List of fictional bisexual characters
This is a list of bisexual characters in fiction, i.e. characters that either self-identify as bisexual or have been identified by outside parties to be bisexual. Bisexuality is a sexual orientation that refers to the romantic and/or sexual attraction towards people of more than one gender. Listed characters are either recurring characters, cameos, guest stars, or one-off characters. This does not include bisexual characters in television, anime, or Western animation.
Similar lists include trans, lesbian, gay, non-binary, pansexual, asexual, and intersex characters for information about fictional characters in other parts of the LGBTQ community.
The names are in alphabetical order by surname, or by single name if the character does not have a surname. If more than two characters are in one entry, the last name of the first character is used.
Film[]
Characters | Title or Franchise | Actors | Years | Notes | Country |
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Adèle | Blue Is the Warmest Colour | Adèle Exarchopoulos | 2013 | IndieWire writes that throughout the film, bisexual erasure is "central to understanding Adele's particular sense that she does not belong as she comes of age."[1] Adèle meets Emma in a lesbian bar, they enter a relationship and start to live with each other, and eventually, Emma finds out that Adèle cheated with Antoine, a male colleague, and their relationship ends. Afterward, Emma enters a relationship with Lise. | France |
Alexander the Great | Alexander | Colin Farrell | 2004 | Alexander has an ambiguous sexuality, with director Oliver Stone saying Alexander had "a polymorphous sensuality and was an explorer in the deepest sense of the world."[2] His portrayal led a group of Greek lawyers to threaten to sue Warner Bros. for suggesting Alexander was bisexual while GLAAD praised the film as breaking new ground. | United States |
Lorraine Broughton | Atomic Blonde | Charlize Theron | 2017 | Lorraine, a secret agent for MI6 does not fall in love with her male counterpart, but has "sex with another female spy," Delphine Lasalle, entering into a romantic relationship with her. Theron confirmed Lorraine as a bisexual,[3] with some reviewers noting the film features a bisexual subplot that was not in the original book.[4] | |
Joe Buck | Midnight Cowboy | Jon Voight | 1969 | Joe is a gigolo who has sex with men and women in an attempt to make money.[5] This film is based on the 1965 novel of the same name.[6] His character was later parodied by Zapp Brannigan in the "Brannigan, Begin Again" episode of Futurama, which even uses the film's theme, "Everybody's Talkin'" by Harry Nilsson.[7][8] | |
Magnus Bane | The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones | Godfrey Gao | 2013 | Magnus, a bisexual warlock, first appears in "heavy guyliner, piercings and a disturbing blazer-and-boxers combo."[9] | |
John Constantine | Justice League Dark: Apokolips War | Matt Ryan | 2020 | John has a lover, Zatanna, but formerly had a relationship with King Shark.[10] | |
Cristal Connors | Showgirls | Gina Gershon | 1995 | A leading character in this film, Cristal, who has a boyfriend, wants a relationship with Nomi,[11] so she can destroy her, in this film where bisexuality is "a weapon, a plot device and an arena for titillating spectacle" like in Basic Instinct.[12] | France, United States |
Paul Denton | The Rules of Attraction | Ian Somerhalder | 2002 | This film follows a love triangle between Sean, Laura, and Paul, the latter who is the boyfriend of Laura and is attracted to Sean, who he tries to go out with, but fails.[13] | United States |
Frau Farbissina | Austin Powers[a] | Mindy Sterling | 1997-2004 | Frau has a girlfriend named Una Brau in the second film who she met on the LPGA tour and fell in love. Later, in the film, when Dr. Evil and Past Frau have sex, she comments she will never love another man.[14] Dr. Evil remembers her, responding "Yes, that's true". The sex between Dr. Evil and Frau results in their "love child", Scott. | |
Ramona Flowers | Scott Pilgrim vs. the World | Mary Elizabeth Winstead | 2010 | Ramona describes her relationship with Roxy Richter (Mae Whitman) as her being "bi-curious".[15][16] As in the Scott Pilgrim graphic novel series the film is based on, Ramona has seven evil exes: six ex-boyfriends and her lesbian ex-girlfriend Roxanne. | |
Robert Frobisher | Cloud Atlas | Ben Whishaw | 2012 | Robert, living in 1930s Britain, is a budding composer, an apprentice to a musical genius, Vyvyan Ayrs, while Robert has a lover, Rufus Sixsmith, as well.[17] | |
Mécir & Paul | Grande École | Salim Kechiouche & Gregori Baquet | 2004 | In this film about education, class, race and homosexuality,[18] Paul has a girlfriend but sleeps with one of his new roommates, while Mécir, a young Arab manual worker, becomes attracted to him.[19] | France |
