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== Anime And Manga ==

 

 

 

== Film ==

** It's said DeNiro took the role of Shakespeare out of deep regret at having passed on playing [[Pirates of the Caribbean|Jack Sparrow]]. Make of that what ye will.

* ''[[Top Gun]].'' Yes, they're pilots, but they're still Navy.

* ''[[Veronica Mars]]'' first season episode "M.A.D.":

{{quote| The Navy? Cover my back, wingman. The rear admiral wants us to pound away with the 10-inch gun. [[Fridge Logic|I mean, isn't just joining the Navy alone gay enough to get you thrown out of the Navy?]]}}

* ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' had a continuing serial Dickens parody with guest Michael Palin, who as the youthful hero gets initiated to the manly life on the sea with manly men on the "Raging Queen".

* In the UK comedy ''Brass'', the [[Camp Gay]] son borrows his mother's perfume, "[[Everything Sounds Sexier in French|Bonsoir Matelot]]."

 

 

== Music ==

** Just remember what "subtext" is an anagram for!

** Hilariously, this song was originally recorded as the theme for a US Navy recruitment spot. The deal fell through when conservative activists complained about the Village People's association with the gay community. While the Navy yielded to the right-wing screeching, they took umbrage to the implication there was anything at all gay about the Village People or the song "In The Navy" in any way promoted homosexuality.

* This trope has been immortalized in song for well over a century at the very least. [http://www.csufresno.edu/folklore/drinkingsongs/mp3s/1950s/1955ca-bawdy-songs-vol-5-bawdy-sea-shanties-%28LP%29/09-backside-rules-the-navy.htm "Backside rules the Navy; backside rules the sea...."]

* The Frogs' song [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iliwt9h6-a0 Sailors Board Me Now] is one big ode to seaside sodomy.

* Subverted in Cosmo Jarvis' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dysG12QCdTA&feature=feedlik Gay Pirates], which has nothing to do with [[Situational Sexuality]] and everything to do with [[The Power of Love]].

 

== Video Games ==

* In the video game ''[[Tradewinds]]: Legends'', the burly Berber swordsman Hasan Tazere is a [[Straight Gay]] with occasional [[Camp Gay]] ("Does this tattoo complement my eyes?") and [[Manly Gay]] ("Visit meat market. Find bear.") concerns--and he's out! E.g., when he makes a particularly large deposit, the Banker is likely to ask if Hasan has met his or her son, and the other playable characters inquire if he's had any success searching for his . . . brother. (Since a [[Running Gag]] of the game is that the playable characters persistently misunderstand each other, this gay troper is convinced that Hasan's warrior brother Omar is straight.)

 

 

 

== Western Animation ==

{{quote| '''Sea Captain''': "I don't swing that way ... on land!}}

** "Simpson Tide" had the Village People sing on the submarine with Smithers dancing along.

* In some ''[[Popeye]]'' cartoons from WWII era (such as [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qfcPJS5IBc "Seeing Red, White and Blue"]), Navy sailors (except Popeye of course) were portrayed as "funny", groping, mincing and occasionally cross-dressing.

* Shore Leave a [[Camp Gay|walking stereotype]] from ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'', a parody of Shipwreck from the ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' cartoons.

* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|Used]] in an episode of ''[[Johnny Bravo]]''. After being told that women like a guy who's "in touch with his feminine side", the not-very-bright Johnny ends dressing in drag to impress a girl and gets hit on by a couple of [[Ambiguously Gay]] sailors who tell him suggestively that they're "on shore leave."

{{quote| '''Instructor:''' ...Our curriculum consists of being on boats for long periods of time with men, just men, for many days at a time. Up on the deck with lots of men, or down in the galley with lots of men.<br />

'''Chris:''' Is this some kind of pirate school?<br />