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The implications of sexual tension between arch-enemies. Just as Homoerotic Subtext is about the situation of implying romance where even the characters' canonical characterizations or sexual orientations make it implausible, this trope intentionally creates an even deeper paradox by subtextually implying love in a relationship that is, textually, the opposite of love. This trope is much more likely to come into play if one is The Rival and The Only One Allowed to Defeat You, or a Rival Turned Evil, and is especially likely if one is an Evil Former Friend. If enemies have to work together, it can give the impression that adversity makes strange bedfellows. Other times, this trope can be invoked by a villain who seems to be too eager and persistent about trying to convince or force the hero to rule the world together, and eventually appear as a one-sided Villainous Crush. Terms of Endangerment often feature, and watch out for the "Take That!" Kiss. Dark Magical Girls are often depicted as understanding their Magical Girl counterpart far more than anyone else, and after inevitable redemption at the very least become Heterosexual Life-Partners, if not more. Since most heroes and their villains tend to be members of the same gender, this results in most examples of Foe Yay overlapping with Ho Yay, but different gender foes qualify too. When it ultimately goes from subtext to text, and the two admit that they love each other, it is called Dating Catwoman. Contrast with Defecting for Love. For the villain who really is sexually obsessed with The Hero, see Stalker with a Crush, Mind Game Ship, In Love with Your Carnage, and Villainous Crush. See also Destructo-Nookie, when they actually do go the whole nine yards. A Foil between a Hammy Villain, Serious Hero can result in this, especially from the villain's actions that may come off as flirtatious. See also Foe Yay Shipping, for the subjective audience reaction of insisting that after a certain number of such scenes, the two should become a couple (this appeal often lies in the forbidden nature of the relationship, a staple of the shipper diet). Please move non-objective examples to that page. Not to be confused with Faux Yay. |
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Fight Club. Aside from the fact that they're basically the same person, there's a large amount of subtext between The Narrator and Tyler, as Tyler is the epitome of everything the Narrator wishes he were, compared to the Narrator's docile, repressed sexuality. The movie opens with Tyler shoving the barrel of a gun down the Narrator's throat, they live together, bathe together, spend their nights beating each other to a pulp while shirtless and covered in sweat, and let's not forget the chemical burn scene, in which Tyler kisses the Narrator's hand and holds him down while he burns him, and Marla's almost jealous reaction when she sees the scar ("Who did that to you? Guy or girl?"). There's also the Narrator's jealousy and subsequent brutal beat-down of the pretty blond guy who started to seem like Tyler's new favorite. | |
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Sherlock: Jim Moriarty (who Sherlock deduces to be gay at first sight) just loves flirting with Sherlock. It begins from the first message Moriarty sends to Sherlock; Moriarty's very opening words are "Hello, Sexy". They later meet in person when Jim is masquerading as Molly Hooper's boyfriend, and even in disguise Jim overtly flirts with Sherlock, giving him his phone number just like you would to a romantic prospect. Moriarty (as his true self) later talks about this like he's a jilted date: | |
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All four games illustrate this in Joker and Batman's relationship. Starting early in Batman: Arkham Asylum with Joker: "Tell me Bats, what are you really scared of? Failing to save this cesspool of a city? Not finding the Commissioner in time? Me, in a thong?!" and that the premise of the whole night was a party Joker threw for Batman. Then continuing in Batman: Arkham City with the increasing phone calls from Joker to Batman, the final death scene with Batman carrying Joker out in his arms, and Joker's swan song to Batman. Given their beginnings in Batman: Arkham Origins when Joker's obsession with Batman begins, including his Red Hood story and his mention of "meeting someone very special earlier tonight", and another song for Batman during the credits. And finally culminating in Batman: Arkham Knight with Hallucination!Joker mentioning over and over again being inside of Batman, the heavy indicators that Joker's death affected him so much that he could never return to normal (not even Talia's death is mentioned that much), and the serenade number Hallucination!Joker performed with a little help from Johnny Charisma. Catwoman even makes a dig at the relationship in Knight, and how Batman should stop mourning him and "find new maniacs". The whole series can be read as an overall story of Batman and Joker's relationship. | |
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The page image is from Hark! A Vagrant, from a series of strips about a pirate and a British naval officer who get a little too obsessed with each other. | |
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Killjoys: Dutch, the protagonist, and Delle Seyah Kendry have what Dutch refers to as "Hate Flirting". Later, Dutch's Doppelgänger Aneela ends up actively in a relationship with Delle Sayeh. | |
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Dirty Harry. Scorpio's reaction to seeing Inspector Callahan's .44 Magnum revolver for the first time. "My, that's a big one." Reportedly actor Andrew Robinson ad-libbed that line, which made the crew laugh. One of many allusions to Scorpio's stereotypical "gayness", along with the hair and the whiny, murderous hissy fits. | |
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There was more than a bit of homoeroticism between Bond and Alec in GoldenEye. | |
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Batman Ninja: The Joker makes various homoerotic comments about how exciting fighting Batman is, and Harley does some Lecherous Licking to Catwoman, who lampshades their fight as "girl on girl" action. | |
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In The Witchlands, Safi is annoyed to find out that the "Chiseled Cheat" - the man who stole all her money, now revealed to be a Hell-Bard, hunting Safi - is still very attractive despite being her enemy. | |
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In Grossology, we have Abby and Chester/Kid Rot. There are hints in the latter's debut episode that he and Abby have a thing for each other. It only becomes more obvious when Chester becomes Kid Rot permanently, which is when he starts obsessing over her. Abby, meanwhile, still likes Chester, but it's shown that she prefers him to Kid Rot, making the whole “foe yay� thing on her side a bit ambiguous. | |
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It's usually one-sided, but X23 is subject to this: Her arch-nemesis, Kimura, is positively obsessed with her. She sees Laura's escape from the Facility as a personal insult, and whenever she catches up to her delights in punishing her for "being a bad girl." Much of her other behavior tends towards being stalkerish in nature, she calls her endearments such as "sweetie," enjoys physically and emotionally tormenting her, and threatens harm against Laura's actual love interest at the time, all the while giving her the vibe of a Psycho Ex-Girlfriend. She also gets it with Hellverine in her solo series. He stalks her because he desires her to lead his armies, but he also gives the impression he just plain desires her. He captures her other Stalker with a Crushnote an omnipath named Gamesmaster, who hangs out in her mind because he can't shut off his powers and finds peace in how quiet hers is and presents him to her as a gift, approaches her in the form of a naked Cyclops while complimenting her beauty and skill as a killer, (while also belittling her and claiming she was made to obey a master) all the while approaching her with intimate gestures such as touching her cheek and stroking her hair. When she meets Sabretooth while they're both imprisoned by Shogun during The Logan Legacy, Creed wastes no time making suggestive comments and touching her hair. Even more subtext is provided by the fact that Creed has long had a similar obsession with Wolverine, and Laura is effectively Logan's daughter. |
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The Great Mouse Detective: Given it's a movie based on Sherlock Holmes, it was inevitable, but the relationship between Basil and Ratigan, how the two are so obsessed with one another and how they drive each other crazy, is really something else. Particularly how their obsessions with each other are so closely intertwined with music. In his first scene, after Basil learns his lead on Ratigan is a dead end, he plays a depressing tune on the violin like a guy who's just been dumped. Ratigan laments all the times Basil has ruined his Evil Plans while playing the harp. And Ratigan's Death Trap is triggered by a human-sized record player playing "a sprightly tune I recorded especially for you" that sounds almost mournful that their relationship/rivalry has come to an end: "You followed me, I followed you./ We were like each other's shadows for awhile./ But, as you see, this game is through./ So although it hurts..." Even without all the music, there's the fact that Ratigan does not stop touching him. He cups Basil's face, strokes his fingers up his chest to lightly flick his chin... it's very blatant. Plus, Basil has a portrait of Ratigan above his fireplace, and Ratigan has a little Basil doll (just because it's voodoo doll doesn't mean the romantic subtext isn't there. He still took the time to make it in loving detail, at least.) | |
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Tokyo Ghoul: Eto varies in one chapter between getting close to Kaneki to lick his face, reveal her fondness for him and how they're similar, and declaring her love for him as he's tossing her off the building. Further subtext can be read into the fact that he eats her kakuja after defeating her. Torso kidnaps Mutsuki, dresses him in a white gown, puts a wedding ring on his finger, and cuts off his arms and legs to prevent him from leaving. He tells him they are going to get married while showing him his cut off legs and arms. In another chapter following that he is depicted shirtless and breathing heavily while standing before Mutsuki and saying "My Tooru" which has disturbing implications. In the fourth volume he details how he has a Lack of Empathy and is aroused by dead bodies and Mutsuki especially to the point of masturbation. With his previous lovers whom he abducted he mentions in his diary how when they show their distaste for him and his actions he retaliates by destroying their faces. He believes he just has to get Mutsuki alone and have a long talk with him to get him to return his love and says that his feelings for Mutsuki might end up being his salvation. He also gets really excited when fighting Mutsuki and says they are connected by knives. He also informs Mutsuki that he's infatuated with him because of his eyes which are the same as his. In chapter 73 of re: Torso brings Mutsuki a flower crown, and waxes romantically about how beautiful Mutsuki is but gets angry when Mutsuki glares at him and won't accept his compliments. He beats Mutsuki violently while screaming insults. Later, the two are lying together on a makeshift futon. Torso says that he only "scolds" Mutsuki because of how deep his love is, and Mutsuki cries while agreeing. He promises to show Mutsuki a field of flowers. In chapter 78 Torso watches Mutsuki as he's sleeping, wipes away his tears, feeds him, and they share their Dark and Troubled Past. Mutsuki actually finds himself feeling sorry for Torso and Torso sees Mutsuki as a replacement for his only friend whom was abused, dismembered, and eaten by his father shortly afterward. At the end of the chapter Torso picks up Mutsuki presumably to take him to the beach which he had wanted to do with his friend and the text at the end reads "Because I love you, I'll take you." A couple entries in the 2016 calendar feature the following: Mutsuki dressed as a Cat Girl being fawned over by Torso, Torso holding girly underwear he's showing Mutsuki, and writing a love letter to Mutsuki. In the letter he states he would love to drive Mutsuki places and says he would help him dress, bathe, and eat. He says of course he would need help doing all of that because he would have no arms and legs and that he loves him. |
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K has three varieties of this, with the top 3 members of the Red Clan, HOMRA, and the Blue Clan, Scepter 4. The Red King, Mikoto Suoh, and the Blue King, Reisi Munakata, are a more classic example. It helps that neither neither are "bad guys" just in an Order vs. Chaos situation that escalates by the time of s1 when Mikoto's Morality Chain is killed. Reisi even goes through a variation of Antagonist in Mourning after s1, to the point he might die from a Democles Down. Their seconds, Izumo Kusanagi and Seri Awashima, are friendly enemies, sharing information somewhat and having nice conversations, though they do go at each other in a fight. Their thirds, Misaki Yata and Saruhiko Fushimi, are the former-friend variety (though neither side is evil). Saruhiko left HOMRA and joined Scepter 4, which Misaki took as a grave betrayal (though it doesn't help that Saruhiko invoked being seen as a traitor due to his issues). When they fight, it's clear there's more going on under that. It's even more obvious in side materials, which seems to suggest Everyone Can See It and Saruhiko being repeatedly reminded of Misaki while Misaki himself repeatedly shows that underneath the bluster he misses Saruhiko as well and tries to repair the relationship. |
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Sluggy Freelance: In the story "Girls' Night Out", a series of random events leads the main characters to get tangled with a minor, animal-obsessed Diabolical Mastermind called Tadius Greasenherr, and Zoë having to bluff him that she's a fellow criminal boss called Cacamille to save the others. As soon as she's away from his sight, though, she's forced to admit out loud that she finds him ridiculously cute. They ultimately part on hostile terms, but events years later force Zoë to adopt the "Kaka"note English doesn't seem to be Greasenherr's first language, and he sees nothing funny in calling her that persona again to make a deal with Greasenherr; and even though they end up parting on hostile terms again, she's still affected by his cuteness again, and he's smitten by her coming across as The Chessmaster and Magnificent Bastard (and as controlling Bun-bun). | |
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I Shot Jesse James: While they don't start out as foes, Jesse James and Robert Ford definitely have this going on. Even though Ford plans to (and eventually does) kill Jesse, he helps Jesse take a bath and is tortured by his decision to murder Jesse years afterward. Though Bob's Dying Declaration of Love towards Jesse sort of removes the subtext part. | |
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Inside Job (2021): British spy Rafe Masters and his nemesis Dr. Skullfinger from the episode "Ghost Protocol" take this to the extreme (to the point that it might not count as subtext). If Rafe and Skullfinger's loaded, innuendo-filled dialogue when they fight wasn't enough, at the end of the episode when Rafe is strapped to a table and Skullfinger talks about lasering his balls off, Rafe's response is an enthusiastic "And then?" It is at that point the gang sans Andre leave out of fear for what Rafe and Skullfinger are about to start doing. | |
