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* One of the spouses suing Mr Immortal for faking his death in ''Series/SheHulkAttorneyAtLaw''is a man.

* All of the vampires in ''Series/{{What We Do In The Shadows}}'' are bi/pan.

* Myth/NorseMythology: In the Lokasenna one of the insults Loki hurls towards Odin accuses him of practicing seidhr, a form of magic based on having sex with men. Odin doesn’t deny it and replies that Loki does the same, referencing the time Loki gave birth to a horse.

* Trill in ''Franchise/StarTrek'', especially Dax in ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''. A Trill symbiont is passed down from host to host in either a male or female body, but the [[SocietyOfImmortals Trill Symbiosis Commission]] forbids relations with a former lover. One episode Dax ignores this and [[DiscountLesbians kisses a woman]] who the symbionts in each of them were once married together, but all her other relations on the show were straight. It's possibly a forced trope. The Trill are humanoid and not immortal; the symbiont that is transplanted from body to body is virtually immortal and seems to be genderless. Once combined, the resulting personality is a combination of both; and the symbiont use the Trill to accrue life experiences that it shares with the host. It is likely that Trill candidates are chosen for some bisexuality since they will have the knowledge of both having been and loved both genders. The symbiont would see any relationship as new experiences or knowledge.

Whereas characters with normal lifespans are usually depicted as [[NoBisexuals being attracted to one gender exclusively]], immortal characters often turn out to be much less picky about gender. This could be attributed to the fact that we can't know for sure how human sexuality acts over a lifespan of centuries or a strong belief in the Kinsey Scale from the author. Mostly, this is rationalized with a belief that someone who has lived long enough can look outside the box of sexual norms, or that in that amount of time ''[[ClosetKey someone]]'' [[IfItsYouItsOkay of an unexpected gender is bound to]] [[StupidSexyFlanders attract the character]]. Or maybe they've just been around for so long that they're running out of new things to try.

* Hob Gadling from ''ComicBook/TheSandman'', though it's mentioned only in passing in the final issue.

* Most of the gods in Myth/ClassicalMythology, at least once, like Zeus, Apollo, and Heracles. Ares is actually the only mainstream Greek God who only had heterosexual relationships, everyone else is either bisexual or asexual. Though that is more of a cultural thing; the human males who made up those stories were also bisexual, or at least expected to act like it.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' mostly averts this trope, as the long-lived Space Marines are made {{asexual|ity}} through {{transhuman}} augmentation and hypno-therapy administered during puberty. However, the Chaos God(dess) Slaanesh very much embodies this trope, being immortal and also the Chaos Deity of Sex and Perversion. Traitor Marines who worship Slaanesh can end up anywhere on the spectrum (many choosing to pursue another form of excess instead of developing an interest in sex).

->''There IS no straight when you're 400 years old.''
-->--'''Derek Landy''', author of the ''Literature/SkulduggeryPleasant'' series

* The third episode of ''Series/Loki2021'' reveals that the titular Norse god is bisexual, answering "a bit of both" when asked if he's ever had any princesses or princes that's caught his eye.

* The Avatar of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirBender'' is strongly implied to be bisexual as a result of ResurrectiveImmortality. Korra is confirmed bisexual, Aang is “very in touch with his feminine side”, and this may well be part of the psyche’ of all Avatars considering the Avatar can be male or female with each rebirth and are closely connected enough to their previous identities to consult with them.

* The Avatar of WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirBender is strongly implied to be bisexual as a result of ResurrectiveImmortality. Korra is confirmed bisexual, Aang is “very in touch with his feminine side”, and this may well be part of the psyche’ of all Avatars considering the Avatar can be male or female with each rebirth and are closely connected enough to their previous identities to consult with them.
* [[spoiler: Marceline Abadeer has and Princess Bonnibel Bubblegum]] from WesternAnimation/AdventureTime. Being over 1,000 years old will do that, and while the fanbase and even their voice actors supported the theory that they were previously a couple, they were only made a couple in the series finale.

