List of fictional bisexual characters
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This is a list of fictional bisexual characters, i.e. characters that either self-identify as bisexual or have been identified by outside parties to be bisexual. Bisexuality is a sexual orientation that refers to the romantic and/or sexual attraction towards people of more than one gender. Listed characters are either recurring characters, cameos, guest stars, or one-off characters.
For fictional characters in other identifications of the LGBTQ community, see the lists of lesbian, gay, transgender, non-binary, pansexual, asexual, and intersex characters.
The names are in alphabetical order by surname, or by single name if the character does not have a surname. If more than two characters are in one entry, the last name of the first character is used.
Animated series
Graphic novels
| Characters | Title | Years | Notes | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Constantine | DC Comics | 1985–present | Since 1992, Constantine has been consistently depicted as having romantic history with both men and women. [1][2][3] | United States |
| Robin (Tim Drake) | Batman | 1989-present | Tim Drake comes out as bisexual when he realizes he has romantic feelings for his male friend Bernard Dowd.[4][5][6][7][8] | United States |
| Ramona Flowers | Scott Pilgrim | 2004–2010 | Ramona has seven evil exes: six ex-boyfriends and her ex-girlfriend Roxie. Scott Pilgrim, Ramona's current boyfriend in the series, often makes the mistake of referring to them as seven "ex-boyfriends" before learning that Ramona used to date a girl. Ramona repeatedly corrects him by pointing out that "exes" is correct, not "ex-boyfriends", but she does not actually tell him about her ex-girlfriend until Scott meets Roxie in person.[9] Ramona says that dating a girl was just a phase.[10] However, Ramona later spends the night at Roxie's house and they make out offscreen.[11] | Canada |
| Black Cat (Felicia Hardy) | The Amazing Spider-Man | 1979-present | Felicia Hardy is a bisexual cat burglar.[12][13][14] | United States |
| Jon Kent | DC Comics | 2015–present | Jon has a male love interest and is canonically bisexual.[15][16][17] | United States |
| Jay Nakamura | DC Comics | 2021–present | Jay Nakamura was introduced in the 2021 series Superman: Son of Kal-El as a reporter who Jon Kent enters a relationship with while helping him overthrow the government of Gamorra.[15][16][17] | United States |
| Korra | The Legend of Korra: Turf Wars & The Legend of Korra: Ruins of the Empire | 2017–2018 & 2018–2020 | In the animated series The Legend of Korra, Korra and Asami date Mako at different points. At the end of the series, Korra and Asami are holding hands and looking into each other's eyes while traveling through a portal right before the ending credits.[18] The creators later confirmed the intention of the ending scene was to show Asami and Korra becoming a romantic couple.[19][20][21] In the graphic novel The Legend of Korra: Turf Wars, which is the sequel to the animated series, Korra and Asami are in a relationship. | United States |
| Asami Sato | ||||
| Selina Kyle (Catwoman) | Batman | 1940-present | Selina Kyle is Batman’s love interest, and she has flirted with male and female characters.[22] In Catwoman: Hunted, she explicitly shows attraction to Kate Kane.[23] | United States |
| Dee Laytner | Fake & Fake 2 & Fake 3 | 1994–2000 & 2007 & 2010-2011 | Dee, a police detective, repeatedly tells Randy "Ryo" Maclean, a New York City rookie cop, he is bisexual, while Ryo and Dee enter a relationship throughout the course of this manga.[24][25] | |
| Ash Lynx | Banana Fish | 1985–1994 | Ash has slept with men and women during his time as a prostitute. He mainly has relationships with men such as Eiji,[26] while dealing with childhood trauma from molestation.[27] While has a close relationship with Eiji, he admitted that he had a relationship with a girl who was killed "under suspicion of being his girlfriend." | Japan |
| Nico Minoru | Runaways | 2003-present | Nico is a bisexual teenaged witch with a female love interest (Karolina Dean).[28][29] | United States |
| Wonder Woman | DC Comics Bombshells & Bombshells United | 2015–2017 & 2017-2018 | Wonder Woman was in a relationship with Mera and later Steve Trevor.[30] Harley and Poison Ivy are in a relationship in the series.[30][31] | United States |
| Harley Quinn | ||||
| Poison Ivy | ||||
| Mera |
Literature
Summarize
Perspective
| Character | Work | Author | Years | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Akhenaten | A God Against the Gods & Return to Thebes | Allen Drury | 1976
