History Main / ButNotTooBi

* ''Film/Deadpool2016'' and [[Film/Deadpool2 its sequel]] are the first superhero movies with a pansexual main character but, just like the comics, any allusions to his attraction for men is [[QueerPeopleAreFunny played for comedy]] while his relationship with his love interest Vanessa is explicit and played seriously. Ryan Reynolds mentioned the possibility of giving Deadpool a boyfriend in the second film, but ultimately this didn't happen.

* Oberyn Martell of ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire,'' to some extent; he only has one lover throughout the course of the series, and it's entirely possible that it would be unsafe for him to bring a male lover to court. The only evidence we have of his other relationships is [[AnythingThatMoves rumors]] and his bastard children, the latter of which couldn't come from his relationships with men. [[Series/GameOfThrones The TV show]] averts this, however, as Oberyn is shown getting it on with male prostitute Olyvar. Plus, he and his paramour Ellaria Sand specifically prefer sex workers that go both ways.

** ''Literature/GentlemanJoleAndTheRedQueen'' focuses on Cordelia and Oliver Jole falling for one another; Jole had been Aral's boyfriend for 10 years, with Cordelia's full consent. It still counts somewhat for both Aral and Oliver, as the relationship is only revealed to the reader after [[spoiler:Aral dies]].

* In Creator/GeneRoddenberry's (cough cough) novelisation of the first ''[[Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture Star Trek]]'' movie, Kirk mentions that 'of course' he's had relationships with both men and women, but denies having a sexual relationship with Mr. Spock.

* ''Series/TheGoodPlace'': Eleanor is pretty flirty with women as well as men, explicitly states attraction to Tahani and Janet (though it was always [[PlayedForLaughs played for laughs]]), kisses a simulation of Simone on the lips, and was even confirmed bisexual by the creators, but in the actual series, she only ever had male love interests and male exes (save for 1 clip seen from 1 reboot where Michael tried assigning Tahani as her soulmate).

* [[GenderFlip Izuku Midoriya]] in ''Fanfic/MyHeroAcademiaMechanicalGreen''. Izuku is officially bisexual, the fic even having the tag "Bisexual Disaster Midoriya Izuku". However, all of her significant romantic moments so far have been with other women, making her come across as homosexual. This is {{justified|Trope}} in that, when she was younger, she had thought she was heterosexual and tried asking Katsuki out on a date, but was met with an explosion to the face for her trouble, which in turn caused all the guys at Aldera to follow his lead and attack her if she tried asking them out, causing her further trauma. She later realized she was bisexual, and had been hiding that fact from others out of fear she'd be rejected by women too, and only started expressing interest in them after the girls of 1-A managed to get her to lower her emotional walls. She later admits to herself that the trauma she's still suffering all but killed any attraction she had towards men.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'':
** Completely averted with Luz, who shows attraction to an equal number of male and female characters over the course of the series.
** Downplayed with [[spoiler:Hunter]] and [[spoiler:Willow]], who are respectively bi and pan. Both of them only ever shown attraction to each other, so the lack of same sex interest can probably just be chalked up to a case of SingleTargetSexuality.

If the character ''has'' relationships with the same gender but they're portrayed as more tame than with the opposite, that would fall under ButNotTooGay, as the relationship itself is being portrayed poorly rather than the character(s). See also: ButNotTooBlack, NoBisexuals, HideYourLesbians. Related to HaveIMentionedIAmGay, and many of the tropes on AcceptableFeminineGoalsAndTraits.

** Downplayed with [[spoiler:Hunter]] and [[spoiler:Willow]], who are receptively bi and pan. Both of them only ever shown attraction to each other, so the lack of same sex interest can probably just be chalked up to a case of SingleTargetSexuality.

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* Moxxie from ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'' is this in the first season, with his attraction to men mainly being implied or used as throwaway jokes, like wanting to know what sex with Michael Crawford was like. “[[Recap/HelluvaBossS2E3ExesAndOohs Exes and Oohs]]” however, finally subverts this as its revealed that Moxxie had a relationship with Chaz. He also very explicitly says he’s bisexual to his father.
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* Moxxie from ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'' is this in the first season, with his attraction to men mainly being implied or used as throwaway jokes, like wanting to know what sex with Michael Crawford was like. “[[HelluvaBossS2E3ExesAndOohs Exes and Oohs]]” however, finally subverts this as its revealed that Moxxie had a relationship with Chaz. He also very explicitly says he’s bisexual to his father.

* In ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'', [[BigBad Silva]] makes a flirty comment towards Bond while holding him prisoner, saying "There's a first time for everything, yes?" Bond replies, "What makes you think this is my first time?" This is the first time in the entire franchise, books included, that James Bond has ''ever'' hinted at having slept with men.

