Ambiguously Bi in Comic Books.
A No Recent Examples rule applies to this trope. Examples for episodic works shouldn't be added until end of season for the season introducing the ambiguity (or after 3 months, for episodic works without seasons). This is to allow time for the story to develop the character and resolve ambiguity. There is no waiting time for non-episodic works.
The following have their own pages:
The DCU
- Batman (Bruce Wayne's) canon love interests have all mostly been women (and would almost marry Selina Kyle during Tom King's run), but he does lean into this at times. Some writers make the Batman/Joker subtext go both ways (as if it wasn't disturbing enough) and portray Batman as having some bizarre obsession with the Joker, and it's notoriously easy to read into his relationship with Robin, or the fact that he's never had a stable female love interest. Frank Miller has suggested Batman is simply sublimating his sexual urges into crime-fighting, joking "He'd be a lot healthier if he was gay".
- Black Canary, especially under Gail Simone's pen in Birds of Prey. At one point she was going to quip that she was "75% heterosexual" thus making her bisexual, but placeholder dialog confusion turned it into "heterosexual to the bone". And when she believes she's going to have to fight a Duel to the Death she tells Huntress to tell both Barbara and Oliver Queen, her ex-husband, that she loves them. In that order. To say nothing of this
◊. - Cassandra Cain's canon love interests have all been men, with her first romantic kiss coming from Superboy. However, she displayed a fascination with a young ballerina named Christine (even watching her dance from the shadows) and agreed with Batwoman's offhanded comment about wanting to marry Zatanna. In DC Future State, meanwhile, it is heavily implied that Cassandra and Stephanie Brown were in a relationship before Steph's fake Face–Heel Turn, and that they're going to try again after everything is cleared up.
- Along with the Future State implication mentioned above, Stephanie Brown is the longtime partner of Tim Drake, but also blurted out that Zatanna was "hot" in Young Justice (2019).
- DC Comics Bombshells: Diana and Mera shared their first kiss, and both have shown interest in members of the opposite sex (Steve Trevor and Arthur Curry respectively). Mera's talk with Steve after his first kiss with Diana can be read as either coming from a close friend or an amicable ex.
- Dick Grayson has only been shown with female love interests so far, the most well-known being Koriand'r (Starfire) and Barbara Gordon. However, his openly flamboyant demeanor, the fact that he's acknowledged as the Pretty Boy of the DC Universe by both men and women and his close and intimate relationships with his male friends Wally West and Roy Harper have made some fans start to wonder. There's also the fact that Dick is often portrayed as very supportive of the LGBT+ community, to the point where he's the focus of more Pride covers than his canonically bisexual successor and little brother Tim Drake.
- Wonder Woman:
- Wonder Woman (1942): Marya makes a number of suggestive comments comparing women when talking about how men seem to be disappointing flirts, talks about how beautiful other women are, and is very dedicated to Diana after only meeting her once and being impressed with her beauty.
- Diana herself, with more or less subtlety Depending on the Writer. After all, she grew up in a Lady Land called Paradise Island. In the New 52 when Diana officiates a gay marriage, she tells Clark that she sees no difference between it and heterosexual marriage. Greg Rucka (who designed Di's Post-Crisis revamp) has given a Word of Gay that she's bisexual, but prior to Wonder Woman (Rebirth) this was only hinted at in-universe, most prominently during Gail Simone's run on Volume 3.
Other Comic Books
- Nancy from Afterlife with Archie canonically has a boyfriend, Chuck, like in the main comics... She also has a girlfriend, Ginger. The vague part is if Chuck is a beard or if they were a legitimate couple before she fell for Ginger.
- Elsewhere (2017), a comic written by Jay Faerber for Image Comics has its own version of D. B. Cooper be this. He is shown sitting with lots of women in a bar and has strong romantic subtext with a female character but also frequently essentially flirts with a male character.
- Kimber from Jem and the Holograms (IDW) obviously had a case of Adaptational Sexuality, but it's hard to tell if she's lesbian or bisexual. In the Jem cartoon she's exclusively into boys (though her Pseudo-Romantic Friendship with Stormer in "The Bands Break Up" makes her Ambiguously Bi in her own right). In the comic though, she leans towards girls. Her interests outright includes "Girls", her sisters mention her frequently crushing on girls, and she falls in Love at First Sight with Stormer. Some dialogue in early issues imply she could be bi and considering her cartoon version that wouldn't be unusual. Though in the Valentine's Day issue she gets disgusted when she learned she kissed a man while under a spell, suggesting that she's gay.
- Lady Death was originally Evil Ernie's love interest and even then that didn't stop women being all over her, despite saying she is not into them. However in the Avatar publications, while she prefers men, it's implied she swings both ways when she casually kisses a barmaid on the lips in one scene, though she treats it as nothing.
- Kim Pine in Scott Pilgrim is mostly presented as attracted to men, but the original graphic novel hinted a few times that she's into women as well: most notably, a Kissing Under the Influence incident with Knives. Future media has made her fairly unambiguously into women.
- In Seconds, when Kate speaks to Max after the first revision, the man he is having dinner with is crying, implying that they just broke up. Later, when Kate is talking to Hazel, the conversation leads to Kate asking her if she likes girls or boys. Hazel replies that she hasn't decided yet.
- Amy from Sonic the Comic apparently has a crush on Sonic, at least in early issues, but her close friendship with Tekno is the butt of fan jokes. In turn, Tekno is teased with Shortfuse however fans utterly ignore him and, as said, she and Amy are close buddies who travel around a lot. A Sonic the Comic – Online! story written by one of the comic's main writers mentions the two have a son named Johnny, but it's never clarified whether they're raising him as friends or as a couple.