* Most of the gods in Myth/ClassicalMythology, at least once, like Zeus, Apollo, and Heracles. Though that is more of a cultural thing; the human males who made up those stories were also bisexual, or at least expected to act like it.

* [[spoiler: Marceline Abadeer and Princess Bonnibel Bubblegum]] from WesternAnimation/AdventureTime. Being over 1,000 years old will do that, and while the fanbase and even their voice actors supported the theory that they were previously a couple, they were only made a couple in the series finale.

* Dio Brando from ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure''. While not a full immortal, he shrugs off mortal wounds, survives over 100 years due to vampirism, and is canonically recognized as being in relationships with Giorno's mother and Enrico Pucci.

* Dio Brando from ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure''. While not a full immortal, he shrugs off mortal wounds, survives over 100 years due to vampirism, and is canonically recognized as being in relationships with Giorno's mother and Enrico Pucci.

* Hob Gadling from ''ComicBook/TheSandman'', though it's mentioned only in passing in the final issue.

* ''Literature/TheMortalInstruments'': Magnus Bane is an immortal warlock who has taken many male and female lovers over the centuries.

* One of the Light Others from ''Literature/NightWatchSeries'' named Ignat is a master of seduction, and doesn't care about the gender of his targets. He's not quite immortal, but he and all other Others can maintain youth for up to centuries, and it's implied that his bisexuality is at least in part because he's bored. He's possibly the only bisexual Other shown, but a lot of them tend toward being TheHedonist.
** He also doesn't mind having a threesome with two sorceresses, one of whom has a boyfriend in the next room.
** It's pretty much stated that the Others don't abide by human rules of courtship and fidelity. Just before discovering Svetlana in Ignat's arms, Anton finds two Others sleeping after a night of passion, both of whom have human spouses. He notes that two field operatives sleeping together is no different from a female CombatMedic providing "comfort" to a soldier in a trench. His treatment of Svetlana sleeping with Ignat is likewise detached... which infuriates Svetlana to no end.
* The Vampires--yes, ''[[EveryoneIsBi all]]'' of them--in ''Literature/TheVampireChronicles''. A partial aversion though in that Rice's vampires are [[CantHaveSexEver incapable of regular sex]]. Also, Lestat himself was already bisexual when he was still human, as were at least some of the other vampires. Strangely, when he temporarily becomes human again, the only two people with whom he has sex are women.
* Henry Fitzroy from the ''Literature/BloodBooks'', although he was apparently bisexual during his human lifetime anyway. Vaguely implied with another, female vampire that Vicki encounters in a short story.
* A way of life in ''Literature/DirgeForPresterJohn''. Not to mention taking lovers from a number of different species.
* Some people feel this way about Alice in ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''. Though it's canonically stated that she's in love with Jasper, fans seem to think that's she also has feelings for Bella.
* Young adult vampire novelist Creator/AmeliaAtwaterRhodes [[WordOfGod has stated]] that many of the vampires in her canon are bisexual, having grown tired over the centuries of being romantically involved with a single gender.
* The premise of ''Incarnate'' by Jodi Meadows sort of leans on this. Everyone is reincarnated into different bodies over and over, and there's no guarantee that you'll be the same gender every time. So sexuality isn't really an issue.
* In Robert Silverberg's ''The Book of Skulls'', a character contemplating possible immortality and enlightened enough to be cool about a friend's being gay (c. 1970CE) decides that he'd probably try it for a century or two.
* The page quote comes from the author of the ''Literature/SkulduggeryPleasant'' series. Being a children's series, nothing is very explicit, but a few characters are heavily implied to be queer in some way or another, and Landy himself has stated that bisexuality is more or less the norm for most of the immortal characters.
* Stated outright to be the case for vampires in ''Literature/StraightOuttaFangton'' in ''Literature/TheUnitedStatesOfMonsters'' universe. Blood substitutes for sex among them (though they still have lots of that), so they don't have any issue having male and female lovers both. The protagonist, Peter Stone, is young enough that's not entirely comfortable with it yet.

