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** France canonically is. [[Word of God]], volume 1.
** [[Word of God]] says that [[Word of Gay|Sweden's gay]], but [[Single-Target Sexuality|only for Finland]].
** This is what happens when 90% of your cast is male, but you still want to have romance/sexual tension/etc.
** Prussia is hinted to be in love with Hungary and is also shown to like Italy very much, only referring to him as "Italia-chan", considering him 'cute' and even going as far as to ask him on a date in the drama adaptation of his blog event, only for Italy to be oblivious to his question, having been fixated on Prussia's bird.
** S. Italy Romano. He can be very [[Hot and Cold]] for Spain, but he is somewhat of a womanizer as well (and there was that one time he had a crush on Belgium...)
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** Turkey is known for pursuing Japan and possibly Iceland, but in the past he also pursued Greece's mother Byzantine.
** [[Fanfic]] often portrays bisexuality as an integral part of being a nation, since technically they don't count as normal humans.
* ''[[Kaguyahime]]'': Mostly everyone but not only because of [[Even the Guys Want Him|Miller]] and [[Even the Girls Want Her|Akira]]. Except for [[Psycho Lesbian|Maggey and Mayu]], who both definitely think men are dicks.
* In ''[[Mnemosyne]]'', the entire issue of gender in sex is just discarded. For example, the main character Rin has shown to have sex with both males and females, with {{spoiler|the one person she's loved for over a millennia being the guardian of the Tree, and hence technically a haemaphrodite}}, and the rest of the cast is implied to simply go with what feels good to them. That said, however, gender is an issue to the greater storyline... {{spoiler|well, actually it's rather the ''mix'' of gender that's important. The point? The only characters with real tangible power in the entire anime are hermaphrodites. Aion is the most obvious...}}
* ''[[Gorgeous Carat]]'': Characters' sexualities are never addressed (except for a couple 'are you gay?' jokes at Ray's expense). [[Even the Guys Want Him|The guys just all want Florian.]]
* ''[[Vampire Game]]'': [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]], with the exceptions of Darres, Falan, Vord, and Ishtar, several of which still encourage all sorts of bizzare matchups.
* While almost ''any'' manga by [[CLAMP]] may qualify, ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura]]'' in particular stands out, what with most of its main characters having both opposite-sex and same-sex attractions.
* ''Dutch'' manga ''Penny's Diary'' [[Up to Eleven|turns this up to eleven]] as not only bisexuality such the norm that [[Funetik Aksent|"uniseksuals"]] ([[Yaoi Boys|a pair of classmates,]] the main character's straight best friend and [[Lipstick Lesbian|an aunt]]) are seen as a harmless quirk while casual sex is encouraged between anyone from [[Incest Is Relative|family]] (holidays traditionally ending in a post-dinner orgy,) [[Hot for Student|teachers with students]] and Mall Santa (St. Peter) and [[Biggus Dickus|Black Pete.]] ''The age of consent in the series is 4 and drawn in a chibi style.''
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* In S.M. Stirling's [[The Draka|Draka]] novels, the old 20th-Century genetically-unmodified-human Draka are straight, gay, or bi as the case may be (and with no shame or self-consciousness about their orientation ever); but the genetically-engineered New Race or ''Homo drakensis'' Draka, portrayed in ''Drakon,'' are all bisexual (and their sexual appetites always ravenous).
* [[Anne Rice]] 's [[The Vampire Chronicles|vampires]] are functionally asexual, but there's a ''lot'' of erotic subtext to their interactions nonetheless.
** Arguable with some other characters in the series, but Lestat is absolutely bisexual; he has an intense love affair with his male best friend before becoming a vampire (nothing subtextual about it; they kiss multiple times, live and sleep together, and are strongly implied to have sex), and harbors deeply erotic thoughts about him even after the transformation. Considering the nature of his inclinations and relationships afterward, it's pretty obvious that he retains a pronounced attraction to men even after his ability or desire for physical sex is lost when he becomes a vampire.
** In Armand's book, she finally had the main character have sex with persons of both genders before he was turned.
** The same author's ''Cry To Heaven'' runs on this trope. The main (castrated) male character has love affairs with people of both genders, although his same-sex relationships are more numerous and generally more dwelt upon by the author. His two most lasting affairs are with another castrated man and a woman, respectively, and he thinks of both of them as the loves of his life at different points in the novel. He even carries on a sexual relationship with a cardinal in Rome, who (at first) justifies the affair with the church's belief that castration renders the person neither male nor female, and thus [[Too Dumb to Live|a loophole to rules about celibacy.]] It doesn't last.
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* ''[[Swordspoint]]'' and ''The Privilege of the Sword'' -- perhaps not ''everyone'' is bi, but the only monosexual major characters are the villainous Lord Ferris (a depraved heterosexual, perhaps?) and {{spoiler|Marcus}}, whose straightness may or may not have been caused by childhood trauma (thereby inverting [[Rape and Switch]]).
