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You are very correct. This is an audience reactions trope, the intentional version is Homoerotic Subtext.
Of course, can it even be called subtext in Yugioh Abridged?
Edited by Nodrm7^ No, it wouldn't fit Homoerotic Subtext either: "(This trope) does not cover any Ship Teases or actual homoerotism, where the characters may indeed be gay or bisexual for each other."
Guess I'll just cutlist the page then.
If you know that it's Ship Tease then shouldn't you move the examples to the appropriate place before the page is cut? If they're Ship Tease, move them to Ship Tease, or a Ship Tease sub-page.
Look at all that shiny stuff ain't they pretty^ Doesn't fit that either. Ship Tease is when the author "teases the fans with hints about possible romantic entanglements, and thereby builds that emotional attachment between the show and the audience as much as they can." There is no subtext whatsoever in Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged, all characters are at the very least Ambiguously Bi and make obvious advances towards others, regardless of gender.
The page is a collection of jokes about the characters' pervertedness, all of which are intrinsically tied to actual, unambiguous homoeroticism.
Edited by TantaMontyFrom what I recall, some of the abridged thiefshipping stuff has gone from jokes to genuine Ship Tease in some places, so some of that might be able to be moved. The rest should probably go, though.
"Let’s see who’s stronger: someone that has something to protect, or someone that has nothing to lose."There is only entry that mentions "Thiefshipping", and it's not so much a tease as it's about a character explicitly coming out:
- And now in Marik Plays Bloodlines episode 6, Marik has admitted that he's gay and keeps a whole folder filled with Thiefshipping pictures on his computer. Amazingly, he still denies that any of this is true, at first claiming that Bakura couldn't hear him, and then blaming the ghost in the game. It's becoming increasingly obvious that the only thing stopping Marik and Florence from being full-on Yaoi Guys is Marik's inexplicable insistence that he is not gay.
For one thing, my point is that if it fits somewhere else, it ought to be moved rather than cut outright.
But for another thing, there being no subtext of their sexuality does not mean anything about the subtext of them being in a relationship. Ship Tease is about teasing the relationship, not about teasing the sexuality.
What you quoted doesn't even imply that there needs to be sexuality subtext. It says that there's teasing (or subtext) about possible romantic entanglements. The description even says that there does not need to actually be a relationship in order for this to count. It says the writers may "tease a relationship that either never comes up or takes a hard right just as it gets going."
Look at all that shiny stuff ain't they prettyYeah, retrope the examples to the appropriate intentional (by the author) tropes first, like Double Entendre, That Came Out Wrong, Ship Tease, whatever fits the particular example. When that's done, it can be cutlisted.
Covered in Star Wars Cleanup, Deadpool, and Web Video sand. I'm not coarse and rough, but I get everywhere.There you go: Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series has been created. I also took the liberty to sort the examples into folders. How does it look?

From what I could understand, Ho Yay is when fans interpret a certain situation as homoerotic, which does not include scenes or moments where the homoeroticism is deliberate on the part of the author.
If that's correct, then every single example in Yu Gi Oh The Abridged Series constitutes misuse, as one of the cornerstones of this series' humour is the fact that every single character is a Depraved Bisexual who blatantly hits on everyone else. I just want to make sure I understood this trope before cutlisting the page.