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"My schoolmates would make love to anything that moved, but I never saw any reason to limit myself."
— Emo Philips
There are very few bisexual characters in fiction. Those that exist are generally divided into two camps: Depraved Bisexual and those who will sleep with Anything That Moves. Gender, personality, appearance, even to some extent whether the other person wants to sleep with them (though this one varies wildly depending on the character) – none of this is a barrier to these characters – if they can have sex with it, they will. The male version is almost always a Kavorka Man or Leisure Suit Larry; the female version formidable enough to be off-putting to the less experienced members of the cast.
They're not necessarily bad people, and some of them can even be great friends... Just do yourself a favor and don't drop in unannounced. Please, just trust us on this one.
An Everyone Is Bi series will likely have one of these. See also Really Gets Around for the usually-straight version. The polar opposite of this trope would be Asexuality. See also Rule Thirty Four, where you will find much of the below in action.
NOTE: There are two criteria for this trope.
- The character absolutely must be bisexual (pansexual, omnisexual, "not believing in labels," etc.). Characters "settling" out of desperation or confusion don't count, unless it happens often enough to come off as a Transparent Closet.
- The character's sexuality must be somehow extreme. They do not have to be regularly successful, or literally be willing for Anything That Moves.
Do not add characters who are not clearly bisexual, by dialogue, or Word Of Gay, or behavior patterns that don't fall under Rule Of Funny. Do not delete characters with hypersexual personalities for turning down willing character X. Don't add characters who don't otherwise fit for just using the phrase "Anything That Moves." Do not add characters for chasing after aliens or fantastic beings, unless they go after both sexes of them. Anything That Moves is just a title.
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Examples
Anime & Manga
- Touga and especially Akio in Revolutionary Girl Utena.
- Yuki in Gravitation apparently was before he started dating Shuichi, but we only hear of it.
- His younger brother Tatsuha isn't any better. And he's about 16 years old, So Yeah
- France from Axis Powers Hetalia. He is frequently shown molesting other castmates, be male or female (more the first than the latter) and not even being shot to the head by one of his victims will stop him.
- Futana from Futaba Kun Change. She even seems to include her younger brother in the "anything".
- Pamila from Bondage Fairies. Male fairies, female fairies, small mammals, insects...
- Speaking of Hentai characters that take the "anything" in Anything That Moves a bit more literally than usual, Linna, the fighter from Sex Demon Queen is introduced having seemingly-consensual relations with a plant monster. She goes on to show interest in men, women, what is by all appearances a little girl... Like we said, she takes it more literally than most.
- According to Word Of God, Edaniel's sister Elala was the only person he would not ask to make out with. Onstage, he has asked Dinah, Vincent, and Edrear.
Edaniel:None of this would happen if people would shut up and make out with me. Just once. Which reminds me...
Edrear::Absolutely not, brother.
Comics
- Bueno Excellente, part of the disturbing and disturbed hero team "Section 8" in Hitman, "defeats evil with the power of perversion." He may have drugged and raped the Green Lantern.
- He definitely raped Lobo.
- The character T.C. from the Preacher comics. He primarily focuses on animals of either gender, and is said to have had sex with a cake. Which makes it not only Anything That Moves, but some things that don't.
- Likewise Jesus de Sade from the same series, said to have "buggered his way through [most of the large mammals]". Unlike T.C.'s tastes, however, this is not played exclusively for comedy. He includes children in that list.
- Cherry Poptart
- One of Deadpool's clients was an aristrocrat who was turned on by everything. Deadpool quizzed him extensively on this.
- If this was the guy whose panty collection was robbed, then it was Agent X, not Deadpool.
- The Desert Peach, a comic about Erwin Rommel's gay younger brother (no really), has the Peach's boyfriend, Rosen Kavalier, be a guy who'll do anything to anything (although he didn't realize he was into males until he met Pfirsich Rommel).
- Transmetropolitan brings us the following epithet on a sidewalk:
Spider Jerusalem: The Last Stand of Thierry Ngyuen, The Demon Whoremonger of Rangoon and satisfier of over Ten Thousand women, and Five Hundred Ninety Two men and Three Thousand Two Hundred and Five Zoological specimens and Eight Hundred things we're not sure about. Died laughing of explosive scrotal failure on this spot while pleasuring Eighteen porn starlets, all of whom later committed suicide in grief.
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier. To be specific, its "Tijuana bible" insert, which relates the continuing... er... adventures of Fanny Hill.
- Ramba.
- According to the Midnighter series, everyone will be like this in the future. They don't even have the concepts of heterosexual and homosexual.