Paolo & Visitor | Teorema | Massimo Girotti & Terence Stamp | 1968 | This film, a parable, uses bisexuality as a symbol, with a beautiful man, unnamed and referred to as the "Visitor," appearing in the lives of a typical bourgeois Italian family, making love to the father (Paolo), the mother (Lucia), the son (Pietro), the daughter (Odetta), and the maid (Emilia).[20] After a telegram arrives and the Visitor has to leave, all the family members change, having to confront what was previously concealed by the trappings of bourgeois life. | Italy |
Georges Querelle | Querelle | Brad Davis | 1982 | George, a handsome Belgian sailor, thief, and murderer, visits a bar and brothel for sailors, with the head of the brothel in love with his brother, who he has a love/hate relationship with. Later on in the film, he announces he wants to sleep with Lysiane but he also has sex with Mario.[21]
Near the end of the film, Lieutenant Seblon, Querelle's superior, tries to prove his manliness to him, despite the fact Seblon murdered his friend, he decides to protect him, and Seblon later reveals his love, leading them to kiss and embrace before returning to Le Vengeur.[22] |
France, West Germany |
Harleen Quinzel "Harley Quinn" | Birds of Prey | Margot Robbie | 2020 | In the film's first ten minutes, it is established Harley is bisexual, with Harley saying she is unlucky with love, with her first two partners as men and the third one a woman.[23] At the beginning of the film, it shows one of Harley's failed relationships was with a woman.[24] | United States |
Camilla Rhodes | Mulholland Drive | Laura Harring | 2001 | Mobsters demand Camila Rhodes, an unknown actress, be cast in a film, and he eventually agrees, capitulating to casting her after seeing her audition, with a strange series of events that follow. Rhodes presented as "bisexual vixen",[25] is a driving force of the film. | |
Ritchie | Summer of Sam | Adrien Brody | 1999 | In this film, one of the protagonists is a volatile bisexual character named Ritchie, Vinny's childhood friend who has embraced punk fashion and music, who begins a relationship with Ruby.[26] | |
Brian Roberts | Cabaret | Michael York | 1972 | Brian moves into the boarding house where Sally lives. Later in the film, during an argument, Sally tells Brian she has been having sex with Max, and Brian reveals he has as well, showing he is a bisexual character.[27] Brian and Sally later reconcile, and Sally reveals Max left them 300 marks and mockingly compares the sum with what a professional prostitute gets. | |
Sydney "Syd" | High Art | Radha Mitchell | 1988 | Syd, living with longtime boyfriend James, has desires and frustrations that seem typical and manageable but new events unfold, with Lucy Berliner opening the door to an uncharted world for Syd. Lucy, who lives with her heroin-addicted German girlfriend Greta, and becomes closer to Syd as the film moves forward.[28] | |
Margot Tennenbaum | The Royal Tenenbaums | Gwyneth Paltrow | 2001 | Margot, a strong female character, who had a previous relationship with a woman, follows three siblings who were talents when they were children but "grow up into disappointments."[16] | |
Theodora "Theo" | The Haunting | Catherine Zeta-Jones | 1999 | Theo, a participant in a clinical study, was once a lesbian, but is now bisexual.[29] | |
Catherine Tramell | Basic Instinct | Sharon Stone | 1992 | While the character returns in Basic Instinct 2 (2006), it is noted she has been straightwashed.[30][31] | |
Basic Instinct 2 | 2006 | ||||
Clarissa Vaughan | The Hours | Meryl Streep | 2002 | Clarissa's long-term relationship with Sally is seemingly threatened while she pines for "a long-lost romance with Richard."[32] As such, the plot twist at the end of the film makes Clarissa even more distraught, with sexual identities not the focus of this film. | |
Kate Veatch | DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story | Christine Taylor | 2004 | Christine, in the last 90 seconds of the film, introduces her girlfriend to the team, after showing attraction to two male characters throughout the film.[33] Her final line in the movie is “I'm not a lesbian, I'm bisexual” before kissing one of the men she's attracted to.[34] | |
Maximilian von Heune | Cabaret | Helmut Griem | 1972 | This film is based on the musical Cabaret, with Maximilian as a rich playboy baron who befriends Sally and takes her and Brian to his country estate where they are both spoiled and courted.[35] | |
Jordan White & Xavier "X" Red | The Doom Generation | James Duval | 1995 | Two teen lovers, Jordan and Amy, pick up Xavier "X" Red, a handsome drifter one night when coming back from a club. X accidentally kills a store owner, has sex with Amy, while Jordan becomes sexually attracted to X as well. Later in the film, Jordan, Amy and X spend the night in an abandoned warehouse, where they engage in a threesome.[36] | United States, France |
