History Main / TeacherStudentRomance

* In ''Series/CuteyHoneyTheLive'', we have PsychoLesbian Mayumi Karasugawa, who often seduces her female students.

* ''Manga/{{Mahoromatic}}'' uses this trope to a disturbing extent, especially in the first series, with a (perhaps) twenty-five-year-old teacher lusting after the middle-school-aged male lead; fortunately, this somewhat overused source of comedy is not as prevalent in the second series. The AfterTheEnd finale shows the two meeting up some 8-10 years later. She comments how he's lost his looks, then walks off with a pair of preteen male students.

* In ''Literature/BootCamp'', fifteen-year-old Garrett has been in a relationship with his math teacher Sabrina, who is eight years older than he is. His parents got her fired, but they didn't press statutory rape charges because they were embarrassed that their son was dating a teacher and didn't want anyone to find out. Garrett kept seeing her, even sneaking out to spend the night at her apartment. That's the main reason his parents decided to send him to Lake Harmony.

* In ''Manga/YondemasuYoAzazelsan'', [[OccultDetective Akutabe]] is heavily implied to be a ''little'' too attached to [[BrainyBrunette Sakuma]], who is both his [[TheApprentice apprentice]] and [[SexySecretary secretary]]. [[LovableSexManiac Azazel]] and Beelzebub also suspect his relationship with Sakuma might not be purely professional on his side. Of course, this is played for laughs, and she's oblivious to it.

* This student-has-crush-on-teacher version can also be found in the movie ''Film/MyGirl''. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, said teacher is also engaged, and his fiancee is moving in with him the day Veda (the student) tells him how she feels--which happens to be the [[BreakTheCutie same day of her best friend's funeral, which is being held in the parlor of HER house (her father is the town undertaker and she lives in the funeral home).]] She doesn't take the rejection well.]]

* One episode of ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld'' has a CoolTeacher in the form of Creator/FredSavage (Corey's RealLife older brother) - who winds up trying to sleep with Topanga, prompting Corey to assault him.

** In ''VideoGame/Persona5'', a highly {{squick}}y variant is featured in the gym teacher Suguru Kamoshida, who sexually harasses his students and lusts after Ann Takamaki. He represents {{Lust}} of the SevenDeadlySins, and it's your job to steal his heart and purge the evil within so that he answers for his crimes.

* ''Manga/GunslingerGirl'': Thanks to their conditioning most of the girls have a PrecociousCrush on their [[TheHandler handlers]], whose job is also to [[ChildrenForcedToKill instruct them]]. Hilshire is the only handler we see acting like a classroom teacher (the girls also [[CulturedWarrior lessons in history and literature]] as well as the arts of war) but when Maria Machiavelli raises this trope with Triela and [[ShipperOnDeck encourages Triela to express her feelings]] for Hilshire, Triela replies that [[AllLoveIsUnrequited even if she was in love with him]] it's [[AnchoredShip not that kind of relationship]]. The cyborg/handler pairing is referred to as ''[[LikeBrotherAndSister fratello]]'' and the 'love' these girls feel is [[MoreThanMindControl based on their conditioning]], making any relationship QuestionableConsent, as Triela is well aware. Petrushka, an older second generation girl, has romantic feelings for her handler/instructor Sandro, but it's unclear as to [[DidTheyOrDidntThey what extent he reciprocates]] beyond kissing her.

* ''[[VideoGame/AdvancedVariableGeo Advanced V.G. II]]'': 14-year old Tamao nurses an unrequited crush on her 18-year old[[note]]soon to be 19[[/note]] "Sempai"/Karate instructor, Yuka Takeuchi. The second story mode cutscene shows Tamao fantasizing about cuddling naked with her, complete with LoveBubbles. Taken a step further in an official sketch, in which, Tamao [[spoiler: strips naked and gift wraps herself to Yuka as [[DoYouWantToCopulate a birthday *present*]]]]! Yuka [[SweatDrop smiles sheepishly]] and politely ''[[IncompatibleOrientation declines]]''.

* ''VideoGame/Persona3'', one of the "social links" the protagonist has to develop is a friendship with another student, a boy named Kenji Tomochika, who claims to be involved with and then engaged to, his female homeroom teacher. [[spoiler: It turns out the relationship was all in Kenji's head, with the teacher being all but unaware of his fantasy, and horrified when she discovers how the boy thinks of her.]] The weird thing is that in order to improve your friendship with Kenji (which has positive effects on your game status), the protagonist has to encourage his romantic aspirations even if you realize that it's a very, very bad idea.

* Alison Bechdel's autobiographical graphic novel ''ComicBook/FunHome'' centered around her closeted gay father, a high school English teacher who over the years had affairs with his students and at one point underwent a trial for buying beer for one of them. She noted that though the offense was for buying alcohol for minors, the real offense "dare not speak its name." As Bechdel is a lesbian herself, she at one point wonders how she would have fared if she came of age in the repressive '50s as her father did... "Would I have had the guts to be one of those Eisenhower-era butches? Or would I have married and sought succor from my high school students?"

** The other occurrence of this trope was from the 1987 series, where 5th-year girl Faye falls for her teacher and manages to seduce him into a brief romance. This one doesn't get very heavy, though they are seen together on a couple of occasions outside of school, he eventually realizes it can't end well and so, well, ends it. Faye was so distracted that she failed half her O-levels and has to resit them the following year, delaying starting her A-Levels by a year, just to catch up, and almost gets distracted again when she spots her ex-bf (now ex-teacher too, having resigned), out on a date with a woman closer to his age.

* In ''Gal Gohan'', the titular Gal falls in love with her Home Economics teacher after being the only one who didn't give up on her. While her feelings are reciprocated that they marry in the last chapter, by that point she had already graduated and was in culinary school.

** This was [[spoiler:Miyabi's backstory]]. She had a crush on her teacher. When she found out he was engaged, she [[spoiler:pretended he had raped her and ruined his reputation as she spread the rumor over the school.]] However, this would backfire on her as [[spoiler: one of her classmates would be expelled for assaulting said teacher and the teacher quit rather than explain his innocence.]]

* ''Manga/GunslingerGirl'': Thanks to their conditioning most of the girls have a PrecociousCrush on their [[TheHandler handlers]], whose job is also to [[ChildrenForcedToKill instruct them]]. Hilshire in the only handler we see acting like a classroom teacher (the girls also [[CulturedWarrior lessons in history and literature]] as well as the arts of war) but when Maria Machiavelli raises this trope with Triela and [[ShipperOnDeck encourages Triela to express her feelings]] for Hilshire, Triela replies that [[AllLoveIsUnrequited even if she was in love with him]] it's [[AnchoredShip not that kind of relationship]]. The cyborg/handler pairing is referred to as ''[[LikeBrotherAndSister fratello]]'' and the 'love' these girls feel is [[MoreThanMindControl based on their conditioning]], making any relationship QuestionableConsent, as Triela is well aware. Petrushka, an older second generation girl, has romantic feelings for her handler/instructor Sandro, but it's unclear as to [[DidTheyOrDidntThey what extent he reciprocates]] beyond kissing her.

* In ''Manga/LoveHina'', Naru had a big crush on her PrivateTutor Seta back in middle school and set on entering the University of Tokyo because Seta is a teacher there. During the series, she's still attracted to Seta, but knows he only cares for her as his former student and moves on to her fellow {{Ronin}} Keitaro.

* In ''Manga/MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch'', Hanon has a gigantic infatuation with her music teacher, who she refers to as Tarou-chan.

* The ''Franchise/{{Negima}}'' metaseries does it differently, in that the teacher is actually younger than the students... but it's deliberately set up to ''look'' like a HaremSeries without actually being one. The entire idea is {{lampshade|Hanging}}d and {{deconstruct|ion}}ed on multiple occasions; several of the students feel attracted to Negi, but are aware of how unconventional it would be to date an underaged teacher. Negi constantly worries about maintaining a normal student-teacher relationship with the girls, but it gets progressively difficult.
* ''Anime/Patlabor2TheMovie'': This was committed by [[spoiler: Shinobu]], ''[[ByTheBookCop of all people]]'', when it's revealed she once had an affair with her old instructor, while she was a cadet at the Tsuge Institute. More to the point, [[AgeGapRomance he was more than ten years older than her]][[note]]Shinobu was 19 at the time, while Tsuge was in his early 30s[[/note]] and was a married man. At the film's conclusion, [[spoiler: it strongly implies that she still has feelings for him.]]

* ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salad_Days_(manga) Salad Days]]'': Honjou's in the school's news club. He frequently gets reprimanded by Mr. Miyagi for writing sensational garbage articles. It gets to the point the he's so fed up he decides to just run with an unverifiable story about his supervisor being violent and abusive against students. But before he could realizes his plan, a cute senpai named Ryouko Matsushima comes into the club room and tells him her experience when working under Mr. Miyagi. Her situation was comically similar: she also wrote bad articles, got scolded, then decided to write a libelous article about this scary looking guy who was rumored to be a thug. It turned out that this guy only looked scary, and because of his looks nobody believed him. It was so serious this time around, that instead of giving a comical [[TapOnTheHead knock on the head]], Mr. Miyagi just straight up slapped her and gave her some serious reprimand about how irresponsible she was to accuse someone who couldn't defend himself of something horrible. The incident left such a deep impression in her that she started developing feeling for him and ended up marrying him. Her moving story sways Honjou so much, the next morning, even though he still gets punched by Mr. Miyagi for writing an article about "Mr. Miyagi (35) marrying his former student (23)", he still chooses to maintain journalistic integrity and just makes good, light-hearted fun of his teacher.

* In the [[{{Hentai}} h-manga]] ''School of Seven Sisters'', a teacher is transferred to a school in a small town and while exploring the area, he nearly gets run over by a truck. After recovering from the near miss, he goes into a nearby tunnel, where he discovers the old part of the town, which includes the old campus. As he looks around, he bumps into [[SkinnyDipping half a dozen girls playing in a nearby pond]], after he's formally introduced much later by the school administrator, he tries to set up his class, but the girls take him to an empty dormitory and where he's surprised that the girls come in to him, and he ends up servicing them all. As he's cavorting with this group, he runs afoul of another girl who is the wrathful spirit of a deceased student who accuses him of ruining her paradise, but the other girls defend him against her and chase her off. As the story progresses, he discovers that the girls have been trapped for decades in [[PersonalizedAfterlife the afterlife of the wrathful girl]], and [[UncertainDoom he begins suspecting that he was likely run over by the truck, instead of being a near miss]] and the girls explain that due to [[DeliberateValuesDissonance the social conventions of the time when they were alive]], they were instructed to to never get too close to a man, and their only experience with a man might have been as a result of an ArrangedMarriage, thus they took his arrival as an opportunity [[TheInternetIsForPorn to practice what they learned online]]. The only reason they know about dating and the overall modern acceptance of premarital sex is because of the newer technology that washes up on the pond, [[HandWave which due to the place's mystical nature works perfectly once it dries and they also get electricity and internet]].

* [[spoiler:Reina]] from ''Literature/SoundEuphonium'' mentions having a crush on her music teacher Taki, who she's known for years. This is given more focus in season 2. Taki doesn't take notice of Reina's crush on him.

* In Creator/AlanMoore's ''Lost Girls'', Alice recounts her time at boarding school and reveals that she was infatuated with her P.E. teacher Mrs. Redman, who later hired her as a personal assistant and sexual plaything. This leads to drug-fuelled lesbian orgies, until Alice spills the beans and Mrs. Redman has her committed.

** Also subverted between Harry and Betsy Braddock, his psychic tutor - who is stunningly beautiful and quite young. While it's speculated and he definitely has a crush (which she gently teases him about), she very firmly makes it clear that it's not happening on ethical grounds - both in terms of age and power imbalance.

* ''Fanfic/FateEnds'' firmly subverts this. Luo Binghe very much wishes to enter in a romantic relationship with Harry, pointing they're around the same age and power imbalance isn't that important since the half-demon currently is the ruler of demonkind. Unfortunately, Cang Qiong still labels his feelings as unfilial -- a xianxia setting treats teachers as parents -- and Harry himself is horror-struck by the prospect of abusing his student's trust. Also, Luo Binghe has pretty unhealthy ideas about what can be construed as love, contributing to his failure to woo Harry.
* ''Fanfic/HigherLearning'': {{Zigzagged}}. Asuka thought their new teacher, Kaoru, was pretty hot, but her feelings were nothing but a short-lived crush, which vanished when she and Shinji got together. However, when Shinji [[spoiler:got swallowed by Leliel,]] she turned to Kaoru to vent her worry and grief. He held her while she cried and reassured her everything would be fine. Impulsively and unthinkingly she kissed him. Then she realized what she had just done, freaked out and ran away. Later Kaoru apologized and offered to quit his job to show his repentance, but Asuka replied it was not his fault and both agreed to not talk about it ever again.

* ''[[Fanfic/RainbowDoubleDashsLunaverse To Cherilee With Love]]'' revolves around this trope. To start off with, Sweetie Belle has a crush of Cherilee. She asks Dinky for advice on this, and Dinky in turn asks her mom for help. Unfortunately, Ditzy misunderstands Dinky's explanation and thinks that ''Dinky'' has a crush on Trixie (who's been tutoring Dinky in magic). When informed of this, Trixie promptly asks Lyra for help dealing with the issue, but Lyra misunderstands and thinks that Trixie is confessing to a crush on ''her'' teacher--Princess Luna! And she shares this mistake with Luna. HilarityEnsues.

* In ''Fanfic/{{Warmth}}'', nearing graduation, one of Minamo's PE students asks her out on a date with her. She knew that Minamo would decline her it but felt the need to ask anyway.

* ''Film/DaydreamNation'' is a newer film that centers around a bored teenager that falls for her teacher. Maybe because she moved to a painfully small town which she hates. There, she observes her fellow high school students get wasted on drugs out of boredom, and people obsess over a serial killer who has yet to be caught. She also becomes involved with someone her age, and the rest of the film explores the insecurities that everyone, young and old, experiences in life.

* ''Film/LovingAnnabelle'': Annabelle is very attracted to her teacher Ms. Bradley. Ms. Bradley reciprocates her attraction, but initially resists given that she's her teacher. However, she eventually gives in and they start a relationship.

* In ''Film/ANightInHeaven'', a love affair develops between a community-college professor and her failing student.

* One of the subplots in ''Film/SummerSchool'' is student Pam's attraction to her teacher, Mr Shoop.

* In ''Film/TopGun'', U.S. Navy pilot Maverick falls in love with Charlie, a civilian instructor at the TOPGUN school. The ages of the participants is obviously not an issue in this case; the ethical concerns are alluded to when Charlie tells Mavrick she has to be very careful what she says to and about him for fear that others will "see right through [her]" and deduce the romance. And even these concerns are eliminated in the end, when [[spoiler:he graduates the school and returns as an instructor himself]].

** In one episode, Opie develops a crush on his teacher, Helen Crump--''who happens to be his father's girlfriend''.

** Pheobe's little brother Frank (18) is in love with his home ec teacher Mrs Knight (44). It's PlayedForLaughs and everyone regards it as a bad idea. However, they get married anyways, and are very happy together.

* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'': In "[[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS2E14MondayNightFootball Monday Night Football]]", one of Lily's kindergardeners is revealed to be crushing on her. Said kid even spends the day tormenting Marshall, who is hiding at Lily's class to avoid learning the superbowl score, out of jealousy.

* An episode of ''Series/NedsDeclassifiedSchoolSurvivalGuide'' deals with normally BlackAndNerdy A-student Cookie failing Spanish because he's too distracted by the hot teacher. It ultimately gets resolved by him (very reluctantly) transfering to another class...only to be distracted by his new teacher's extremely conspicuous combover.

* ''Series/{{Numb3rs}}'' has an adult version with a Charlie as a professor and Amita as his grad student. Though they are also around the same age, as Charlie was a child prodigy who went to Princeton as a teenager.
* Throughout ''Series/TheParkers'', Nikki Parker, who is attending junior college with her daughter, has the hots for Professor Oglevee. The professor always hated her and avoids her whenever she chases him until, by the end of the series, their relationship becomes mutual.

* In an episode of ''Series/SavedByTheBell'', all the girls (including those in the main cast) get crushes on the substitute teacher, Tony Crane. This is strictly one-sided, though -- Tony doesn't return any of the girls' affections. In ''The College Years'', Kelly falls in love the gang's Anthropology professor Jeremiah Laskey. The two actually date relatively seriously, with Kelly even developing a maternal relationship with Laskey's daughter, but the ethical implications freak out Laskey so much that he's terrified of being seen in public on dates and the stress eventually hospitalizes him.

* ''Series/VeronicaMars'': on the first season episode "Mars vs. Mars", Mr. Rooks (Creator/AdamScott), Veronica's history teacher, is accused by one of her classmates, Carrie Bishop (Creator/LeightonMeester), of getting her pregnant. Because Veronica has a bad history with Carrie, she tries to help Mr. Rooks clear his name. [[spoiler: Actually, Carrie was covering for her best friend Susan Knight, who actually did get pregnant by Mr. Rooks. When Veronica discovers this, she helps get Mr. Rooks fired]].

* The hit "[[https://youtu.be/FlB1bMYA0bM Forelska i lærern]]" (literally, "In love with the teacher") by the Norwegian band "The Kids" (not to be confused with the Belgian band of the same name). It's about the singer whom sings about his UnrequitedLove for a girl some seats in front of him. She's apparently in love with the teacher and not him. The music video tones this down by implying he's WrongGenreSavvy and she's actually in love with him and not the teacher. The song is often sung in elementary schools.

