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* ''[[300]]'' is full of this, but it's at much greater levels in the original comic. In both film and comic, a Persian messenger turns up to Sparta and demands the Spartans give up, mentioning that the Athenians hadn't yet submitted to Xerxes. In both versions, Leonidas calls the Athenians '[[Boys Love|boy lovers]]'; in the movie, his wife is present, but in the comic book he's surrounded ''entirely'' by men. In history, Athenians and Spartans often ribbed each other like this (though it's questionable as to whether the actual Spartan form of pederasty was chaste or sexual). Think quarreling brothers (which adds a whole 'nother subtext now...) This was addressed in the letters page of the original run. A reader pointed out that there's plenty of evidence of homosexual activity among the Spartans. [[Frank Miller]] responded that there was also evidence that they lied about it and he stood by his dialogue. (Incidentally, according to [[The Other Wiki]], said "reader" was [[Alan Moore]].)

** The Spartans of ''300'' apparently only loved manly, manly ''men''.

* Ben Wade and Dan Evans in the 2007 remake of ''[[3:10 to Yuma|Three Ten to Yuma]]''. {{spoiler|A movie in which a criminal decides to help the man who's trying to put him in jail ''because he quite likes him''. Note that he makes that decision after spending several hours locked up with him in a bridal suite. And that most people agree that the end makes little sense unless you accept Ben Wade/Dan Evans as canon}}. If that wasn't enough, the movie also strongly hints that Charlie Prince has an unrequited crush on Ben Wade.

** Not just strongly hints - the movie pretty much makes Charlie Prince canonically gay for his Boss (or just plain gay, for that matter -- "Charlie Princess"?). It's made especially obvious from the annoyed look he gave to the girl Ben Wade was picking up, his emotional "I'll wait for you," and the betrayed look of shock he made when he saw that Ben decided to go along with Dan and jump off the roof.

* ''[[The A-Team (film)|The A-Team]]'', considering that other than explosions, it mainly consisted of hot guys clutching each other while sniping about the female love interest.

* ''[[The Avengers (film)|The Avengers]]'', in addition to teasing Steve Rogers/Tony Stark, threw the fangirls a big old curveball with Tony Stark/Bruce Banner. There's also Agent Coulson admitting he watched Steve sleep...

{{quote|"There are also a lot of curious interludes in which Lawrence and Smith do verbal riffs, interrupting each other, stream of consciousness, finishing each other's sentences or not bothering to complete thoughts at all, to show a kind of easy familiarity, I guess... (and) why is Lawrence's apartment filled with photographs of Smith? Is Lawrence gay? Is Smith his boyfriend?"}}

* ''[[Barbie and the Diamond Castle]]'': The whole movie is about the [[Power of Friendship|power of Barbie and Teresa's friendship.]] They live together alone in a cottage in the woods, and in the end choose to keep this lifestyle instead of being princesses in a literal Diamond Castle. The handsome twins that should be their love interests never get any further than comic relief, as the girls are completely indifferent to them.

** ''"If I were a woman, and I were not around, I should be in love with Rick."'' Mm-hmm.

* Kratt/Le Chiffre in ''[[Casino Royale]]'' (Kratt's his henchman, the [[Bald of Evil|bald one]]. Mostly on the entirely overscrutinised basis of the occasional look, Kratt's status as henchman... henchperson... and the fact that if Bond got to have someone good looking come over and kiss him on the cheek, it seemed like something parallel was being set up for Le Chiffre's when Kratt walked up behind him at the table. Way to distract an entire table of poker players, Mads. That, and Le Chiffre's girlfriend sucks. And really, he doesn't care much about her either, judging by his lack of alarm at her impending dehanditation.

* ''Center Stage'' has two straight male ballet dancers (!) who are competing romantically for the female lead, but they give each other an awful lot of lingering glares and do a lot of symbolic dick-measuring in rehearsal studio and onstage. Arguably [[Foe Yay]], although they don't outright fight.

* ''[[Charlie Bartlett]]'' is full of this between main character Charlie and friend Murphy, and later in in the film between Charlie, again, and principal Nathan Gardner (who is also the father of Charlie's girlfriend).

* ''[[Hook]]'': [[Dustin Hoffman]] and Bob Hoskins were allegedly playing Captain Hook and Smee like a gay couple. It shows.

* Can pretty much be summed up with Horror Movies with [http://www.cracked.com/article_17097_5-most-unintentionally-gay-horror-movies.html Cracked's List of 5 Most Unintentionally Gay Horror Movies.]