Curt Wild & Brian SladeMandy Slade | Velvet Goldmine | Ewan McGregor & Jonathan Rhys Meyers & Toni Collette | 1998 | At the beginning of his career, Slade is married to Mandy. But when he comes to the United States, he seeks out American rock star Curt Wild, and they become involved in each other's lives on a personal and creative level.[37] | United States |
Sonny Wortzik | Dog Day Afternoon | Al Pacino | 1975 | Sonny, a first-time crook, attempts to rob a bank with his friend Salvatore "Sal" Naturale, and Stevie but the plan immediately goes awry when Stevie loses his nerve and flees, and Sonny discovers they have arrived after the daily cash pickup, finding only $1,100 in cash. Later in the film, Sonny's partner, Leon Shermer, arrives and reveals the robbery was intended to pay for her sex reassignment surgery,[38] as she is a trans woman, and divulges that Sonny has children with his estranged wife, Angie.[39] This, and other events in the film, has led some to call Sonny a "bisexual desperado."[40] |
Graphic novels[]
Characters | Title | Years | Notes | Country |
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Korra Sato | The Legend of Korra: Turf Wars | 2017–present | In the animated series The Legend of Korra, Korra and Asami date Mako at different points. At the end of the series, Korra and Asami are holding hands and looking into each other's eyes while traveling through a portal right before the ending credits.[41] The creators later confirmed the intention of the ending scene was to show Asami and Korra becoming a romantic couple.[42][43][44] In the graphic novel The Legend of Korra: Turf Wars, which is the sequel to the animated series, Korra and Asami are in a relationship. | United States |
Asami Sato | ||||
Toya Kinomoto & Syaoran Li | Cardcaptor Sakura & Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card | 1996–present | The creators have confirmed Yukito and Toya (both male) are a couple.[45] They are stated to be in love within the series itself.[46] Before meeting Yukito, Toya dated Kaho Mizuki when she was his junior high school teacher, and she broke up with him when she left to study in England. Syoaran Li has a crush on Yukito (a male) in the beginning of the Cardcaptor Sakura series, but soon develops romantic feelings for the titular lead character Sakura (a female). | Japan |
Dee Laytner | Fake & Fake 2 & Fake 3 | 1994-2000 & 2007 & 2010-2011 | Dee, a police detective, repeatedly tells Randy "Ryo" Maclean, a New York City rookie cop, he is bisexual, while Ryo and Dee enter a relationship throughout the course of this manga.[47][48] | |
Moondragon | Guardians of the Galaxy | 1973-present | A powerful telepath. Daughter of Drax the Destroyer. | United States |
Noh-Varr | Young Avengers | 2005–2014 | Noh-Varr has stated he had experiences with Kree of the same sex at the end of Young Avengers (2013), to which Kate Bishop replied "Am I the only one on the team who is straight?"[49] | United States |
Nuriko | Fushigi Yûgi | 1992–1996 | Nuriko is one of the seven Celestial Warriors of Suzaku. She is introduced as "Kang-Lin", a woman in Emperor Hotohori's harem who has the power of superhuman strength.[50] Nuriko is in love with Hotohori and at first considers Miaka her rival for his love,[51] but Nuriko and Miaka soon become friends.[52] | Japan |
Wonder Woman & Harley Quinn & Poison Ivy | DC Comics Bombshells & Bombshells United | 2015–present | Wonder Woman was in a relationship with Mera and later Steve Trevor.[53] Harley and Poison Ivy are in a relationship in the series.[53][54] | United States |
Literature[]
Character | Work | Author | Years | Description |
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Akhenaten | A God Against the Gods & Return to Thebes | Allen Drury | 1976
1977 |
Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten is married to Nefertiti, but his romance with his brother Smenkhkara contributes to his downfall.[55] |
Smenkhkara | ||||
Alexander the Great | Fire from Heaven & The Persian Boy | Mary Renault | 1969
1972 |
Alexander is involved in a romantic sexual relationship with Hephaistion, and then the Persian slave Bagoas, but is also married three times and fathers a son. Both men are involved in romantic sexual relationships with Alexander the Great.[56] |
Bagoas | ||||
Hephaistion | ||||
Brigham Anderson | Advise and Consent | Allen Drury | 1959 | Married US senator Anderson is blackmailed over a secret wartime homosexual affair for which he is unapologetic.[57][58] |
Magnus Bane | The Shadowhunter Chronicles | Cassandra Clare | 2007–present | Magnus is openly bisexual, having several relationships with both men and women, his most notable partners being his current boyfriend Alec Lightwood and his ex-girlfriend Camille Belcourt.[59][60] |
Chuck Bass | Gossip Girl | Cecily von Ziegesar | 2002–2011 | In this series, Chuck was bisexual, although this was never explored in the Gossip Girl TV show, which creator Joshua Safran said he regretted.[61] |
Leah Burke | Leah on the Offbeat | Becky Albertalli | 2018 | Leah is bisexual and loves her friend Abby. She has been seen with men and women.[62] |
Kitty Butler | Tipping the Velvet | Sarah Waters | 1998 | Has a sexual/romantic relationship with the main character and marries a man.[63] |
Calixte | Strange the Dreamer series | Laini Taylor | 2017- 2018 | Calixte and Tzara enter a long-term relationship with each other at the start of the series. Thyon Nero has never been romantically or sexually attracted to a woman but finds himself drawn to Ruza, who seems to reciprocate his interest, making them both gay or in Ruza's case at least bisexual.[64] |
Thyon Nero | ||||
Tzara | ||||
Ruza | ||||
Bill Haydon | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | John le Carré | 1974 | Has a girlfriend, a male lover, seduces Ann, the wife of George Smiley, and rumoured to be the lover of Jim Prideaux.[65] |
Claudine | Claudine at School | Colette | 1902 | Claudine is unfaithful to her husband, Renaud, having an affair with her friend Rézi, who herself has a secrete liaison with Renaud.[66] |
Rézi | ||||
Clayton "Clay" | Less Than Zero | Bret Easton Ellis | 1985 | This is coming-of-age story narrated by Clay, "a sexually ambiguous eighteen-year-old student," who tries to resume a relationship with the woman he loved in high school but "leaves a party with a young man."[67][68] |
Imperial Bedrooms | 2010 | |||
Fever Crumb | Fever Crumb Series | Philip Reeve | 2009–11 | Fever first falls in love with the male Arlo Thursday, and later with the female Cluny Morvish.[69] |
Beauchamp Day | Tales of the City series | Armistead Maupin | 1978–2014 | While the original series featured gay and bisexual characters who "kissed on camera and had sex in bathhouses,"[70] in the Netflix adaption of this series, Shawna is an "explicitly bisexual character."[71] |
DeDe Halcyon Day | ||||
Mona Ramsey | ||||
Paul Denton | The Rules of Attraction | Bret Easton Ellis | 1987 | In this book, set in Camden, Paul lusted for another character, Sean Bateman, saying he slept with him, while Bateman "never admits as much."[67] This book ended up fortifying Ellis's reputation as a "nihilistic authorial presence who reports action but seldom comments on it." |
Jesper Fahey | Six of Crows duology | Leigh Bardugo | 2015–2016 | Jesper is bisexual, and Wylan is gay; they begin dating each other by the end of the duology, while Nina has also been confirmed to be pansexual.[72] |
Wylan Van Eck | ||||
Nina Zenik | ||||
Alluvia (Alice) Fairfax | Gut Symmetries | Jeanette Winterson | 1987 | Alice has romantic and sexual relationships with both Stella and Stella's husband Jove.[73] |
Stella | ||||
Courtney Farrell | Chocolates for Breakfast | Pamela Moore | 1956 | Courtney develops a crush on her female boarding school teacher, and later has a sexual relationship with Barry Cabot, her mother's bisexual friend who is in a relationship with a man.[74][75] |
Barry Cabot | ||||
Darvish Shayrif Hakem | The Fire's Stone | Tanya Huff | 1990 | Darvish is willing to have sex with anyone, whether men or women.[76] |
Rosemary Harper | The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet | Becky Chambers | 2015 | Rosemary Harper and Sissix are both either lesbians or bisexual as the two women enter a relationship with each other over the course of the novel.[77] |
Sissix | ||||
Herewiss | The Tale of the Five series | Diane Duane | 1979–1992 | This book is a fantasy with a "bisexual male protagonist whose main love interest is male," and is set in a world with normalized polyamory,[78] with bisexuality and polyamory seeming to "be the default."[79] |
Freelorn | ||||
The Goddess | ||||
Ruth Jamison | Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe | Fannie Flagg | 1987 | This novel weaves together the past and the present through the blossoming friendship between Evelyn Couch, a middle-aged housewife, and Ninny Threadgoode, an elderly woman who lives in a nursing home, while her sister-in-law, Idgie, and her friend, Ruth, ran a café. Ruth is married to a man and bears his child but subsequently has a long-term romantic relationship with another woman.[80] Although it is not explicitly labeled as a lesbian relationship, every resident both knows about and accepts Idgie and Ruth's relationship, making lesbianism a theme in the novel[81] while in the film adaptation, a story of Southern female friendship and love, Ruth had been in love with Buddy Threadgoode, Idgie's brother.[82][83] |
