Tropescilloscope: Ambiguously Gay

A character demonstrates stereotypes associated with gays or lesbians, but their sexual orientation remains unconfirmed. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Is a Crapshoot No Celebrities Were Harmed Back from the Dead The Cameo Dark and Troubled Past Gone Horribly Right Serial Killer La Résistance Serious Business Riddle for the Ages Adaptational Attractiveness Artistic License – Geography Mugging the Monster Not What It Looks Like Wretched Hive Mr. Exposition Even Evil Has Loved Ones Attempted Rape Brainless Beauty Those Wacky Nazis It's Personal Jerk Jock Hero Antagonist Politically Incorrect Villain Anyone Can Die Composite Character Irony Fake Shemp Happily Married Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Product Placement Toplessness from the Back And I Must Scream Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Stalker with a Crush Damsel in Distress Taking the Bullet Line-of-Sight Name Yandere N-Word Privileges Smug Snake Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Homage I'm a Humanitarian timeperiod Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Blackmail Blatant Lies Casting Gag Fate Worse than Death Rousing Speech Cloudcuckoolander The X of Y Children Are Innocent Heroic Sacrifice Pay Evil unto Evil Together in Death Disney Villain Death Covers Always Lie Soundtrack Dissonance Artistic License – Biology As Himself Grievous Bottley Harm Be Careful What You Wish For Unspoken Plan Guarantee Show Within a Show Greater-Scope Villain Deadpan Snarker Stylistic Suck Cool Old Lady Television Movie Index Punch-Clock Villain Death Glare Biopic Malevolent Masked Men Bare Your Midriff Drowning My Sorrows Offscreen Teleportation Obviously Evil The Great Depression The Starscream Evil Brit Not So Stoic Scare Chord Monumental Damage Bar Brawl Reasonable Authority Figure Authority Equals Asskicking "Well Done, Son!" 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Maybe Ever After Corpsing Wounded Gazelle Gambit Unwitting Instigator of Doom Bullying a Dragon Not So Different Early Installment Weirdness Properly Paranoid Comically Missing the Point No OSHA Compliance Cluster F-Bomb As the Good Book Says... Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Evil Is Petty Deconstruction Police Brutality Brutal Honesty Pimped-Out Dress Eyepatch of Power Bittersweet Ending Humans Are Bastards Laser-Guided Karma Camera Abuse The Lost Lenore Guns Akimbo Insane Troll Logic Very Loosely Based on a True Story Asshole Victim Artistic License – Physics Madness Mantra Hypocrite Gorn Kill 'em All Celebrity Paradox Karmic Death You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! War Is Hell Amoral Attorney Badass Normal "Awesome McCool" Name Kids Are Cruel Manly Tears Accidental Murder Spiritual Successor Vampire Fiction Re-Cut Immune to Bullets Mood Whiplash Scenery Gorn Take That! Self-Deprecation Super Strength Dies Wide Open Artistic License – History I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Police are Useless Adaptation Dye-Job Plot Hole Intergenerational Friendship Not Even Bothering with the Accent Action Girl Daylight Horror Training Montage True Companions Decoy Protagonist Dogged Nice Guy Actually Pretty Funny Rasputinian Death The Ditz Overprotective Dad Abusive Parents In Medias Res The Un-Reveal Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! 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Adaptation Name Change Death by Adaptation Imagine Spot Psychopathic Manchild Broken Bird Race Lift Interrupted Suicide Depraved Bisexual Adaptational Villainy Death Seeker Revenge Dwindling Party Bloody Hilarious The Reveal Historical Hero Upgrade Shoot the Shaggy Dog Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Retired Badass I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Totally Radical Morality Pet Curse Cut Short Small Name, Big Ego Action Prologue Nice Guy Humiliation Conga Artistic License – Law Beware the Nice Ones Silence Is Golden Shout-Out Parental Abandonment Karma Houdini I Did What I Had to Do Film Noir The Ghost Badass Longcoat All Men Are Perverts The End... Or Is It? Dissonant Serenity Film Noir Index Dirty Coward Ship Tease An Aesop The Stoner Only a Flesh Wound Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Groin Attack Took a Level in Badass Insult Backfire Chiaroscuro Badass in a Nice Suit Aside Glance The Bad Guy Wins Spanner in the Works Action Genre MacGuffin Crapsack World Shut Up, Hannibal! Ms. Fanservice Parental Substitute BFG Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Animal Title Index Visual Pun Fat Bastard Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Faking the Dead Darkest Hour Auto Erotica Demoted to Extra Drives Like Crazy Danny Peary Cult Movies List The '50s Naked People Are Funny folderlabel The Dreaded Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Parental Incest Stuff Blowing Up Meaningful Background