List of fictional pansexual characters
Pansexuality is the sexual, romantic or emotional attraction towards people regardless of their biological sex or gender identity.[1][2] While pansexuality is at times viewed as a sexual orientation in its own right, at other times it's viewed as a branch of bisexuality, to indicate an alternative sexual identity.[2][3][4] One of the biggest differences from bisexuality is that pansexual people are open to relationships with individuals who do not fall within the gender binary, and do not identify as either men or women.[2][4]

This list contains characters across various forms of media that are pansexual, listed in alphabetical order by surname in each section. In the case where characters are identified with only a single name (either first or last) or by a title, that is used instead. To be listed here, characters have to either state in-universe that they are bisexual, be identified as such by either someone involved in the work they appear in, or a reliable, third-party source.
The names are organized alphabetically by surname (i.e. last name), or by single name if the character does not have a surname.
Film
Character | Title | Year | Actor | Notes | Ref. |
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Lando Calrissian | The Empire Strikes Back | 1980 | Billy Dee Williams | [5] | |
Return of the Jedi | 1983 | ||||
Solo: A Star Wars Story | 2018 | Donald Glover | |||
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker | 2019 | Billy Dee Williams | |||
Harry Turpin | The Thing About Harry | 2020 | Niko Terho | [6] | |
Wade Wilson / Deadpool | Deadpool | 2016 | Ryan Reynolds | While Tim Miller, director of the first film, described Deadpool as pansexual, this is never explicitly portrayed on-screen.[7] As with the first film, Deadpool 2 (2018) also doesn't explicitly portray his sexuality, with the character's interest in men being used as the source of humor.[8] | [9] |
Deadpool 2 | 2018 |
Television
Video games
Character | Title | Year | Voice actor | Notes | Ref. |
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Iron Bull | Dragon Age: Inquisition | 2014 | Freddie Prinze Jr. | [49] | |
Mae | Night in the Woods | 2017 | [50] |
Graphic art
Character | Title / Publisher | Debut / Duration | Notes | Ref. |
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Sakura Kinomoto | Cardcaptor Sakura / Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card | 1996 – present | The creators have stated that Sakura does not see gender as barrier for her romantic attraction.[51] | [51] |
Princess Koriand'r / Starfire | DC Comics | 1980 | Deriving from being raised on the culture of her homeworld Tamaran, where it's acceptable to have open marriage, Starfire's sex-positivism and free-thinking habits such as a fondness for practicing nudism, openness to polygamous relationships and acceptance of "open sex" and pansexual "free-love" with persons regardless of terrestrial species, race or gender, usually lead her into conflict with Earth's more reserved culture and customs.[52][53] For Starfire, polyamory was a personal and cultural preference.[52] | [53] |
Loki Laufeyson | Marvel Comics | 1962 | [54] | |
Wade Wilson / Deadpool | Marvel Comics | 1991 | [7] |
See also
- List of animated series with LGBT characters
- List of fictional polyamorous characters
- List of fictional non-binary characters
- List of fictional lesbian characters
- List of fictional asexual characters
- List of fictional intersex characters
- List of fictional trans characters
- List of fictional bisexual characters
- List of fictional gay characters
- List of comedy television series with LGBT characters
- List of dramatic television series with LGBT characters: 1970s–2000s
- List of dramatic television series with LGBT characters: 2010s
- List of made-for-television films with LGBT characters
- List of LGBT characters in soap operas
- List of LGBT characters in television and radio
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