Seregil i Korit | The Nightrunner series | Lynn Flewelling | 1996–2014 | Seregil and Alec are committed lovers but both have had experiences with women in the past; Ilar is one of Seregil's former lovers.[84] |
Alec i Amasa | ||||
Ilar i Sontir | ||||
Denise Lambert | The Corrections | Jonathan Franzen | 2001 | In this novel, Denise begins affairs with both her boss and his wife,[85] and though the restaurant is successful,[86] she is fired when this is discovered. |
Lestat de Lioncourt | The Vampire Chronicles | Anne Rice | 1976–2014 | Lestat, Armand, and most of Rice's male vampires have intense sexual and emotional attractions and relationships with both sexes.[87] |
Louis de Pointe du Lac | ||||
Armand | ||||
Marius de Romanus | ||||
David Talbot | ||||
Ronan Lynch | The Raven Cycle | Maggie Stiefvater | 2012–16 | Adam shows a romantic interest in the female protagonist during the first two books, but then develops a relationship with Ronan Lynch.[88] |
Adam Parrish | ||||
Kavinsky | ||||
Rhy Maresh | Shades of Magic trilogy | V. E. Schwab | 2015–17 | Rhy is bisexual while Alucard is gay. They had a fling three years prior to the events of the books. Victoria Schwab actually stated multiple times in her eyes none of the characters are straight, but that is not mentioned in the series.[89][90] |
Alucard Emery | ||||
April May | An Absolutely Remarkable Thing | Hank Green | 2018 | May's bisexuality plays a key role throughout the series–she has an on-and-off relationship with Maya throughout the series, as well as a crush on Robin and a one-night stand with Miranda in An Absolutely Remarkable Thing.[91][92] Her bisexuality is used against her in a televised debate with rival Peter Petrawicki, because May had publicized the idea that she was lesbian.[93] |
A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor | ||||
Alice Meadows | A Village Affair | Joanna Trollope | 1989 | In this story, Alice Meadows questions her identity, having an affair with a lesbian woman named Clodagh Unwin, while she remains married, with her awakening depending on "a heart-wrenching choice between her lover and her family."[94] |
Henry "Monty" Montague | The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue | Mackenzi Lee | 2017 | Henry Montague is bisexual and has romantic feelings towards Percy, while his sister Felicity is asexual.[95] |
Felicity Montague | ||||
Percy | ||||
Hélène Noris | The Illusionist (Le rempart des Béguines) | Françoise Mallet-Joris | 1951 | Tamara has a romantic relationship with both Hélène and her father; Hélène prefers men after the fair ends.[96] |
Tamara Soulerr | ||||
Patroclus | The Song of Achilles | Madeline Miller | 2011 | Achilles is gay, showing no interest in girls. Patroclus is bisexual, saying he would fall in love with Briseis if not for Achilles.[97] |
Achilles | ||||
Patty Suso | Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda | Becky Albertalli | 2015 | Abby's cousin Cassie Peskin-Suso, a principal character in the sequel novel The Upside of Unrequited, is a lesbian and Mina is her pansexual girlfriend while Cassie also has two mothers Nadine, who is a lesbian, and Patty, who is bisexual.[98] |
Shori | Fledgling | Octavia Butler | 2005 | The novel tells the story of Shori, a 53-year-old member of the Ina species, who appears to be a ten-year-old African-American girl, biting a construction worker named Wright because she finds his scent irresistible, and they begin their relationship.[99] |
René Suratt | University series | Allen Drury | 1990–98 | René is protagonist Willie Wilson's nemesis, "a bisexual seducer of students."[100] |
Jack Twist | "Brokeback Mountain" (short story) | Annie Proulx | 1997 | Jack and Ennis have a long term sexual and romantic relationship despite both being married to women and fathering children. Jack also has sexual relationships with other men and a woman, while Ennis does not. Critics have described both men as gay or variably Jack as bisexual and Ennis as heterosexual.[101][102] |
Ennis Del Mar | ||||
Raymond Tyler, Jr. & Basil | Invisible Life & Just As I Am & Abide With Me & Any Way the Wind Blows | E. Lynn Harris | 1991 & 1995 & 1999 & 2001 | Raymond is torn between his girlfriend Nicole and his married male lover; Basil leaves his fiancée Yancey at the altar and pursues a gay lifestyle.[56][103][104] |
Basil Henderson | ||||
Villanelle | The Passion | Jeanette Winterson | 1987 | In this book, Villanelle is an androgynous and bisexual daughter of a boatman from Venice who crosses paths with Henri, who also has an "ambivalent sexuality."[105] |
Theatre[]
Character | Title | Notes |