1977 |
Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten is married to Nefertiti, but his romance with his brother Smenkhkara contributes to his downfall.[32] |
| Smenkhkara | ||||
| Alexander the Great | Fire from Heaven & The Persian Boy | Mary Renault | 1969
1972 |
Alexander is involved in a romantic sexual relationship with Hephaistion, and then the Persian slave Bagoas, but is also married three times and fathers a son. Both men are involved in romantic sexual relationships with Alexander the Great.[33] |
| Bagoas | ||||
| Hephaistion | ||||
| Brigham Anderson | Advise and Consent | Allen Drury | 1959 | Married US senator Anderson is blackmailed over a secret wartime homosexual affair for which he is unapologetic.[34][35] |
| Magnus Bane | The Shadowhunter Chronicles | Cassandra Clare | 2007– | Magnus is openly bisexual, having several relationships with both men and women, his most notable partners being his current boyfriend Alec Lightwood and his ex-girlfriend Camille Belcourt.[36][37] |
| Chuck Bass | Gossip Girl | Cecily von Ziegesar | 2002–2011 | In this series, Chuck was bisexual, although this was never explored in the Gossip Girl TV show, which creator Joshua Safran said he regretted.[38] |
| Claudine | Claudine at School | Colette | 1902 | Claudine is unfaithful to her husband, Renaud, having an affair with her friend Rézi, who herself has a secrete liaison with Renaud.[39] |
| Rézi | ||||
| Clayton "Clay" | Less than Zero | Bret Easton Ellis | 1985 | This is coming-of-age story narrated by Clay, "a sexually ambiguous eighteen-year-old student", who tries to resume a relationship with the woman he loved in high school but "leaves a party with a young man."[40][41] |
| Imperial Bedrooms | 2010 | |||
| Fever Crumb | Fever Crumb Series | Philip Reeve | 2009–11 | Fever first falls in love with the male Arlo Thursday, and later with the female Cluny Morvish.[42] |
| Beauchamp Day | Tales of the City series | Armistead Maupin | 1978–2014 | While the original series featured gay and bisexual characters who "kissed on camera and had sex in bathhouses,"[43] in the Netflix adaption of this series, Shawna is an "explicitly bisexual character."[44] |
| DeDe Halcyon Day | ||||
| Mona Ramsey | ||||
| Paul Denton | The Rules of Attraction | Bret Easton Ellis | 1987 | In this book, set in Camden, Paul lusted for another character, Sean Bateman, saying he slept with him, while Bateman "never admits as much."[40] This book ended up fortifying Ellis's reputation as a "nihilistic authorial presence who reports action but seldom comments on it." |
| Courtney Farrell | Chocolates for Breakfast | Pamela Moore | 1956 | Courtney develops a crush on her female boarding school teacher, and later has a sexual relationship with Barry Cabot, her mother's bisexual friend who is in a relationship with a man.[45][46] |
| Barry Cabot | ||||
| Darvish Shayrif Hakem | The Fire's Stone | Tanya Huff | 1990 | Darvish is willing to have sex with anyone, whether men or women.[47] |
| Rosemary Harper | The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet | Becky Chambers | 2015 | Rosemary Harper and Sissix are both either lesbians or bisexual as the two women enter a relationship with each other over the course of the novel.[48] |
| Sissix | ||||
| Herewiss | The Tale of the Five series | Diane Duane | 1979–1992 | This book is a fantasy with a "bisexual male protagonist whose main love interest is male," and is set in a world with normalized polyamory,[49] with bisexuality and polyamory seeming to "be the default."[50] |
| Freelorn | ||||
| The Goddess | ||||
| Ruth Jamison | Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe | Fannie Flagg | 1987 | This novel weaves together the past and the present through the blossoming friendship between Evelyn Couch, a middle-aged housewife, and Ninny Threadgoode, an elderly woman who lives in a nursing home, while her sister-in-law, Idgie, and her friend, Ruth, ran a café. Ruth is married to a man and bears his child but subsequently has a long-term romantic relationship with another woman.[51] Although it is not explicitly labeled as a lesbian relationship, every resident both knows about and accepts Idgie and Ruth's relationship, making lesbianism a theme in the novel[52] while in the film adaptation, a story of Southern female friendship and love, Ruth had been in love with Buddy Threadgoode, Idgie's brother.[53][54] |
| Denise Lambert | The Corrections | Jonathan Franzen | 2001 | In this novel, Denise begins affairs with both her boss and his wife,[55] and though the restaurant is successful,[56] she is fired when this is discovered. |
