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{{IndexTrope}}
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[[File:TonySteveYA.jpg|link=Young Avengers|frame| Notice the hand? So have all the shippers.]]
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{{quote|'''Beetle''': Get a grip, Booster. You're acting like some jilted lover.
'''Booster''': [http://i44.tinypic.com/9hji1f.jpg Well, that's what it *feels* like!] }}
** [http://i40.tinypic.com/nx3z2r.jpg This page.]
** This exchange from ''JLI Spectacular #1'':
{{quote|'''Beetle''': That's what I like about you, Gold--you're a man after my own heart!
'''Booster''': And that's just about all I'm after. }}
** Ted (Blue Beetle II) gets a bit with Dan Garrett (Blue Beetle I), too, although it's all in flashbacks or posthumous. When Ted explains how he came to take over the Blue Beetle mantle, he flashes back to Dan's final moments, during which we see Dan ''caress Ted's face'' while making him promise to fight in his place. Later, when the stress of the job gets to Ted, he talks to and caresses his photo of Dan.
** Some Ho Yay can be spotted when Ted goes out drinking with Firestorm. Of course maybe that's just because Booster is at home sulking that Ted is out with another guy.
** As of ''Generation Lost'', [[Foe Yay|Max Lord]] seems to have gotten in on this. His fight with Booster reads so much like an abusive, jealous ex that fandom's started making cracks about how his killing Ted was really just so he could have Booster all to himself.
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* Captain America and Bucky. [http://superdickery.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&catid=29%3Aconfounding-comic-covers-index&id=1252%3Abucky-gets-bitch-slapped-and-it-is-awesome&Itemid=24 At least from Bucky anyway].
** Oh, honey, that's mutual. Cap almost constantly mourned Bucky when he was brought out of the ice; he had to be snapped out of it with an intervention. And there was an Elseworld where Namor woke Cap and the only word he could say was "Bucky."
* [[Captain America (comics)]] and [[Iron Man]] get this a lot too.
** The entirety of ''[[Civil War (Comic Book)|Civil War]]: The Confession'' reads like a horrifically bad break-up between Cap and Tony Stark. Once you get to the point where Tony's sobbing over Cap's corpse and saying, "It wasn't worth it", it's practically undeniable.
*** As mentioned in the list of slashy moments, there's even a point in ''Civil War'' where [[Moon Knight]] tells Cap that he and Tony should just get a room and leave the rest of the heroing community out of their spat.
*** It gets even more blatant by the end of "Fallen Son" because it culminates with Tony with telling {{spoiler|the dead}} Cap "I miss your battle cry".
*** To top of all this off, Rogers and Stark are ''married'' on [[Alternate Universe|Earth-3490]] (in which Stark was [[Gender Bender|born as a woman]]). The featured image of the couple has [http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Natasha_Stark_%28Earth-3490%29 Cap and Natasha "Iron Woman" Stark kissing on their wedding day, in full costume].
*** It was only a matter of time before someone photoshopped Tony's signature beard (no, not Pepper) over said image.
** For that matter, the fans who ship [[Captain America (comics)]] and [[Iron Man]] together have a list of [http://community.livejournal.com/cap_ironman/539696.html one hundred and counting] [[Ho Yay]] moments between the two. Most look like nothing more than the actions of two [[Heterosexual Life Partners|teammates and good friends]], but several, including [http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j144/crimsonquills/slashymoments/Avengersv370-RedZone06-TheGreatEsca.jpg dramatic] [http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j144/crimsonquills/slashymoments/Avengersv370-RedZone06-TheGreatE-1.jpg mouth]-to-[http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j144/crimsonquills/slashymoments/Avengersv370-RedZone06-TheGreatE-2.jpg mouth] and ''especially'' one that is [http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j144/crimsonquills/slashymoments/Eyes.jpg just as (arguably) bad] as the Superman/Batman example above, make it [http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j144/crimsonquills/slashymoments/TonySteveYA.jpg fairly] [http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/Muccamukk/Cap_IM/Avengers1-215.jpg difficult] to see the two as [[Just Friends]].
** And now, thanks to ''Dark Reign: Fantastic Four'', we have, as one commentator put it: [http://asylums.insanejournal.com/scans_daily/162515.html "So they're basically saying that Tony and Steve aren't gay, but if they had the opportunity to have it be heterosexual, they'd totally get together."] Subtle, Marvel. Really.
** And ''that's'' without mentioning the time Tony's armour became sentient and started acting like [[Fan Nickname|an abusive boyfriend]], refusing to let him see his friends and current [[Love Interest]], demanding that Tony get inside it, and eventually taking him to an island and torturing him...where Tony's memories of Steve helped him keep fighting.
** Read [http://ironmanfanatic.blogspot.com/2011/01/avengers-prime-5-tonysteve.html the end] of ''Avengers Prime'' and try to say that it doesn't sound like that scene in romantic comedies where the guy admits what a jerk he's been and praises the girl to the high heavens so they can be together. Just look at Tony's face when Steve hugs him!
