History Main / ForbiddenFriendship

* In one of ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'' spin off books, Simba's son Kopa befriends a hyena around his age named Asante. Hyenas are the enemies of the lions and the only species banned from entering the pride lands due to their evil nature, but she is [[MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch different.]] Their friendship is a secret until the end, when she goes to meet his parents.
* ''Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy'': Is another black/white friendship but was apparently well written enough to win a [[UsefulNotes/NewberyMedal Newbery Honor]].

* ''Ludie's Song'': Black and white friendship in TheDeepSouth.
* ''Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy'': Is another black/white friendship but was apparently well written enough to win a [[UsefulNotes/NewberyMedal Newbery Honor]]
* ''Weedflower'': Japanese American girl and Mohave boy. The internment camp Sumiko is in is on the Mohave reservation, but they're not allowed to interact.

* ''Literature/TheirEyesWereWatchingGod'': Janie[wealthy, mayor's widow, in 40s] runs off with Tea Cake[poor working-class young man] despite the fact that the entirety of Eatonville thinks that Tea Cake is only after Janie's money, and because of the 15-year age difference.
* ''Literature/AnneOfGreenGables'' has a very brief instance of this; after Anne accidentally gets Diana drunk on currant wine that she mistook for raspberry cordial, Diana's mother forbids her daughter to associate with Anne. Fortunately she relents eventually. It helps that Anne saved Diana's younger sister from a bad bout of croup when the parents were away and it took awhile to fetch a doctor (the closer doctors were away at a political convention).
* In the ''Literature/WarriorCats'' series, the Clans aren't that fond of inter-Clan friendships, but they allow it. However in the first book, [=ThunderClan=] looked down on the hero talking with his house-cat friend Sumdge because of Clan bias. They got over it eventually.
* In one of ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'' spin off books, Simba's son Kopa befriends a hyena around his age named Asante. Hyenas are the enemies of the lions and the only species banned from entering the pride lands due to their evil nature, but she is [[MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch different.]] Their friendship is a secret until the end, when she goes to meet his parents.

* Misha from ''VideoGame/OctopathTravelerII'' is genuinely grateful to Alrond to giving him a job, but his in-game profile states that he tries to keep things as formal as possible because he's a formerly-poor butler while Alrond is his absurdly wealthy boss.

* In the first ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' movie, Principal Strickland warns Marty [=McFly=] to stay away from Doc Emmett Brown, as Strickland views the doctor as a nutcase. It's most likely due to the bad influence factor mentioned above. Some fan theories however suggest Strickland and Doc may have [[WeUsedToBeFriends been friends]] at one time and perhaps [[NoodleIncident ended their friendship on a sour note]]. Then again, a (seemingly) mad scientist who builds a wall-sized amplifier to encourage a teenage boy to come visit him ''would'' seem pretty suspicious to most high school principals. After all, [[spoiler: Strickland doesn't know that Doc Brown needs to make sure Marty is around to close the time loop Marty created in 1955 by giving the Doc a letter telling him how he was supposed to die in 1985.]]

* ''Film/{{Hairspray}}'': Link Larkin spends time with the black kids in the school and the body-positive Tracy Turnblad, which is pretty taboo for someone of his social class.

* ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon:'' Hiccup and Toothless form a friendship despite the fact Toothless is a dragon and Hiccup is a viking meant to slay dragons. Their bond eventually leads to [[spoiler: the ending of the "war" between vikings and dragons, and the dragons becoming the companions of the vikings, so the friendship doesn't stay forbidden.]] There's actually a song on the OST with the trope name [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic (and it's very good, FYI).]]

* In ''Series/ElChavoDelOcho'' Doña Florinda clearly do not approves of her son Quico’s friendship with the other kids in Vecindad (mainly Chavo and Chilindrina) as her CatchPhrase says: ''No te juntes con esta chusma'' (don’t get along with this rabble).

* Subverted in the 1984 ''WesternAnimation/FatAlbertAndTheCosbyKids'' episode "Busted". Rudy's mother warns her son about Larry being a bad influence rather than outright forbidding him to associate with Larry. Rudy brushes off her warning however...and ends up [[FromBadToWorse paying for it later]] when he and the gang join Larry in a stolen car.

* From ''Anime/TheBorrowerArrietty'', Sho wants to be friends with Arrietty, who had grown up with the beliefs that humans are dangerous and will cause her and her family harm.

* In ComicBook/PostCrisis ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' comics, young Perry White's parents told him to stay away from the orphanage kids. However, they approved of his friendship with that nice Luthor boy.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'':
** Kiara and Kovu in ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKingIISimbasPride'' as her father is king and he's an exile. Develops into StarCrossedLovers later.
** In an early draft of the first movie Simba was this with a zebra colt named Lemuta. They watch as his mother nearly gets killed by Simba's, which freaks Lemuta out and ruins his friendship with Simba.

* Chopper the Sharptooth in the ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime'' sequels; his friendship with the gang is not accepted nor by the herbivores nor by his ''UsefulNotes/TyrannosaurusRex'' parents.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'' Sassett's friendship with little witch Denisa is presented like this, as Denisa is Gargamel's niece and Balthazar's grand-niece whilst Sassette is a smurf, and of course, smurfs and warlocks are enemies.