History Main / BrotherSisterIncest

* In the ''WebVideo/PhilosophyTube''-video "Jordan Peterson's Ideology", Adelaide (a StrawCharacter meant to represent TERFs and ostensible progressives, who are really more concerned with not having to change anything or be inconvenienced in any way than with really helping people, and will be actively unhelpful if threatened) is very obviously in love with Ivan (another StrawCharacter meant to represent fascism and far-right extremism), her brother. At the end of the video, Adelaide lights Ivan's cigarette for him, before they start ''passionately'' making out.

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* Wrestling/VinceRusso planned on doing this as a [[ShockingSwerve plot element to the]] Wrestling/StacyKeibler pregnancy angle. She was seeing David Flair in the storyline, and was his fiance, so Russo planned to reveal that Stacy was Wrestling/RicFlair's illegitimate daughter. Fortunately, Wrestling/{{WCW}} went out of business before this angle could come to fruition.

->''"Sweet home Alabama\\
Where the skies are so blue\\
Sweet home Alabama\\
Lord, I'm coming home to you"''
-->-- '''Sweet Home Alabama''', ''Music/LynyrdSkynyrd''

->''"Of brother and of sister, be a bar\\
'Twixt my perpetual happiness and me?\\
Say that we had one father, say one womb\\
(Curse to my joys!) gave both us life and birth;\\
Are we not, therefore, each to other bound\\
So much the more by nature? by the links\\
Of blood, of reason? nay, if you will have it,\\
Even of religion, to be ever one,\\
One soul, one flesh, one love, one heart, one all?"''
-->-- '''Giovanni''', ''Theatre/TisPityShesAWhore''

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Compare OnlyChildSyndrome. See also CreepyTwins, {{Twincest}}, NotBloodSiblings, KissingCousins, BigBrotherAttraction, RoyalInbreeding, and LittleSisterHeroine. Contrast with ParentalIncest, where the parent/child power dynamics can make it even {{squick}}ier. Not to be confused with DoubleInLawMarriage, where both of the couples are NotBloodSiblings but siblings-in-law.

* BrotherSisterIncezt/VisualNovels

Compare OnlyChildSyndrome. See also CreepyTwins, {{Twincest}}, NotBloodSiblings, KissingCousins, BigBrotherAttraction, and LittleSisterHeroine. Contrast with ParentalIncest, where the parent/child power dynamics can make it even {{squick}}ier. Not to be confused with DoubleInLawMarriage, where both of the couples are NotBloodSiblings but siblings-in-law.

* Simon Bar Sinister and Penny Dreadful were a brother-sister team of supervillains in the ''Roleplay/GlobalGuardiansPBEMUniverse''. In addition to being murderous psychopaths, they were utterly and completely in love with one another, to the point of getting physical while they were in the middle of a crime.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'' doesn't mention it, but technically, Hera and Zeus ''are'' siblings (as are the rest of the gods).

* Wrestling/VinceRusso planned on doing this as a [[ShockingSwerve plot element to the]] Wrestling/StacyKeibler pregnancy angle. She was seeing David Flair in the storyline, and was his fiance, so Russo planned to reveal that Stacy was Wrestling/RicFlair's illegitimate daughter. Fortunately, Wrestling/{{WCW}} went out of business before this angle could come to fruition.

* Simon Bar Sinister and Penny Dreadful were a brother-sister team of supervillains in the ''Roleplay/GlobalGuardiansPBEMUniverse''. In addition to being murderous psychopaths, they were utterly and completely in love with one another, to the point of getting physical while they were in the middle of a crime.
* In ''Roleplay/TheGamersAlliance'', Desdemona and Mordecai are siblings and very much in love although they have to hide their relationship from everyone else. Desdemona eventually gets pregnant with Mordecai's child and intends to give birth to the child, using it as a means to install herself on the Remonian throne by claiming that the child belongs to King Marcus.

* Present in a benign form in regards to Ben in ''An Ordinary Sex Life''. Adrienne on the other hand...

* In [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-404 SCP-404]] of the ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'', a small experiment log tells the story of a [[RedShirt Class-D]] having a questionable relationship with his sister when they were pre-teens and killing her boyfriend out of jealousy.

* In supernatural web soap California Heaven [[http://www.stjohn-fisher.com/california-heaven/]], an episode features brother and sister, Dominic and KC, in a very seductive dance nearly kissing. Thought, it looks like KC was possessed. However, in a most recent episode, Dominic stares at KC as she is sleeping and she seems to have no problem with it.

