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| 10 | ->''"I'm just waiting for my wife to grow up."'' |
| 11 | -->-- '''UsefulNotes/GroverCleveland''', after a reporter asked him why he wasn't married yet. (The quote is unconfirmed, but events bear it out.) |
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| 13 | A story where (usually) a man falls in love with a woman, having raised her from childhood. She looked up to the man, thought of him as a father figure or beloved uncle, a guardian, counted on him to be there when she needed him, etc. In the more extreme cases, she might have even vowed to marry him when she came of age. |
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| 15 | Then, when SheIsAllGrownUp, the girl decides she is in love with the man, or he with her, or both. |
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| 17 | Nothing is ever said about how inappropriate, [[{{Squick}} and even creepy]], this is in current society. If the man was a real parent, this would count as incest, but of course they're NotBloodRelated. Sometimes, the story tries to [[HandWave excuse]] the man's behavior by [[InformedAttribute claiming]] that he resisted the idea of a relationship, but the girl convinced him. Advanced cases can have him trying to play TheMatchmaker with her and men her own age despite his MatchmakerCrush; he may even be ObliviousToLove because of it. This makes it ''less'' creepy, in that he didn't plan it in advance, and it is what she wants as well. |
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| 19 | A source of ValuesDissonance in older works, because it used to be common practice for noblemen to marry younger daughters of friends and acquaintances, so this trope would have occurred a lot both in fiction and real life. It was quite proper for a man to fall in love with his ward and for them to marry if she felt the same. Even in modern times, some people argue that this is not a problem so long as the former child is now an adult and able to properly consent. |
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| 21 | Known in Japan (and for a while on this wiki) as the Hikaru Genji Plan, after the main character in ''Literature/TheTaleOfGenji'', who kidnapped a young girl from a life of poverty for the purpose of marrying her once she grew up. The current name is a pun, as husbandry is the act of raising something (animal husbandry, plant husbandry, etc.), and also contains the word husband. |
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| 23 | A subtrope of AgeGapRomance. Often overlaps with either MayDecemberRomance or MayflyDecemberRomance, depending on the age gap and whether one of the lovers (typically the older one) is LongLived or {{Immortal|ity}}. Compare PygmalionPlot, TheJailbaitWait, TeacherStudentRomance, and ParentalIncest. See also FatherIWantToMarryMyBrother. Contrast PimpingTheOffspring, where a parent prostitutes their own children, usually while they are minors. |
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| 25 | '''Note: A child simply meeting an adult and then them moving on to a romantic relationship when both are adults is not this trope, nor is it for teacher/student relationships that become romantic. The adult must actually raise the child as their legal guardian.''' |
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| 27 | As with all SexualHarassmentAndRapeTropes, '''Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease''' |
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| 29 | !!Examples: |
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| 34 | * Elias in ''Manga/TheAncientMagusBride'' said one of the reasons why he takes the teenage Chise under his wing is to make her his apprentice ''and'' future wife. We don't actually know if he's serious or not, but at the very least, other magicians and magical beings believe him and constantly call Chise his bride/fiancée. According to Lindel, it's actually not uncommon for a magician master to marry their disciple. |
| 35 | * In ''Manga/Bastard1988'', Dark Schneider rescues a dark elf girl named Arshes Nei and then pursues a sexual relationship with her once she comes of age. (Of course, Dark Schneider isn't exactly meant to be a paragon of moral behavior...) Comes off as far-less squick since, being a DarkFantasy setting, they're both pretty much immortal by definition (one being a demi-deific sorcerer, the other being a Drow) -- at the very least, they each have potential lifespans that reach well into multiple millennia, so the years matter less. |
| 36 | * ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'': This is ''very'' disturbingly done with Princess Charlotte and the King of Midland. She grew up to look [[IdenticalGrandson exactly like her mother]], the Queen of Midland. Unfortunately, this also caused her father to go from being a PapaWolf to lusting after her himself and trying to [[AttemptedRape have his way with her]] soon after having Griffith put to the torture for [[spoiler:getting to her first soon after Guts left the Hawks]]. Very, ''very'' [[NoYay disturbing]] indeed. |
| 37 | * ''Manga/BlackButler'': Happens in the second season, considering Alois' whole life is a bit of Fridge Horror. After his little brother and entire village are killed, this already slightly off boy (who laughed cheerfully as he robbed the dead) begins living as a true city street rat. Knowing how things like that work out, and especially after seeing his reactions to things later on, it's quite obvious that this young boy solicited himself for food or shelter before he even hit a double-digit age. Think about this: Jim is only around 11 when he goes to Earl Trancy's manor. There, he living with a bunch of boys in the same condition, being bathed and treated like cattle, all while being a sex slave to an old man. At the age of 11. It's quite obvious even then he is not a virgin, as he dolls up and puts on a beautiful red robe, seducing the old man expertly until the guy's kissing his feet. He even becomes the favorite boy, taking place for the man's son who vanished as a baby -- the real Alois Trancy which allows him to take the name Alois after Claude kills the Earl. Episode 8 shows that Alois was raped by the former Lord Trancy. It's implied that this helped make him so Ax-Crazy -- he's shown to have been a little off-kilter even before the event, having joked about his entire village dying and happily looted their corpses when they did, his violent tendencies seem to date from it, not to mention his compulsive promiscuity. |
