List of fictional bisexual characters
This is a list of fictional 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.
Please see the lists of trans, lesbian, gay, non-binary, pansexual, asexual, and intersex characters for information about fictional characters in other parts of the LGBTQ community.
The names are organized alphabetically 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.
Film
| Characters | Title / Franchise | Actors | Years | Notes | Country |
| Adèle | Blue Is the Warmest Colour | Adèle Exarchopoulos | 2013 | Despite listing on Netflix in their Lesbian and Gay section, in fact, Adèle is bisexual, and the film is focused on her, with critics missing that bisexual erasure is "central to understanding Adele’s particular sense that she does not belong as she comes of age." Adèle meets Emma in a lesbian bar, they enter a relationship and start to live with each other, and eventually, Emma finds out that Adèle cheated with Antoine, a male colleague, and their relationship ends. Afterwards, Emma enters a relationship with Lise. | France |
| Alexander the Great | Alexander | Colin Farrell | 2004 | Alexander has an ambiguous sexuality, with director Oliver Stone saying that Alexander had "a polymorphous sensuality and was an explorer in the deepest sense of the world." His portrayal led a group of Greek lawyers to threaten sueing Warner Bros for suggesting that Alexander was bisexual while GLAAD praised the film as breaking new ground. | United States |
| Atomic Blonde | Charlize Theron | 2017 | Lorraine, a secret agent for MI6 does not fall in love with her male counterpart, but she has "sex with another female spy," Delphine Lasalle, entering into a romantic relationship with her. Theron confirmed Lorraine as a bisexual, with some reviewers noting that the film features a bisexual subplot that was not in the original book. | United States | |
| Midnight Cowboy | Jon Voight | 1969 | Joe is a gigolo who has sex with men and women in an attempt to make money. This film is based on the 1965 novel of the same name. His character was later parodied by Zapp Brannigan in the Brannigan, Begin Again episode of Futurama, which even uses the film's theme, "Everybody's Talkin'" by Harry Nilsson. | United States | |
| ' | Godfrey Gao | 2013 | Magnus, a bisexual warlock, first appears in "heavy guyliner, piercings and a disturbing blazer-and-boxers combo." | United States | |
| ' | Matt Ryan | 2020 | John, has a lover, Zatanna, but formerly had a relationship with King Shark. | United States | |
| Showgirls | Gina Gershon | 1995 | A leading character in this film, Cristal, who has a boyfriend, wants a relationship with Nomi, so she can destroy her, in this film where bisexuality is "a weapon, a plot device and an arena for titillating spectacle" like in Basic Intinsct. | France, United States | |
| The Rules of Attraction | Ian Somerhalder | 2002 | This film follows a love triangle between Sean, Laura, and Paul, the latter who is the boyfriend of Laura and is attracted to Sean, who he tries to go out with, but fails. | United States | |
| Austin Powers | Mindy Sterling | 1997-2004 | Frau has a girlfriend named Una Brau in the second film who she met on the LPGA tour and fell in love. Later, in the film, when Dr. Evil and Past Frau have sex, she comments that she'll never love another man. Dr. Evil remembers her, responding "Yes, that's true". The sex between Dr. Evil and Frau results in their "love child," Scott. | United States | |
| Scott Pilgrim vs. the World | Mary Elizabeth Winstead | 2010 | Ramona describes her relationship with Roxy Richter as her being "bi-curious". As in the Scott Pilgrim graphic novel series the film is based on, Ramona has seven evil exes: six ex-boyfriends and her lesbian ex-girlfriend Roxanne. | United States | |
| Cloud Atlas | Ben Whishaw | 2012 | Robert, living in 1930s Britain, is a budding composer, an apprentice to a musical genius, Vyvyan Ayrs, while Robert has a lover, Rufus Sixsmith, as well. | United States | |
| Mécir Paul | Grande École | Salim Kechiouche Gregori Baquet | 2004 | In this film, about education, class, race and homosexuality, Paul has a girlfriend but sleeps with one of his new roommates, while Mécir, a young Arab manual worker, becomes attracted to him. | France |
| Paolo Visitor | Teorema | Massimo Girotti Terence Stamp | 1968 | This film, a parable, uses bisexuality as a symbol, with a beautiful man, unnamed and referred to as the "Visitor," appearing in the lives of a typical bourgeois Italian family, making love to the father, the mother, the son, the daughter, and the maid. After a telegram arrives and the Visitor has to leave, all the family members change, having to confront what was previously concealed by the trappings of bourgeois life. | Italy |
