Other Fictional Characters that need to "Come Out"?

[3113]

After seven long books, Dumbledore is out of the closet. Which got me wondering, what other fictional character should finally bite the bullet and admit the truth about their sexual orientation?

I've always felt that Hamlet would have been a lot happier if he'd just 'fessed up about his lust NOT for his mom...but for Laertes. All that trouble he has with Ophelia is because she's not her brother, and when they cross swords, well, that says it all, doesn't it? Horatio, would, of course, be heartbroken by Hamlet's desertion, but with young Fortinbras our geeky grad student might still have lived happily ever after.

 

[Xelebes]

Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer

Dr. Jekyll

Anne of Green Gables

 

[starrkers]

Frodo

 

[jomar]

Lestat.

Frodo

He's out since that pillow fight scene in the movie.

 

[bluebell]

I think the Brontes smuggled some closet lesbians into their books.
Jane Eyre's cousins, definitely.
Maybe Lucy Snowe from Villette.

Oh, and Heathcliff.

 

[BlackShanglan]

Mercutio. Perhaps I need to go back to that one. At last lines he was snarling at his own idiocy for running after that tricky little bitch Romeo and forever killing his chances with the seething and primal fascination of Tybalt.

Quincy Morris from Dracula. You just know that he'd be immensely happier with Arthur than with Lucy. There's hope for those two yet.

The Marquise de Merteuil from Les Liasons Dangereuses. Come, now, madame, confess the truth of why you're so keen for every detail of Valmonte's plundering of women.

 

[jayce1066]

Flopsy, Mopsy and Cottontail.

 

[Huckleman2000]

If they need to 'come out', aren't such 'characters' largely fictional to begin with?

By that measure, Larry Craig would probably be near the top of the list.

But that's mainly a semantic argument...

In the vein of the thread... Does Clark Kent get a pass because he's an alien?

 

[Oblimo]

Does Clark Kent get a pass because he's an alien?

Whether he's got the hots for Lois Lane or Jimmy Olsen, he's still a gall-durn xenosexual.

 

[BlackShanglan]

Flopsy, Mopsy and Cottontail.

Beautiful.

Ooooh. Black Beauty and Joe Greene. I ... just ... realized.

 

[sr71plt]

Elmer Fudd

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

If they need to 'come out', aren't such 'characters' largely fictional to begin with?

By that measure, Larry Craig would probably be near the top of the list.

But that's mainly a semantic argument...

In the vein of the thread... Does Clark Kent get a pass because he's an alien?

Naw. We're only considering fictional characters.

Rumple Foreskin

 

[cloudy]

Elmer Fudd

Be vewwy, vewwy quiet. I'm hunting dwag queens.

 

[elsol]

Robin

 

[cantdog]

Porthos

 

[Guest]

Be vewwy, vewwy quiet. I'm hunting dwag queens.

http://www.driko.org/blogicons/bugsdrag27.jpg

What's up, Doc?

 

[Belegon]

He loves Chani, so I think he's bi; but there were some awful close relationships between Paul Atreides & Stilgar, and Paul & Gurney, and Paul & Duncan Idaho...

...that boy got around...

 

[Huckleman2000]

Be vewwy, vewwy quiet. I'm hunting dwag queens.

From Wikipedia :

Animation director Chuck Jones noted that while Bugs Bunny's soon learned to outwit Yosemite Sam, so he decided to create the opposite type of character; one who was quiet and soft-spoken, but whose actions were incredibly destructive and legitimately dangerous.

Marvin the Martian made his debut in 1948's Haredevil Hare. In his first appearance Mel Blanc gave him a stuffy, nasal voice, but later the Martian adopted an accent resembling Received Pronunciation.

Received Pronunciation. We all know what THAT means....

 

[slyc_willie]

From Wikipedia :


Received Pronunciation. We all know what THAT means....

Yeah, Marvin's out. Bless his little brillo-pad helmet.

So is Wile E. Coyote. I mean, come on . . . a name like that, and with the way he spoke . . . It's obvious.

Meanwhile, Roadrunner is obviously a chick. No gay man would keep someone chasing after them for that long . . . .

Regarding others:

I don't think Romeo was gay, but Tybalt was. Unrealized, and violent about it, but he was. Mercutio, brilliantly displayed in the most recent film, was a classic 'omnisexual.' The lipstick was a nice touch.

Ethan Frome: I wondered about this guy since I first read Judith Wharton's novel in eight grade. Despite the tragic outcome of the story, and the moral lesson it leaves behind, I can't help but feel that Ethan would have been happier if he had simply been honest about his homosexuality.

Tom and Huck? Nah. Curious, maybe, but not gay. Big Jim, on the other hand . . . .

 

[Varian P]

I think the Brontes smuggled some closet lesbians into their books.
Jane Eyre's cousins, definitely.
Maybe Lucy Snowe from Villette.

Oh, and Heathcliff.

What, you're just going to gloss over the obvious Shirley? Rumor has it, that was a man's name, during that era. And she was so perplexingly...independent.

 

[slyc_willie]

What, you're just going to gloss over the obvious Shirley? Rumor has it, that was a man's name, during that era.

"Surely, you can't be serious."

"I am serious. And don't call me Shirley."

 

[Huckleman2000]

[snip]Tom and Huck? Nah. Curious, maybe, but not gay. ...

yup, Tom & Huck are like the two gregarious boy scouts who stayed up later than everyone else on the campout and things went too far and they whacked off together and everyone else heard about it and then they got all the girls. Their near-gay experience was more a boon than not.

Life is far stranger than fiction. Or maybe i should say, Women are far stranger than fiction.

 

[slyc_willie]

yup, Tom & Huck are like the two gregarious boy scouts who stayed up later than everyone else on the campout and things went too far and they whacked off together and everyone else heard about it and then they got all the girls. Their near-gay experience was more a boon than not.

Life is far stranger than fiction. Or maybe i should say, Women are far stranger than fiction.

No kiddin'. I'm still trying to figure them out . . . .

 

[TE999]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Holmes and Watson.

I mean really.

And the Hardy Boys.

Come on!

Nancy Drew is definitely a lesbian or at least bi.

The way she takes charge--and all those wimpy boys.

Just too too.

At this rate the closet will be empty in no time.

 

[rgraham666]

No kiddin'. I'm still trying to figure them out . . . .

Not me. I've too little time left in this life to spend it on unsolvable corundums.

Doesn't mean I don't stil love 'em to pieces though.