History Main / Uke

See UsefulNotes/BoysLoveNotes for a list of standard seme and uke types.

** ''Manga/NabariNoOu'' is an interesting example in that Miharu and his not-quite-love-interest Yoite [[UsefulNotes/BoysLoveNotes both have a lot of common uke traits]]. Miharu has the aforementioned physical qualities plus being withdrawn with a lot of angst; Yoite is similarly delicate, withdrawn, and troubled. Yoite generally gets labelled as the {{seme}} because he's older than Miharu, a bit taller, and more violent, but on his own he's a textbook uke (and if their relationship were ever to move into sexual territory, [[TheTrickster Miharu]] would almost certainly be the initiator).

A LipstickLesbian, in {{Yuri}}, or GirlsLove, who is openly attracted to someone can also take this role. The irony is, a female character who acts or looks openly masculine is actually ''[[AggressiveSubmissive more]]'' likely to be the uke, since this is usually equated with {{tomboy}}s and immaturity.

[[folder:Anime and Manga]]

* ''Series/FellowTravelers'': Tim Laughlin, though still a StraightGay, is a somewhat shyer, gentler man than his lover Hawkins Fuller, and nearly always bottoms when they have sex.

* ''Series/FellowTravelers'': Tim, though still StraightGay, is a bit of a shyer, gentler man than his lover Hawk, and nearly always bottoms when they have sex.

* ''Series/FellowTravelers'': Tim, though still Straight Gay, is a bit of a shyer, gentler man than his lover Hawk, and nearly always bottoms when they have sex.

* Due to the dynamics between [[RidiculouslyHumanRobot Lamia]] [[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsAdvance Loveless]] finding a CoolBigSis in [[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsCompact2 Excellen Browning]], TheTease who just happens to be a MsFanservice, {{fanon}} for ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' runs with the notion that in any Excellen/Lamia pairing, Lamia ends up the uke, due to the case that Excellen will do AnythingThatMoves, placing her as the {{seme}}.

* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic eventually became the uke to every other Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses producer (male and female) except the much younger Luke and [[WebVideo/BadMovieBeatdown Film Brain]].

* In Creator/{{Clamp}}'s classic ''Manga/TokyoBabylon'' there is Subaru Sumeragi. Where to begin? At sixteen, he's androgynous with big green eyes and raven black hair that frames his face. Emotionally, he's shy, serious, and soft spoken. While Subaru is a very powerful onmyouji, he is altruistic and deeply kind.[[FriendToAllLivingThings He also loves animals]].

* In Creator/{{Clamp}}'s classic ''Manga/TokyoBabylon'' there is Subaru Sumeragi. Where to begin? Physically at sixteen he's small and skinny with big green eyes, [[RavenHairIvorySkin raven-black hair that frames his face]] and often gets mistaken for a girl as he's so darn pretty. His twin dresses him up in outrageous outfits that range from cute to his iconic skin-tight black pants, turtleneck and scarlet-colored red jacket. Emotionally, he's very shy, tender-hearted and soft spoken; he jumps and blushes like fury at even the slightest hint of flirtation from FetishizedAbuser [[{{Seme}} Seishirou]]. Subaru is kind, soft hearted and gentle - he kicks ass true, but he doesn't like to hurt people and wishes everyone could be happy. [[FriendToAllLivingThings He also loves animals]].
** Later on in the follow up ''Manga/{{X1999}}'', Subaru is twenty-five, painfully depressed and severely broken-hearted thanks to evil and possessive [[FetishizedAbuser Seishirou]]. Subaru's much more quiet than before, but just as gentle and kind like always - though anything but his altruistic former self. Not to mention he's still as slender and beautiful as ever - he gets even ''more'' beautiful when he grows out his hair like it was when he was sixteen near the end of the manga. Subaru's ''definitely'' one of the best example of ke there ever was.
** Not forgetting the main character of ''Manga/{{X1999}}'' Kamui, who is super pretty, small-built and emotionally ''wrecked'' - even Creator/{{CLAMP}} refers to the boys as "sisters" due to how similar they are. And in ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle'', their alternate universe versions are twins - being chased of course, by alternate-universe ''still'' FetishizedAbuser [[{{Seme}} Seishirou]] who is ''obsessed'' with Subaru ''yet again''.

[[caption-width-right:349:Let's see: [[{{Moe}} adorably cute]] [[ShortTeensTallAdults petite teenage]] [[TheIngenue Ingenue]] {{Woobie}} LoveMartyr SexSlave with an [[CannotSpitItOut emotionally closeted]] [[FetishizedAbuser abuser]]. Yup, uke.]]

* Lampshaded in ''Manga/StrawberryMarshmallow'', where Ana and Miu are yelling childish insults at each other and Miu yells "UKE!" The rest of the episode has the characters (sans Miu) asking Nobue what the word means, with obviously little success.
* A GirlsLove example can be found in ''Manga/GokujouDrops'' with Komari.
* Another yuri example occurs with Hikari and Nagisa in ''Literature/StrawberryPanic''.

* Mochizuki in ''Anime/BokuNoSexualHarassment''.

'''Just list examples of characters who, if they are ukes in the ''original work''; if the original character is strong, and/or if the original work isn't yaoi, it should go to Ukefication instead'''

[[caption-width-right:349:Let's see: [[{{Moe}} adorably cute]] [[TeensAreShort petite teenage]] [[TheIngenue Ingenue]] {{Woobie}} LoveMartyr SexSlave with an [[CannotSpitItOut emotionally closeted]] [[FetishizedAbuser abuser]]. Yup, uke.]]

* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/Ben10UltimateAlien'' episode "Duped", where Ben use his Echo Echo powers to [[MesACrowd duplicate himself in three]] in an attempt to be in three places at the same time, so he can fight the [[{{Mooks}} Forever Knights]] with Kevin, attend [[LoveInterest Julie]]'s tennis match and watch the new Sumo Slammers movie. He ends up divided into three Bens with different personalities: one who is sweet and sensitive, one with a bad boy attitude and one who is seemingly normal. The sensitive one ends up going with Kevin, and, while they are waiting for the knights to show up, start delivering a speech about how close they have become, in a typical yaoi way. Kevin is not amused at all: