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* ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'': Alphonso "Mack" Mackenzie, so much so that roughly half of the entries on the series' HoYay page involve him in someway, especially in his interactions with the AmbiguouslyBi Fitz, who are currently enjoying FanPreferredCouple status on the Internet. Most of the questions surrounding Mack's sexuality come from the fact that when he discusses his exes with the team during one episode he never specifies the gender of his former significant others, and it seems very deliberate on the writing team's part. His only significant relationship with a woman is with [[ComicBook/{{Mockingbird}} Bobbi]]. Then again he does start up a relationship with Elena so perhaps he falls under AmbiguouslyBi.

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* ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'': Alphonso "Mack" Mackenzie, so much so that roughly half of the entries on the series' HoYay page involve him in someway, especially in his interactions with the AmbiguouslyBi Fitz, who are currently enjoying FanPreferredCouple status on the Internet. Most of the questions surrounding Mack's sexuality come from the fact that when he discusses his exes with the team during one episode he never specifies the gender of his former significant others, and it seems very deliberate on the writing team's part. His only significant relationship with a woman is with [[ComicBook/{{Mockingbird}} Bobbi]]. Then again he does start up a relationship with Elena so perhaps he falls under AmbiguouslyBi.AmbiguouslyBi.
* ''Series/LukeCage2016'': Shades is a somewhat odd example because the narrative establishes that he is at least bisexual. It's revealed that he had a past sexual relationship with his friend Comanche in prison that is heavily implied to be more than just SituationalSexuality, but in the present day, he enters into a relationship with main villain Mariah Dillard. However, they have next to no romantic or sexual chemistry onscreen, and he never seems particularly happy about dating her and has a hair-trigger temper whenever the subject of their relationship is brought up. In the end he comes off less as a bisexual and more as a gay man who took on a [[TheBeard beard]] to maintain his street cred.
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* ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp'': After Scott mistakes Jimmy Woo's "I'll be seeing you" as a legitimate invitation, Jimmy clarifies the confusion, but then backtracks and seems to be down for going on a date with Scott. [[Film/AntManAndTheWaspQuantumania Which they do!]]
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* Hannibal King in Marvel Comics ''ComicBook/TheTombOfDracula'' and ''Nightstalkers'' series'. With the exception of his brief but awkward relationship with Tatiana Stiles, all of his other relationships with women have been platonic. His most significant relationship is his {{Bromance}} with ComicBook/{{Blade}}. A lot of his dialogue in ''Nightstalkers'' was camp and over the top. He was also the most {{Wangst}}y of the Nightstalker trio. He and Blade fight and argue a lot in the Nightstalkers comic, but not in the same way he fought with Frank Drake in ''Tomb''. Unlike Blade and Frank's former contempt for each other, Blade's bickering with Hannibal comes off as BelligerentSexualTension. Even [[ComicBook/GhostRider Johnny Blaze]] notices something when he points out something strange about a vampire hunter and a vampire are hanging out together. He also had a fabulous Victorian style costume. [[spoiler: In the final pages of the Nightstalkers comic when it is thought that he dies fighting Varnae, his last words are: "Frank, Blade...I...love...you]]. The very camp [[Film/BladeTrinity live action depiction]] by Ryan Reynolds must have picked up on something in the comics, or it could have just been Reynolds channeling ''Film/VanWilder''.

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* Hannibal King in Marvel Comics ''ComicBook/TheTombOfDracula'' and ''Nightstalkers'' ''ComicBook/{{Nightstalkers}}'' series'. With the exception of his brief but awkward relationship with Tatiana Stiles, all of his other relationships with women have been platonic. His most significant relationship is his {{Bromance}} with ComicBook/{{Blade}}. A lot of his dialogue in ''Nightstalkers'' was camp and over the top. He was also the most {{Wangst}}y of the Nightstalker trio. He and Blade fight and argue a lot in the Nightstalkers comic, but not in the same way he fought with Frank Drake in ''Tomb''. Unlike Blade and Frank's former contempt for each other, Blade's bickering with Hannibal comes off as BelligerentSexualTension. Even [[ComicBook/GhostRider Johnny Blaze]] notices something when he points out something strange about a vampire hunter and a vampire are hanging out together. He also had a fabulous Victorian style costume. [[spoiler: In the final pages of the Nightstalkers comic when it is thought that he dies fighting Varnae, his last words are: "Frank, Blade...I...love...you]]. The very camp [[Film/BladeTrinity live action depiction]] by Ryan Reynolds must have picked up on something in the comics, or it could have just been Reynolds channeling ''Film/VanWilder''.



* In ''Comicbook/HeroesReborn2021: Night-Gwen'', Gwen is invited out to dinner by Misty Knight in a text with a heart emoji, they bicker jokingly over who's paying, and Gwen's friends the Night Nurses outright refer to it as a date ... but Gwen's narration just calls Misty a friend. She's also not shown to have had any relationships with men, with [[spoiler: Flash Thompson]] being driven mad over the fact they never dated.

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* In ''Comicbook/HeroesReborn2021: ''ComicBook/HeroesReborn2021: Night-Gwen'', Gwen is invited out to dinner by Misty Knight in a text with a heart emoji, they bicker jokingly over who's paying, and Gwen's friends the Night Nurses outright refer to it as a date ... but Gwen's narration just calls Misty a friend. She's also not shown to have had any relationships with men, with [[spoiler: Flash Thompson]] being driven mad over the fact they never dated.
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* Franchise/SpiderMan villain Mysterio is sort of this. In the mainstream comics he's rarely, if ever, shown any interest in women and has had a few hints over the years (plus the Spidey standard of occasional HoYay). Some novels dropped the ambiguously part and made him explicitly gay; said novels are dubiously canon at best but pretty much everyone out-of-universe assumes he's gay at this point, even if the comics have yet to actually say it.

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* Franchise/SpiderMan villain ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': Mysterio is sort of this. In the mainstream comics he's rarely, if ever, shown any interest in women and has had a few hints over the years (plus the Spidey standard of occasional HoYay). Some novels dropped the ambiguously part and made him explicitly gay; said novels are dubiously canon at best but pretty much everyone out-of-universe assumes he's gay at this point, even if the comics have yet to actually say it.
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* The Creator/MarvelComics supervillain Man-Killer from ''ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}}'' was... actually not that ambiguous, but the comics spent years not actually stating it directly. Aside from her name, her stereotypically butch appearance, and her firm rejection of any men who showed any interest in her, there's this little exchange from when she decided to try being a good guy.
-->'''[[FrenchJerk Cyclone]]:''' One more goes to the other side...\\
'''Man-Killer:''' I was ''born'' on that side, Frenchie.\\
'''Cyclone:''' I meant -- oh, never mind.
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* In ''Comicbook/HeroesReborn2021: Night-Gwen'', Gwen is invited out to dinner by Misty Knight in a text with a heart emoji, they bicker jokingly over who's paying, and Gwen's friends the Night Nurses outright refer to it as a date ... but Gwen's narration just calls Misty a friend.

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* In ''Comicbook/HeroesReborn2021: Night-Gwen'', Gwen is invited out to dinner by Misty Knight in a text with a heart emoji, they bicker jokingly over who's paying, and Gwen's friends the Night Nurses outright refer to it as a date ... but Gwen's narration just calls Misty a friend.
friend. She's also not shown to have had any relationships with men, with [[spoiler: Flash Thompson]] being driven mad over the fact they never dated.
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* In ''Comicbook/HeroesReborn2021: Night-Gwen'', Gwen is invited out to dinner by Misty Knight in a text with a heart emoji, they bicker jokingly over who's paying, and Gwen's friends the Night Nurses outright refer to it as a date ... but Gwen's narration just calls Misty a friend.
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** In ''ComicBook/RainbowRowellsRunaways'', Abigail has had nearly fifty years to choose a friend to be her ageless "Best Friend Forever", knowing that she could only have one, and she chose Molly to receive this honor. She is also very touchy-feely with Molly.

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** In ''ComicBook/RainbowRowellsRunaways'', ''ComicBook/RunawaysRainbowRowell'', Abigail has had nearly fifty years to choose a friend to be her ageless "Best Friend Forever", knowing that she could only have one, and she chose Molly to receive this honor. She is also very touchy-feely with Molly.



* [[Comicbook/AllNewWolverine Honey Badger]], Comicbook/{{X 23}}'s clone sister, warns Comicbook/JeanGrey in ''Comicbook/XMenRed'' #2 about unexplored feelings she had for a girl she saw on a bus when the latter is creating a psychic link for an upcoming mission. As Gabby is ([[YoungerThanTheyLook biologically, thanks to being rapid-aged]]) thirteen, she's right at the age when children begin to develop their sexual identities, so the ambiguity is as much on ''her'' part as it is the story itself. The ambiguity is furthered by the future version of Gabby seen in the "Old Woman Laura" arc of ''Comicbook/AllNewWolverine'', who is married to someone named "[[GenderBlenderName Taylor]]."
* Hannibal King in Marvel Comics ''ComicBook/TheTombOfDracula'' and ''Nightstalkers'' series'. With the exception of his brief but awkward relationship with Tatiana Stiles, all of his other relationships with women have been platonic. His most significant relationship is his {{Bromance}} with ComicBook/{{Blade}}. A lot of his dialogue in ''Nightstalkers'' was camp and over the top. He was also the most [[{{Wangst}} Wangsty]] of the Nightstalker trio. He and Blade fight and argue a lot in the Nightstalkers comic, but not in the same way he fought with Frank Drake in ''Tomb''. Unlike Blade and Frank's former contempt for each other, Blade's bickering with Hannibal comes off as BelligerentSexualTension. Even [[ComicBook/GhostRider Johnny Blaze]] notices something when he points out something strange about a vampire hunter and a vampire are hanging out together. He also had a fabulous Victorian style costume. [[spoiler: In the final pages of the Nightstalkers comic when it is thought that he dies fighting Varnae, his last words are: "Frank, Blade...I...love...you]]. The very camp [[Film/BladeTrinity live action depiction]] by Ryan Reynolds must have picked up on something in the comics, or it could have just been Reynolds channeling ''Film/VanWilder''.

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* [[Comicbook/AllNewWolverine [[ComicBook/AllNewWolverine Honey Badger]], Comicbook/{{X ComicBook/{{X 23}}'s clone sister, warns Comicbook/JeanGrey ComicBook/JeanGrey in ''Comicbook/XMenRed'' ''ComicBook/XMenRed'' #2 about unexplored feelings she had for a girl she saw on a bus when the latter is creating a psychic link for an upcoming mission. As Gabby is ([[YoungerThanTheyLook biologically, thanks to being rapid-aged]]) thirteen, she's right at the age when children begin to develop their sexual identities, so the ambiguity is as much on ''her'' part as it is the story itself. The ambiguity is furthered by the future version of Gabby seen in the "Old Woman Laura" arc of ''Comicbook/AllNewWolverine'', ''ComicBook/AllNewWolverine'', who is married to someone named "[[GenderBlenderName Taylor]]."
* Hannibal King in Marvel Comics ''ComicBook/TheTombOfDracula'' and ''Nightstalkers'' series'. With the exception of his brief but awkward relationship with Tatiana Stiles, all of his other relationships with women have been platonic. His most significant relationship is his {{Bromance}} with ComicBook/{{Blade}}. A lot of his dialogue in ''Nightstalkers'' was camp and over the top. He was also the most [[{{Wangst}} Wangsty]] {{Wangst}}y of the Nightstalker trio. He and Blade fight and argue a lot in the Nightstalkers comic, but not in the same way he fought with Frank Drake in ''Tomb''. Unlike Blade and Frank's former contempt for each other, Blade's bickering with Hannibal comes off as BelligerentSexualTension. Even [[ComicBook/GhostRider Johnny Blaze]] notices something when he points out something strange about a vampire hunter and a vampire are hanging out together. He also had a fabulous Victorian style costume. [[spoiler: In the final pages of the Nightstalkers comic when it is thought that he dies fighting Varnae, his last words are: "Frank, Blade...I...love...you]]. The very camp [[Film/BladeTrinity live action depiction]] by Ryan Reynolds must have picked up on something in the comics, or it could have just been Reynolds channeling ''Film/VanWilder''.
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* Franchise/SpiderMan villain Mysterio is sort of this. In the mainstream comics he's rarely, if ever, shown any interest in women and has had a few hints over the years (plus the Spidey standard of occasional FoeYay). Some novels dropped the ambiguously part and made him explicitly gay; said novels are dubiously canon at best but pretty much everyone out-of-universe assumes he's gay at this point, even if the comics have yet to actually say it.

