Category:Ho Yay/Western Animation: Difference between revisions

* ''[[The Amazing World of Gumball]]'': Gumball and Darwin have shades of this, particularly in "The Pressure" and "The Prank". "The Third" acts like them getting a new friend is like adding a third person to a relationship.

* ''The Ambiguously Gay Duo''. [[Word of Gay]] stated that one of them is gay and the other straight... and leaves us to guess which one is which.

** In "Family Affair," Roger comments on how cute Tyler (the teenage son of the family who first abandoned Roger) has become.

** Then theres this line from "Stan's Night Out" when Jackson's talking to Dick.

* The one episode of ''[[American Dragon Jake Long]]'' where Jake is in a play. He's about to kiss the girl in one scene of the play, but it turns out the "girl" is actually his best friend. Having to keep up appearances and the flow, they kiss, followed by "Ugh!" noises from both parties. Still, it was funny.

** Jake also wakes up kissing Fu Dog in one episode. This time the kiss is on-screen.

** Blake always seemed a little too obsessed with winning Carl's friendship.

* It seems everyone in ''[[The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes|Avengers Earths Mightiest Heroes]]'' is gay for [[Captain America]]. In "Living Legend" most of the male characters had a Man crush on Captain America. There were also a few [[Ho Yay]] moments with Bucky in the episodes set in the past.

** As mentioned in the comic book section, has Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy. In the episode where their partnership was formed, they walk around Ivy's secluded trailer in [[Sex Dressed|nothing but dress shirts and underwear]] and constantly talk about how men are worthless, and in later episodes they share an apartment and continue to walk around in rather skimpy clothing (when Harley is not with the Joker). A later episode has the (scantily-clad) Ivy pushing the (scantily-clad) Harley down onto their hotel room's (single) bed with a pillow, at which point the scene abruptly ends. [[Word of God]] is that Harley & Ivy are indeed in such a relationship, off and on.

** Matt Hagen and Teddy Lupin in the episode ''Feat of Clay'', two friends who are definitely [[Ambiguously Gay]] with all of Teddy's fawning over Matt and Hagen's violent mood swings being very much like an abusive relationship.

** They manage to throw a [[Shout-Out]] to the Joker's [[Foe Yay|creepy obsession with Bats]] in ''[[Batman: Mask of the Phantasm|Mask of the Phantasm]]'' animated movie.

{{quote|'''Joker:''' This guy looks more like the Ghost of Christmas Past. Nowhere near as cute as the Batboy.}}

** In the [[Freaky Friday Flip]] episode "A Fine Mess", Odd (in Yumi's body) suggests Ulrich to train with him in order to prepare for his confession to Yumi. [[Ship Sinking|Ulrich is disgusted and calls the idea sick.]]

** The episode "Killer Music" effectively acts as their breakup episode. {{spoiler|Odd annoys Ulrich into leaving their shared bedroom, after which Xana attacks Odd, hospitalizing him. For the rest of the episode, Ulrich seemed incredibly depressed and refused to leave Odd's side. He stroked Odd's head in a scene that makes it appear he was about to kiss Odd! And when the other group members finally convinced him to leave, it was to ''beat the crap out of the guy who hurt Odd''. The final scene had Ulrich smiling and all but blushing at Odd dancing around in his boxers and striking one of the most effeminate poses of the entire show. Once again, it really looked like they were gonna' kiss.}} Unless you knew the back-story of the series, you would have thout they were dating!

* This is intentionally done on ''[[Code Monkeys]]'' with Dave and Jerry, though it's probably one sided as Jerry is shown to be effeminate at times. In one episode he declares himself gay for Mitch ([[Sweet on Polly Oliver|who is his love interest Mary in disguise but he didn't know that]]). He also in another episode said he might be gay for giants after forming a friendship with a wrestler based on Andre the Giant. Beside that he is just very dependent on Dave. In one episode he even says maybe they are meant to be more than best friends while they are both high because he believes they are having the shared hallucination. Dave punches him and he nervously says he was just kidding.

* ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'': Numbuh 5 and {{spoiler|Heindrich/Henrietta}}. Every story with them in it has 5 acting like a mournful lover whose partner had gone to the dark side. There's much mentioning of what they once were and she never wants to cause her harm, always trying to save her and bring her back to her. And their reunion was so fluffy and SWEET. Many fans were shipping this like crazy and were shocked and horrified upon the revelation of the truth. They even pretend the last part didn't happen. For others, this made the ship a whole lot better.

** [[Mind Game Ship|There's also]] [[The Hero|Numbuh 1]] and the three-fifths male [[Creepy Child|The Delightful Children]] which is not only [[No Yay|seriously squicky]] by itself, but they're also {{spoiler|technically adopted cousins}}.

** When The Delightful Children had to kiss Numbuh 3 in a school play, both the male ''and'' the female ones lean forward and pucker up.

* ''[[Combo Ninos]]'' has many Ho Yay moments between the two main villains, Diadoro and Gomez. An example? In an episode, when a Divino is rather violently summoned, Gomez jumps in Diadoro's arms, Diadoro throws him out, and Gomez jumps back, saying "Five more seconds, they're so comfy!". Another moment is when Gomez asks Diadoro something. Before answering, Diadoro tickles Gomez's chin and Gomez ''blushes''! A third (and last) example is in an episode where a Divino makes everyone dance. At the end of the episode, the two bad guys are still dancing the tango, even though the Divino is defeated since a moment! They stop and Diadoro realizes at last that they're no longer under the Divino's spell. Gomez confesses that he knew that already, but wanted to dance a bit more. Diadoro throws him out violently. He seems to hesitate while seeing Gomez's sad face, then admits that "I kinda liked it. Felt very... macho." And they ''start dancing again''! And they're not the only moments...

* ''[[Courage the Cowardly Dog]]'' has "The Mask," in which Courage meets the [[Fantastic Racism|dog-hating]] Kitty (who likes to hide behind the titular mask). The reason for her hatred of dogs? Her "best friend" Bunny is in an abusive relationship with a dog. Kitty goes on about how she can't bare to live without Bunny, and she has a little catnip mouse given to her by Bunny "with love." When they're reunited at the end (after Courage rescues Bunny), they run away together while hugging and nuzzling and talking about how now, they can be best friends ''forever.'' It's also [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|one of the more heartwarming moments in the series]], so there you go.

** Also, Danny and Tucker. As if their snuggle with each other when they were both sleeping wasn't enough, consider this: they claim to share '''EVERYTHING''' together. The mind wanders...

* [[Daria]] and Jane. Frankly, the [[Ship-to-Ship Combat]] between Daria/Trent and Daria/Tom makes this look like a sane [[Take a Third Option|third option.]]

** Also, Quinn and Sandy. They show more affection for each other at the end of "Fat Like Me" than they do for any boy either of them dates.

* [[Darkwing Duck (animation)|Darkwing Duck]] and Launchpad (who is unabashedly the world's biggest Darkwing fanboy) live together [[Has Two Mommies|raising Darkwing's daughter]], take an instant dislike to and are incredibly suspicious of each other's female love interests ([[Dating Catwoman|Morgana]] and a [[Green-Skinned Space Babe]] respectively), and got an [[Accidental Kiss]].

* ''[[Generator Rex]]'': When Rex finds out that Noah is working for Providence, what ensues would fit better in a romantic comedy than an action show.

** [[Crossover|Heroes United]] has quite a bit between Ben and Rex. {{spoiler|Including having [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|Upgrade Ben going inside Rex]].}}

* ''[[Glenn Martin, DDS]]'' does everything but outright say Wendy has a crush on Courtney.

** At one point, even that's not true anymore:

* The (particularly awesome) Disney crossover between the ''[[Hercules (Disney film)|Hercules]]'' and ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'' animated series, "Hercules and the Arabian Night," has Hades meeting Jafar. It takes about five minutes before they start acting like an old married couple, complete with Hades calling Jafar "babe" every two minutes.

** They are also surprisingly touchy-feely towards the other (well, Hades is [[No Sense of Personal Space|like that with everyone]], but Jafar??). Also at the end, when they are seemingly about to win, Hades offers Jafar the chance to [[We Can Rule Together|join him in his Olympus coup d'etat]], along with godhood and even his own title! That's almost a marriage proposal.

* ''[[Invader Zim]]'': Zim and Dib. [[Most Fanfic Writers Are Girls]] turned this into a massive joke and (one of) the fandom's largest sources of [[Internet Backdraft]], but even the most diehard slash-haters can't deny the creepily intense-bordering-on-[[Foe Yay]] obsession the two harbour for each other, mixed with grudging respect, [[The Only One Allowed to Defeat You]] to the extreme, and an unhealthy dose of co-dependence. One incomplete episode (although the audio recording survives) featured Dib "retiring" from fighting Zim to follow "real science", resulting in him becoming bored and miserable and Zim turning into a depressed, unmotivated slob until the two renewed their rivalry, ending with them joyfully proclaiming the various ways they will "defeat" the other.

