History PlatonicLifePartners / ComicBooks

* Dwight from ''ComicBook/SinCity'' is normally MrFanservice for women in-universe, but Miho does not seem to be in love with him. It doesn't stop {{Shipping}} FanFics, however.

!!!Franchise/MarvelUniverse
* ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} has this kind of relationship with most of the X-Women, Psylocke and Storm standing out among them. He'll go to amazing lengths to help them, and even harbors a bit of BigBrotherInstinct towards any would-be suitors, but when it comes to getting in a relationship with them himself, it just doesn't seem to happen. Fans speculate this is due to his awareness of his own CartwrightCurse. Additionally, he's over 150 years old and his healing factor continues to slow his aging process tremendously, which makes most of his options both a MayDecemberRomance and a MayflyDecemberRomance.
** However, Wolverine has pursued relationships with his teammates in alternate timelines, including marrying Storm in a "What If?" and being involved with her in the war-torn alternate future in ''Days of Future Past''. There's also his fixation with Jean Grey.
** Nightcrawler and Shadowcat have a similarly close relationship. When Kurt leaves to join Excalibur, she goes with him. While they did once consider actually dating, they decided it would just be too weird (partly due to the fact that she was also involved with Kurt's ''[[HeterosexualLifePartners Heterosexual]]'' [[HeterosexualLifePartners Life Partner]] Colossus.)
** There's a lot of this among the X-Men in general. Domino and Warpath, Wolverine and Shadowcat, Storm and Bishop, etc.
** An alternate Wolverine is in a long-term romantic relationship with his timeline's version of Hercules, which avoids the MayflyDecemberRomance issue (both being ageless), flips the MayDecemberRomance (~170 years versus thousands), and avoids the CartwrightCurse, what with Herc being immortal.
* ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'': The Thing and The Invisible Woman have this kind of relationship. (Early in the series, Ben was actually in love with Sue, but that was just how Creator/StanLee [[LoveTriangle rolled]]. And Ben got his own girlfriend not long after, anyway. Besides, things would have been weird for Reed if his best friend and girlfriend started seeing each other.)
* ''Comicbook/ConanTheBarbarian'' and ''Comicbook/RedSonja'' were this in the original Creator/MarvelComics run... although it wasn't that platonic on Conan's side...
* This is basically Loki and Verity's relationship in ''Comicbook/LokiAgentOfAsgard''. While they met at a speed-dating event, Verity was only there because her mother talked her into it, and she's generally uninterested in romance.
* Miles Morales and Jessica Drew develop into this in ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan,'' after Jessica begins helping and mentoring Miles. Of course, given that Jessica is a lesbian (and a fair bit older than Miles), platonic is really the only way it could be.
** Takes on a more interesting twist when one remembers who Jessica Drew is in the Ultimate universe (Peter Parker's female clone.)
* ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} has this kind of relationship with his secretary, Sandi Brandenberg. The two have known each other for years now, are extremely close, and [[BigBrotherInstinct Deadpool is highly protective towards Sandi]], but the two have never tried to pursue any sort of relationship with one another. This is notable, because Deadpool is a notorious CasanovaWannabe, so knowing someone for so long and never once trying to get it on with them is pretty unusual for him.
* Modern incarnations of ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}} and ComicBook/BlackWidow are usually depicted this way. There's a great post explaining their relationship here: [[http://the-feels-assassin.tumblr.com/post/111766600169/can-you-or-someone-you-know-explain-me-why-are x]].
-->''[Hawkeye falls out of a window onto a car]''\\
'''Isiah''': ...That looks bad.\\
'''Black Widow''': He'll be all right.
* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': Peter's relationship with Betty Brant, his ex-girlfriend, is of this nature. She considers him her best friend.
** He's also close with [[ComicBook/SpiderWoman Jessica Drew]], given the similar spider theme that connects them. Despite it being somewhat easy to see, Peter and Jessica have never treated each other as more than just friends. It helps that Jess is far less of a DistaffCounterpart to him in comparison to others like her who bear close ties to their male counterparts; outside of their powers, Jessica's backstory is about as far removed from Peter's as it can be, especially since they don't became acquainted with each other until both have earned some city miles as superheroes.
** Speaking of fellow Spider-people, there's Spidey and ComicBook/SpiderGwen. While Peter Parker and Gwen Stacy have more often than not been romantically linked to each other in many mediums before Earth-65's creation, the mainstream Spidey's relationship with this alternate universe counterpart of his deceased former love is one of pure SnarkToSnarkCombat given how many potshots both take at each other both on and off the clock as crime-fighters. That said, they do look out for each other very closely; in their [[ComicBook/SpiderVerse first meeting]], both of them make a mutual DeclarationOfProtection to honor the memory of their deceased counterparts, and since then, they've had their fair share of adventures together, especially considering that Gwen has become a fresh migrant to the mainline Marvel universe. Helps that neither of them seem to be romantically interested in each other: Peter acts more like a older brother figure, he's had time to move on from his Gwen romance-wise, Gwen herself treated her Peter like a close friend and was surprised that he had harbored feelings for her, and she seems to be attracted more to Miles Morales given their closer ages.

!!!Franchise/{{DCU}}
* From ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'', Dick Grayson (Robin[=/=]ComicBook/{{Nightwing}}), the ChickMagnet MagneticHero of the entire DC Universe and Donna Troy (ComicBook/WonderGirl), who looks like a younger Wonder Woman, have never gotten together, due to being like brother and sister.
* ComicBook/LoisLane and ComicBook/JimmyOlsen from ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' especially before the former married Clark Kent, although Jimmy is more like a baby brother than an equal to Lois.
* Superman and Franchise/WonderWoman are often portrayed as this, sometimes veering into LikeBrotherAndSister. Attempts to get them together outside "what if" stories tend to run into NoSparks.
-->'''Clark:''' You know, there are ''still'' people who think that you and I--\\
'''Diana:''' Yes, I am aware. But friendships like ours do not sell magazines.\\
'''Clark:''' Just as well. They wouldn't understand.
** The ComicBook/New52 made a game attempt at it, but as of ComicBook/DCRebirth it's officially been put to bed.
* Franchise/{{Batman}}'s villains Bane and [[ComicBook/VandalSavage Scandal Savage]]. They're incredibly close and very protective of one another, but have never considered being in an actual romantic relationship. Even if [[IncompatibleOrientation Scandal wasn't gay]], than they still wouldn't consider it, as they view each other as basically being family (Bane views Scandal as something of a daughter-figure, while Scandal considers Bane [[ParentalSubstitute the closest thing to a big brother or father that's she'll ever have]]). This part of their characters was examined quite a bit in ''ComicBook/SecretSix''.
* [[ComicBook/Batgirl2000 Cassandra Cain]] and [[ComicBook/RobinSeries Tim Drake]] were this at first, but have since graduated to BrotherSisterTeam after being adopted by Batman.