| Querelle | Brad Davis | 1982 | George, a handsome Belgian sailor, thief and murderer, visits a bar and brothel for sailors, with the head of the brothel in love with his brother, who he has a love/hate relationship with. Later on in the film, he announces that he wants to sleep with Lysiane but he also has sex with Mario. Near the end of the film, Lieutenant Seblon, Querelle's superior, tries to prove his manliness to him, despite the fact Seblon murdered his friend, he decides to protect him, and Seblon later reveals his love, leading them to kiss and embrace before returning to Le Vengeur. | France, West Germany | |
| Birds of Prey | Margot Robbie | 2020 | In the film's first ten minutes, it is established that Harley is bisexual, with Harley saying she is unlucky with love, with her first two partners as men and the third one a woman. At the beginning of the film, it shows that one of Harley's failed relationships was with a woman. | United States | |
| Mulholland Drive | Laura Harring | 2001 | Mobsters demand that Camila Rhodes, an unknown actress, be cast in a film, and he eventually agrees, capiluating to casting her after seeing her audition, with a strange series of events that follow. Rhodes, presented as "bisexual vixen," is a driving force of the film. | United States | |
| Ritchie | Summer of Sam | Adrien Brody | 1999 | In this film, one of the protagonists is a volatile bisexual character named Ritchie, Vinny's childhood friend who has embraced punk fashion and music, who begins a relationship with Ruby. | United States |
| Cabaret | Michael York | 1972 | Brian moves into the boarding house where Sally lives. Later in the film, during an argument, Sally tells Brian that she has been having sex with Max, and Brian reveals that he has as well, showing he is a bisexual character. Brian and Sally later reconcile, and Sally reveals that Max left them 300 marks and mockingly compares the sum with what a professional prostitute gets. | United States | |
| Sydney "Syd" | High Art | Radha Mitchell | 1988 | Syd, living with longtime boyfriend James, has desires and frustrations that seem typical and manageable but new events unfold, with Lucy Berliner opening the door to an uncharted world for Syd. Lucy, who lives with her heroin-addicted German girlfriend Greta, and becomes closer to Syd as the film moves forward. | United States |
| The Royal Tenenbaums | Gwyneth Paltrow | 2001 | Margot, a strong female character, who had a previous relationship with a woman, follows three siblings who were talents when they were children but "grow up into disappointments." | United States | |
| Theodora "Theo" | The Haunting | Catherine Zeta-Jones | 1999 | Theo, a participant in a clincal study, was once a lesbian, but is now bisexual. | United States |
| Basic Instinct | Sharon Stone | 1992 | While the character returns in Basic Instinct 2, it's noted that she's been straightwashed. | United States | |
| Basic Instinct 2 | Sharon Stone | 2006 | While the character returns in Basic Instinct 2, it's noted that she's been straightwashed. | United States | |
| The Hours | Meryl Streep | 2002 | Clarissa's long-term relationship with Sally is seemingly threatened while she pines for "a long-lost romance with Richard." As such, the plot twist at the end of the film makes Clarissa even more distraught, with sexual identities not the focus of this film. | United States | |
| Christine Taylor | 2004 | Christine, in the last 90 seconds of the film, introduces her girlfriend to the team, and the writers do not hint she is attracted to woman, implying she is bisexual. Reportedly, she made the cut because her final line in the movie, “I’m not a lesbian, I’m bisexual”. | United States | ||
| Helmut Griem | Cabaret | 1972 | This film is based on the musical Cabaret, with Maximilian as a rich playboy baron who befriends Sally and takes her and Brian to his country estate where they are both spoiled and courted. | United States | |
| | The Doom Generation | James Duval | 1995 | Two teen lovers, Jordan and Amy, pick up Xavier "X" Red, a handsome drifter one night when coming back from a club. X accidentally kills a store owner, has sex with Amy, while Jordan becomes sexually attracted to X as well. Later in the film, Jordan, Amy and X spend the night in an abandoned warehouse, where they engage in a threesome. | United States, France |
| | Velvet Goldmine | Ewan McGregor Jonathan Rhys Meyers Toni Collette | 1998 | At the beginning of his career, Slade is married to Mandy. But when he comes to the United States, he seeks out American rock star Curt Wild, and they become involved in each other's lives on a personal and creative level. | United States |
| Dog Day Afternoon | Al Pacino | 1975 | Sonny, a first-time crook, attempts to rob a bank with his friend Salvatore "Sal" Naturale, and Stevie but the plan immediately goes awry when Stevie loses his nerve and flees, and Sonny discovers they have arrived after the daily cash pickup, finding only $1,100 in cash. Later in the film, Sonny's partner, Leon Shermer, arrives and reveals that the robbery was intended to pay for her sex reassignment surgery, as she is a trans woman, and divulges that Sonny has children with his estranged wife, Angie. This, and other events in the film, has led some to call Sonny a "bisexual desperado." | United States |