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In Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School, most of Munakata's inner turmoil stems from the fact that his Implied Love Interest was really, really evil, which he only learns after she's been brutally killed. He can't reconcile his grief for her with his hatred for all things Despair, which is foreshadowed in a scene where he, um, stabs her corpse while sighing her name. The fanbase capitalized on this opportunity to make Freudian jokes, even more so after Munakata admits that, in spite of everything she's done, part of him still wishes Yukizome were alive. | |
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Eminem's beef with Machine Gun Kelly got unusually homoerotic for a rap beef, with both rappers accusing the other of being in love with them. In "Rap Devil", Kells teased Eminem about having released an album of diss tracks (in which he was dissed), claiming it was all because Eminem couldn't stop thinking about him — "Damn, you in love with me!". "Rap Devil" was also riddled with sincere compliments over Eminem's skill, popularity and a willingness to talk it over as two single dads, which Eminem observed in "Killshot" — "that a death threat or a love letter?". Eminem complimented MGK on his black leather outfits, compared him to his Stan character (a Loony Fan in love with Slim), and used an extended image of MGK giving him oral sex — "You would suck a dick to fuckin' be me for a second, lick a ballsack to get on my channel[...] I'm sick of your mumble rap mouth, need to get the cock up out it before we can even talk about it[...] you're not about it, so just leave my dick in your mouth and keep my daughter out it, you fuckin'... oh." | |
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In Nth Man: The Ultimate Ninja , a flirtatious relationship gradually develops between the American ninja John Doe and the Soviet KGB leader Colonel Novikova... to the consternation of their subordinates and comrades. | |
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Kevin Steen and El Generico. They were obsessed with each other. Steen's constant claims about how Generico is an "infection"/"disease" that he needed to get rid of and his fixation on Generico's mask and desire to remove it and show Generico's face to the world, the constant mind games — it all reads as Steen being attracted and/or madly in love with Generico and just sublimating it through intense violence. It was eventually acknowledged onscreen when Steen kissed Generico on the lips during their grudge match at Final Battle 2010. | |
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Clover has Barus and Kazuhiko's innuendo-laden dialogue. Barus is especially fond of Kazuhiko, and likes to call him his "prince." And snuggle with his severed hand at night. | |
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Tabool in Now and Then, Here and There is unhealthily obsessed with garnering any attention whatsoever from his best-friend-turned-rival, Nabuca, to the point that he gets jealous of a freaking six-year-old. Long story short: Nabuca continues to reject Tabool and it does not end well. | |
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TRON: Uprising: Beck/Paige. Paige is a Type IV Anti-Villain (not evil, but fighting for the wrong side, Tessler killed her friends, framed the Isos for it, and made it look like he saved her life so he could have her as a dragon). Beck? Well, he's trying to start a revolt to overthrow her boss. | |
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Juri Oba and Yuna Kureha from Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story have quite a bit of this. In their debut event Crimson Resolve, it's made clear that Juri's motivation of declaring war on the Torayamachi faction is out of her personal obsession with its leader Yuna, Juri's arch-rival who once took her under the wing after defeating Juri. Hours before the war starts, Juri meets Yuna to tell her to get her faction prepared for the attack, and even gives Yuna a thankful hug; Juri has always been grateful to Yuna for taking in all of Juri's "flame" - her ingrained urges which build up inside her to a point where she must violently release. Overtime, fighting Yuna becomes the only way to satisfy her. There is also this conversation that takes place before their final duel: | |
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In Batman: Arkham Knight, Batman and Poison Ivy once again have shades of this during their conversation. Batman even rescues her exactly like how he saved Catwoman in Arkham City. He also personally escorts her to the GCPD safely and protects her from the Arkham Knight's thugs. Thanks to his influence, she even pulls a Heel–Face Turn, teams up with the hero, and dies saving the city for him. She also passes away in his arms with him comforting her. The reaction from Batman implies that he might have started to see her in a positive light. | |
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The Non-Adventures of Wonderella: Wonderella and Hitlerella sometimes talk about their being each others' arch-nemeses like they're in a relationship. | |
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Angel: Spike and Angel are half this, half regular Homoerotic Subtext, depending on how antagonistic Spike is in the specific episode. | |
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Arrow: In "Schism", Darhk is touched that Oliver chose to spend his last moments on Earth with him. | |
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In Intelligence (2014), Mei Chen, a rogue Chinese Intelligence operative into whom Dr. Cassidy implanted a chip under duress, gets very flirty when she encounters Gabriel, likewise a chipped operative. Among other things, she compares him to Adam (to her Eve). He is not interested, though he does fake it at one point to lure her in so the team can remotely delete some classified data from her chip. | |
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The Simpsons: Bart and Sideshow Bob to an extent. It gets to a point where Bob can't kill Bart in one episode because he's grown accustomed to his face, literally. The "Treehouse of Horror XXVI" segment "Wanted: Dead, then Alive" has this in spades, where there is some (possibly romantic) subtext between Bob and Bart (Bob showing his "I ♥ Bart" tattoo on his back, taking Bart's body home after killing him and playing with him as if he were still alive, realizing that Victory Is Boring without Bart around and talking to his corpse). Bob even decides to revive Bart because it brought him some excitement in his life. The "The Haw-Hawed Couple" episode from s18e8 is built entirely around this trope. |
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Gotham includes the relationship between Bruce Wayne and Jeremiah Valeska, the show's version of the Joker. They spend a few episodes as friends with romantic undertones, and after Jeremiah's Evil All Along reveal, he seems to be completely obsessed with Bruce. Completely obsessed, to the point of trying to recreate Bruce's parents' murder so as to become the most important person in his life. For what it's worth, although Bruce is obviously distressed by all the murder, the romantic tension is not one-sided. | |
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Metal Wolf Chaos: Richard makes some very charged comments towards Michael over the course of the game, especially in the final level: | |
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Looney Tunes: Bugs shows some degree of this with most of his antagonists. Elmer is always smitten by Bugs' cross-dressing antics. It says something when at least two cartoons end with Bugs marrying Elmer. The icing on the cake is that Bugs doesn't seem to mind at all to kiss him or be held by him, in fact, he seems to enjoy it. Then again, he is a savvy, iconic trickster to boot… The usual Running Gag in shorts; Bugs Disguised in Drag, and Elmer falling head over heels for him. What's a little different in What's Opera, Doc? is that the "Return My Love" segment is pretty sappy, cliche, and cute and emotional yet still funny, while all other times Bugs pulled out his drag act it was only Played for Laughs. Bugs in "Rabbit's Feet" comes off as shamelessly flirting with Wile E. Coyote with all of the kissing, cuddling and idle chit-chatting he does. There's also Bugs' friendship-slash-rivalry with Daffy. As much as Bugs revels in observing and/or causing Daffy's suffering, the two are frequently shown hanging out together, and in Looney Tunes: Back in Action he's willing to go to great lengths to get Daffy re-"hired" by Warner Brothers. After all, without Daffy, who is he going to play Duck Season, Rabbit Season with? The ending gag in Buckaroo Bugs has Bugs deliver a (mocking) kiss to Ryder, says "Good night, sweet prince!" and blow out the candle. |
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Captive Prince: Even when they still hate each other, Damen is put off by how attracted he is to Laurent. It goes the other way too, with Laurent being constantly distracted by Damen, even as he beats, bullies and harasses him. | |
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Bungo Stray Dogs: The original Dark Era Light Novel had some Subtext between Oda and Gide. For example, when they first meet, Oda describes Gide as handsome, Dazai proposes their wedding, and the final duel is held at an old-fashioned ball room, and terminology like 'twirling half a turn' are used. On top of that, their Abilities work in such a way that they're completely synchronised. When the two come at a standstill (by holding hands, if not in the conventional way), it's described as 'miraculous'. The anime doesn't include most of it, but interestingly leaves most of the subtext at the end in it. (as in that the fight is animated like a dance) And since the duel ends with them both dying, it can be seen as Together in Death. | |
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D.Gray-Man: Despite being Allen's enemies, it's mentioned in-universe that both Road and Tyki like him, although whether the true cause of that is this trope or them subconsciously detecting that Allen is also a Noah and thus a family member of theirs is unclear. Even so, some of the lines between Tyki and Allen during their fight on the Ark have sexual undertones. And in the most recent chapters, there are serious hints of this between the Millennium Earl and the 14th Noah. In chapter 196, when asked by Johnny why the Millennium Earl is so interested in taking Allen (or rather, the 14th) away with him, the Millennium Earl says: And this is after the 14th has publicly expressed his clear intention to kill and replace the Millennium Earl. |
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Naruto: It's been stated that the sharingan awakens with the loss of a loved one. Madara Uchiha awoke his sharingan when he ended his friendship with Hashirama Senju, who would eventually become (though reluctantly) his Arch-Enemy. Even into the modern day, after both men have long passed, when Madara is revived he starts bashing on the Five Kage for not being as good as Hashirama, and is obsessed with having a rematch when he senses his enemy's chakra. Hashirama, for his part, is perhaps the character most sympathetic to Madara, speculating that all of Madara's actions are ultimately him lashing out in grief after his brother Izuna's death. | |
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Darksiders: A creepy one-sided version of the Watcher towards War. They're magically chained together, with the Watcher imbued with the Charred Council's favor to supervise War. The Watcher's every other line reminds War that he's his bitch, and some of his lines sound a bit less-than-chaste. | |
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Heavy Metal L-Gaim: Lampshaded by The Hero Daba Myroad in chapter 15, as seen in the quote above. Unknown Rival Gablet's became so driven and so obsessive with defeating Daba that sometimes it sounded like if he had a crush on him. | |
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The Joker often makes comments toward Batman of this nature, talking about their relationship as though it were romantic and making flirtatious advances. It's not clear if this is out of some actual attraction or simply to make Batman uncomfortable. To say nothing of how in Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth he slaps Batman's ass. This aspect of his criminal activity is expanded on in The Dark Knight Returns from the very first scene, as he sees Batman's return to active crime-fighting reported on the news and segues from dis-interested catatonia to his old grin and the quiet declaration, "Darling." He goes on to mention how he never keeps count but loves Batman for doing it for him and outright flirts as they try to finish each other (each in his own way) in the Tunnel of Love, of all places. In Death of the Family, Batman has an internal monologue about how the Joker's eyes never change, never revealing anything about his thoughts or emotions. Except for love for Batman. These lines from Batman: No Man's Land. |
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Luther: Sociopath and parent-killer Alice Morgan develops a big old crush on the man who wants to prove her guilt, but it's understandable because Luther is played by Idris Elba. Ceases to be subtext in Season 5, when it's confirmed that the two had a relationship. | |
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Near the end of The Princess and the Frog, Dr. Facilier offers to make Tiana's dreams come true in exchange for his talisman. He shows her illusions of her restaurant while circling her and making his offer in a VERY seductive tone. Facilier practically seduced Naveen into making the deal. |
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Hannibal has the intense, antagonistic yet irresistible draw between the two protagonists, Good is Not Nice FBI profiler with No Social Skills Will Graham and Affably Evil Cannibal Serial Killer Hannibal Lecter at the core of the entire show. The series ends with the two admitting mutual romantic feelings before disappearing with plans to start new lives together. | |
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Most of the male cast in Loonatics Unleashed (and Zadavia of all people) agree that The Vamp Black Velvet is attractive. Later on in episode 3 when she kidnaps Tech they both exchange flirtatious insults, afterwards she brainwashes Tech she calls him various pet names. | |
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The Secret Show: Professor Professor and Doctor Doctor occasionally have this. It doesn't help that they used to be lab partners and that they were in a relationship at one point. A quote from "Return of the Killer Toothbrush": | |
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Roxy/Velma from Chicago. Even besides the whole Girls Behind Bars aspect of it, Roxy and Velma do spend a lot of time glaring at each other while wearing nothing but skimpy underwear. And during the last number they seem... a lot more friendly. | |
