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{{quote|''"You people and your quaint little categories."''|'''Captain Jack Harkness''', ''[[
On many mainstream American and British TV shows, there are [[No Bisexuals]]. Not just in the casts, ''anywhere''; once a person has [[Suddenly Sexuality|realized his or her attraction]] to the same sex, the opposite sex is expected to be discarded utterly. A bisexual, at best, is either a [[Anything That Moves|kinky guest star]] or [[Depraved Bisexual|the one who did it]].
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** 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.
* ''[[
* In ''[[Mnemosyne]]'', the entire issue of gender in sex is just discarded. For example, the main character Rin has shown to have sex with both males and females, with {{spoiler|the one person she's loved for over a millennia being the guardian of the Tree, and hence technically a haemaphrodite}}, and the rest of the cast is implied to simply go with what feels good to them. That said, however, gender is an issue to the greater storyline... {{spoiler|well, actually it's rather the ''mix'' of gender that's important. The point? The only characters with real tangible power in the entire anime are hermaphrodites. Aion is the most obvious...}}
* ''[[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
* While almost ''any'' manga by [[CLAMP]] may qualify, ''[[
* ''Dutch'' manga ''Penny's Diary'' [[Up to Eleven|turns this up to eleven]] as not only bisexuality such the norm that [[Funetik Aksent|"uniseksuals"]] ([[Yaoi Boys|a pair of classmates,]] the main character's straight best friend and [[Lipstick Lesbian|an aunt]]) are seen as a harmless quirk while casual sex is encouraged between anyone from [[Incest Is Relative|family]] (holidays traditionally ending in a post-dinner orgy,) [[Hot for Student|teachers with students]] and Mall Santa (St. Peter) and [[Biggus Dickus|Black Pete.]] ''The age of consent in the series is 4 and drawn in a chibi style.''
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* Similar to the 51st century in ''[[Doctor Who]]'', the eponymous superhero of ''Midnighter'' once tried to explain to a woman from the 95th century that he's gay. She didn't understand the word, and revealed that in the 95th century ''[[Everyone Is Bi]]'' (apparently that's enough of "everyone" that they no longer even have words for monosexuality).
* In [[Alan Moore]]'s ''[[League of Extraordinary Gentlemen]]'' the character of Orlando is definitely bisexual, but this makes sense because Orlando is an immortal who changes sex randomly and without warning. However, pretty much all of the female characters (be they historical or mythological) that Orlando spends any amount of time with are bi for Orlando. This includes Mina Murray, the heroine of the series, Fanny Hill, Venus (of course), Marguerite Blakeney and others. And when Orlando is a male, it's at least hinted at and also sometimes explicitly stated that many of his male companions are bi for him also.
** In ''Century: 1910'', Mina, angry with both Orlando (who's male at this point) and her partner Alan, announces that she'll be in self-[[Exiled to
* In ''[[
* In Jaime Hernandez's "Locas" stories in ''[[Love and Rockets]]'', practically every female character is bi, even the lesbian-identifying ones. Except for Vicki, who's a homophobe.
* Every female in ''[[Cherry Comics]]''.
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* Everyone in the That Damned [[M Preg]] universe is bi unless specifically stated otherwise, exclusively straight and gay characters are few and far between.
* ''[[My Immortal]]'', though only the guys show it--for the girls, it's just an [[Informed Attribute]]. Ebony herself flip-flops between [[Bi the Way]] and [[Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?]] for no adequately explored reason.
* Absolutely everybody in ''[[Kim Possible]]'' fanfic, [[Depending
<!-- %%* DependingOnTheWriter, '''''everyone''''' in fanfiction. ALL OF THEM. -->
* In C'hou in ''[[
** This doesn't apply on the Hunter's world; he talks of the “shameful female-men.”
* Choose two characters in all of fiction. There is a fic pairing those two. Now notice how gender was not specified in the prompt. That is because [[Everyone Is Bi|everyone can be bi]] in [[Fan Fiction]].
