Top Ten Movies, TV Series and Video Games that Contain Homosexual or Bisexual Characters but Don't Make a Big Deal of It

Movies, games or series containing characters that are lesbian, gay, bisexual and/or transgender aren't exactly a rarity nowadays. But usually the sexuality of those characters is either a plot element or a significant character trait. Now, there are also a few cases where a character's same sex orientation is treated so casually that it just stuns you, because it showcases a level of normality homosexuality and bisexuality should have in the meantime but still doesn't.
The Top Ten
1 Undertale

Alphys and Undyne can become a couple (they are both female), also there are two (probably male) guards who can become a couple. You can flirt with characters of both genders. Overall, the world appears as if bisexuality was the norm there.

I Love Undertale

2 Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha is a Japanese anime television series directed by Akiyuki Shinbo, with screenplay written by Masaki Tsuzuki, and produced by Seven Arcs.

The two main characters Nanoha and Fate literally become a couple and adopt Vivio together later on in the series. I am not joking and the best part is that nobody notices they are lesbian.
How's that not gay-friendly?

This should be #1 on the list.

3 Steven Universe Steven Universe is an American animated television series created by Rebecca Sugar for Cartoon Network. The show's based around a young boy by the name of Steven Universe, who is a hybrid of a gem and a human. He lives with his gem friends, Garnet, Amethyst and Pearl.

To the people saying that Steven Universe does make a big deal out of it, it really doesn't. The show doesn't once bring up the fact that several characters are in same-sex relationships. It just shows these relationships without any questions asked, just as if they were heterosexual couples. It's the Steven Universe fandom (mainly the part on Tumblr) that won't shut up about how gay the show is. Look, it's great to have this much positive representation in a show targeted at kids, but it's not what makes the show so beloved by many.

I am not at all an expert of this show (might watch it more often in the future though), but from what I have seen so far the same sex relationships are not commented on and treated entirely normal. So it indeed would fit absolutely perfect for what I intended with the list.
This list is NOT about series/movies/games that feature gay characters but only in a minor role, but in which homosexuality is treated entirely normal.

For example, the movie "Bound" is about a lesbian couple so you can't avoid the topic. But it does not at one point treat their relationship unnormal at any point. You can make the exact same movie about a heterosexual couple.

Yes, it might show many gay relationships, but it never solely focuses on the fact that the characters are of the same sex. Therefore, while it has many same sex relationships, it doesn't make it a big deal

This show does everything it does to parade around that its characters are homosexual, what's it doing on this list at all?

4 Star vs. the Forces of Evil "Star vs. the Forces of Evil" is an American animated television comedy produced by Disney Television Animation for Disney XD. It was created by Daron Nefcy and developed by Jordana Arkin and Dave Wasson. The series follows teenage magical princess from the dimension of Mewni Star Butterfly and her teenage human roommate and best friend from Earth Marco Diaz as they live their daily lives, go on adventures in other dimensions, and try to prevent the forces of evil from stealing Star's magic wand. The first episode aired on January 18, 2015 on Disney Channel but its first season officially premiered on Disney XD on March 30, 2015 and ended on September 21, 2015. The second season premiered on ...read more.

There is nothing inappropriate about it

5 The Simpsons The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening that originally started on April 19, 1987 as shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show. It got its own series on December 17, 1989 and is still running as of 2023, making it the longest running animated sitcom. It is about a man named Homer Simpson and his family (wife Marge and children Bart, Lisa and Maggie and pets, Snowball II and Santa's Little Helper) going through a long series of misadventures.

Smithers, Patty, the one episode about the gay guy, etc.

6 Beauty and the Beast (2017)

Words cannot describe how much I dislike Josh Gad's acting, but how they wrote LeFou's character in this film was very respectable.

LeFou flirts with Gaston, but in the end has the same role as in the animated movie.

I Really Like This Film

7 Coraline
8 Sailor Moon Sailor Moon is a Japanese shōjo manga series by Naoko Takeuchi. It was originally serialized in Nakayoshi from 1991 to 1997; the 52 individual chapters were published in 18 tankōbon volumes. ...read more.

Ah, yes. Sailor Uranus and Neptune. This was present and done well in the Japanese version, then 4kids got their dirty mitts all over the show and thought that the lesbian relationship between the sailor scouts would "affect" the children of America, so they completely removed it from the script and made them cousins. Yes, I kid you not. COUSINS. Well, that didn't help. It made it look like an incestuous relationship!

Not just Uranus and Neptune, but also Zoisite and Malachite/Kunzite (Zoicite was changed to a female in the original dub for the same reason Uranus and Neptune became cousins) and Fish Eye.

This series introduced us to arguably the most famous pair of lesbians (or as they call them in the Cloverway/CWi dub, "cousins") in anime history: Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune.

Uranus was TERRIBLE in Crystal. SHE KISSED SAILOR MOON FOR GOD SAKE! Serena didn't even WANT that!