** Also, the implied one-sided Keef/Zim in the episode "Bestest Friend". Keef was a human kid who practically became obsessed with Zim, including stalking him, hugging him, painting a naked picture of him, and saying that he "likes" Zim. He continues to believe he's friends with Zim even after Zim rejects him. And this line by Gir to Zim about Keef:

* While admittedly [[The Ditz|Charlotte]] of ''[[Making Fiends]]'' is [[Friend to All Living Things|endlessly friendly to everyone]], her undaunted, frequently disturbing obsession with being [[Creepy Child|Vendetta]]'s "best friend" can easily be viewed as this. For her part Vendetta reacts with increasing levels of loathing and more attempts to kill her, but that only seems to increase Charlotte's resolve.

** In one episode Vendetta even makes Charlotte jealous by adopting Mary as her new best friend. Not only does this play like Les Yay for Charlotte and Vendetta, but Mary actually grows attatched to Vendetta, becomming very hurt when she learns she meant nothing to her.

** The [[Web First|web series]] had its share of this too. In one episode, Vendetta succeeds in having Charlotte get eaten by the giant cat fiend. Then in the next episode, Vendetta gets swallowed too. She meets Charlotte [[Artistic License Biology|in the stomach]]. Charlotte is thrilled, and when the cat swallows a piano, Charlotte starts singing a song about Vendetta. Best of all, Charlotte knew there was an "exit" all along.

* In addition to the [[Foe Yay|robo-incest tension between Mega Man and Proto Man]], Ruby-Spears' ''[[Mega Man (animation)|Mega Man]]'' had a more traditional example: In "Brain Bots", Mega Man and Roll get charged with escorting the brilliant but [[Genius Ditz|prone-to-dismantling-machinery-while-it's-still-in-use]] Brain Bot. At one point, they stop at a motel. We're shown their room--''and Mega Man and Brain Bot are occupying the same bed.'' There was no way the censors could have missed this, but they did.

** Misty and Jenny had an incredible amount of this.

** "Puppet Bride" - Little Acorn talks about how all the other puppets have a life partner: Punch has Judy. [[Sesame Street|Ert has Bernie]]...

* ''[[Oban Star Racers]]'' has [[Those Two Guys]] repeatedly saving each other's life, complete with spur-of-the-moment confessions that 'you're the best partner I could have had' and 'just run I'll hold them back' moments which make the one to which it's addressed jump on the perceived enemies to allow the first one to run away.

** Even more obvious is the relationship between the heroine's [[Jerkass|father]] and his racing champion, who met after the first lost his wife and [[Parental Abandonment|put his daughter in a boarding school]]. "How could you not tell me you had a wife" is but one example. The fact that the racing champion plays the part of both [[Big Brother Mentor]] to the heroine and [[Team Mom]] doesn't help.

** In the second-to-last episode, {{spoiler|Virgils father finds out that his son and his friend are superheros}}. He's not sure what to think of this, so Static and Gear try to win his approval. Dialogue then goes as follows. "But, pops, we've been doing it for a really long time!" Gear smiles and adds "Yeah, and we're pretty good at it, too!"

** In the episode "Attack of the Living Brain Puppets," Madeline reads Richie's mind and all he's thinking of is Virgil.

* In ''[[Storm Hawks]]'', it is revealed that Aerrow's darkest desire is to see his rival, The Dark Ace. On the ground in front of him. Defeated. ''Ooh.''

** Piper, who has had [[Les Yay]] moments with... every human/oid female on the show? Especially Starling and Master Cyclonis. See "Best Friends Forever". Also, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scNN3MJ9ZX0 this].

** Thundera's King Claudus and his general Grune certainly seemed ''close''.

** Likewise Claudus rushed to his dear friend {{spoiler|and general, Panthro}}'s [[Roaring Rampage of Rescue|rescue]] with somewhat foolhardy fervor. (He [[Ditch the Bodyguards|ditched his bodyguards]].)

{{quote|'''Panthro''': Grune, we've been ''[[Heterosexual Life Partners|inseparable]]'' ever since that first day we met on the battlefield.}}

* Tom and the mayor on ''Tom Goes to the Mayor'' sometimes seem to have some tension between them. It doesn't help that Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim, who portray Tom and the mayor, also portray a married couple in the same series (with Heidecker in drag).

** In "Wild Style" after Clover gets turned into a [[Catgirl]] the villainess of the episode calls her a "pretty kitty".

** Sam, Clover, and Alex sometimes have this between them, like in the episode "Stuck In The Middle Ages With You" where Sam and Alex disguise themselves as knights and rescue Clover who was dressed up as a princess to be the bride for an evil guy.

{{reflist}}

[[Category:Ho Yay]]

[[Category:Western Animation]]