* ''VideoGame/Persona3'', one of the "social links" the protagonist has to develop is a friendship with another student, a boy named Kenji Tomochika, who claims to be involved with, and then engaged to, his female homeroom teacher. [[spoiler: It turns out the relationship was all in Kenji's head, with the teacher being all but unaware of his fantasy, and horrified when she discovers how the boy thinks of her.]] The weird thing is that in order to improve your friendship with Kenji (which has positive effects on your game status), the protagonist has to encourage his romantic aspirations even if you realize that it's a very, very bad idea.

* In ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' one of Lloyd's romantic options is his teacher Raine Sage, if the player raises their RelationshipValues high enough and triggers a cutscene at a particular point in the game. A few dialogue options can allow you to discover that Lloyd has had a PrecociousCrush on her since they first met, and in the sequel they can be shown to have been dating since the end of the first game.

* In ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'', Lilly had feelings for her English tutor in the past, and turned down her many {{Love Confession}}s to save herself for him, but knew that she could never have him, and never confessed. Hisao thinks of such relationships as "taboos born of such things as purity and youth," and is glad Lilly never acted on it.

* ''WebAnimation/ETUAnimatedStories'': Ezra's student, Alisha attempted to invoke this and tried to kiss him in a livestream, but he lets her down gently and gives her a stern lecture.
* LovableSexManiac Fumiko from ''WebAnimation/SenpaiClub'' is in love with Teacher-sensei. She said that at her middle school none of the teachers were attractive and that made her sad. In comparison, Teacher-sensei is a very attractive woman.

* In the Pilot for ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'', Francine admits she had a crush on her teacher that quickly developed to a StalkerWithACrush. To the point she locked herself in his closet and started cutting herself. She managed to pin this entire incident on said teacher, which caused him to be divorced from his wife, fired from his job, sent to prison, where he ultimately ended up killing himself.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS4E2FastTimesAtBuddyCianciJuniorHigh Fast Times at Buddy Cianci Jr. High]]", Chris Griffin has a crush on his substitute teacher, Mrs Lockhart. [[spoiler: She ends up trying to use said crush on her to manipulate him into murdering her husband and with the promise she would elope with him. Chris doesn't.]]

* In ''Manga/AkatsukiNoAria'', 16-years-old Aria's piano teacher Shiroyuki is one of the many men who hold feelings for her. He's aware that she doesn't romantically love him, however, ''and'' he's also married to a very DelicateAndSickly girl, so he angsts quite a bit about all of this. [[spoiler: And he dies later.]]

* ''Manga/DearS'': Mitsuka-sensei is hot for anyone, meaning that ALL of her students have to deal with her teaching sexually-explicit foreign language lessons (that she wrote herself) while she's wearing nothing but skimpy lingerie. Even the male students find this [[FetishRetardant more annoying than anything else.]]
* In an episode of the {{Hentai}} ''Discipline: the Record of a Crusade'', TheHero is tricked into being alone with the teacher that was tasked with testing his sexual prowess, but not allowed to do anything else with him.
* In the ''Literature/FullMetalPanic'' manga, the CampGay substitute teacher for Sōsuke's high school's men's swim team is shown to have the hots for Sōsuke. [[EvenTheGuysWantHim Not that anyone can blame him]]. He is shown blushing and drooling over Sōsuke's body, and is very obviously jealous and shocked when he interprets Kaname's "I work well with Sōsuke because we have a bond" as being that they've done it. There's also an incident at the end of Ending Day by Day where Sōsuke tackles his regular teacher upon spotting a LaserSight on her forehead. While in the anime she simply demands to know what's going on, in the manga and light novels she instead shouts, "You can't! [[MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces People might see us!]]"

* PlayedForHorror in Creator/JunjiIto's "Madonna". The (male) EvilPrincipal running an elite [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseChristian Catholic]] private girls' school takes an interest in the ([[{{Ephebophile}} teenage and female]]) lead, Maria, immediately attempting to groom her with praise and access to more exclusive classes and honors. [[note]] Maria sees throught this immediately, but in the face of either expulsion or [[MisplacedRetribution Misplaced]] DisproportionateRetribution from the prinipal's [[KnightTemplar violent]], [[WomanScorned unstable wife]], [[AnOfferYouCantRefuse there's not much she can do besides keeping her head down and hoping for the best]].[[/note]] [[spoiler: Unsurprisingly, Maria is just the latest in a long line of former students who the Principal groomed into becoming his lovers, only to discard them as they aged or lost their sanity from his constant {{Gaslighting}}.]] Despite being set amidst his expected BodyHorror and MindScrew setpieces, the [[RealismInducedHorror realistic depiciton of child abuse]] makes this story one of Ito's more unsettling works.

* In ''Manga/YondemasuYoAzazelsan'', [[OccultDetective Akutabe]] is heavily implied to be a ''little'' too attached to [[BrainyBrunette Sakuma]], who is both his [[TheApprentice apprentice]] and [[SexySecretary secretary]]. [[LovableSexManiac Azazel]] and Beelzebub also suspect his relationship with Sakuma might not be purely professional on his side. Of course, this is played for laughs, and she's is oblivious to it.

* In ''Film/BloodyReunion'', Myung-Ho was a boy who was always favoured by Mrs Park. It is hinted that she made sexual contact with him that has left him scarred for life.
* ''De man die zijn haar kort liet knippen'' (''The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short''). A teacher at girls' high school, middle-aged and married with a small daughter of his own, is madly in unrequited love with one of his teenage pupils and is heartbroken when she graduates. [[spoiler: It's implied that years later the memory of his love is one of the things that drive him possibly crazy.]]

* ''Film/TheSquidAndTheWhale'': Bernard lusts after Lili, a student in the college class he teaches who writes "very racy" stories. She's substantially younger with him, and, in what would certainly be an HR violation today, moves in with him after she gets evicted. While she expresses some interest in him, when he eventually makes a pass at her it doesn't appear to be consensual.

* In ''Literature/MyDarkVanessa'', 15-year-old Vanessa is groomed into a sexual relationship by her 42-year-old English teacher, Mr. Strane.
* Deconstructed and depicted much more unsympathetically almost to the point of caricature in ''Literature/{{Tampa}}'' by Alissa Nutting. The main character, Celeste, is a sociopathic 26-year-old who took up teaching solely because of her obsession for 14-year-old boys and deliberately seduces one. [[spoiler: In the end, she's divorced and working as a hotel janitor, banned from areas with schools, and has to declare that she's a sexual predator after being released from prison. However, she's learned nothing from her experience and as she starts plotting out loopholes to regain her former life and predatory behavior.]]
* In ''Literature/TriggerWarning'', Jake forms a quick romantic relationship with Dr. Natalie Burke, a criminal justice professor at the Kelson College. His relationship with Burke ends up being one of the key reasons he refuses to drop out.

* In ''Series/{{Caprica}}'', one of Clarice's her husbands asks her if the reason she invited Lacy to dinner was to make her another wife. It isn't; however, it's hinted that the reason he asked this is that she's done this before.

* ''Series/ColonelMarchOfScotlandYard'': A university professor's desire for one his students becomes a motive for murder in "The Case of the Misguided Missal".

** Another episode has a teacher who's blackmailing high-school students into having sex with her by threatning their grades. It ends up being a RedHerring on the main case they're investigating, but she's still implied to have been arrested for her actions.

* Canadian teen sitcom ''Series/MrYoung'' has an unusual version of this. Title character Adam Young, the new science teacher at Finnegan High School, has a huge crush on one of his fifteen-year-old students named Echo. However, since Mr. Young is a child prodigy who graduated from University at age fourteen before returning to his home town to teach, he's actually the same age as Echo.

* In ''Series/VeronicaMars'', Veronica defends one of her favorite teachers against a claim of this. She goes through the girl's diary, and checks the dates, and so gets him off. [[spoiler: She then finds out that it was all true, and that the girl who said she was his lover was really a friend of the actual girl, and she did get pregnant and so wasn't in school. Veronica then got him fired.]]

* In ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator'', the substitute teacher Mida Rana regularly seduces male students. Her sights set on Senpai next, which means Yandere-chan needs to get rid of her by any means necessary.

* Many a hentai {{Doujinshi}} has this as a plot. A noteworthy example is the mini-series done by the Doujin Artist Jun. The first chapter involves a [[JapaneseDelinquents Delinquent schoolgirl]] giving the male teacher a really hard time. And as it's a porn doujin it winds up them having sex. The second chapter is them having sex behind the entire school back and the teacher is worried that someone will find out while the student says they're safe. [[GilliganCut It then cuts to the classroom]] with the student wondering where they are and another saying the two of them are on a date.