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In the Shantae games, Risky Boots' attitude towards the eponymous heroine frequently oscillates between despising her and wanting to tumble in bed with her. In Pirate's Curse, there's a scene where Risky traps Shantae in a trap disguised as a bathtub and seems very excited from her dialogue that the trap worked. In the ending of Risky's Revenge, there's a very specifically placed line break so Risky's Just Between You and Me speech to Shantae comes across as wanting to "strip you [...] of your powers". According to the developers this was fully intended. | |
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Ayeka and Ryoko from Tenchi Muyo!. Depending on which Alternate Continuity you choose, they are old childhood acquaintances or mortal enemies, but they always fight — and not just over Tenchi's affections. In at least one alternate world glimpsed during an Alternate Universe episode of the television series, though, they are clearly in a relationship with each other, though outside forces were involved. | |
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When she meets Sabretooth while they're both imprisoned by Shogun during The Logan Legacy, Creed wastes no time making suggestive comments and touching her hair. Even more subtext is provided by the fact that Creed has long had a similar obsession with Wolverine, and Laura is effectively Logan's daughter. | |
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In Date A Live, Kurumi at first sought out Shido to consume him and take the mana of the three Spirits he had sealed up to that point. Her behaviour towards him seems to oscillate between "I really want to eat you and take your power" and "I really want to pin you down to the bed and screw your brains out", making little flirting gestures like licking him and nibbling him, to make him squirm. After he nearly gave his life protecting her from Kotori, she has seemingly garnered a genuine affection for him. | |
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Food Wars!: In a world where cooking is a highly personal art, eating Soma's food brings Erina to orgasm. He singlehandedly shakes all her deeply-entrenched beliefs about culinary elitism so deeply that she spends several scenes alone, in her room, just pondering him. One of Soma's driving goals is to make a dish she'll admit to liking, and Erina goes to great lengths to get him out of their school because she's afraid that he might succeed. They soon become Worthy Opponents, despite Soma being this nobody peasant first-year and Erina being a renowned School Idol. | |
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Rick and Morty: Rick's rivalry with the President of the United States has a lot of this. When the President officially declares war with Rick and Morty, he orders his cabinet out of the office and then plays sad breakup music. Later, throughout the Thanksgiving special — as Rick plots to turn into a turkey for a free presidential pardon and the President plots to stop him — multiple different characters recommend that Rick and the President "just fuck and get it over with". The relationship between Rick and his "nemesis", Mr. Nimbus, has deliberate homoerotic undertones that make him comes across as more of a bitter ex-boyfriend than a foe on par with the Joker or Doctor Doom. Rick claims that the reason they haven't fought each other in years is because he's ashamed of Nimbus, but Nimbus counters the real reason is because Nimbus is the only one who really knows how much Rick has fallen as a person, and Rick's expression during Nimbus's speech implies it's the truth. |
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Cold Days: In between Mab's attempts to kill Harry Dresden, she gets very touchy-feely with him. The subtext is heightened by their plot-related sex in the previous book. Also the fact that as Winter Knight, being the consort to the Winter Queens is one of Harry's official duties. | |
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Supernatural has explicit Dating Catwoman scenarios with Sam/Ruby and (at least on a Heterosexual Life-Partners level) Dean/Crowley. A more subtextual example is Bela's relationship with both Winchesters: They hate her for the many times she's put them into a frustrating situation, but she still talks to them in a flirty way, is very sexy, and her very first interaction with them involves giving Sam a titillating moment while she steals something from him. Meg often flirts with Sam and Dean, and later shows a thing for Castiel. Far more creepily, Lucifer chooses to first appear to Sam in his bed at night in the form of his dead girlfriend Jessica, while also being implied to have raped Sam in Hell later. | |
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One Princess Pi comic ends with Pi impulsively saving her greatest enemy, Princess Ip, from getting flattened by the Monster of the Week. Ip responds by kissing Pi while exclaiming "You do care!". As Pi stands startled and shocked, Ip leaves while exclaiming, "Well, that was embarrassing!" | |
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Where to start with Moriarty the Patriot? William and Sherlock are on nominally opposite sides of the criminal/detective match up for much of the series. Despite this, Sherlock talks about a Red String of Fate tying him to William repeatedly, is unabashedly excited every time he sees William, and is fixated on saving him from himself. William hopes to be reincarnated with Sherlock to be with him in another life, desires to throw his entire plan to spend more time with Sherlock, requests to die with Sherlock alone at his side, and thinks of Sherlock as a warm breeze in a cold and lonely room he's trapped in—he even compares meeting Sherlock to a fire being lit in his dark, cold, empty life. By The Final Problem arc, the "enemies" facade is almost entirely gone, with other characters acknowledging their bond. Even Louis, who has a well known dislike for Sherlock, admits that only Sherlock can save William. Then Sherlock catches William in his arms and cradles him protectively surrounded by cherry blossom imagery. After that, Sherlock agrees to work with Billy to provide William's medical care and stays vigilant at William's bedside, after which they move into together and discuss buying curtains together. When Billy calls their promise to live their lives together their wedding vows, neither seems put off in any way. With their constant devotion to each other, it gets harder and harder as the series goes on to see their professed "dear friendship" as Just Friends. | |
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Kid Icarus: Uprising has Phosphora and Pit, the former going on several times about how cute the latter is, much to his embarrassment. Palutena has to remind Pit that Phosphora is an enemy. | |
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The second film features a rare example of Foe Romance Subtext between two women. Rare because both female protagonists are rare, as are female antagonists. To have them both in the same animated movie offers a fairly unique dynamic that the movie most definitely takes advantage of. Evelyn Deavor and Elastigirl share a handful of atmospheric and chemistry-laden scenes earlier on in the movie. After Evelyn's backstory is revealed the two share several tension-filled exchanges, including one where Evelyn is physically dominant over the super, having her tied to a chair in one scene, and another where she gloatingly lifts Elastigirl's face by the chin with her hand while she's incapacitated. The two physically duke it out on a plane in the climax. | |
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Deliberately inferred in the original The Hitcher, to the point where it creeps out the cops to watch the lead characters interact in the interrogation room. | |
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X-Men: First Class: Erik with Charles, to the point where Television Without Pity gave them the "Best Couple" award. Also present in the original X-Men trilogy. It's supported both by James McAvoy (who plays Xavier in First Class) and Ian McKellen (who plays Magneto in the other films). A bit of a variation on this trope in that they're actually friends despite their opposing goals and the subtext comes from the friendship rather than hostility. | |
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The end of Puella Magi Madoka Magica The Movie: Rebellion transforms what was regular Homoerotic Subtext into this, as Homura becomes the devil of the new world, imprisoning Madoka against her will, all to make her happy. | |
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The troll concept of "kismesissitude" in Homestuck is rooted in this and is a vital part of their reproduction process, as only couples with deep feelings of love or loathing can reproduce (although it's more than just mutual hate, as there's usually some admiration on some level). From the troll perspective, Jack Noir and the Black Queen have this attitude towards each other, whether they realize it or not. Their alternate universe selves Snowman and Spades Slick also have this relationship, heavily implied throughout their appearances and interactions, which include both violence and flirting. While in Doc Scratch's apartment, Snowman saves Slick's life, and they share an embrace and a "hate snog", emblazoned with a bloodstained spade (the symbol of kismesissitude.) Karkat is pretty much "the village two wheel device" of kismesissitude, as at one point or another over the course of the comic he hates almost everybody (including his own past and future selves). However, he eventually canonically winds up with Dave in a sort of "Vitriolic Best Buds with benefits" relationship. |
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Batman: The Killing Joke: Normal for Batman-Joker but in this case, Batman seems to have this for Joker. When he comes to Arkham Asylum, he tells commissioner that he's there "because he needs to be there" (a line not there in the original), furthermore the fact that Batman has to be cajoled into a sexual encounter with Batgirl and then barely sees her after that, and he admits to Joker he's been thinking about him, makes the finale where Batman tries to reach out to Joker and then laughs with him, even more weird and strange than the original did. Pretty much Paris Franz's obsession for Batgirl is almost a reflection of Joker's obsession for Batman. |
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Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog: In "Best Hedgehog", Sonic marries Robotnik as part of a prank and they're never technically shown getting a divorce. Sonic seals the deal with a big, sloppy kiss. In a later episode, "Sonic's Running", Sonic disguises himself as an attractive blonde woman and briefly seduces Robotnik to give his robot wife the impression that he was seeing another woman. | |
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Dracula: Some interpret there to be romantic tensions between Dracula and Lucy, Dracula and Mina, and/or Dracula and Jonathan. Literary scholars regularly debate whether any of this was intentional or not. Not only was Stoker a rather old-fashioned type writing when the social and sexual liberation movements were just beginning to take off, but some historians have theorised that Stoker himself was a heavily closeted self-hating gay man, and further, commonly assumed by literary scholars that Stoker used the story of Dracula to work through some issues, so the sexualized nature of the vampires took on a whole new meaning as an unsubtle appeal for restraint. (Scholars also note that while Dracula is knifed, female vampires are killed by having something long and hard stuck in them.) When the female vampires in the castle attempt to "kiss" (read: bite) Jonathan, Drac shows up and chases them off, saying, "He belongs to me!" There is little to no heterosexual explanation for the passage that follows: |
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In the Atomic Puppet episode "Truce or Consequences", Commander Cavalier receives a bouquet of flowers from Professor Tite-Gripp as part of a magic trick Tite-Gripp was performing. Cavalier holds the flowers to his chest and nestles up on Tite-Gripp's arm in response to the gift. | |
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Detatoko Princess has Topaz collect girls from all over and plan to add Lapis to her collection, and she grows very concerned when one of her groupies comes close to actually killing her. Lapis, for her part, is completely oblivious. | |
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In In Conquest Born, the Deuteragonists are wrapped up in an obsessive, Interplay of Sex and Violence -driven, long-distance relationship in which the goal of each is killing the other. They are both utterly at home with the ruthless ambition and deep-seated rage they sense in each other, to the point that no one else can take the place they occupy in each other's lives. | |
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Batman: Arkham Series: All four games illustrate this in Joker and Batman's relationship. Starting early in Batman: Arkham Asylum with Joker: "Tell me Bats, what are you really scared of? Failing to save this cesspool of a city? Not finding the Commissioner in time? Me, in a thong?!" and that the premise of the whole night was a party Joker threw for Batman. Then continuing in Batman: Arkham City with the increasing phone calls from Joker to Batman, the final death scene with Batman carrying Joker out in his arms, and Joker's swan song to Batman. Given their beginnings in Batman: Arkham Origins when Joker's obsession with Batman begins, including his Red Hood story and his mention of "meeting someone very special earlier tonight", and another song for Batman during the credits. And finally culminating in Batman: Arkham Knight with Hallucination!Joker mentioning over and over again being inside of Batman, the heavy indicators that Joker's death affected him so much that he could never return to normal (not even Talia's death is mentioned that much), and the serenade number Hallucination!Joker performed with a little help from Johnny Charisma. Catwoman even makes a dig at the relationship in Knight, and how Batman should stop mourning him and "find new maniacs". The whole series can be read as an overall story of Batman and Joker's relationship. During Batman: Arkham City, the Joker gets Batman's phone number and leaves him messages that sound more and more like a jilted lover because Batman never returns the calls. In the finale, Batman ignores Talia, the supposed love of his life, to tenderly carry the Joker out of Arkham City and leave him with Gordon. In fact he never returns for or mentions Talia at all. And over the credits, you hear the Joker singing "Only You" to Batman in his last message. In Batman: Arkham Origins, when The Joker's being psychoanalyzed by Harley while detained in Blackgate, he starts narrating his origin to her: being the Red Hood and the fateful bath in chemicals courtesy of Batman that transforms him into his present state. In his mind, he's imagining a horrifying ordeal; narrating it to her, Harley interprets it as him confessing to being in love with a special someone on sight... i.e. her. And the dialogue even suggests that he's fully aware of such a thing, using his words to convey his true feelings about Batman while being vague enough to play on Harley's emotions. In Batman: Arkham Knight: The Jokerised Johnny Charisma and Christina also seem to be a little... admiring of Batman. Then again, they have been Jokerised. Even the hallucinated Joker gets in the act when he compares himself and Batman to Tim and Barbara as Star-Crossed Lovers. And the serenade! Goodness gracious. Joker says he's the only one who gets to serenade