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* ''[[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.
* Quite a subtle example in ''Barton Fink'', also involving John Turturro. The only real suggestion for much of the film comes when Charlie shows him some wrestling moves. However, toward the end, {{spoiler|when the police believe he was an accomplice to Charlie's murders}}, they suggest that the pair may have had a sexual relationship - which Barton denies by clarifying that they 'wrestled together'. An odd example - very few people in the audience would suggest there was much [[Ho Yay]] there, but characters in the film do.
* Coop and Remer from ''[[Baseketball]]'' have this, especially in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wN78_E4AAs this scene]. Being played by notable [[Heterosexual Life Partners]] and partners in crime [[Trey Parker and Matt Stone]] helps. (They even share a trope page!)
* This might belong in the [[Western Animation]] section, but... [[Beauty and the Beast|Lumiere and Cogsworth]]. Naturally, [[Rule 34|there are fanfics]].
** Gaston and Lefou (the short sidekick who thinks he's so great), all the way!
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* The two main characters of ''[[Bride Wars]]''...soooo much. Especially when they were shown together as children. Considering the first line of the trailer (paraphrased) is "The story I'm thinking of involves a bride and a bride?" It's hard to read that part as anything else.
* Is it possible to have [[Ho Yay]] between two characters who technically never meet? If so, then the old musical ''Brigadoon'' managed it. Come on, you know the formula: Jeff, the more cynical of the pair of outsiders, is not only uninterested in the girl that ''takes him back to her home'', but actively disgusted by her attentions. Harry, Brigadoon native, hates life and wants to leave Brigadoon. If either one had been female, you ''know'' the script would have found a way to let Harry leave with Jeff.
** Any fans of [[Sherlock|Sherlock BBC]] who slash Mycroft Holmes and D.I. Lestrade will agree that it's completely possible. They never appear together on screen once.
{{quote|Lestrade (to Sherlock, Mycroft's brother): I don't just do everything your brother tells me... *takes large drink of beer* }}
* The entire cast of ''[[Bring It On]]'' (2000). Among other things, one male character claims to "speak fag fluently" and two female friends are referred to as "dykeadelic".
** Not to mention the main characters. it was easy to forget that the brother was the primary love interest.
* ''[[Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid]]''. At the end, when they take out their guns and Butch can't load his, Sundance reaches over and takes it out of his lap.
* ''Canone Inverso - Making Love'' is an Italian movie about a genius violinist, Jeno, pursuing his female love interest Sophie, a pianist. A wonderful love story, no doubt - except that a lot more attention is paid to an extremely close friendship Jeno forms with another violinist David in a music college in Prague; no need to repeat the old jokes about boys in boarding schools, because this movie cheerfully commits all of them, even the common showers.
** The [[Ho Yay]] is unbelievable, which really isn't surprising for an European movie. There's a scene when the whole class of boys plays jazz improvisations together and when a professor walks in, they start shouting that they're making love. Then there's a scene where Sophie makes a speech about love for music, saying that you love something when you realize that you cannot live without it anymore; Jeno says: "She's talking about us," meaning Sophie and himself, and David says, visibly puzzled: "But she doesn't know we're friends!"
** When David, a wealthy boy, invites Jeno to his home, the two discover that they're actually half-brothers, adding some incestuous taste to the already rampant [[Ho Yay]]. David breaks their friendship out of jealousy for Jeno's better violin skills, but later in the movie, we learn that while Jeno, who was Jewish, died in a concentration camp because he wouldn't be parted from also Jewish Sophie, David, consumed with guilt, spent the rest of his life mourning for Jeno, actually travelling around under Jeno's name, playing Jeno's old violin and searching for Jeno's and Sophie's lost daughter.
* ''[[Captain America: The First Avenger]]'': Steve Rogers and Howard Stark seem a little... too close to each other, moreso Stark towards Rogers. Just look at how Stark looks at Rogers before the injection! There's tons of devotion between Steve and Bucky as well.
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* In ''[[Flatliners]]'', the Nelson/Dave/Rachel love triangle holds far less weight than the Nelson/Dave Ho Yay. This even goes so far as having Dave smash the window of his army truck to rescue Nelson, when he could have easily just untied the canvas at the back of the truck.
* ''[[The Fox and the Hound (film)]]'', really. The entire story played like a tragic Childhood Romeo/Juliet plot! And they really seem to enjoy...er...[http://media.ignimgs.com/media/thumb/159/1594281/the-fox-and-the-hound-25th-anniversary-edition-20060725001754212_thumb_ign.jpg playing...]