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* Franchise/SpiderMan villain Mysterio is sort of this. In the mainstream comics he's rarely, if ever, shown any interest in women and has had a few hints over the years (plus the Spidey standard of occasional FoeYay).HoYay). Some novels dropped the ambiguously part and made him explicitly gay; said novels are dubiously canon at best but pretty much everyone out-of-universe assumes he's gay at this point, even if the comics have yet to actually say it.
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** In a series where every other humanoid character has had a relationship or ShipTease with someone of the opposite sex (even Karolina was teased with Chase before she came out and he hooked up with Gert), Klara's most significant relationships are her sisterly relationship with Karolina and her RomanticTwoGirlFriendship with Molly. It's also worth noting that her parting gift for Molly was a giant bouquet of roses, and roses are both a traditional token of love and, in Klara's case, a literal part of her being.

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** In a series where every other humanoid character has had a relationship or ShipTease with someone of the opposite sex (even Karolina was teased with Chase before she came out and he hooked up with Gert), Klara's most significant relationships are her sisterly relationship with Karolina and her RomanticTwoGirlFriendship PseudoRomanticFriendship with Molly. It's also worth noting that her parting gift for Molly was a giant bouquet of roses, and roses are both a traditional token of love and, in Klara's case, a literal part of her being.
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** Blade at one time had Saffron Caulder as his woman but she vanished after TheSeventies. He also seems to like leather outfits a whole lot.

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** Blade at one time had Saffron Caulder as his woman but she vanished after TheSeventies. He also seems to like leather outfits a whole lot.lot.

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* Wade Wilson, a. k. a. ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} in ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine''. While no one actually says it, it's heavily implied: first, Victor (Sabertooth) says, "I thought you didn't like girls, Wade." Immediately after that, Wade jokingly offers Victor a manicure with his [[KatanasAreJustBetter katana]]. A couple of minutes later, when everyone is stuck in an elevator, Wade says, "I'm stuck in an elevator with five guys on high-protein diets. Dreams really do come true." It doesn't help that he's played by [[EvenTheGuysWantHim Ryan Reynolds]]. However, all of these examples could be interpreted differently: claiming someone is homosexual is just an immature means of emasculating them, offering to give Victor a manicure with his katana could have just been a crack about his long claws, and the "high protein diets" comment could be a fart joke.