Batman and launches into a disturbing song... The number reads like a private show. Throughout the game, the hallucinated Joker is positively ecstatic over being inside of Batman, considering them the new Dynamic Duo, helping Batman during the game at points, even outright stating after Tim's capture that no one had better come in between them. Considering he's largely a hallucination of Batman's, what does this say about how Batman imagines the Joker? Nearly the first thing Hallucination Joker says when you see him counts (and Batman is lying on the floor with a worm's eye view at this point): Some of Joker's death taunts towards a fallen Batman reek of subtext as well: A Matter of Family involves Joker trying to get Batman a Valentine's Day gift. Granted, the "gift" consists of killing his sidekicks, but it's the thought that counts. Batman and Poison Ivy have a lot of this throughout the first game. Although some of it is because Ivy is The Vamp, she comes off as very interested in the Dark Knight and even has Orgasmic Combat with him. In Batman: Arkham Knight, Batman and Poison Ivy once again have shades of this during their conversation. Batman even rescues her exactly like how he saved Catwoman in Arkham City. He also personally escorts her to the GCPD safely and protects her from the Arkham Knight's thugs. Thanks to his influence, she even pulls a Heel–Face Turn, teams up with the hero, and dies saving the city for him. She also passes away in his arms with him comforting her. The reaction from Batman implies that he might have started to see her in a positive light. There's also a very twisted instance of this between the Joker and Jason Todd in the flashbacks. It can come across almost as the Joker being abusive to a partner and teaching them to "respect" him - it even ends with Jason being ''branded' and calling Joker "sir." There's also a one-sided version of this between Scarecrow and Batman given the former's obsession with making Batman suffer in every way possible. It doesn't help that in the Nightmare Missions, Scarecrow will occasionally refer to Batman as "My Dear Batman". Harley in the Batgirl DLC gives Batgirl a few compliments and cheers her on when she's fighting her mooks. Mad Hatter's goal in the Season of Infamy DLC is to turn Batman into his new "Alice". Some of his lines, especially after you lock him up, only add to this. |
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James Bond: There was more than a bit of homoeroticism between Bond and Alec in GoldenEye. Bond/Le Chiffre from Casino Royale (2006). When your naked torture scene begins with the villain eyeing Bond up and saying "You've taken good care of your body"... This is more explicit in the novel where Le Chiffre addresses Bond as "dear boy" during the scene, and Fleming based him on the bisexual Aleister Crowley. Skyfall throws "implications" right out the window with Silva's opening scene, where Bond is tied to a chair and Silva unbuttons his shirt to touch a scar on Bond's shoulder, continues to caress his throat, and strokes Bond's thighs. Bond responds to Silva's quiet snark, "Well... first time for everything, yes?" with "What makes you think this is my first time?" |
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Chris Jericho and Stephanie McMahon. Chris spent nearly all of the Attitude Era insulting Stephanie as much as he could and alluding to her being extremely promiscuous. At one point, he even insinuated that she had slept with everyone on the planet. Everyone, however, did not mean Jericho, which led to a lot of Belligerent Sexual Tension that had numerous fans begging for them to have the planet-cracking hate sex already. At one point, they were even supposed to have an affair to spite Stephanie's then-husband Hunter (who would later on become her real life husband), but the idea was nixed. The tension was so thick that even today, after over a decade of minimal interaction, fans still strongly support the pairing. | |
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Hoshin Engi: Dakki with Taikobo. She is shown to be frequently impressed with his intellect and adaptability and enjoys playing mind games with him. It is also heavily hinted that she is attracted to him despite their status as arch-enemies. | |
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Hrathen towards Sarene, in Elantris. Later turns from subtext to Love Epiphany, although the latter character remains totally oblivious to any of this. | |
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Hannibal. Hannibal Lecter sees his obsession with FBI agent Clarice Starling as romantic, comparing it with Dante Alighieri's unrequited love for Beatrice (unlike the novel however, this is presented as being entirely one-sided). There's also some in the Action Prologue when the female drug dealer goes to shoot Clarice. "Let's swap body fluids, bitch." | |
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Black Widow (1987). There's lesbian subtext between serial killer Catherine and the female Justice agent pursuing her, most notably in a scene where one is practising mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on the other: ''"You're not taking this personally, are you?"" | |
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The King Dragon Canon: One of King Dragon's minions tries and fails to hide his crush on an unnamed hero. (Likely Dennis, the Player Character) | |
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Silent Hill: Pyramid Head spends most of Silent Hill 2 stalking James across the town, repeatedly kills the only other person interested in him, and interrupts his rape of another monster twice to pursue James instead. Keep in mind that PH is combined manifestation of James' sexual frustration and desire to be punished for Mercy Killing his wife. Claudia's behaviour towards Heather in Silent Hill 3 seems very much like a Stalker with a Crush on more than a few occasions. |
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While Xerxes, as portrayed in 300, appears to be into everything, and his feelings were not reciprocated, his interest in Leonidas certainly appeared to be more than political. The director felt that the teenage boy demographic would find Xerxes scarier if he was presented as a Depraved Homosexual intent on molesting the protagonist. | |
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Kimi's taunting of Candi in chapter 15 of story 1 of the Ciem Webcomic Series may seem a bit like Xerxes trying to demoralize Leonidas. | |
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In Scanners II: The New Order, The Dragon Peter Drak makes a point of repeatedly referring to protagonist David Kellum as a "pretty boy", "Davie", and commenting on his "pretty eyes". | |
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Buso Renkin: Papillon's obsession with Kazuki after his defeat involves a one-sided romantic subtext. This is magnified by how there's already a lot of subtext around Papillon with his distinctive and flamboyant outfits, mannerisms and butterfly mask. | |
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The ending gag in Buckaroo Bugs has Bugs deliver a (mocking) kiss to Ryder, says "Good night, sweet prince!" and blow out the candle. | |
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Pyramid Head spends most of Silent Hill 2 stalking James across the town, repeatedly kills the only other person interested in him, and interrupts his rape of another monster twice to pursue James instead. Keep in mind that PH is combined manifestation of James' sexual frustration and desire to be punished for Mercy Killing his wife. | |
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Claudia's behaviour towards Heather in Silent Hill 3 seems very much like a Stalker with a Crush on more than a few occasions. | |
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X-Men Film Series: X-Men: First Class: Erik with Charles, to the point where Television Without Pity gave them the "Best Couple" award. Also present in the original X-Men trilogy. It's supported both by James McAvoy (who plays Xavier in First Class) and Ian McKellen (who plays Magneto in the other films). A bit of a variation on this trope in that they're actually friends despite their opposing goals and the subtext comes from the friendship rather than hostility. X-Men: Apocalypse: While it's disturbing and completely one-sided, Apocalypse's desire to literally possess Xavier's mind, body and soul through Mind Rape comes off as an analogy for obsessive stalking and rape, and Charles is even a Pretty Boy to boot. Tumblr users often describe this shot◊ as looking like a very forceful marriage proposal or a Beauty and the Beast scenario, and Charles is indeed the prisoner of the grotesque Apocalypse, the former being trapped inside the latter's Egyptian "castle," so to speak. It hasn't escaped the notice of Oscar Isaac and James McAvoy that there is slash-y vibe between their characters because on the Gag Reel, Isaac turns Apocalypse's scream of pain when Professor X bombards him with the "voices" of other minds into an orgasmic "IT FEELS GOOOOD!!" McAvoy then cheekily wags his eyebrows at the camera. On the Blu-Ray's "Unlimited Powers: VFX, Stunts and Set Pieces" documentary, McAvoy jokes that Apocalypse lusts after Xavier. |
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CM Punk and MJF had a lot of subtext in their feud as well thanks to their general obsessive behavior towards each other, especially after MJF revealed his Start of Darkness as a bullied Jewish kid who used to love and idolize Punk, only for that love to turn to hate and resentment after Punk left wrestling in 2014. A genuinely touched Punk then tried to apologize and reconcile with MJF the following week — only for MJF to reveal that he was also a massive Yandere for Punk by promptly using this reconciliation as an opportunity to attack his former idol and bust him open, leaving him practically drenched in his own blood. For the icing on the cake, Punk decided that the second match of the feud had to be a dog collar match, which only reinforced the BDSM undertones of their developing dynamicnote No joke; one sign during the match even said that Punk was going to make MJF his bitch. | |
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Seraph of the End: Ferid has this occasionally with Krul. He flirts with her, calls her beautiful, and says he's in love with her after she cuts off his hand. When he attacks her from behind in another scene, tells her that her beautiful neck is wide open, and bites her. He also demands for her to submit to him. Ferid once patted Mika on the butt and a dream of Yuu's shows Ferid revealing Mika's shoulder, holding him close, and biting him suggestively. In chapter 46 Ferid drives up in his car and holds out his hand to Mika and Yuu, with a flirtatious look and teasingly saying "I heard you two were being attacked by a dangerous vampire so I came to your rescue. Come take a ride with me. I'll save you." He plays mind games with Yuu and Mika throughout the chapter, and when Yuu turns into a demon to attack Ferid for showing them Akane's head Ferid tells Mika he's "worried for the poor guy (Yuu)" because he's says Yuu could turn into a full demon. He states he has an antidote to cure Yuu and tells Shinoa "Let us go rescue dear Yuu." Mika is adamant to keep Ferid from getting near Yuu and says "I won't let you have your way with him!" Ferid smiles and says he just wants to help Yuu. Mika says he's not going to let Ferid touch him. Crowley engages Mika in a fight while Ferid states cheerfully "Now precious Yuu is all mine." Ferid approaches Yuu and blushes saying "Wow! Haven't you grown into the cute one!! Your demon is on the verge of rampage yet you still have such clear and beautiful eyes. No wonder you are the extra special guinea pig." He then lifts Yuu's face by his chin and gets close saying "Perhaps before I heal you I'll take a little sip of your blood." Yuu asks if there's something in it for him if he allows Ferid to suck his blood. Ferid says he got the curse suppressant from Guren and it's the same one he takes. Yuu demands Ferid tells him everything he knows and Ferid smiles, covers Yuu's mouth with his hand, says "Oh, you are cute" and bites him while gripping his shoulder and hand. He then "cures" Yuu of his advancing demon curse while holding him close and leaning his head on Yuu's shoulder. |
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Smallville: Lex Luthor and Clark Kent go above and beyond the already high bar for homoerotic subtext set by their comic book source material. Just like in the comics via genetic engineering, they basically have a son together. Unlike the comics, there is a Maiden Name Debate of sorts for said son, Alexander Luthor/Conner Kent. Clark has it with both incarnations of Zod. It didn't help that the first was borrowing Lex's body for their final battle. Lois Lane and Tess Mercer. Exhibit A: Chloe Sullivan and Lionel Luthor. This one is canonical (from Lionel's end, anyway; they actually had an Almost Kiss, but Lionel was in Clark's body), at least according to Word of God, since John Glover, the actor who played Lionel, actually said he was putting attraction to Chloe into his portrayal of the character. You can see for yourself here. |
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The attraction that Slan, the female member of the Godhand, has to Guts from Berserk. Given that she's a sadistic demonic god, she basically derives a lot of pleasure from all the suffering she and the other God Hands can put him through. And it's not exactly helped by the fact that Slan is Too Kinky to Torture — the only thing Guts succeeds in doing by impaling and blowing off half of Slan's torso with his Arm Cannon during his battle with her in the Qliphoth is giving her an orgasm. | |
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Blackbird and Veloce in Carciphona has Blackbird, nominally a murderous assassin out to kill the heroine, come off more often than not as somewhere between a Stalker with a Crush, a Yandere, and a jilted ex, with a lot of her dialogue being blatantly flirtatious. Notably, when the author wrote a spinoff featuring the characters in a realistic modern setting, she promptly retooled Blackbird and Veloce into outright lovers. | |
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During Batman: Arkham City, the Joker gets Batman's phone number and leaves him messages that sound more and more like a jilted lover because Batman never returns the calls. In the finale, Batman ignores Talia, the supposed love of his life, to tenderly carry the Joker out of Arkham City and leave him with Gordon. In fact he never returns for or mentions Talia at all. And over the credits, you hear the Joker singing "Only You" to Batman in his last message. | |
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Storm Hawks sets up a lot of Star-Crossed Lovers tropes with Piper and Master Cyclonis, especially in the episode "Best Friends", where they get very close very quickly before Cyclonis' sudden but inevitable betrayal. Then when Piper starts tapping into her Dark Magical Girl side, Cyclonis starts showing up in her dreams. | |
