15. Hamilton
16. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
17. Fantasy Island
18. The Eyes of Tammy Faye
19. The Voyeurs 20. Nightmare Alley 21. The Guilty
[b] Recoded films list 1. Nightmare Alley
2. The Lost Daughter 3. Don’t Look Up 4. Black Widow 5. Crimson Peak
[c] Other tropes to be coded
• Agent Peacock: A feminine male character, straight, gay, or bisexual, whose feminine traits serves to make him more badass.
• All Gays Love Theater: The idea that all gay men are theater fanboys, and everyone who works in theater is naturally gay.
• All Gays Are Pedophiles: The idea that all gays (especially men) want to molest children.
• All Gays Are Promiscuous: The idea that gay men have no self-control when presented with the possibility of sex.
• All Lesbians Want Kids: The idea that all lesbians want to get pregnant and have biological children.
• All the Good Men Are Gay: Searching for love in all the gay places.
• Always Camp: Certain occupations attract certain personalities.
• Ambiguous Gender Identity: Are they trans, nonbinary, genderfluid, intersexed or just a crossdresser? Who knows.
• Ambiguously Bi: A character may seem bi, but no one knows for sure.
• Ambiguously Gay: A character may seem gay/lesbian, but no one knows for sure.
• Anything That Moves: A character who will have sex with almost anyone.
• Armoured Closet Gay: The self-loathing gay guy who hides behind a macho facade.
• Bait-and-Switch Lesbians: Two female friends appear to be lesbians, but aren't.
• The Bear: Gay men who sport a glorious Carpet of Virility.
• The Beard: When a gay person dates the opposite sex to appear straight.
• Big Beautiful Man: A man whose full size is attractive. Usually a gay trope these days, and often also The Bear.
• But Not Too Bi: Bisexuality that is tilted to suit the sexuality and gender of the target audience.
• Camp Straight: A feminine male heterosexual.
• Campy Combat: A feminine male straight, gay, or bisexual, tends to fight in a flamboyant way.
• Cast Full of Gay: When most of the characters in a work are gay or not straight.
• Closet Gay: An LGBT+ character is hiding their orientation.
• Closet Key: An attractive character who helps another character of the same sex realize that they're gay or bisexual.
• Club Kid: A personification of the worst stereotypes about male homosexuals.
• Coming Of Age Queer Romance: A younger character (late tweens to early teens) realizes they are queer and enters a relationship with another queer character.
• Coming-Out Story: A character reveals to other characters that they're gay (or otherwise queer).
• Coming Straight Story: A straight character has an inverted Coming-Out Story after pretending to be gay.
• Criminal Found Family: Characters rejected by society find family with each other and in acts outlawed by society.
• Crossdresser: Someone who regularly wears clothing normally associated with another gender.
• Cure Your Gays: Gays must be made straight!
• Depraved Bisexual: A psychopathically violent bisexual character.
• Depraved Homosexual: A psychopathically violent gay character.
• Discount Lesbians: It's not gay if they aren't human.
• Drag Queen: A man who puts on flamboyant woman's clothing on special occasions.
• Dude, She's a Lesbian: A person is informed that the person he is hitting on is gay.
• Everyone Is Bi: Gender does not factor into the characters' formation of relationships.
• Everybody Wants the Hermaphrodite: An intersex character has the most admirers.
• Experimented in College: Trying homosexuality or bisexuality in college. Like Gay Romantic Phase, it might be just a phase.
• Extreme Omnisexual: A character will have sex with anything.
• Fag Hag: A straight woman who prefers the company of gay men to that of straight men or other women.
• Family of Choice: When a group of characters who've been disowned by their own families decide to be each others' family instead.
• Faux Yay: An extended ruse where characters pretend to be gay.
• Flaming Devil: An implicitly or explicitly gay depiction of Satan.
• Flying Under the Gaydar: When a gay (or bisexual) character, who is normally very flamboyant, acts in a far less stereotypical manner to avoid suspicion.
• Forced Out of the Closet: When a character is outed by somebody else.
