Tvtropes waiting till the end to reveal gay characters
Preserve Your Gays
"I survived a plane crash. Big deal."
"And a car clash. And a shooting. You might be immortal."
"No, I'm shocked in shows where they don't die."
Bury Your Gays? Asif!
In a break from tradition, a work features its LGBT characters having an amusing survival rate. To be recognized as an Unkillable Lgbtq+, the character is not just a gay character that doesn't die. No, instead they must face situations where it would be expected for anyone to die, but appear to own been given some supernatural protection.
If it's a perform where Anyone Can Die but all the LGBT+ characters survive, it's definitely this. If it appears that a Gay Death situation is being put up, and the character comes through unscathed, it is probably this — it's definitely this if that happens several times.
The LGBT+ characters acquire been afforded Plot Armor, which is only noticeable when they frequently shun a fated death. This can be done positively: in a survival situation, the gay traits has not been sacrificed for the straight ones; usually this
If there’s one thing that really grinds my gears it’s lazy writing. The worse offenders sound to be showrunners who are trying to shoehorn inclusion into something without actually knowing much about the subject. I applaud their interest in diversity- but sometimes, poor representation is worse than no inclusion. To mark the end of #BiWeek, here are a few bisexual tropes I would enjoy to see depart a fast, unlamented death.
Here’s our ‘Bisexual Tropes We’d Enjoy to Yeet into the Sun’ List!
Bisexuality Is Only A Transition Tool
One of the weirdest attracted to both genders tropes revolves around the misconception that there is no middle ground between straight and male lover. Once a ethics has shown interest in a lgbtq+ union they’re treated as 100% same-sex attracted, even if they haven’t accepted it yet.
We get it, some queer folks pass through Bi Town on their way to their final destination. But for lots of people, being bi is their destination. They’re not bewildered (well, not any more than everyone else). They aren’t waiting to “go all the way gay” or “get over their confusion and go unbent again.”
Take a observe
Ever wondered how to eliminate off a queer ethics without falling into the 'Bury Your Gays' trope?
None of that happened in this scenario. Yes the two queer men ended up dead, but first and foremost, nobody killed them. Not only did they die on their own terms, after a long life together, but it was a judgment they made together. Yes they took their hold life, but in the reality of the planet of the show (namely, zombies), and because of their age and health, it was a choice they felt was right.
It's worth noting that neither of these characters succumbed to the virus that turned most of the world into zombies. Also, nobody came to eliminate them for being lgbtq+. One of them didn't have to watch the other suffer before they lost them forever either. They had a being full of love in the most extreme of situations, and they went out with love too.
Finally, and this is the absolute biggest thing I want you to grab away from this, at no point did you see the characters dying nor did we spot them dead.
Not even a hint of a defunct body. Yes we saw them take the pills that would end their lives, but we did not see them react negatively to this, we did not see them in pain, and we did not se
Gay Bar Display
"A very, very gay bar!"
Stiles:[surrounded by drag queens] Man, nothing gets past those keen werewolf senses, huh, Scott?
— Teen Wolf, "Frenemy"
Manfred M. Manly wanders the streets looking for a burly bar where he can order his favouriteGargle Blaster, proposition women with crude sexual Double Entendres and watch manly high impact sports on a 30 year vintage television before establishing alpha male dominance by engaging in Greco-Roman wrestling with other patrons.
He finds himself a bar or club with broad strapping patrons, perhaps full of bikers or steel workers, deep bass music and tall erect steel bars for extra manly outcome.
But wait, what's that? A series of brief sudden close ups on each of the elements of the bar possess revealed the truth. Those manly steel bars are for pole dancing, there are no women in sight (but the men are just as willing to tango), the bass music is Techno, the bikers and steel workers seem to love their leather, and that ain't no Greco-Roman wrestling they're engaging in...
Manfred M. Manly has just had
Ambiguously Gay
Perhaps you possess a male character who is visibly touch-feely towards another male character, while being similarly open in rejecting the advances of any female characters who come his way. Or when the other male characters ogle the resident Ms. Fanservice, this ethics hardly bats an eye, but he seems quite interested in what the Walking Shirtless Scene is doing. Other characters in the work may even question exactly which way this character swings, but never get an retort . The character's sexuality is simply never made eliminate within the work.
Yes, this character is Ambiguously Gay—they display much onscreen evidence of exclusive same-gender attraction, but nothing is ever explicitly confirmed one way or another. The ambiguity can range all the way from from blink-and-you'll-miss-it implications to all-but-confirmed.
This trope has taken slightly different forms throughout the past due to differences in censorship and what was permissible in the media. In many old films, characters were often given descriptions that may be perceived as code words for "gay". Such words may contain "eccentric", "queer", "confirme