* Trill in ''Franchise/StarTrek'', especially Dax in ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''. A Trill symbiont is passed down from host to host in either a male or female body, but the [[SocietyOfImmortals Trill Symbiosis Commission]] forbids relations with a former lover. One episode Dax ignores this and [[DiscountLesbians kisses a woman]] who the symbionts in each of them were once married together, but all her other relations on the show were straight. It's possibly a forced trope. The Trill are humanoid and not immortal; the symbiont that is transplanted from body to body is virtually immortal and seems to be genderless. Once combined, the resulting personality is a combination of both; and the symbiont use the Trill to accrue life experiences that it shares with the host. It is likely that Trill candidates are chosen for some bisexuality since they will have the knowledge of both having been and loved both genders. The symbiont would see any relationship as new experiences or knowledge.

* Spike once said of Angel in ''Series/{{Angel}}'': "Angel and I were never intimate. Well, except that one time…"
* Pretty much every vampire in ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' is a DepravedBisexual, as evidenced by their tendencies to "play" and tease their victims before killing and draining them in a sometimes highly sexualised manner. Vampires have no gender preferences when it comes to meals, and there are strong implications that they like "dancing" with their meals before having them (as displayed by Spike, Drusilla, Darla, and vampire Willow). A common way of luring their meals to their deaths is by seducing them first, regardless of their sex. A lot of vampires are pretty much portrayed as AnythingThatMoves.
* Dorian Gray in ''Series/PennyDreadful'' is immortal and attracted to men and women.

* ''Series/{{Sanctuary}}'' has Helen Magnus, a woman who gained immortality during the reign of Queen Victoria, who is revealed to be bisexual when a woman whose life she just saved kisses her in gratitude. She returns the kiss, commenting that she hasn't been kissed that way in a long time.
* Downplayed, but there seems to be some of this going on in ''Series/LostGirl''. Human Kenzi explicitly says she's straight in the first episode, while there are quite a few bi fae ladies: Bo, the Morrigan, Tamsin… plus bi fae guy Vex, and human, seemingly-strictly-lesbian Lauren. In the fae world, no one raises an eyebrow at all the girls Bo kisses, but once--while undercover in the human world--Bo starts to mention her girlfriend Lauren, then awkwardly finishes saying "Lawrence." It seems fae are bi-er than humans.
* Magnus Bane in ''Series/{{Shadowhunters}}''. Supposedly he has had 17,000 relationships over the last few centuries, and he's openly a bisexual man.

* The TabletopGame/{{Exalted}} -- if not everyone in Creation -- are typically portrayed as this. The Dragon-Blooded often take homosexual lovers outside of marriage to avoid the risk of siring bastards, the Lunars have easy access to GenderBender powers and massive fecundity, the Solars are god-kings who traverse Creation like a man walking down the block and [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity occasionally go into states of utter debauchery]], and the Sidereals live for millennia and have fate powers that allow them to assume any role they want.
* In some ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' supplements--those few that mention sex--elves are generally portrayed as being much more likely to be bisexual than humans and other "brief" races.
** In TabletopGame/CurseOfStrahd, the players can encounter four of Strahd's earlier brides; Three women and a man, implying that he's bisexual with a preference toward women.

* The asari from ''Franchise/MassEffect'' are a OneGenderRace (all female, in appearance, anyway) and can have children with any gender or species. They can live to be almost 1000. They ''do'' sometimes mate with their own species, but those who do are frowned upon by creating more pureblood asari, as it leads to genetic aberrations - the most dangerous being the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent ardat-yakshi]]. However, krogan live even longer and don't have this trait; the fact that having the same mate for life is an option probably contributes.

* Kathryn "[=SwordCat=]" Kennedy of ''Webcomic/SwordCatPrincess'' professes to miss her [[http://swordcatprincess.thecomicseries.com/comics/24/ dead male lovers]], then displays her bisexuality by [[http://swordcatprincess.thecomicseries.com/comics/117/ engaging in lesbian kissing and sex]] with Detective Erica Richards.

* Alucard in ''Webcomic/AndShineHeavenNow'' had sex with men twice, stating at that age, you've tried everything at least once.
* The elf Alduin from the not-worksafe ''Webcomic/{{Alfie}}'' mentions that at some point during his long life, he'll undoubtedly take male lovers--but right now he's happy to be a woman's kinky submissive.