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In Cheat Magician Life That Started From Being Judged Useless, there's the complicated relationship between the protagonist Kobuku Kento and the Evil Princess Camilla Rosenberg who summoned him and the entire third floor of his school to this new world, tricked all but Kento himself into wearing bracelets with slavery magic and sent Kento into a dangerous forest, at sword point, expecting him to die. On the one hand, he's murderously enraged at how cruelly and unfair she treated them all, and after learning of the aftermath the summon itself caused in Japan, is doubly outraged. On the other hand, he was fascinated by her beauty, elegance, and regal bearing when they met and remains infatuated with her in spite of what she's done. When the two are forced to work together to deal with an incoming monster stampede and her own evil siblings, who make her look like a saint by comparison, he repeatedly rewards her devotion with genuine affection and honest concern for her well-being, which she greatly appreciates. He tries various excuses to justify this dichotomy, but his closest allies don't buy it. | |
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Passenger (1963): SS overseer Liza really sounds like she held some serious lustful feelings for the Polish prisoner Marta at times, even musing that she would have liked to take Marta with her if she ever got promoted out of Auschwitz. | |
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Ménage à 3 has bisexuals Yuki and Sonya, who can't stand each other. Yuki can't deny finding Sonya attractive, though, and Sonya gets pointedly accused of wanting Yuki in one crucial scene. An eventual resolution ... doesn't actually remove the enmity. By the end of the comic, they're happily in relationships with other characters. | |
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The Game's diss track towards Eminem also incorporates a lot of purposeful romantic subtext as an apparent attempt to creep Eminem out. Rapping in character as an Expy of Eminem's infamous Loony Fan Stan, Game claims to have a photo he stitched together of him and Eminem together, then concludes "God made you near perfect". | |
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Steven Universe sets up Jasper and Lapis Lazuli as a metaphor for an abusive relationship, with the former coercing the latter into fusing ("Come on. Just say yes."), then the latter trapping the both of them at the bottom of the ocean, literally holding each other down and both twisted into something much worse. It gets even more blatant every time we see anything to do with Malachite and what's going on in her "head". "Chille Tid" shows her mindscape and in it Lapis has physically chained Jasper up, using herself as the anchor. "Super Watermelon Island" shows Jasper expressing admiration for Lapis' endurance and Malachite later exulting about the power of fusion. By "Alone At Sea", it can barely even be called subtext: Lapis admits to missing Jasper, and Jasper returns and forcibly manhandles Lapis, admits she's been stalking Lapis, accuses her of being a monster, and then gets down on her knees with her hand locked around Lapis' and begs her to become Malachite with her again, insisting that she's changed and she can take whatever Lapis cares to dish out to her in return for having their toxic dynamic back. In Love with Your Carnage indeed... |
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Phineas and Ferb: Perry the Platypus and Dr. Doofenshmirtz are at the very least the epitome of the Friendly Enemy, treating their adversity as a job more than any actual effort to harm one another. Doofenshmirtz owns a pair of boxers with Agent P's face on them. In another episode Doofenshmirtz is shown ordering home nemesis dolls (resembling blow up dolls) and receiving "yet another platypus". Then there's the episode "It's About Time", where Doofenshmirtz acquires a new nemesis, which is presented as him having an affair, culminating with them on a relationship talk show together. "Yeah, I've got a nemesis..."It's also heavily implied that this is the standard relationship for all nemeses. The aforementioned agent that was thwarting Doofenshmirtz without Perry's knowledge was Peter the Panda, and lo and behold, he too has a nemesis, called Dr. Mystery, who becomes jealous of Doofenshmirtz and proceeds to kidnap and attempt to kill him. Doofenshmirtz learns more of their relationship while in captivity, and finds out, much to his horror, that Mystery doesn't tell Peter his plans or his back stories (a staple of all Perry/Doofenshmirtz confrontations). This is quickly presented as a communication problem, and Doofenshmirtz finds himself giving Mystery relationship advice, all culminating in Peter appearing to thwart Mystery and save Doofenshmirtz with Perry in tow, the former of whom reacts in delight and begins asking what Doofenshmirtz gave Peter that he couldn't in between getting punched in the face. | |
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Chrono Crusade has Aion/Chrono. In the manga, Aion is really Chrono's twin brother, unknown to him, and actually cares quite a bit for Chrono. The anime adaptation included a scene where Aion holds Chrono's face in his hands and leans so close while speaking to him that their lips are almost touching. He also has a bit of In Love with Your Carnage for Chrono in both versions. | |
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Even though Prince Hans from Frozen is a villain who intends to kill Elsa to usurp her throne, he is also the only person shown in the movie to be able to stop one of her rampages (which he did by intentionally guilt tripping her via her fear of her own powers, causing her to freeze in panic and not defend herself from his subsequent attack). The tie-in novel Frozen Heart takes this even further. Hans comes off as very conflicted about Elsa, as he insists that she's a "monster", but keeps thinking of her and her powers as "beautiful", and in general seems completely obsessed with her. He even briefly hesitates when he's about to kill her at the end. Then there's this line, which has Stalker with a Crush all over it: |
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Far Cry 5: Discussed by Sharky and Adelaide. Either of them remark that they think John wants to have sex with the Deputy and, the next time the two meet, the Deputy should sleep with him and see if that helps matters. This is regardless of a male or female Deputy. While this is Played for Laughs, it is worth mentioning that John rips the Deputy's shirt open twice. | |
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The music video for Miike Snow's Genghis Khan is about a Punch-Clock Villain with captured a James Bond expy trapped in his evil lair. He has him strapped to a table staring down a giant laser, but just as he is about to kill him, the clock strikes five and the villain reluctantly powers down the machine and goes home. As the villain spends time with his picturesque family, he can't get the hero off his mind. As soon as the next work day starts, he rushes back to execute the hero to banish the thought of him from his mind... only to realize that he can't bring himself to do it, and he instead releases the hero, and they each realize that they're in love with the other before retiring to a peaceful domestic life together. | |
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Magick Chicks has this up the wazoo between Faith, who's Artemis Academy's morally grey Student Council President, and Tiffany, who is the school's self-appointed champion of justice. Faith is all for it and has repeatedly said as much, but Tiff still thinks of Faith as her enemy. Which is why she's still coming to terms with the realization that she's attracted to her. Unfortunately, the status of their relationship was left unresolved by the time the comic ended, though it's implied that Tiff is open to the possibility of it happening. | |
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Batman and The Joker in The Dark Knight ("You complete me!") One reviewer described the delivery of that line as "like a bride to a groom". The Joker also pretty clearly enjoys Batman beating him. This particular bit of subtext goes back a long way, and has become more or less canon in the comics. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V: When any of Yuya's counterparts meet, they run the risk of absorbing the other or fusing back into their original form, Zarc. When he accidentally absorbs Yugo, the villainous Yuri makes it his mission to do the same with the others. He purposely plays up his attempts as a romantic pursuit, saying that Yuya is begging to be with him, and that they'll be together even if Yuya's father doesn't approve. However, this is likely Yuri being a troll, as per the norm. | |
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And then there's the end of Heavenly Puss, when Tom (happy that he's still alive and he just had a bad dream) hugs and kisses a confused Jerry. | |
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Mappy: Goro tells his former/current enemy Mappy he thinks they belong together and has let it slip more than once that he's fond of him. | |
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The Familiar of Zero: In the fourth season's OP, Louise gets licked on her face by a new, evil purple-haired girl named Janette and the girl hugs Louise close to her with a blushing Louise struggling to get away. And in episode two Janette tricks Louise by pretending to be a plebeian, gets close to her face, and licks her again. She also touches her face and says that if things had worked out different they could have been friends. She also calls Louise "cute and innocent". | |
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There is a strong albeit disturbed vibe from Hannibal Lector towards Will Graham in Red Dragon. | |
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Murdoch Mysteries: James Gillies, the criminal mastermind on the show, kisses Detective William Murdoch on the mouth for a full three seconds towards the end of "Midnight Train to Kingston." There's a prop that foreshadows this in "The Murdoch Trap": a film projector has a nearby placard that says, "Turn Me On". The film is of Gillies himself addressing Murdoch. |
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Death Note has Serial Killer Light and Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist L, who (willingly, at least on one side) become handcuffed together for an indeterminate amount of time. Light's girlfriend Misa immediately protests by saying "Light is mine and I don't want to share him with you!" There was also that time when L gave Light a foot massage. | |
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Skyfall throws "implications" right out the window with Silva's opening scene, where Bond is tied to a chair and Silva unbuttons his shirt to touch a scar on Bond's shoulder, continues to caress his throat, and strokes Bond's thighs. Bond responds to Silva's quiet snark, "Well... first time for everything, yes?" with "What makes you think this is my first time?" | |
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Being Human (US): The conversation between Aidan and Bishop seemed pretty intense...not to mention Bishop looking in on Aidan when the other vampire is feeding. And in episode 12, we see Bishop with tears in his eyes when Celine says Aidan keeps running away, not coming back. This is right after he practically said that he turned Aidan because he loved him. And in episode 13, at the end of the Boss Fight, Bishop reaches up towards Aidan's cheek, almost a caress, as Bishop is being beheaded BY Aidan. Hard core. At one point, Bishop says something to the effect of he wasn't going to allow Aidan to (live to) hate him anymore. And now in season two Aidan's seeing hallucinations of Bishop, and Bishop essentially tells him he never could've killed him anyway. |
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In Mother Keeper, Turkes has one on Ricalna; even Adam who didn't see what happened between them could tell. Turkes makes comments about wanting to make Ricalna his man at least twice, willingly gives him whatever information he has and has No Sense of Personal Space when it comes to Ricalna. | |
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Ennead: This is one of the main premises of the manhwa; Seth is technically Horus' mortal enemy, having killed his father and hunted his mother for centuries, but Horus has one-sided feelings for him and would rather serve him instead. | |
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Batman: The Animated Series: Batman and Poison Ivy's encounters are (almost) always sexually charged to some degree, given that she's a Femme Fatale who loves to playfully toy with her male victims. Her debut episode alone sees her treat a flytrap entangled Batman, who'd intruded into her greenhouse lair, like a gentleman caller she's all too happy to steal a kiss from, even seductively labeling their time together as "a late night rendezvous." Later on in the episode "House & Garden" Pamela mentioning that in the past they've had an "intense relationship" is hard not to see from a romantic angle. Truthfully though the flirtation is usually quite one sided, save for the (possibly canon) Sega CD game cutscenes where Batman, sporting an enthusiastic grin, refers to Ivy as Violet and Lilly's "pretty boss." | |
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Farce of the Three Kingdoms: Jiang Wei and Deng Ai are archenemies who supposedly hate each other... but they're also quite obsessed with one another, get jealous, and have very suggestive fight scenes. | |
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Dollhouse: Dr. Claire Saunders passionately hates her colleague Topher Grace for being an Insufferable Genius. As it turns out, she's actually an Active, Whiskey, whose current personality imprint was designed by Topher to be his Commander Contrarian. After discovering this, she spitefully tries to seduce him by crawling into bed with him. | |
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In Boarding School Juliet, Char is envious that Romeo's feelings for their shared crush are requited, so she blackmails him into carrying her on all fours like a horse. (It doesn't make much more sense in context.) The Alternate Character Interpretation that Juliet always had feelings for Romeo and just didn't realize them is popular, mostly because of the chapter title sketch which shows her gazing at him from afar while holding flowers. |
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Berlin Alexanderplatz: Seen in the interactions between Franz Biberkopf and Reinhold. The latter screws over the protagonist Biberkopf, time and time again, but Biberkopf keeps showing forgiveness for him. In the tv-adaptation by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, the queer subtext is made even more blatant: | |
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In The Kingdom's Disdain, Princess Sareash and the warlock/assassin Worm tread a fine line between pure disdain and sexual/romantic attraction. To the point she can't bring herself to kill him because he's "too beautiful". | |
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A Song of Ice and Fire: Jon Snow and Mellisandre—in a highly predatory, Mrs. Robinson sort of way. It doesn't help matters that Mel seems to have inherited Jon's dead girlfriend's catchphrase (and of course, the hair color). Well, Mel does need someone to make shadow babies with. | |
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This aspect of his criminal activity is expanded on in The Dark Knight Returns from the very first scene, as he sees Batman's return to active crime-fighting reported on the news and segues from dis-interested catatonia to his old grin and the quiet declaration, "Darling." He goes on to mention how he never keeps count but loves Batman for doing it for him and outright flirts as they try to finish each other (each in his own way) in the Tunnel of Love, of all places. | |
