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* Vegeta and Bulma of ''DragonBall'' (if it wasn't slightly foreshadowed at the end of the Frieza saga, it would've been a genuine shock moment). Sometimes Goku and Chichi.
** Krillin and Android 18. It's implied that Krillin just wants to [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean introduce her to his little friend,]] and... well, [[{{Tsundere}} 18 sure is rough on Krillin...]]
*** Defusing a bomb in a homicidal android that was quite willing to kill him and all his friends until cell showed up, clearly he was just after sex.
** Krillin and Android 18. It's implied that Krillin just wants to [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean introduce her to his little friend,]] and... well, [[{{Tsundere}} 18 sure is rough on Krillin...]]
*** Defusing a bomb in a homicidal android that was quite willing to kill him and all his friends until cell showed up, clearly he was just after sex.
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* Most couples in DragonBall are this, and yet are still HappilyMarried. Here's a list:
** Goku and Chichi: A superpowered ailen half-monkey AdultChild who loves to fight and a [[Tsundure sometimes bossy and overbearing]], overprotective EducationMama who openly discourages fighting. They had two sons and are still HappilyMarried to date.
** Vegeta andBulma of ''DragonBall'' (if it wasn't slightly foreshadowed at the end of the Frieza saga, it would've been a genuine shock moment). Sometimes Goku Bulma: An arrogant, superpowered, JerkAss half-monkey price with homicidal tendencies and Chichi.
a supremely intelligent, yet vain and equally arrogant woman. Had an affair, a son (later a daughter) and are still together.
** Krillin and Android18. It's implied that Krillin just wants 18: A short, noseless DoggedNiceGuy with a bad tendency to [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean introduce her to his little friend,]] and... well, [[{{Tsundere}} 18 sure is rough on Krillin...]]
*** Defusing a bomb in a homicidal android that was quite willing to kill himget horribly killed and all his friends until cell showed up, clearly he was just after sex.a woman who's sarcastic, cold and is half machine. They got married, had a daughter and are [[HappilyMarried still together]]
** Goku and Chichi: A superpowered ailen half-monkey AdultChild who loves to fight and a [[Tsundure sometimes bossy and overbearing]], overprotective EducationMama who openly discourages fighting. They had two sons and are still HappilyMarried to date.
** Vegeta and
** Krillin and Android
*** Defusing a bomb in a homicidal android that was quite willing to kill him
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* In ''CtrlAltDel'', all personal non-antagonistic relationships with Ethan are this (Lilah especially, since she married him). Despite his instability, they, as Yatzhee put it, "[[ZeroPunctuation inexplicably tolerate his behaviour when any sane person would be looking for rooms to rent in one hand while slamming the idiot's face in a drawer with the other]]".
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* In the opening of CliveBarker's ''Abarat,'' Candy Quackenbush's parents are a long-suffering, jaded housewife and an abusive slob of a father. When Candy [[PensieveFlashback is shown the day of her birth,]] she is astounded to find them being sweet to each other and calling each other "Lambkin" and "Nachos." This makes for quite a WallBanger when [[spoiler: Candy's mother has an opportunity to, and is ''invited'' to come, to Abarat with her beloved Candy, but for some inscrutable reason she stays behind. And regrets it.]]
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* In the opening of CliveBarker's ''Abarat,'' Candy Quackenbush's parents are a long-suffering, jaded housewife and an abusive slob of a father. When Candy [[PensieveFlashback is shown the day of her birth,]] she is astounded to find them being sweet to each other and calling each other "Lambkin" and "Nachos." This makes for quite a WallBanger when [[spoiler: Candy's mother has an opportunity to, and is ''invited'' to come, to Abarat with her beloved Candy, but for some inscrutable reason she stays behind. And regrets it.]]
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* As the page quote shows, George and Loraine [=McFly=] in ''BackToTheFuture'', a geeky doormat of a pencil pusher and a frumpy, closed-minded housewife who only met because [[FlorenceNightingaleEffect her father accidentally hit him with her car]], so personality never entered into it. When their son Marty accidentally prevents that meeting via time travel, his efforts to patch up the time paradox include giving George the confidence to actually ask Loraine out, and when he gets back to 1985 his parents are HappilyMarried (and overall much more happy and successful).