Graphic novels
| Characters | Title | Years | Notes | Country |
| Korra Asami Sato | ' | 2017–present | 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. The creators later confirmed that the intention of the ending scene was to show Asami and Korra becoming a romantic couple. 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 |
| Toya Kinomoto | Cardcaptor Sakura and ' | 1996–present | The creators have confirmed that Yukito and Toya are a couple. They are stated to be in love within the series itself. Before meeting Yukito, Toya dated Kaho Mizuki when she was his junior high school teacher, and she broke up with him when she left to study in England. | Japan |
| 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. | Japan | |
| Noh-Varr | Young Avengers | 2005–2014 | Noh-Varr has stated that he had experiences with Kree of the same sex at the end of Young Avengers, to which Kate Bishop replied "Am I the only one on the team who is straight?" | United States |
| Nuriko | Fushigi Yûgi | 1992–1996 | Nuriko is one of the seven Celestial Warriors of Suzaku. She is introduced as "Kang-Lin", a woman in Emperor Hotohori's harem who has the power of superhuman strength. Nuriko is in love with Hotohori and at first considers Miaka her rival for his love, but Nuriko and Miaka soon become friends. | Japan |
| Wonder Woman Harley Quinn Poison Ivy | DC Comics Bombshells and Bombshells United | 2015–present | Wonder Woman was in a relationship with Mera and later Steve Trevor. Harley and Poison Ivy are in a relationship in the series. | United States |
Live-action television
Having been created as a radio program in 1937 and transitioning to television in 1952, Guiding Light is the oldest television series in the world to feature bisexual characters; Olivia Spencer and Natalia Rivera Aitoro. Olivia was introduced in 1999 and Natalia in 2007, with the two women realizing they are bisexual and beginning a relationship in 2008. In 1990, L.A. Law became the first primetime television series to introduce a recurring bisexual character; C.J. Lamb. In 2015, during The 100's second season, the protagonist Clarke Griffin kissed Lexa, making the series the first in America belonging to one of the "Big Five" networks with a bisexual lead.Literature
| Characters | Work | Author | Years | Description |
| Akhenaten Smenkhkara | A God Against the Gods Return to Thebes | 1976 1977 | Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten is married to Nefertiti, but his romance with his brother Smenkhkara contributes to his downfall. | |
| Alexander the Great Hephaistion Bagoas | Fire from Heaven The Persian Boy | 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. | |
| Brigham Anderson | Advise and Consent | 1959 | Married US senator Anderson is blackmailed over a secret wartime homosexual affair for which he is unapologetic. | |
| Magnus Bane | The Shadowhunter Chronicles | 2007–present | 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. | |
| Chuck Bass | Gossip Girl | 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. | |
| Kitty Butler | Tipping the Velvet | 1998 | Has a sexual/romantic relationship with the main character and marries a man. | |
| Calixte Tzara Thyon Nero Ruza | Strange the Dreamer series | Laini Taylor | 2017- 2018 | Calixte and Tzara enter a long-term lesbian relationship with each other at the start of the series. Thyon Nero has never been romantically or sexually attracted to a woman, but finds himself drawn to Ruza, who seems to reciprocate his interest, making them both gay or in Ruza's case at least bisexual. |
| Claudine Rézi | 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. |
| Clayton "Clay" | Less Than Zero Imperial Bedrooms | 1985 2010 | 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." | |
| Fever Crumb | Fever Crumb Series | 2009–11 | Fever first falls in love with the male Arlo Thursday, and later with the female Cluny Morvish. | |
| Beauchamp Day DeDe Halcyon Day Mona Ramsey | Tales of the City series | 1978–2014 | While the original series featured gay and bisexual characters who "kissed on camera and had sex in bathhouses," in the Netflix adaption of this series, Shawna is "explicitly bisexual character." | |
| Paul Denton | The Rules of Attraction | 1987 | In this book, set in Camden like Ellis's other books, Paul lusts for another character, Sean Bateman, saying he slept with him, while Bateman "never admits as much." This book ended up fortifying Ellis's reputation as a "nihilistic authorial presence who reports action but seldom comments on it." | |
| Jesper Fahey Wylan Van Eck Nina Zenik | Six of Crows duology | 2015–2016 | Jesper is bisexual, and Wylan is gay; they begin dating each other by the end of the duology, while Nina has also been confirmed to be pansexual. | |