* Due to the nature of a dragons mating flights and the fact that over 50% of the dragon population are females that mostly take male riders, it's implied that at least 80-90% of dragonriders in [[Anne McCaffrey]]'s [[Dragonriders of Pern]] series are at least bisexual. Only Gold riders (1%) and Bronzeriders (5%) are exclusively heterosexual.
* In Janet Morris' ''The High Couch of Silistra'' and sequels, while being straight seems to be the social norm, homosexual sex is apparently commonplace and completely acceptable. Estri, who begins the novel as a [[High
* In [[The Culture]], considering that the line between species and gender is completely blurred and deconstructed, everyone just seems to go with what they like, no matter what that is. And considering that Culture humanoid citizens can change gender and move into non-humanoid bodies with multiple sexes and... Look, suffice to say that if you brought up sexual orientation to a culture citizen they'd presume you were from a very ''very'' backwards planet.
** This is reflected in their language, which does not differentiate between sexes.
** In fact, Gurgeh from ''The Player of Games'' is considered bizarre because he's straight and has never changed his sex. A friend of his also seen as weird because she spends almost all of her time as female.
* In ''[[The Stone Dance of the Chameleon]]'' by Ricardo Pinto, sexuality is pretty much discarded as a point of interest, where straight and gay relationships are equally common-place. The problem comes where you have the Chosen (who are the undisputed 'supreme race' so to speak) and the other races (who act as their slaves and who aren't even allowed to look at their faces). Considering that all subservient races are completely oppressed by the Chosen and horrifically bound by The Law, their tends to be a ''lot'' of sexual abuse, rape, and subjugation of both genders of those races ... and some of the stuff the more sadistically-minded Chosen are into crosses the line of 'torture' and becomes [[Brain Bleach]] incarnate ([[Up to Eleven]]). In fact, when the main character (who is a Chosen, but brought up away from their culture), finds out that another Chosen has raped his half-slave brother, said Chosen can't understand why he's so upset and is genuinely shocked that he cares so much. Nuff said.
* [[Arthur C. Clarke]]'s novel ''Imperial Earth'' includes a line in which the protagonist's best friend is described as "aggressively normal," because he seems to have ''no'' preference between males or females -- most people in the late 23rd Century go both ways but have at least a slight inclination toward one gender or the other.
* [[Ursula K. Le Guin]]'s story collection ''A Fisherman of the Inland Sea'' deals with attempts at instantaneous space travel. The final story, ''Another Story or a Fisherman of the Inland Sea'', introduces the traditional culture of Planet O where pretty much everyone has to be bi for a successful marriage. Marriage is not between two people but four, two men and two women--a man and woman of the Morning moiety and an Evening man and woman. The Morning woman and Evening man, the Evening woman and Morning man, the Morning woman and Evening woman, and the Morning man and Evening man all have sex with each other, meaning every partner in the marriage has a husband and wife from the opposite moiety. (Sex within the moiety is forbidden, so the Morning man/woman and Evening man/woman in the marriage are strictly platonic. In fact, it's perfectly proper for siblings to be the Morning or Evening half of the foursome. Yes, this does mean that you are banging the same woman that your sister is regularly doing, and also the man who would otherwise be your brother-in-law.) The protagonist's mother, a Terran woman of Japanese descent, married in this way to be with the man she loves but finds it strange many years into the marriage, even though she is on good terms with her wife in the marriage.
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== Live Action TV ==
* In ''[[Torchwood]]'', everyone in the main cast is at the very least bi-curious. The ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode that introduces Jack Harkness states that his omnisexuality is common for the century (51st) that he grew up in, in which the [[Star Trek|Captain Kirk]] [[Boldly Coming|approach to first contact]] has been the norm for so long that species and gender lines have become muddled. As [[Steven Moffat]] explains, it's a future where the whole human race is pansexual. Of the Torchwood gang, Tosh and Owen are properly bisexual, Ianto is either just bi for Jack or lying about not being into men who are not Jack, Suzie is seen snogging Gwen, and Gwen doesn't elaborate on which aspect of being kissed by various female villains weirds her out.
** A flashback involving two female members of Torchwood 3 in the 19th century (Alice and Emily) shows that they are a lesbian couple. At least one of them may be bi, given that she finds Jack to be pretty, but that may simply require the possession of sight.
* ''[[The Daily Show]]''. ''Everybody'' on the show has either shown bisexual tendencies on screen, or simply mentioned having had sex with both genders.
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** In a subtler incidence, Marcus and Franklin pose as a newlywed gay couple when undercover on Mars. Nobody considers this unusual, though people aware that it's a cover do consider it funny - not the idea that they might be gay, but because they make such an ill-suited couple.
* [[Word of God]] for ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'' is that all Cylons are Bi. This is actually seen in the Three and Six models.
* In ''[[Farscape]]'', sexuality is completely by-passed as an issue. When you have trans-alien relationships, the actual gender of who you're attracted to becomes moot. It's also implied that humans are comparatively very rigid and backward when it comes to sexuality. Both D'Argo and Chiana seem surprised that humans generally start having sex so late (D'Argo first had sex when he was... seven, I think it was?), and Aeryn illustrates how in the Peacekeepers sex is fine as long as it doesn't involve any emotions. Chiana at least certainly doesn't make any distinction...