| 38 | * ''Manga/BlackJack'': |
| 39 | ** Played with in Pinoko's case; she is physically a perpetual child but mentally considers herself to be eighteen years old, [[OlderThanTheyLook with some justification]]. She sees Black Jack as her husband, while he sees her as his daughter. |
| 40 | ** The episode ''The Fabricated Wedding'' features a young woman with cancer who wishes to marry the next man she sees before she dies. Her father calls his friend (who is also the girl's HonoraryUncle) to be that man though Black Jack beats him to it. After the woman is cured, she meets Black Jack again after a TimeSkip and mentions that she is now engaged to her father's friend. |
| 41 | * Infamously done in ''Manga/BunnyDrop''. After the TimeSkip, Rin realizes she has feelings for Daikichi, who raised her and is her father-figure ([[ItMakesSenseInContext though technically she's his aunt, as she's the daughter of his grandfather]]). In chapter 54, it is shown [[spoiler:she was ''adopted'' by Daikichi's grandfather and they really aren't blood-relatives.]] Rin takes the news quite well. The anime and LiveActionAdaptation ignore the timeskip and focus on the two as being family. |
| 42 | * Parodied in ''Creator/TypeMoon's'' ''Anime/CarnivalPhantasm EX'', where the scenes of [[VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}} Shiki meeting Aoko]] in the prologue and epilogue were altered. In the ''Carnival Phantasm'' version, Aoko fell in love with the young boy Shiki, and she waited for him to become a fine man until the day they meet again. When they re-met, Shiki has grown into his late teens, and Aoko was completely ecstatic about how successful her "Plan H" has turned out. "The 'H' stands for 'Hikaru Genji'." This scene came out years before the author of ''Genji Monogatari'', Murasaki Shikibu, was released as a Servant in ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder''. |
| 43 | * ''Manga/CityHunter'': |
| 44 | ** Umibozu had taught the girl Miki to fight when she was a child, and protected her for a while. When she's grown up she reappears, wanting to marry him. Umibozu doesn't, but they end up running a restaurant together; exactly ''how'' close they are stays vague in the anime, though in the manga they eventually marry. Ryo Saeba refers to this as the former trope namer for this trope, the Hikaru Genji Plan. |
| 45 | ** Later Umibozu convinces Ryo to take a job to bodyguard a little girl by claiming he could pull this and she's going to grow quite beautiful. It's not clear how serious Ryo was about this, but he completed the job even after declaring he wasn't patient enough to pull it off... But she's fallen for him anyway, though [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy she won't act on it knowing he's actually in love with Kaori]]. |
| 46 | * GenderInverted in ''Anime/CodeGeass'', where C.C., an [[MysteriousWaif immortal woman]], bestows {{telepathy}} on a Chinese StreetUrchin named Mao. However, he [[PowerIncontinence loses control of it,]] [[BlessedWithSuck profoundly affecting his sanity]], and the pair move into the wild where she practically raises him, during which time he falls in love with her. In his madness, he comes to believe this was her intent for him, but it was all in Mao's mind. |
| 47 | * An even more disturbing variant occurs in ''Manga/DeadmanWonderland''. [[spoiler:The BigBad Hagire raised [[GreaterScopeVillain Shiro]] from an infant into a teenage UltimateLifeForm through years of [[PlayingWithSyringes torturous human experimentation]], with her giving him the AffectionateNickname of Grandpa after [[BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil he made her as crazy as he was]]. Over time he became a {{yandere}} for her after becoming [[InLoveWithYourCarnage obsessed with her power]], and because [[WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove his idea of love]] was SexIsViolence, aside from one scene of him lovingly caressing her nude form his way of consummating their relationship was {{Body Surf}}ing his way to being strong enough to kill her.]] |
| 48 | * In ''Manga/DGrayMan'', the Noah Sheryl can be viewed as this. He's... a bit ''too'' [[ParentalIncest affectionate]] towards Road, his adopted daughter. Not to mention that it's pretty much stated outright that the only reason why he got married was just so he could get Road as his daughter. Hum. Although to make matters more confusing, she's [[spoiler:OlderThanSheLooks and at ''least'' 45 years old. She might well be older than him.]] |
| 49 | * In ''Manga/DesertPunk'', the title character takes on little Kosuna as an apprentice for this very reason. It's notable that this was actually ''her'' suggestion, which she supported by providing a picture of what she (falsely) claims is her mom. |
| 50 | * During a flashback in ''Manga/FairyTail'', Makarov takes the then eight-year-old Erza to [[DrJerk Porlyusica]] for treatment. Markarov comments that Erza will be very beautiful when she grows up. Porlyusica, who knows very well that Makarov is a DirtyOldMan, asks if he's [[JailBaitWait planning on seducing Erza later]]. Makarov nervously replies that he wasn't. Knowing Makarov, it's likely the thought had occurred to him, but it's not something he'd actually carry out. |
| 51 | * Amaterasu and Lachesis' relationship in ''Manga/TheFiveStarStories'' is like this, but since they're more or less the only two {{Physical God}}s in their universe it's excusable. Who else are they gonna be with? |
