Ambiguously Gay in Comic Books.
A No Recent Examples rule applies to this trope. Examples for episodic works shouldn't be added until end of season for the season introducing the ambiguity (or after 3 months, for episodic works without seasons). This is to allow time for the story to develop the character and resolve ambiguity. There is no waiting time for non-episodic works.
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Other Comic Books
- Cacofonix from Asterix. He is the only male villager to have neither a wife nor occasional love interests, he plays up to stereotypes of camp, self-declared artists, and in Asterix and the Secret Weapon, while living in the forest with the rest of the village men in an all-male society, there are love letters pinned to his tree.
- In Astro City, Nightingale and Sunbird are frequently rumored to be a lesbian couple, to their never-ending annoyance.
- Clash from Jem and the Holograms (IDW) is a huge fangirl of the all-girls band The Misfits and is their groupie. She also has a very close friendship with Blaze (who is canonically gay), however it's hard to tell if it's supposed to be platonic or intentionally romantic.
- An Enforced Trope with Tangle and Whisper in Sonic the Hedgehog (IDW). The pair are shown to be extremely close, one scene with them features background colors resembling the lesbian pride flag, and Whisper reacts with a brutally visceral Say My Name when Tangle succumbs to Zombot infection. But Sega mandates prohibit characters from being portrayed in romantic relationships, period, so they can never be confirmed as a couple.
- An intentional use of this trope is in Alan Moore's Providence, showing how this trope was used in the era of the Closet. Robert Black, whenever he meets another man he suspects to be gay, uses contemporary slang and oblique references to suss out the other's preference, such as the wearing of a green tie. Though the minute he sees Tom Malone, he comes close to giving himself away. Dr. North heavily implies his sexuality when flirting with Black, recognizing him as a man "familiar with Greenwich".
- In Project Superpowers, it's strongly hinted that The Woman In Red and Lady Satan are a couple. Red even openly states that she's not usually attracted to men.
- The title character of Yoko Tsuno never appears to have a boyfriend, but she eagerly bonds with cute young women throughout the series, which makes quite a few fans wonder about her sexual orientation. In later albums the author tries to couple her with her best friend Vic, even though they don't even have a fraction of the chemistry Yoko has with some of the other girls — especially Ingrid.