** Hina's on the other side of this as well. At the beginning of the series she has been having an affair with her own high school teacher Shuu Hagiwara, who is married to another woman, for two years. They didn't get together until after she met him again later when she was in college, however.

* In ''Manga/{{Gokusen}}'', one of the series-long arcs is delinquent {{bishonen}} student Shin falling hard for nerdy yakuza-heir teacher Kumiko [[spoiler:and he ends up with her in the end, though it's after he graduates]]. She is completely and utterly [[ObliviousToLove unaware of his feelings]] until he outright confessed after his graduation; in the meantime (due to his unswerving devotion, [[WiseBeyondTheirYears maturity]], and him genuinely being a good fit for her personality-wise) not only did [[EveryoneCanSeeIt everyone else in their lives know about it]], including his friends, her grandfather and yakuza TrueCompanions, and even the Principal of the high school, everyone [[ShipperOnDeck shipped it]]. Due to the length of the anime and j-drama (especially due the revolving cast of the latter), the arc was somewhat more subtle but still there.

* ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'' we get a hint that something could have happened between Yukiji and her foster father had Hinagiku and her's parents hadn't abandoned them. He used to be her teacher and is said to still favor her.

* ''Ichigo no Gakkou'' plays it for drama and deconstructs the concept. Teacher Ichigo Oomiya and student Kurumi start a relationship in high school, and the latter ends pregnant. The two end up keeping the child and do love each other genuinely, but it's not without consequences; Ichigo gets fired, Kurumi's friend initially feels betrayed because the latter knew the former had a crush on Ichigo, both of the couple's parents had a hard time adjusting, and they raise the question of keeping the child and dropping Kurumi out of school or aborting the child and letting Kurumi continue schooling. She's even shown to be wistful of the school life she could have had, even though she does love her family as is now.

* ''Kiss x Sis'': Keita's teacher, [[CloudCuckoolander Ms. Yuuzuki]], initially wanted to put a stop to [[BrotherSisterIncest his incestuous affair with his twin sisters]], but found herself growing fonder of him instead. She even begins to fantasize about him [[spoiler: while masturbating]], which soon becomes a habit for her. Keita also finds himself becoming attracted to her as well and the two eventually start dating in secret, though it isn't long before Ako and Riko become aware of it. Which setup the LoveTriangle between them and Ms. Yuuzuki for Keita's affections, until [[spoiler: Yuuzuki finally realizes Keita lacked ambition and breaks up with him in chapter 109]].

* In the classic manga/anime ''Manga/MaisonIkkoku'', the beautiful widow Otonashi Kyoko née Chigusa successfully married her high school teacher, Otonashi Soichiro. Sadly, her husband died a few months after their wedding.
* ''Manga/MarmaladeBoy'' plays this trope straight with the relationship between Miki's best friend Meiko Akizuki and her teacher Shinichi Namura, though they met and started their relationship ''before'' he was her teacher. (She was excited to find out she'd be in his class, while he told her it would mean they couldn't be seen together in public anymore.) Also one of the few times a match up like this is portrayed in a sympathetic manner, specially due to [[StarCrossedLovers the crap they go through]]. [[spoiler: And they ''do'' get HappilyMarried by the end of the series -- the last episode of the anime series features their wedding party.]]

* As the title suggests, this is the basis of the plot for ''Manga/MyWifeIsAHighSchoolGirl''. Student Asami and teacher Kyosuke marry and have to keep their relationship a secret to outsiders. HilarityEnsues in one episode when a woman who was told they were siblings spies on them and ends up getting an [[BrotherSisterIncest even worse idea]]. Also, Asami's father's response to the marriage is to make them sign a JailBaitWait contract until she finishes school.

* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'': [[AccidentalPervert Ranma]] and [[HotTeacher Hinako]] are accused of having this type of relationship a lot. At one point, the entire school thought he has molested her on multiple occasions. (It probably doesn't help that they saw him grope her breast and say, "Let me touch you!") And later on, they are caught in bed with him on top of her. [[NotWhatItLooksLike Seriously though, it's not what it looks like.]] Ukyō lampshades this trope at one point.

* ''Manga/{{Semelparous}}'': As a rookie Bulwark, Yorino is partnered to Unit 3 captain Youko for seasoning. The two women fall hard for each other and become a terrifyingly effective BattleCouple.

* In ''Anime/SpeedGrapher'', 33-years-old IntrepidReporter Tatsumi Saiga starts as a mentor figure to 15-year-old Kagura Tennouzou, and teaches her about the outside world since up until few she was a ''very'' sheltered {{Ojou}} who knew nothing about anything outside her house, her school... and a certain "club" where she was horribly abused and Saiga rescued her from. And the saddest/worst/best/whatever thing is that, considering the horrifying CrapsackWorld they live in, this is actually the ''best'' relationship they have in their whole lives. [[spoiler: And it's ultimately what ''saves'' her life.]]

* In ''Teacher's Pet'', Misuzu-sensei ends up having sex with her fifteen-year-old student, Masahiro. Who is also the younger brother of her co-worker and boyfriend. Oops.

* Alison Bechdel's autobiographical graphic novel ''ComicBook/FunHome'' centered around her closeted gay father, a high school English teacher who over the years had affairs with his students and at one point underwent a trial for buying beer for one of them. She noted that though the offense was for buying alcohol for minors, the real offense "dare not speak its name." As Bechdel is a lesbian herself, she at one point wonders how she would have fared if she came of age in the repressive '50s like her father did... "Would I have had the guts to be one of those Eisenhower-era butches? Or would I have married and sought succor from my high school students?"

* Not a mutual example, but examples of each direction appear in ''Fanfic/{{Hivefled}}''. Equius is unaware his teacher is making caliginous advances to him, and Eridan's attempt to seduce his teacher went unnoticed. [[PoorCommunicationKills They both assumed that this was what was happening with Gamzee and his teacher.]] [[RapeAsDrama They were wrong.]]

* In ''Fanfic/ProfessorRiddlesChronicles'', where Voldemort gets his coveted teaching job at Hogwarts, he and Bellatrix are attracted to each other but he tells her to wait until she finishes school (it helps that he is reluctant to acknowledge his feelings because he is determined to disprove Dumbledore's theory of the strength of ThePowerOfLove). However, eventually they start dating in the summer after her sixth year.

* Played for squick in the ''Young Justice'' oneshot ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/12398454 Therapy]]''. Kid Flash flirts with his adult mentor Black Canary, but it's when she starts flirting ''back'' that things get weird. KF likes to flirt for fun and doesn't actually mean anything with his behavior. Black Canary doesn't buy it and tries to force herself onto him. This confuses Kid Flash because he ''is'' attracted to her, but won't consent because there are so many things wrong with the situation (she's already in a relationship, she's his teacher, there's nearly a decade age-gap between them, she's an adult, etc). In the end, Artremis walks in at the right moment and stops Black Canary. As it turned out, Black Canary had been hit with a virus on a mission, which explained her out-of-character behavior.

* ''Fanfic/VowOfTheKing'': PlayedWith; while Nemu and Ichigo are already in a relationship and understand what's going on betwen them perfectly, most of Ichigo's classmates believe that they're engaged in this ever since Nemu replaced Kagine as PE teacher.

* ''Film/TheABCsOfDeath'': In the "F" segment, Yoshie has a very poorly disguised crush on with Yumi. When they are faced with the cloud of DeadlyGas, Miss Yumi reveals that her feelings are reciprocated, and the segment ends with the two of them making out [[spoiler:in the Land of the Dead]].

* Invoked by Carla when she sets to to seduce Álex in ''Film/TheBody2012''.

* ''Il sapore del grano'' (''The Flavor of Corn''). Lorenzo, a university student doing a year's teaching, develops a romantic friendship with twelve-year-old Duilio, one of the boys in his class. The LoverAndBeloved dynamic is both invoked and subverted. Duilio teaches Lorenzo to drive a tractor and identify trees and offers him the simple affection which Lorenzo, who lacks a family and whose sexual relationships with women are emotionally unsatisfying, needs. When Lorenzo's girlfriend, seeing a postcard from Duilio, asks if he's one of Lorenzo's pupils, Lorenzo says, "No, he's the one who taught me everything I know."

* PlayedForLaughs in ''Film/MeanGirls'', where the high school coach is revealed to have been having affairs with several attractive Asian students. Cue huge catfight when the different girls find this out. The girls involved also speak zero English, making the scene even stranger.
** That being said, this example is viewed rather unfavorably in universe; [[CreepyGymCoach the coach is portrayed as a creep even though the girls both like him back.]] At one point, the principal angrily storms up to him with a bat and warns him to "step away from the underage girls", prompting the coach to [[PutOnABus book it and disappear for the rest of the film,]] with the implication that the police are after him.
* Technically it's a sports coach rather than a teacher, but the relationship between Neil and his coach in ''Film/MysteriousSkin'' has strong elements of this. Neil looks back on the experience positively at first but eventually realizes he was used, and the coach himself is a DepravedHomosexual who doesn't seem to care one way another about consent. (Please note that Neil, at the time, isn't even capable of consenting, seeing as he is ''eight years old.'')