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One Piece: The twisted relationship between Arch-Enemies Trafalgar Law and Donquixote Doflamingo is chock full of this, though it's mainly on the latter's end. Doflamingo is Ambiguously Bi, and has flirted with Law, offering to go out with him for drinks that he is all grown up. Then it's revealed that Law was intended to be his right-hand man, and even after Law left the crew, he was welcomed back at any time, with Doflamingo even keeping his specific position open for thirteen years. When they have their Final Battle alongside Luffy, that's when the subtext comes out full force — Doflamingo continuously beats Law down, shooting him full of bullets and at one point cutting his arm off, all while ranting about Law's numerous betrayals like a Crazy Jealous Guy, clearly resenting the fact that Law continuously chose others over him, as Doflamingo views himself as Law's true benefactor. After Law reveals he is a D, the mortal enemy of a (former) World Noble like Doflamingo, that's the point where he just full on snaps, goes into Yandere mode and tries to kill him ala If I Can't Have You… Doflamingo's obsession with Law surpasses the self-centered fondness he has for his loyal crew to such an extent that the romantic subtext becomes that much stronger and more obvious in comparison. | |
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Made explicit in Mark Waid's Irredeemable, in which the genius supervillain Modeus (a clear Lex Luthor expy) explicitly confesses a very disturbing obsession with the Plutonian (himself an expy of Superman). | |
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The Unexplored Summon://Blood-Sign is about the conflict between Kyousuke and the White Queen, whom he used to date until she broke her promise to not kill anyone. Then she broke it again to protect him in the Secret War. Currently his goal is to kill her, and her goal is to make him love her again. | |
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In Tekken, there's quite a bit of this between Emilie "Lili" de Rochefort and her rival Asuka Kazama. Mostly (if not entirely) on Lili's end, though. | |
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The Venture Bros.: The Monarch seems to think he and Dr. Venture have a special relationship. Rusty Venture is the person he hates most, the only one he wants as an Arch-Enemy. This is completely one-sided, as Rusty would prefer to be left alone. This is demonstrated when The Monarch loses Arch-Enemy status with Venture and is assigned to "arch" Dr. Dugong instead. He has clearly Stopped Caring and cannot put any energy or passion into attacking Dugong. He complains that he would rather attack Dr. Venture, and exults in how his hatred for Venture feels so natural and authentic. This is retroactively subverted by the revelations of Season 7. The Monarch was right: they do have a special relationship. He and Rusty are half-brothers. In this light, their animosity seems like Sibling Rivalry. |
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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: Given that Galadriel had no idea that the fella she met in the middle of sea is Sauron in disguise, all the Ship Tease between her and Halbrand come as this. From the very moment they met, their quarrels reeked of Belligerent Sexual Tension. As they began to slowly warm up to each other, they started holding Holding Hands for whatever reason, Held Gaze after Held Gaze and bond over their mutual feeling of not belonging anywhere. After defeating Adar and his Orcs, they finally confess what they feel for each other, but is left very ambiguous in nature. It all culminates with Sauron caressing her face and outright asking Galadriel to be his Queen and rule Middle-earth, whatever he meant by that. Their interactions were positively compared by fans to Rey and Kylo Ren. | |
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Spoofed in Dr. Terrible's House of Horrible where the Yellow Peril Diabolical Mastermind and the Gentleman Adventurer Guile Hero are noted in the commentary track to have played it "like they used to be lovers", although it wasn't in the original script and mostly conveyed through the acting. Mark Gatiss explained in the commentary that the relationship between hero and villain is inherently a romantic one, as heroes need villains in order to express their glory and villains need heroes in order to have someone to defeat. | |
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Oglaf: Invoked and Deconstructed in Punching Above Your Weight. To give a swordsman-in-training proper motivation, his master instructs him to develop an attraction to his male opponent and find strength in his rage at being a Hopeless Suitor. (As per Rule of Funny and Sexy, he actually succeeds.) This does backfire, however, when the swordsmen just snog in the arena, to the master's fury. | |
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The Amazing World of Gumball: In "The Ex", Gumball's Arch-Enemy Rob deciding instead to be Banana Joe's nemesis is treated like a breakup. Gumball takes it badly and tries to win back Rob's enmity. Gumball even tries dressing up like a banana and pleading that "[he] can change!" Gumball's girlfriend Penny finds the whole situation ridiculous. | |
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Reign of the Seven Spellblades: The Campus Watch's tournament match against the old council in volume 10 features enough homoeroticism to make Top Gun blush, between Leoncio Echevalria's previously known Villainous Crush on Alvin Godfrey, Khiirgi's Combat Sadomasochism against Lesedi Ingwe who hates her for seducing her girlfriends and making them cry, and Gino Beltrami's duel with Tim Linton literally ending with Beltrami kissing Tim with Drugged Lipstick to cause a Double Knockout. | |
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L.A. Confidential: Half the characters are convinced there's something more to detectives Bud White and Ed Exley's rivalry than just hatred. | |
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Sonic the Hedgehog: Knuckles and Rouge, particularly in Sonic Adventure 2. The two spend the better part of the game at each other's throats, mainly because they both want to restore the Master Emerald after it as broken earlier, albeit for different reasons, noble and selfish respectively. However, in their final confrontation when Rouge was in trouble, Knuckles saved her and the two gazed in each other's eyes while holding hands for a good few seconds before Rouge pulled away in disgust. Knuckles calls her out on her ungrateful attitude, but then Rouge teases that he just wanted to hold her hand. Rouge decides to just give up her pieces and leaves it at that, Knuckles apologizes if he hurt her in their previous fight and Rouge gives a small smile in his direction before departing. | |
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In Loyal Enemies, Shelena and Veres are nominally mortal enemies, what with her being a werewolf and him a monster hunter specialized in werewolves. But setting aside Shelena's questionable decision to drag him half-dead out of a ditch and take him home to heal, there's some increasing romance subtext between them as the book goes on. Forced to work together, they have to share her hut, ride on the same horse and spend nights talking at the campfire. Shelena just can't keep her paws off Veres, sticking feathers up his nose at night and getting almost stabbed for her trouble. Veres, on his part, is very interested when the talk comes to Shelena's preferences in men, and he's always just around the corner when Shelena has gotten herself into trouble again. When asked by Delirna how Veres is in bed, instead of denying anything, Shelena's answer is 'Like a corpse.' And when Shelena almost dies from an arrow wound, Veres uses his own life force to drag her back from the brink of death. Enemies, mortal ones. Sure.Eventually, Shelena has a Love Epiphany, but that doesn't put the subtext to rest until the very end of the book, as Veres' point of view is never shown. | |
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Milked for all it's worth in an episode of Harley Quinn (2019), where Robin (Damian Wayne) wants Harley Quinn to be his nemesis. Harley, in the meantime, also wants a nemesis, but would rather have someone like Batman than a literal 12-year-old kid. At the end of the episode, Bruce tries to comfort his son by saying that he too was a late bloomer who didn't get his nemesis until his late 20s, and that it's important not to rush into these things. Damian then asks when he can start having sex, at which point Bruce grappling hooks away. | |
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Phi-Brain: Puzzle of God gives us Rook and Kaito. The two were childhood friends. Unfortunately, Rook was taken away as a child and eventually became a Tyke Bomb who determined that Kaito was the perfect candidate for Phi Brain, a program filled with Death Trap puzzles, the ultimate goal of which is to create the perfect puzzle solver. It Makes Sense in Context. As Kaito solves puzzles, Rook gushes over how beautiful he is when doing so. He even concocts a plan to convince Kaito that the best thing to do is to leave his True Companions behind and join him. It doesn't work. He gets very angry when Kaito's Love Interest, Nonoha, displays how close she and Kaito are. When Kaito finally makes it clear that he will never join POG, the conglomerate Rook works for, Rook goes into a mad rage, screaming that Kaito is his and that he has to join him. Rook's personal Dragon needs to hold him back from making a grab at Kaito himself. | |
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Loveless: Soubi with two of the main villains, one being Ritsu-sensei in which they actually were sort of in a relationship (Ritsu took his ears) and Soubi was upset when Ritsu gave him to Semei. But they're both just sort of neutral to each other now. And, of course, Semei, with Soubi's obsession to obey the man's every word, despite how he purposefully abandoned him and replaced him with his real Beloved fighter Nisei. However, Soubi's obsession could be because of the way he was trained and nothing more. Ritsuka and Semei. Though Semei doesn't see Ritsuka as his enemy, Ritsuka is kind of torn on what Semei is, exactly, due to what people have told him about him and many unanswered questions. Such as why he faked his death. |
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Coriolanus is a play by Shakespeare about a Roman soldier who has become unable to function without war. One of the ways this is highlighted is by the scenes where he faces his blood enemy Tullus Aufidius, where their dialogue is far more impassioned than those between Coriolanus and his own wife and family. Partway through the play, he turns his back on Rome and seeks out Aufidius, seeking for Aufidius to kill him. Instead, Aufidius embraces him, saying that he is gladder when he sees Coriolanus than his own wife. | |
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In Wolf Guy - Wolfen Crest, there's the Big Bad Haguro Dou, who is the young son of a powerful Yakuza boss, and who becomes completely obsessed with protagonist (and werewolf) Inugami. He initially doesn't care about or even think twice about Inugami... until he pushes Inugami too far, which results in Inugami showing him his true form and scaring the shit out of Haguro. Haguro goes insane from it, and stalks Inugami after that, cutting himself all over his arm and carving the word "Inu" onto his hand. Haguro has been shown after that to, while having sex with his girlfriend Ryuuko (who also lusts after Inugami and thinks about him while having sex with Haguro), think only about Inugami, and screams his name while imagining him. Later, Haguro ends up raping his male subordinate to death, while again thinking of Inugami. And after Inugami decides he's had enough of this shit and tries to move away, Haguro, being the stalker he is, tries desperately to do stuff to piss Inugami off so that he'll come back. | |
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Marvel Rising: Initiation: Ghost Spider and Patriot's banter while he's trying to capture her. | |
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In one episode of Sonic X, during a fighting tournament, Rouge fights Tails and beats him... by kissing him. A few episodes earlier, she essentially flirts with Knuckles. | |
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Judge Dredd: Judge Anderson's enmity with Judge Death occasionally plays with this. He tends to indulge in Terms of Endangerment and often reminds her of the psychic "bond" they share since he was holed up in her mind for a year. It's even suggested that she and "Sidney" used to be friends in an alternate reality; she tries to stop him before he could truly become Judge Death but fails. He mockingly kisses her with his rotten lips. | |
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Truth in Journalism hints a bit at the Homoerotic Subtext between Spider-Man and Venom. Nothing explicit is said, but the Stalker Shrine Eddie has in his room and the way he gets all flustered when his enemy is brought up couldn’t be more suggestive if they tried. | |
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In a New Mutants special edition, the Enchantress kidnaps the team and binds Magik to a wall. She has several lines that come off as seductive, including "Before I am done, I shall know all thy secrets. Thou shalt serve me, Illyana. And eventually — love me." (Of course, this was written by Chris Claremont, the king of lesbian subtext.) | |
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Springhole: Discussed in an article about arch-nemeses. It’s noted people tend to assume two enemies being obsessed with each other must be attracted to each other, and this can lead to romantic subtext being shoehorned into places it doesn’t belong. Syera then offers some suggestions for avoiding this trope. Later in the same article, a villain swearing eternal vengeance after the hero messes up their plans once is compared to declaring eternal love for someone on the first date, i.e. not really believable. | |
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Artemis hates Kanto for playing with her and her emotions during their relationship, which she thinks was false on his end. While Kanto never quite corrects her to her face he does actually care about her as is on display in issue 126 of Wonder Woman (1987) where he has her dead to rights but knocks her out instead and then sets her somewhere where his allies won't kill her and she won't be trampled during the battle. | |