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King Bolloxinion & most other characters | Sodom, or the Quintessence of Debauchery (1684) | An obscene Restoration closet drama thought to be by John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester. Bolloxinion, King of Sodom, commands universal same-sex sodomy.[106] |
Claude, Berger, Woof, various | Hair | Various characters in this musical are bisexual.[107] |
Video games[]
Characters | Series or Title | Years | Notes | Developer |
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Morrigan Aensland | Darkstalkers & Marvel vs. Capcom & Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors | 1994 | Morrigan is bisexual.[108] She is a recurring character in the Darkstalkers and Marvel vs. Capcom fighting game series. | Capcom |
Alexios and Kassandra | Assassin's Creed & Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 2018 | The player may choose to play as either Alexios or Kassandra, a pair of siblings. The game presents both opposite-sex and same-sex relationship options for the player character.[109] They are potentially lesbian, gay, or bisexual. | Ubisoft Montreal |
Ares | Langrisser Re:Incarnation Tensei | 2015 | In this Japanese tactical role-playing game, Ares is the player character. He can confess his feelings to the guys, along with the girls, to unlock different perks.[110] | Masaya Games |
Avatar & Sex workers | Ultima VII: The Black Gate & Ultima | 1992 | In the House of Baths at Buccaneer's Den, the player (the "Avatar") can pay for the services of male and female sex workers, regardless of the player's gender.[111] | Origin Systems |
Axton | Borderlands & Borderlands 2 | 2012 | In the DLC Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep (2013), it is revealed Axton, one of the playable characters, is bisexual. While his flirtatious lines with male characters were originally a coding error, Gearbox Studios decided to confirm his bisexuality with overt references in the DLC.[112] | Gearbox Software |
Byleth (player character), Edelgard, Dorothea, Mercedes, Linhardt, Jeritza, Rhea, Sothis, Yuri | Fire Emblem: Three Houses & Fire Emblem | 2019 | Edelgard, Jeritza, Dorothea, Yuri, Rhea, Sothis, Linhardt, and Mercedes can be romanced by the player character regardless of gender during certain routes.[113][114] | Intelligent Systems, Koei Tecmo |
Nicky Case | Coming Out Simulator 2014 | 2014 | This is a Canadian autobiographical game, and interactive fiction, about a teenage Nicky Case coming out as bisexual to his mother. Jack is his boyfriend.[115] | Nicky Case |
Maxine "Max" Caulfield & Rachel Amber | Life Is Strange | 2015 | Life Is Strange (2015) is experienced from Max's perspective. The prequel Life Is Strange: Before the Storm (2017) is experienced from Chloe's perspective. The development of Max and Chloe's relationship is the main plot of Life Is Strange, and they can end up romantically. At different points in the game, Max may have the choice to kiss Warren (her male friend) or Chloe.[116]
In Life Is Strange, Chloe admits she had romantic feelings towards Rachel. In the prequel Life Is Strange: Before the Storm, depending on the player's actions, Rachel may open up and reveal that she has romantic feelings towards Chloe too. At some point, Chloe may have the choice to kiss Rachel. Rachel also had a relationship with Frank before the plot of Life Is Strange. |
Dontnod Entertainment |
Corrin (player character), Niles and Rhajat | Fire Emblem Fates & Fire Emblem | This game is the first in the Fire Emblem franchise to feature a same-sex marriage option for both the 'Birthright' and 'Conquest' versions of the game (Niles and Rhajat in the American version).[117] The same-sex options, however, are restricted to one character per game, where the Conquest edition contains a man who may be romanced by male or female main characters, while the Birthright edition has a woman who may be romanced by male and female protagonists. In the DLC, Revelations, both Rhajat and Niles are available to be romanced by the female and male main characters. However, they can still marry characters of the other gender, so it is implied they are bisexual. If the player marries a character of the same sex, they will not be able to unlock Kana (the player's child) or Nina, Niles' daughter.[118] | Nintendo SPD / Intelligent Systems | |
Curtis Craig | Phantasmagoria 2: A Puzzle of Flesh | 1996 | In this interactive movie, point-and-click adventure, Curtis is the protagonist. He is a close friend with his co-worker, Trevor, who is gay. Curtis admits to his psychiatrist he has feelings for Trevor and might be bisexual, and the two almost kiss later in the game and is also shown as having relations with his girlfriend and a S&M domme.[119][120] | Sierra On-Line |