| Lestat de Lioncourt | The Vampire Chronicles | Anne Rice | 1976–2014 | Lestat, Armand, and most of Rice's male vampires have intense sexual and emotional attractions and relationships with both sexes.[57] |
| Louis de Pointe du Lac | ||||
| Armand | ||||
| Marius de Romanus | ||||
| David Talbot | ||||
| Rhy Maresh | Shades of Magic trilogy | V. E. Schwab | 2015–2017 | Rhy is bisexual while Alucard is gay. They had a fling three years prior to the events of the books. Victoria Schwab actually stated multiple times in her eyes none of the characters are straight, but that is not mentioned in the series.[58][59] |
| Alucard Emery | ||||
| April May | An Absolutely Remarkable Thing | Hank Green | 2018 | May's bisexuality plays a key role throughout the series–she has an on-and-off relationship with Maya throughout the series, as well as a crush on Robin and a one-night stand with Miranda in An Absolutely Remarkable Thing.[60][61] Her bisexuality is used against her in a televised debate with rival Peter Petrawicki, because May had publicized the idea that she was lesbian. |
| A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor | ||||
| Alice Meadows | A Village Affair | Joanna Trollope | 1989 | In this story, Alice Meadows questions her identity, having an affair with a lesbian woman named Clodagh Unwin, while she remains married, with her awakening depending on "a heart-wrenching choice between her lover and her family."[62] |
| Henry "Monty" Montague | The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue | Mackenzi Lee | 2017 | Henry Montague is bisexual and has romantic feelings towards Percy, while his sister Felicity is asexual.[63] |
| Felicity Montague | ||||
| Percy | ||||
| Hélène Noris | The Illusionist (Le rempart des Béguines) | Françoise Mallet-Joris | 1951 | Tamara has a romantic relationship with both Hélène and her father; Hélène prefers men after the fair ends.[64] |
| Tamara Soulerr | ||||
| Adam Parrish | The Raven Cycle | Maggie Stiefvater | 2012–2016 | Adam shows romantic interest in Blue during the first two books, but then develops a relationship with Ronan Lynch.[65] |
| The Dreamer Trilogy | 2019- | |||
| Patroclus | The Song of Achilles | Madeline Miller | 2011 | Patroclus is bisexual, saying he would fall in love with Briseis if not for Achilles.[66] |
| Patty Suso | Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda | Becky Albertalli | 2015 | Abby's cousin Cassie Peskin-Suso, a principal character in the sequel novel The Upside of Unrequited, is a lesbian and Mina is her pansexual girlfriend while Cassie also has two mothers Nadine, who is a lesbian, and Patty, who is bisexual.[67] |
| René Suratt | University series | Allen Drury | 1990–1998 | René is protagonist Willie Wilson's nemesis, "a bisexual seducer of students."[68] |
| Jack Twist | "Brokeback Mountain" (short story) | Annie Proulx | 1997 | Jack and Ennis have a long term sexual and romantic relationship despite both being married to women and fathering children. Jack also has sexual relationships with other men and a woman, while Ennis does not. Critics have described both men as gay or variably Jack as bisexual and Ennis as heterosexual.[69][70] |
| Ennis Del Mar | ||||
| Raymond Tyler, Jr. & Basil | Invisible Life & Just As I Am & Abide With Me & Any Way the Wind Blows | E. Lynn Harris | 1991 & 1995 & 1999 & 2001 | Raymond is torn between his girlfriend Nicole and his married male lover. Basil leaves his fiancée Yancey at the altar and pursues a gay lifestyle.[33] |
| Basil Henderson | ||||
| Villanelle | The Passion | Jeanette Winterson | 1987 | In this book, Villanelle is an androgynous and bisexual daughter of a boatman from Venice who crosses paths with Henri, who also has an "ambivalent sexuality."[71] |
| Aral Vorkosigan | Vorkosigan Saga | Lois McMaster Bujold | 1986– | Aral Vorkosigan has relationships with both men and women: with his first wife and Ges Vorrutyer pre-canon, and his second wife Cordelia and Oliver Jole during the books. In the book Mirror Dance, Cordelia says that she "judge[s] him to be bisexual, but subconsciously more attracted to men than to women."[72][73] |
Theatre
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| Character | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| King Bolloxinion & most other characters | Sodom, or the Quintessence of Debauchery (1684) | An obscene Restoration closet drama thought to be by John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester. Bolloxinion, King of Sodom, commands universal same-sex sodomy.[74] |