Midnighter: So, in the future, everybody just does everybody with no classifications?
Time Cop: That's about the size of it.
Films
- Kate Veach from Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story. Turns out she's not a lesbian, as everybody expected, but actually a bisexual who's very open about her attraction to both genders.
- Catherine Tramell from Basic Instinct combines this with Depraved Bisexual.
- Cheech and Chong's The Corsican Brothers actually refers to this trope as a TRYsexual.
Cheech: No, A trysexual, he'll try anything: mud, chickens, anything.
- Rocky Horror Picture Show: Dr. Frank N Furter certainly applies. He's also a Depraved Bisexual as well.
- Jack Sparrow is shown on screen to be interested in women, is confirmed by Word Of God to be bisexual, and during a scene where he's hallucinating various versions of himself that represent different parts of his mind, one of them is shown making overtures to a goat. Jack is very obviously this trope.
- Catherine in Not Another Teen Movie is quite obviously bi and it seems the only qualifying factor you must have to have sex with her is be human.
Literature
- A number of characters from Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's Legacy books fit this trope - almost inevitably, considering Everyone Is Bi and the books centre around a country that, shall we say, puts a high priority on sex. The most glaring example is probably Mavros Shahrizai, who seems to view everyone around him over the age of consent as a potential bed-partner. Also, he's kinky.
- And then, in the newest book, there is Moirin mac Fainche. So far, in the first book alone, she has gone to bed with a British tribal prince; a stableboy; the consort to the Queen of Terre D'Ange; the Queen of Terre D'Ange; the Prince of Terre D'Ange; a Chinese martial artist; the future Empress of China- when she was possessed by a dragon; and the future Empress of China, when she was NOT possessed by a dragon. She is a busy, busy woman.
- When Bernice Summerfield first gets together with future husband Jason Kane in the Doctor Who Expanded Universe novels, they discuss their sex lives. Jason starts out saying that since he was taken halfway across the galaxy at the age of fifteen and hasn't seen another human since, he doesn't know much about it ... before listing eleven women and five men. And then it turns out not seeing another human didn't even slow him down.
Jason: So anyway, then there was Rana, who was humanoid but more or less androgynous, and then I met Liva, who wasn't humanoid but was what you might call definitively female; that was before Sali, of course...
- In a much later appearance, he's temporarily become an extremely best-selling author; he set out to write his memoirs, but the publishers cut out the bits with his ex-wife in them and marketed the book as porn.
- Moon Boy from Barry Hughart's Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox. At one point the group is threatened by a demon... which Moon Boy immediately seduces. This character also falls under Even The Guys Want Him.
- The Dornish in George R.R. Martin's A Song Of Ice And Fire have a reputation for this, and it's certainly true of Oberyn Martell and Ellaria Sand.
- The protagonist in The War Against The Chtorr has this to say about an incidental character.
Clayton Jones — big and beefy; he'd been a college football star of something. He was always grinning and slapping people on the back, and fucking everything that moved or even looked like it was capable of movement or had maybe thought about moving once.
- In Tanya Huff's Valor series, Taykan in the di' phase are the most enthusiastically indiscriminating species in the known galaxy, and will gladly sleep with anyone they see. However, once their pheromone masker comes off, so does any choice on the other side. It goes to the point that a simple "Fuck you!" becomes an offer.
Live Action TV
- To some extent, Captain Jack Harkness from Doctor Who and Torchwood, though more of a Casanova than a Kavorka Man and not particularly mean or heartbreakery.
- In the episode "The Doctor Dances", after the Doctor rescues Jack from a 100% probability of death he walks in on the Doctor and Rose dancing. He asks if he can cut in and Rose is eager, but the Doctor brings her back by pointing out that he didn't specify exactly who he wanted to dance with. Combine this with the fact that - in this episode - dancing is a metaphor for sex, and... well, do the math.
- Captain Jack once got flirty with a pair of female androids. Anything That Moves.
- Also:
Gwen: Have you ever eaten alien meat?
Jack: Sure.
Gwen: What was it like?
Jack: He seemed to enjoy it.
- "So many species, so little time" is what the Ninth Doctor used to describe the attitude of people from Jack's time period.
- Owen Harper from Torchwood is closer to the trope, being cruel, destructive and kavorkaish, at least in the first season.
- And then there's Captain John Hart, who at one point has the line:
Capt. John: [eager] Oh, that's gorgeous!!!
Gwen: That's a poodle.
- Although even he (Jack) pointedly ignores Donna when he meets her.
