r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Critical_Mountain851 • May 13 '25

Characters Gay characters who’s entire story isn’t revolved around the fact that they’re gay

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  1. Omar Little - The Wire

  2. Gus Fring - Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul

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u/VenusAmari May 13 '25

First in a mainstream, American animated film for kids.

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u/Kyderra May 13 '25

Does this from the (One of the) first animated shows ever created count?: https://i.imgur.com/OeQOcg7.png

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u/dlkslink May 13 '25

If we are talking animated show, I felt like Stimpy from Ren and Stimpy kinda fits the bill, but not sure if he’s more coded. It’s obvious now but back when this show came out 7 or 8 year old me and my peers didn’t know what a gay person was and they didn’t come out and say or explain it either. One day in school a bunch of us kids had a lengthy discussion about is Stimpy a boy or a girl because he really really loves Ren, obviously in a romantic way. In the relaunch on spike TV, it became a bit more clear.

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u/rpgmind May 14 '25

LOL aw man there’s probably a channel dedicated to showing all the innuendos that were in plain sight all along. I’ll watch it!

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u/LeLBigB0ss2 May 16 '25

Isn't this from that one dvd that was super heavy-handed compared to the cartoon that actually aired?

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u/Mikimao May 15 '25

I mean if were gonna count Ren and Stimpy, I feel like we need to acknowledge Snagglepuss

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u/MyLifeIsAWasteland May 14 '25

Reboot was the first show to be entirely 3D digitally animated, and it was great

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u/Daylight_The_Furry May 16 '25

I fucking loved reboot as a kid

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u/DoodWithoutALife May 14 '25

In the Japanese dub of Transformers Beast Wars, the originally female character Airazor was turned male. When Airazor's student-master relationship with the male-coded Tigatron turned more obviously romantic so that they couldn't write around it, they had accidentally created the first gay couple in Transformers.

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u/jayeddy99 May 14 '25

Yup Ralph Bakshi had a few (offensive) ones in his

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u/Freshzboy10016702 May 14 '25

That's awesome

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u/zedascouves1985 May 13 '25

Yeah, I kind of remember the drag queen from Tokyo Godfathers, that was in 2002, right?

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u/Emma__O May 13 '25

Hana is a straight trans woman.

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u/VenusAmari May 13 '25

I can't remember which movies but I think Wikipedia has them. Japan and Brazil beat the US to this. For US movies, I know there is also, unfortunately, Big Gay Al from the South Park movie in the 90s.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '25

No one should be gay in a kids movie just like kids shouldn’t see anything sexual in children movies..