himself (See his film of Will Eisner's The Spirit)... In The Dark Knight, the Joker flat-out tells Batsy "You complete me!" In "Cacophony" Joker explicitly states that he wants Batman sexually. Although, being the Joker, he wants him sexually only after he's dead. That wacky bisexual necrophile!
- seen here◊ — note the look in panel 3...
- "Batman... honeycakes?"◊ The Joker often refers to Batman with such affectionate names as "darling," "my sweet," etc. Here's a whole page◊ of examples for you.
- *ahem*◊
- Hush also has tendencies for Foe-Yay Goodness whenever he appears. The fact that he's Bruce's childhood friend and seems to obsessively stalk Bruce Wayne/Batman doesn't help dispel the Foe Yay at all. He also returns to Gotham for the express purpose of making Batman suffer, including killing off the other threats to Batman's life so he, Hush, can be the one to end it. Not to mention all the crazed-ex-girlfriend-esque slurs he throws at any woman Bruce is involved with, the part where he got plastic surgery to look like Bruce Wayne, and:
Hush: But never fear, Bruce.
Hush: I won't desert you before the final curtain.
Hush: I'm staying here to watch as the heartbeats slow and end.
- In the Elseworld comic book Elseworld's Finest: Supergirl&Batgirl, set in a world where only the female counterparts to Batman and Superman have ever existed, the Joker is madly in love with Batgirl and commits his crimes solely to get her attention.
Joker: Batgirl likes me, you know. She just hasn't admitted it to herself. She must be helped.
- Don't forget how, for some reason, all of Superman's love interests have "double-L" names: Lori Lemaris, Lana Lang, Lois Lane, Lex Luth... oh wait!
- Clark Kent/Lex Luthor Ho Yay was never limited to Smallville: in the 90s, for example, Lex was sleeping with Supergirl, and you have to wonder how often he asked her to wear her costume to bed. Of course, she was a shapeshifter, and more than once took on Clark's form so that Superman and Clark Kent could appear in public together. Additional incesty squickiness was added by the fact that that version of Supergirl had been created in the first place by the Lex Luthor of the Time Trapper's pocket dimension.
- Continued in Superman: Birthright, where teenage Clark and teenage Lex bonded over their combined love of astronomy.
- The Clark/Lex goes way back: this was their first meeting in the Silver Age.
- And in the comic Superman: Red Son, Lex Luthor leaves his wife to, and I quote, "devote my life to Superman."
Lex Luthor: What is it about this man of steel that makes my head work so much faster, eh?
- And then Lex went and combined their DNA to create Superboy. That doesn't help.
- Xavier and Magneto, oh so much. This one is publicly supported by none other than Sir Ian McKellen, Magneto in The Movie! (Who, by the way, is gay in Real Life.)
- See pretty much every Spider-Man villain ever. Notable examples include Chameleon telling Peter he loves him, right before jumping off a bridge. Electro visits a shape-shifting prostitute in the Marvel Knights series, and it's strongly implied he wants her to transform into Spider-Man for him.
- Maybe he's GAY. Gay for YOU.◊
- Spider-Girl seems to have inherited, along with her father's infamous luck, the "make people Gay for You" gene. One notable example is Felicity Hardy, daughter of the original Black Cat, who really wants to be May's... sidekick. Right.
- How could VENOM not have been mentioned yet!? Spidey may have a virtual rogues gallery/gang of suitors, but Venom takes the cake. An alien symbiote that bounds with Spider-Man as his costume, later rejected for being too clingy. Oh, and making him evil.
- Actually, there is some disagreement on this, as originally it was him getting rid of it simply because it was going to permanently bond with him. That's right, Spider-man got rid of it because he wasn't ready for commitment. Subtle enough? Later retcons made him look like less of a jerk by insisting the suit was making him violent and crazy.
- In every one of their subsequent meetings, even after it picked up different hosts, the writers made it clear that this was not just a new foe, but a crazy ex-girlfriend/boyfriend who was still very much in love. It has never missed an opportunity to try and reunite with him. The subtext ceases to be sub and becomes text.
- Empowered voices her opinion on this when she stumbles onto a Slash Fic involving her and Sistah Spooky.
Empowered: This is totally accurate, I have to admit. 'Cause nothing brings out my latent bisexuality more than getting my backside beaten and bruised by someone I really, really don't like. *Snort.* Yeah, right.
- What makes this more interesting is that Sistah Spooky apparently was in a failed relationship with another hero, Mindf**k, who is female, blonde and has all the traits that Spooky hates in poor Emp.
- As of the end of Volume 5, things may be getting a tad more complicated.◊
- Cable and Deadpool (particularly circa Cable & Deadpool). In the first appearance of Deadpool, he's trying to kill Cable, and they are generally antagonistic in most subsequent meetings up to (and sometimes including) the Cable & Deadpool series. They've beaten the crap out of each other, shot each other, tried to blow each other up, and Nate (Cable) has blown the back of Wade (Deadpool)'s head open at least twice. (Lather, rinse, repeat.) On the other hand, Deadpool travels across alternate universes just to find Cable, when they fight and part ways they refer to it as "divorce," Deadpool had a dream about giving Cable a massage (ok, we've gone way beyond subtext here!) and when Deadpool gets angry and leaves at one point, Cable plants images in Deadpool's subconscious to try to get him to come back and ask Cable for help. Fabian Nicieza has referred to them as a "romance story" he wrote. Seriously, their relationship is pretty much a template for Foe Yay.
- Sinestro has spent a lot of time lately chatting up Green Lantern Hal Jordan, telling him that he is the only living GL that Sinestro has ever called friend, and basically pretending like the last ten years or so trying to kill him was little more than a lover's spat. He wants to get back together, Hal.
- Well, if we're to believe hints dropped in LO3W Sinestro might be rejoining the GL so this could become Ho Yay pretty soon. C'mon Hal, give the guy a chance!
- Mephisto once took the form of Nova, Silver Surfer's female friend, to seduce him. Of course, his goal was to steal his soul, and he got it, but "Nova" still kissed him before transforming back (surprising him with a long serpentine tongue). And it doesn't get better once Mephisto takes the Surfer in his demonic kingdom.
Mephisto: You exist for my amusement...to do and be anything I desire...take any shape...serve any purpose. It is mine to deem you slave...or lover...or nothing.
- During the 2005 Marvel Defenders series (whose tone, admittedly, was mostly irreverent humor) Dormammu's sister Umar keeps hinting that there may be another reason her brother keeps obsessing over one relatively insignificant human when he could be ruling his own dimension. Though Umar may have just been jealous that Strange was getting all of her Dormammu's attention.
- Doctor Doom has repeatedly given up ultimate power so he could stay on earth and screw Reed Richards... Uh, I mean screw WITH Reed Richards.
- It is, however, canon that he wanted Sue.
- Doom's relationship with Namor is... interesting, in the sense that he has a thing for making Namor his slave. In an early issue of Fantastic Four, Doom is fantasizing about defeating the FF and conquering the world, and we also see that Doom doesn't fantasize about having a harem of scantily-clad superwomen, but Namor ruling by his side. During the Emperor Doom storyline Doom allies with Namor and gives him a sparkly purple necklace that controls his mind. He also invades Namor's personal space a lot.
- Magneto comes in a distant third on Doctor Doom's Unhealthy Obsession Scale, behind Reed Richards and Namor, respectively. The entire plot of their 'teamup' in Super-Villain Team-Up is that Doom slips Magneto a roofie, and then forces him to participate in an elaborate role-playing game. Doom seems to have a thing for subjugating very powerful men...
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