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** Alice is bisexual and is more-or-less attracted to both genders equally.

* '''Played For Laughs''': Alice constantly boasts about how many sexual partners she has had of both genders, but is actually a virgin, and a prude, who is never seen flirting with either gender.

* Alice is, for whatever reason, a non-practicing bisexual (she is attracted to both genders to varying degrees, but only acts on her attraction to one).

** Alice becomes depressed when she is rejected because of her interest assuming she isn't bisexual.

** Alice becomes depressed when she is rejected because of assuming she isn't bisexual.

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* '''Played For Laughs''': Alice constantly boasts about how many sexual partners she has had of both genders, but is actually a virgin, and a prude, who is never seen flirting with either gender.
* '''Played For Drama''': Alice is a non-practicing bisexual, who struggles with an infatuation with another woman, but has trouble acting on said infatuation for religious reasons.

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* '''Zig Zagged''': Sometimes Alice identifies as completely and utterly straight, other times as completely and utterly gay, rather than just saying she's BiTheWay.

'''Basic Trope''': A character is stated to be bisexual, but appear to be a ''lot'' more interested in either the same or opposite gender, rather than both more-or-less equally.
* '''[[BlatantLies Straight]]''': Alice is bisexual, refers to herself as such, and has slept with both men and women. However, mostly dates men.
* '''Exaggerated''': Alice's bisexuality is an InformedAttribute.

* '''Invoked''': Alice is BiTheWay, but only just came out. Because she was closeted before, she hasn't dated any woman yet.

* '''Reconstructured''': Alice educates her friends on the Kinsey scale, and explains that you don't have to be equally attracted to men and women to be attracted to both men and women. Her friends apologise for questioning her identity.

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** [[TruthInTelevision there are far more straight and bisexual men than bisexual and gay women out there- Alice has a far bigger dating pool of male suitors than female suitors.]]
** there isn't much of an LGBT scene in Alice's town, so there's nowhere for Alice to meet other ladies who like ladies.

* '''Downplayed''': Alice is seen to date both men and women, but her relationships with women are more serious than those with men.

** It's just coincidence that all the people Alice has fallen in love with are of one gender--their gender itself had no part in her becoming smitten with them.
** Alice is either 70/30 or 30/70 on the JustForFun/{{Kinsey Scale|OfTropes}}.

* '''Double Subverted''': Except that was a later RetCon also for marketing reasons and she does date guys, but far less.
* '''Parodied''': Alice somehow manages to ''forget'' that she is also attracted to guys.

* '''Discussed''': "I am actually bi, not like one of those that only say they are."

** Alice is either 70/30 or 30/70 on the Kinsey scale.

** Alice is either 70/30 or 30/70 on the KinseyScale.

** Alice is either 70/30 or 30/70 on the KinseyScale

* '''Defied''': [[SuperOCD Alice, owing partially to OCD or OCPD always makes sure to keep her count of girlfriends and boyfriends equal out of a desire for symmetry.]]

* '''Conversed''': "I thought this guy was meant to be a bisexual, but this is his seventh boyfriend in a row!"
* '''Implied''': "I am ''completely'' straight!" "What about that ex-boyfriend, Samuel?" "He didn't count."
* '''Deconstructed''': Nobody believes that Thomas is bisexual anymore because he's never actually had a boyfriend, and has had three girlfriends this year. This leads Thomas to become depressed.

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* '''Straight''':
** Thomas is bisexual, refers to himself as such, and has slept with both men and women. However, he has slept with only one man and five women, all five of which he falls in love with. He does not have any romantic feelings for the man he slept with, only lust.
** Or, openly bisexual Thomas sleeps with five men all of whom he falls in love with, but only sleeps with one woman who he no romantic interest for, only lust.
* '''Exaggerated''': IfItsYouItsOkay
* '''Downplayed''':
** Thomas has fallen in love with three women and two men. Or three men and two women.
** Thomas has had plenty of boyfriends - however they were before the series started and he is mostly shown involved with women.

** It's just coincidence that all the people Thomas has fallen in love with are women, and their gender had no part in him becoming smitten with them.
** Thomas is either 70/30 or 30/70 on the KinseyScale
** The setting is heavily gender imbalanced.
** Thomas is bisexual, but not biromantic.

** AnythingThatMoves / ExtremeOmnisexual.
** But Not Too {{Asexual|ity}} - A character is both asexual and aromantic, yet is shown in both romantic and sexual relationships, making this an InformedAttribute.
* '''Subverted''': The reason for the imbalance is made clear - his bisexuality was just an act for marketing reasons.
* '''Double Subverted''': Except that was a later RetCon also for marketing reasons and he does date guys, but far less.
* '''Parodied''': Thomas somehow manages to /forget/ that he is also attracted to guys.
* '''Zig Zagged''': Sometimes Thomas identifies as completely and utterly straight, other times as completely and utterly gay, rather than just saying he's BiTheWay.

** Thomas is bisexual and is more-or-less attracted to both genders equally.
** Thomas isn't bisexual.
* '''Enforced''': MoralGuardians have stopped Thomas's sexuality from being as explicit as the writers wanted it to be, so most of male relationships have to be subtext or implied, whilst his relationships with women can be more blatant.

* '''Invoked''': Thomas is BiTheWay, but hasn't accepted it yet, so has more encounters with women than men.
* '''Exploited''': Alice points out that Thomas hasn't slept with a woman since she's known him, and they'll revoke his Bisexuals of America membership card if he doesn't do so soon. This should also fix her own need for sex.
* '''Defied''': [[SuperOCD Thomas, owing partially to OCD or OCPD always makes sure to keep his count of girlfriends and boyfriends equal out of a desire for symmetry]].
* '''Discussed''': "I am actually Bi, not like one of those that only say they are."
* '''Conversed''': "I thought this guy was meant to be a Bisexual, but this is his seventh boyfriend in a row!"

* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???

* '''Inverted''': AnythingThatMoves / ExtremeOmnisexual.

* '''Defied''': Thomas, owing partially to OCD always makes sure to keep his count of girlfriends and boyfriends equal out of a desire for symmetry.

** It's just co-incidence that all the people Thomas has fallen in love with are women, and their gender had no part in him becoming smitten with them.

* '''Exploited''': ???

* '''Downplayed''': Thomas has fallen in love with three women and two men. Or three men and two women.

* '''Downplayed''': Thomas has fallen in love with three women and two men. Or three men and two women.

* '''Subverted''': ???
* '''Double Subverted''': ???
* '''Parodied''': ???

* '''Lampshaded''': ???

* '''Defied''': ???

* '''Invoked''': Thomas is BiTheWay, but hasn't accepted it yet, so has more ecounters with women than men.

* '''Enforced''': MoralGuardians have stopped Thomas's sexuality from being as explicit as the writers wanted it to be, so most of male relationships have be subtext or implied, whilst his relationships with women can be more blatant.

* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

* '''Enforced''': ???

* '''Invoked''': ???

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* '''Inverted''': ???

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