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.
Crossovers
- Authors Note: Burt Reynolds. He willingly took a bet where he could shove 1,000 planets up his ass, but lost at 999. Whether he did it because he liked the idea, or because he wanted to win the bet, is unclear.
- Artistic License:
- Glynda Goodwitch in BlazBlue Alternative: Remnant. As seen in flashbacks, when Ironwood flirted with her, she mentally commented that the General wasn't her type by a longshot. Her relationship with Litchi, on the other hand, has many undertones bordering on being outright romantic. However, nothing regarding her feelings is confirmed.
- Referenced in Lost in Camelot with Morgana; she acknowledges that she would have gone after Bo from the beginning if her new friend had been a man, and is willing to consider making their relationship romantic once Bo makes it clear that such a thing is an option, but is reluctant to take things to a physical level too soon- a fact that Bo understands and accepts- and was explicitly attracted to Merlin first.
- In the horror crossover fix, Scream for Me, Ghostface, is this, and an attempted rapist as well (to Michael, yes that Michael).
- Dragon Ball Z Abridged plays Zarbon's ambiguous sexuality for as many jokes as it can, to the point where Freeza uses his name as a synonym for "gay". Soon before his death, however, he asks Freeza if he can borrow the Space Skype to call his girlfriend. Freeza remains convinced that said girlfriend is named "Chuck", but Team Four Star's Word of God says that their version of Zarbon is entirely heterosexual. At least, his normal form is; his monstrous transformation, which he describes as "entirety different from me in every way," apparently actually is gay. The whole thing is lampshaded in DBZ Abridged Kai:Vegeta: Oh look, it's the gay one.
Zarbon: Maybe I'm gay, or maybe stereotypes are bullshit! Mmm! (transforms) PUSSY!
- In the cracky Harry Potter & the Azkaban Parody
Ginny Weasley, Seamus Finnegan, and a female OC House Elf are all potential Love Interests for Harry. The author promises that he "won't make [Harry] gay but he won't make him straight, either". - During Moody's Imperius-breaking exercise in How Friendship Accidentally Saved Magical Britain, he compels Cedric Diggory to serenade the prettiest person in the room, which in Cedric's mind is apparently... Tom Riddle. Tom puffs up a bit, enjoying the ego-boost.
- The Victors Project: Ermine Butler, victor of the 43rd Hunger Games, doesn't show attraction to women in her head during a lot of situations where she might have, but does seem heavily attached to her friend Esther and one line describes her as mostly watching Esther while Esther was watching some boys exercise.
- A Minor Miscalculation portrays Ryuko as this. She reacts mainly with disgust and derision toward the opposite sex, occasionally jokes about sexually dominating Satsuki ( whom she is unaware is her biological sister), and is so close with Mako that both Senketsu and her father automatically assume they are in a Transparent Closet. However, she vehemently denies any of this every time someone even pokes at it, and her inner thoughts shed little light on the matter.
- King Kong in the fanfic More Than a Monster, based on the 2005 film, takes a liking to Anthony Darrow (male Ann Darrow). It's unclear if Kong has any romantic feelings for him, or just sees Anthony as his First Friend. In fact, the natives who offered Anthony as a sacrifice doesn't seem to regard his gender, only his blond hair.
- The Story of Apollo, Daphne and Luca: An Italian Tragedy: Bianca has no interest in boys, sees Carlos only as a platonic friend and, in Chapter 5, seems to show a certain romantic interest towards Rosa.
- In Turning Tables, Harry asks Peter is he wants to join him out for a college party. Gwen then tells Peter that he basically just asked him out.
- My Hero Academia: Mechanical green: Following their first Modern Hero Art History class with Nemuri and his being unfazed by her behavior, many of his classmates ask Neito how he was Not Distracted by the Sexy when even Tenya was. Neito simply responds that he's not attracted to women, but doesn't elaborate further. Whether this means he's gay or asexual was unclear until he later clarifies that he is gay, when it looks like Pixie-Bob is trying to flirt with him.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- The Major League Pony version of Twilight is this so far. Though she denies being gay, she secretly has dirty thoughts about Rarity, which she denies to herself, hinting that she may be in denile.