| Alluvia Fairfax Stella | Gut Symmetries | 1987 | Alice has romantic and sexual relationships with both Stella and Stella's husband Jove. | |
| Courtney Farrell Barry Cabot | Chocolates for Breakfast | 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. | |
| Darvish Shayrif Hakem | The Fire's Stone | 1990 | Darvish is willing to have sex with anyone, whether men or women. | |
| Rosemary Harper Sissix | 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. |
| Herewiss Freelorn The Goddess | The Tale of the Five series | 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, with bisexuality and polyamory seeming to "be the default." | |
| Ruth Jamison | Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe | 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 long-term romantic relationship with another woman. 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 while in the film adaptation, a story of Southern female friendship and love, Ruth had been in love with Buddy Threadgoode, Idgie's brother.. | |
| Seregil i Korit Alec i Amasa Ilar i Sontir | The Nightrunner series | 1996–2014 | Seregil and Alec are committed lovers but both have had experiences with women in the past; Ilar is one of Seregil's former lovers. | |
| Denise Lambert | The Corrections | 2001 | In this novel, Denise begins affairs with both her boss and his wife, and though the restaurant is successful, she is fired when this is discovered. | |
| Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | Bill Haydon | 1974 | Has a girlfriend, a male lover, seduces Ann, the wife of George Smiley, and rumoured to be the lover of Jim Prideaux. | |
| The Vampire Chronicles | 1976–2014 | Lestat, Armand and most of Rice's male vampires have intense sexual and emotional attractions and relationships with both sexes. | ||
| Ronan Lynch Adam Parrish Kavinsky | The Raven Cycle | 2012–16 | Adam shows a romantic interest in the female protagonist during the first two books, but then develops a relationship with Ronan Lynch. | |
| Rhy Maresh Alucard Emery | Shades of Magic trilogy | 2015–17 | Rhy is bisexual while Alucard is gay. They had a fling three years prior the events of the books. Victoria Schwab actually stated multiple times that in her eyes none of the characters are straight, but that is not mentioned in the series. | |
| Alice Meadows | A Village Affair | 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." | |
| Henry "Monty" Montague Felicity Montague Percy | 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. |
| Hélène Noris Tamara Soulerr | The Illusionist | 1951 | Tamara has a romantic relationship with both Hélène and her father; Hélène prefers men after the fair ends. | |
| Patroclus Achilles | The Song of Achilles | Madeline Miller | 2011 | Achilles is gay, showing no interest in girls. Patroclus is bisexual, saying he would fall in love with Briseis if not for Achilles. |
| 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. | |
| Shori | Fledgling | 2005 | The novel tells the story of Shori, a 53-year-old member of the Ina species, who appears to be a ten-year-old African-American girl, biting a construction worker named Wright because she finds his scent irresistible, and they begin their relationship. | |
| René Suratt | University series | 1990–98 | René is protagonist Willie Wilson's nemesis, "a bisexual seducer of students." | |
| Jack Twist Ennis del Mar | "Brokeback Mountain" | 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. | |
| Raymond Tyler, Jr. Basil Henderson | 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. | ||
| Villanelle | The Passion | 1987 | In this book, Villanelle is an androgynous and bisexual daughter of a boatman from Venice who crosses paths with Henri, who also has a "ambivalent sexuality." |
Video games
| Characters | Series / Title | Years | Notes | Developer |
| Morrigan Aensland | Darkstalkers, Marvel vs. Capcom, and others / ' | 1994 | Morrigan is bisexual. She is a recurring character in the Darkstalkers and Marvel vs. Capcom fighting game series. | Capcom |
| Alexios / 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. They are potentially lesbian, gay, or bisexual. | Ubisoft Montreal |
| Ares | ' | 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. | Masaya Games |
| Avatar Sex workers | ' / Ultima | 1992 | In the House of Baths at Buccaneer's Den, the player can pay for the services of male and female sex workers, regardless of the player's gender. | Origin Systems |
| Axton | Borderlands / Borderlands 2 | 2012 | In the DLC Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep, it is revealed that 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. | Gearbox Software |
| Byleth, Edelgard, Dorothea, Mercedes, Linhardt, Jeritza, Rhea, Sothis, Yuri | ' / 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. | Intelligent Systems, Koei Tecmo |
