History Main / HomoeroticSubtext

** Aside from Pearl and Garnet acting like Steven's mothers (including arguing about parenting strategies), Pearl is near-constantly sidling up to, latching on to, or clinging to Garnet, and is desperate to fuse with her; just a demonstration of the dance is enough for Pearl to throw her head back with her mouth open and blushing. When they do fuse in Season 2, they blatantly flirt and have a dance that's almost erotic, and it results in a multi-episode arc about how much they love being together, but because Pearl is too dependent she lies to get closer to Garnet, who is furious and hurt at the betrayal. Despite all this, Garnet makes it clear she has no interest in a romantic relationship, since she already ''is'' a romantic relationship.

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckDodgers'' played for laughs with Marvin the Martian to Daffy "Wait, wait! You can't run off with her, you're MY arch enemy" made to sound very much like they're in a relationship, compounded with his claim "But Dogers, you can't leave me like this, those other enemies meant nothing to me!"

** Shu Takemi is on record as saying that he didn't ''intend'' Phoenix Wright and Miles Edgeworth's relationship to be read as romantic, but when he realized how popular [[PortmanteauCoupleName Wrightworth]] was in the fandom, he started to include some intentional romantic subtext in their scenes.

* In ''VideoGame/BornOfBread,'' the final cutscene of Yagi's personal quest has strong romantic undertones with Kakoi: [[spoiler: Kakoi tells Yagi that he's spent all his time looking for something special when the one he needed was right in front of him all along, he tells Yagi he needs him, and he promises to [[IWillWaitForYou wait for Yagi to finish his quest...]] But he's talking about opening a dojo with him. It nonetheless is treated like an AnguishedDeclarationOfLove.]] Given that Yagi is a StockShonenProtagonist GenreRefugee, and Kakoi is a straight-up [[Franchise/{{Naruto}} Sasuke]] {{Expy}}, it's one big parody of the HoYay-laden nature of many shonen hero/rival relationships. Further cementing its parody status os the fact that their mentors are an ''actual'' gay married couple; in other words, if the game was going to make it text, it would have.

** "HomoeroticSubtext/HatsuneMikuColorfulStage"

** HomoeroticSubtext/HatsuneMikuColorfulStage

* ''VideoGame/ProjectSEKAI'' has Vivid BAD SQUAD, a unit that runs on the homoerotic subtext between the two sets of partners An Shiraishi and Kohane Azusawa, two girls, and Akito Shinonome and Toya Aoyagi, two boys. The former is ''especially'' aggressive, as they have at times crossed the line of a PseudoRomanticFriendship and drifted into being all but stated to be romantically interested in each other. As well, while the male duo has a lot of subtexts, the writing leaves their relationship just barely vague enough for it to be interpreted as a pair of especially close high school boys or a genuine and budding romantic interest in each other.

* ''Franchise/AceAttorney'': The massive, ''massive'' levels of HoYay aside, there's Metis Cykes and Aura Blackquill. Nothing comes of it because Metis is a PosthumousCharacter, but the robots they worked on together call them both "mommy", and Aura is absolutely ''hellbent'' on avenging Metis's death. And when Aura talks about the incident in court, we get this exchange:

--->'''Simon:''' Angel has his ex-girlfriend and she says, ‘Until you find someone you care about more than your job, you won’t be able to switch off.’ And then he does, [[HomoeroticSubtext but it’s Danny]].

* Original drafts of ''Film/HotFuzz'' had a love interest for Angel named Victoria. When the character was removed, much of her dialogue was given intact to Danny, leading to lots of subtext, which was then consciously played for laughs. [[RuleThirtyFourCreatorReactions When the writers and actors discovered]] ''Hot Fuzz'' SlashFic, they were amused, and even started [[Website/{{Twitter}} tweeting]] their own ''Hot Fuzz'' slash fanfiction.
-->'''[[http://www.edgarwrighthere.com/2009/10/20/the-steamy-hot-fuzz-slash-fiction-tweets-october-19th-2009/ Edgar Wright (via Twitter)]]:''' We wrote some Nicholas Angel and Danny Butterman slash fiction. It was called ''Hot Fuzz''...\\

** Creator/SimonPegg actually [[LampshadeHanging acknowledges this]] in his previous work with Edgar Wright, Film/ShaunOfTheDead.