| 52 | * Gender-inverted and implied in ''Manga/FoodWars''. Akira Hayama was adopted and raised by [[SenseiChan Jun Shiomi]], who is about 12 years his senior, though given [[OlderThanTheyLook her appearance]] and the fact that ''[[WackyParentSeriousChild he]]'' [[WackyParentSeriousChild is the one looking after her]], you wouldn't be able to tell that at first glance. [[AllThereInTheManual The series final fanbook]] reveals that Hayama was the only one among the main characters who got married, and although it's not stated to whom, all clues point to Jun. |
| 53 | * In ''Manga/FrankenFran'', Fran is asked by a patient to impregnate her with the DNA of her dead best friend and love interest after it's revealed her friend sabotaged her marriage because she wanted her for herself. The patient specifically requests that the resulting baby be male, since, as Fran puts it, the patient "finds men easier to love". This isn't even the most disturbing story from that manga. |
| 54 | * In the ''Anime/{{Gankutsuou}}'' manga (which should be noted for veering ''far, far away'' from the anime, and containing a thousand times more depraved content), Villefort is revealed to have made his daughter Valentine into a replacement for his first wife. He made her wear the same clothes her mother wore, and... did stuff to her that a father shouldn't do to his daughter. Of course, this change seems to have been made to [[MoralEventHorizon erase any doubt that Villefort is a depraved villain that deserves what's coming to him]]. Let's just say that even with all that, the Count's punishment for him ''still'' seems overboard and insanely gruesome. |
| 55 | %%* Part of the plot of ''Anime/GenjiMonogatariSennenki'', the 2009 anime adaptation of ''Literature/TheTaleOfGenji'' (see Literature example below). |
| 56 | * ''Manga/GhostSweeperMikami'': In the episode where Mikami is turned into a child by the Devil Piper, at one point Yokoshima is looking after her while she sleeps and begins to fantasize about doing this to her, in the scenario that she doesn't get back to normal. Thankfully, Mikami (telepathically) snaps him out of it. |
| 57 | * In ''Manga/HanaToAkuma'', the entire plot is centered around Hana and Vivi falling in love with each other after he raised her as a foundling, despite the fact that most of the story happens when Hana is 10 and Vivi is a centuries old demon. Vivi attempts to resist this attraction by going to the demon world for awhile in a JailBaitWait. |
| 58 | * In the last few chapters of ''Manga/HisAndHerCircumstances'', Asaba acts as a surrogate father to [[spoiler:Yukino and Arima's daughter Sakura]], who is in love with him. He tries to back off years later, but she will have nothing of it. |
| 59 | * ''Manga/KaguyaHime'': It's unclear just how planned this was, but Shoko adopted Akira just to spite her ex-husband and forbade her from calling her "mother" from the start, with the words "I don't intend to ever be your mother". By junior high school Akira is forced into a homosexual relationship with her stepmother and frequently poses nude for her to draw. |
| 60 | * Similar to the ''Black Jack'' example but gender-inverted, hints of this appear in ''Manga/KazeHikaru'' between Mabo and Osato. Mabo is an 8-year-old orphan who ends up in the care of Osato, who thinks of Mabo as her child and once stated that she wishes he'd call her "mom", but Mabo has developed a crush on Osato and has outright asked her if she would be his bride in the future. That being said, she hasn't outright turned him down, merely stating that she won't marry him for as long as he's shorter than her. |
| 61 | * A rather horrific, twisted version in ''Manga/KazeToKiNoUta'', wherein Auguste manipulates and abuses his young nephew/foster son/[[spoiler:actual son]], Gilbert, having the young man love him unconditionally while having complete control over him. He eventually engages Gilbert in a sexual relationship (when Gilbert is nine) so as to keep him just as obedient forever. This is just the beginning of the crap that [[TheWoobie Gilbert]] has to go through because of his [[SoBeautifulItsACurse curse]]. |
| 62 | * This is pretty much the relationship between Moeko and Mariya in the shoujo manga series ''Kindan'' (by Osakabe Mashin). Not that Mariya even really ''bothered'' [[JailBaitWait waiting until Moeko grew up]]. |
| 63 | * ''Anime/KnightHunters'': Persia I/Saijou Takatori is a DirtyOldMan who did this to Sano and Uno, two girls that he bought as children, enslaved and trained to be deadly bodyguards, used as sex toys, and was planning to have Mamoru marry one of them to ensure heirs. |
| 64 | * ''Manga/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess2016'': After teaching her from childhood to adulthood, Zant (unsuccessfully) proposed marriage to Midna. While he did have a pragmatic motive of marrying into the royal family, [[PsychopathicManchild he flies into an immensely disturbing trance]] when he finds out she’s reentered the Twilight Realm. |
| 65 | * In ''Manga/{{Loveless}}'' when Soubi's parents die (he is about 5 at the time) he is raised by his teacher Ritsu, we later find out that Soubi [[spoiler:lost his virginity to Ritsu and that the two shared a sadomasochistic servant-master relationship.]] |
| 66 | * Invoked and subverted in ''Manga/MinamotoKunMonogatari'', appropriately due to the plot following beats of ''Genji'' before it. The protagonist Minamoto's aunt Kaoruko wants to morph him into a more confident [[TheCasanova Casanova]] by directing him towards girls that match personalities with the ladies Hikaru Genji bedded and romanced in his tale--and this also includes a little girl, Shian, as his "Lady Murasaki". However they hold off on actually seducing her for the time being, and have Minamoto simply spend time with her to make him get used to being around girls in a platonic sense and to give him a surrogate little sister. |