Event Setting Update Science Fiction Films Adapted Out Big Bad Psychological Thriller Bland-Name Product Bald of Evil Ambiguous Disorder The '70s Disguised in Drag Reckless Gun Usage Real Life Cold-Blooded Torture Stock Footage Bowdlerise Man on Fire Neck Snap Hero of Another Story Did Not Get the Girl Obfuscating Stupidity An Axe to Grind Gainax Ending All There in the Manual Names to Run Away from Really Fast Rule of Symbolism Final Girl Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene In Name Only "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Deliberate Values Dissonance Does Not Like Shoes As Long as It Sounds Foreign Facial Horror Killed Mid-Sentence Spell My Name with an "S" Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Christmas Movies Index The Atoner Amusing Injuries The Ace Batman Gambit Anguished Declaration of Love Evil-Detecting Dog Tempting Fate Cassandra Truth Documentary Empathic Environment Bound and Gagged Handicapped Badass Heel–Face Turn Hair-Trigger Temper Evil Sounds Deep Betty and Veronica Your Head A-Splode Chekhov's Skill Japanese Films Fanservice Extra Gender Flip "Shaggy Dog" Story Unusual Euphemism A Date with Rosie Palms Frame-Up Those Two Bad Guys Canon Foreigner Fainting Not Quite Dead My God, What Have I Done? Dutch Angle Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Word of God Adaptation Expansion Actor Allusion Aluminum Christmas Trees Woman Scorned Dirty Old Man Bloodier and Gorier Russian Films Dual Wielding For the Evulz Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Heel Realization Fan Disservice And the Adventure Continues Never My Fault Whole Plot Reference Downer Ending Foreshadowing The Oner Let's Get Dangerous! More Dakka The Smurfette Principle Disappeared Dad Age Lift Ass Shove Domestic Abuse Funny Background Event Red Right Hand Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Evil vs. Evil Genre Throwback Make It Look Like an Accident Would Hurt a Child Our Vampires Are Different Alliterative Name An Arm and a Leg Cool Car Took a Level in Jerkass Arranged Marriage Implacable Man Epic Fail Beard of Evil Truth in Television May–December Romance Idiot Ball My Greatest Failure Fatal Family Photo Running Gag Deal with the Devil Only Sane Man Vomit Indiscretion Shot Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Lock and Load Montage Have a Gay Old Time Fish out of Water Creative Closing Credits Soft Glass Rule of Three Dramatic Irony Gory Discretion Shot Sanity Slippage Mighty Whitey Enemy Mine Hypocritical Humor Retirony The Lancer Creator Cameo Kubrick Stare Would Hit a Girl Brother–Sister Incest Trailers Always Spoil The Casanova Black Best Friend Cain and Abel Sassy Black Woman Becoming the Mask Hope Spot Ghost Fiction Sci-Fi Horror Easily Forgiven No Ending Belligerent Sexual Tension Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Vitriolic Best Buds Even Evil Has Standards Love at First Sight Get Out! Determinator World of Ham Dark Is Not Evil Pragmatic Adaptation My Beloved Smother Our Zombies Are Different Take a Third Option Half the Man He Used to Be Apocalypse How Mundane Made Awesome What Happened to the Mouse? Bunny-Ears Lawyer Knife Nut Light Is Not Good Recycled IN SPACE! 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Flashback Drugs Are Bad Anachronism Stew Extremely Short Timespan And Starring Genre Shift Pyrrhic Victory Boom, Headshot! 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Affectionate Parody Death of a Child Cool Guns Coming-of-Age Story Up to Eleven Dying Moment of Awesome Air-Vent Passageway Fingore Diabolus ex Machina Dramatic Gun Cock Establishing Character Moment Men Are the Expendable Gender Only Known by Their Nickname Nice Hat Retcon Jump Scare Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Wicked Cultured Adaptational Heroism Developing Doomed Characters Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Anti-Villain Sir Swears-a-Lot Hate Sink Missing Mom Victoria's Secret Compartment Beauty Is Never Tarnished Fanservice Grey and Gray Morality Deus ex Machina Heterosexual Life-Partners Badass Boast Horror Comedy Scenery Porn Bi the Way Bavarian Fire Drill The Stinger Obstructive Bureaucrat Heroic BSoD Faux Affably Evil Demonic Possession Scary Black Man Stepford Smiler Early-Bird Cameo Framing Device It Can Think Skewed Priorities Mama Bear Red Eyes, Take Warning He Who Fights Monsters Disney Death Catapult Nightmare Hong Kong Films Earn Your Happy Ending The Stoic I Need a Freaking Drink Animated Credits Opening Kill It with Fire The Mafia Twist Ending Does This Remind You of Anything? Extreme Doormat O.O.C. Is Serious Business Reality Ensues Poor Communication Kills Room Full of Crazy Rule of Cool Red Oni, Blue Oni Instant Death Bullet Refuge in Audacity Here We Go Again! Motor Mouth Crazy Jealous Guy Gilligan Cut Jerkass Has a Point Not So Above It All Historical-Domain Character Calling the Old Man Out Older Than They Look