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== Anime and Manga ==
* Depending on how one interprets the nature of the series, France, as well as many other cast members from ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]''.
* Rin from ''[[Mnemosyne (Anime)|Mnemosyne]]''. All immortals in that series are either bi or lesbian, presumably to avoid [[Mayfly-December Romance]] (since only women can become immortal).
* Gemna from ''[[Ninja Scroll (Anime)|Ninja Scroll]]''.
 
 
== Comic Books ==
* Possibly explains why all the ''[[Elf Quest]]'' elves (some immortal, some just very long-lived) [[Everyone Is Bi|are bisexual]].
* [[Chris Claremont]] originally intended to write [[Wolverine]] as [[Bi the Way|bisexual]], and although he may or may not be technically immortal, his [[Healing Factor]] definitely grants extended longevity and makes him hard to kill. Of course, at the time, fans of comic books were probably less likely to be able to grasp the idea of "a manly dude that swings both ways" and so that angle was dropped. [[Torchwood (TV)|We know better now]], though.
** His son Daken seems to be less choosy about [[Depraved Bisexual|whom he seduces though.]]
 
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* ''[[Orlando: A Biography]]'' by [[Virginia Woolf]] has an immortal man switch genders after a long period of slumber. [[Alan Moore]]'s ''[[The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen]]'' turned the character into a full-fledged immortal bisexual.
* In ''[[The Witcher]]'' books, one of the witches mentions that when you live that long you will try everything eventually.
* One of the Light Others from ''[[Night Watch (Literaturenovel)|Night Watch]]'' named Ignat is a master of seduction, and doesn't care about the gender of his targets. He's not quite immortal, but he and all other Others can maintain youth for up to centuries, and it's implied that his bisexuality is at least in part because he's bored. He's possibly the only bisexual Other shown, but a lot of them tend toward being [[The Hedonist]].
** He also doesn't mind having a threesome with two sorceresses, one of whom has a boyfriend in the next room.
* The Vampires -- yesVampires—yes, ''[[Everyone Is Bi|all]]'' of them -- inthem—in ''[[The Vampire Chronicles]]''.
* Henry Fitzroy from the [[Blood Books]]. Vaguely implied with another, female vampire that Vicki encounters in a short story.
* A way of life in ''[[DirgeA for Prester John (Literature)|Dirge for Prester John]]''. Not to mention taking lovers from a number of different species.
 
 
== Live-Action TV ==
* Trill in ''[[Star Trek]]'', especially Dax in ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]''. A Trill symbiant is passed down from host to host in either a male or female body, but the [[Society of Immortals|trill symbiosis commission]] forbids relations with a former lover. One episode Dax ignores this and [[Lipstick Lesbian|kisses a woman]] who the symbiants in each of them were once married together, but all her other relations on the show were straight.
* Jack Harkness from ''[[Doctor Who]]'' and ''[[Torchwood (TV)|Torchwood]]'' -- though—though he was omnisexual long before he became immortal.
{{quote| '''Jack''': You people and your quaint little categories.}}
* ''[[True Blood]]'': [[Word of God]] says that almost EVERY vampire out there is bisexual, gender being only a footnote to them. This is in stark contrast to the book series ''True Blood'' is based on, [[The Sookie Stackhouse Mysteries]], where bisexuality is rare, outside of the occasional off-handed "I was bored" comments.
* Spike once said of Angel in ''[[Angel (TV)|Angel]]'': "Angel and I were never intimate. Well, except that one time..."
 
 
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== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[Changeling: The Dreaming (Tabletop Game)|Changeling: The Dreaming]]''. As the kithain's reincarnation process isn't exactly tied down by things like gender, star-crossed lovers tend to be flexible just in case.
* In the [[New World of Darkness (Tabletop Game)|New World of Darkness]] sourcebook ''Immortals'', exactly one of the sample NPCs is [[Bi the Way|off-handedly]] described as sleeping with both sexes. She is also a serial killer, although the book doesn't imply that her sexuality has been influenced by her immortality or that [[Immortality Immorality|her frequent murders]] are [[Depraved Bisexual|a natural outgrowth of her sexuality]].
* The [[Tabletob Game/Exalted|Exalted]] -- if—if not everyone in Creation -- areCreation—are typically portrayed as this. The Dragon-Blooded often take homosexual lovers outside of marriage to avoid the risk of siring bastards, the Lunars have easy access to [[Gender Bender]] powers and massive fecundity, the Solars are god-kings who traverse Creation like a man walking down the block and [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity|occasionally go into states of utter debauchery]], and the Sidereals live for millennia and have fate powers that allow them to assume any role they want.
* In some [[Dungeons and Dragons (Tabletop Game)|Dungeons and& Dragons]] supplements--thosesupplements—those few that mention sex--elvessex—elves are generally portrayed as being much more likely to be bisexual than humans and other "brief" races.
 
 
== Video Games ==
* Vamp from ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]''.
* The Asari from ''[[Mass Effect]]'' are a [[One-Gender Race]] (all female, in appearance, anyway) and can have children with any gender or species. They can live to be almost 1000. They ''do'' sometimes mate with their own species, but those who do are frowned upon by creating more pureblood asari, {{spoiler|which led to the [[Death Byby Sex|Ardat-Yakshi]]}}.
* Reaver from ''[[Fable II (Video Game)|Fable II]]''.
 
 
== Webcomics ==
* The Drow (and presumably other Fae) of ''[[Drow TalesDrowtales]]'' are Type II [[Immortality|immortals]] that live in an [[Everyone Is Bi]] society, with purely heterosexual and homosexual people existing as minorities.
* Applies to at least the highblooded trolls of ''[[Homestuck (Webcomic)|Homestuck]]''. It's normal for all trolls to be bisexual; monosexuality does exist, but it's not common or considered to be a big deal (it's kind of similar to how we'd view someone who's only attracted to [[Heroes Want Redheads|redheads]]: not typical, but not remarkable enough to have a word for it or much of a stigma attached to it). However, the trope doesn't apply to all trolls because the lowest castes have ''shorter'' natural lifespans than humans, and somewhat higher up the hierarchy are trolls with humanlike lifespans, and so forth.
 
 
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