* Valkyrie from ''Film/ThorRagnarok'' is written as a bisexual mourning her lost girlfriend, but the flashback making it clear that they were lovers was cut from the final film, making her bisexuality limited to WordOfGay. This is seemingly rectified in ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'' where she briefly flirts with one of Zeus' handmaids, but that just presents the other side of this trope: Val has never expressed any romantic or sexual interest in ''men,'' yet the writers insist she's bisexual and not a lesbian. It didn't help that her actress Creator/TessaThompson [[https://www.cinemablend.com/news/2476891/tessa-thompson-says-valkyrie-needs-to-find-her-queen-of-asgard teased an arc for ''Love And Thunder'' where Valkyrie would find her "queen"]], while that arc never came to be in the movie.

** Aral Vorkosigan has lovers of multiple genders in his backstory, but the only relationship depicted in-story is with Cordelia, whom he meets and falls in love with in the first novel. "Do you know your husband is bisexual? - He WAS bisexual. Now he's monogamous." Admittedly, given that his home is a very sexually conservative planet and that he is courting or married to Cordelia throughout the saga, there is little scope for him to believably display attraction to men. (Especially as most of the books are from the POV of his (straight) son.) An implied psycho-analytical explanation is that Aral was so oriented around the military that he was more attracted to soldiers than to women. Cordelia, as a woman soldier, was the solution to his dilemma. (It helped that he actually liked and respected her, too.)

* In Creator/GeneRoddenberry's (cough cough) novelisation of the first ''[[Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture StarTrek]]'' movie, Kirk mentions that 'of course' he's had relationships with both men and women, but denies having a sexual relationship with Mr. Spock.

* "I Kissed a Boy," Music/CobraStarship's parody of "I Kissed a Girl" by Music/KatyPerry, is rife with this trope. Whereas Katy's version is about harmless experimentation, Cobra Starship's is about making out with guys ''only'' to impress women, making it even more exploitative than the original was accused of being.

* Played with in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII''. Merrill and Fenris do not discuss their orientations with the PC at any point, save to express an interest in them--this allows some fans to insist that they're "player-sexual," being either straight or gay depending on what gender Hawke is. Anders plays with this trope: he was a flirt towards many women in ''[[VideoGame/DragonAgeOriginsAwakening Awakening]]'' and can obviously romance a female PC, in which he never actually states that he's bi, causing some players to feel that he's "really" straight. But romancing him as a male PC has him admit that he's bisexual, describe how important his romance with Karl was, and flirt with the male PC in a much more respectful manner, implying that he takes romances with men more seriously. The other two love interests, Isabella and Sebastian, are aversions. Isabella openly swings both ways, while Sebastian can ''only'' be romanced by a female PC.

* In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', Haley's bisexuality is limited to a couple of throwaway gags related to her temporary CurseOfBabel. When "telling a secret," she says she's kissed girls more than once, and when dealing with the facets of her personality, one of them is named Haley's Latent Bisexuality. Her sole onscreen love interest is Elan, who's male.

* In Gene Roddenberry's (cough cough) novelisation of the first StarTrek movie, Kirk mentions that 'of course' he's had relationships with both men and women, but denies having a sexual relationship with Mr Spock.

* Valkyrie from ''Film/ThorRagnarok'' is written as a bisexual mourning her lost girlfriend, but the flashback making it clear that they were lovers was cut from the final film, making her bisexuality limited to WordOfGay. This is seemingly rectified in ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'' where she briefly flirts with one of Zeus' handmaids (though the plot of her "finding her queen" was ultimately not written into the film), but that just presents the other side of this trope: Val has never expressed any romantic or sexual interest in ''men,'' yet the writers insist she's bisexual and not a lesbian. It didn't help that her actress Creator/TessaThompson [[https://www.cinemablend.com/news/2476891/tessa-thompson-says-valkyrie-needs-to-find-her-queen-of-asgard teased an arc for ''Love And Thunder'' where Valkyrie would find her "queen"]], while that arc never came to be in the movie.

* Valkyrie from ''Film/ThorRagnarok'' is written as a bisexual mourning her lost girlfriend, but the flashback making it clear that they were lovers was cut from the final film, making her bisexuality limited to WordOfGay. This is seemingly rectified in ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'' where she briefly flirts with one of Zeus' handmaids (though the plot of her "finding her queen" was ultimately not written into the film), but that just presents the other side of this trope: Val has never expressed any romantic or sexual interest in ''men,'' yet the writers insist she's bisexual and not a lesbian.

* Valkyrie from ''Film/ThorRagnarok'' is written as a bisexual mourning her lost girlfriend, but the flashback making it clear that they were lovers was cut from the final film, making her bisexuality limited to WordOfGay. It has been suggested that Valkyrie will find a female love interest in the upcoming ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'', but that just presents the other side of this trope: Val has never expressed any romantic or sexual interest in ''men,'' yet the writers insist she's bisexual and not a lesbian.