I notice a lot of character pages have an awkward opening where Bi The Way used to be and are forced to rely on Ambigiously Bi being "subverted" to confirm a character's sexuality.
You Are Not Alone...Until I Find You.
If you want to note a character's sexuality on the Characters/ page and there aren't any applicable tropes, just note it in their description.
Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Is this really a trope?
, started by captainpat on Apr 30th 2011 at 3:41:09 AM
If the trope was ever brought back, maybe it will be renamed "Bi Bi Bi"?
Page was turned into a disambiguation per TRS.
Under the film section of Bi The Way, first example on the list is the character Dakota who fits the description but it goes on to say under a "spoiler" that she went to on to date Cherry which is confusing because there was no indication of this whatsoever in the film. Dakota briefly shows some attraction towards Cherry at one point but it's not even noticed by Cherry and never comes up again in the film. I'd just like to know what source of information that Cherry and & Dakota started dating because outside of a possible "Word of God" trope it just seems like conjecture.
Does the Crazy Ex Girlfriend example belong here? Darryl's sexuality is a big deal. He has a dramatic coming out arc and even sings a coming out song.
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Why was the Yuri!!! on Ice entry with Yuuri Katsuki erased?
"Stealing is a crime and drugs is a crime too BUT if you steal drugs the two crimes cancel out and it’s like basically doing a good."
Hey, I'm a new guy. I wanted to see if my Katniss Everdeen writeup fit here or in Ambiguously Bi. I'm ubsure as to where to draw the line.
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Might want to ask here.
What. As far as i remember both Gale and Peeta were guys, and she wasn't ever interested in anyone else?
When a gay character is this what's it called?
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They might be a Straight Gay, although that isn't a direct quivalent.
That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.
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Why no real life examples?
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I agree. It's not like we're insulting them, just saying they're bisexual.
In real life, Bi The Way is the case for, well, nearly every bisexual out there. It's a sexuality and not necessarily played for drama and a big deal or whatever as it is in fiction (which is why times when it's just incidental are notable). Real people are non-examples.
That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.
Okay, this trope is about being bisexual and that's about it, yes? So why do I keep seeing people make examples of this when their bisexuality ends up being a big deal/plot point?
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It's about a person's bisexuality not being a stereotype.
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At the risk of starting an Edit War, since some people feel really strongly about this subject...
- Kaidan Alenko and Ashley Williams were originally intended to be romanced by either male or female Shepard, but this was removed at the last minute. Most of it still exists in the coding, however, and almost the entire romance can still be found and reconstructed, as apparent here. (Note that Shepard seems to lose a few pounds when things heat up...)
- Kaidan Alenko and Ashley Williams were originally intended to be romanced by either male or female Shepard, but this was removed at the last minute. Most of it still exists in the coding, however, and almost the entire romance can still be found and reconstructed, as apparent here
This is a really persistent myth that simply isn't true. One of the writers of Mass Effect stated here (yes, that has been confirmed as his account) that the reason why romantic dialogue exists for both genders is because it was faster for both voice actors to record everything, whether the dialogue would actually trigger in-game or not.
Notice how in the linked video one of the characters calls the other a woman, despite clearly not being the case? That's because it's a modded savefile, to trigger with a male character the dialogue meant for a female character, not because it was an actual romance created for that situation.
The more you know.
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The cut, while it's misguided, does raise an interesting issue - this seems quite hypocritical with two entries on this discussion page and three on the old one, but does anyone else think this is a bit People Sit On Chairs? I mean, even Straight Gay and Lipstick Lesbian serve a particular rhetorical need, with the backlash to older stereotypes and the "more Irish than the Irish themselves" counter-backlash (...yes, that is a word), but this is essentially any bisexual character who doesn't act like Catherine Tramell or Jack Harkness, and it's often used even less narrowly than that. It seems like just a repository of Tropers' bisexual validation after No Bisexuals started to get sick of simple aversions. Granted, with over a thousand wicks, it seems harsh to remove it, but...
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Maybe we could move all the simple aversions of No Bisexuals here? We're not supposed to list aversions, so if we have a trope that is the exact inverse of another trope, that trope can take the other trope's aversions.
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I take it that we haven't solved The Problem with Pen Island yet.
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Yeah, Bithe Way isn't a typo of Bi The Way - it's just the Wiki Words do their thing whether it is properbly capitalized or not. Bit Hew Ay, Bith Ew Ay, Bi The Way.
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Due to his notorious waffling, I don't think David Bowie belongs here.
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Dunkies addict
- Somewhat inverted according to the dating website OKCupid where they found that 77% of the people who listed themselves as bisexual messaged exclusively men or exclusively women.
- Most bisexuals lean somewhat towards one gender or another. Only few share completely equal attraction to both.
- That was actually covered in the source material. This wasn't about a preponderence of messages, but an exclusive pattern. Arguably, it could be these 77% restrict their activities with the other gender to offline escapades and only mention their sexuality BiTheWay, but it does seem to imply that self-identification may be non-indicative of actual behavior.
- Most bisexuals lean somewhat towards one gender or another. Only few share completely equal attraction to both.
First off, the idea of this being an "inversion" doesn't even make sense. And even if it were, we already have No Bisexuals for that.
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Now that this trope has been rendered defunct, what exactly are we supposed to use if the character doesn't fit Ambiguously Bi or Depraved Bisexual?
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