Gay Groom in a White Tux/Playing With
Basic Trope: An Uke wears a white tux when he marries his Seme
- Played Straight: Alex and Bob are getting married. Bob wears a white tux with tails, and Alex wears a regular black tuxedo.
- Exaggerated: Bob actually wears a dress and veil.
- Inverted:
- Alex and Bob both wear regular black tuxes.
- Alice and Betty get married; Alice in a tuxedo and Betty in a white gown.
- Or Alice wore a black gown instead of a tuxedo.
- Alice and Bob get married; Bob in a tuxedo and Alice in a white gown.
- Alice and Bob get married; Alice in a tuxedo and Bob in a white gown.
- Alex and Bob get married. Bob wears black and Alex wears white.
- Bob wears a black suit and Alex wears a white dress.
- Justified:
- Alex and Bob follow a traditional dynamic in their relationship, with Alex taking a dominant role and Bob taking a submissive one. [1]
- Alex and Bob don't follow a traditional seme-uke dynamic, but are joking around.
- Subverted:
- Alex and Bob's ceremony has them both wearing matching black tuxes.
- Alex and Bob both wear white tuxes.
- Double Subverted: But Bob carries and tosses a bouquet.
- But Bob's tux has tails (a logical Spear Counterpart to the train on a bride's dress), and Alex's tux does not.
- Deconstructed:
- Reconstructed:
- Parodied:
- See "Exaggerated"
- Bob tosses a bouquet to his single friends.
- Lampshaded: "I now pronounce you Seme and Uke. You may kiss the...uh...gride."
- Averted:
- Alex and Bob wear the same tuxedo or suit.
- Alex and Bob don't marry in-series.
- Enforced: A Yaoi Fangirl writes a Fan Fiction about her OTP, and follows a traditional Seme and Uke dynamic.
- Invoked: See "Justified"
- Defied: Alex and Bob don't do the Seme-Uke thing, and don't want people to think they do, so they wear matching tuxes or suits.
- Discussed: "I wonder...if two men got married, would one of them wear a white tux with tails?"
- Conversed: "I dunno...I suppose it depends on the couple."
- Played For Laughs: Almost always is.
- Played For Drama: Bob is being forced to wear an outfit that reflects a submissive role by a controlling Seme.
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- ↑ (Note that this is only "traditional" in the context of the Boys Love Genre, not necessarily in Real Life gay or lesbian (or even heterosexual) relationships.)