| Claude, Berger, Woof, various | Hair | Various characters in this musical are bisexual.[75] |
Video games
| Characters | Series or Title | Years | Notes | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Morrigan Aensland | Darkstalkers & Marvel vs. Capcom & Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors | 1994 | Morrigan is bisexual.[76] She is a recurring character in the Darkstalkers and Marvel vs. Capcom fighting game series. | Capcom |
| Alexios and Kassandra | Assassin's Creed & Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 2018 | The player may choose to play as either Alexios or Kassandra, a pair of siblings. The game presents both opposite-sex and same-sex relationship options for the player character.[77] They are potentially lesbian, gay, or bisexual. | Ubisoft Montreal |
| Dr. Alphys | Undertale & Deltarune | 2015 | Alphys is a neurotic, awkward reptilian humanoid who works as the head scientist in a subterranean kingdom of monsters. Her love interest is a woman, and she used to harbor an unreciprocated crush on King Asgore.[78] | Toby Fox |
| Ares | Langrisser Re:Incarnation Tensei | 2015 | In this Japanese tactical role-playing game, Ares is the player character. He can confess his feelings to the guys, along with the girls, to unlock different perks.[79] | Masaya Games |
| Avatar & Sex workers | Ultima VII: The Black Gate & Ultima | 1992 | In the House of Baths at Buccaneer's Den, the player (the "Avatar") can pay for the services of male and female sex workers, regardless of the player's gender.[80] | Origin Systems |
| Axton | Borderlands & Borderlands 2 | 2012 | In the DLC Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep (2013), it is revealed Axton, one of the playable characters, is bisexual. While his flirtatious lines with male characters were originally a coding error, Gearbox Studios decided to confirm his bisexuality with overt references in the DLC.[81] | Gearbox Software |
| Ayano Aishi | Yandere Simulator | 2014–Present | In October 2024, YandereDev confirmed protagonist Ayano Aishi to be an asexual uniromantic/monoromantic, who "doesn't feel sexual attraction [and is] exclusively attracted [romantically] to one specific human being in all the world, regardless of that person's gender", be it the male Taro or the female Taeko.[82] | YandereDev |
| Byleth, Edelgard, Dorothea, Mercedes, Linhardt, Jeritza, Rhea, Sothis, Yuri | Fire Emblem: Three Houses & Fire Emblem | 2019 | Edelgard, Jeritza, Dorothea, Yuri, Rhea, Sothis, Linhardt, and Mercedes can be romanced by the player character regardless of gender during certain routes.[83][84] | Intelligent Systems, Koei Tecmo |
| Curtis Craig | Phantasmagoria 2: A Puzzle of Flesh | 1996 | In this interactive movie, point-and-click adventure, Curtis is the protagonist. He is a close friend with his co-worker, Trevor, who is gay. Curtis admits to his psychiatrist he has feelings for Trevor and might be bisexual, and the two almost kiss later in the game and is also shown as having relations with his girlfriend and a S&M domme.[85][86] | Sierra On-Line |
| Daisuke | True Love | 1995 | At the end of the Japanese visual novel game, the player character—default name is Daisuke—may attempt to start a relationship with any of the ten available girls, or with his best friend Kazuhiko as the only gay option. Depending on the choices taken and interactions experienced throughout the game, each girl and Kazuhiko may or may not be available for a relationship.[87] | Software House Parsley |
| Kerry Eurodyne | Cyberpunk 2077 | 2020 | R. Talsorian Games, the creators of the tabletop the game is based on, have confirmed the character is bisexual via Twitter.[88] | CD Projekt RED |
| Deirdre Hallam | Moonmist | 1986 | This interactive fiction was the first game to feature a queer character, with one of the plotlines being that an artist named Vivian was in a relationship with Diedre, still married to a man.[89] However, over the course of the game, the appearances by Dierde decreased. | Infocom |
| James "Jimmy" Hopkins | Bully | 2006 | In this Canadian action-adventure game, Jimmy is able to kiss both boys and girls.[90] In the Xbox 360 version, the player can unlock an achievement by kissing a boy twenty times.[91] | Rockstar Vancouver |
| Claude C. Kenny & Rena Lanford & Ashton Anchors & Precis F. Neumann | Star Ocean: The Second Story | 1998 | In this Japanese action role-playing game, the player can choose to play as either Claude or Rena. They can have a friendship and romance level with each party member acquired. Ashton (a male party member) and Precis (a female party member) can go on a date with them, regardless of their gender.[92] | tri-Ace & Tose (PSP) |