| Nicky Case | Coming Out Simulator 2014 | 2014 | This is a Canadian autobiographical game, and interactive fiction, about a teenage Nicky Case coming out as bisexual to his mother. Jack is his boyfriend. | Nicky Case |
| Maxine "Max" Caulfield Rachel Amber | Life Is Strange | 2015 | Life Is Strange is experienced from Max's perspective. The prequel Life Is Strange: Before the Storm is experienced from Chloe's perspective. The development of Max and Chloe's relationship is the main plot of Life Is Strange, and they can end up romantically. At different points in the game, Max may have the choice to kiss Warren or Chloe. In Life Is Strange, Chloe admits that she had romantic feelings towards Rachel. In the prequel Life Is Strange: Before the Storm, depending on the player's actions, Rachel may open up and reveal that she has romantic feelings towards Chloe too. At some point, Chloe may have the choice to kiss Rachel. Rachel also had a relationship with Frank before the plot of Life Is Strange. | Dontnod Entertainment |
| Corrin, Niles and Rhajat | Fire Emblem Fates / Fire Emblem | 2015 | This game is the first in the Fire Emblem franchise to feature a same-sex marriage option for both the 'Birthright' and 'Conquest' versions of the game. The same sex options, however, are restricted to one character per game, where the Conquest edition contains a man who may be romanced by male or female main characters, while the Birthright edition has a woman who may be romanced by male and female protagonists. In the DLC, Revelations, both Rhajat and Niles are available to be romanced by the female and male main characters. However, they can still marry characters of the other gender so it is implied they are bisexual. If the player marries a character of the same sex, they will not be able to unlock Kana or Nina, Niles' daughter. | Nintendo SPD, Intelligent Systems |
| Curtis Craig | ' | In this interactive movie, point-and-click adventure, Curtis is the protagonist. He is also close friend with his co-worker, Trevor, who is gay. Curtis admits to his psychiatrist that 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. | Sierra On-Line | |
| Daisuke | True Love | 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. | Software House Parsley | |
| Jacob Frye | Assassin's Creed /Assassin's Creed Syndicate | 2015 | The lead writer of this game indicated that the team explicitly avoided giving Jacob Frye, one of the game's two protagonists, a female love interest during the main storyline. He also hinted at the idea that Jacob needed to "figure himself out to some degree" after his brief partnership with Maxwell Roth. This led to speculation regarding Jacob's sexuality, with the official Assassin's Creed Tumblr later confirming that the character is canonically bisexual. | Ubisoft Quebec |
| 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. However, over the course of the game, the appearances by Dierde decreased. | Infocom | |
| James "Jimmy" Hopkins | Bully | In this Canadian action-adventure game, Jimmy is able to kiss both boys and girls. In the Xbox version the player can unlock an achievement by kissing a boy twenty times. | Rockstar Vancouver | |
| Claude C. Kenny Rena Lanford Ashton Anchors Precis F. Neumann | ' | 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 and Precis can go on a date with them, regardless of their gender. | tri-Ace Tose | |
| Korra | The Legend of Korra and ' / The Legend of Korra | 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. | PlatinumGames Webfoot Technologies |
| A mage | ' / Ultima | 1993 | A mage sexually proposes the player's character regardless of the character's gender. The player is given the choice to accept or decline. | Origin Systems |
| Last Spirit Monk Sky Silk Fox Dawn Star | Jade Empire | 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 and Silk Fox. Only a male player can romance the female Dawn Star, but she can end up in a relationship with Silk Fox. | BioWare | |
| Player character Jeanette Voerman | ' | The in this action role-playing game, the player can have sex with female prostitutes or Jeanette as either a man or a woman. The female player character is able to have implied offscreen sexual relations with Jeanette, another female character. | Troika Games | |
| Player character | Queen's Gambit | 2014 | In this visual novel game, the player character can romance Emily Verma, a lesbian character, or one of three male characters. | Voltage Entertainment USA |
| Player character | Astoria: Fate's Kiss | 2015 | In this visual novel game, the player character is bisexual woman who can romance Medusa, Alex, or one of multiple male characters. | Voltage Entertainment USA |
| Player character | Gangsters in Love | 2016 | In this visual novel game, the player character can romance Aurora James or one of multiple male characters. | Voltage Entertainment USA |
