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BEST QUEERBAIT TV SHOW - ROUND 1

Supernatural*(Dean/Castiel) vs Person Of Interest (Root/Shaw)

Supernatural

Person Of Interest

Voting ended onAug 30, 2025

*Shows marked with an asterisk feature minor queer storylines

Submitted propaganda under the cut

Supernatural:

"just trust me bro"

"I mean. This is the supernatural website. You guys know"

"It was the longest and greatest queerbait of all time. Twelve years of tension just for both of them to die wanting, one of them still in the closet."

"Destiel is so bizarre. I thought it was entirely made up during my first watch of SPN 1-7, figured I'd never get it during my second watch until Season 6. Then I couldn't stop seeing it. In everything. For the next NINE seasons. And then retrospectively for the preceeding two/three. The market research. The widower arc. The divorce arc. The specific episodes that make you ask yourself "Did I miss the episode where they got together??" Record-breaking fanfiction. Narrative parallels. The Market Research (for emphasis). It's nonsensical. Who tf else was doing it this purposefully for this long??"

"the ultimate queerbait. even when it went canon it was still queerbait."

"I mean like…c’mon.$

"you know its true. we all know its true."

Person Of Interest:

"Root constantly flirts with (sic.)Shaw Madison from the moment they're both recurring characters, and the show ended up doing the one episode queer bait to bury your gays pipeline"

op's addendum:

I actually haven't watched this show so I didn't know much about it. I just took it at face value. You guys should've nominated other shit if you didn't want this to make it but this had like three different noms which. is not much but secured it a place on the top 16.

My advice? Just vote Destiel and move on. Your protests won't be heeded by me at least. Running against destiel is like instant death for this show anyways.

[elivanto]

ROGUE ONE (2016) THRAWN ASCENDANCY: LESSER EVIL (2021) ANDOR (2022-)

[jedifinn]

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“rebellions are built on hope.”

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BEST QUEERBAIT TV SHOW - ROUND 1

House M.D.* (Gregory House/James WIlson) vs. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine* (Julian Bashir/Elim Garak)

House M.D.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Voting ended onAug 30, 2025

*Shows marked with an asterisk feature minor queer storylines

Submitted propaganda under the cut:

House M.D.:

"Other shows might have queerbaited in more distressing ways, but House queerbaited with a love for the game and a passion for the craft. Always intentional, always flawless."

"They are insane, they literally ride a motorcycle into the sunset together at the end of the series."

"House and Wilson love each other, most important people in each other's lives. Unconditional love. When they make gay jokes it physically pains me to know that they were never going to do anything romantic or crazy sexual style with them."

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine:

no propaganda submitted

op's addendum:

Honestly I'm surprised no one nominated DS9 for quodo when the actors literally kissed on the gag reel. But I get it.

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BEST QUEERBAIT TV SHOW - ROUND 1

Smallville (Clark Kent/Lex Luthor) vs. Hawaii Five-O (Steve McGarrett/Danny Williams)

Smallville

Hawaii Five-O

Voting ended onAug 30, 2025

Submitted propaganda under the cut:

Smallville:

-their lips meet in the pilot -it’s literal destiny -no one is obsessed like that without love involved -Lex protects and helps Clark all the time -Clark saves Lex’s life so many times -Lex just wants to be part of a family and Clark could have easily given that to him -rich kid and farm boy - need I say more? -Lex is constantly trying to be a wingman for Clark and Lana, yet Clark can’t seem to make that relationship work -red kryptonite Clark was ready to run away with Lex -the looks they give each other -they could have had it all had they been honest with each other

Why are you as a man obsessed with finding out your best friends secret 🤨

The first time they interacted on screen, Clark gave Lex mouth-to-mouth. The actors are constantly joking about their being something between them. In the DVD commentary, they comment on the homoeroticism of the framing. There was a reunion scene that the showrunners compared to lovers meeting after one of them came home from a war. Chloe constantly making jokes about Clark being “in the closet” re: his superpowers and at one point says that Clark is only attracted to people with the initials L.L.

Hawaii Five-O:

my guys i do not have the time to list all of the bait that was put out but trust me on this one, it was peak 2010s queerbait

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BEST QUEERBAIT TV SHOW - ROUND 1

Supergirl* (Kara Danvers/Lena Luthor) vs Voltron* (Keith Kogaine/Lance McClain)

Supergirl

Voltron

Voting ended onAug 30, 2025

*Shows marked with an asterisk feature minor queer storylines

Submitted propaganda under the cut

Supergirl:

They literally did lesbian clex with katie mcgrath.also everytime supergirl bridal-carried lena.

propaganda? it ruined my goddamn life

op's addendum (yeah sometimes i have a horse on this race. cope):

Where to start. Do I start with Katie McGrath?? Or the fact that everyone was in on it?? That they were queerbaiting very openly and purposefully? There's a whole parallel universe in the 100th episode in which Kara and Lena never had a fallout. In this parallel universe Lena refuses to testify against Supergirl and this kind of opens up a speculation as to whether they're married. In a parallel universe. Which could mean nothing.