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== Film ==
* ''[[
* ''[[Gia]]''
* ''[[The Rocky Horror Picture Show]]''.
* ''[[Velvet Goldmine]]'' has Brian and Mandy and a host of glam rock fans.
* The extraterrestrials of ''[[
* Most mainstream porn, of course, meets this trope halfway - it's true by default for women, but not for men. (There's a fairly small subgenre where it's true across the board.)
== Literature ==
* In Jacqueline Carey's ''[[
* In [[Diane Duane]]'s ''[[The Tale of Five]]'' fantasy series, bisexuality is culturally universal in the world it takes place on.
** To the extent that they have laws dictating that everyone must have at least enough heterosex to produce a couple of children. After that they can go back to their real loves.
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** 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.
* [[Larry Niven]]'s ''[[Known Space]]''. According to one interpretation, which is in line with the way the Puppeteers themselves generally explain it to non-Puppeteers, Pierson's Puppeteers can be regarded as an entire race of bisexuals. Males are sapient and produce gametes, while females are non-sapient and provide gestation space. There are males who produce sperm and males who produce eggs, while females contribute no gametes but carry and bear the offspring. The female dies after childbirth, and the gay couple raises the kids, no sex except reproduction though. Would be [[Everyone Is Gay]] if the couple didn't have sex with a female at one point. An alternate interpretation, one that a human character stumbles upon and considers more accurate, is that the non-sapient "females" are in fact a different species that the Puppeteers are parasitic upon - similar to the Ichneumon wasps that lay their eggs in live insects so that [[Nightmare Fuel|the wasp larvae can eat the host alive.]] The "sperm-producing-male" is the Puppeteer male, while the "egg-producing male" is the Puppeteer female.
* Practically everything [[Poppy Z. Brite]] has ever written.
* An astonishing number of the female characters in the ''Claudine'' stories are bi. This is shrugged off with the ignorant contemporary views of sexuality- as Claudine's husband says, "What you little animals do is charming and doesn't mean anything." It's another matter entirely if a man should be interested in both sexes.
* In the novels by Gregory Maguire (especially ''[[Wicked (
** Hell, in terms of ruining your childhood, it wouldn't be much of a stretch to pin this on the [[Land of Oz
* In Fiona Patton's ''Tales of the Branion Realm,'' pretty much everyone is bi, and this goes completely unremarked. There is even a Guild of Companions (a cross between bodyguard, courtesan, same-sex sexual partner, and spy) who are contracted to the nobility. The first book revolves around the Crown Prince's relationship with his mother -- she wants him to get married and have an heir, he would prefer to shack up with his Companion. He starts a civil war over this. His mother, BTW, has four Companions of her own.
* In [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s ''[[Time Enough for Love]],'' Ishtar and Galahad agree to "Seven Hours of Pleasure," even though they have so far seen each other only in all-concealing biohazard-protection suits and, thus, neither knows the other's sex. It is strongly implied that in their society (the Howard Families colony-world of Secundus), it is considered in bad taste even to care.
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** 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.
* In ''[[The Stone Dance of the Chameleon]]'' by Ricardo Pinto, sexuality is pretty much discarded as a point of interest, where straight and gay relationships are equally common-place. The problem comes where you have the Chosen (who are the undisputed 'supreme race' so to speak) and the other races (who act as their slaves and who aren't even allowed to look at their faces). Considering that all subservient races are completely oppressed by the Chosen and horrifically bound by The Law, their tends to be a ''lot'' of sexual abuse, rape, and subjugation of both genders of those races ... and some of the stuff the more sadistically-minded Chosen are into crosses the line of 'torture' and becomes [[Brain Bleach]] incarnate ([[Up to Eleven]]). In fact, when the main character (who is a Chosen, but brought up away from their culture), finds out that another Chosen has raped his half-slave brother, said Chosen can't understand why he's so upset and is genuinely shocked that he cares so much. Nuff said.