9 Gravity Falls Gravity Falls is an American animated television series produced by Disney Television Animation that first aired on Disney Channel, and then on Disney XD from June 15, 2012 to February 15, 2016. The series follows the adventures of Dipper Pines and his twin sister Mabel in the fictional town of Gravity Falls, Oregon, while on summer vacation.

In the finale, the sheriff says to the deputy, "Our love is a case".

10 Heartcatch Precure Heartcatch Precure is a Japanese anime series and the seventh series of the Pretty Cure anime franchise by Izumi Todo that premiered on February 7, 2010, replacing Fresh Pretty Cure! on its initial timeslot. The series theme is flowers, which leads to their true definitions of Hanakotoba as of the season's true scheme.

After finding out that Itsuki is a girl, Tsubomi said in the manga that she will still love her regardless of gender. Also, Yuri and Momoka are implied to have a lesbian relationship with each other.

The Contenders
11 Bully
12 Yuri on Ice Yuri!!! on Ice is a sports anime television series about figure skating. The anime was produced by MAPPA, directed by Sayo Yamamoto and written by Mitsurō Kubo.

When it is revealed that Yuri and Victor are to marry if Yuri wins the gold medal, no one addresses the fact that they are both guys and they are happy for them.

13 Love Live School Idol Project

Nobody makes a big deal out of Nozomi's lesbian love affair with Eli in this series and it's so kawaii!

Also, in one of the Bonus CDs, there's a pretty homoerotic duet by both Nozomi and Eli named "Garasu no Hanazono".

14 The Sims 4
15 Clarence Clarence is an American animated television series created by Skyler Page for Cartoon Network. The series revolves around a young boy named Clarence and his two best friends Jeff and Sumo. Page, a former storyboard artist for Adventure Time and revisionist for Secret Mountain Fort Awesome, developed the series at Cartoon Network Studios as part of their shorts development program in 2012.

Jeff has two moms. Yet Steven Universe and Adventure Time get all the credit for having lesbian couples.

16 Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi is an American-Japanese animated fantasy-comedy television series created by Sam Register for Cartoon Network.

Ami and Yumi are in the "Closet Full of Love", I guess. Get it? Because "Closet Full of Love" is the name of one of their songs and it's probably about lesbianism and Ami and Yumi in this show are lesbians unlike their real-life counterparts?

Fun Fact: The real-life Puffy AmiYumi actually thought that their cartoon counterparts were lesbians due to their unusually close bond with each other and calling themselves best friends a lot.

Still did a lesbian relationship better than Adventure Time, Steven Universe, and the Legend of Korra

Sorry, but Jammer Lammy still deserves way more credit for coming first

17 The Loud House The Loud House is an American animated television series created by Chris Savino for Nickelodeon. The series revolves around the chaotic suburban everyday life of a boy named Lincoln Loud and his ten sisters, to which he survives as the middle child and only son in a large family of eleven children. Originally set to premier on January 2016, the series instead premiered on May 2, 2016, with the episodes Left in the Dark and Get the Message.

Banned in Turkey due to Luna being bi.

18 The Legend of Korra The Legend of Korra is an American animated television series that aired on the Nickelodeon television network from 2012 to 2014. It was created by Bryan Konietzko and Michael Dante DiMartino as a sequel to Avatar: The Last Airbender.

Korra being gay for Asami came out of nowhere. It was a really dumb note to end the show on; not because the characters shouldn't be gay, but because there was almost no development of the idea of them being gay for each other.

Season 4: WOW! Didn't see Korra and Asami coming!

Korra and Asami! Never saw that coming..

19 Fafner in the Azure
20 The Ren & Stimpy Show The Ren & Stimpy Show, often simply referred to as Ren & Stimpy, is an American animated television series created by John Kricfalusi for Nickelodeon.
21 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (often abbreviated to Law & Order: SVU or just SVU) is an American police procedural, legal, crime drama television series set in New York City, where it is also primarily produced.

I watched countless episodes of this sympathetic crime drama for years now and only just found out that Dr. Huang is gay about two months ago due to one brief remark in a sentence that has no significance to the plot or the character (he was asked about his new working district and joked about it being no good place for a gay man of Asian descent).

Dr Huang is played by the long-out-of-the-closet actor BD Wong, what did you expect?

22 Rocko's Modern Life Rocko's Modern Life is an American animated television series created by Joe Murray for Nickelodeon. The series centers on the surreal life of an anthropomorphic Australian-immigrant wallaby named Rocko as well as his friends: the gluttonous steer Heffer, the neurotic turtle Filburt, and Rocko's faithful dog Spunky.
23 Paranorman

The jock character who is assumed to be the females love interest the whole time comes to like the girl and asks her to meet his boyfriend.

24 Metal Gear Solid
25 The Longest Journey

Fiona, who is a housemate and friend of the protagonist April Ryan, is a lesbian, as when you start talking to her for a bit she sometimes talks about her girlfriend, who is also seen in the game.

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