| 67 | * Plays a prominent role in ''Anime/MyDaddyLongLegs''. An AnonymousBenefactor chose to send Judy to high school, getting her out of a hated orphanage. Over the years, he tries to steer her life in certain directions, although she puts up a good fight. It turns out that he's [[spoiler: her love interest, Jervis Pendleton.]] It doesn't seem that he intended to marry her in the beginning: the romance developed as she wrote letters to him over the course of her high school career. However, the relationship may be [[{{Squick}} Squickier]] in the anime than in the novel because Judy is underage when she first begins writing to him. |
| 68 | * Inverted and subverted in ''Anime/MyOtome''. Nina is desperate for the love of her adoptive father Sergay Wong who only thinks of her as his daughter. Her friend Arika also falls for him, and that's almost as awkward for Sergay since he suspects (correctly) that Arika is [[spoiler:the daughter of his former love, Lena Sayers]]. It should also be pointed out that it was Nina who decided to play off this trope and wanted to become an Otome in order to be more like Lena who Sergay [[PrecociousCrush had a crush on as a boy]]. Sergay doesn't find out Nina's feelings until late in the series, [[spoiler:when he actually does get a chance to play this trope straight and yet he can't do it because he thinks of Nina as his own daughter. His failure to reciprocate on her feelings nearly causes TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt]]. Note that this only occurs in the anime. |
| 69 | * ''Anime/NadiaTheSecretOfBlueWater'': |
| 70 | ** It is initially averted between a then-teenage Electra and Nemo, when she decides to keep her feelings for him a secret after accidentally overhearing that he viewed her as a surrogate daughter to replace his own children who he believed had both been killed (ironically she was on her way to confess her love to him at that time). They later get together anyway: she finally manages to reveal her true feelings (and how!) after Nemo is reunited with his real daughter [[spoiler: Nadia]] years later. |
| 71 | ** In the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue, Marie and Samson have married. In the series leading up to this, Marie is a precocious pre-adolescent TagAlongKid. Samson never shows strong feelings toward young Marie, except a generally-protective BigBrotherInstinct. In this epilogue, years have passed, Marie is a young adult, some off-screen romance has happened, she has married the older man and is pregnant with [[BabiesEverAfter their first child]]. Because this romance didn't start in childhood it's not so creepy, and in the context of the setting (early 20th-century Europe) it's not even unusual. |
| 72 | * ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'': |
| 73 | ** Clearly discussed (in a strangely gender-flipped way) when some of the girls are plotting to raise Negi (their ten-year-old teacher) to be the perfect boyfriend. Explicitly called the 'Reverse Hikaru Genji Raising Plan'. |
| 74 | ** Additionally, Asuna has a clear crush on Takahata, who helped take care of her when she was young. He objects to the idea, though the reason he gives isn't her age, but rather that he doesn't feel like he deserves to be loved. [[spoiler:Twisted as it turns out that Asuna is ''much'' older than Takahata, though she spent most of her life with the appearance and personality of a five-year-old.]] |
| 75 | * ''Anime/OccultAcademy'': Implied by the ending and GenderInverted. [[spoiler:17 year old Maya's fallen in love with 23-year-old time-traveled-from-13-years-in-the-future Fumiaki, but he makes a HeroicSacrifice. So she takes 10-year-old current-day Fumiaki in hand, and we see that 13 years later, they're at least living together.]] |
| 76 | * An inadvertent version almost happened in Volume 4 of ''Manga/OokuTheInnerChambers''. [[spoiler: As she lay dying at age 27, [[SheIsTheKing Shogun Iemitsu the Younger]] asked the former abbot Arikoto (and her only true love--even though his infertility obliged her to bear the children of several other men) to guide the eldest of her daughters as a father. CluelessChickMagnet that he was, Arikoto had no idea what feelings his charge was developing towards him until the [[AChildShallLeadThem teenage]] Shogun Ietsuna gave an AnguishedDeclarationOfLove as he carried her to safety during a disastrous fire. As soon as a proper audience could be held, Arikoto made his feelings about the matter clear by formally petitioning to be dismissed from his duties in the Inner Chambers.]] |
| 77 | * ''Manga/OtakuNoMusumesan'' has a very literal instance in which the landlady, Taeko, was raised since elementary school by Sousuke, an aspiring manga artist, after her grandfather, her previous guardian, died. To solve an inheritance dispute when Taeko turned 16, the two get married, but the story makes it clear that love for each other strongly influenced the decision. |
| 78 | * In the ''Manga/PeacemakerKurogane'' manga, this was what the old merchant Yamatoya does with Suzu after [[spoiler: Suzu's master was killed and he was left all alone starving in the streets]]. Although he's old enough to easily be his grandfather, he apparently picked up Suzu entirely for the purpose of [[spoiler:raping him and making him his "pet"]]. Suzu wasn't the only one, however -- two [[CreepyTwins twin]] kitty boys were also picked up by him for this purpose. Suzu ''does'' end up getting revenge on him, however. To put it in Suzu's words: |
| 79 | --> '''Suzu:''' Thank you for picking me up from the streets. Unfortunately, your enjoyment is based on another's tears. |
| 80 | * In Creator/OsamuTezuka's ''Manga/{{Phoenix}}: Life'', Aoi falls in love with the girl he adopted when she comes of age, but she only thinks of him as a father. This ultimately leads to his [[spoiler:HeroicSacrifice, as he feels he has nothing left to live for]]. |
| 81 | * ''Manga/PsychicSquad'': |