* [[Arthur C. Clarke
* [[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.
* In [[Mythpunk|Palimpsest]] it's not as much as [[Everyone Is Bi]] but "Everyone is so desperate to go back into Palimpsest that they will slept with anybody with the mark, no matter the gender".
* Many [[Mary Renault]] novels fit this trope. She wrote a lot of historical fiction set in ancient Greece, where bisexuality was considered the norm, for males at least. Some of her Greeks are exclusively or near-exclusively heterosexual or homosexual, but many aren't. The characters in her contemporary novels are also often quite flexible about gender.
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== Live Action TV ==
* In ''[[
** 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.
** More often than not, the bisexuality is played as either comedic misunderstanding themed (Jason Jones once mentions that he married a gay man, after misinterpreting a recent ruling allowing gay marriage) or the correspondent is gay for pay (as seen with Rob Riggle, who had sex with men for money in order to earn the cash to buy an iPhone.)
* [[J. Michael Straczynski]]'s philosophy for ''[[Babylon 5]]'' was that in 2258, sexual orientation is a non-issue -- not that everyone is bi, people just don't make a point of it. He suggested early on that one of the main characters was bisexual. This turned out to be Ivanova, but it only came up a couple of times.
** Another interesting note is in the Babylon 5 movie ''River of Souls'' we find out that a holographic program was created with an image of Captain Lochley. Garibaldi discovers this program is especially popular with women.
** 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.
* In ''[[
** 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.
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** During the Valentine's day event, [[Player Character|PCs]] can exchange pledges of adoration with [[Non-Player Character|NPCs]] for love tokens. Gender is only a factor in that female [[Non-Player Character|NPCs]] will romance [[Player Character|PCs]] wearing cologne and male [[Non-Player Character|NPCs]] will romance [[Player Character|PCs]] wearing perfume. Either gender can wear either cologne or perfume. Worth mentioning that to get the Largest prize you need at least twenty pledges from each city, Darnassus is all female and Ironforge is all male. On Horde-side, Silvermoon is all male.
* In ''[[City of Villains]]'', Succubi have a power called "Come Hither" that prevents players from being able to attack them directly. Interestingly, it works on both genders just as easily. The spell is broken immediately if the Succubus attacks the player.
* Quite possibly the men of ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'', where there are three canon bisexual characters -- Colonel Volgin, Vamp, and Dolph himself. There's also [[Ho Yay|subtext]] between Solid Snake and Otacon despite their own things for the ladies, and while Big Boss has no canonical partner he benefits from [[Even the Guys Want Him|Everyone Being Gay For Big Boss]] with {{spoiler|EVA/Big Mama}} and especially when {{spoiler|Ocelot goes so far as to sacrifice his own personality/self by using nanomachines and hypnotherapy to make himself think that he was Liquid Snake}} -- hence "Liquid Ocelot" -- throughout the events of ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4 Guns of the Patriots]]''... all for the cause, all for Big Boss.
** In ''[[Metal Gear]] Online'', both male and female characters can learn the Charm ability which causes them to do a sexy dance, stopping other characters in their tracks. The sexy dance does not discriminate based on gender.
*** Neither do the play-boy magazines
** Big Boss can also go on a date with Miller at the end of Peace Walker and take photos of him on the beach in a thong.
*** That they have sex afterwards may also be relevant.
* In the main ''Pokémon'' games, "Attract" only works on Pokémon of the opposite gender, but in ''[[
** While "Attract" affects only the opposite gender in the main series, the same cannot be said to "Charm" and "Sweet Kiss", though the earlier might apply to the Pokémon's cuteness.
* [[Morrowind]] - NPCs of either gender, ''everywhere'' that you go, will greet you with the phrase "I like what I see."( most often delivered in a vaguely creepy tone). This is, of course, regardless of which gender the PC is. Which implies that not only are all residents of Vvardenfall bi, they also all find you irresistibly attractive. Must be that Telvanni Bug Musk...