*** Tony: "I'm not half as good at -- at anything as I am when I'm doing it next to you." ''He sounds like he's proposing!''
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** [http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_l2kqxq0waX1qzl89so1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJ6IHWSU3BX3X7X3Q&Expires=1320465058&Signature=t9V1vm797HW4w89Ga1pFF2xMY1w%3D There's also this page.] There have actually been a few other hints in the comic itself in recent times, like Wondy saying she doesn't have a boyfriend ''or a girlfriend'' at one point.
** In ''Wonder Woman'' #4 of Brian Azzarello from the New 52 Universe {{spoiler|Hera acts toward Hippolyta more as if she was cheating on her instead of her husband Zeus.}}
* Explicit in ''Nexus'', where Sundra had a fling with Jil. Kind of makes you wonder just how close Sundra and Ursula were once upon a time.
** In [http://asylums.insanejournal.com/scans_daily/703263.html#cutid1 Nexus #102], {{spoiler|Ursula demands that Sundra leave Horatio so that the two of them, Ursula and Sundra, that is, can raise Sundra and Horatio's newborn son Harry together. Ursula also says to Sundra "But I loved you...I always...loved...you."}}
* In ''[[Supreme Power]]'', Mark Milton (Hyperion) and half the male cast members, most notably Blur and Doc Spectrum. His first battle with Spectrum is a BDSM-laden spectacle, complete with Mark begging him to hit him.
* Marvel's ''[[Incredible Hercules]]'' features the titular muscular shirtless demigod [[Public Domain Character]] traveling around with teenager Amadeus Cho. The innate Ho Yay was [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] by the Amazons in issue #121, who kidnapped Cho upon mistaking him for Herc's [[wikipedia:Eromenos|eromenos]]. A shocked Cho replies "I've read those internet postings too, and take it from the source, it's total bull!" followed soon by a defensive "The technical term is 'adventuring companions.'" Pages [[media:
** In the ''Prince of Power'' mini, one villain taunts Cho by saying "Heard someone killed your boyfriend." Cho doesn't bother responding.
*** Said mini also features one character (Delphyne, the same one appearing in the above-linked scenes) openly state that she believes Cho cares about Hercules above all others.
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** Also, Green Arrow and the Flash (Barry Allen) once had an [http://images.wikia.com/marvel_dc/images/4/46/Flash_Green_Lantern_Brave_and_the_Bold_4.jpg epic jealous blowout] over which of them was Hal's ''real'' BFF (masquerading as an ideological clash...what a flimsy excuse...)
* After Oracle formed the [[Amazon Brigade|Girl Power]] team [[Birds of Prey]], she and Black Canary built up something that can only be called a long-distance lesbian relationship. At one point when Oracle was dating Nightwing, he was showering at her place, and Black Canary assumed it was her showering. So, of course, she saw no problem at all with barging in on her.
** It helps that the definitive writer of the series, [[Gail Simone]], encourages fans to write femme-[[Slash Fic]] about them.
*** And some femme-[[Slash Fic]] about Huntress and Black Canary and [[Slash Fic]] about Huntress and Oracle.
** It wasn't just Gail Simone who did it. Chuck Dixon, the series original writer, could pack quite a bit of this trope into the two characters even before they met face to face. The letter columns were filled with fan theories that this was Canary rebounding after her relationship with Green Arrow. Printing images like [http://i573.photobucket.com/albums/ss175/galateus/comics/babsdinah-25uo2a0.jpg this] (when they actually met for the first time) helped.
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** In the Ultimate Universe, Ultimate Johnny ends up dating Ultimate Spider-Woman, who in this world is essentially a duplicate of Peter Parker, including memories and personality, but in a female body. The original Peter is pretty horrified by this.
*** (On a side note, just before Johnny announces his new relationship, Bobby Drake (Ice-man) tells Peter that he looks pretty. Repeatedly. Ultimate Comics Spider-man #9: Gayest and most awesome issue ever.)
** One Universe away from 616 Jack Storm and Reed Richards are a married couple.
* [[X-Men (Comic Book)|The Juggernaut and Black Tom]] were cellmates in prison for a while, and were partners ("in crime") for a really long time after getting out. Any time Black Tom got hurt, the Juggernaut would literally ''cry''. ''The Juggernaut'', bitch. And there's been [http://community.livejournal.com/scans_daily/1326570.html?thread=40762090#t40762090 naked cuddles]. And of course, after he slept with an alternate universe's She-Hulk, he commented, "Sometimes it's just better with women."
* Wonder Man, of [[The Avengers (Comic Book)|The Avengers]] and Beast, of the Avengers and [[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]. When Wonder Man comes back from the dead yet again in the pages of the Busiek/Perez Avengers, Beast shows up (with a bouquet of roses!) and gives him a big tackle, then a sloppy kiss on the lips.