| 82 | ** The handler of Naomi Umegae attempted to raise Naomi (age 16) into his own ideal bride. The training was sufficient that Naomi found it difficult to outright say she hated it, but an encounter with [[DirtyOldMan Kaoru]] awoke her resistance and she began making him pay. She also soon after changed her codename from "Kittycat" to "Wildcat." In what may be a ShoutOut to another entry on this page, the manga chapter this took place in was titled "VideoGame/PrincessMaker". |
| 83 | ** The director of BABEL ''wants'' this to happen with The Children (age 10) and their handler Minamoto (age 20), as it's the best way to make sure they won't become supervillainesses. Yes, all three of them. Weirdly enough, Minamoto's ''mother'' also wants this as well, as do The Children. Minamoto [[DefiedTrope does not]]. [[spoiler:Glimpses of the future show that this ''will'' eventually happen with all the girls, starting with Kaoru.]] |
| 84 | * Implied in ''Anime/SaberMarionetteJ'' in the very final last episode, [[spoiler:where a young elementary-age Cherry is still in love -- and [[FilleFatale lust]] -- with Otaru, even after she's been reborn as a fully organic human girl, along with her sisters, Lime and Bloodberry, who he's now raising as his adopted daughters]]. |
| 85 | * Suggested by Komachi (who is a girl about six years old) in ''Anime/SamuraiSeven'' about her PrecociousCrush on Kikuchiyo, a huge, steam-powered cyborg. |
| 86 | * Inverted in ''Manga/UntilDeathDoUsPart''. The heroine who runs up to the protagonist for rescue and help early on later reveals that she's staying with him not only to be rescued, but also because he's her future husband. The two she tells this to are shocked on finding out and tell her not to tell the protagonist about it, though she seems set on making said prediction come true. The heroine is twelve and the protagonist is in his mid-to-late twenties, which would make this a lot more squicky if not for the fact that there is no romance to speak of at this point and she is a powerful precognitive, so the foretold marriage could be decades off. |
| 87 | * In ''Manga/VampirePrincessMiyu'', Miyu accuses a Shinma male that she's chasing after of wanting to do this to a human little girl named Ruri, whom he raised after her parents died. [[spoiler: He sees her more as a ReplacementGoldfish for his dead little sister, though. It doesn't matter that much in the end, since she still sends him back to the Darkness. Ruri is later HappilyAdopted by humans.]] |
| 88 | %%* It is mentioned by Ranmaru's parents in ''Manga/TheWallflower'' anime as a way that Ranmaru can capitalize on his ArrangedMarriage to Tamao... by the end of the episode they have a Hikaru Genji moment... which is quickly ruined. |
| 89 | * Invoked, but later PlayedForLaughs in ''Manga/TheWorldGodOnlyKnows'': Keima's 17-year-old inner self [[MentalTimeTravel was swapped into his 7-year-old body]] in order to rectify any threats to his past, leaving the inner self of 7-year-old Keima in the former's 17-year-old body. Cue the Jupiter Sisters (two of them at least) looking after him, and then trying to implant the image of their respective hosts in the mind of kid Keima so that he will remember her once he grows up. |
| 90 | * ''Anime/YuriKumaArashi'': After eating Reia, Yurika watched over Kureha while pulling nearly everyone's strings in order to make her into the bride that Reia could not be for her--and eat her. |
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| 93 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 94 | * ''ComicBook/AmericanVampire'': Jim Books' goddaughter Abilena fell in love with him. Jim always thought of her as a daughter and never realized she saw him as something other than a father figure until the night she gave him a passionate kiss. She persuades him to give her SomeoneToRememberHimBy. |
| 95 | * ''ComicBook/CaptainAtom'': The hero's daughter, Margaret, begins a relationship with Jeff Goslin, her godfather. Not her father, but the implications are the same. The subtext, incidentally, was that she really did have romantic feelings for her father, and was (barely) sublimating them by dating Goslin, who was her father's best friend in addition to being her godfather. |
| 96 | * ''ComicBook/ThePunisherMAX'': Nicky Cavella was raised by his aunt and given a... very special birthday bedroom present. Regularly, apparently. While still referring to herself as his aunt. It gets better: [[spoiler:she acquired guardianship over Nicky by convincing him to kill his entire family and frame his uncle/her husband for the crime.]] |
| 97 | * ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': |
| 98 | ** In ''ComicBook/SupermansGirlFriendLoisLane'' #57, Superman is turned into a baby by some Red Kryptonite, and ComicBook/LoisLane tries to raise him so that when he reverts to his real age, he'll want to marry her -- and so does ComicBook/LanaLang. In the end, their plans work...but not as intended, since the Superman in question was from an alternate universe, and he ends up returning home and marrying his universe's Lois and Lana. |
| 99 | ** Two issues later, Lois Lane uses a time machine to travel back to ancient Krypton to [[http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/scale_small/0/3125/265713-19245-120749-1-supermans-girl-frien.jpg steal Kal-El's father for herself]] so she could be her mother. After she finally remembered that Krypton would explode someday, she decided to leave and restore the timeline to normal with her time pod. |
| 100 | ** It happens in ''ComicBook/LexLuthorManOfSteel'' when Lex Luthor creates the superheroine Hope to serve as his own private Superman as well as concubine. He [[spoiler:sacrifices her to discredit Superman]]. |
| 101 | ** ComicBook/LexLuthor does this a lot. In ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlSaga'', the Lex Luthor of a Pocket Universe created a protoplasmic ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} with the appearance of Lana Lang. While he doesn't end up with her, she clearly adores him sexually and later has a relationship with his main universe double. |
