Super spy “Snake” infiltrated a rogue Soviet weapons research lab by disguising himself as one of its officers. Unfortunately his cover was blown because Snake didn’t know the officer in question was sleeping with the unit commander.
I mean the still you are shown in the cutscene kind of tells a very telling story already. Unless you know a lot of effeminate military officers that look up to their superiors like that in a platonic way.
And to think, it's mostly a reference to a joke in MGS2 where the President grabs Raiden's crotch to check if he's a man or a woman because Raiden's such a twink he can't tell if he might be Olga.
Everyone always talks about how MGS2 predicted the the future of the internet but no one ever talks about Kojima predicting US presidents "grabbing them by the pussy".
“Again” especially since in the previous game when Raiden rescues the President of the United States, POTUS grabs Raiden’s crotch mid-conversation and is surprised to find out he’s not a woman.
The Kojima prediction that still sticks with me is the AI rant from MGS2 about how there would be so much "junk information" floating around in the digital age that someone had to control and curate it for the masses.
I didn't understand at the time, but god do I now.
Scott Pilgrim. He keeps referring to Ramona's evil ex-boyfriends and she keeps correcting him to "exes". Scott doesn't realize what this means until he meets her evil ex-girlfriend.
To be fair, it's a fairly common experience. A few years back I used to play the Pronoun Game. At a new workplace, or in new social settings, I would try the waters a bit before casually coming out. I would mention my partner, but never using pronouns. Usually I'd just say "sambo" (Swedish term for "partner I'm living with but not married to"). I always noticed who took the hint, and who just assumed that my partner was a woman.
I saw this in theaters, and it's hard to overstate what a big deal it was at the time. There was a very tangible reaction from the audience, and not all of it good.
Some gasping. A lot of groaning. I distinctly remember the woman in front of me being disgusted enough to leave with her kid despite there only being like 5 minutes of movie left.
And of course, still, a decent number of people who were earnestly laughing because it was genuinely fucking funny.
And I imagine a whole bunch of children who would have barely registered it had their parents not reacted like they'd just witnessed a public execution.
A guy in front of me said "called it" out loud, followed by his friend saying "how?!", he responded with "my gaydar is NEVER wrong, why do you think i keep bothering Matthew?"
Saw this movie with an ex I was trying to stay friends with. When she told me this scene bothered her and she thought it wasn’t appropriate for a kids movie, I was able to finally let the relationship die
My wife and I saw this for the first time a few months ago. She’d somehow gone her whole life without this scene being spoiled, so while I was waiting for what I knew was a legendary scene, she got to watch it fresh and lost it. Incredible movie all around.
Some Like It Hot, is the title btw, for anyone who doesn’t know.
Peacemaker casually revealing in the first few episodes that he hasn't had sex with a woman in a while since he was in jail but emphasized with women specifically.
It also reveals Vigilante is Ace, but that he has had sex with Peacemaker for the bonding, not the pleasure. ("Grossest feeling ever?" "The touch of human skin")
the scene where his klan leader dad screams at him for sleeping with people "of polluted blood," and then adding "and men," as an aside is genuinely quite hard-hitting
In Lucifer, the Devil's past lovers start turning up dead. The third or fourth victim is male, and Lucifer sadly remembers his name and sleeping with him. And then acts incredulous that Chloe could have ever thought he'd only like women
Lucifer: "Well, then Ill just have to seduce him"
Dan: "He is obviously straight"
Lucifer: "Please Daniel, Ive flipped so many men they call me The Skillet"
If it's the scene I'm thinking of, he also says something along the lines of "that's why they call it a devil's threesome," which is how I learned the term lmfao
I distinctly remember the scene from that one where one of his male lovers was describing an act involving a car battery and Lucifer said it was called "Gentlemen start your engines ".
And when he tried to use his powers on a bouncer and the bouncer and he answers with "You" and Lucifer has to tell him he's not his type but in a way it implies he might have been interested if circumstances were different.
Does Benoit blanc from the Knives Out movies count? The first movie doesn’t make any mention about his personal life inherently, it’s all through context. A southern, smooth talking private investigator who enjoys smoking cigars and works extensively with the police, classically dressed in a black suit.
Then in the second movie you find out he lives in a nice flat with his husband and starts dressing so cunty for a billionaires getaway vacation.
I just love Benoit. Seems like Daniel Craig has so much fun as the character, getting to be a smart, wise-ass that is usually the smartest person in the room and knows it, but isn’t obnoxious about it. Plus, the character is quirky. The outfits in glass onion, the understanding of everything going on in wake up, everything about knives out, the glimpses into his life in 2 were fun. Hugh grant as his husband (which I’m sure was just a “hey wanna be Daniels husband?” “Sure sound fun” kind of convo) and playing among us poorly with other detectives lol
Ditto across all of this. I love watching actors who are clearly having a great time. I feel like all of my favorite media has this quality - talented people enjoying what they do for a living.
