Everyone Is Bi: Difference between revisions

** France canonically is. [[Word of God]], volume 1.

** [[Word of God]] says that [[Word of Gay|Sweden's gay]], but [[Single-Target Sexuality|only for Finland]].

** Prussia is hinted to be in love with Hungary and is also shown to like Italy very much, only referring to him as "Italia-chan", considering him 'cute' and even going as far as to ask him on a date in the drama adaptation of his blog event, only for Italy to be oblivious to his question, having been fixated on Prussia's bird.

** S. Italy Romano. He can be very [[Hot and Cold]] for Spain, but he is somewhat of a womanizer as well (and there was that one time he had a crush on Belgium...)

** Turkey is known for pursuing Japan and possibly Iceland, but in the past he also pursued Greece's mother Byzantine.

** [[Fanfic]] often portrays bisexuality as an integral part of being a nation, since technically they don't count as normal humans.

* ''[[Gorgeous Carat]]'': Characters' sexualities are never addressed (except for a couple 'are you gay?' jokes at Ray's expense). [[Even the Guys Want Him|The guys just all want Florian.]]

* ''[[Vampire Game]]'': [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]], with the exceptions of Darres, Falan, Vord, and Ishtar, several of which still encourage all sorts of bizzare matchups.

 

 

* In S.M. Stirling's [[The Draka|Draka]] novels, the old 20th-Century genetically-unmodified-human Draka are straight, gay, or bi as the case may be (and with no shame or self-consciousness about their orientation ever); but the genetically-engineered New Race or ''Homo drakensis'' Draka, portrayed in ''Drakon,'' are all bisexual (and their sexual appetites always ravenous).

* [[Anne Rice]] 's [[The Vampire Chronicles|vampires]] are functionally asexual, but there's a ''lot'' of erotic subtext to their interactions nonetheless.

** In Armand's book, she finally had the main character have sex with persons of both genders before he was turned.

** The same author's ''Cry To Heaven'' runs on this trope. The main (castrated) male character has love affairs with people of both genders, although his same-sex relationships are more numerous and generally more dwelt upon by the author. His two most lasting affairs are with another castrated man and a woman, respectively, and he thinks of both of them as the loves of his life at different points in the novel. He even carries on a sexual relationship with a cardinal in Rome, who (at first) justifies the affair with the church's belief that castration renders the person neither male nor female, and thus [[Too Dumb to Live|a loophole to rules about celibacy.]] It doesn't last.

* ''[[Swordspoint]]'' and ''The Privilege of the Sword'' -- perhaps not ''everyone'' is bi, but the only monosexual major characters are the villainous Lord Ferris (a depraved heterosexual, perhaps?) and {{spoiler|Marcus}}, whose straightness may or may not have been caused by childhood trauma (thereby inverting [[Rape and Switch]]).

* Due to the nature of a dragons mating flights and the fact that over 50% of the dragon population are females that mostly take male riders, it's implied that at least 80-90% of dragonriders in [[Anne McCaffrey]]'s [[Dragonriders of Pern]] series are at least bisexual. Only Gold riders (1%) and Bronzeriders (5%) are exclusively heterosexual.

* In [[The Culture]], considering that the line between species and gender is completely blurred and deconstructed, everyone just seems to go with what they like, no matter what that is. And considering that Culture humanoid citizens can change gender and move into non-humanoid bodies with multiple sexes and... Look, suffice to say that if you brought up sexual orientation to a culture citizen they'd presume you were from a very ''very'' backwards planet.

** This is reflected in their language, which does not differentiate between sexes.

** In fact, Gurgeh from ''The Player of Games'' is considered bizarre because he's straight and has never changed his sex. A friend of his also seen as weird because she spends almost all of her time as female.

* [[Arthur C. Clarke]]'s novel ''Imperial Earth'' includes a line in which the protagonist's best friend is described as "aggressively normal," because he seems to have ''no'' preference between males or females -- most people in the late 23rd Century go both ways but have at least a slight inclination toward one gender or the other.

* [[Ursula K. Le Guin]]'s story collection ''A Fisherman of the Inland Sea'' deals with attempts at instantaneous space travel. The final story, ''Another Story or a Fisherman of the Inland Sea'', introduces the traditional culture of Planet O where pretty much everyone has to be bi for a successful marriage. Marriage is not between two people but four, two men and two women--a man and woman of the Morning moiety and an Evening man and woman. The Morning woman and Evening man, the Evening woman and Morning man, the Morning woman and Evening woman, and the Morning man and Evening man all have sex with each other, meaning every partner in the marriage has a husband and wife from the opposite moiety. (Sex within the moiety is forbidden, so the Morning man/woman and Evening man/woman in the marriage are strictly platonic. In fact, it's perfectly proper for siblings to be the Morning or Evening half of the foursome. Yes, this does mean that you are banging the same woman that your sister is regularly doing, and also the man who would otherwise be your brother-in-law.) The protagonist's mother, a Terran woman of Japanese descent, married in this way to be with the man she loves but finds it strange many years into the marriage, even though she is on good terms with her wife in the marriage.