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| 104 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 105 | * When Anko has trouble finding a boyfriend in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3488198/8/What-If Anko's Boyfriend]]'', she decides that she can raise one and chooses Manga/{{Naruto}}, figuring that he'll latch on to the first person who shows him affection. |
| 106 | * Mao and C.C.'s [[MayflyDecemberRomance relationship]] is explored in-depth in ''Fanfic/CodeGeassMaoOfTheDeliverance'', with plenty of backstory and {{flashback}}, including the implication that C.C. [[spoiler: had sex with him]] when he became a teenager, increasing his {{Yandere}} {{Fanboy}} treatment of her. |
| 107 | * ''Fanfic/ADiplomaticVisit'': Discussed briefly in chapter 14, where Celestia mentions that there are some who would claim she picks her students so she can train them up and then make them a part of the RoyalHarem. She points out that first, she doesn't ''have'' a royal harem, and second, that would fall under this trope, and the practice of such has been illegal for centuries. The second story confirms that Celestia has long viewed Twilight as a daughter (and still does) and not a potential love interest. |
| 108 | * Apparently there is a camp of fanfiction writers for ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' that use this angle on Archer and Rin. |
| 109 | ** Specifically, these fanfics follow on (sort of) from the "Childcare is War/Together with House Husband" doujins where Archer is summoned by the Tohsaka sisters ([[spoiler:Sakura]] and Rin) prior to the fourth war. |
| 110 | * Some {{Music/Gorillaz}} fanwriters have this happen between Noodle and either Murdoc or 2D (or, very occasionally, Russel). A less-squicky-than-usual variation in the fic [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3315543/1/A_Man_Out_Of_Time A Man Out Of Time]] involved, thanks to time travel, Noodle meeting and falling in love with Murdoc's sixteen-year-old self, then [[spoiler:using another time jump to allow her thirty-six-year-old self to come back to Kong and meet the forty-year-old Murdoc]]. |
| 111 | * Flippy and Flaky from the ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'' are really often prone to this, especially their humanized versions. Many times, Flaky is drawn as a little girl, while Flippy is a mature guy who takes care of her. They are sometimes portrayed in romantic situations ''[[PaedoHunt even when Flaky is little]]''. |
| 112 | * In ''[[https://www.deviantart.com/popdood/art/Hera-x-Male-Reader-Change-For-the-Better-782224260 Hera x Male!Reader - Change For the Better]]'', [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Hera]] decides that her surrogate son Y/n would make the best choice for a husband when she gets sick of Zeus' philandering ways and decides to remarry. |
| 113 | * ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' fics have several of these. |
| 114 | ** The Spain/Romano pairing. Romano used to be under Spain's care as a kid, with Spain doting on him and Romano getting jealous whenever Spain paid more attention to his brother than to him. In modern times, Spain's still very affectionate towards the grown-up Romano, and Romano still has his {{Tsundere}} streak. They're not quite an OfficialCouple, but the {{subtext}} is definitely there. |
| 115 | ** The America/England pairing, actually called the "[[InvertedTrope Reverse]] Hikaru Genji Plan" in Japanese fandom, is a more complicated example: England and America used to be in a happy big brother-little brother relationship. Then America grew up, decided he didn't want that kind of relationship with England anymore, and [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution broke away from him]]. It's implied that the two still care about each other after that event, but that the nature of their affections has changed, with England going from ParentalSubstitute to blushing {{Tsundere}} and America from adoring little brother to [[{{Tsundere}} an equal who enjoys riling England up]]. Not an OfficialCouple either, but the {{subtext}} is heavy. |
| 116 | ** While they haven't had half the subtext these two other couple had (at least in the strips), a potential relationship between [[HandsomeLech France]] and [[SassyBlackWoman Seychelles]] could certainly be seen as an example. The ''Gakuen Hetalia'' game (written by and illustrated by Himaruya himself) shows a younger France playing with a child Seychelles in a beach as he helps raise her and then bringing her to the HighSchoolAU where the "story" sets in, and one of the game's endings has him hugging a blushing Seychelles and [[{{Tsundere}} being snarked at by her]]. |
| 117 | *** Often in fanon, France is portrayed this way towards young Canada too. |
| 118 | ** J-fen seems to be fond of equaling [[UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan the Japanese colonization of the Taiwanese islands]] with Japan raising his younger sister Taiwan as a prospect wife. |
| 119 | *** There are several China/Japan works (mostly in the Japanese fandom) where Japan is the "wife" being husbanded. This is of course an extension of China being portrayed as the big brother who raised the other Asian countries. However, when China is shipped with other Asian nations, he is rarely shipped with them being portrayed as children. It looks like that's a special "privilege" reserved for Japan. |
| 120 | ** Any nation who was ever responsible for raising a nation in their childhood falls into this. Currently in fandom, England's the biggest bait for this. Having had the largest empire in history, and having the most ex-colonies appearing in the series, it's not that hard to put him in this position. Evidence: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_members_of_the_Commonwealth_of_Nations The Commonwealth of Nations]]. America/England was already explained in detail above. There are tags on the KinkMeme (the section where they organize the fills) just for England and his Commonwealth. [[http://toxic-toothpaste.deviantart.com/art/HETALIA-CRACK-MEME-D-130789012 On dA, some memes include a "Draw England as a pimp with his colonies" section]]. |
