History Main / BelligerentSexualTension

** In the Classic series, the Doctor ([[TheNthDoctor both of them]] and Sarah Jane had their moments. The Third Doctor says sexist things just to get her riled up and drags her back to the TARDIS by her ear, and the Fourth abuses her to provoke her into UnstoppableRage against an obstacle, threatens to bite her nose and likes grabbing her unexpectedly to make her squeal. She also does a fair amount of yelling, hair-pulling and wrestling. But the fact that they love each other is never in doubt, even if they might feel a bit funny about it when they realise they're both hugging each other.

%%* Chiara and Rodney from ''Anime/ElementHunters''.

%%* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}''
%%** Ash and Misty, so much.

%%* In ''VisualNovel/SteinsGate'' this is the kind of relationship between Okabe and Kurisu.

%%* There is a lot of belligerent sexual tension between the two main characters in ''Anime/TheGirlWhoLeaptThroughTime''.
%%* ''Manga/KangokuGakuen'': Main Character Kiyoshi and antagonist Hana. Oh my goodness me, yes.

* In ''Literature/TanteiTeamKZJikenNote'', the relationship between Aya and Wakatake can be categorized as this. Wakatake is brash, impatient and InnocentlyInsensitive to the point that Aya decided to [[HeyYou call him without any honorifics]], but it's also the only pair where both have gone {{Green Eyed|Monster}} to each other--in the fourth novel, Aya found herself in jealousy when she finds Wakatake have recently been dumped, and in the twelveth novel, Wakatake (together with the rest of the TheTeam) are obviously jealous when they know Aya is far closer to Sunahara than they think.

* Baloo and Rebecca in ''TaleSpin'' have this, understandable [[WordOfGod as the show's creators modeled the relationship after Sam and Diane in]] {{Cheers}}.

* In ''Literature/TanteiTeamKZJikenNote'', the relationship between Aya and Wakatake can be categorized as this. Wakatake is brash, impatient and InnocentlyInsensitive to the point that Aya decided to [[HeyYou call him without any honorifics]], but it's also the only pair where both have gone {{Green Eyed|Monster}} to each other--in the fourth novel, Aya found herself in jealousy when she finds Wakatake have recently been dumped, and in the twelveth novel, Wakatake (together with the rest of the TheTeam) are obviously jealous when they know Aya is far closer to Sunahara than they think.

* Creator/RumikoTakahashi uses this in most of her manga, even providing the image above and the {{Trope Codifier}}s with her most famous work ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf''. See TakahashiCouple for examples.

--->'''Indy''' (necking furiously): "Leave me alone, I hate aggressive women."

* [[Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk Marion Ravenwood]] and Franchise/IndianaJones. [[Film/TempleOfDoom Willie Scott]] and Indiana Jones. And don't forget [[Film/LastCrusade Indy and Elsa]]

* [[Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk Marion Ravenwood]] and Franchise/IndianaJones. [[Film/TempleOfDoom Willie Scott]] and Indiana Jones.

If there is a LoveEpiphany with one of these characters, expect it to change almost nothing, at least in the short term.

** The video game of the show ''VideoGame/GravityFallsLegendOfTheGnomeGemulets'' shows [[spoiler:That Pacifica and Dipper seem to be falling into this trope as well. When Mabel points out that the two hugged at Northwest Manor, they both immediately deny it ever happening and act disgusted towards one another]].

** The video game of the show ''VideoGame/GravityFallsLegendOfTheGemulets'' shows [[spoiler:That Pacifica and Dipper seem to be falling into this trope as well. When Mabel points out that the two hugged at Northwest manor they both immediately deny it ever happening and act disgusted towards one another]].

* Damon and Bonnie from ''TheVampireDiaries''. They're always sniping at each other and calling each other out on their weaknesses, but are also capable of showing flashes of kindness for one another if the situation allows. Also, Damon and Elena to a lesser extent.

* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'': [[{{Tsundere}} Asuka Langley Soryu]] [[HeroesWantRedheads and]] [[ShrinkingViolet Shinji Ikari]]. EveryoneCanSeeIt. Even TOJI can see it: Asuka starts chewing out Shinji for not bringing their lunches, while he tries to get his side in. Toji tosses off a remark that they're arguing LikeAnOldMarriedCouple. Cue double LuminescentBlush (they HAD kissed not many days earlier), then simultaneous denial in perfect stereo. But due to their personality problems, neither can actually tell the other, leading to... well, TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. Luckily, many fanfiction authors go out of their way to fix these problems. So did the canon author in the Rebuild series; her {{Tsundere}} and his ShrinkingViolet tendencies are toned down considerably.

* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'': [[{{Tsundere}} Asuka Langley Soryu]] [[HeroesWantRedheads and]] [[IdiotHero Shinji Ikari]]. EveryoneCanSeeIt. Even TOJI can see it: Asuka starts chewing out Shinji for not bringing their lunches, while he tries to get his side in. Toji tosses off a remark that they're arguing LikeAnOldMarriedCouple. Cue double LuminescentBlush (they HAD kissed not many days earlier), then simultaneous denial in perfect stereo. But due to their personality problems, neither can actually tell the other, leading to... well, TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. Luckily, many fanfiction authors go out of their way to fix these problems. So did the canon author in the Rebuild series; her {{Tsundere}} and his ShrinkingViolet tendencies are toned down considerably.

* This trope is also called a Tracy-Hepburn romance because of all the films where Spencer Tracy and Katie Hepburn behaved this way to each other.

* As in the cartoon [[WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers Captain Planet]], Linka and Wheeler has a lot of tension in [[''Fanfic/HeroesForEarth'']]. As a DeconstructionFic, it takes a dark turn in later chapters when Linka has been pressured by the villain for sexual favors, with Wheeler trying to respect her boundaries.

** The video game of the show "Legend of the Gnome Gemulets" shows [[spoiler:That Pacifica and Dipper seem to be falling into this trope as well. When Mabel points out that the two hugged at Northwest manor they both immediately deny it ever happening and act disgusted towards one another]].

* Michael Westen and Fiona Glenanne of ''Series/BurnNotice''. Starts out as WorkingWithTheEx, goes through full-blown DestructoNookie, into BattleCouple, and ends Season 4 with [[spoiler:Fi's non-fatal HeroicSacrifice to keep Michael from becoming what he hates just to save her]].

* ''WesternAnimation/MoonbeamCity'': [[CowboyCop Dazzle Novak]] and [[DaChief Pizzaz Miller]], despite [[spoiler:a yearly [[OneThingLedToAnother sex-filled]] [[GetARoom weekend]] [[CoitusEnsues during]] the annual "Cop Con" police event, involving [[InstantSeduction multiple]] [[MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces rounds]] of [[TheGruntingOrgasm love]]-[[TheImmodestOrgasm making]].]] They both pretend that the attraction, passion, and genuine affection they display for each other is just [[spoiler:a "foolish, drunken, sexually-charged mistake"]] even though they both [[spoiler:show their true feelings when she saves him from an assassin's bullet (and have passionate sex on the auditorium stage, under a covered table).]] They also [[spoiler:make love twice after the event]].

* In ''Theatre/DreamGirl'', Georgina Allerton is an aspiring young novelist with an overactive imagination, and Clark Redfield is a cynical literary critic with a [[CausticCritic caustic]] streak. When she first meets him, she wants to kill him, and does so in a DreamSequence. She can't put him out of her dreams so easily, and the last DreamSequence in the play has her trying to elope with him.