* This was to have been a plot point in WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick's video "Thanks for the Feedback" detailing a date between Chick and the Critic. In the original draft, they would have slept together and then been informed that they were actually brother and sister. This idea was scrapped prior to filming.
* In ''WebVideo/ComixFromTheUnderground'', the Comix Scrutinizer suggests that the furry webcomic characters Kit n Kay Boodle are participating in this since they're not married and have the same last name.

Many sociologists and evolutionary psychologists believe that the instinctual aversion to incest has developed to avoid the pairing of rare, potentially lethal, recessive genes. The UsefulNotes/WestermarckEffect is one hypothesis, although it is contested.

The Japanese have just as much of an incest taboo as any other culture, there does not seem to be any automatic assumption of tragedy surrounding incestuous relationships in anime, as there would be in most Western productions. It may be shown as sad, improper, and/or perhaps even reprehensible, but participants are no more likely to come out to a bad end than any other characters in the story. A supposed Japanese legend which states that star-crossed lovers are reborn as siblings probably has something to do with it as well.

It is also very common in Japanese works to see a girl address a boy she's interested in as ''onii-sama'', the ultra-respectful form of... "big brother". For example, in ''Anime/MaiHime'', Munakata Shiho addresses Tate Yuuichi in exactly this way, and [[BigBrotherAttraction harbors an obsessive desire for him]] that leads to some fairly serious jealousy of her rival. This is also a common trope of bishoujo games. Of course, this is more a Japanese language trope; ''onii-sama'' or ''[[OneeSama onee-sama]]'' ("big sister") is a fairly standard thing to call someone older than you that you respect.

->"''I can vouch that [[HGame [those games]]] are a result of fantasies by people who don't actually have a younger sister.''"
-->-- '''Sasahara''' (setting the record straight), ''Manga/{{Genshiken}}''

Romantic or sexual attraction between siblings. Most of the time it may be merely implied, but sometimes it's laid out right in the open for the viewer to see. Its presence in a story usually adds a great deal of emotional intensity.

Frequently actual incest is avoided through the device of siblings who aren't really — [[NotBloodSiblings they're fostered, or step-sibs, or adopted]]. Thus, while in arbitrary terms of relationship they may be brother or sister, in "true" terms of blood they are not, and may pursue their chosen target with [[{{Pun}} relative]] impunity. Often it's just an extreme version of the ChildhoodFriendRomance setup; male and female characters who normally couldn't cohabitate or [[IdiotPlot possibly even interact normally]] with each other are 'forced' to but meet with [[StatusQuoIsGod an arbitrary contrivance preventing them from developing past it]]. The only difference is that the audience is more likely to accept the latter contrivance as believable.

Many sociologists and evolutionary psychologists believe that the instinctual aversion to incest has developed to avoid the pairing of rare, potentially lethal, recessive genes. The incest taboo is implemented through the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westermarck_effect Westermarck effect]], in that growing up in proximity at a young age (through approximately six years of age) renders it sufficiently likely that the persons are siblings, to trigger the instinctive aversion. Many close tribal and small village communities marry outside of the tribe or village, and many childhood friends end up unlucky, because of this. This would also explain why brother-sister incest was possible among Egyptian royals (where the girls were raised separately from the boys and didn't even meet until after puberty), while some European royal families such as the Valois faced extinction because the king and queen couldn't bear to touch each other — not because they were that closely related, but because they'd been brought up together since early childhood and thought of each other as siblings.

Although the Japanese have just as much of an incest taboo as any other culture, there does not seem to be any automatic assumption of tragedy surrounding incestuous relationships in anime, as there would be in most Western productions. It may be shown as sad, improper, and/or perhaps even reprehensible, but participants are no more likely to come out to a bad end than any other characters in the story. A supposed Japanese legend which states that star-crossed lovers are reborn as siblings probably has something to do with it as well.

It is also very common in Japanese works, at least, to see a girl address a boy she's interested in as ''onii-sama'', the ultra-respectful form of... 'big brother'. For example, in ''Anime/MaiHime'', Munakata Shiho addresses Tate Yuuichi in exactly this way, and [[BigBrotherAttraction harbors an obsessive desire for him]] that leads to some fairly serious jealousy of her rival (Tokiha Mai). This is also a common trope of bishoujo games. Of course, this is more a Japanese language trope; ''onii-sama'' or ''[[OneeSama onee-sama]]'' ("big sister") is a fairly standard thing to call someone older than you that you respect.