- RainbowDoubleDash's Lunaverse:
- Trixie is a complicated case. Usually, Trixie is vehemently asexual. Even kissing weirds her out, but once she gets a little drink in her, she flirts with openly lesbian Lyra and Bon-Bon (admittedly, by the time she does so, she's so drunk she passes out seconds later). Later on, Trixie firmly insists the booze is into mares, but she herself isn't into anything. Though it doesn't help there are (admittedly, firmly tongue-in-cheek and non-cannon) stories by the setting's main author showing Trixie having a thing for Raindrops.
- Sunset Shimmer and Lightning Dust in Nightmares Yet to Come are all but outright said to be a couple of some kind, but the fic never states whether they are.
- From the same fic, Midnight, who has a... complicated thing going on with Trixie, and another one with a pony named Falling Star in a flashback, but at the same time apparently has a colt trying to get with her. The closest thing she's got to a romantic relationship with a guy is Shining Armor, whom she went to the Grand Galloping Gala with, but she states explicitly she has no interest in him whatsoever (and that the Gala was merely her acting as a bodyguard).
- Ultra Fast Pony:
- This version of Shining Armor is so camp, his sister Twilight is convinced he's gay and becomes suspicious after hearing that he is marrying a girl. When confronted on this, he scolds her her for thinking he's gay just because he's somewhat effeminate... but confesses to having gay sex with at least one stallion while ranting. "We said no homo!" In the end, much bigger problems arise and the issue is left unresolved.
- Twilight herself is this, to a lesser extent. There are hints of her returning Celestia's feelings for her in the season one finale and in The Movie, she seems confused at suddenly having the desire to want a boyfriend, and in the end of the movie, decides to celebrate by renting a prostitute.
- Twinkling in the Dark
- While never confirmed, Akaoni is heavily implied to secretly be in love with Joker, as he frequently hugs/holds him, is jealous of his girlfriend Poisony, and in one chapter sings him a lullaby.
- In "A Backup Plan", the Lemony Narrator quips on the homoerotic undertones of Wolfrun giving Joker a back massage, and later in the same chapter, Joker, while very loopy, tells Akaoni that he loves him.
- Andro in The Keys Stand Alone: The Soft World falls under this trope. Although he has the gorgeous Gynora trailing after him all the time, he pays little attention to her; and when Paul describes his behavior during their one and only training session, it sure sounds like he might have some interest in Paul. However, either Paul doesn't think so or he's consciously rejecting the possibility, since he never mentions being made uncomfortable by the guy—not for those reasons, anyway.
- Ruby and Nora: Though he was in a relationship with Ren, Jaune dies before his sexuality could be fully explained.
- In A Northern Dragoness, Jonnel Stark concludes that King Baelor's distate for women, lack of fighting ability and refusal to bed his wife mean he's a "sword swallower", and promptly freaks out at the idea of the king developing an interest in him. However, Baelor could be only The Fundamentalist, driven by chastity and forgiveness, but we are not party to his thought process.
- Early in With This Ring, whether or not the SI was attracted to Superboy, or just over-protective, was a point of debate.
- Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series:
- Pegasus is an even stronger example of this trope than the original. He goes so far as to violently defend this image, as once the side characters find out that Pegasus had a wife, he knocks them unconscious with the words "I can't have people thinking I'm straight".
- Bakura, to the point where his own personalities can't agree on the issue.Bakura: I'm not gay, I'm just British!
Yami Bakura: I'm not British, I'm just gay. - Marik is either in a Transparent Closet or out and dating Yami Bakura, although it's less ambiguous and more Marik failing to even realize he's gay.Marik: Oh, what, just because a guy likes to dress effeminately and hang around with another extremely attractive man and read yaoi and flaunt his gorgeous abs and stroke a phallic symbol suggestively in every other scene, that automatically makes him gay?!
Bakura: ...Kinda.