* ''Film/PerfectAddiction'': Sienna began dating Jax while she'd been training him. After they broke up, she began training Kayden as she's very tempted by him as well. They at last admit their feelings for each other and become lovers. Her mentor Julian forbids this, and knows at once after they've become involved. They put their relationship on hiatus when he's discovered this to keep on training in his gym.

* In Iris Murdoch's ''Literature/TheBell'', 26-year-old teacher Michael has a brief, intense, chaste love affair with Nick, a 15-year-old pupil of his. [[spoiler: The fallout from thi spoils Michael's life.]]

* Creator/BarryLyga's novel ''Literature/BoyToy'' subverts this trope as the main plot. The main character seduced an attractive female teacher at a very young age and has to deal with the legal, social, and psychological consequences when everyone in town finds out. It's revealed to be even more twisted at the end when [[spoiler: said teacher tells him she intentionally seduced him, and intended to from the moment she first saw him. For the five years following that, the main character was convinced that ''he'' seduced ''her'', and that all the resulting consequences were entirely his fault.]] Nevermind the fact that the teacher had already made moves on high-school students in the past...

* ''Literature/{{Divergent}}'': OfficialCouple Tobias "Four" Eaton and Beatrice Prior. They met while he was one of her intructors when she transferred to the Dauntless faction.

* ''Literature/TheHouseOnTheLagoon'': André, the Russian instructor of the town ballet school and Estefania Volmer become involved, never mind that he is married. He is driven away from town in disgrace after their romance is revealed during the recital.

* In ''Literature/LoveLessons'' by Creator/JacquelineWilson, the main character attends High School after being homeschooled all her life where she falls in love with her art teacher and begins to babysit for him. Creepily enough, the teacher reciprocates. To make it slightly less creepy, he was very disapproving of how she was behaving and was quite torn-up and confused about the fact that he loved her as well - he'd just had a child with his wife and he didn't want to ruin his marriage. When the two of them are discovered, they both lie about what happened so that he wouldn't lose his job (they claim that the crush was one-sided and that he was trying to let her down gently) and it's implied that they break up.

* A similar mentor/apprentice relationship (this time with spies/thieves) develops between the main characters during the first two books of the ''Literature/{{Nightrunner}}'' series. To his credit, Seregil, the mentor, tries very hard to keep his growing feelings for the still teenage Alec a secret from everyone, especially Alec, precisely because it would be unethical to pursue a relationship with a youth who is used to obeying him, and whom he officially adopted as his ward. (Though their friends - even friends with kids the same age as Alec - try to encourage the relationship, because they live in a medieval-ish fantasy culture where marrying at 15 or 16 is considered normal, and Alec is old enough to have no problem getting into a brothel.) In the end, Seregil finally does give in, after having been thoroughly put through the wringer emotionally, and with Alec clearly and insistently coming on to him. The situation is further complicated by the facts that Alec's exact age / stage of physical development is uncertain[[note]] He's supposedly 17 by the time they become a couple, but he's not sure quite when he was born, and while he's quite mature for a teenager, his physical development might be somewhat delayed due to [[spoiler: his half-elven heritage]]. It doesn't help that the author writes Alec as a very late bloomer who apparently didn't have any sexual thoughts / urges before age 16. There's a reason a lot of fans prefer to read him as demi-sexual or religiously repressed rather than conclude that he's [[{{Squick}} just entered much-delayed puberty]].[[/note]]; the fact that Seregil was forced to psychologically grow up ''much'' more quickly than normal [[spoiler: for his [[OurElvesAreDifferent species]]]] and despite his apparent maturity and 20-something looks wouldn't yet be considered "of age" to marry in his country of birth; and the backstory that Seregil himself had been seduced by a young man when he was less grown-up than Alec is at this point - a relationship which Seregil has come to regret deeply, if not exactly for the child molestation aspect.[[note]]He hates the guy for "robbing him of innocence too early", but it's meant in a metaphorical sense since that relationship led to his first killing (in self-defense) and it first taught him how to hate someone for betraying him. Seregil seems to be in deep denial about the fact that he was too young for any physical romance, even though the perpetrator himself at one point in a later book mentions that Seregil's family could have had him executed for the 'seduction' alone.[[/note]]

* The Chinese wuxia novel ''Literature/TheReturnOfTheCondorHeroes'' has Yang Guo, a young rogue martial arts student, falling in love with his master, Xiao Long Nu. The issue, however, was less of age than it was of position; in those times, it was traditional for students to revere and respect their masters in the same way one would a parent. Society's inability to accept their relationship plays a very important part of their romance.

* ''Literature/ThirdTimeLuckyAndOtherStoriesOfTheMostPowerfulWizardInTheWorld'': In "The Last Lesson" Magdelene starts to find her master Adar attractive, and loses her virginity with him. Adar is equally into it, but somewhat taken aback by her eagerness. They don't have anything beyond this however.

* ''Series/ATouchOfFrost'': Deconstructed in the episode ''Endangered Species'' were a mutual relationship between a student and his female teacher leads to blackmail and the man behind it winding up dead on some unsuspecting family's bed. When Frost uncovers the relationship and interviews the teacher, he makes it apparent that consensual or not, she betrayed the trust the family of the boy placed in her school to educate their son.

* ''Series/TheAffair'': Juliette, the French literature professor in season 3, has a roughly 20 year-older husband who was her former professor but is now apparently senile. She has sex with her own male college students as well. One of her female protegés also muses about sleeping with Noah, who teaches an American literature class.

* ''Degrassi'' faux-spinoff ''Series/TheBestYears'' has a subplot about Noah, a geeky college freshman, getting involved with the teacher of his film-studies class, and about her husband, who turns out to be the teacher of his business class, eventually finding out.

* ''Series/TheBisexual'': In the very first episode Gabe has sex with one of his students. Neither of them wants anything long term however.

** "[[Recap/BonesS6E8TheTwistedBonesInTheMeltedTruck The Twisted Bones In The Melted Truck]]" features the romance between a teacher and her student as the central plot when her husband turns out to be the VictimOfTheWeek, with the student as the suspect who went on a MurderTheHypotenuse. But it turns out it was actually the culprit is student's ex who tried to seduce the teacher's husband in a bizarre attempt at payback, and killed him when he refused her.
* In the ''Series/BroadCity'' episode "House-Sitting," Abbi goes on a date with her former English teacher, who she had a crush on in high school. She becomes increasingly creeped out as the evening continues - he admits that he jerked off to her while she was his student, asks her to roleplay as a 17-year-old, and even pushes back the skin on her face to make her look younger.

** In the fourth season of Paige has an affair with the hunky student-teacher Matt. Their relationship is portrayed as a completely normal and decent thing to do, except that school rules unfairly ban it. As Paige points out to him, he's only three years older than her. A girl who hates Paige discovers her secret and taunts her, but when the relationship is exposed, ''no kid in the entire school cares'', even though Paige has plenty of enemies. Matt gets fired, and the two of them think this is a good thing since now they can be together in public. Then he suddenly moves away, in a scene that ends with Paige's classic line: "You're dumping me and giving me drugs?!"

** Season 13 has Tristan hooking up with his English teacher Mr. Yates, though Maya ends the relationship by telling principal Simpson about it.

** Ross and his paleontology student's, Elizabeth Stevens, relationship, during season 6. They only started dating after she was no longer in his class. He eventually breaks up with her because of the maturity gap, as well as the fact that he could lose his job over it (as their school has rules against teachers dating students, they decide to hide their relationship from the former). Also a case of DatingWhatDaddyHates, as her father Paul does not like Ross and threatens to call the school to tell on them, so they have to hide it from him too.

** There was one back in about 1998/99 or so, where two lower-sixth form students went clubbing, and one of them, Evelyn, gets flirting with a university student, whose number she gets and they go on a couple of dates. Then he turns up as a new trainee teacher for her A-Level classes....things get awkward, they agree to break off the relationship right away, but news about how they first met spreads around school anyway and he is forced to resign (not just from the position, but from his teacher training course and the teaching profession as a whole). Eventually, Evelyn discovers that while they were dating (they had slept together on one, maybe two occasions during that period) she had gotten pregnant by him; they move away and set up home together, and it's implied they got married at some point too.
** The other occurrence of this trope was from the 1987 series, where 5th-year girl Faye falls for her teacher and manages to seduce him into a brief romance. This one doesn't get very heavy, though they are seen together on a couple of occasions outside of school, he eventually realizes it can't end well and so, well, ends it. Faye was so distracted that she fails half her O-levels and has to resit them the following year, delaying starting her A-Levels by a year, just to catch up, and almost gets distracted again when she spots her ex-bf (now ex-teacher too, having resigned), out on a date with a woman closer to his age.

