A page for scribg PlaygWh: Mistaken for Gay. Basic Trope: People thk this/the character(s) is/are homosexual... They're wrong. Straight: Bob is …
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MISTAKEN FOR GAY
The Mistaken for Gay trope as ed popular culture. A edy plot le which a character wrongly believ another character to be gay, eher bee … * mistaken for gay tv tropes *
However, the characters don't need to retaliate or tell those who have mistaken them that they aren't gay as such characters n easily disprove the mistak through other means such as a revelatn of a straight relatnship.
Due to the mon belief that All Men Are Perverts and A Man Is Always Eager, any male character who isn't shown to jump at the chance to have sex wh a woman will be mistaken for gay (if not actually gay) by the dience and possibly by the other characters as well (pecially male characters). In Kick-Ass, this happens to Dave Lizewski after he gets beaten up twice while tryg to be a real-life superhero, wh the kids at school assumg he's a gay prostute who keeps gettg beaten up by his clients.
HISTORY MISTAKENFORGAY / FANWORKS
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First, random street toughs assume he and his iend and servant Wong are a gay uple, then Night Nurse seems to assume that Wong llg Stephen 'master' is sexual nature (allud to by her remark about his beg unable to pass ment on 'other people's fetish'). Michael Straczynski's Spir-Man n, when Aunt May disvers the tth about her nephew's super-hero inty she adms that for the longt time due to his sometim odd behavr and natural sensivy she thought he was gay.
ISSUE HELPER MA / MISTAKENFORGAY
A page for scribg Lanic: Mistaken for Gay. A character or a duo are mistaken to be gay by other people. * mistaken for gay tv tropes *
Subverted Young Avengers: Billy's tryg to tell his parents he's a superhero but ends up g out to them a totally different way - except that he really is gay and his parents thk his boyiend is the perfect son--law. In Jtice League: The Flashpot Paradox, Barry Allen cis to tell his mother that he's The Flash, but gets embarrassed when she terpts and says she already knows he's gay and she's not ashamed. In Superman Unbound, Steve Lombardi assum that Clark is gay (obliv to the fact that Clark and Lois are datg), mentg that he never seems terted women, and don't follow sports, but stays shape.
The plot of Three to Tango is that Chigo archect Osr Novak is mistaken for gay and has to keep up the chara bee he was hired for the ntract of his life on the assumptn he was gay so he uld act as a safe pann for his new boss's mistrs Amy.
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Amerin Bety: The paranoid ex-Mare neighbor wrongly spects his son and the protagonist (played by Kev Spacey) of havg a homosexual affair after he tch the two together and thks his son's givg the protagonist a blow job (he was actually jt rollg a blunt).