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* ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'': Alphonso "Mack" Mackenzie, so much so that roughly half of the entries on the series' HoYay page involve him in someway, especially in his interactions with the AmbiguouslyBi Fitz, who are currently enjoying FanPreferredCouple status on the Internet. Most of the questions surrounding Mack's sexuality come from the fact that when he discusses his exes with the team during one episode he never specifies the gender of his former significant others, and it seems very deliberate on the writing team's part. His only significant relationship with a woman is with [[ComicBook/{{Mockingbird}} Bobbi]]. Then again he does start up a relationship with Elena so perhaps he falls under AmbiguouslyBi.
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* [[Comicbook/AllNewWolverine Honey Badger]], Comicbook/{{X 23}}'s clone sister, warns Comicbook/JeanGrey in ''Comicbook/XMenRed'' #2 about unexplored feelings she had for a girl she saw on a bus when the latter is creating a psychic link for an upcoming mission. As Gabby is ([[YoungerThanTheyLook biologically, thanks to being rapid-aged]]) thirteen, she's right at the age when children begin to develop their sexual identities, so the ambiguity is as much on ''her'' part as it is the story itself. The ambiguity is furthered by the future version of Gabby seen in the "Old Woman Laura" arc of ''Comicbook/AllNewWolverine'', who is married to someone named "[[GenderBlenderName Taylor]]."
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!!Franchise/MarvelUniverse
* The Creator/MarvelComics supervillain Man-Killer from ''ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}}'' was... actually not that ambiguous, but the comics spent years not actually stating it directly. Aside from her name, her stereotypically butch appearance, and her firm rejection of any men who showed any interest in her, there's this little exchange from when she decided to try being a good guy.
-->'''[[FrenchJerk Cyclone]]:''' One more goes to the other side...\\
'''Man-Killer:''' I was ''born'' on that side, Frenchie.\\
'''Cyclone:''' I meant -- oh, never mind.
* ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'':
** In a series where every other humanoid character has had a relationship or ShipTease with someone of the opposite sex (even Karolina was teased with Chase before she came out and he hooked up with Gert), Klara's most significant relationships are her sisterly relationship with Karolina and her RomanticTwoGirlFriendship with Molly. It's also worth noting that her parting gift for Molly was a giant bouquet of roses, and roses are both a traditional token of love and, in Klara's case, a literal part of her being.
** In ''ComicBook/RainbowRowellsRunaways'', Abigail has had nearly fifty years to choose a friend to be her ageless "Best Friend Forever", knowing that she could only have one, and she chose Molly to receive this honor. She is also very touchy-feely with Molly.
* Franchise/SpiderMan villain Mysterio is sort of this. In the mainstream comics he's rarely, if ever, shown any interest in women and has had a few hints over the years (plus the Spidey standard of occasional FoeYay). Some novels dropped the ambiguously part and made him explicitly gay; said novels are dubiously canon at best but pretty much everyone out-of-universe assumes he's gay at this point, even if the comics have yet to actually say it.
* Hannibal King in Marvel Comics ''ComicBook/TheTombOfDracula'' and ''Nightstalkers'' series'. With the exception of his brief but awkward relationship with Tatiana Stiles, all of his other relationships with women have been platonic. His most significant relationship is his {{Bromance}} with ComicBook/{{Blade}}. A lot of his dialogue in ''Nightstalkers'' was camp and over the top. He was also the most [[{{Wangst}} Wangsty]] of the Nightstalker trio. He and Blade fight and argue a lot in the Nightstalkers comic, but not in the same way he fought with Frank Drake in ''Tomb''. Unlike Blade and Frank's former contempt for each other, Blade's bickering with Hannibal comes off as BelligerentSexualTension. Even [[ComicBook/GhostRider Johnny Blaze]] notices something when he points out something strange about a vampire hunter and a vampire are hanging out together. He also had a fabulous Victorian style costume. [[spoiler: In the final pages of the Nightstalkers comic when it is thought that he dies fighting Varnae, his last words are: "Frank, Blade...I...love...you]]. The very camp [[Film/BladeTrinity live action depiction]] by Ryan Reynolds must have picked up on something in the comics, or it could have just been Reynolds channeling ''Film/VanWilder''.
** Blade at one time had Saffron Caulder as his woman but she vanished after TheSeventies. He also seems to like leather outfits a whole lot.

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