** In the last issue of the most recent incarnation of Marvel's [[Alternate Universe]] comic ''[[Exiles]]'', the team's Alterna-Beast chose not to return to his own universe because, with his lover Wonder Man dead, there was nothing there for him.
** Oh, you must mean [http://i881.photobucket.com/albums/ac19/Rem_Rant/Beastkiss.jpg this sloppy kiss on the lips].
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*** There's [[Word of Gay]] for Terra? Really?!...Link please-and-thank-you.
* Okay, so there was some homoeroticism in the interaction between Phat and Vivisector in ''X-Force'' and ''X-Statix''. It's just that after a while it was revealed to not be subtextual at all; the fat man and the werewolf bang.
* Aside from the apparent dates between [[Captain America (comics)]] and [[Iron Man]], the ''[[Marvel Adventures]]: Avengers'' series pulled off some [[Les Yay]] between Storm and Giant-Girl when Hatemonger's emotion-influencing device went haywire. The two went from yelling their heads off and attacking each other to an embrace and talking about how jealous they were of each other. [[Spider-Man]] even mutters "Maybe... they're gonna..." to himself as the other Avengers watch.
* Heavy hints were dropped about Cassie Hack's sexuality a couple of times in early ''[[Hack Slash]]'' stories, before it was confirmed that she was a bisexual in the ongoing comic series.
* Rictor and Shatterstar of ''X-Force'' were heavily implied to have feelings for each other that went beyond being best friends, complete with late-night conversations about why Shatterstar was so uninterested in the beautiful women hitting on him in clubs, [http://i56.tinypic.com/akvjmp.jpg unsubtle text boxes], holding hands in the moonlight, and taking one room with just one bed in the X-Force '99 annual. Both characters more or less disappeared for a while, then Rictor shows up in ''X-Factor''. There, he confirms he swings both ways, but denies that he's interested in Quicksilver - then, Jamie makes a sly comment about Shatterstar and Rictor chokes on his drink.
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** Norman Osborn's default interaction with anybody seems to be creepy sexual tension. A notable recent example is [http://mattlovescomics.tumblr.com/post/326543365/time-for-some-norman-osborn-watching-namor-shower him watching Namor shower]. Also, if his early relationship with Peter Parker was supposed to be paternal, it was the sort of paternal that gets you arrested.
*** Heck, he even had this with Trapster, a minor Spidey/[[Fantastic Four]] villain. Of course the twist there was that Spidey was disguised as new supervillain Dusk, whom Trapster took under his wing in the hopes that they could kill Spidey together.
** At one point the Chameleon outright says "I love you, Peter."
* In ''[[Ultimate Spider-Man]]'', there's a scene where Gwen Stacy assures Mary Jane that she loves Peter like a brother, not romantically. She then tops it off by saying that "she's not even sure she's into boys anyway.", eying MJ suggestively.
* The idea of [[Les Yay]] between [[She Hulk]] [[The Avengers (Comic Book)|and Wasp]] has been played for [[Fan Service]] and laughs at least once. Back during her [[No Fourth Wall|fourth wall-breaking days]], Jen ends up reviewing potential new creative teams for her comic, all of which actually did pages for the issue, intentionally poking fun at their usual work. Of note for ''this'' trope was Adam Hughes (AKA: "He of Cheesecake Art"), whose submission had Janet going into combat ''naked'' because the clothes she'd been wearing that day hadn't been particle-treated, and Jen appears to ''enjoy the view'' before rushing off to join in the upcoming fight as well.
** Jen's recent friendship with the Skrull Jazinda had some pretty strong undertones as well, to the point where Jazinda, captured and about to be dissected by the government, is ''almost'' certainly about to say "I always loved you" when her connection gets cut. This is [[Peter David]] again, so, not that surprising.
*** Not to mention that PAD had fun with She-Hulk and Thundra... Jazinda jokes that She-Hulk and she met through an inter-galactic lesbian dating service and Thundra expresses disappointment when She-Hulk denies this. And of course, Thundra is the leader of a society in an alternate future where men and women are engaged in a genocidal war and so options for partnership are somewhat limited. Given her background, it's somewhat surprising her Les Yay hasn't been played up more but then, she started out as more of a straw feminist than anything.
*** Hell, Jazinda canonically has the hots for Jen...one half of this pairing is already in place.
* ''[[Sam and Max Freelance Police]]''. Being [[Heterosexual Life Partners]] doesn't help them enough, there's plenty of subtext in every media. They usually play along when it's played for laughs, but, seriously, they don't really like the idea.
* In one Superman comic, when Mon-El was subbing for him, he talks with a restauraunt owner who seems really excited about going off for a bite with him. {{spoiler|Turns out it's Matter-Eater lad in disguise, and he was just excited about eating. The fangirls were crushed.}}
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