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Troy McClure from The Simpsons

Always had him pictured more as fish-sexual, myself. :lol:

I feel like Troy McClure was more Auto-sexual.

Any futurama fans? I feel like Zoidberg is a romantic asexual, maybe grey-a, who knows he's the butt of all jokes and just enjoys being around for the ride (I could be wrong, but I'd prefer to stay in my little bubble).

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Any futurama fans? I feel like Zoidberg is a romantic asexual, maybe grey-a, who knows he's the butt of all jokes and just enjoys being around for the ride (I could be wrong, but I'd prefer to stay in my little bubble).

Yeah, I'd have to agree. The one episode where he actually seemed interested in sex, it only seemed to be because the rest of his species was doing it. He even had to ask Fry of all people for advice on getting Edna to like him :rolleyes:

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I was thinking about this the other day, and I thought of a few characters from Greek Mythology who seemed asexual (or at least aromantic)

Atalanta was a girl who would have rathered go out on a hunt than mess with love, but she was eventually tricked into taking a husband which really pissed me off, to say the least. Then there was Hippolytus, who had the same lack of interest in love, even going so far as to scorn Aphrodite (not very smart, mind you, but still) Then again, Artemis and Athena seemed a little asexual to me, too

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Dr Who, already mentioned.

David Niven as 007 in the original Casino Royale, actually something of an 'anti-sexual' as well, with regard to his namesakes.

Kai, Last of the Brunnen-G - Sci-Fi series Lexx.

ALL British people under Queen Victoria and pretty much right up until the sixties. I blame the change on the Yanks who introduced us to their pagan ways circa 1940, in retaliation for our dumping all our Puritans on them and thrashing them in the war of 1812 ;) .

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Ah, I'm a QC reader too. I love Hannelore. I think we could definitely consider her to be asexual. It seems to stem a lot from her OCD but her thoughts on sex are so amusingly asexual. This comic is a good one for it, especially the last panel: http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1109

Les Misérables has a few characters that could be seen as quite apparently asexual. Enjolras and Javert both seem pretty obvious & I also think we could interpret Jean Valjean as being asexual too.

As for Harry Potter, I like to think of both Sirius & Dumbledore as asexual, the latter obviously being homo-romantic. Whether it was celibacy stemming from his unrequited love for Grindelwald or just natural asexuality from the beginning, it doesn't really matter to me. I think Sirius was aromantic though.

I love this topic!

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The only fictional asexual role model I had whilst growing up (I say role model, probably "evidence that I am not alone") was Artemis Fowl. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_Fowl_II ) Then it was so spoiled, due to the introduction of a mary-sue ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minerva_Paradizo ) (after all, mary-sues are there for people to fall in love with... grr).

Never read Artemis Fowl & the Lost Colony, but certainly read all the others.

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Not sure if anyone brought this up- but does anyone else think Hamlet's asexual? Apparently there are interpretations that Hamlet & Ophelia had a borther/sister relationship rather than a romantic or sexual one and that it's just everyone else doing hte usual thing of saying "A boy and girl are friends! They must want each other!"

To the thread at hand...

I was thinking about this the other day, and I thought of a few characters from Greek Mythology who seemed asexual (or at least aromantic)

Atalanta was a girl who would have rathered go out on a hunt than mess with love, but she was eventually tricked into taking a husband which really pissed me off, to say the least. Then there was Hippolytus, who had the same lack of interest in love, even going so far as to scorn Aphrodite (not very smart, mind you, but still) Then again, Artemis and Athena seemed a little asexual to me, too

I second Athena. Heck, look at how she was born. Bursting out of her daddy's head? The start was fairly asexual.

Artemis might be, with the pact to stay a maiden and all her priestess types having to be virgins (hi, I haven't studied greek mythology in a few years and am tired). She seemed to fall in love with a guy once, but I'm not sure if that was sexual or just romantic.

Ah, I'm a QC reader too. I love Hannelore. I think we could definitely consider her to be asexual. It seems to stem a lot from her OCD but her thoughts on sex are so amusingly asexual. This comic is a good one for it, especially the last panel: http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1109

I can't remember which one, but I also liked the "We cleaned my house naked." sex dream discussion. But after the Indiana Jones one that seemed like an actual sex dream, I'm curious if she'd be sexual without the OCD.