| Sole Survivor | Fallout 4 / Fallout | 2015 | The player character, "Sole Survivor", can romance their companions, regardless of their sex. | Bethesda Game Studios |
| Mister Torgue High-Five Flexington | Borderlands / Borderlands 2 | 2012 | It is alluded in Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep that Mr. Torgue is bisexual. This was confirmed via an interview. | Gearbox Software |
| Hana Tsu-Vachel | ' | 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. | Kronos Digital Entertainment | |
| Cassus Vicus | Clive Barker's Jericho | In this Spanish first-person shooter and survival horror game, the Ancient Roman Governor Cassus Vicus claims it had been a while since "tasting" both genders after becoming aroused while confronting the Jericho Squad. Vicus is portrayed as overly perverted and morbidly obese and is said to practice cannibalism, sadomasochism and "blood orgies". | MercurySteam, Alchemic Productions | |
| Violet | Violet | 2008 | In this interactive fiction, The player is either a man or woman and Violet is their girlfriend. 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 |
| Zagreus | Hades | 2020 | In this Roguelike and dungeon crawler game, Zagreus is the son of Hades and confirmed by the games writer and designer Greg Kasavin to be "either bisexual or pansexual". | Supergiant Games |
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" and becomes involved with Sophia, who "has male and female lovers within the bounds of a polyamorous relationship." 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. Apart from this, in one comic, Bruno admits her bisexuality, 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 later case, Bruno and Donna have a passionate relationship, but due to Bruno's alcoholism and somewhat turbulent personality, they break up. After the breakup, Bruno expresses interest in a boy but is also seen to still be attracted to Donna. |
| Christy | My Dragon Girlfriend | 2018-present | The webcomic by Fawnduu features a varied LGBT cast including the main protagonists. This includes Dani, a lesbian girl that can turn into a dragon, and her human girlfriend, Christy, who she saves from a terrible date with a guy at a bar, while and two lesbian dragons, Callie and Olive, who have feelings for each other, along various other minor characters. |
| Jane | Jane's World | 1998-2018 | In this comic by Paige Braddock, most of the central characters, including the titular Jane, are lesbians. Bisexual women characters are also included. |
| Unnamed bisexual man Other unnamed characters | Acception | 2015-present | This ongoing Dutch teen dramedy romance webcomic by Coco “Colourbee” Ouwerkerk, who was inspired by "manga genres such as shojo and shounen," focuses on a rainbow-haired male protagonist named Arcus McCarthy, a high school student who faces some hostility for his appearance. The comic also features various LGBT characters. This includes Luna Lion, a trans woman who is introduced in the 23rd comic, who is transitioning, and Casper, a gay guy, both of whom have crushes on Arcus. The comic also features Bo, an asexual woman, introduced in the 78th comic, along with gay, trans male, lesbian, bisexual, characters in other comics. |
| Nye | Fera | 2009–present | This webcomic by Davy Shirley features a lesbian protagonist, Nye, and her bisexual partner. |
| Trolls | Homestuck | 2009-2016 | This comic by Andrew Hussie includes multiple LGBT characters like Calliope who shares a body with her "misogynistic brother Caliborn," Kanaya Maryam and Rose Lalonde, a same-sex "troll/human pairing," along with the "normalization of queerness in the troll universe," who have a default bisexual/pansexual nature. The story has also been praised with creating "a wide range of relatable narratives for LGBTQ readers." |
| Various characters | Kate or Die | 2012-present | This comic by Kate Leth covers issues including bisexuality and feminism. The latter is manifested in "short, witty dissertations on issues such as youth, feminism, tattoo etiquette and bisexuality." |
Background
is a sexual orientation that refers to the romantic and/or sexual attraction towards people of more than one gender. Throughout history numerous bisexual characters have appeared in television series, including cartoons, anime and web series.Having been created as a radio program in 1937 and transitioning to television in 1952, Guiding Light is the oldest television series in the world to feature bisexual characters; Olivia Spencer and Natalia Rivera Aitoro. Olivia was introduced in 1999 and Natalia in 2007, with the two women realizing they are bisexual and beginning a relationship in 2008. In 1990, L.A. Law became the first primetime television series to introduce a recurring bisexual character; C.J. Lamb. In 2015, during The 100s second season, the protagonist Clarke Griffin kissed Lexa, making the series the first in America belonging to one of the "Big Five" networks with a bisexual lead.