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The Incredibles: Mirage and Mr. Incredible. Of course, the fact that Mirage ends up apparently turning good anyway and helping the protagonists makes it more questionable. They were never really in a relationship (Mr. Incredible already being married and Mirage respecting that), but their flirtatious banter, while standard for superheroes, did have strong subtext of being an emotional affair on his part, which is furthered by that Helen initially does think he's in an affair. The second film features a rare example of Foe Romance Subtext between two women. Rare because both female protagonists are rare, as are female antagonists. To have them both in the same animated movie offers a fairly unique dynamic that the movie most definitely takes advantage of. Evelyn Deavor and Elastigirl share a handful of atmospheric and chemistry-laden scenes earlier on in the movie. After Evelyn's backstory is revealed the two share several tension-filled exchanges, including one where Evelyn is physically dominant over the super, having her tied to a chair in one scene, and another where she gloatingly lifts Elastigirl's face by the chin with her hand while she's incapacitated. The two physically duke it out on a plane in the climax. |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: "Magic Duel" has The Great And Powerful Trixie outright stating that defeating Twilight Sparkle became her highest priority after she (indirectly) humiliated her, and after her defeat Twilight focuses all of her attention into defeating Trixie in a re-match, complete with the gem "I can't stop thinking about Trixie!". Discord has an occasional habit of getting into people's personal space to mess with them. Discord spends "The Return of Harmony" creeping on all of the main cast, especially Twilight, what with frequently invading her personal space, picking her up and hugging her, and at one point he strokes her face. And while he exchanges maybe half a dozen lines with Celestia all of them are said in a playful, flirtatious manner, including "Did you miss me, Celestia? I missed you...". "Keep Calm and Flutter On" has Discord up to his usual tricks, faking affection for Fluttershy so that he can convince her to not use her Element against him. It's over by the end of the episode though, what with his Heel–Face Turn. Even when he's reformed, Discord inflicts this on Twilight in the Season 4 episode "Three's A Crowd". If anything, it's even more pronounced than in his first appearance. Special mention goes to the part during Discord's song "Glass of Water" where the two dance together, with Discord holding a rose at one point. This is how the changelings operate, impersonating a loved one then draining the love they're provided by their unsuspecting enemy. Relatedly, much speculation arose around Shining Armor and Chrysalis, what with the latter impersonating Shining Armor's fiancee Cadance for who knows how long. Daring Do invokes it in "Daring Don't". Bonus for Rainbow Dash's reaction to it. "Power Ponies" has this with the Mane-iac and the Power Ponies' sidekick Humdrum (played by Spike in the comic world). While she constantly mocks him for being powerless and "useless" to his team, some of her taunts come off as her flirting with him. When he accidentally helps her evil plans, such as failing to get the Electro-Orb he told her about away from her, she "thanks" him for his help. Later when she uses her Hairspray Ray of Doom to paralyze and capture the Power Ponies, he is the only hero she doesn't use it on, and after teasing him with it briefly and laughing at the idea of using it on him, she quickly tickles him under the chin with her mane while giving him a seductive half-lidded eye look. |
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Doctor Who: The Doctor and the Master had some of this in discreet 1970s style right from the start, and the twenty-first century show responded to social changes by dumping the "sub" from the subtext altogether. The Doctor sobbing over the Master's body in "Last of the Time Lords" and pleadingly telling him "You could be beautiful" in "The End of Time". And don't even start on Scream of the Shalka (although the Master isn't a foe any more)... There's also that phone call in "The Sound of Drums" where the Doctor says all they have is each other. Then the Master asks if he's asking him on a date. The Doctor responds by offering to fight across the cosmos. While observing from afar, Missy in the eighth season of the Revival Series refers to the Doctor as her "boyfriend". When they finally meet, she starts things off by snogging him in a near-tackle, much to his confusion and horror. Although later, he voluntarily kisses her. Oh, and she's a female incarnation of the Master. |
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In Death of the Family, Batman has an internal monologue about how the Joker's eyes never change, never revealing anything about his thoughts or emotions. Except for love for Batman. | |
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In the later seasons of Blake's 7, there is overt innuendo of sexual attraction between the Seven's new leader Avon and Big Bad Servalan. In particular, at the end of the episode "Death-Watch", Avon plants a partially sincere, partially "Take That!" Kiss on her, and she doesn't kill him. For Servalan, that's the equivalent of most women ripping their clothes off and leaping on him. | |
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Star Wars Rebels: The Seventh Sister likes to flirt with Ezra and Kanan. In the next breath, she will fantasize about cutting them to pieces. The fact that the Seventh Sister and Kanan's voice actors are married in real life only amplifies it. | |
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Camp Camp: Snake's conversation with Neil about romance in "The Lake Lilac Summer Social" has a lot of subtext to it. Especially considering that he and Neil are slow-dancing at the time, at his instigation, without actually needing to. And that he instigated said dance by dragging Neil away by the hand yelling, "Neil, I need you!" | |
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A Court of Thorns and Roses: Feyre and Rhys, so much. The fact that they have to act as lovers multiple times, including a rather handsy kiss, does not help. By the end of the second book, it's no longer "foe" or "subtext". | |
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Killer Frost very often has this with her archenemy Firestorm. In the Forever Evil event, she reacted to his disappearance much the same way one would react to losing a lover, and their encounters often involve her kissing him at some point. Many adaptations remove the subtext all together and either make them exes or have them be in a romantic relationship. The original incarnation, Crystal Frost, did have a crush on Martin Stein, but her successors, Louise Lincoln and Caitlin Snow, do not have the same excuse. | |
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Kaitou Saint Tail has an odd variant where Meimi is well aware that Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist Asuka Jr. doesn't actually know enough about Saint Tail to be in love with her and that his goal is simply to arrest her as a thief, but she still feels romantic attraction to him based on the passion he chases her with and the fact his statements of intent often come off as really romantically-loaded. Part of it is more to do with the fact that she's charmed by him being able to have that sort of passion at all, but it's also because she actually has some rather terrible self-worth problems that cause her to become attached to the idea of being a desirable object for him. Halfway into the story, a Mid-Season Twist abruptly changes things so that the Foe Romance Subtext stops being subtext when Asuka Jr. starts suspecting that Saint Tail might actually be Meimi, resulting in his growing feelings for Meimi bleeding into the way he approaches and talks to Saint Tail... all while, ironically, Meimi starts having less faith that Asuka Jr. can see Saint Tail as any more than an idealized symbol and believes he would have no interest in her as an ordinary girl. Once the end of the story hits, the "foe" part has also dropped out of the equation too, and the word "catch" has been redefined into something completely different that only has a superficial resemblance to the original detective-and-thief dynamic. | |
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The fight between Ladd Russo and Chane Laforet atop the Flying Pussyfoot in Baccano! is punctuated with this, as Ladd repeatedly declares his love for Chane and monologues about how she loves him back, even while he's trying to blow her to bits with a shotgun. It's implied that Ladd's just trying to mess with her, but when he starts to caress her cheek and play with her hair, one can't help but wonder. | |
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Akagi and Uozumi have this in Slam Dunk. It's been mentioned that Uozumi talks about defeating Akagi everyday and from what we've seen, this is probably not an exaggeration. He almost instantly took an interest in Akagi when he first saw him, cheered him on during the Kainan game, and his rivalry with him is his main motivation for improving. Even after quitting basketball he still travels all the way to Hiroshima just to see Akagi play and even gives him advice in the middle of a game. On Akagi's side he considers Uozumi the better player (despite what everyone else says) and has a great deal of respect for him. This is even mocked at times, such as when they hug and cry on each other's shoulder. | |
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Superman and Lex Luthor clearly have something going on, even if Lex is more recalcitrant about it than the Joker is with Batman. It is genuinely explicit that jealousy of Superman is a major motivating force for Lex; the exact nature of that jealousy, however, can vary quite a bit from the usual platonic state. In the Silver Age, Superboy kept a trophy room of mementos of Luthor before he turned evil, including some of his lost hair. Note that before he turned evil, Lex likewise had a Superboy room. When Superman died, Lex immediately arranged for him to be cloned - with the clone having genes added in from Lex himself, making the new Superboy for all intents and purposes the biological son of Superman and Lex Luthor. In the nineties, Lex had an ongoing affair with Supergirl, who, in that version, was a shape-shifter, and there was at least one scene where she used her shape-shifting to flirt with him. You have to wonder how often he asked her to wear her costume to bed. |
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Like in the comic it was based on, the first half of Batman: The Dark Knight Returns ends with The Joker, who's been rendered catatonic for years due to Batman vanishing, hears mention of his old foe on the news and makes a full recovery. | |
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Tom and Tord from Eddsworld are believed to have this by quite a few people. | |
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In Live A Live's Wild West chapter, Mad Dog remarks that battling the Sundown Kid is almost like saying goodbye to a lover. If he is spared, the end shows the two of them traveling together. | |
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She-Ra and the Princesses of Power: Word of God states that Adora and Catra's relationship was deliberately written in this manner, with this trope actually being showrunner ND Stevenson's favorite type of character relationship. Almost every other interaction they have once Adora defects to the Rebellion comes across as heavy flirting, even in the middle of a serious fight. At the end of the series the two begin a relationship after Catra undergoes a Heel–Face Turn. | |
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Dota 2 between, of all people, Tidehunter and Kunkka. They are established in their backstories as hating each other - Tidehunter's hatred for Kunkka is never explained though, but out of that hatred he sunk his beloved ship. Those are some of the responses they have to each other: | |
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Hades: Downplayed. Zagreus and Warm-Up Boss Megaera are exes, and Megaera is tasked with stopping Zagreus from escaping. Needless to say, a lot of their former relationship, both romantic and familiar, leaks into their pre-fight banter and taunts as they're clearly not over each other. A more comical version occurs between Zagreus and Theseus should the player buy the Exalted Hero portrait, which is a painting of a younger, long-haired Theseus wearing a cape and only a cape. |
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League of Legends: Garen and Katarina, both paragons of diametrically opposed city states. They received high compatibility ratings under Blitzcrank's matchmaking service but aren't an official couple. During the game, Garen has unique jokes specifically toward Katarina, which are somewhat flirty. | |
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Tom and Jerry: There's one episode in which Jerry actually kisses Tom. On the mouth. In one of the earliest episodes of Tom And Jerry, which was a Christmas Episode, Jerry stops Tom from chasing him by holding up a mistletoe and making a cute smoochy face at him. Tom then blushes and turns away shyly, only to have Jerry kick him in the rear. Not to mention that whenever one of them (usually Tom) finds a girl, the other seems to get really jealous that they stop paying attention to them (most blatant when Jerry sees Tom with a new girl after failing to get a reaction out of Tom, and his evil angel appears saying "You and him got a sweet thing going on! You gonna let some dame get in the way of that?" before helping Jerry to break them up). And then there's the end of Heavenly Puss, when Tom (happy that he's still alive and he just had a bad dream) hugs and kisses a confused Jerry. |
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Codename: Kids Next Door: Numbuh Five and her former candy hunting partner Heinrich Von Marzipan. Many of their interactions come off like ones between ex-romantic partners, not to mention their habit of calling one another by special nicknames (Liebchen and Heiny, respectively). Not to mention their making up after Numbuh Five managed to free Henrietta from being cursed to be a boy. Numbuh One and his Arch-Enemy Chad Dickson (the former Number Two Seventy-Four). Notably, Chad is the only character to call Numbuh One "Nigey" besides Lizzie, Nigel's girlfriend (albeit, it's used mockingly). "Operation: T.R.E.A.T.Y." in particular really ratchets it up a notch, showing the beginning of Nigel and Chad's friendship (including Nigel's clear admiration for the dashing and heroic Numbuh Two Seventy-Four) and their turbulent relationship in the present, making them come off as a pair of bitter exes still smarting over a bad breakup. |
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At Dead of Night: Maya and Jimmy, given that he's always searching for her. It gets worse during the final act, where Jimmy explicitly says that Maya is different from the rest and he wants her to stay here forever. | |
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Ben 10: Omniverse: Much to Rook's horror, he finds himself attracted to Celes Vreedle. The Vreedle family are space redneck criminals, and Rook doesn't like them because Octagon and Rhomboid blew up the Plumber's Academy and delayed his final exam, which is why he questions how he could be attracted to his "sworn enemy". For her part, Celes enjoying how the straight-laced Rook ends up falling apart whenever she flirts with him. | |
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Lovely Lovecraft: Noyes claims that he and Randolph Carter "had so much fun together" and describes Carter's "utterly excited screams". The author commented in her notes that the double entendre was "TOTALLY intended". | |
