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Only [[lampshaded]], [[In-Universe]], or superlative examples are listed below. ''I think you know why.''
== Anime and Manga ==
* Discussed in ''[[Yuri on Ice]]'' where the main character Yuri and Yurio from Russia receive coaching lessons from Victor. He designs routines for them, arrangmenets of the same melody. To push them out of their comfort zone, he assigns "Agape" to Yurio and "Eros" to Yuri. Yuri spends a few days struggling with what his eros is because he's in denial about his feelings for Victor, thinking of the folktale of a womanizer in town chasing after a paramour who does not wish to be caught. He feels stupid for blurting out that he feels passionate about pork cutlet bowls during a practice, and even {{Jerkass}} Yurio gives him a pitying look. Yuri finally nails the routine when he goes to his ballet teacher Minako for help, and decides to play the routine from the perspective of the elusive woman being chased.
== Comic Books ==
* N.D. Stevenson admitted in his memoir ''The Fire Never Goes Out'' that ''[[Nimona]]'' represented his gender dysphoria and struggles with sexuality, being raised as an evangelical Christian. Indeed, at the time Nimona bore the same haircut that N.D. sported through college.
* In the ''[[Legend of Korra]]'' comics, it's mentioned that the Fire Nation ''used'' to be more tolerant towards LGBTQ relationships, with Avatar Kyoshi having relationships with both men and women through her long life. After Sozin started his campaign, he banned these relationships to go with the mandated dragon extinction, Air Nomad genocide, and colonial traumas that the Fire Nation inflicted on the world. In case you needed more reasons to hate the guy, as Korra does when she finds out about this. Korra's parents warn her that they are fine with her dating {{spoiler|Asami, but other people may not be even if Korra can use her Avatar authority to shut them up}}.
== Film ==
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== Literature ==
* In [[Ernest Hemingway]]'s six-word short story, ''"[[wikipedia:For sale: baby shoes, never worn|For sale: baby shoes, never worn]]"'', the entirety of the action takes place in the subtext.
* Part of the reason why ''[[Lolita]]'' is contentious is because of this; while on the surface it's a story about an accused murderer trying to write his memoirs before he dies in prison, it's actually about a predator destroying a little girl's life. Humbert von Humbert is charming in prose who claims that Lolita ruined his life with her seductions, but you can read between the lines and see that no, actually his twelve-year old stepdaughter Dolores was ''not'' okay with the sole authority figure and parent depriving her of the stability she used to have when her mother Charlotte was alive and raping her on a regular basis. Heck, her [[Affectionate Nickname]] is Dolly, which is more than appropriate for a little girl, and it's Humbert that changes the nickname to Lolita. She demands to call her mother after their first sexual encounter, and is horrified to find out that Charlotte died shortly before Humbert picked her up from summer camp. In her book ''Reading Lolita in Tehran'', Azar Nafisi notes that at the camp in question, Humbert notices either a still-living butterfly or moth pinned to the wall in the office, struggling to stay alive; it represents what Dolores will become while under her stepfather's thumb. Even as an adult, to emphasize how creepy his actions were, she refers to him as "Dad," not "Humbert".
== Live-Action TV ==
* ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]'' was famous for having a [[Lesbian Subtext]] involving romantic attraction between Xena, the protagonist, and Gabrielle, the sidekick. But that's why not why this is listed here. In Xena fandom circles, the word "subtext" was so strongly associated that it is used to refer to only that particular pairing.
*In ''[[Fresh off the Boat]]'', it's parodied. Jessica and her sister Connie are passive-aggressive towards each other, after spending a lifetime fighting for their mother's favoritism. While they may compliment each other, the subtitles translate each phrase as insults. The opposite happens when they trade insults at the end of the episode introducing this, and the subtitles reveal how much they love each other.
== Web Comics ==
* ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' has characters [https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2006-05-09 briefly discussing] "context-vs.-subtext ambiguity".
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Steven Universe]]''
** Gems are manifestations of light that can shapeshift their forms and identify as female. While in theory they can use their identities, in actuality the Diamond Authority maintains a tight grip over the individuals so they conform to a whole. Indeed, when the Diamonds find out about {{spoiler|Pink Diamond becoming Rose Quartz and giving birth to Steven, they have a hard time wrapping their heads around the fact that Steven is not their long-lost sister, using "she" pronouns and acting like things will be the same as they were several thousand years ago. Steven lampshades that because Gems don't know what moms and parents are, it's complicated to explain what actually happened.}}
** Fusion is shown as the concrete representation of a relationship; the Diamond Authority mandates that Gems can only fuse with like Gems as a means to fight in armies. It's shown that the strongest fusions are made of intense emotions, like love in the case of Garnet and Stevonnie, or loathing in the case of Malachite. For this reason, Garnet teaches Stevonnie a meditation when they start suffering trauma-induced hallucinations during combat training.
** The true story of what happened with Rose Quartz {{spoiler|aka Pink Diamond. Even though Pink's sisters Blue and Yellow and their mother-figure White loved Pink, they treated her as a joke and a court jester. As a result, she becomes spoiled and demanding, taking out her frustrations on her Pearl and later Spinel by abandoning the latter in a distant moon garden. Pink felt stifled by this attitude, how she had to conform to rules without having the chance to explore who she really was. When she shapeshifted into a Rose Quartz to explore her new colony, and later saw Garnet fuse during her initial attempts to protect the planet from colonization, it struck her that Earth was a place where you could be who you wanted to be}}.
** In-universe, Peridot explains the subtext to Steven after he gets her hooked on ''Camp Pining Hearts'', arguing that Percy and Pierre are the ultimate power couple even if canon doesn't confirm it. According to the flashback, she explained it for several hours. Steven fell asleep, while Garnet peeked in and gave Peridot a thumbs-up for her analysis.
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