The Nostalgia Critic's feud with The Angry Video Game Nerd got a bit of attention from the Ho Yay fans. Seeing as how the phrase "Nerd-On-Critic action" got used a lot, the retrospective video used Nightwish's "Ghost Love Score" and they acted like an old married couple when they did their review together, this might have been the intention. Even Chester lampshaded it with "Otherwise there'll be Nerd-On-Bum action! ...wait, does that mean what I think it means?" It turned into Homoerotic Subtext in The Smurfs, with Critic telling someone on the phone that his dick is bigger than the Nerd's but don't ask him how he knows that.
Doug's having fun years later, saying he and James are still "doing it" and you can share that out of context.
You just know that Spoony patting the Critic on the shoulder and calling him "honey" will cause the Yaoi Fangirls to Squee.
In a deleted scene, when he's backtracking over insulting people with glasses, he ends up saying that the Critic's glasses make his eyes look nice, that he's a handsome man and he'd hit it if he swung that way.
In The Legend of the Titanic, The Other Guy tells Critic that he controls him. About two weeks later in Little Nemo, the Critic gets punched when he doesn't want to do a review. Cue delighted "abused wife" reactions.
When Critic is drunk in the Phelous/Snob Troll 4 crossover, he moves his arm from Rob's shoulder to his waist.
While he got a bit of flack for his falling back on gay jokes in the Masters of the Universe review (which even Doug and Rob regretted), he was still nice enough to give us this:
Ivan Drago: I must break you.
Critic: Trust me, I'd rather have you break me than sit through this ass-fest.
In the Critic's Christmas Special, after the reveal of The Cinema Snob as a porn star, the Critic wants to stay and watch.
He'd much rather see Tyler Durden's penis than sit through another minute of the Pound Puppies Movie.
When he's singing about how awesome sluttiness is, he looks particularly pleased when he sings Chippendale Bars give you much nicer action than Spartan Warriors from 300.
His fantasy crossover with Nash is cosplaying with him in a pink bedroom filled with Hello Kitty items. Nash unsurprisingly thinks this is rather weird.
In the Moulin Rouge! review, Brentalfloss calls Critic "baby" and gets into his personal space just as much as the Chick does.
There's something inherently slashy at the start of the Star Trek: Insurrection review where the Nostalgia Critic is practically molesting That SciFi Guy.
Critic's hand is resting on Sci-Fi Guy's hair even after their Evil Laughterdidn't get interrupted and it descends into awkward lying together in the same bed.
Continues in Total Recall (1990), as the Critic tries to convince Sci-Fi Guy to shave his testicles and get naked for him.
Also in the Insurrection review, Sci-Fi Guy seems oddly receptive to Critic telling him what to do, despite the fact they're in his (that is, Sci-Fi Guy's) hotel room. Either a case of Sci-Fi Guy just being an Extreme Doormat, or he likes it when Critic acts assertive.
During Sci-Fi Guy's cameo in Critic's review of Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, he's not only happy to be killed by Critic, he also signs over his entire family as Critic's personal slaves after his death. Of course, it all turns out to be a ruse so that he can blow Critic up, but disregarding that...
In the Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea end credits where he's getting beaten, you can see men as well as women biting, groping, holding him down and choking him with his tie. (All pretend of course.)
In Thomas and the Magic Railroad, he quickly becomes close friends with a guy that was just hanging around his house through "sparkle! sparkle! sparkle!". The end even has them walking offscreen being quite touchy-feely.
It couldn't have been a coincidence that the opening for the Critic/Phelous review of Child's Play II had the Kickassia scene of Phelous slamming Critic against the fridge play twice.
In The Wiz, he gets a bit annoyed when Todd in the Shadows is only there to do a crossover with him, instead of being a rapist who invaded his room.
If you want to stretch it into inanimate objects, Doug at ConBravo made a Critic puppet (everyone at TGWTG - including the Nerd - got one) have graphic sex with the Teddy Ruxpin doll.
In The Monster Squad, when all the boys agree that crossdressing is fun, Critic asides to Jason that they're going to find out his dress size privately.
By Forest Warrior, Film Brain is mostly Broken Pedestal with Critic, but is still happy at the end of the episode when Critic tells him he genuinely (or as genuinely as he can) loves him.
Of course being a joke about both of them being played by Doug, but his first reaction to Michael Bay in the Transformers: Age of Extinction crossover is appreciating how handsome he is, something Erod is annoyed by.
