List of fictional bisexual characters
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 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. | United States |
| Robin | Batman | 1989-present | Tim Drake comes out as bisexual when he realizes he has romantic feelings for his male friend Bernard Dowd. | 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. Ramona says that dating a girl was just a phase. However, Ramona later spends the night at Roxie's house and they make out offscreen. | Canada |
| Black Cat | The Amazing Spider-Man | 1979-present | Felicia Hardy is a bisexual cat burglar. | United States |
| Jericho | DC Comics | 1984–present | Marv Wolfman and George Pérez, who created Jericho, originally intended for him to be gay. However, they decided to make Jericho heterosexual instead, reasoning that it would be problematic to have him depicted as both effeminate and gay. Jericho was revealed to be bisexual following the DC Rebirth relaunch. | United States |
| Jon Kent | DC Comics | 2015–present | Jon has a male love interest and is canonically bisexual. | 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. | United States |
| Korra | ' & ' | 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. The creators later confirmed 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, set after the events of the series, Korra and Asami are in a relationship. | United States |
| Asami Sato | ' & ' | 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. The creators later confirmed 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, set after the events of the series, Korra and Asami are in a relationship. | United States |
| Selina Kyle | Batman | 1940-present | Selina Kyle is Batman’s love interest, and she has flirted with male and female characters. In Catwoman: Hunted, she explicitly shows attraction to Kate Kane. | United States |
| 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. | - | |
| 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, while dealing with childhood trauma from molestation. 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. | 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. Harley and Poison Ivy are in a relationship in the series. | United States |
| Harley Quinn | DC Comics Bombshells & Bombshells United | 2015–2017 & 2017-2018 | 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 |
| Poison Ivy | DC Comics Bombshells & Bombshells United | 2015–2017 & 2017-2018 | 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 |
| Mera | DC Comics Bombshells & Bombshells United | 2015–2017 & 2017-2018 | Wonder Woman was in a relationship with Mera and later Steve Trevor. Harley and Poison Ivy are in a relationship in the series. | - |
Literature
| Character | Work | Author | Years | Description |
| Akhenaten | 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. | |
| 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 | 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. | |
| 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. | |
| Hephaistion | 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– | 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. | |
| 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. |
| 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 | 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." | |
| Clayton "Clay" | Imperial Bedrooms | 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 | 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 an "explicitly bisexual character." | |
| DeDe Halcyon Day | 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 an "explicitly bisexual character." | |
| 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 an "explicitly bisexual character." | |
| Paul Denton | The Rules of Attraction | 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." 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 | 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. | |
| 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 | 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. |
| 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 | 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." | |
| Freelorn | 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." | |
| 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 a 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. | |
| 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. | |
| Lestat de Lioncourt | 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. | |
| Louis de Pointe du Lac | 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. | |
| Armand | 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. | |
| Marius de Romanus | 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. | |
| David Talbot | 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. | |
| Rhy Maresh | Shades of Magic trilogy | 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. | |
| Alucard Emery | Shades of Magic trilogy | 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. | |
| 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. Her bisexuality is used against her in a televised debate with rival Peter Petrawicki, because May had publicized the idea that she was lesbian. |
| April May | A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor | 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. Her bisexuality is used against her in a televised debate with rival Peter Petrawicki, because May had publicized the idea that she was lesbian. |
| 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 | 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. |
| Felicity 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. |
| 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 | The Illusionist | 1951 | Tamara has a romantic relationship with both Hélène and her father; Hélène prefers men after the fair ends. | |
| Tamara Soulerr | The Illusionist | 1951 | Tamara has a romantic relationship with both Hélène and her father; Hélène prefers men after the fair ends. | |
| Adam Parrish | The Raven Cycle | 2012–2016 | Adam shows romantic interest in Blue during the first two books, but then develops a relationship with Ronan Lynch. | |
| Adam Parrish | The Dreamer Trilogy | 2019- | Adam shows romantic interest in Blue during the first two books, but then develops a relationship with Ronan Lynch. | |
| Patroclus | The Song of Achilles | Madeline Miller | 2011 | Patroclus is bisexual, saying he would fall in love with Briseis if not for Achilles. |
| 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. |
| René Suratt | University series | 1990–1998 | René is protagonist Willie Wilson's nemesis, "a bisexual seducer of students." | |
| Jack Twist | "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. | |
| 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 | Invisible Life & Just As I Am & Abide With Me & Any Way the Wind Blows | 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. | |
| Basil Henderson | Invisible Life & Just As I Am & Abide With Me & Any Way the Wind Blows | 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 an "ambivalent sexuality." | |
| 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 him to be bisexual, but subconsciously more attracted to men than to women." |