As for Harry Potter, I like to think of both Sirius & Dumbledore as asexual, the latter obviously being homo-romantic. Whether it was celibacy stemming from his unrequited love for Grindelwald or just natural asexuality from the beginning, it doesn't really matter to me. I think Sirius was aromantic though.

...Are you implying siri/remi ISN'T cannon? :ph34r:

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Arthur on Six Feet Under. David and Keith even debate his sexuality, David opting for asexual and Keith opting for gay. But, in the actual series, Arthur never has sex. All he likes to do is nuzzle.

Now, I find him REALY freakin' weird, but it was an awesome mention. Additionally, Michael C. Hall plays David, who later went on to play Dexter, so now I can support the Dexter-as-asexual theory a hell of a lot more! YAY!

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Miss Universe in 'Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs' (or was it Miss World?). She has just a very short appearance, but she explicitly says that she's asexual.

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Two characters in my military fiction books are asexual. Faye "Cupid" Cooper and her sister, Linda "Samurai" Cooper are asexual, but act more like antisexuals. Cupid first appears in Operation Hurdler (Book 4) and Samurai debuts in Operation Outside Hitter (Book 5). It isn't until the new book that has yet to be published that their orientation is revealed. www.lulu.com/bilka

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I've just finished reading The Little Gentleman by Phillipa Pearce. http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/p/philip...e-gentleman.htm

The mole in that was "inflicted" with a lack of desire to mate when a witch's spell gave him understanding.....

Landover Baptist rocks. Everything I learned about America, I learned from that site :P Well, that's my one rude, nasty comment for the day used up. Actually, what is interesting is surfing from there to real sites, like a university that is plugged in one of their pop-ups or the ex-nun that was a sensation a few decades ago with her tale of demonic abuse in her convent.

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Miss Universe in 'Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs' (or was it Miss World?). She has just a very short appearance, but she explicitly says that she's asexual.

twas miss universe. ah that was good, was watching that last night

"He makes me feel sexy and I'm asexual"

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Trance Gemini from Gene Roddenbery's "Andromeda" as an asexual character.

Well, she was meant to be. In S5 I think she did have a brief relationship but bear in mind that every single one of the original writers had been fired and replaced by then so everything and not just her character became skewed and badly written by people that didn't understand.

The original Trance was asexual though. (Although, she wasn't human but was quite female.)

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Daniel Plainview in the movie 'There Will Be Blood'. He is not only asexual but he also hates all people.

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Lloyd from "Code Geass".

Did I mention that I love this anime?

Even the main character might very well be a. Not to mention his little sister, even though she's a little younger.

Err... anyway, Lloyd is so a. I mean, he's a (very handsome and huggable) mad scientist who has absolutely no concept of how to interact with other human beings and even openly states that he has no interest in women.

Of course, he could still be gay, but you only need to watch a few episodes to see that that, too, is very unlikely.

He's just so... a! xD

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Lloyd from "Code Geass".

Did I mention that I love this anime?

Even the main character might very well be a. Not to mention his little sister, even though she's a little younger.

Err... anyway, Lloyd is so a. I mean, he's a (very handsome and huggable) mad scientist who has absolutely no concept of how to interact with other human beings and even openly states that he has no interest in women.

Of course, he could still be gay, but you only need to watch a few episodes to see that that, too, is very unlikely.

He's just so... a! xD

Gosh I cried during the ending of R2. Anyway, Lloyd also stated that he has an unworking heart or something of that matter, so i doubt he is gay. Yay for CLAMP always portraying every single type of sexuality/romance in their works. Though I doubt Lelouch is, he just doesn't have sex since he's so busy and since the writers don't want to ruin any shippings. And Nunnally is blind and paralyzed and underage and surrounded mainly by her family.

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Gosh I cried during the ending of R2.

Me too. q.q

I also laughed hysterically.

But hey, I never claimed to be sane. xD

Anyway, Lloyd also stated that he has an unworking heart or something of that matter, so i doubt he is gay. Yay for CLAMP always portraying every single type of sexuality/romance in their works.

Yep.

Love it. *-*

And I also love Lloyd. xD

Though I doubt Lelouch is, he just doesn't have sex since he's so busy and since the writers don't want to ruin any shippings.

That might very well be the case, but I really can't see Lelouch having sex with anyone. xD

Shirley is just too... cute.

Kallen is too... too Kallen!