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Portal: The first game drops several hints that GLaDOS's fixation on Chell goes beyond the usual Kill All Humans motivation, with lines such as "Despite your violent behavior, the only thing you've managed to break so far... is my heart." It could be unintentional... but then Portal 2 ramps it up further, giving GLaDOS every Psycho Lesbian trope in the book, and she frequently tries to guilt trip Chell using language common to abusive partners. This culminates in "Want You Gone", a Break-Up Song in everything but name. The Final Hours of Portal 2 reveals that a cut plotline had GLaDOS growing increasingly jealous as the player collected personality cores, culminating in them entering a room to be greeted with the sight of a cold roast dinner, at which point GLaDOS would berate them for missing dinner because they were busy cheating on her with a personality core. In "You Wouldn't Know", the credits song of LEGO Dimensions, GLaDOS tries to make Chell jealous, shows resentment over her keeping away, and reminisces over "how much we had". | |
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Little Witch Academia (2017): Chariot and Croix often get into violent confrontations due to their clashing ideologies. Croix has a tendency to attack Chariot with hordes of robots, knowing full well that Chariot can easily defeat them. But whenever Chariot gets hurt (such as while trying to protect Akko from Croix's robots), Croix freaks and throws her plans aside to save Chariot. | |
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Bond/Le Chiffre from Casino Royale (2006). When your naked torture scene begins with the villain eyeing Bond up and saying "You've taken good care of your body"... This is more explicit in the novel where Le Chiffre addresses Bond as "dear boy" during the scene, and Fleming based him on the bisexual Aleister Crowley. | |
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The subtext between Abigail Fortune and Cynthia comes primarily from Abigail's statements. In The Scarlet Fairy Franz lampshades how disturbing some of Abigail's comments can get. | |
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Michiko Malandro and Atsuko Jackson in Michiko & Hatchin. Michiko even flat out implies that Atsuko used to get aroused whenever Michiko would beat her up or overpower her when they were younger. | |
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A Bullet for the General. A dark and violent example between Tate and Chuncho. Both of them favour guns and money over women; Chuncho completely ignores his human prize once he hears news of a machine gun, which is foreign, like Tate. Film scholar Alex Cox describes the film as being a love affair between Tate and Chuncho. | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Angelus relentlessly flirts with Buffy and considers his murdering his way through her friends to be foreplay, while Buffy is continually reluctant to kill him because of her feelings towards Angel. That said, the series wavers back and forth on whether Angel and Angelus are separate people or two sides of the same person. Buffy and Faith repeat the same dynamic she had with Angel/us, only with more emotional baggage, complete with "Take That!" Kiss from Faith and both of them acting like spurned girlfriends every time they cross paths. Fast forward to season 7, and the First says everything Faith did was so Buffy would love her. Spike had a massive obsession with killing Slayers and flirting with death, and in Season 2 he had boatloads of subtext with Buffy. Eventally this developed into quite a different kind of... flirtation in Seasons 3, 4 and 5 (most notably in the episode "Fool for Love"), until the subtext became text in Season 6. Becomes a Deconstructed Trope thanks to the Destructive Romance that followed. Glory flirts with everyone as a Running Gag, regardless of gender or physical appearance. This includes Buffy and anyone else she fights, often while she fights. |
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These lines from Batman: No Man's Land. | |
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Parodied in "He Tied Me To A Buzzsaw (And It Felt Like A Kiss)", a Cobweb story from Tomorrow Stories in which Cobweb narrates the story of her rivalry with a supervillain called the Mongoose as if it was a love affair. It ends with her finding him tying another superheroine up, and killing both of them. | |
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Return to Krocodile Isle: K. Rool hates DK for always thwarting his plans, but seems to hate him even more after losing his spot as the DK series' Big Bad and being forgotten. His lines during the part of his song where he meets DK again almost coming off as a jilted lover. | |
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There's also Bugs' friendship-slash-rivalry with Daffy. As much as Bugs revels in observing and/or causing Daffy's suffering, the two are frequently shown hanging out together, and in Looney Tunes: Back in Action he's willing to go to great lengths to get Daffy re-"hired" by Warner Brothers. After all, without Daffy, who is he going to play Duck Season, Rabbit Season with? | |
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In Negima! Magister Negi Magi, Negi's Chick Magnet powers work even on his arch-nemesis Fate, their encounters becoming more and more romantically charged each time they meet. Eventually it reaches the point where Negi's other rivals for his affection worry about the extra competition. | |
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In Batman: Arkham Origins, when The Joker's being psychoanalyzed by Harley while detained in Blackgate, he starts narrating his origin to her: being the Red Hood and the fateful bath in chemicals courtesy of Batman that transforms him into his present state. In his mind, he's imagining a horrifying ordeal; narrating it to her, Harley interprets it as him confessing to being in love with a special someone on sight... i.e. her. And the dialogue even suggests that he's fully aware of such a thing, using his words to convey his true feelings about Batman while being vague enough to play on Harley's emotions. | |
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Played for laughs in Spaceballs. Dark Helmet and Lone Starr are comparing the size of their... um... schwartzes during their parody lightsaber battle. | |
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Char and Amuro in Mobile Suit Gundam have been eyebrow-raising for a long time, due to their nature as Newtypes making their relationship unusually close for two men who have tried to kill each other on countless occasions. In quite a few scenes in Zeta, for instance, Char refers to Amuro in terms that seem more like a lost lover than a rival, and their reunion is shown with swelling music, heavenly lighting, and a long gaze as Char grips his suit's controls and smiles—something the Compilation Movie only made more romantic-looking. Yoshiyuki Tomino himself encouraged this reading in a few interviews, nothing that he played up the "sensuous elements" and saw the idea of wondering if they were in love as an entirely Intended Audience Reaction. | |
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Killing Eve: Eve and Villanelle's mutual obsession with each other makes up half the plot. It's explicitly a Villainous Crush on Villanelle's end, but it's still up in the air if Eve returns the attraction. It is heavily, heavily implied that she does, though she perhaps doesn't realize it herself. (Or, more to the point, doesn't want to realize it. Given who Villanelle is, it's hard to blame her.) | |
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Durarara!!: Shizuo Heiwajima and Izaya Orihara. Hate at First Sight meeting, obsessive loathing (to the point that Shizuo flies into a rage just by seeing Izaya), No Sense of Personal Space — it's like a love story, except you replace every instance of "like" and "love" with "despise" and "hate". Considering how the subtext is so strong that other characters have seriously considered the possibility of at least a "hate sex" relationship, while an In-Universe Fangirl outright ships it, all signs point intentional subtext. | |
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X-Men: Apocalypse: While it's disturbing and completely one-sided, Apocalypse's desire to literally possess Xavier's mind, body and soul through Mind Rape comes off as an analogy for obsessive stalking and rape, and Charles is even a Pretty Boy to boot. Tumblr users often describe this shot◊ as looking like a very forceful marriage proposal or a Beauty and the Beast scenario, and Charles is indeed the prisoner of the grotesque Apocalypse, the former being trapped inside the latter's Egyptian "castle," so to speak. | |
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Burn Notice: A lot of people read into this with Tricia Helfer's flirty portrayal as Carla, and in an interview the question was even asked to the actress. But Detective Paxson is acknowledged in universe. Michael and Victor could veer into this too, especially with Victor's overly-chipper Ax-Crazy personality complementing Michael's dour practicality remarkably well. With lines like Also: They end up meeting in a men's bathroom. Shades of cruising, perhaps? Michael and Jason Bly sure liked to invade each other's personal space. When Brennen was controlling Michael, he took away his Cool Shades because "I want to see those pretty eyes." Probably actually done because it's easier to lie with your eyes hidden, with the accompanying dialogue being mere Terms of Endangerment. In "Signals and Codes" with the first appearance of Diego, a new agency contact for Michael. And now we have Gilroy, who gropes Mike's hand on their first meeting and is very happy that Michael doesn't "kiss and tell". And giving him (and a one-shot accomplice) synchronized wristwatches. Apparently, your resting pulse tends to sync up with the ticking of your watch, "so by the end of the day, our hearts will beat as one." Extra points for gratuitous chest-touching for both recipients. Michael remarks to the guy "Ya know, I like you as a friend and all..." Gilroy's reply? "You're cute, but don't interrupt." In the opening of the same episode, Gilroy insists on meeting with Michael in a hot-tub to insure that he isn't bugged. As Michael gets into the tub, Gilroy gives him a lecherous once-over with his eyes. So basically, Michael and any recurring (male or female) foe. As well as Lucy Lawless's character in "False Flag." Jeffrey Donovan has serious chemistry with a lot of people. Larry (yes, dead Larry) gives a "Not So Different" Remark to Fiona about how hard it is to be in a relationship with Mike and how he needs the things they both have to offer. |
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Hero House implies this between Batman and Bane, if Red Hood is to be believed. | |
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The LEGO Batman Movie takes the subtext between Joker and Batman's rivalry and cranks it about as far as they can go in a PG family movie. Batman refuses to form connections with anyone, even his enemies, so his refusal to call the Joker his greatest foe is played like an unrequited love, with the other villains reassuring Joker that he "doesn't need" Batman. | |
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Babylon 5: Londo and G'Kar start off as fierce rivals, with Londo revealing in the first regular episode ("Midnight on the Firing Line") that he'd had a prophetic dream about his death, where the two of them would choke each other to death some twenty years in the future.note As later revealed, a Prophecy Twist was involved. As the series progressed, the rivalry waxed and waned (with others often commenting about the two ambassadors' unique relationship), with the two settling into a sort of bickering Friendly Rivalry/Vitriolic Best Buds situation by the end of season four, with the two would often arguing Like an Old Married Couple. The subtext becomes text in a script that was never filmed note because it was a revenge prank by J. Michael Straczynski for the actors playing Londo and G'Kar, and it was never intended to be really filmed: G'Kar changes sex due to stress and discovers that the hatred he felt as a man has transformed in love for Londo in her female form. Then they have sex. |
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Carrie (1976): While Chris Hargensen hates Carrie, she seems to really enjoy tormenting her, is obsessed with her to the point that she's thinking about Carrie during sex with her boyfriend, and the lead-up to the blood dump shows numerous close-ups of her licking her lips and her sweaty hands shaking in excitement as she's about to pull the rope. Nancy Allen confirmed this was intentional and said she played it like Chris was having an orgasm. | |
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City of Heroes has former Heterosexual Life-Partners, Statesman and Lord Recluse as the main hero and villain of the game. When they got their powers they worked together for a time, until Statesman found his B.F.F. was set on using them for evil, and left to fight evil - Statesman feels Lord Recluse's power drove him to abandon morality, Lord Recluse feels Statesman's power drove him to become self-righteous. Statesman has an entirely unironic hope that they can be B.F.F.s again even while beating up Lord Recluse's mooks; As for Lord Recluse, the entire villain zone is a monument to getting even with the man who dumped him. This was played subtly at first but as Statesman has a chance to kill Lord Recluse and refuses on hopes he can be rehabilitated, and Lord Recluse refuses any plan for world domination that does not involve Statesman eating some humble pie by being given the chance and failing to stop him - both are demonstrated to be invested in each other above all else. This goes a step further in the Who Will Die arc where Statesman is killed by a no name villain, looking to steal his powers - which kills Statesman as they are all that was keeping his 150+ year old butt alive. Lord Recluse flips the hell out, nukes the orbiting lair of the villain responsible then takes a rocket ship up and proceeds to deliver a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown for daring to kill HIS arch-enemy. | |
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In America 3000, the women of Frisco and Kansos in Colorado have an entire mythology built up around hating the men and wanting to exterminate them, and the free men Korvis leads in his compound at Camp Reagan have generally adopted a similarly hostile attitude toward the women. So why does the young Vena smirk and take a good long look when her mother cuts off young Korvis' loincloth near the beginning? Why, when Korvis and his men later raid Frisco, does he get distracted and linger over the sleeping form of the newly-crowned Tiara Vena in her shelter? Because of perfectly natural desires, and because they're going to get it together with each other later, that's why. | |
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Lupin III: Dead or Alive: While Zenigata is leading a captured Lupin (or rather, the local bartender Lupin disguised as himself) to their helicopter pickup, the good inspector is speaking boastfully of the peaceful life he will lead after turning Lupin's trial and finally going home. He discusses two names he discarded; War (because he didn't want to upset his female readers) and Love and and War (because he didn't want people to get the wrong idea about the two of them). | |
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Wishmaster: Although the interactions between the Djinn and Alex are not many, he often makes certain comments to her that are just full of foe yay. He calls her a delight and caresses her hand (disguised as Wendy), calls her 'sweet Alex' and after she has made two wishes, tells her they are 'so connected now'. When he breaks the window of her car, for an instant, you can see him leaning towards her with a teasing expression and almost touching her with his claw. |
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