Eeeee! Thank you! That's a lovely canon list. (I'm afraid I don't know who HG Wells is?) Also, your questions: characters who the WRITERS might say are straight but do not present that way at all. I'm thinking of characters like Jess or Kate Bishop who are shown to have relationships with the opposite sex but also have moments where you go, 'okay, character you are not straight or at least not 100% straight.'
They are called Legion for they are many (this list is fairly small since I can only really remember the characters I'm thinking of right now, and most of those would be comics or MCU characters), and I wrote you a mini-essay. It's interesting, since I feel like I read a lot of my favorite characters as at least a bit queer. I'll also note that on this list there aren't that many examples of characters who the writers have actively claimed are straight so much as it's just implied by default.
Male characters:
Tony Stark - It's so weird. With Tony, in all his incarnations, I really just keep expecting him to flirt with guys at the same time he flirts with girls. He's very flamboyant, in not necessarily a queer-specific way, but it still ends up reading as queer to me, and I'm always surprised when it doesn't happen. Loki - Same, which was actually partially validated recently when comics!Loki was announced as canon bi. In the MCU, I just read him as very sexual? And I think that sexuality and flirtatiousness translates onto both men and women. Does this really look like a character who is 100% straight? (http://qualapec.tumblr.com/post/65506687178/give-people-what-they-want-x) Jason Todd (DC) - Biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii. Will Graham - I feel like Will reads as someone who would have a relationship with anyone who could help him stay grounded. I think he's more attracted to the person than anything else. Most of the main characters in Assassin's Creed - Mass Effect and Dragon Age have spoiled me in being able to choose what relationships my MCs in video games would have (m/m, f/m, or f/f all being options). Assassin's Creed is still a pretty dudebro series, and there's always a bit of a cognitive disconnect for me when their protagonists are not queer, especially the protagonist of the latest game, Black Flag. I cannot think of an easier character in the history of video games to make gay but was not.
I'm also not sure if this counts, but Cabal reads as asexual to me, even though he also largely reads as heteroromantic.
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Also, your questions: characters who the WRITERS might say are straight but do not present that way at all. I'm thinking of characters like Jess or Kate Bishop who are shown to have relationships with the opposite sex but also have moments where you go, 'okay, character you are not straight or at least not 100% straight.'
They are called Legion for they are many (this list is fairly small since I can only really remember the characters I'm thinking of right now, and most of those would be comics or MCU characters), and I wrote you a mini-essay. It's interesting, since I feel like I read a lot of my favorite characters as at least a bit queer. I'll also note that on this list there aren't that many examples of characters who the writers have actively claimed are straight so much as it's just implied by default.
Male characters:
Tony Stark - It's so weird. With Tony, in all his incarnations, I really just keep expecting him to flirt with guys at the same time he flirts with girls. He's very flamboyant, in not necessarily a queer-specific way, but it still ends up reading as queer to me, and I'm always surprised when it doesn't happen.
Loki - Same, which was actually partially validated recently when comics!Loki was announced as canon bi. In the MCU, I just read him as very sexual? And I think that sexuality and flirtatiousness translates onto both men and women. Does this really look like a character who is 100% straight? (http://qualapec.tumblr.com/post/65506687178/give-people-what-they-want-x)
Jason Todd (DC) - Biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii.
Will Graham - I feel like Will reads as someone who would have a relationship with anyone who could help him stay grounded. I think he's more attracted to the person than anything else.
Most of the main characters in Assassin's Creed - Mass Effect and Dragon Age have spoiled me in being able to choose what relationships my MCs in video games would have (m/m, f/m, or f/f all being options). Assassin's Creed is still a pretty dudebro series, and there's always a bit of a cognitive disconnect for me when their protagonists are not queer, especially the protagonist of the latest game, Black Flag. I cannot think of an easier character in the history of video games to make gay but was not.
I'm also not sure if this counts, but Cabal reads as asexual to me, even though he also largely reads as heteroromantic.
(EDIT: Oh god I wrote you a 2 part essay)