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* I've always seen Ron and Hermione from {{Harry Potter}} as this. They seem to have little in common, aside from their friendships with Harry.
** EXACTLY! What do they talk about when Harry's not there? The only conversations we know they had without Harry there were ''about'' Harry.
** EXACTLY! What do they talk about when Harry's not there? The only conversations we know they had without Harry there were ''about'' Harry.
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** EXACTLY! What do they talk about when Harry's not there? The only conversations we know they had without Harry there were ''about'' Harry.
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** Jackie and Hyde in the same show. She's rich, spoiled, selfish {{Libby}}-type, he's a [[BrilliantButLazy smart but lazy]] ConspiracyTheorist [[TheSlacker slacker]]. They both can see the improbability of their relationship.
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* On BuffyTheVampireSlayer, Seasons 2 and 3 give us Buffy and Angel. They have exactly one thing in common: Being good guys. Not only is their romance founded on the common interest of killing evil but they bring out the worst in each other. Angel is much less tense on [[{{Angel}} his own show]] then when he's around Buffy and when they're together she is way too obsessed with him. Thankfully, they broke up in S3.
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** Same thing with Grif and Simmons. They have absolutely nothing in common yet they remain best friends.
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** Don't forget Charlotte Lucas and Mr. Collins. Charlotte decides to marry the insufferable Mr. Collins in cold blood for the sake of a home but when we see her again she is coping very nicely with her spouse having carefully arranged their lives so they spend as little time together as possible. Unlike the Bennets the Collinses are quite happily content in their loveless marriage.
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** Of course, given the nature of relationships on ''RedVsBlue'', [[RalphWiggum Caboose]] probably ''is'' [[{{Jerkass}} Church's]] best friend.
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* [[RalphWiggum Caboose]] from ''RedVsBlue'', in a platonic example, believes himself to be [[{{Jerkass}} Church's]] best friend. While Church has several PetTheDog moments when it comes to Caboose (he lets out a BigNo when he is supposedly killed, for example), his default position is complete and utter loathing for the Blue Team's rookie.
--> '''Caboose:''' Hey, Church! Happy Valentine's --
--> '''Church:''' GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM ME!
--> '''Caboose:''' Hey, Church! Happy Valentine's --
--> '''Church:''' GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM ME!
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* John and Mary in ''ImSorryIllReadThatAgain'':
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* John and Mary in ''ImSorryIllReadThatAgain'':''[[{{Ptitlecd0bmuv5}} I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again]]'':
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* John and Mary in ''ImSorryIllReadThatAgain'':
-->'''Mary''': John, darling, why do you have to be so cruel?\\
'''John''': Oh, I don't ''have'' to be. I enjoy it. It's purely voluntary.
-->'''Mary''': John, darling, why do you have to be so cruel?\\
'''John''': Oh, I don't ''have'' to be. I enjoy it. It's purely voluntary.
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* It has always puzzled this troper about what Wesley saw in Buttercup that made him love her so much in ''PrincessBride''. Sure, she's gorgeous but there isn't much else to her than that.
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* It has always puzzled this troper about what Wesley saw in Buttercup that made him love her so much in ''PrincessBride''. Sure, she's gorgeous but there isn't much else to her than that. He goes through hell and back for her, and yet when he has a giant rat shredding his shoulder to pieces, she just sit there watching, then finally pokes at it with a stick, ''even though his sword is on the ground right next to her''.
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** EXACTLY! What do they talk about when Harry's not there? The only conversations we know they had without Harry there were ''about'' Harry.
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* [[LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek Lifetime]] makes it its personal mission to portray any marriage this way in their movies.
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* In {{Constantine}}, Lu(cifer) says the trope name before he get's the whole story.
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* I've always seen Ron and Hermione from [[Harry Potter]] as this. They seem to have little in common, aside from their friendships with Harry.
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* I've always seen Ron and Hermione from [[Harry Potter]] {{Harry Potter}} as this. They seem to have little in common, aside from their friendships with Harry.
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I thought it fit, though it may not be a popular response.
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*** Defusing a bomb in a homicidal android that was quite willing to kill him and all his friends until cell showed up, clearly he was just after sex.