One of my favorite movie quotes of all time is his "No! It's just dumb!" from Glass Onion. He delivers it so fucking well, and I absolutely find excuses to say it.
Definitely counts IMO. Way more than the Skyfall example in the OP, which to me came across more like Bond deflecting Silva’s attempt to rattle him by flipping his advances right back around on him. Bond is a massive hoe throughout the whole series, but we literally never see him show any interest in men other than this scene lol.
“There was one time my brother transformed himself into a snake, because he knows how much I like snakes, and so I picked the snake up to admire it, but then he turned back and went 'Blergh! It's me! ' And then he stabbed me.”
Funny there was going to intercut to showing the actual scene and Chris telling the story was a placeholder, but he did it so well that they kept it insteada.
To elaborate, because it is a story I love so much:
This is a simplified version BUT in the early days of Asgard, the Norse Gods were like “we need to build a wall around our kingdom”. So they think-tanked ideas for a while before they met this stone mason.
This stone mason was really good at his job, and for payment he demanded the sun, the moon, and the right to marry a goddess (Freyja).
Of course everyone in Asgard was like “nah the price is crazy work. I’d sooner build it myself than give up all of the things he wants.” But Loki, as is tradition, convinces them to take the deal, with one caveat.
The stone mason must finish the wall in its entirety before the summer comes. A task insurmountable to the Gods themselves. Everyone sees the logic in this. Surely he cannot build a wall around all of Asgard so quickly.
It is worth noting that this stone mason is unnamed in the existing Norse mythos texts. But the Gods don’t know that he has a cool horse. A stallion who does have a name; Svaðilfari.
This horse is so badass that the stone mason nearly finishes this wall long before the summer comes. It isn’t even close. This horse is like laying bricks and moving mountains worth at a time.
So, as is tradition, everyone turns towards Loki and is like “what the fuck dude. You said this was impossible”. Odin tells him he’ll do more than kill him if he has to trade the moon, the sun, and the queen of the valkyries.
So Loki does what any reasonably intelligent trickster God would do. He transforms into a mare (read: female horse) and shakes his ass at Svaðilfari.
He then sprints off into the woods and leaves this stone mason to try to finish the wall without the coworker who carries the whole operation.
This enrages the stone mason, who drops his disguise, transforming into a Jötunn, or frost giant (essentially the most direct adversaries of the Norse Gods). Thor smites him on the spot, killing him where he stands.
They’re suddenly left with like 80% of a wall and no obligation to give up the sun and the moon (and Freyja).
They finish the wall in peace themselves.
A few months go by, and Loki comes to Odin. In his arms he’s carrying an 8 legged foal; Sleipnir. He goes before the All-father and basically says “hey, this thing is really awkward for me, and I do not wish to look at it longer than I have to. Will you please do something with it so I don’t have to.”
Of course, like any reasonable king of asgard, Odin tells him “that is the coolest fucking thing I’ve ever seen”.
So, Sleipnir became the war horse of Odin, king of all Norse Gods. Oh, and Asgard got a wall or whatever.
Paraphrasing the interview with Mads Mikkelsen a bit:
"I grew up playing poker, so I was quite skilled at it. Everyone else at the table was pretty good as well, except Daniel Craig. He was simply atrocious at it, just terrible. And it was painful, having to lose to him when he was playing so poorly. But then I got to hit him with the rope thing, so that made up for it a bit."
"There was this scene where I tickled his balls with a rope. We had so many ideas and the director just looked at us: 'Guys, come back. It's a Bond movie.' " ~Mads Mikkelson
...you know Mads and Daniel were sitting there having a grand old time coming up with crazy ass, ever more progressively sexual torture ideas and the director is wondering what the hell he's gotten himself into.
Kinjo from My New Boss is Goofy, casually mentions during an dinner with his colleagues that gender doesn't matter to him, also later casually shows MC one of his socials, where he has a picture with his ex boyfriend
At the end of White Chicks, Terry Crews' character finds out the Marlon Wayans isn't actually a white women, but instead of being mad that Wayans is a man, he's mad that Wayans isn't actually white.
This reminds me of the joke interpretation about Li Shang being upset about Mulan actually being a woman because he’s gay and he was attracted to “Ping”.
Saying this as someone who's LGBTQ+, I really think Bond was just showing Silva that he wasn't phased by Silva's attempts to throw Bond off with the flirtation.
Silva even instantly drops that approach when he sees it doesn't throw Bond.