 

== Live Action TV ==

** A flashback involving two female members of Torchwood 3 in the 19th century (Alice and Emily) shows that they are a lesbian couple. At least one of them may be bi, given that she finds Jack to be pretty, but that may simply require the possession of sight.

* ''[[The Daily Show]]''. ''Everybody'' on the show has either shown bisexual tendencies on screen, or simply mentioned having had sex with both genders.

** In a subtler incidence, Marcus and Franklin pose as a newlywed gay couple when undercover on Mars. Nobody considers this unusual, though people aware that it's a cover do consider it funny - not the idea that they might be gay, but because they make such an ill-suited couple.

* [[Word of God]] for ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'' is that all Cylons are Bi. This is actually seen in the Three and Six models.

** One particularly amusing episode featured an alien who, after being [[Alien Scrappy|annoying comic relief]] for 47 minutes, closed out the show by coming on to D'Argo. Up to that point D'Argo and the viewers had assumed the alien was male (the role was filled by a male actor), but she assures everyone that she is in fact female and "Quite the looker." It's not clear whether D'Argo is more turned off by her masculine (by everyone else's standards) appearance or just by her personality. At episode's end Chrichton checks to make sure that Aeryn is in fact "The female of her species," (although he was probably just joking). It's hard to say where this episode puts the cast in terms of this trope, except to demonstrate just how weird and unpredictable ideas like sexual identity and gender roles become in a cross-species environment. If everyone isn't bi, they might as well be, because all terms and definitions are more or less out the window.

** Chiana is quite obviously [[Anything That Moves]] but there are plenty of comments by/about D'Argo in particular that reveal he just might go both ways as well. The two that come immediately to mind are when Chiana proposes that Crichton have sex to get over his writer's block and when asked with whom, Chiana replies "Me, him, whoever", referring to D'Argo. Also, in the episode when John gets married and asks D'Argo to be his best man, D'Argo replies "I'm with Chiana now, John", the implication being that he'd be perfectly willing to be John's ''best man'' if he was single.

 

== Theatre ==

 

 

== Videogames ==

* ''[[The Sims]]'' - For simplicity's sake, every Sim can romance any other Sim, at least as far gender goes. There are some obstacles, but none of these are gender.

** The issue with ''The Sims'' was that a Sim would flirt with everyone. They changed it in ''2'' so that while a Sim would be amenable to sex with either sex, they would only autonomously have one preferred sex, defaulting to heterosexual but homosexual if the user chose to play them that way.

*** In The Sims 2, Sims are asexual by default untill a romantic intereaction is performed by or on them.

* In ''[[Dragon Age II]]'', all the main romance options are available to both genders (fairly appropriately, one of them is voiced by Eve Myles from ''Torchwood''). DLC character Sebastian is the only heterosexual-only romance, as well as being non-sexual.

** Several of the non-romanceable companions are also implied to have bisexual tendencies to varying degrees. Aveline kisses Hawke regardless of gender at the end of her chapter 2 loyalty mission, Bethany expresses some curiosity about Isabela's sexual history with other women and Varric has some slightly flirty dialogue with Anders ([[Cargo Ship|though his heart belongs to Bianca, his crossbow]]). Even Bianca apparently feels some "confusion" when Isabela suggests she needs "a woman's touch on her trigger."

* In ''[[Guild Wars 2]]'', the Sylvari are noted to be like this. They're a race of plants mimicking the humanoid form, are incapable of sexual reproduction, and socially have no concept of gender. Developer blogs about Sylvari society and culture have noted that Sylvari consider gender completely irrelevant, including in matters of love.

 

* [[Word of God]] for ''[[The Challenges of Zona]]'' is that [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|the Erogenians]] practice "situational bisexuality" as a matter of course and that Zona and Tula have had lovers of both sexes.

* [[Ménage à 3]] starts out with a varied cast of gay and straight guys/girls with one Bi girl. By now, every single named character (and plenty of one-off extras) has had at least two or three instances where they've shown more than a little attraction for both genders, with the exception of the landlady and the guy who stays indoors and thinks it's still the 80's.

{{quote|'''Karkat''' [[No Indoor Voice|HUMANS HAVE A WORD FOR THAT?]]<br />

'''John''' Yes.<br />

== Web Original ==

* ''[[Dirty Potter]]''

* [[Vocaloid]] has this in spades.

* [[TV Tropes]], more often than you'd suspect.