| 121 | ** This is also the portrayal used by Turkey fans, in regards to the Turkey/Greece or Turkey/Hungary pairings. |
| 122 | *** And one or two Egypt/Greece fanworks, but not half as strongly. |
| 123 | * Maximum {{Squick}} factor version in the ''Fanfic/{{Hivefled}}'' 'verse; Condesce effectively raised the Grand Highblood since she was the equivalent of an eight-year-old and he was an infant, and their relationship has been at least vaguely sexual and possibly more since he hit puberty. |
| 124 | * ''Fanfic/LegolasByLaura'': Legolas adopts the eponymous Laura as his sister, or daughter, or something -- it's unclear -- when she's a baby. Ten years later, he rescues her from orcs, and agrees to "be her boyfriend". [[NoYay Even though she's still ten.]] The SoBadItsGood quality of the fic suggests that either it's a TrollFic or the author was also ten, and the BeigeProse makes it far less squicky and more funny than it sounds. |
| 125 | * Lenore and Ragamuffin from ''ComicBook/LenoreTheCuteLittleDeadGirl'' are prone to this, mostly due to the fact that he takes care of her, being her guardian and friend at the same time. Even though [[NoYay she's often paired with him when she's a child]], because Lenore [[UndeadChild can't practically grow up physically]]. Still, there are instances when fans make Lenore older just to avoid any {{Squick}}. |
| 126 | * There are a few ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfics that pairs Twilight Sparkle and Spike, as well as Twilight and Celestia, her own mentor/ruler/sun goddess. Discordlestia fics themselves sometimes depict Discord as Celestia's own mentor who did this to her as well -- or vice-versa. |
| 127 | ** The story [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/143497/1/groomed-to-perfection/chapter-1-like-teacher-like-student Groomed To Perfection]] by Rainbow Bob has Discord mocking Celestia for it, implying that she did this to Twilight, [[spoiler: and that [[IronicEcho it was exactly the same thing that he himself had done to her in the past.]]]] |
| 128 | --->'''Discord:''' [[spoiler:"I couldn't be prouder of you, or love you anymore than I already do."]] |
| 129 | ** ''Fanfic/TheMLPLoops'': Suspected to be the case, but ultimately averted, in Loop 194.5 -- before they Awoke, Celestia had promised a six-year-old Twilight that she would officiate Twilight's eventual wedding when she was ready, but had said it in a manner that sounded like she was proposing. They clear up the misunderstanding after both are Awake. Twilight herself notes that she considers such a relationship odd, since she normally views Celestia as a second mother to her. |
| 130 | * [[KissingCousins Neji and Hinata]] from ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' are sometimes portrayed like this in fanwork, since Neji has become Hinata's protector and guardian in canon. Due to the fact that there is only a year difference between them, many fans actually make Hinata little in a lot of fanfiction and fanart, with Neji taking care of her, before the romance happens. ''Manga/RockLeesSpringtimeOfYouth'' did not help stop this interpretation. |
| 131 | * ''Fanfic/{{Offspring}}'' makes note that Link and Mipha have a ChildhoodFriendRomance but, due to how [[MayflyDecemberRomance Zora age]] in comparison to humans, Mipha was more like a mother towards Link. When Link got older, Mipha fell for Link. The two ended up married with kids when Link was in [[TeenPregnancy his teens]]; however, Link soon [[TheLostLenore lost Mipha]] in the Calamity. |
| 132 | * In the ''Fanfic/OneiroiSeries'' (an [[Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick Order of the Stick]] fanfiction series), Xykon practically raised [[SplitPersonality Tiasal/Deirdre]], and he has this weird thing going on where he's almost but not quite started a sexual relationship with her. Unlike the other examples, he never exactly planned on it and she's the only one who's actually interested in the sex, but he uses it to manipulate her. (And WordOfGod says that he gets enjoyment out of it despite being [[DemBones a walking skeleton]] because it gives him a power trip.) [[spoiler: The trope is also inverted with Deirdre as she actually [[RapeAsDrama forces]] her father (who also practically raised her [[DisappearedDad after a while]]) into sleeping with her. And she's implied to be planning on doing the same to her uncle (who raised her while her dad didn't), and WordOfGod says that she wants to do it to all the men who were involved in raising her. She has issues.]] |
| 133 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12356442/1/Raising-Link Raising Link]]'', a fairy leads a nine-year-old Link to the Temple of Souls, and Cia and Lana need to figure out what to do with him. Cia advocates keeping him and raising him to be their lover. |
| 134 | * ''Fanfic/SecondBiteOfTheCherry'': a downplayed variant, since Wei Ying was adopted into the Gusu Lan Sect with the implicit hopes that she would be wed to one of their Twin Jades. |
| 135 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10260009/1/Sibling-Love Sibling Love]]'', Elesis became a {{Yandere}} [[BigBrotherAttraction for her younger brother]], ''VideoGame/{{Elsword}}'', [[FatherIWantToMarryMyBrother after he innocently proposed to her when he was 4 years old]], and has since made it her sworn duty to raise him to be the perfect husband and [[MurderTheHypotenuse kill anyone who she deems a threat to their relationship]]. |
| 136 | * In ''Fanfic/TheSwarmOfWar'', Alena was incorporated into the Swarm when she was about five. She is currently an adult with the title of "Queen-consort of the Overmind"... which chapter 60 shows to be no formality. |