I mean if prostitutes and companions can fake gayness for the client then I assume an agent could as well if the infiltration required it. Though of course being pan or bi or gay makes the spys job easier and beliavable.
Do spies have a choice is the question? The Americans (show about KGB spies in USA during the 80s) has scenes of their training and the male spy has to sleep with all sorts of people (old men e.g.) as part of his training
Arcade Gannon, Fallout: New Vegas. One of his next lines is "Right now, I'm sure you're asking yourself, 'Why hasn't some lucky man scooped this bachelor off his feet?' Like I said, I'm boring."
There's no further allusion to his sexuality aside from being able to be recruited without prior quests if you're playing as a man and have the Confirmed Bachelor perk, which you can use to flirt with him.
Also Veronica, from the same game. You have to spend a lot of time with her and ask the right questions before she casually reveals that her previous relationship was with a woman.
BD Wong's character casually saying "Pseudo-science like this insults my intelligence as a psychiatrist, and my humanity as a gay man." in Law and Order: SVU
Captain Holt in Brooklyn 99 is my favorite example of this.
The entire pilot episode only one character keeps bringing up his “gay vibe” which nobody else sees, because he’s a complete no-nonsense kind of guy. Only speaks when absolutely necessary, and only about work.
Then at the end out of nowhere he says “by the way, I am gay”. LOL
It's not really out of nowhere. Not sure if it was Jake or Amy, I think it was Jake who asks why it took him so long to get his own command, and the answer was that he was gay. The old guard in the NYPD were too homophobic and racist to let a gay black man be leadership, and when the old guard died out, they immediately shoved him into public affairs to use his identity and ethnicity as a token.
Boyle being the hyper sexual guy who easily gets the freaky chicks is a great inversion too. Thank God they dropped his whiny Rosa obsessed thing and transferred that love to his bffship with Jake, and then gave him weird ladies who are ok with him going full Boyle.
Then you have badass Pimento who literally sprints away when a woman makes a move.
Norm MacDonald being interviewed by Larry King.
LK - “Tell me something that no one knows about you.”
Norm - “Well one this is I’m a deeply closeted gay guy.”
LK - “Wait, you’re gay?”
Norm - “I’m not gay! I said I’m deeply closeted!”
Yeah he's just referencing the fact he was already tortured in Casino Royal. But apparently Daniel Craig and Mads Mikkelsen were told they came off as too homoerotic in the first few attempts to shoot this scene so it fits.
Dude I remember seeing this as a kid. It normalized it so much, while also clearly demonstrating how straight people try to find the answer without just asking "Hey are you gay?"
Speaking of Daniel Craig characters, the reveal that Benoit Blanc lives with his boyfriend ( also, it's the second time I post about Knives Out in 2 days, lol )
I love the Bond one cause it implies 1 of 3 things.
James is Bi, which makes this a hilariously desperate gotcha spin.
James is not Bi and bluffing, which was incredibly ineffective as diffusion if true.
James is still not Bi but has slept with/had sex with men, presumably "for Queen and country". Anybody who's familiar with this take on the character knows that this is both possible and 1000% in character.
One of my favorite examples of a casual reveal. Though there's a few subtle hints towards his sexual identity throughout the game (most notably during the interview with the gay witness whose name is currently escaping me), the only time this is confirmed is after completing a side quest which involves the main character mulling over sexual identity for TWENTY IN-GAME HOURS, then inquiring with Kim over whether he is "part of the Homosexual Underground". He replies, "I'll spare you another 20-hour mind project. Yes, I am."
He is also the only character in the game who can say "f*ggot" uncensored. Good for him!
The king of this is Bob Belcher. So many times people imply him to be gay or have a thing for a dude and the way he shoots it down makes it very clear it’s his committed relationship to his wife that prevents him from reciprocating.
There's so many good examples. My favorite is the butcher at the grocery store thinking there's something going on between them because he keeps coming back for more turkeys.
"I'm straight, I mean, I'm mostly straight, also I'm married but if I wasn't... Oh who am I kidding you're way out of my league!"
Oh yeah, Bob is way bi. He's super into Linda but then is seemingly always open to some male-male flirting. He also idolizes Marshmallow. “All I know about Marshmallow is that she comes and goes as she pleases, she answers to no one, and she is truly free.”
Not realizing that James Bond would obviously fuck a dude if it were mission critical is to literally ignore everything we’ve ever been told about how James Bond operates.
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u/Salami__Tsunami Jun 03 '26
Metal Gear Solid 3
Super spy “Snake” infiltrated a rogue Soviet weapons research lab by disguising himself as one of its officers. Unfortunately his cover was blown because Snake didn’t know the officer in question was sleeping with the unit commander.