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Cardboard for everything. Even "Divorce" papers.
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**** As proof, compare how the pair [[http://www.homestarrunner.com/deck.html consider each other]] [[http://www.homestarrunner.com/qualitytime.html via cardboard proxy]].
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* Tanya in [[{{ptitle5c854sty}} Grandma's House]], who is marrying the deeply unsuitable Clive so she can share his big house and the proceeds from his boring job manufacturing boxes. Tanya plans to call the wedding off when Clive loses his job and she is forced to admit how boring he is when he's around her 24/7. She changes her mind when he gets a new job and she learns it will force them to be apart for four days of the week.
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* Padme and Anakin Skywalker in the prequel StarWars films. There's really no reason for those two to love each other other than because the script says so.
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* Padme and Anakin Skywalker in the prequel StarWars films. There's really no reason for those Why do these two to supposedly love each other other than because again? Because it says so in the script says so.
of course.
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* Frank and Estelle Costanza from {{Seinfeld}} couldn't speak to one another without shouting and seemed to genuinely hate each other. It's not really explained why they stay together at all, and when they seperate, nobody is the least bit surprised.
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* Basil and Sybil in ''FawltyTowers.'' They actively hate each other, but stay married and even share a bedroom, if not a bed.
** According to Basil in one episode, they even [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean "go for a walk"]] together two or three times per week.
*** He was very possibly making this up just to appear "normal" to the psychiatrist he was talking to, but this simply emphasises that he cares more about the status of being married than who he is married to.
** According to Basil in one episode, they even [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean "go for a walk"]] together two or three times per week.
*** He was very possibly making this up just to appear "normal" to the psychiatrist he was talking to, but this simply emphasises that he cares more about the status of being married than who he is married to.
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* Basil and Sybil in ''FawltyTowers.'' They actively hate each other, but stay married and even share a bedroom, if not a bed.
**bed. According to Basil in one episode, they even [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean "go for a walk"]] together two or three times per week.
*** Heweek; however, he was very possibly making this up just to appear "normal" to the psychiatrist he was talking to, but this simply and it emphasises that he cares more about the status of being married than who he is married to.
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*** He
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* It has always puzzled this troper about what Wesley saw in Buttercup that made him love her so much in ''PrincessBride''. Sure, she's gorgeous but there really isn't much else to her than that.
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* It has always puzzled this troper about what Wesley saw in Buttercup that made him love her so much in ''PrincessBride''. Sure, she's gorgeous but there really isn't much else to her.
* It has always puzzled this troper about what Wesley saw in Buttercup that made him love her so much in ''PrincessBride''. Sure, she's gorgeous but there really isn't much else to her.
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* It has always puzzled this troper about what Wesley saw in Buttercup that made him love her so much in ''PrincessBride''. Sure, she's gorgeous but there really isn't much else toher.
her than that.
* Padme and Anakin Skywalker in the prequel StarWars films. There's really no reason for those two to love each other other than because the script says so.
* It has always puzzled this troper about what Wesley saw in Buttercup that made him love her so much in ''PrincessBride''. Sure, she's gorgeous but there really isn't much else to
* Padme and Anakin Skywalker in the prequel StarWars films. There's really no reason for those two to love each other other than because the script says so.
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* It has always puzzled this troper about what Wesley saw in Buttercup that made him love her so much in ''PrincessBride''. Sure, she's gorgeous but there really isn't much else to her.
* It has always puzzled this troper about what Wesley saw in Buttercup that made him love her so much in ''PrincessBride''. Sure, she's gorgeous but there really isn't much else to her.
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** The more obvious example would be Ray and Debra. Debra routinely physically and verbally attacks him - [[AbuseIsOkayWhenItsFemaleOnMale calling him an idiot, telling him he's not "allowed" to see his friends, pouring hot sauce from the stove onto him, shoving him into a bookshelf at full force, and so on]]. And an apology? I laugh at you if you think she ever gave one for any of that. Why Ray didn't give her half his stuff and get the hell out of that abusive relationship is beyond me.
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** YourMileageMayVary, of course, as it's painfully obvious to everyone but them that the two fall rather decidedly more into the BelligerentSexualTension trope.
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** [[spoiler: For good this time--he's gay.]]