* ''Series/InspectorLynley'' had two off-screen, past examples. In ''Well-Schooled In Murder'', Lynley has to question his friend, school teacher John Corntell about erotic photos of a young, male, ex-lover. They met while he was John's student, but 'once it was clear the attraction was mutual' made a joint decision not to do anything about it until the student was in university. In ''If Wishes were Horses'', Lynley's wife Helen reveals she had a brief affair with the VictimOfTheWeek while she was a university student, and he was her instructor [[spoiler: When the murderer finds this out, she runs Helen off the road; Helen nearly dies, she miscarries her and Lynley's late term baby, and when Helen is released from hospital she leaves Lynley. The murderer did this partly as an attempted RedHerring, to make the police think the killer was targeting the victim's love interests, partly because Helen is a trained police psychologist, and was the person most likely to have worked out the killer was in fact [[PyschoLesbians in love with the victim's wife]] and trying to MurderTheHypotenuse]]

* This featured in ''Series/{{Neighbours}}'' with Rachael meeting and getting the number of a cute 20-something who turns out to be her new teacher. Initially he gets mad (he thought she was in University) and tries not to encourage her, but she persists and they date in secret for a bit, then the writers obviously got bored and had him get busted, allowing for a long court case, shortish prison stay, then another attempt at a relationship (he isn't teaching anymore of course), until the overwhelmingly negative attitudes of everyone around them prompt him to move away.

* Fiona Brake and Dennis Doyle in ''Series/NightAndDay''. Troublingly, there appear to be no consequences whatsoever for Fiona's career, despite the fact that by the end of the series it's the show's worst-kept secret.

* In an early episode of ''Series/TheSopranos'', a girl on Meadow's soccer team attempts suicide by slitting her wrists. Turns out she was having an affair with the coach, who was leaving to coach on a college team.

* In an early episode of ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'', a girl at the high school that Cameron and John are attending under assumed identities is exposed as having carried on a relationship with one of her teachers, and kills herself when this is made public.

** Among [[ReallyGetsAround many other men]], town slut Laurie (Eric's sister), dates her college professor for a while, and even brings him over for dinner. It doesn't end well - and even causes a (very short) ParentalFavoritism switch.
** In one episode the kids' math teacher hooks up with BrainlessBeauty Kelso, which everyone finds out about when he shows up with her as his date to Thanksgiving dinner. Reactions range from vaguely creeped out to outright disgusted. She defends herself by saying, "Hey, he's eighteen, I barely make minimum wage. I deserve a little something nice." These examples all show a sort of in-universe ValuesDissonance since in the seventies this matter was seen as uncommon but not raising to the level of horror as it does now.

* ''Series/{{Vera}}'': A seemingly reciprocal (although short-lived) teacher/student features in "Muddy Waters". Years later, the student discovered that the teacher's child was actually his son and tried to connect with the boy. Although Vera and her team investigate this angle, it ultimately turned out to have nothing to do with his murder.

* In ''Series/WaterlooRoad'', there was Jonah and his Spanish Teacher, who were in a secret relationship for months. She ended up pregnant with his child. In the end of the series, they got found out but managed to run away to get married before the police caught them.
* On ''Series/TheXFiles'', we find that Scully has done this ''twice''--once with a professor in medical school and an instructor in the FBI Academy. The professor in medical school had a strong impact on the plot; in "all things" it's revealed that Scully was unaware that Daniel (her professor) was still married. Scully, shocked and ashamed, broke off the relationship and joined the FBI. Over 10 years later (during "all things"), they meet again. Daniel is under the impression that Scully is still in love with him, and invites her to run away with him. It ends with Scully realizing that doesn't regret the way her life turned out and [[spoiler: marks the episode in which she and Mulder begin a sexual relationship.]]

* The song "Sossity (You're A Woman)" by Music/JethroTull, about just how psychologically disturbing such an affair could be. The exact age of the boy is unclear but is implicitly about 12.

* ''Butley'' by Simon Gray. Butley, a lecturer in English literature at a London university, finds out that his wife of a year is leaving him for another man. He also finds out that his long term live-in friend/boyfriend is leaving him for another man. Said friend/boyfriend, now a colleague of Butley's, used to be his student and it's implied that that's when their relationship began.

* One of the main plots of ''Theatre/TheHistoryBoys''. The male students like one of their teachers so much, they let him harmlessly grope them so he can get a cheap thrill. Later, another teacher attempts to start up an actual relationship with one of the boys, but it never actually gets anywhere despite mutual interest. [[spoiler:The second teacher spends much of the film extremely aware of how inappropriate it is, and is only able to give in to the student's flirtations once the year is over.]] The film is more ambiguous about why Dakin and Irwin never get together, but the stage version explicitly states that the relationship doesn't happen is [[spoiler: because Irwin is injured in a motorcycle crash, rendering him paralyzed from the waist down.]].

** The same could be said of almost every implied romance in [=KotOR2=], as some party members can eventually become Jedi students of the Exile. And since those characters will only become Jedi if you increase their affection towards you, almost any opposite gender teacher/student pairing bears a degree of potential for romance. And that's not even mentioning the somewhat unwholesome attitude Kreia has toward you at times or the implied relationship between Kreia and Sion...
* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel'', [[TheHero Rean]] can engage in [[RelationshipValues bonding events]] with his classmates and his homeroom teacher, [[BadassTeacher Sara Valestine]]. Sara is often [[TheTease jokingly flirtatious]] towards him, but starting in the second game Rean can actively pursue her and should he choose her for his final bonding event, she tells him that if he's still interested after he graduates, [[JailBaitWait she'll be waiting for him]]. She'll even tease the class with alluding to the fact that she might have a boyfriend when they attempt to poke fun at her for never having one at the end of the game.

* ''VideoGame/MyTimeAtPortia'': Defied with Dr Xu and Nurse Phyllis. If you get Phyllis's affection meter up to "Friend", one of the random things that she'll tell you when you talk to her is that she's puzzled (and slightly annoyed) that people in town assume that she and Xu have a romantic relationship. In actuallity, their relationship is purely professional and neither is interested in the other (though they're both potential romance options for the Player Character).

* A really weird and rather murky version of this exists in ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIIINocturne''. Yuko Takao, the teacher in question, is rather beloved by her students, and the Demifiend/Hitoshura in particular is singled out by her as being someone she trusts to be there for her when she really could use your help. Also, though you play a HeroicMime, it's explicitly lampshaded by all the other characters who know her that the two of you have a very good rapport, and on the street prior to the actual start of the game, one fellow high school student points out that it's quite obvious the two of you are close. However, even though its made quite clear that the main protagonist does care about her quite a lot (and you do wind up rescuing her), the exact level of the relationship (deep respect for the other all the way to outright love) between the two of you is never clearly defined.

** Even outside of MC, Miss Ross, the GranolaGirl art teacher, is ''very'' hands on with her students and appears to fancy Mia in particular.

** In ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphoniaDawnOfTheNewWorld'', you can make an in-game selection which puts Lloyd in a romantic relationship with any female character, including Raine.

* ''VideoGame/TwilightSyndrome'' has a romantic relationship between main character Yukari and Kazuya Kitamura, a trainee teacher at the high school she attends, as a central plot point in her personal development arc. Kitamura is adamant about keeping things between them a secret out of fear of the stigma that such a relationship brings, but ends up breaking things off between them owing to Yukari's apparent apathy towards his concerns, though he remarks that he would like to try again later when circumstances are different. In the final chapter, it comes out that [[spoiler:Yukari's true feelings about him were [[HiddenHeartOfGold much more sympathetic than she was willing to let on]], being one of many such aspects about herself that she is forced to confront in the surreal mystical void she finds herself moving through in the game's finale.]]

* In ''VisualNovel/AmorousProfessorCherry'' (trust me, it's ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin), this is both played straight with supporting character Mamiko, who willingly nails students who obviously are hot for her, and slightly subverted by ultra-naive Chieri, who isn't originally this way, but will eventually become this trope, depending on the ending. Said ending can then either play it straight/subvert/avert this even then, as the game has many branches that can entirely alter this trope.

* ''VisualNovel/C14Dating'': Hendrik, one of the love interests, is a teaching assisstant in all but name for the summer class Melissa is taking. In Hendrik's romantic route, by the time the two of them admit to their feelings to each other, Melissa is seven weeks into the eight-week class, so they agree to keep things professional for the last week and think it over, since all the game's romantic routes become a LongDistanceRelationship in the short term.