• Gay Aesop: A work teaches its audience that gays are people, too.
• Gay Bar Reveal: The hero goes to a random bar for drinks, and Hilarity Ensues when he finds out it's a gay bar.
• Gay Best Friend: A gay person whose main lot in life is to shout "You go, girl!" to the hetero hero.
• Gay Bravado: Characters making homoerotic comments and suggestions to one another is Played for Laughs, because of course they're too macho to really be gay.
• Gay Conservative: A conservative and usually affluent gay.
• Gay Cowboy: A gay or bi man who is a Western-flavored character or just a fan of the genre.
• Gay Cruising: Men seeking out anonymous casual sex with other men, oftentimes in public.
• Gaydar: The ability to detect gay people who haven't outed themselves to you.
• Gay Euphemism: Avoiding direct usage of homosexuality-related terms
• Gay Groom in a White Tux: Gay weddings as portrayed in the media.
• Gay Guy Seeks Popular Jock: The gay guy wants to hook up with a top athlete.
• Gay Moment: A man has a moment with another man with unintentional homoerotic undertones, then affirms in response that he is not gay.
• Gay Option: When a player character in a video game can pursue romantic relations with a member of the same sex, if the player is so inclined.
• Gayborhood: A neighborhood where everyone is gay.
• Gayngst: Being miserable because you are gay.
• Gayngst-Induced Suicide: Suicide for reasons relating to being gay.
• Gayngster: A gay person involved with organized crime.
• Gay Romantic Phase: The idea that gayness is a phase that one goes through before growing up and getting into a heterosexual relationship.
• Get Back in the Closet: When a work jumps up the rough framework for what's
"inappropriate" because it contains gay content.
• Girlfriend in Canada: A character says he has a girlfriend, but she doesn't exist.
• Girl-on-Girl Is Hot: When sexual relations between two females are used as fanservice.
• Girls Behind Bars: A women's prison setting played for fanservice, typically with strong lesbian overtones.
• Gorgeous George: A professional wrestler who takes on many homosexual mannerisms but stops short of admitting to being a homosexual.
• Guy-on-Guy Is Hot: Same as its Distaff Counterpart, but for the other half of the audience.
• Gym Bunny: A gay man who works out a lot, likely just to look good and/or meet guys.
• Has Two Mommies: Two men or two women raise a child together.
• Have I Mentioned I Am Gay?: A work repeatedly says a character is gay, but we never see them engage in homosexual activities.
• Have You Tried Not Being a Monster?: "Have you tried being straight?" or "Have you tried dating a man/woman?"
• Hello, Sailor!: Men in the Navy go gay due to lack of female options.
• Hereditary Homosexuality: Homo- or bisexuality runs in families.
• Hide Your Lesbians: Homosexual relationships/people hidden under a veil of subtext.
• Homoerotic Dream: an Erotic Dream involving homosexual relations, generally from a straight character.
• Homoerotic Subtext: Gay subtext without either character being gay.
• Homosexual Reproduction: Two characters of the same sex somehow have a child that is biologically related to both of them.
• If It's You, It's Okay: When a gay or straight character makes a single exception for sex or romance with someone outside their normal gender preference.
• Incompatible Orientation: Two characters would make a good couple, if it wasn't for their different sexuality.
• Last Het Romance: The heterosexual partner/relationship that results in a gay or lesbian character realizing they're queer and outing themselves.
• Late Coming Out: A character comes out as queer later in life.
• Leatherman: A (usually gay) man who wears leather.
• Lesbian Jock: A lesbian who plays sports. Alternatively, the assumption that all women who play sports are lesbians.
• Lesbian Vampire: A female vampire who preys on young women. Alternatively, the assumption that all female vampires are lesbians.
• LGBT Awakening: A character realizes their sexuality or gender identity for reasons unrelated to falling in love with someone.
• Lipstick Lesbian: A feminine lesbian.
• Lover and Beloved: A (sometimes ambiguously) gay couple in which one partner is much older than and acts as a mentor to the other.
