Category:Ho Yay
Those moments of plot, dialogue, acting, etc., that fans delight in interpreting as homoerotic.
It probably originates from the old days, when the homosexuality taboo was serious enough that every gay pairing was considered a Crack Pairing, so when authors wrote characters as very intimate with each other, everyone just accepted that they are just very good friends, and moved on, or when they wrote outright references to homosexuality, everyone just laughed at the sheer absurdity of the thought, and moved on.
With the emergence of Yaoi Fans and Yuri Fans, and the more open-minded writers, this changed forever. Nowadays, fans willingly interpret any interaction as potentially gay, even for characters without canon orientations and even for those specifically stated by their creators to be straight.
In the related trope called Foe Yay, even rivals or mortal enemies can get this treatment by fans and writers alike, especially if they have a more friendly past together, or one is inordinately obsessed with the other. In Fanfic, this is the direct cause of many a Slash Fic.
This trope does not include genuine ship teases or scenes of intentional Homoerotic Subtext between straight characters.
Subcategories
This category has the following 8 subcategories, out of 8 total.
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Pages in category "Ho Yay"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 247 total.
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- Ace Attorney/Ho Yay
- Ah! My Goddess/Ho Yay
- Ai Kora/Ho Yay
- Ai Yori Aoshi/Ho Yay
- Air Gear/Ho Yay
- Akira/Ho Yay
- Amatsuki/Ho Yay
- Angel Beats!/Ho Yay
- Angel Densetsu/Ho Yay
- Angel Sanctuary/Ho Yay
- Angel/Ho Yay
- Angelique/Ho Yay
- Aoi House/Ho Yay
- Arakawa Under the Bridge/Ho Yay
- Arashi no Yoru ni/Ho Yay
- Avatar: The Last Airbender/Ho Yay
- Axis Powers Hetalia/Ho Yay
- Azumanga Daioh/Ho Yay
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- Baccano!/Ho Yay
- Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu/Ho Yay
- Bakemonogatari/Ho Yay
- Bakugan/Ho Yay
- Bakuman。/Ho Yay
- Banana no Nana (Manga)/Ho Yay
- Batman/Ho Yay
- Battle Royale/Ho Yay
- Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)/Ho Yay
- Beauty Pop/Ho Yay
- Berserk/Ho Yay
- Beyblade/Ho Yay
- Big Time Rush/Ho Yay
- BioWare/Ho Yay
- Bizenghast/Ho Yay
- Black Cat (manga)/Ho Yay
- Black Lagoon/Ho Yay
- Bleach/Ho Yay
- Blood+/Ho Yay
- Bobobo-Bo Bo-bobo/Ho Yay
- Bokurano/Ho Yay
- Break Blade/Ho Yay
- Bubblegum Crisis/Ho Yay
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Ho Yay
- Burn Up/Ho Yay
- Butterflies, Flowers/Ho Yay
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- D.Gray-man/Ho Yay
- D.N.Angel/Ho Yay
- Dance in the Vampire Bund/Ho Yay
- Deadman Wonderland/Ho Yay
- DearS/Ho Yay
- Death Note/Ho Yay
- Degrassi the Next Generation/Ho Yay
- Demashita! Powerpuff Girls Z/Ho Yay
- Detective Conan/Ho Yay
- Digimon/Ho Yay
- Discworld/Ho Yay
- Doctor Who/Ho Yay
- DOGS: Bullets & Carnage/Ho Yay
- Doki Doki School Hours/Ho Yay
- Doujin Work/Ho Yay
- Dragon Ball/Ho Yay
- Dramacon/Ho Yay
- Duel Masters/Ho Yay
- Durarara!!/Ho Yay
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J
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- Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha (anime)/Ho Yay
- Mahou Sensei Negima/Ho Yay
- Mai-Otome/Ho Yay
- MAR/Ho Yay
- Maria-sama ga Miteru/Ho Yay
- Merlin (TV series)/Ho Yay
- Metal Gear Solid/Ho Yay
- Metalocalypse/Ho Yay
- Mirai Nikki/Ho Yay
- Monochrome Factor/Ho Yay
- Monster (manga)/Ho Yay
- My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Ho Yay
- My-HiME/Ho Yay
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- Sailor Moon/Ho Yay
- Saiyuki/Ho Yay
- Saki (manga)/Ho Yay
- Samurai 7/Ho Yay
- Scrubs/Ho Yay
- Sengoku Basara/Ho Yay
- Sherlock Holmes (film)/Ho Yay
- Sherlock Holmes (novel)/Ho Yay
- Sherlock Holmes (TV series)/Ho Yay
- Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century/Ho Yay
- Sherlock/Ho Yay
- Sinfest/Ho Yay
- Smallville/Ho Yay
- So Ra No Wo To/Ho Yay
- Soul Eater/Ho Yay
- South Park/Ho Yay
- Space Ghost Coast to Coast/Ho Yay
- SpongeBob SquarePants/Ho Yay
- Star Driver/Ho Yay
- Star Trek/Ho Yay
- Star Wars Expanded Universe/Ho Yay
- Starlust Lover/Ho Yay
- Static Shock/Ho Yay
- Strike Witches/Ho Yay
- Supergirl/Ho Yay
- Supernatural (TV series)/Ho Yay
Media in category "Ho Yay"
The following 3 files are in this category, out of 3 total.
- Facts of Life les yay.jpg 604 × 646; 85 KB
- Incredible Hercules 121 019 w640.jpeg 640 × 967; 170 KB
- Incredible Hercules 121 020 w640.jpg 640 × 966; 154 KB