Daisuke | True Love | 1995 | At the end of the Japanese visual novel game, the player character—default name is Daisuke—may attempt to start a relationship with any of the ten available girls, or with his best friend Kazuhiko as the only gay option. Depending on the choices taken and interactions experienced throughout the game, each girl and Kazuhiko may or may not be available for a relationship.[121] | Software House Parsley |
Jacob Frye | Assassin's Creed & Assassin's Creed Syndicate | 2015 | The lead writer of this game indicated the team explicitly avoided giving Jacob Frye, one of the game's two protagonists, a female love interest during the main storyline. He also hinted at the idea Jacob needed to "figure himself out to some degree" after his brief partnership with Maxwell Roth.[122] This led to speculation regarding Jacob's sexuality, with the official Assassin's Creed Tumblr later confirming the character is canonically bisexual.[123][124] | Ubisoft Quebec |
Deirdre Hallam | Moonmist | 1986 | This interactive fiction was the first game to feature a queer character, with one of the plotlines being that an artist named Vivian was in a relationship with Diedre, still married to a man.[125] However, over the course of the game, the appearances by Dierde decreased. | Infocom |
James "Jimmy" Hopkins | Bully | 2006 | In this Canadian action-adventure game, Jimmy is able to kiss both boys and girls.[126] In the Xbox 360 version, the player can unlock an achievement by kissing a boy twenty times.[127] | Rockstar Vancouver |
Claude C. Kenny & Rena Lanford & Ashton Anchors & Precis F. Neumann | Star Ocean: The Second Story | 1998 | In this Japanese action role-playing game, the player can choose to play as either Claude or Rena. They can have a friendship and romance level with each party member acquired. Ashton (a male party member) and Precis (a female party member) can go on a date with them, regardless of their gender.[128] | tri-Ace & Tose (PSP) |
Korra | The Legend of Korra: A New Era Begins & The Legend of Korra (video game) | 2014 | These video games are based on the animated television series The Legend of Korra. Though her sexuality is not referenced in the games, the protagonist, Korra, is bisexual.[129] | PlatinumGames & Webfoot Technologies |
A mage | Ultima VII Part Two: Serpent Isle & Ultima | 1993 | A mage sexually proposes the player's character regardless of the character's gender.[128] The player is given the choice to accept or decline. | Origin Systems |
Last Spirit Monk & Sky & Silk Fox & Dawn Star | Jade Empire | 2005 | In this Canadian action-adventure game, the Last Spirit Monk is the player character. The player can choose to play as either male or female. The player, regardless of their gender, can romance Sky (a male character) and Silk Fox (a female character). Only a male player can romance the female Dawn Star, but she can end up in a relationship with Silk Fox.[128] | BioWare |
Trevor Philips | Grand Theft Auto V | 2013 | Trevor Philips is a playable character in Grand Theft Auto V, unlocked after the mission Mr. Philips. In a conversation during an outing with Michael and Franklin, he admits he's bisexual after Franklin asked him whether he's gay or not. He also claims to have raped men in prison. Trevor also makes numerous sexual advances and sexual comments towards both men and women throughout the course of the game. | Rockstar North |
Player character & Jeanette Voerman | Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines | 2004 | In this action role-playing game, the player can have sex with female prostitutes or Jeanette as either a man or a woman.[130] The female player character is able to have implied offscreen sexual relations with Jeanette, another female character.[130] | Troika Games |
Player character | Queen's Gambit | 2014 | In this visual novel game, the player character can romance Emily Verma, a lesbian character,[131] or one of three male characters.[132] | Voltage Entertainment USA |
Player character | Astoria: Fate's Kiss | 2015 | In this visual novel game, the player character is bisexual woman[133] who can romance Medusa, Alex, or one of multiple male characters.[134] | Voltage Entertainment USA |
Player character | Gangsters in Love | 2016 | In this visual novel game, the player character can romance Aurora James or one of multiple male characters.[135] | Voltage Entertainment USA |
Sole Survivor | Fallout 4 & Fallout | 2015 | The player character, "Sole Survivor", can romance their companions, regardless of their sex.[136] | Bethesda Game Studios |
Mister Torgue High-Five Flexington | Borderlands & Borderlands 2 | 2012 | It has alluded to in the DLC Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep that Mr. Torgue is bisexual. This was confirmed via an interview.[137] | Gearbox Software |