His Labyrinth review has a lot of appreciation for David Bowie being a sexual awakening to girls everywhere.
The analysts in Jem and the Holograms (2015) making Critic do a Female Gaze music video where he's dancing in pink drag and kissing himself is a little suspect.
Ask That Guy has a pretty... complicated relationship with his narrator. In an alternate ending for the second DVD (that a caption says was too depressing) he crazily shoots him and then puts a gun in his own mouth.
Bennett the Sage/Ask That Guy is a particularly terrifying ship, especially when Bennett strokes Ask That Guy's face and tells him he's been good, while the previously reigning champion of Jerkass cowers in fear.
In his review of Breaking Dawn, he off-handedly mentions that Jacob makes him hard.
In the advertisement for the third DVD, Doug is shirtless, has apparently gone psychotic and kidnapped a guy who he thinks is pretty.
The Suburban Knights commentary has him sincerely call Todd a very good-looking guy.
He even has gay with a zombie, giving him a hug and a kiss that he didn't expect.
He's complimented both Malcolm and Jim for looking attractive in suits.
In an Awesome Build for Mad Max: Fury Road, Doug's car (because the Hyper girls used it) had a "I'm hard for Hardy" bumper sticker, and he quite positively says that men have been flirting with him on the road because of it.
True to form, a podcast he did with an old friend he hadn't seen for years started off (and continued) with flirting.
In the second DVD menu, Rob waits until Doug is in the shower to harass him about how the menu works. When his brother is freaked out and tells him to piss off, he goes away for about one second and then zooms back in for the menu to start over again.
This video. Doug acting like a pony and Rob sitting behind him all manly-like already sounds pretty kinky, but like they always do, they push it even further.
Chester A. Bum's Youmacon video has a tease of an interesting variation on Screw Yourself. A convention goer cosplaying as Chester warns the real guy about yaoi anime, since "it's two boys together." A confused Chester replies "We're two boys together."
In the Suburban Knights trailer, Film Brain threatens Kinley Mochrie with "Mr. Critic is mine, understand?" Wow.
Actually there was a lot of Critic/Film Brain subtext throughout the whole Suburban Knights movie. Especially the sort of love triangle thing between him, Critic and Kinley.
Also in Spoony's DOA review, as Film Brain goes off to face his doom, he shouts "Tell Nostalgia Critic I l-" and is then cut off. Could it be more blatant?
To Boldly Flee gives us Kinley Mochrienote before coming out as a trans woman, so she was written as "Luke" as the adoring apprentice of the Cinema Snob, Film Brain comforting Kinley when Snob is captured, Zob and Terl bickering like an old married couple, and lampshading of it all with Jew Wario saying "That's so Takei" while giggling.
Demo Reel was a fountain of it, mostly provided by - surprise, surprise - Doug's character Donnie DuPre. He got to cuddle more guys than the omnisexual Ask That Guy ever did, was swept up in a boy-love version of Lost in Translation (2003), and outright asked for Slash Fic of himself.
The boy-love of Suburban Knights and To Boldly Flee combined was so great that amnesiac Critic's punchline for the movie reviews was, in summary, "whoever wrote and directed these must have been a fairy". So there you go.
While Paw has his Love at First Sight song with Elisa in the Les Miserables review, he's also really handsy with Critic, with a clear shot of feeling him up after they fall out of the closet.
In Old Vs New Cinderella, though lessened by the fact that the Devil Boner is dating Hyper Fangirl, there's the moment when he throws Benny to the ground and threatens him with "johnson justice."
Devil Boner: Now open your mouth, I'm gonna give you the finishing blow!
While there's also humiliating because jealousy is involved, Devil Boner literally says he enjoys Critic the tighter tied up he is, and likes making him helpless. He also couples cosplays with Hyper with her dressed as Critic (and her dressed as herself, which could put her in a different category using the same logic).
In the "Tamara's Never Seen" one-year anniversary video, Tamara steals and wears Hyper's shirt while Hyper's in the shower.
Norm of the North makes Bill/Critic obvious when Critic can't find him and panics because "who'll take care of me?"
At the end of the Nutcracker 3d review (from 38:10), Rachel sits arm in arm with Tamara, and Tamara even rests her head on Rachel's shoulder.
having fun years later, saying he and James are still "doing it" and you can share that out of context.