| Korra | The Legend of Korra: A New Era Begins & The Legend of Korra (video game) | 2014 | These video games are based on the animated television series The Legend of Korra. Though her sexuality is not referenced in the games, the protagonist, Korra, is bisexual.[93] | PlatinumGames & Webfoot Technologies |
| A Mage | Ultima VII Part Two: Serpent Isle & Ultima | 1993 | A mage sexually proposes the player's character regardless of the character's gender.[92] The player is given the choice to accept or decline. | Origin Systems |
| Last Spirit Monk & Sky & Silk Fox & Dawn Star | Jade Empire | 2005 | In this Canadian action-adventure game, the Last Spirit Monk is the player character. The player can choose to play as either male or female. The player, regardless of their gender, can romance Sky (a male character) and Silk Fox (a female character). Only a male player can romance the female Dawn Star, but she can end up in a relationship with Silk Fox.[92] | BioWare |
| Player character & Jeanette Voerman | Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines | 2004 | In this action role-playing game, the player can have sex with female prostitutes or Jeanette as either a man or a woman.[94] The female player character is able to have implied offscreen sexual relations with Jeanette, another female character.[94] | Troika Games |
| Sole Survivor | Fallout 4 & Fallout | 2015 | The player character, "Sole Survivor", can romance their companions, regardless of their sex.[95] | Bethesda Game Studios |
| Hana Tsu-Vachel | Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix | 2001 | The player character Hana Tsu-Vachel, in this action-adventure game, is bisexual and in a relationship with her hacker, Rain Qin, a lesbian character. The game's advertising heavily emphasized their relationship.[96] | Kronos Digital Entertainment |
| Violet | Violet | 2008 | In this interactive fiction, the player is either a man or woman and Violet is their girlfriend.[97] The player is freely able to change their gender and sex mid-game, which mostly only results in a few cosmetic changes in the dialogue. Violet serves as the game's narrator, but in fact, the player character is only imagining how she would narrate. Upon gender-changing, Violet may react by saying, "I adore you either way." | Jeremy Freese |
Webcomics
| Characters | Name of comic | Years | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bruno | Bruno | 1996–2007 | In this comic by Christopher Baldwin, the titular character, Bruno, is a "bisexual, philosophical, free-spirited woman"[98] and becomes involved with Sophia, who "has male and female lovers within the bounds of a polyamorous relationship."[99] The webcomic also features a trans woman named Judi, with Baldwin offering "brief flashes inside Judi's private sexual life," even though most of the main characters don't know she is trans.[100] Apart from this, in one comic, Bruno admits her bisexuality,[101] and in others, she goes on a date with Frank, has a one-night-stand with Patricia, and sleeps with her friend Donna. In the latter case, Bruno and Donna have a passionate relationship, but due to Bruno's alcoholism and somewhat turbulent personality, they break up.[102] After the breakup, Bruno expresses interest in a boy[103] but is also seen to still be attracted to Donna.[104] |
| Dorothy | Jane's World | 1998–2018 | In this Paige Braddock comic, Dorothy, Jane's best friend, is bisexual. She had crushes on both genders, although she doesn't like to admit it.[105] |
| Jake English & Dave Strider & Most Trolls | Homestuck | 2009–2016 | This comic by Andrew Hussie includes multiple bisexual characters. The trolls, a prominent race in the comic, are shown to be mainly bisexual and reproduce bisexually.[106] The human characters Dave Strider and Jake English are also shown to be attracted to both male and female characters. The story has been praised for creating "a wide range of relatable narratives for LGBTQ+ readers."[107] |
| Suzi "Zii" Nielsen & Désirée "Didi" Chastel & Matt | Ménage à 3 | 2008-2019 | Suzi "Zii" Nielsen and Désirée "Didi" Chastel are bisexual.[108][109][110] In addition, Matt, Dillon's partner, is technically bisexual.[111] |
| Various characters | Kate or Die | 2012–present | This comic by Kate Leth covers issues including bisexuality and feminism.[112] The latter is manifested in "short, witty dissertations on issues such as youth, feminism, tattoo etiquette and bisexuality." |
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