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* In ''[[Troper Works/Cupid|Cupid]]'', you can match up anyone with anyone.
* ''[[Liberal Crime Squad]]'' allows you to seduce people of any gender (and you often don't know their gender before you try to seduce them). The chance of success depends solely on your skills.
* In ''[[
* In ''[[Echo Bazaar]]'', there are storylines that allow the player to romance partners of any and every gender...including at least two threesomes. In fact, the text is always written so the PC's gender never makes a difference; "the Dashing Smuggler slips his arm around your waist", for example. (It helps that the PC's gender can be set as "Gentleman", "Lady" or "There are people walking around with the faces of squid—''squid''—and you have the nerve to ask me my gender?".)
* In ''[[
** 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 [[Magical Diary]] not only can the PC date both male and female options, but many NPCs have explicitly dated both, and no one raises an eyebrow.
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== Webcomics ==
* ''[http://isukiyomi.comicgenesis.com Michiko Monogatari]''
* By this time, pretty much everyone in ''[[
** Faz even refers to the Kinsey scale, although he gets how it works wrong. ("Now, if I have sex with a woman, I will be a 3!")
* Most of the cast in ''[[
* Most drows of ''[[
* ''[[
* While only two characters in ''[[Ghastlys Ghastly Comic]]'' have ever been called "bisexual", almost every cast member has slept with, kissed, or had a [[Stupid Sexy Flanders]] moment with members of both sexes at one point or another.
* ''[[Concession]]'': not everyone is bi, but a large proportion of the cast are. Joel, Matt, Roland, Angie, Emily, and Chelsie are all described as bisexual on their cast pages.{{spoiler|Matt and Emily have only actually been seen interacting romantically with their respective same-gendered partners Joel and Kelly, but the others have all demonstrated at least some bisexual tendencies onscreen.}} Nicole (who is [[Dropped a Bridget On Him|actually a male named Aaron]]), Cecil, and Kelly are gay. The other ten characters named on the cast page are heterosexual {{spoiler|counting Kate, who is a practicing pedophile whose personal harem is made up of male preteens, plus the male-to-female [[Transsexual]] Chelsie, though she also slept with the adult Artie and her own twin brother}} - so, not everyone, but a much higher proportion than real life. A remarkably high proportion of gay and bi characters show up in the randomly generated background character population as well.
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== Web Original ==
* ''[[Dirty Potter]]''
* Applies to all the male characters of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series
* [[Vocaloid]] has this in spades.
* [[TV Tropes]], more often than you'd suspect.
* Almost everyone on [[That Guy With
* [[Gaia Online]]'s Valentines 2009 event allowed the users to send Valentines to a number of NPCs, who would respond or refuse according to programmed turn-ons or turn-offs. [[The Casanova|Liam]], [[Pet Homosexual|Devin]], and [[Gag Boobs|Vanessa]] refused Valentines based on the sex of the avatar who sent it to them; everyone else had qualifications based on other things and would respond regardless of gender.
** In addition, there have been three Chance Item sets based on [[Dating Sim|Dating Sims]]. The user can freely choose whether to pursue a male or female love interest in each, and none of the interests are restricted by the user's gender.
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* ''[[Drawn Together]]'' - Every cast member seems to have slept with or kissed at least one other character of the same sex.
* ''[[The Simpsons]]'' - Often male cast members will show attraction to other men. Especially if it's [[Rule of Funny|funny]]. ([[Stupid Sexy Flanders|"It feels like I'm wearing nothing at all. Nothing at all. Nothing at all!"]])
* ''[[
* Agent Gilette of [[Archer]] is a fairly typical gay stereotype, complete with fruity accent. But even he would line up to get busy with [[Hot Amazon|Lana]]
{{quote| '''Gilette''':Girl please, no one is ''that'' gay.}}
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