Always Camp: Difference between revisions

 

Compare [[Real Men Wear Pink]].

 

== Anime and Manga ==

* Ayame Sohma from ''[[Fruits Basket]]'', male-romantic-fantasy-fashion designer. He's actually straight, but that's not going to hold him back from frequent [[Ho Yay]] gags with Shigure or just plain looking fabulous.

* Kenji from ''[[Kinou Nani Tabeta]]'' is gay and a hair dresser.

 

* Bianca Castafiore of ''[[Tintin]]''. OK, she's rampantly heterosexual, but she's still a drama queen who looks like a man in drag.

** One writer actually published a fictional biography of her as a [[wikipedia:Castrato|castrato]]

 

== Film ==

{{quote|''Karen:'' Actors never order off the menu. They always special order something they just have to have. And they never pay for anything.}}

* Invoked in [[Billy Elliot]]. In the middle of the manliest of cultures, a boy wants to become a ballet dancer.

 

== Literature ==

* At the end of ''[[The Dresden Files]]'' book ''White Night'', it's revealed that Thomas, an [[Horny Devils|incubus]], has been [[Vegetarian Vampire|feeding himself]] by becoming a hairdresser (he draws power from intimacy, and says that styling a woman's hair is the second most intimate thing one can do with them). In order to make them feel more comfortable and [[The Pornomancer|prevent them from molesting him]], he plays up campyness, including a fake French accent, and implied homosexuality.

 

* Fez from ''[[That '70s Show]]''.

* Kazama Daisuke in ''[[Kamen Rider Kabuto]]''.

 

== Video Games ==

* [[BioShock (series)|Sander Cohen]] is a ''creepy'' version of this trope, combined with the [[Mad Artist]]. To a lesser extent, this also applies to Dr. Steinmann, "Surgery's [[Squick|Picasso]]".

* Zhang He of ''[[Dynasty Warriors]]''. ''"We move! Our path through to the battlefield shall be paved with the petals of roses!"''

 

== Web Comics ==

* Wanda Rocket of the webcomic ''Girly''. [https://web.archive.org/web/20130203022528/http://girlyyy.com/go/93 Her first appearance].

* Felix the hairdresser from ''[[Supernormal Step]]''. He's even a [[Third Person Person]].

 

== Western Animation ==

* ''[[Fairly Oddparents]]''' Mr. Bickles. And Cupid, though he falls for Momma Cosma under the spell of his own arrow.

* The first-chair hairdresser at the new shop in Arlen on ''[[King of the Hill]]''. The rest are catty women. Doughy army sergeant-barber Bill has to act the part (poorly) to get a job there and express his stifled creativity.

* [[Camp Gay|Bobbi]] [[Meaningful Name|Fabulous]], rocker-turned-beautician from the [[Phineas and Ferb]] episode "Dude We're Getting The Band Back Together", fits this to a T.

* Ze [[Everything Sounds Sexier in French|French-accented]] Painter Smurf in ''[[The Smurfs|Ze Smurfs]]''. He's always temperamental when it comes to his ''masteurpiesas''.

 

== Real Life ==

* Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum, ancient Egyptian servants who are speculated to be the first same-sex couple in recorded history, shared the title Overseer of the Manicurists in Palace of King Niuserre. Always Camp indeed.

** They were also [[Brother-Sister Incest|brothers]] and probably [[Twincest|twins]]. [[Values Dissonance]], anyone?

 

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