* Freddy and Jason in ''[[Freddy vs. Jason]]'', the fight in the boiler room, where Freddy is moving a floating Jason with his crotch (I'm not kidding). Then after Jason is defeated that time, Freddy leans very close to him, it's to take off his mask, but still.
* This bit from ''The Frisco Kid:''
{{quote|'''Avram:''' We are doing this to keep warm, aren't we?
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* In ''[[Harry Potter (film)|Harry Potter]] and the Prisoner of Azkaban'', Snape accuses Sirius and Lupin of "quarreling like an old married couple".
** In the fourth movie Cedric flirtatiously tries to persuade Harry to have a bath, this takes place on that bridge where Harry had a talk with Lupin (it's been mentioned before, it's a very romantic place). Also Ron obsesses about Viktor Krum and is very angry when he goes to the Yule Ball with Hermione.
** The first ''Deathly Hallows'' film is basically one big celebratory [[
* In ''[[Heavy Metal (animation)|Heavy Metal]] 2000'': When the two robed alien handmaidens are helping Julie undress for her bath, they grope her a few times. Julie doesn't seem to mind.
* ''[[Hellboy (film)|Hellboy]] II'': Red and Abe. 'Nough said.
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* ''[[James Bond]]''. How about when Goldfinger's lesbian pilot says to five beautiful busty blondes: "You'll get your final briefing tonight." No wonder she's called Pussy Galore!
* 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''.
** Critics made plenty of note of this. Says [[Roger Ebert|Ebert]] in his [http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20030829/REVIEWS/308290302/1023 review]:
{{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
* [[The Jungle Book (Disney film)|Baloo and Bagheera]]. There's the whole scolding-mother carefree-father thing being played, the long and emotional eulogy Bagheera gives Baloo when the bear [[Disney Death|"dies"]] to protect Mowgli, and come on. Baggy outright asks the guy if he would marry a panther!
** And the ending was pretty gay , even with Mowgli going to the village to chase a girl. Baloo states girls are nothing but trouble, and he and Bagheera go strolling back into the jungle (''with their arms around each other'') singing the last song. So no, you're not weird for picking up on the implications behind their relationship.
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== K-O ==
* It's hard not to see [[Ho Yay]] between Aman and Rohit in the [[Bollywood]] movie ''[[Kal Ho Naa Ho]]''. Close friends? Check. Strangely touchy-feely? Check. [[Mistaken for Gay]]? Check... In one of the musical numbers, they find themselves without female dance partners, look at each other, shrug and dance with each other - a [[Flamboyant Gay|very camp gay]] [[Stereotype Gay|interior designer]] sees them and starts clapping excitedly, looking overjoyed. The fact that Aman and Rohit are both in love with the very pretty Naina and that she loves them both very much just makes the movie feel like one big ad for [[
** Still, for [[Bollywood]] [[Ho Yay]], it's pretty hard to beat [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16QecuN1-Yw this blast from the past...]
*** Let it be noted that in the above video, the two men are [[Twincest|twin brothers]]. [[Squick]]?
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** I recall reading an article, I think in ''Vanity Fair'', that mentioned that Voight and Hoffman asked Schlesinger if their characters were "fags." Apparently the answer was yes.
*** Quite the contrary. As an openly gay director, Schlesinger stated that part of his intention with Midnight Cowboy was to show that two men could be friends without being homoerotic. This is in addition to the various interpretations of Joe being a closet-case. Though the movie has plenty of hoyay, Rizzo and Joe are specifically formed against that.
* In ''[[Mission Impossible]]: Ghost Protocol'', Ethan very soulfully and intensely looking at Brandt during a conversation about secrets: "You tell me yours, and I'll tell you mine." The fact that [[Tom Cruise]] is [[Top Gun|no]] [[Interview with the Vampire|stranger]] to Ho Yay...
{{quote|'''Brandt:''' Next time, ''I'' get to seduce the rich guy.}}
** It's not just Ethan that he has subtext with. There's this slashtastic quote directed at Benji after he asked why his codename is Pluto.
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'''Prince Humperdinck:''' [''sincerely''] Tyrone, you know how much I love watching you work, but I've got my country's 500th anniversary to plan, my wedding to arrange, my wife to murder and Guilder to frame for it; I'm swamped.