Voltron:

it's not the best—it honestly might be the worst—but we gotta include it… for like the culture

they held eachother in their arms. okay? they held eachother. they bonded. look at me. they would have gotten suuuuuch good scenes together if it wasn't for corporate going "actually, shiro brings in more views- bring him back and have him replace keith. what about keith? uhhh send him to the blade whatever we don't care" LIKE ARE YOU SERIOUS. see that's why shiro was so weird. the clone thing was NOT planned. it was just keith. it was meant to be THEM. TOGETHER. FUUUUUCKKKK. also that last season thing. "the lance who's always got my back, and knows exactly what he's got to offer" fuuuuckkkkk they would have kissed if it wasn't for. corporate. whatever

god even typing out the name of the ship gave me war flashbacks

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BEST QUEERBAIT TV SHOW - ROUND 1

Once Upon A Time* (Emma Swan/Regina Mills) vs. Teen Wolf* (Stiles Stilinski/Derek Hale)

Once Upon A Time

Teen Wolf

Voting ended onAug 30, 2025

*Shows marked with an asterisk feature minor queer storylines

Submitted propaganda under the cut:

Once Upon A Time:

"i mean those two women had a kid together it doesn't get mores lesbian than that."

"didn't even go there, but the older i get the more obvious it gets. they shared a child!! they were supposed to be enemies but would constantly make exceptions for each other. and the added layer of "i have this super close relationship with my parents nemesis" just multiplies the freakinnes… wait i forgot that Regina was literally Emma's mother's step mom. what the hell even was this show. P. S. this show literally had a second minor yuribait couple with Mulan and Sleeping Beauty. they were addicted to writing these."

"They raised a kid together (who calls them both Mom) and had an epic enemies to friends to high chemistry almost lovers story."

Teen Wolf:

"the cast were literally in on it, joking about Sterek, making false hints in the show that Stiles was maybe/maybe not/who knows/could be bisexual in the show. Even in the promos for the last season, they had an ad that like "You didn't think you were doing this ['this' being the final season] without me, did you?" and immediately, it cuts to Derek, standing outside Stiles' truck saying "Without us?" So, yeah, Sterek. the cast knew"

"Not the biggest fan of this pairing personally but I feel like this deserves at least an honourable mention since Stiles is really fucking gay it's unreal. And this show was early 2010s so every 12 year old watching this latched onto it like a werewolf to a big bone? I don't know insert a funnier joke here."

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BEST QUEERBAIT TV SHOW - ROUND 1

Star Trek** (Kirk/Spock) vs. Red vs. Blue (Grif/Simmons)

Star Trek

Red vs. Blue

Voting ended onAug 30, 2025

**While the original Star Trek aired at a time where there was no queer representation on TV, Kirk and Spock have been revisited many times, notably in the ongoing projects: Alternate Original movie saga and Strange New Worlds. The prolonged insistence in keeping them friends while knowing and squeezing the most iconic gay ship in TV history could be read as malicious intent. Eye of the beholder.

Submitted propaganda under the cut:

Star Trek:

I mean, the OG ship. The looks, the touching, pon far

Invented slash, though they weren't intentional queerbait at the time I mean… Look at them. Responsible along with Spn for inventing omegaverse. Modern day iteration actors will NOT stop making jokes about the ship, and saying the ship name at comic cons. I'm losing my mind I'm losing my goddamn mind. I'm getting fucking queerbaited by the oldest slash ship,,,

Red vs. Blue:

It was the early 2000s. It was a bunch of straight men playing Halo. It was a formative ship dynamic for me. When the voice actors started to talk about it earnestly and not jokingly it was over for me. They were on a team with the world's most flamboyant man, named Donut, nicknamed Officer Hot Pants, referred to as every pink cartoon character in the book. And they still came out of that show as the gayest characters.

-from the VERY first scene if the show, these two men are just like that. -been queerbated so long its old enough to DRIVE. -in an interview long ago, the actor for Grif said that he (Grif) had a crush on Simmons. -characters in the series have said that they are like an old married couple. -DO NOT SEPARATE THEM, they will not function without the other (see season 15 for such cases) -after being ran over by a tank, Simmons gave Grif half of his body, literally. -its rare to not see them at each other's side talking and bickering with each other. -"do you ever wonder why we're here?" "it's one of life's greatest mysteries"

They start the series, they end the series. They’ve got this odd couple dynamic going on, have canonically (for at least like. Five years? Before it got retconned) had alien magic induced sex in a supply closet, and had a little brokeback mountain moment riffing off of i cant quit you. They claim to hate each other and yet can be found doing everything always together. The one time they split up Grif went crazy talking to his little Simmons volleyball until he found simmons again.