* In the H-Game ''VisualNovel/CrescendoJP'', a considerable subversion occurs. Kaori Shito, the school nurse, is a possible hook-up for your protagonist (a student) but she does not actively try to seduce you. In fact, she actually tries to avoid doing anything remotely offensive on school grounds, and off them she tries very hard not to act on her feelings for you. If you get her good ending, she caves in but makes the responsible choice to quit her job as a school nurse because she did something against the ethics of her profession. It should be noted you both have feelings for each other, but your character tries his hardest not to act on his either, and her reasons for avoiding you [[spoiler:are because she had a student fall for her once, (he was depressed and she tried to be a mother figure to him, but he fell for her instead) it ended with her turning him down because it wasn't ethical, and he killed himself because he couldn't handle the rejection, and as a result tried very hard to avoid the same situation with you]]. The above said, if you get her good ending, she will even quit an arranged marriage to be with you, and [[spoiler:your fellow female classmates help sabotage the arranged marriage meeting, despite their own feelings for you, because they want you to be happy.]]

* ''Webcomic/DumbingOfAge'' includes a less morally-questionable example as Sal, a college student, hooks up with Jason, her Teacher Assistant, who is presumably similar in age.

* PlayedWith in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/AKindOfMagic'' from Xilam between the protagonist, Tom, and his teacher, Miss Tinker, mostly thanks to a spell than turns Tom in a PrinceCharming.

* In ''Manga/TheQuintessentialQuintuplets'' has a rather unusual case, with a character being on both ends of the trope at different stages of her life. [[spoiler:Rena Nakano, the quintuplets' late mother,]] fell in love and married her former teacher, [[spoiler:Mudou,]] but he abandoned her after he learned of her pregnancy. She became a teacher herself and eventually married again, this time to [[spoiler:Maruo]], one of her own students.

** That 'M' person Misaki was trying to get? ''Her English teacher Manabe''. And unlike Noriko, she ''succeeds''. At the end of the story she's seen in his car as they plan to be together after he divorces his wife. [[spoiler:Later revelations put this in a much worse light. The mermaids went feral around Misaki, which (as revealed in later chapters) only happens if the object of the hunter's affections already returns them. In other words ''Manabe was already in love with Misaki''.]]

* ''Film/LiberalArts'': Jesse Fischer has had a crush on his former Professor Judith Fairfield since his days as a student. [[spoiler:They had a one night stand near the end of the film that ended on a terrible note.]]

* This concept is ''viciously'' deconstructed in the aptly named indie film [[Series/ATeacher2020 (and Hulu series based off the film)]], ''Film/ATeacher'', where the affair between Diana, the teacher, and her teenage student, Eric, is shown to be toxic and comes off as more creepy and uncomfortable than sexy, or captivating. What starts as a hot, infatuated fling grows into obsession as Diana is shown to be extremely mentally unstable and Eric obviously has no idea how to deal with it; the looming threat of being caught and the fallout that would arise also does no favors for their relationship. [[spoiler: [[DownerEnding The film ends with Diana crying, alone, in a motel room while listening to a voicemail that very heavily implies that Eric confessed, meaning she's not only going to be thoroughly humiliated, possibly criminally charged, and certainly fired, but she's also lost the object of her obsession.]] In the series, Claire (the teacher's name for the series) confesses, serves prison time and loses everything. While Claire's trying to apologize, Eric makes it clear that she scarred him for life and that he’ll never forgive her.]]

* ''Literature/TheEmpiriumTrilogy'': Subverted with Rielle and her tutor, Tal. Rielle had a crush on Tal when she was younger and had erotic fantasies about him every so often when she got older. Tal states that he loves Rielle, though whether or not his feelings are romantic or purely platonic is left ambigous.[[note]](It's implied that they're partially romantic, but considering that the informant is a OmnicidalManiac who's trying to distance Rielle from her peers, this should be taken with a grain of salt.)[[/note]]

* Subverted in ''Film/TenThingsIHateAboutYou''; in order to shed her 'good-girl' image, Bianca fakes a rumor about her relationship with an older man, who is later thought to be the Geometry teacher, Mr. Ross. Things go too far, of course, and nobody believes that Bianca was lying. [[spoiler: Mr. Ross never heard the rumor, but was revealed to, in fact, have a relationship with ''another'' girl, and sent to prison.]]

* ''Series/FranklinAndBash'' has episode dealing with this where the teacher unknowingly had a one-night stand with a student [[YoungerThanTheyLook who seemed older]]. They met at a beach before she started teaching at his school, and took her to a bar so she thought he was over 21. Franklin has to defend her to the school board, and crushes on her a little during the case, leading to Bash invoking the page quote.

* ''Series/ModernFamily'': After getting arrested for underaged drinking and assaulting a cop while at college, Haley must appear before a disciplinary board that will decide whether or not she will be expelled. She breaks down and confesses some of her misdeeds to the board. One of the things she confesses to is dating a teaching assistant, something that she apparently did twice. In the end, Haley is expelled from college.

* In ''VisualNovel/FateHollowAtaraxia'', [[TheStoic Souichiro]]'s wife [[spoiler:Medea]] feels jealous of his students because they get to stare at him and [[ArousedByTheirVoice listen to him talk]] for hours. ([[{{Yandere}} Then again, she feels jealous of everyone.]]) This is one of many things that alienates [[Really700YearsOld her]] from Shirou, an ''actual'' student who knows how boring modern schools are and doesn't understand [[spoiler:Medea]]'s [[SickeninglySweethearts belief that her husband is the best guy on earth]].

** In "Fast Times at Buddy Cianci Jr. High," Chris crushes on his sexy, scantily clad English teacher, Mrs. Lockhart. When she learns of his feelings from Peter ("Our son would like to... plow you?"), she instructs him to kill her husband so that they can be together. (Of course, she has no intention of "being together" with Chris at all; she just wants her husband dead.) The plot was loosely based on the RealLife case of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Smart Pamela Smart.]]
** In "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS2E10RunningMates Running Mates]]", Lois is running for School Council president, she refers to the fact that her opponent opposes background checks for teachers, and questions what kind of person she would hire. Cue cutaway to an algebra teacher slipping a student a note asking her "Do you like me? Yes? No? Maybe?" before grinning lecherously at her.

** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E16BartTheLover Bart the Lover]]", Bart finds out that his teacher, Mrs. Krabappel, has a classified ad in the paper. He answers it with a fake name and picture, gets her to really fall for him, then stands her up when they're set to meet, breaking her heart. At this point, he realizes that the joke has gone too far and, with his family's help, writes a letter that breaks off the relationship in a kinder way.
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS19E11That90sShow That '90s Show]]" it is revealed that Marge in TheNineties was in love with her professor, Stefane August, at Springfield University. Marge left Homer for Stefane and they started dating until Marge found out he didn't want to get married at all and that he was actually not at all like her.

* ''Series/ATouchOf Frost'': Deconstructed in the episode ''Endangered Species'' were a mutual relationship between a student and his female teacher leads to blackmail and the man behind it winding up dead on some unsuspecting family's bed. When Frost uncovers the relationship and interviews the teacher, he makes it apparent that consensual or not, she betrayed the trust the family of the boy placed in her school to educate their son.

* In the [[{{Hentai}} h-manga]] ''School of Seven Sisters'', a teacher is transferred to a school in a small town and while exploring the area, he nearly gets run over by a truck, and goes into a tunnel, where he discovers the old part of the town, which includes the old campus. As he looks around, he bumps into [[SkinnyDipping half a dozen girls playing in a nearby pond]], after he's formally introduced much later by the school administrator, he tries to set up his class, but the girls take him to an empty dormitory and where he's surprised that the girls come in to him, and he ends up servicing them all. As he's cavorting with this group, he runs afoul of another student who is the wrathful spirit of a deceased student who accuses him of ruining her paradise, but the other girls defend him against her. As the story progresses, he discovers that the girls have been dead for decades, [[UncertainDoom and he was likely run over by the truck, instead of being a near miss]] and the girls explain that due to [[DeliberateValuesDissonance the social conventions of the time when they were alive]], they were instructed to to never get too close to a man, and their only experience with a man might have been as a result of an ArrangedMarriage, thus they took his arrival as an opportunity to practice what they learned online. The only reason they know about dating and the overall acceptance of premarital sex is because of the newer technology that washes up on the pond, which dues to the place's mystical energy works once it dries and they also get internet.

* In ''Manhua/MyWifeIsADemonQueen'', while Xiang Ye is devoted to Isabella, he can't help but find the female teachers at the Royal Academy, especially Wadley Aisi and Dorona, attractive. He even crafts figures of them wearing bikinis.

* Subverted in ''Manhua/HalfPrince''. [[spoiler: Gui refuses to start a relationship with Lan once he finds out that she is actually Prince. He waits until the day she graduates and proposes to her]].

* In ''Manhwa/CielTheLastAutumnStory'', one begins to develop between the main character, Yvienne, and her teacher, Krohiten.

* A high school romance is the main storyline of the Korean comic ''Manhwa/UnbalanceXUnbalance''. It has the younger male student and the older female teacher dynamic. It's more of a WillTheyOrWontThey thing so far, but still. There's also LesYay version of this in the {{manhwa}}.

