Manly Gay: Difference between revisions

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== [[Fan Fiction]] ==

* [[Superhero]] [[Slash Fic|Slash Fics]] are absolute havens of this trope, usually featuring pairings of two characters reinterpreted as [[Manly Gay]], such as [[Batman]] / Nightwing or [[Captain America]] / [[Iron Man]].

* [[Superhero]] [[Slash Fic|Slash Fics]] are absolute havens of this trope, usually featuring pairings of two characters reinterpreted as [[Manly Gay]], such as [[Batman]] / Nightwing or [[Captain America (comics)]] / [[Iron Man]].

* Parodied in [http://lexhibition.livejournal.com/69412.html this fic].

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== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* ''[[All in The Family]]'': On the program that broke all previous barriers and taboos, one of the earliest came in the Season 1 episode "Judging Books by Covers." Archie is annoyed by one of Mike's outlandish friends (Anthony Geary, long before he played Luke on ''[[General Hospital]]''), [[Camp Straight|who acts and dresses effeminitly but was otherwise heterosexual]]; in fact, Archie is so irritated he goes off to Kelsey's Bar – its first appearance in the series – to vent to his friends about gay people. One of the people involved in the conversation is a middle-aged man, a one-time football player who has normal male interests ... and is a homosexual. No male-on-male affection is shown in the episode, but Archie does learn that outward appearances do not necessarily mean someone is gay or straight.

* Barca from ''[[Spartacus: Blood and Sand]]'' is a solid example.

** And his boyfriend, Auctus, from the [[Prequel]].

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* Dave Karofsky from ''[[Glee]]''; the guys at the gay bar even call him a "[[The Bear|bear cub]]."

* [[Gayngster|Sam Adama]] from ''[[Caprica]]''

* Bob Hunter from ''[[Desperate Housewives]]''. Taller and a tad more muscular than his husband, Lee Mc Dermott. Both can be considered as [[Straight Gay]] though.

* Wade and Trey from ''[[Noah's Arc]]'', especially Wade who definitely plays up his masculinity (at least early on).

* Riley from [[Degrassi]], also overlapping with [[Straight Gay]]. Sam also most certainly counts, though he only showed up for one episode and Dylan, Marco's boyfriend.

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== [[Video Games]] ==

* [[Star Fox (series)|Wolf O'Donnell]] is going to [[Memetic Molester|tan your hide]]. Wolf is written as a homoerotically aggressive [[Big Badass Wolf|dominant alpha male]], invoking Japanese [[Manly Gay]] tropes along with being a [[Testosterone Poisoning|hypermasculine]] [[Mr. Fanservice]]. To cap it all off, his appearance is accentuated to scream a variety of gay stereotypes, including [[Leather Man|leather]], and (in ''[[Super Smash Bros]] Brawl'') [[Gay Cowboy|chaps]] over his pants, and a just-barely-conspicuous touch of [[Macho Camp]] pink and purple in his color scheme.

* [[Star Fox (series)|Wolf O'Donnell]] is going to [[Memetic Molester|tan your hide]]. Wolf is written as a homoerotically aggressive [[Big Badass Wolf|dominant alpha male]], invoking Japanese [[Manly Gay]] tropes along with being a [[Testosterone Poisoning|hypermasculine]] [[Mr. Fanservice]]. To cap it all off, his appearance is accentuated to scream a variety of gay stereotypes, including [[Leather Man|leather]], and (in ''[[Super Smash Bros.]] Brawl'') [[Gay Cowboy|chaps]] over his pants, and a just-barely-conspicuous touch of [[Macho Camp]] pink and purple in his color scheme.

* [[Street Fighter|Zangief]] is a good example of this. It's not outright confirmed he's gay but many of his win quotes hints towards this.

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== [[Web Original]] ==

* ''[[There Will Be Brawl]]'' does this to [[F-Zero|Captain]] [[Super Smash Bros|Falcon]], who is [[Kid Icarus|Pit's]] lover and ''extremely'' [[Badass]]. "Maybe later you could come by and... [[Catch Phrase|show me your moves]]."

* ''[[There Will Be Brawl]]'' does this to [[F-Zero|Captain]] [[Super Smash Bros.|Falcon]], who is [[Kid Icarus|Pit's]] lover and ''extremely'' [[Badass]]. "Maybe later you could come by and... [[Catch Phrase|show me your moves]]."

* Frost from ''[[Trinton Chronicles]]'' fits this troupe well being a muscled guy with a masculine set of traits and yet still being into other men.

* Practically everything created by [[Captain Ger Bear]], especially of [[The Bear]] variety.