Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?: Difference between revisions

Contrast with [[Have I Mentioned I Am Gay?]]. If a character achieves this through acting gay, that is [[Gay Bravado]]. Contrast [[Armored Closet Gay]] when the person is both homophobic and gay.

 

 

== Anime and Manga ==

* In a case of "Have I Mentioned I Am A Heterosexual Male Today?", Kyo of ''[[Girl Got Game]]'', a [[Sweet Polly Oliver]] worrying that her secret has been compromised, tries to reinforce her cover by going around groping girls wildly. The results are mixed.

* In ''[[The Tyrant Falls in Love]]'', the main character Tatsumi, even after he has consensual sex with Morinaga, insists that he "is not a damned homo!".

* In ''[[Zero no Tsukaima (Light Novel)|The Familiar Of Zero]]'' has the flamboyantly [[Camp Gay]] stereotype bar owner Scarron, such as wearing dresses and having his all female staff refer to him as madamoiselle. Come to the surprise to both the viewers and the cast that Jessica is his daughter.

* In ''[[Angel Beats (Anime)|Angel Beats]]'', Hinata has to continually reinforce to Otanashi that he isn't like that, subverted later in the series.

* ''[[Light and Dark The Adventures of Dark Yagami (Fanfic)|Light and Dark The Adventures of Dark Yagami]]'': Dark Yagami could have this trope renamed in his dubious honor.

* Go to [[YouTube]], and look at any [[Animated Music Video]] depicting a really close relationship between two characters of the same sex. A very large percentage of the ones that aren't [[Shipping]] will comment in the description that it's not a [[Yuri]]/[[Yaoi]] video. Naturally, this makes you think about it more. The fact that they're usually set to love songs makes it funnier.

{{quote| '''Marik:''' Wait a second, are you coming onto me? I already ''told'' you, Bakura, I'm not gay!<br />

'''Bakura:''' Could've fooled me.<br />

'''Sora:''' Who said you were?<br />

'''Riku:''' Nobody. Because I'm not. Yeah. Totally straight. I love chicks. Yay boobs. }}

 

 

** Of course, the joke in that particular ending is that {{spoiler|he really ''isn't'' gay, he's an undercover FBI agent who has been pretending to be gay and to have been blackmailed for it}}. Or, arguably he really {{spoiler|is gay, having to pretend to his FBI superiors that he isn't gay and for the sake of the mission he had to "pretend to be gay".}}

* Seth in ''[[Superbad]]'': 90% of his dialogue is about how much he wants to have sex with girls who are far more attractive than a guy like him deserves, with the remaining 10% being devoted to his ''obsession'' with his "best friend" Evan.

* In ''[[The Lord of the Rings (Film)|The Lord of the Rings]]'', especially the extended cut, the filmmakers felt the need to make sure that we pointed out that SAM IS NOT GAY, despite all the unfortunately [[Ho Yay]] scenes later on. So, they forced in a few scenes with Rosie, who he does marry in the book as well, but who's hardly mentioned.

** A few scenes apparently equals one scene in Fellowship and the payoff of the marriage in Return of the king. Out of 12-ish hours of film. The fact that they got over the homophobic [[Values Dissonance]] that has come into play since the books were originally written and portrayed such a close platonic friendship between two men is progress.

== Live Action TV ==

* On ''[[The Colbert Report (TV)|The Colbert Report]]'', Stephen Colbert isn't gay, but he does claim that "Men know what men like". He also claims that the "Gay Agenda" (e.g. baby carrots) is to turn him, specifically, gay.

** Then there's the rainbow-themed closet parties he threw in college. Or the spectacular line "refuting" the gay-rights argument that nobody accuses straight people of ''choosing'' to be straight -- it went something like, "Damn right I chose to be straight! I wake up ''every morning'' and fight those urges!" Or [http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-june-11-2001/fruit-juice this] ''Daily Show'' piece which contains the classic line, "We don't ''hate'' gay people." [[Stupid Sexy Flanders|"We're just angry at the ones who turn us on."]]

** Played with on [http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/268494/march-30-2010/ricky-martin-is-gay this segment]<ref> March 30, 2010</ref> when Ricky Martin came out of the closet.

** However, one episode involving the future crew being descended from the current crew as a result of time travel stated that he died a bachelor, causing him to look disappointed and vaguely pensive. It could be taken as an implication of his true sexuality, though that's probably not what was intended.

** [[Lampshaded]] in the final episode in which Riker is speaking to Malcolm and then appears to ask him if he found Trip attractive - we discover however the scene has secretly changed, and Riker is now addressing Hoshi.

* Inverted with Jody Campbell of ''[[Soap]]'' (played by a young Billy Crystal). In the earlier seasons, he would shoehorn mentions of his homosexuality into damn near every scene he was in.