* In ''Manga/TheQuintessentialQuintuplets'' has a rather unusual case, with a character being on both ends of the trope at different stages of her life. [[spoiler:Rena Nakano, the quintuplets' late mother,]] fell in love and married her former teacher,[[spoiler: Mudou,]] but he abandoned her after he learned of her pregnancy. She became a teacher herself and eventually married again, this time to [[spoiler:Maruo]], one of her own students.

** Wesley and Cordelia had a mutual attraction throughout the latter half of season three; in fact, he actually thought ''she'' was a teacher when they first met, in a possible nod to the DawsonCasting. Only a partial example, since Wesley was a mentor to Buffy, not her (and not a very good one), though he was presumably employed by the school in some capacity to justify him hanging out in the library.

This group of tropes is among TheOldestOnesInTheBook. Although generally frowned upon in RealLife today, it's had [[ValuesDissonance varying levels of acceptance throughout history]]. It was most famously acceptable in UsefulNotes/AncientGreece, where it took the form of LoverAndBeloved. In modern universities, it's an easy joke to ask "Have any of your colleagues left their wives and married one of their grad students?" because, though it's seen as kind of lame, it's still very common.

* ''Doing It'' by Melvin Burgess subverts the hell out of this trope by showing just how psychologically messed up a teacher would have to be to want to have sex with her student and why, in the long run, this sort of relationship would be damaging to the student in question.

* Subverted in ''We Need to Talk about Kevin'', in which the titular character claims his teacher made advances toward him. Though we only hear about the incident through an unreliable narrator, it is likely that nothing of the sort took place, and Kevin is just trying to get the teacher fired for the hell of it.

* In Michael Lowenthal's ''Avoidance'', 28-year-old Jeremy works as assistant director of a boys' summer camp where there is a strong emphasis on men mentoring boys. Jeremy agonizes over his sudden attraction to 14-year-old Max, one of his charges. [[spoiler: Turns out that Jeremy's own former mentor Ruff and the camp director Charlie both have similar predilections, but unlike Jeremy have used the mentor role to force themselves on boys or coerce them into sex. Things are complicated by Jeremy's recollection that when he was 14, he desired the 50-something Ruff.]] There's a backstory in which, a few years ago, Jeremy had a friendship with a 13-year-old boy to whom he seems to have been subconsciously attracted.

* In Alexander Chee's ''Edinburgh'', a 12-year-old boy joins the Pine State Boys' Choir as a first soprano. Turns out that the choir director sexually mistreats the boys, going so far as to drug them in order to do so.

* In Michael Campbell's ''Lord Dismiss Us'', 24-year-old Ashley returns as a teacher to the secondary school he attended as a boy, and where he had a homosexual love affair that left a deep impression on him. He falls in love with 18-year-old Carleton, one of his students. Carleton is in love with another boy at the school and having a relationship with him that repeats much of what went on in Ashley's schoolboy love affair. He has no idea about Ashley's affections and is initially shocked and repulsed when he finds out but softens his opinion later. Some other men among the teachers at the school are also attracted to the boys and have little coteries. Amusingly, the chaplain has a taste for rather unwashed lads, whom he has to tea in his study. He keeps art of naked boys around, but never actually lays a finger on the real boys; their proximity is enough.
* In Ursula Zilinsky's ''Middle Ground'', the protagonist mentions in passing that at his boys' boarding school there was a swimming coach who carried on with the boys.

* Deconstructed and depicted much more unsympathetically almost to the point of caricature in ''[[http://jezebel.com/alissa-nutting-talks-female-sexual-predators-and-her-no-685196144 Tampa]]'' by Alissa Nutting. The main character, Celeste, is a sociopathic 26-year-old who took up teaching solely because of her obsession for 14-year-old boys and deliberately seduces one. [[spoiler: In the end, she's divorced and working as a hotel janitor, banned from areas with schools, and has to declare that she's a sexual predator after being released from prison. However, she's learned nothing from her experience and as she starts plotting out loopholes to regain her former life and predatory behavior.]]

* According to WordOfGod, [[BlackHoleSue Bella's]] science teacher in the first book of ''[[Literature/Twilight2005 Twilight]]'' was [[SoBeautifulItsACurse attracted to her.]]

* In another of Paterson's books, ''Jip: His Story'', the eleven-year-old protagonist has similar feelings for his (female) teacher.

* In ''Middle Ground'' by Ursula Zilinsky a gay man in his 30s mentions having been in love with his housemaster at school.

* This concept is ''viciously'' deconstructed in the aptly named indie film (and Hulu series based off the film), ''Film/ATeacher'', where the affair between Diane, the teacher, and her teenage student, Eric, is shown to be toxic and comes off as more creepy and uncomfortable than sexy, or captivating. What starts as a hot, infatuated fling grows into obsession as Diane is shown to be extremely mentally unstable and Eric obviously has no idea how to deal with it; the looming threat of being caught and the fallout that would arise also does no favors for their relationship. [[spoiler: [[DownerEnding The film ends with Diane crying, alone, in a motel room while listening to a voicemail that very heavily implies that Eric confessed, meaning she’s not only going to be thoroughly humiliated, possibly criminally charged, and certainly fired, but she’s also lost the object of her obsession.]] In the series, she confesses, serves prison time and loses everything. While she's trying to apologize, Eric makes it clear that she scarred him for life.]]

* ''Series/{{Room 222}}'': An early episode of this high school drama, "Seventeen Going on Twenty-Eight," saw a 17-year-old girl try to get romantic with main protagonist Pete Dixon. He later realizes she's a student at Walt Whitman High School (where the series is set) and – immediately telling the principal about his predicament – works with administrators to get the girl to realize he will never be available to her.

* ''Manga/GunslingerGirl'': Thanks to their conditioning most of the girls have a PrecociousCrush on their [[TheHandler handlers]], whose job is also to [[ChildrenForcedToKill instruct them]]. Hilshire in the only handler we see acting like a classroom teacher (the girls also have educational lessons as well as the arts of war) but when Maria Machiavelli raises this trope with Triela and [[ShipperOnDeck encourages Triela to express her feelings]] for Hilshire, Triela replies that [[AllLoveIsUnrequited even if she was in love with him]] it's [[AnchoredShip not that kind of relationship]]. The cyborg/handler pairing is referred to as ''[[LikeBrotherAndSister fratello]]'' and the 'love' these girls feel is [[MoreThanMindControl based on their conditioning]], making any relationship QuestionableConsent, as Triela is well aware. Petrushka, an older second generation girl, has romantic feelings for her handler/instructor Sandro, but it's unclear as to [[DidTheyOrDidntThey what extent he reciprocates]] beyond kissing her.

* ''Manga/GunslingerGirl'':
** Maria Machiavelli discusses this trope when she hints that Triela is in love with her instructor/handler Hilshire. Triela replies that [[AllLoveIsUnrequited even if she was in love with him]], it's [[AnchoredShip not that kind of relationship]].
--->'''Hilshire:''' Say, what did she mean by "Talk about love"?\\
'''Triela:''' I think she's got the wrong idea about us.\\
'''Hilshire:''' We don't have to talk about love. We're ''[[LikeBrotherAndSister fratello]]''.
** Henrietta and Elsa are younger than Triela and in love with their handlers. [[spoiler: Elsa ends up shooting Lauro in a murder/suicide because she realizes he'll never love her, and Henrietta and Jose fulfill a SuicidePact after Henrietta accidentally shoots Jose during a flashback to her rape.]]
** Petrushka is around three/four years older than Triela and loves her handler. [[spoiler: They get a few years together before Petrushka dies from leukemia.]]
** The main reason this trope isn't explored is that the 'love' is [[MoreThanMindControl actually a by-product of their brainwashing]].

* In ''VideoGame/Persona5'', the Temperance [[RelationshipValues confidant]] is Sadayo Kawakami, the Protagonist's homeroom teacher. On the side, she moonlights as a [[PlatonicProstitution call-in maid]], with the protagonist becoming her main client. Though slightly suggestive, most of the activities she does are practical in nature, such as cooking and cleaning (she does this dressed as a [[{{Meido}} maid]], though, so it's not entirely innocent, and she makes a point of saying that due to Joker being underage she isn't going to offer ''all'' of her normal services). At the end of her plotline, however, she and the protagonist can enter into a romantic relationship; though the concept of a teacher-student romance has been teased in ''Franchise/{{Persona}}'' before, this is the first time it's been possible to actually follow through on it. Ms. Kawakami is, however, aware of the implications and is quite reluctant to pursue the romance unless Joker confirms three times that it's what he wants. However, if you're still in a relationship with her in the epilogue, she decides that she's too uncomfortable being in a relationship with a minor and tells Joker that [[TheJailBaitWait she wants to wait until he's legally old enough]].