'''Count Rugen:''' [''also sincere, with a worried look''] Get some rest. If you haven't got your health, then you haven't got anything. }}
** And Inigo and Fezzik are so adorably married. Their rhyming game! And the way they smile at each other! And when Fezzik takes care of Inigo after his epic bender! They're basically two halves of one useful, adult person. There's the [[Huge Guy, Tiny Girl|Huge Guy Skinny Guy]] thing, but let's just [[Squick|not think too hard]] [[
* Carter and Rosie of the [[Disney Channel]] original movie ''[[Princess Protection Program]]'' had plenty of "Oh, just kiss already!" moments, including a scene on a bench swing by a lake (belching notwithstanding.)
* ''[[The Producers]]''. Seriously, just... ''The Producers''.
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* [[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s ''[[Rope]]!''. It's clearly intentional, as the film was based on the story of Leopold and Loeb, as mentioned above, but due to the Hays Code, their relationship had to be portrayed in coded language and imagery. Although there really should be no other way to interpret the opening scene in the film, where the two share a cigarette in seeming post-orgasmic bliss {{spoiler|after murdering their friend}}. Eventually turns into [[Ho Yay]], though.
** Allegedly the original script contained references to Cadell's having had an affair with one of the two while in school.
* Nomi and Crystal in ''[[Showgirls]]''. Quick tip fellas: If your girlfriends idea of a night on the town is taking you to a strip club, her being completely mesmerized by the entertainment and then spends an ungodly amount of money in order to watch while she gives you a lap-dance, [[The Beard|it is time to recognize yourself for what you are.]]
* Right at the end of ''[[Shrek]]'', during Shrek and Fiona's wedding, the (undeniably male) wolf from [[Little Red Riding Hood]] is seen cuddling a knight.
* The [[Shower Scene]] in ''[[Sixteen Candles]]'' was full of [[Les Yay]]. Even though Samantha and her friend are discussing Carolyn's relationship with Jake Ryan, the boy Samantha is in love with, Carolyn has ''no idea'' that the two are watching her, and the expression on Samantha's face just screams she wants Carolyn instead.
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** And the very typical of romance movies 'sad break up' music interlude where they're both sad and broken up without the other?
** Not only is there 'sad break up' music, but there are several montages of the two girls together and a couple of fervent embraces complete with a moment that felt like an almost kiss in one of them.
* [[Sucker Punch]]: Has ALOT of this. Mostly to show how close the girls are and how they need each other.
** The scene between Amber and Blondie where Blondie explains to Amber how to seduce the Mayor.
** Not to mention Amber and Blondie are paired up in almost every group scene {{spoiler|and even die together.}}
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{{quote|'''Welsh:''' If I never meet you in this life, let me feel the lack. A glance from your eyes, and my life will be yours.}}
* ''Third Star'' has James (played by [[Benedict Cumberbatch]]) slashing it up with absolutely everything and everyone. Miles often behaves like his ex, while Davy actually lives with James and his parents and couldn't possibly care more for James if he was in love with him, which he pretty much is anyway. One scene shows him helping James get dressed, while the ending sees him holding {{spoiler|James in his arms twice, once when he's merely unconscious and once when he's already dead}}, staring off into the distance, completely heartbroken.
* ''[[This Is Spinal Tap]]''. Look at Nigel's expression of disgust whenever David's Yoko-Ono-esque girlfriend Jeanette shows up. Or at him watching David all the time. Or at him saying they're closer than brothers. Yeah... ''somebody'' has unrequited love here.
* ''[[Disney Fairies|The Tinker Bell Movie]]'' has an odd moment between Tink and Silvermist. Tink the stranger has just fallen out of nowhere onto her rump, and Silvermist's reaction is to lean in, stroke Tink's nose, and coo, "Easy now... easy... Silvermist's got ya..."
* Julie Taymor's film version of ''[[Titus Andronicus (theatre)|Titus Andronicus]]'' gives Chiron and Demetrius some extremely inappropriate posing with each other. The fact that they're brothers who gangrape Titus' daughter (their step-aunt-by-marriage) doesn't help.
* It was a very small part, but in the movie ''[[Tombstone]]'', side-character Billy Breckenridge (the little guy with the glasses, played by Jason Priestley) was pretty seriously crushing on Mr. Fabian (the pretty-boy actor played by Billy Zane).
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