And C.C. ...well, she's probably a, too. Or has a very low sex-drive. Or is into pizza, but I really don't want to thing about that. xD

And Nunnally is blind and paralyzed and underage and surrounded mainly by her family.

When did being part of the same family ever stop anyone in Code Geass? xD

Errr... anyway, I really can't imagine Nunally falling for anyone. She loves her brother, but not romantically, and she loves Suzaku, but also not in a romantic way.

And she's Nunally. Lelouch would never let anyone with "questionable intentions near her". And there's absolutely nothing that would stop him.

Nothing! xD

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Well, he's been mentioned before on other threads, but I think it's worth bringing up again since there's so little doubt.

Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory

This line pretty much makes it clear as day:

While Mr. Kim, by virtue of his youth and naiveté, has fallen prey to the inexplicable need for human contact, let me step in and assure you that my research will go on uninterrupted, and that social relationships will continue to baffle and repulse me.

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I stumbled upon this whilst browsing the internets, wasn't sure if it merited its own thread and so am posting it here. Forgive me if it's been mentioned before - I did a quick search and couldn't find anything (but then again, aven's search function baffles me :> ).

The book The Northern Clemency, by Philip Hensher, apparently features an asexual character. Here's a little extract of a review by newsreview.com

"The rest of the children also grapple with loneliness and isolation. The most sympathetic was Francis, the gentle and fearful Sellers boy. He is first characterized through an episode that tracks the evolution of a chaotic playground game which captures all that is exhilarating and dark about childhood. In adulthood, Francis realizes that he is asexual. This is an interesting twist as well as a rare fictional characterization of a very real, though also rare, sexual orientation (or lack thereof)."

On another note, I have to agree with whoever mentioned Cardcaptor Sakura that any manga by CLAMP tends to have an asexual vibe (bar maayybe X/1999 and Chobits). There's that strong idealised theme of "one true love~~", coupled with a general innocence that runs through their series, as well as a distinct blurring of gender lines (Ashura Jr, Yue etc). Even Chobits, which is full of pervy-hentai-manga tropes and has a clearly sexual main character, ends with the moral message that sex is not crucial and you can live 'happily ever after' without it.

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Monk is my hero! I thought about the whole asexual thing with him, but I figured it wasn't so because his wife.

Wasn't there an episode where he said that he had never had sex with his wife, and that the closest they had gotten was holding hands while they were sleeping?

I think his "history" has changed a lot since the show started though. In the beginning, they seemed to imply that he used to be normal, but was horribly damaged by the death of his wife. In later years, they started portraying him as always having been that way, even since childhood (and they imply that a lot of his differentness was caused by his parents). He also seems to go from being afraid of a believably finite number of things to being supposedly afraid of everything.

Also, has anyone seen the episodes of Dexter where he sleeps with Rita? He also cheats on her. I think he's discovered that he likes sex. It makes me sad.

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Also, has anyone seen the episodes of Dexter where he sleeps with Rita? He also cheats on her. I think he's discovered that he likes sex. It makes me sad.

I've seen it. It made me sad too. I was okay with it when he was just comfortable with it, but now he's all lusty, it's a little creepy. He seemed more evil somehow - mostly with the violent sex and cheating parts. I just plain do not like Lila.

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Monk rocks.

Isn't a Watchmen character supposed to be asexual - or celibate or something?

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Not that I noticed while reading it, but then sex isn't really relevant to it.

One is impotent and one is almost completely cut off from humanity so doesn't seem to care about anything so trivial, but that's about it.

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I've just started reading it, but I vaguely remember reading or hearing about it somewhere.

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It's one of those things where it's difficult to say about anyone in it. Sex isn't really featured at all outside of one particular relationship group, so you could theoretically make the case for a number of them.

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That website is a joke. I just wanted to point that out so that people don't start thinking that the church really feels that way about Spongebob.

Are you sure? They seemed pretty convinced... :?

Quite sure, yes. The Landover Baptist Church doesn't exist--well, it does about as much as Pastafarianism. :rolleyes: It's a mock "church" that's a satire against religion.

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Shazam, a.k.a. Captain Marvel, or Miracle Man for all you hard core fans, from the DC comic universe.

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Sonic the Hedgehog (from the games)

He isn't really much into girls and strays from any relationship.

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I always thought that Sonic and Tails had a bit of a thing going on.

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