- He's arguably not so much ignoring Donna as he is indulging his obvious fanboy crush on Sarah Jane.
- And let's not forget about his crush on the Doctor. Of which there are two at that time.
- And when there's three, two of whom are male, and the other a woman:
Sarah-Jane: There are three of you? Three Doctors?
Jack: I can't tell you what I'm thinking right now.
- I think we can sum it up with just one of his quotes: "You people and your quaint little categories."
- The Bishop of Bath and Wells from the Blackadder episode 'Money' was one of these. As he says himself,
Bishop:You see, I am a colossal pervert. No form of sexual depravity is too low for me. Animal, vegetable or mineral, I'll do anything to anything.
Blackadder:Fine words for a bishop. Nice to hear the church speaking out for a change on social issues.
- Intendant Kira from Deep Space Nine's mirror universe. She even tries to seduce herself (well, her mirror self) at one point.
- In one episode of Extras, Andy Millman gets to meet his odious fanbase in person, one of whom rejoices in the nickname "Count Fuckula". Why? "Because if I see something, I've got to fuck it."
- Chiana in Farscape.
- The Bi-clops (bisexual cyclops) from Krod Mandoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire. Ever since his messy break-up with his girlfriend and boyfriend, he has been sexing and eating anyone he came across. He was seeing a psychiatrist about it for a while, until he sexed and ate him.
- Scott Ross, the utterly amoral biker from HBO's Oz. Some fans called him "Scott Ross, that ho."
- Theodore "T-Bag" Bagwell from Prison Break. According to Knepper (who plays him), "He's a raw animal. He'd [sleep with] anything."
- The Todd from Scrubs, beginning in season 5. It has long been a mystery if he was gay, with countless references to it, until "My Lunch", where it was eventually revealed that he's just "The Todd". (Meaning the embodiment of this trope)
Todd: What? The Todd appreciates hotness, regardless of gender.
- Not exactly, as it has been shown that he's more of a Anything, Regardless of Motion kind of guy. Hint: The On-Call Room bed-humping scene.
- Which lead to the great line "Sometimes when I am humping this mattress, I am thinking of that mattress."
- Played straight — pardon the pun — by Samantha Jones in Sex and the City. Throughout the series Samantha is all about virtually indiscriminate sex, typically with men. However, for a few episodes she becomes involved in a relationship with another woman. She also made it clear that she'd "done the girl thing before."
- The funniest part is that when she informs her friends that she's in a relationship with another woman, one of them says in disbelief "You're in a relationship?"
- Kelly the Barmaid from Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps. Amongst other things, she has come on to all but one of the main characters on several occasions, and she also has a penchant for the pub's elderly regulars.
- On Ugly Betty, Amanda has elements of this. This is more a comedic part of her sex-crazed personality than a statement on sexual orientation.
- An episode of Will And Grace features Edward, Karen's Pastry Chef, who ends up having sex with Will and Karen.
Edward: I don't believe in gay or straight. I refuse to limit pleasure. I like to think of myself as pansexual.
Karen: Oh my God, he's been humping my pans.
Mythology
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Zeus Everyone in Greek Mythology. Making this Older Than Dirt.
- Well, not everyone. Athena and Artemis, for example, illustrate the opposite.
- And Hestia.
- Artemis actually depends on which period of history we're talking about. Artemis has also been called Selene and Diana and seen as a lunar fertility goddess (much nearer this trope).
- Artemis has always been a goddess of chastity AND childbirth, because when she was born Hera felt no pain and Artemis did not cry.
- Selene was a different goddess altogether and Diana was a mixture of the two, if this troper recalls fourth period today correctly.
- Greek mythology commonly mixes gods and goddesses, especially minor ones. It's not uncommon for three goddesses to be referred to as one Olympian and vice-versa. Just take my word for it.
Tabletop Games
- The Exalted RPG plays with this trope a lot. The First Age Solars created new forms of life just to have sex with them, the Lunars routinely have sex with animals to breed new Beastmen, the Siderals have relations with gods, the Dragonblooded are currently enjoying all the perks of being decadent imperial nobility, and the Abyssals have sex with the dead (Ick!). Fanon has further expanded on this concept.
- Also, Ma-Ha-Suchi on the first age. His motivation is on the likes to have sex with every single celestial exalt in creation...
- The Dark Eldar in Warhammer 40000 are this and beyond. They will do everything imaginable to anything unlucky enough to be captured by them and most of what they like to do leaves their victims wishing they died.