* The Asari from ''Franchise/MassEffect'' are a OneGenderRace (all female, in appearance, anyway) and can have children with any gender or species. They can live to be almost 1000. They ''do'' sometimes mate with their own species, but those who do are frowned upon by creating more pureblood asari, as it leads to genetic aberrations - the most dangerous being the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent ardat-yakshi]]. However, Krogan live just as long and don't have this trait; the fact that having the same mate for life is an option probably contributes.

%%* Magnus Bane in ''Series/{{Shadowhunters}}''.

* Depending on how one interprets the nature of the series, France, as well as many other cast members from ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia''.

* ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11886910/1/Gankona-Unnachgiebig-Unità Gankona, Unnachgiebig, Unità]]'': Both Germany and Italy are bi, and are [[{{Immortal}} immortal]] as well. Although Japan is also immortal, he is not bi; he is [[UsefulNotes/{{Homosexual}} gay]].

* ''Literature/OrlandoABiography'' by Creator/VirginiaWoolf has an immortal man switch genders after a long period of slumber. Creator/AlanMoore's ''ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'' turned the character into a full-fledged immortal bisexual.
** Although, given the character is based on Woolf's own bisexual lover Vita Sackville-West, it's hinted in the book as explicitly as it can be for 1930 that the character is bisexual
--->For the probity of breeches she exchanged the seductiveness of petticoats and enjoyed the love of both sexes equally

* The Vampires--yes, ''[[EveryoneIsBi all]]'' of them--in ''Literature/TheVampireChronicles''. Partial aversion though in that Rice's vampires are not [[CantHaveSexEver capable of regular sex]]. Also, Lestat himself was already bisexual when he was still human, as were at least some of the other vampires. Strangely, when he temporarily becomes human again, the only two people with whom he has sex are women.

* Trill in ''Franchise/StarTrek'', especially Dax in ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''. A Trill symbiont is passed down from host to host in either a male or female body, but the [[SocietyOfImmortals Trill Symbiosis Commission]] forbids relations with a former lover. One episode Dax ignores this and [[DiscountLesbians kisses a woman]] who the symbionts in each of them were once married together, but all her other relations on the show were straight.
** Possibly a forced trope. The Trill are humanoid and not immortal; the symbiont that is transplanted from body to body is virtually immortal and seems to be genderless. Once combined, the resulting personality is a combination of both; and the symbiont use the Trill to accrue life experiences that it shares with the host. It is likely that Trill candidates are chosen for some bisexuality since they will have the knowledge of both having been and loved both genders. And the symbiont would see any relationship as new experiences or knowledge.

** Subverted with Captain Jack Harkness, the protagonist of the spinoff series ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'': he was omnisexual even before becoming immortal, by virtue of coming from a FreeLoveFuture.

* It has been hinted heavily regarding most members of the original family of vampires on the ''Series/TheOriginals'' and ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'' world, but especially about Rebekah. While clearly a bisexual, it's not clear if Isobel's started exploring relations with women after she turned, or has she always considered herself bi.

* Downplayed, but there seems to be some of this going on in ''Series/LostGirl''. Human Kenzi explicitly says she's straight in the first episode, while there are quite a few bi fae ladies: Bo, the Morrigan, Tamsin… plus bi fae guy Vex, and human, seemingly-strictly-lesbian, Lauren. In the fae world, no one raises an eyebrow at all the girls Bo kisses, but once--while undercover in the human world--Bo starts to mention her girlfriend Lauren, then awkwardly finishes saying "Lawrence." It seems fae are bi-er than humans.
* Magnus Bane in ''Series/{{Shadowhunters}}''

* One of the Light Others from ''Literature/NightWatch'' named Ignat is a master of seduction, and doesn't care about the gender of his targets. He's not quite immortal, but he and all other Others can maintain youth for up to centuries, and it's implied that his bisexuality is at least in part because he's bored. He's possibly the only bisexual Other shown, but a lot of them tend toward being TheHedonist.