Hana Tsu-Vachel | Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix | 2001 | The player character Hana Tsu-Vachel, in this action-adventure game, is bisexual and in a relationship with her hacker, Rain Qin, a lesbian character. The game's advertising heavily emphasized their relationship.[138] | Kronos Digital Entertainment |
Cassus Vicus | Clive Barker's Jericho | 2007 | In this Spanish first-person shooter and survival horror game, the Ancient Roman Governor Cassus Vicus claims it had been a while since "tasting" both genders after becoming aroused while confronting the Jericho Squad. Vicus is portrayed as overly perverted and morbidly obese and is said to practice cannibalism, sadomasochism, and "blood orgies".[139] | MercurySteam, Alchemic Productions |
Violet | Violet | 2008 | In this interactive fiction, the player is either a man or woman and Violet is their girlfriend.[140] The player is freely able to change their gender and sex mid-game, which mostly only results in a few cosmetic changes in the dialogue. Violet serves as the game's narrator, but in fact, the player character is only imagining how she would narrate. Upon gender-changing, Violet may react by saying, "I adore you either way." | Jeremy Freese |
Zagreus | Hades | 2020 | In this Roguelike and dungeon crawler game, Zagreus, the son of Hades, is confirmed by the game's writer and designer Greg Kasavin to be "either bisexual or pansexual".[141] | Supergiant Games |
Webcomics[]
Characters | Name of comic | Years | Notes |
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Bruno | Bruno | 1996–2007 | In this comic by Christopher Baldwin, the titular character, Bruno, is a "bisexual, philosophical, free-spirited woman"[142] and becomes involved with Sophia, who "has male and female lovers within the bounds of a polyamorous relationship."[143] The webcomic also features a trans woman named Judi, with Baldwin offering "brief flashes inside Judi's private sexual life," even though most of the main characters don't know she is trans.[144] Apart from this, in one comic, Bruno admits her bisexuality,[145] and in others, she goes on a date with Frank, has a one-night-stand with Patricia, and sleeps with her friend Donna. In the latter case, Bruno and Donna have a passionate relationship, but due to Bruno's alcoholism and somewhat turbulent personality, they break up.[146] After the breakup, Bruno expresses interest in a boy[147] but is also seen to still be attracted to Donna.[148] |
Olivia Dannell | Bi-Assed | 2016-2019 | This autobiographical webcomic, by Olivia Dannell (otherwise known as The Purple Alien), focuses on a woman who is bisexual and biracial, with episodes focusing on "microaggressions and misconceptions about biracial and bisexual people," and the challenges they face.[149] |
Dorothy | Jane's World | 1998–2018 | In this Paige Braddock comic, Dorothy, Jane's best friend, is bisexual. She had crushes on both genders, although she doesn't like to admit it.[150] |
Jake English & Dave Strider & Most Trolls | Homestuck | 2009–2016 | This comic by Andrew Hussie includes multiple bisexual characters. The trolls, a prominent race in the comic, are shown to be normally bisexual and produce bisexually.[151] The human characters Dave Strider and Jake English are also shown to be attracted to both male and female characters. The story has been praised by creating "a wide range of relatable narratives for LGBTQ readers."[152] |
Inara | Unknown Lands | 2015–Present | Most of the cast has a queer sexual identity,[153] including Inara, who is bisexual. In general, Unknown Lands has environmental, feminist, and LGBTQ+ themes.[154] |
Suzi "Zii" Nielsen & Désirée "Didi" Chastel & Matt | Ménage à 3 | 2008-2019 | Suzi "Zii" Nielsen and Désirée "Didi" Chastel are bisexual.[155][156][157][158][159][160] In addition, Matt, Dillon's partner, is technically bisexual.[156] |
Unnamed characters | Acception | 2015–present | This ongoing Dutch teen dramedy romance webcomic by Coco “Colourbee” Ouwerkerk,[161] who was inspired by "manga genres such as shojo and shounen," focuses on a rainbow-haired male protagonist named Arcus McCarthy, a high school student who faces some hostility for his appearance. The comic also features various LGBT characters.[162] This includes unnamed gay, lesbian, and bisexual characters in various comics.[b] |
Various characters | Kate or Die | 2012–present | This comic by Kate Leth covers issues including bisexuality and feminism.[163] The latter is manifested in "short, witty dissertations on issues such as youth, feminism, tattoo etiquette and bisexuality." |
See also[]
- Bisexual politics
- Biphobia
- Bisexual erasure
- Lists of bisexual people
- Getting Bi: Voices of Bisexuals Around the World
- Portrait of a Marriage
- List of fictional polyamorous characters
- List of animated series with LGBTQ characters
Notes[]
References[]
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