** One particularly amusing episode featured an alien who, after being [[Alien Scrappy|annoying comic relief]] for 47 minutes, closed out the show by coming on to D'Argo. Up to that point D'Argo and the viewers had assumed the alien was male (the role was filled by a male actor), but she assures everyone that she is in fact female and "Quite the looker." It's not clear whether D'Argo is more turned off by her masculine (by everyone else's standards) appearance or just by her personality. At episode's end Chrichton checks to make sure that Aeryn is in fact "The female of her species," (although he was probably just joking). It's hard to say where this episode puts the cast in terms of this trope, except to demonstrate just how weird and unpredictable ideas like sexual identity and gender roles become in a cross-species environment. If everyone isn't bi, they might as well be, because all terms and definitions are more or less out the window.
** Chiana is quite obviously [[Anything That Moves]] but there are plenty of comments by/about D'Argo in particular that reveal he just might go both ways as well. The two that come immediately to mind are when Chiana proposes that Crichton have sex to get over his writer's block and when asked with whom, Chiana replies "Me, him, whoever", referring to D'Argo. Also, in the episode when John gets married and asks D'Argo to be his best man, D'Argo replies "I'm with Chiana now, John", the implication being that he'd be perfectly willing to be John's ''best man'' if he was single.
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== Theatre ==
* [http://www.lashings.org Lashings of Ginger Beer]. ''Ohhhh'', Lashings of Ginger Beer.
* [http://www.sleepnomorenyc.com Sleep No More].
== Videogames ==
* ''[[The Sims]]'' - For simplicity's sake, every Sim can romance any other Sim, at least as far gender goes. There are some obstacles, but none of these are gender.
** The [[Expansion Pack]] ''[[The Sims 2]]: Nightlife'' complicates things: positive romantic interactions increase a Sim's invisible attraction score to that gender, allowing better chemistry. Gender preference can also decay, so if your [[Anything That Moves|Romance Sim]] flirts with male Sims all the time, they can suddenly stop being attracted to female Sims. Pretty weird, even for a game like ''The Sims''. Whereas if they flirt with both they will be attracted to both.
** The issue with ''The Sims'' was that a Sim would flirt with everyone. They changed it in ''2'' so that while a Sim would be amenable to sex with either sex, they would only autonomously have one preferred sex, defaulting to heterosexual but homosexual if the user chose to play them that way.
*** In The Sims 2, Sims are asexual by default untill a romantic intereaction is performed by or on them.
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* In ''[[Dragon Age II]]'', all the main romance options are available to both genders (fairly appropriately, one of them is voiced by Eve Myles from ''Torchwood''). DLC character Sebastian is the only heterosexual-only romance, as well as being non-sexual.
** Several of the non-romanceable companions are also implied to have bisexual tendencies to varying degrees. Aveline kisses Hawke regardless of gender at the end of her chapter 2 loyalty mission, Bethany expresses some curiosity about Isabela's sexual history with other women and Varric has some slightly flirty dialogue with Anders ([[Cargo Ship|though his heart belongs to Bianca, his crossbow]]). Even Bianca apparently feels some "confusion" when Isabela suggests she needs "a woman's touch on her trigger."
* In [[Magical Diary]] not only can the PC date both male and female options, but many NPCs have explicitly dated both, and no one raises an eyebrow.
* In ''[[Guild Wars 2]]'', the Sylvari are noted to be like this. They're a race of plants mimicking the humanoid form, are incapable of sexual reproduction, and socially have no concept of gender. Developer blogs about Sylvari society and culture have noted that Sylvari consider gender completely irrelevant, including in matters of love.
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* [[Word of God]] for ''[[The Challenges of Zona]]'' is that [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|the Erogenians]] practice "situational bisexuality" as a matter of course and that Zona and Tula have had lovers of both sexes.
* [[Ménage à 3]] starts out with a varied cast of gay and straight guys/girls with one Bi girl. By now, every single named character (and plenty of one-off extras) has had at least two or three instances where they've shown more than a little attraction for both genders, with the exception of the landlady and the guy who stays indoors and thinks it's still the 80's.
* ''[[Homestuck]]''. Troll reproduction centers around emotional relationships rather than a combination of biological equipment, so any pairing is viable for breeding, and sex is pretty much cosmetic. One troll (Karkat) even shows astonishment when the human characters try to explain the concept of monosexuality to him.
{{quote|'''Karkat''' [[No Indoor Voice|HUMANS HAVE A WORD FOR THAT?]]<br />
'''John''' Yes.<br />
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== Web Original ==
* ''[[Dirty Potter]]''
* Applies to all the male characters of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series|Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series]]'' with the exception of Pegasus, who plays [[Camp Gay]] to cover up his heterosexuality.
* [[Vocaloid]] has this in spades.
* [[TV Tropes]], more often than you'd suspect.
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