• Macho Camp: A man is very large and muscular, but acts Camp Gay.
• Magical Queer: A (usually camp) gay man who is Closer to Earth.
• Manly Gay: A masculine male homosexual.
• Masculine–Feminine Gay Couple: A same-gender couple where one partner is quite masculine and the other is quite feminine.
• Mentor in Queerness: A, usually older, out character who acts as support for a newly-out or questioning character.
• Non-Heteronormative Society: An entire society that is mostly composed or at least accepting of various different sexualities and gender identities.
• Non-Human Non-Binary: A non-binary character is also a non-human character.
• No Love for the Wicked: A villain that has no interest in sex or romance.
• One True Threesome: Because it requires that people be attracted to the same gender, more than one gender, or both.
• Out of the Closet, Into the Fire: Coming out can cause dangerous bodily harm.
• Pair the Suitors: May occur if at least one member of a Love Triangle is gay or bisexual.
• The Pastor's Queer Kid: A religious official has a child who isn't heterosexual.
• Performance Artist: A Camp Gay who loves acting, singing, and/or performing in general.
• Pragmatic Pansexuality: Regardless of your sexuality, you're willing to sleep with anyone to achieve your goals.
• Preserve Your Gays: An inordinate survival rate of LGBT characters who regularly face death.
• Pride Parade: An annual parade (and subsequent festival) celebrating gay life and culture.
• Prom Is for Straight Kids: Gay teenagers are discouraged or prevented from going to their high school prom.
• Psycho Lesbian: A psychotic lesbian, dangerous to others.
• Queer Character, Queer Actor: The characters are played by someone of equivalent (queer) orientation.
• Queer Colors: The use of specific color palettes to symbolize non-heterosexuality.
• Queer Establishing Moment: A scene that shows that a character is LGBT, in a work where their orientation isn't the main focus.
• Queer Flowers: When literal or metaphorical flowers imply homosexuality in subtext.
• Queer People Are Funny: Where every reference to same-sex attraction is a joke.
• Queer Show Ghetto: When works featuring LGBT themes end up with a small single-community audience.
• Rainbow Lens: A character has a queerness-unrelated trait that can be interpreted as a metaphor for queerness.
• Rape and Switch: A character is raped and becomes gay as a result.
• Secretly-Gay Activity: A character with a same-sex attraction uses an "innocent" activity to pretend that the attraction is platonic.
• Seme: Active person in a homosexual relationship. Counterpart to the Uke.
• Settled for Gay: A girl settles down with a gay man because she can't connect emotionally with a straight man.
• Situational Sexuality: Characters engage in same-sex relationships for a lack of opposite sex characters to do so with.
• Sorry, I'm Gay: A character says they are gay to counter a seduction-in-process, regardless of whether or not it's true.
• Speculative Fiction LGBT: There is a greater presence of queerness in SF than other genres.
• Straight Gay: A gay character with no stereotypical gay mannerisms.
• Supernaturally Validated Trans Person: Supernatural happenings confirm that a trans person is the gender they identify with, beyond all reasonable doubt.
• Sweeps Week Lesbian Kiss: Promoting a same-sex kiss as a Ratings Stunt, regardless of context.
• Token Lesbian: A Token Minority lesbian in a Cast Full of Gay men.
• Transgender Fetishization: An ambiguous, non-conforming or fully-transitioned character is hypersexualized or fetishized above and beyond most of the cast in the work.
• Transparent Closet: Everyone knows a character is gay except the character himself.
• Trans Equals Gay: The mistaken notion that homosexuality and transgender identity are one and the same.
• Trans Relationship Troubles: A transgender character has difficulties with their romantic life due to being trans.
• Trans Tribulations: Being miserable because you're transgender.
• The Twink: A young, thin gay Pretty Boy. May or may not be camp.
• Uke: Receptive person in a homosexual relationship. Counterpart to the Seme.
• Where Everybody Knows Your Flame: A gay bar/club will always be very gay.
• Word of Gay: Word of God claims that a character is gay, but it's never explicitly shown in the work itself.