* The relationship between Nicholas Angel and Danny in ''[[Hot Fuzz]]''. (According to the director there was originally another main character, a female love interest of Angel's. When the character was cut between drafts of the script, her lines - and the peace lily plotline - were simply given to Danny instead.)

** It's further exploited at the DVD [[Hilarious Outtakes|gag reel]], which finishes with Ho Yay shots of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.

{{quote|''"Me and @simonpegg once wrote some Nicholas Angel and Danny Butterman slash fiction. It was called HOT FUZZ...(applause)"''

''"@simonpegg I too am deeply flattered by the slashers. I say all power to handstitched homoerotica."''

* Let's not forget the original ''[[Jaws (film)|Jaws]]'', where Quint and Hooper practically strip off and snuggle up to compare scars, then drink to their legs. Yeah, even Brodie seemed to pick up on something... though that didn't stop him from joining the cuddle puddle for a singalong.

* ''[[Jeepers Creepers]] 2'' is the epitome of this trope. Director Victor Salva stops at nothing to show the football team members, who are ''16'', taking their shirts off. In almost every scene. It doesn't help that they make plenty of dick jokes, argue about who is gayer, and there's a particular scene where the boys lay in top of the bus shirtless together, sun tanning. This made audiences uncomfortable, not due to the ho yay, but the fact that the characters are 16, mainly because many know that Salva is a convicted pedophile and child molester, having been arrested for videotaping himself having oral sex with Nathan Forrest Winters, the underage star of his film ''Clownhouse''.

{{quote|"Despite Scott's homophobia, the movie has a healthy interest in the male physique, and it's amazing how many of the guys walk around bare-chested. The critic John Fallon writes 'at a certain point, I thought I was watching soft gay erotica,' and observes that when four of the guys go outside to pee, they line up shoulder to shoulder, which strikes him as unlikely since they are in a very large field. True in another movie, but in a film where the Creeper is likely to swoop down at any second and carry someone away, I would pick the tallest guy and stand next to him, on the theory that lightning will strike the tree and not you."}}

* ''[[Jennifer's Body]]''. It's an [[Porn with Plot|erotic thriller]] starring [[Anything That Moves|Megan FOX]]...what do you expect?

* Stark and Plato, ''[[Rebel Without a Cause]]''. At least one source actually backs this up, as seen in the documentary ''[[The Celluloid Closet]]'', where they all but say that Plato was {{spoiler|[[Bury Your Gays|the gay friend who had to die]]}}. Keep in mind that Sal Mineo had a crush on James Dean during filming, so some of that vibe could be the actor's feelings showing through...

** Many sources claim and/or provide evidence that this was intentional, with some going so far as to say that the Jim/Plato/Judy relationship was meant to be a poly-esque non-traditional family. Plato's character definitely had subtext - see the autographed photo of actor Alan Ladd pinned up adoringly in Plato's locker. Even [http://www.filmsite.org/rebel.html the AMC filmsite] references Plato as a gay character, that "hints at the possibility that he is seeking out Dean's character because he rejects fake machismo."

** Allegedly, Dean instructed Mineo: "Look at me the way I look at Natalie [Wood, who played Judy]." The director also apparently told him to look at Dean as though he was what he wanted most in the world; Mineo said he thought of his driver's license, being unable to acknowledge his crush on Dean to himself until later.

* In ''[[Red Riding Hood (film)|Red Riding Hood]]'', Valerie has quite a lot of [[Les Yay]] with most of the other females, particularly Roxanne and Prudence. In one scene her male love interest, Peter, is dancing suggestively with another girl. Valerie drags Prudence over there and tries to make him jealous by dancing with her the same way Peter was dancing with the other girl. Also, it could be argued that Peter and Henry have more chemistry with each other than either do with Valerie.

* Oh, dear lord, Charles and Erik in ''[[X-Men (film)|X-Men: First Class]]''. Deep heart-to-heart talks, chess games, intimate mind-linking, Erik cradling Charles's injured body and trying to kill the person responsible, the list goes on.

** Worthy mention: the sheer number of times these two [[Manly Tears|cry for each other]].

** In a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wly1CHI86sA deleted scene], Charles projects Erik in drag (yes, you read that correctly) and remarks, "You've never looked more beautiful, darling."

** Even better is the "It's ''good'' isn't it?" just before. Technically he's talking about his telepathy, but really Charles, you seem a bit too pleased with yourself.