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{{quote|"I won't stop. Your brother. Warren Worthington. Alison Blaire... anyone and everyone you care about will die."}}
** Just to be clear, that's her twin brother (with whom she is naturally extremely close), the man with whom she was canonically in love for years (and who a large section of the fandom thought she was going to marry), and... the lady she's just started hanging around with, for the first time since they were both written by Chris Claremont.
* When Rob Liefield and Fabian Nicieza wrote ''X-Force'' in the 90s, it was a [[Rated "M" for Manly|catalog of testosterone]], with Shatterstar, the Mojoverse warrior who was interested only in fighting. When Nicieza took over after Liefeld left, Shatterstar began [[What Is This Thing You Call Love?|figuring outt human emotions]] and struck up a friendship with fellow teammate Rictor. Jeph Loeb took that one step further, giving Shatterstar a very obvious crush on Rictor and developing a subtext between the two men that eventually became difficult to ignore and a [[Fan Yay]] (detailed extensively [https://web.archive.org/web/20090628072652/http://www.shatteringtheearth.com/ThePairing.html here]). Years later, Peter David writing ''X-Factor'' reunited the pair and had them become a canon couple, to the [https://web.archive.org/web/20160427235506/http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2009/07/liefeld-cant-wait-to-someday-undo-shatterstar-development/ disapproval] of Liefield who said that his vision of Shatterstar was as a 'gladiator' and 'Spartan', [[Hard Gay|apparently precluding him from homosexuality]].
** I guess Liefeld knows about as much about the Spartans as he does human anatomy.
* In a 2005 story (Rogue vol. 3 #7-12) Tony Bedard established that back in the really old days (the flashback part of the story is set before Sunfire's first appearance, X-Men #64 (1970)) a 17-year-old Rogue was really close friends with a memory-stealing female mutant called Blindspot who also happens to be immune to her absorption power. To this day Blindspot loves to cuddle up with one of Rogue's old costumes, and at the end of the story Rogue gives her the one she then was wearing in return for having her memories restored.
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* In ''[[Wolverine and the X-Men]]'' we have scenes of Rogue and Domino hand holding, looking into each other's eyes, and when Rogue goes to rejoin the X-Men... Domino looks like she was about to convince Rogue to stay with the Brotherhood with a kiss...
 
=== Films ===
* In the ''First Class'' movie: Charles and Erik. James McAvoy wasn't kidding when he called it a love story.
** In a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wly1CHI86sA deleted scene], Charles projects Erik in drag (yes, you read that correctly) and remarks, "You've never looked more beautiful, darling."
** Hell, for that matter, James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender. While doing interviews promoting the film they sang to each other and talked about how they would fly all over the world spreading love to the hapless populace if they had super powers. And then there was [[Noodle Incident|that time with the golf cart]].
{{quote|'''Interviewer:''' What is the most common question you are asked?
'''James McAvoy:''' How many times did you have sex with Michael Fassbender?
'''Interviewer:''' That is the question. And what is the answer?
'''McAvoy:''' Four. }}
** Darwin and Alex (Havoc) have their little moments. There is a scene where Darwin places his hand on Alex's stomach, and just a few seconds before Darwin dies, who does he reach out to? Alex.
** Erik tells Emma that he wants her on his team to fill the "gap in [his] life" left by Xavier.
** There's such a ridiculous amount of [[Ho Yay]] in this movie, that by the end it almost feels like Charles is cheating on Erik when he kisses Moira. Certainly the fact that Erik was absolutely devoted to {{spoiler|turning those missiles on the Russians and Americans and the only thing that stops him is Charles getting shot, whereupon he falls to his knees in abject horror and forgets the thousands of soldiers just off the coast}} ''doesn't help things!'' And that's ''one'' example.
** As blatantly homoerotic as the entire film is, the scene where Charles reads Erik's mind and then ''wipes away a tear'' takes the cake.
{{quote|'''Erik:''' What did you do to me?
'''Charles:''' I accessed the brightest corner of your memory system. It's a very beautiful memory, Erik. Thank you. }}
** On the villainous side, the Azazel/Riptide pairing is as popular as Azazel/Mystique.
 
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