Compare IncestIsRelative, OnlyChildSyndrome. See also CreepyTwins, {{Twincest}}, NotBloodSiblings, KissingCousins, BigBrotherAttraction.

Contrast with ParentalIncest, where the parent/child power dynamics can make it even {{squick}}ier. Not to be confused with DoubleInLawMarriage, where both of the couples are NotBloodSiblings but siblings-in-law. May show up in works with a LittleSisterHeroine.

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Frequently actual incest is avoided through the device of siblings who aren't really -- [[NotBloodSiblings they're fostered, or step-sibs, or adopted]]. Thus, while in arbitrary terms of relationship they may be brother or sister, in "true" terms of blood they are not, and may pursue their chosen target with [[{{Pun}} relative]] impunity. Often it's just an extreme version of the ChildhoodFriendRomance setup; male and female characters who normally couldn't cohabitate or [[IdiotPlot possibly even interact normally]] with each other are 'forced' to but meet with [[StatusQuoIsGod an arbitrary contrivance preventing them from developing past it]]. The only difference is that the audience is more likely to accept the latter contrivance as believable.

Many sociologists and evolutionary psychologists believe that the instinctual aversion to incest has developed to avoid the pairing of rare, potentially lethal, recessive genes. The incest taboo is implemented through the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westermarck_effect Westermarck effect]], in that growing up in proximity at a young age (through approximately six years of age) renders it sufficiently likely that the persons are siblings, to trigger the instinctive aversion. Many close tribal and small village communities marry outside of the tribe or village, and many childhood friends end up unlucky, because of this. This would also explain why brother-sister incest was possible among Egyptian royals (where the girls were raised separately from the boys and didn't even meet until after puberty), while some European royal families such as the Valois faced extinction because the king and queen couldn't bear to touch each other - not because they were that closely related, but because they'd been brought up together since early childhood and thought of each other as siblings.

* BrotherSisterIncest/WebComics

* BrotherSisterIncest/FairyTales

* BrotherSisterIncest/{{Films}}

* BrotherSisterIncest/{{Mythology}}
* BrotherSisterIncest/ProWrestling

* BrotherSisterIncest/WebOriginal

* BrotherSisterIncest/{{Anime}}

* BrotherSisterIncest/{{Theater}}

->''I can vouch that [[HGame [those games]]] are a result of fantasies by people who don't actually have a younger sister.''

* BrotherSisterIncest/{{Comics}}

Nothing adds that certain ''je ne sais quoi'' to a storyline like a romantic or sexual attraction between siblings. Most of the time it may be merely implied, but sometimes it's laid out right in the open for the viewer to see. Its presence in a story usually adds a great deal of emotional intensity.

->''I can vouch that [[{{H-Games}} [those games]]] are a result of fantasies by people who don't actually have a younger sister.''
-->-- '''Sasahara''' (setting the record straight), ''{{Genshiken}}''

* {{BrotherSisterIncest/Comics}}

* {{BrotherSisterIncest/Music}}
* {{BrotherSisterIncest/Mythology}}
* {{BrotherSisterIncest/Opera}}

* {{BrotherSisterIncest/Theater}}

It is also very common in Japanese works, at least, to see a girl address a boy she's interested in as ''onii-sama'', the ultra-respectful form of... 'big brother'. For example, in ''Anime/{{Mai-HiME}}'', Munakata Shiho addresses Tate Yuuichi in exactly this way, and [[BigBrotherAttraction harbors an obsessive desire for him]] that leads to some fairly serious jealousy of her rival (Tokiha Mai). This is also a common trope of bishoujo games. Of course, this is more a Japanese language trope; ''onii-sama'' or ''[[OneeSama onee-sama]]'' ("big sister") is a fairly standard thing to call someone older than you that you respect.

Frequently actual incest is avoided through the device of siblings who aren't really -- [[NotBloodSiblings they're fostered, or step-sibs, or adopted]]. Thus, while in arbitrary terms of relationship they may be brother or sister, in "true" terms of blood they are not, and may pursue their chosen target with [[IncrediblyLamePun relative]] impunity. Often it's just an extreme version of the ChildhoodFriendRomance setup; male and female characters who normally couldn't cohabitate or [[IdiotPlot possibly even interact normally]] with each other are 'forced' to but meet with [[StatusQuoIsGod an arbitrary contrivance preventing them from developing past it]]. The only difference is that the audience is more likely to accept the latter contrivance as believable.