** Though to be fair, this was usually in response to another character (usually Bert) either insinuating or overtly insisting that Jody would be less gay if he would only date more women/do manly things. So basically, nearly ''everyone'' in the cast was obsessed with pointing out (or, in some cases, rather stridently denying) how very gay Jody was.

* A variant occurs with the [[Narrator]] of ''Breaking the Magician's Code''. The male narrator takes the opportunity in every episode to mention to us just how much he appreciates the Masked Magician's hot female assistants. This is, of course, accompanied by the camera work adopting a [[Male Gaze]].

** This just makes things more hilarious when he says something like "The secret to this illusion is hidden in the Magician's pants."

* Tomboy character Jo from ''[[The Facts of Life]]'' balances out her butch behaviour when she first arrives by constantly referring to her boyfriend Eddie, and getting into relationships with men more frequently than the other characters. Efforts to femme her up became increasingly blatant in later seasons. By the final season, she was married and wearing a skirt. Presumably, this was either to make her more marketable, or to discredit the [[Les Yay]] [[Subtext]] between Jo and Blair.

* ''[[I Carly]]'': Tomboy character Sam has a few episodes that seem intended to remind the audience that she's not actually a lesbian. One of them has her becoming "girly" to impress a guy. But still ends up beating a bully, impressing the guy with her strength... and he's never seen again. At best they have caused Sam to be considered bisexual, and episodes have just increased the Carly/Sam subtext by way of scenes like Carly chasing her around trying to get Sam to say words like "panties" or things like having Sam ripping a dress off Carly to perform in a beauty pageant.

*** Zelos's case is not helped by him being [[Bishounen|very pretty]] and [[Real Men Wear Pink|dressed in pink]].

*** Also not helped by the ''absurd'' amount of [[Ho Yay]] between him and Llyod, and let's not even mention that he and Llyod can [[Relationship Values|end up together]].

** Teddie probably fits this too, since, despite all his talk about scoring with a girl, {{spoiler|he seems pretty into kissing Kanji or the MC during the King's Game...}}

** Kanji: "[[Hiimdaisy|YOU SAYIN' I LIKE DUDES?!]]"

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_P1OhKUw6I This] parody of [[Bad Romance]] is all about this trope and [[Heterosexual Life Partners]].

** There's also [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCPY96Frtyw&feature=channel this] parody of a Jason Derulo song that might be even more heavy-handed on it.

* ''[[Homestar Runner]]'': Strong Bad tries to assert his heterosexuality as much as he can, particularly after flirtacious scenes between him and Homestar. And then there's [[Very Special Episode|Email brianrietta]]...

* The episode of James Gunn's PG Porn, "Squeal Happy Whores", features a guy [[Musical Episode|singing]] about the sex he plans to have with the girl he's singing to: "I'll be so rough, you'll gag / cause I'm the opposite of a fag!"

* William Murderface in ''[[Metalocalypse]]''. It shows in at least five episodes, including a time where he won't eat any food that is longer than it is wide, because it's too close to a penis. Pickles notes that for this to bother him so much, he must be thinking about dicks in mouths all the time.

** When Dethklok reveals that they will be designing a line of clothing, Murderface takes the podium and assures everyone that even though he is about to enter the fashion industry, he is not gay.

{{quote| '''Tyler:''' I like girls.}}

** Owen also gets this when [[Even the Guys Want Him|Justin]] is around. Unlike Tyler, it's [[Ambiguously Gay|less clear]] that he's [[Bi the Way|entirely straight]].

** Or the episode of ''[[Family Guy]]'' that suggests that the reason Cruise runs in all his movies is to escape his own gay thoughts (represented by an [[Imagine Spot]] balloon of himself noticing attractive men on the film crew).

* Let's face it--we all know somebody like this.

* One famous example: When Cindy Crawford and Richard Gere were married there were rumors that the marriage was a cover for one or both of them being gay. In 1994 they placed a full page paid advertisement in the London Times to state "We are heterosexual and monogamous and take our commitment to each other very seriously."

* Upon becoming President [[George W Bush]]'s new Chief of Staff in 2006, 51 year-old bachelor Josh Bolten had a press release sent out, letting everyone know that he lived with his girlfriend and her children. Also, it detailed his loves of bowling and motorcycles.

* From an actual magazine cover: ''"[[Justin Bieber (Music)|Justin Bieber]]! He's young! He's a star! And he just loooooooooooves girls!"'' Glad we cleared ''that'' up...

** From an official Justin Bieber bio book: "GIRLS GIRLS ''GIRLS'' '''[http://tcforums.com/public/temp/bieberisnotgay.jpg GIRLS]'''"[[hottip:*: [[Father Ted|DRINK! FECK!]]

* Christian Weston Chandler has a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj0TmphLDsQ&feature=related bit] of a problem with this.

* [[Fox News]] was more than glad to help clear up any possible rumors about 2012 Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty. [http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/05/tim-pawlenty-is-definitely-not-gay/238485/ Just to be clear.]