* Buck and Eddie from ''Series/NineOneOne'''s dynamic as a whole may [[HoYay vary]] [[ShippingGoggles depending on who you ask]], but the creators acknowledged that at least one of their scenes were made with this in mind.

* ''Literature/ThePictureOfDorianGray'' had enough that it was used as evidence when Creator/OscarWilde was tried for homosexuality.

See also HomoeroticDream and PseudoRomanticFriendship. Supertrope of QueerFlowers, which concerns floral symbolism as text revealing sexual orientations in subtext.

* Leon Powalski from ''VideoGame/StarFox'' has a dialog with Panther when Wolf performs a secret taunt in the Lylat Cruise stage in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl''. This gives a rather ''interesting'' view to the character.

'''Theon/"Reek":''' [[StockholmSyndrome Yes, of course my Lord]].\\

** ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'': Young Alicent and Rhaenyra have an incredibly close friendship that include spending time in the garden together, Rhaenyra wanting to [[FlightOfRomance take Alicent on dragon rides]], sitting together atTheTourney, and Alicent dressing Rhaenyra for her promotion-to-heir ceremony with the two holding hands with their heads very close to each other. Even Episode 3 still shows Alicent trying to mend her bridge with Rhaenyra--with their interactions inadvertently coming off as a mutual case of WomanScorned--likelier to give their coming conflict at the Dance a very tragic edge. To their credit, Creator/MillyAlcock and Creator/EmilyCarey discussed having [[InvokedTrope consciously invoked it]] [[https://www.gaytimes.co.uk/culture/house-of-the-dragon-stars-address-queer-subtext-it-was-purposeful/ as they performed]].

** Episode 12 seems to have a lot of this between Yu and Yosuke. [[spoiler:Yosuke pulls Yu out of Mitsuo's Shadow's illusion, and they then look each other in the eye while in Jiraiya's arms. At the end of the episode, Yosuke calls Yu by his first name]]. Episode 19 has some tension during the group date. Yosuke says that he feels he was "about to cross a line that should never be crossed," and searches frantically for a drink. It gets even better in the [[DubText English dub]] where he says that he "''has'' just went a place he can ''never come back from''".

** Episode 12 seems to have a lot of this between Yu and Yosuke. [[spoiler:Yosuke pulls Yu out of Mitsuo's Shadow's illusion, and they then look each other in the eye while in Jiraiya's arms. At the end of the episode, Yosuke calls Yu by his first name]]. Episode 19 has some tension during the group date. Yosuke says that he feels he was "about to cross a line that should never be crossed," and searches frantically for a drink. It gets even better in the [[DubText English dub]] where he says that he "''has'' just went a place he can ''never come back from''.

** Episode 12 seems to have a lot of this between Yu and Yosuke. [[spoiler:Yosuke pulls Yu out of Mitsuo's Shadow's illusion, and they then look each other in the eye while in Jiraiya's arms. At the end of the episode, Yosuke calls Yu by his first name]]. Episode 19 has some tension during the group date. Yosuke says that he feels he was "about to cross a line that should never be crossed," and searches frantically for a drink.

* ''VideoGame/RabiRibi'': Rita and Saya have a SenpaiKohai relationship (with Rita being the sempai), and Saya is shown to be more than a little fond of her. Unfortunately, Saya also has a case of CannotSpitItOut.

** A platonic example: When Mai recalls the first time she met Mikage, it was portrayed in an ArtShift to a {{shojo}} art style, complete with BishieSparkles. But the relationship was literally an "admiration" in the SenpaiKohai sense, with no further {{Ship Tease}}s.

** Their leader, Sylia, was [[UnresolvedSexualTension subtly implied to have hidden feelings for Priss]], which Lenna and Nene lampshade in the first episode, when Sylia was trying to hide her concern for Priss during a news broadcast of a boomer attack. Lenna [[ShameIfSomethingHappened offhandedly mentions that Priss could be in danger if she ran into the boomer without her suit]], prompting Sylia to drop all pretense and immediately head for the changing room to suit up in order to save her. [[IKnewIt While Lenna and Nene have a giggle fit.]]