Theater
- Used in a Getting Crap Past The Radar way in Moliere's play Don Juan. At the beginning of the play the Don's servant, Sganarelle, is telling another (male) servant how the fact that Juan married his employer hardly means he will be faithful and comments something like "he would marry any woman... he would marry your horse and even marry you". From the context, the word "marry" seems to be an Unusual Euphemism for something else.
Video Games
Web Comics
- Zig-Zag from Sabrina Online.
- Konstantin of Tsunami Channel. Summed up nicely in this strip
 . He's more Leisure Suit Larry than Kavorka Man though.
- Alisin in Fans!, who moved away from this as she developed.
- Volair from Umlaut House before settling down with Saundra. Ironically, twenty years later, Amanda's the one in an open marriage.
- Fox and Tybalt from Boy Meets Boy, though Fox settles down with Collin some time before the launch of Friendly Hostility.
- All of the Squad 48 women in It's Walky.
- Subverted near the end, with Grace and Mandy Going Down With The Ship together; in the sequel, Marcie seems to settle down with Jason.
- Maytag from Flipside, with the caveat that...well, just read it under Shocking Swerve.
- Jacinda from Namir Deiter, to her girlfriend's annoyance.
- Jodie Beretta from Loserz. See this strip.
- We are introduced to Sirkka from Freak Angels like this.
- Eeichi from Strange Candy.
- The Celeste in Last Resort are another example of a species that crossbreeds with just about anything, to the point nobody knows what a "Pure" Celeste would look like (aside from having wings, of course) as all Celeste seem to be amalgamations of two or more different canon species.
- Easily 90% of the female Slipshine characters, and about half the men.
- Zii from Ménage à 3.
- Marena, the Lunar Exalt from Keychain of Creation. Thanks to her ability to change between many human AND animal forms, she may be one of the more literal examples of the trope.
- Nils from Platinum Grit, who's forever picking up anonymous men and may or may not have had a lesbian relationship with Kate in the backstory. She'll sleep with anything. Well, except Jeremy.
- Originally Monette from Something Positive was kind of like this — an apparently-straight girl who inexplicably thought she was a lesbian, and once had sex with a (male) koala. More recently she is portrayed as a (much more stable) bisexual woman in a committed relationship with another woman.
Web Original
- Tales Of MU offers up
three at least three.
- Amaranth, a nymph who loves everyone. Passionately.
- Steff, a half-elf Wholesome Crossdresser... going by a very, very loose (pun not intended) definition of "wholesome".
- Amaranth's sister Barley, who kinda has problems with rejection. Think of her as a Psycho Lesbian who also sleeps with guys.
- Mackenzie herself is an arguable example, as she's fallen in lust with women, men, and a Wholesome Crossdresser, and had sex with several more individuals that point. This includes a pair of mermaids trying to eat her, a devoutly religious woman who wants her dead, and a fox-girl that thinks she's in a magical girl anime. She does seem to prefer women, but that really does not stop her.
- This chapter of Colorshock seems to imply that Darc is one of these on occasion.
- From Professor Brothers there are the citizens of Sodom and Gomorrah who as expected are sex fiends. However it goes beyond that to the point where they have sex with rocks painted to look like God's face.
- Agent Lux from Protectors Of The Plot Continuum.
Western Animation
- Drawn Together: most of the characters to some degree, but especially Foxxy Love and Captain Hero, who is the absolute incarnation of this trope, having had sex with/raped (by) everything from women, men, robots, dead bodies, children, animals, family members, etc. (he is a very twisted individual). Honestly, he goes beyond this trope, since "moves" isn't one of his requirements, and is in fact one of his preferences.
- Mr(s). Garrison from South Park who has been a closeted gay male who likes to molest children, an open gay male, then got a sex change and became a straight woman, then a lesbian, and finally a (presumably gay?) male again. (S)he's not only slept with Anything That Moves, (s)he's effectively been Anything That Moves.
- Except a straight male, and even then, the early episode "Tom's Rhinoplasty" he did seem to enjoy the women's when he had the plastic surgery.
- He's also had sex with Cartman's pig and a pigeon.
- In South Park fanfiction, Kenny is usually written this way — aside from being poor, it is his major characterization. However, on the show he primarily is just shown lusting after women (and sometimes, girls his own age).
Real Life
- Celebrities, including but not limited to David Bowie, have admitted to living this kind of lifestyle in The Seventies. We believe them.
- Rabbits are notoriously horny and will try to have sex with anything. Just try looking up the appropriate keywords on Youtube sometime.
- And turkey.
- Male toads are notorious for trying to mate with anything they can get a hold of — even people's fingers.
- This bird.
- Bonobos, certainly.
- The Internet.
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