Bisexual characters have been featured in animation and anime for years. For instance, a 1980s series, Urusei Yatsura featured Ryūnosuke Fujinami, a tomboyish girl and protagonist who she goes out on a date with an alien girl Ran, who thinks that Ryūnosuke is a lesbian after she says she has no interest in boys, is backmailed into going on a date with Shinobu, and becomes good friends with Benten, who acknowledges her femininity without making a joke. In the OVA, Nagisa Shiowatari becomes her fiancé, a guy who was raised as a girl, meaning he behaves and crossdresses as a girl, implying that she may be bisexual. A few months after Sailor Moon ended, another fan favorite, named Revolutionary Girl Utena, began on April 2. The show contained many LGBTQ characters since Ikuhara tried to express queer and feminist themes in the series, leading some to call the series "groundbreaking." Some characters are lesbian, like Juri Arisugawa, and others are bisexual, like Utena Tenjou, a crossdressing prince and her friend "Rose Bride" Anthy Himemiya. As lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender characters appeared in anime throughout, like Nuriko in Fushigi Yûgi who initially dresses and acts as a woman named Kang-lin, and is in love with Hotohori, but later also grows to love the main heroine Miaka, a few shows on U.S. broadcast networks featured LGBTQ characters like South Park, specifically manifested in the characters Liane Cartman and Stephen Stotch, and Family Guy as shown by Meg Griffin and Stewie Griffin The show's abrupt cancellation caused MacFarlane to abort these plans, and the episode "Queer Is Stewie?" was actually produced, but never shown.
In later years, Drawn Together featured Foxxy Love, a bisexual character, while The Fairly OddParents featured a bisexual character in the later 2000s. An openly bisexual woman appeared in episodes of Red vs. Blue, becoming a main character by the show's fifth season in 2006.
Another well-regarded show, Queer Duck, the first U.S. animated TV series to have homosexuality as a major theme, was received positively by some in the LGBTQ community since it had lesbian, gay, and bisexual characters. In early 2011, Wandering Son, known as Hōrō Musuko in Japan, would premiere on Fuji TV's Noitamina programming block, an anime which would be praised as a "breakout show in the transgender drama genre" for its delicate art, empathetic story, and focus on characters, included a bisexual woman and a trans woman. In the 2010s, Love Stage!! also premiered with two bisexual characters: Izumi Sena and Ryoma Ichijo. Western animation made strides as well, with Adventure Time beginning in 2010, with Rebecca Sugar working to foster the relationship of two bisexual characters through her work on the show, Adventure Time would set the stage for other groundbreaking shows in the future. In the years that followed, a number of shows would introduce bisexual characters: Good Vibes, Bravest Warriors, The Crumpets and The Boondocks. In the 2010s, there would be a number of other shows with bisexual characters.' featured Norba Shino, a slightly flamboyant, and bisexual, eccentric person who reciprocates another boy's romantic affections, while Sword Art Online Alternative Gun Gale Online, which would have two bisexual characters: Pitohui and Clarence. In 2015, Star vs. the Forces of Evil introduced Jackie Lynn Thomas, who become a bisexual character as shown in later episodes, while Castlevania introduced two bisexual characters, whhile the Chinese show, Spiritpact which introduced two LGBTQ characters: Yang Jinghua and Duanmu Xi. Additionally, a Chinese show, Mo Dao Zu Shi included two LGBTQ characters: Wei Wuxian and Lan Wanji, Big Mouth included two bisexual characters Hazbin Hotel introduced a bisexual character named Charlie, and Helluva Boss'' introduced Stolas, a bisexual character.
Despite this representation, "not all queer presentation" is created equal as one scholar noted, with representation of bisexual and transgender characters lagging behind lesbians and gay men in some respects, with this representation important in the U.S. political climate while GLAAD called for Hollywood to produce more characters with LGBTQ characters.