| 137 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9632356/5/The-Taste-Of-Your-Magic The Taste of Your Magic]]'', Bellatrix explains to Narcissa that because of baby [[Literature/HarryPotter Harry's]] already great magical power, the two of them can raise him to become one of the greatest wizards of all time, with the two witches as his queens of course. |
| 138 | * In ''Fanfic/TheirBond'', Impa has been Zelda's Guardian since her birth. Impa was the closest thing Zelda had to a mother growing up, while Impa considered her a mixture of sibling, daughter, and trainee. In adulthood, Zelda finds her relationship with Impa changing to become far less familial than it used to be. The ethics of this relationship are discussed in chapter 42. A psychiatrist eases Impa's worries, clarifying that she didn't groom Zelda and that their relationship is neither unnatural nor psuedo-incestuous. |
| 139 | * The [[AlternateUniverse AU]] ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8724731/1/Tasting-Flesh Tasting Flesh]]'' opens up with a [[ArrangedMarriage betrothal]] between demon prince Sasuke, who appears to be [[Really700YearsOld no older than]] [[OlderThanTheyLook his early twenties]], and mortal but [[SupernaturallyDeliciousAndNutritious cursed]] girl Sakura, who is only a toddler. Flashbacks in subsequent chapters show that while Sasuke never adopted Sakura, he did babysit her regularly from infancy to early childhood while addressing her as his [[TheJailbaitWait future wife]], which Sakura enthusiastically accepted and only started questioning once she turned eighteen.[[spoiler:..for a time, anyway. She is eventually [[CommonLawMarriage considered married]] to Sasuke after sleeping with him for the first time, which is apparently how demons get married (and not by, say, signing any paperwork).]] Most of the characters in the story, ''including Sakura's own family,'' treat Sakura and Sasuke's relationship as perfectly normal without ever questioning the dynamics and ethics involved. |
| 140 | * ''Fanfic/ThundercrackersGlory'': Early on, Skywarp jokingly suggests Megatron is planning this for Thundercracker's niece Glory (a sparkling who has recently come to live on the ''Nemesis'' since he's her only surviving relative). Thundercracker is not amused. |
| 141 | * Deconstructed and played for {{squick}} in certain ''[[Literature/TheTwilightSaga Twilight]]'' fanfics. |
| 142 | ** In one story called ''Seven'', [[spoiler:Jacob proceeds to consummate things with Renesmee (who looks eighteen but is chronologically and mentally seven years old, hence the title), and she is frightened, confused and unwilling throughout]]. In its mirror story ''Eighteen'', [[spoiler:the situation is reversed where Renesmee is chronologically seven but has the looks and mind of an eighteen-year-old. In this one, she rejects Jacob, finding the whole situation disgusting and twisted, and decides to run away from it all with Claire in tow]]. |
| 143 | ** Claire and Quil are the subjects of this in the story ''[[http://twispitefic.livejournal.com/20352.html Resisting Devotion]]''. Claire has just turned eighteen and Quil decides to make his move after [[JailBaitWait 16 years of waiting until she was of legal age]]. Claire, however, is horrified to learn that Quil imprinted on her and wanted her since she was a toddler. Quil tries to win her over by saying they're "destined" to be together, but Claire [[ScrewDestiny rejects it]], plans to get a restraining order out on him, angrily declares their friendship is over and that she can't forgive him. On top of all that, it turns out that [[spoiler:Claire is also [[IncompatibleOrientation a lesbian]]]], so it never wouldn't worked out anyway. |
| 144 | * In the Legend of Zelda fanfic, ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8838440/1/The-Ways-of-Ruto The Ways of Ruto]],'' the Zora Princess attempts this on Link with an artifact that can change his age at her command, [[FountainOfYouth regressing him to a child]] that she can raise to love her. Unfortunately, [[ExactWords it only changes his body,]] [[OlderThanTheyLook not his mind,]] so it amounts to her keeping him locked in a room with only her visiting him, waiting for UsefulNotes/StockholmSyndrome to take effect. |
| 145 | * ''Fanfic/WhiteSheepRWBY'': Variant. In the first chapter, Salem reveals that she took in Cinder as Jaune's babysitter specifically so that they'd grow up to [[IWantGrandkids give her lots of grandbabies]]. She is rather put out that they grew up LikeBrotherAndSister instead. |
| 146 | * Deconstructed in ''Fanfic/YouAreMine''. As his adopted daughter Agnes grows and becomes attractive to him, the idea of this comes to Frollo's mind. Wife husbandry isn't uncommon, but the problem is that Agnes sees him as a father. Frollo doesn't particularly care and ends up [[spoiler:[[ParentalIncest raping her]]]]. |
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| 150 | * This is an instrumental part of the scheme devised by [[ShadyRealEstateAgent con man]] James Addison Reavis in ''Film/TheBaronOfArizona'' to give legitimacy to forged Spanish land grants so he can take ownership of the entire state of Arizona. Once he has orphan Sofia brought up as the baroness of the territory in the grants, and once SheIsAllGrownUp and falls in love with and marries him, as her husband, nobody can dispute his claim on the land. |
| 151 | * ''Film/BicentennialMan'': The Martin household's RobotButler, Andrew, loved helping Sir in raising Miss and Little Miss since they were young girls. When Little Miss was old enough, she asked him [[IHaveThisFriend indirectly]] about marriage, but [[SubvertedTrope chickens out]] and married someone else. Andrew goes away for a few decades, but when he returns, he meets Portia, Little Miss's IdenticalGranddaughter, and pursues a [[{{Robosexual}} relationship]] with her, eventually getting [[RoboticSpouse married]], making this a ZigZagged example. |
| 152 | * Happens in both ''Film/{{Le Bossu|1959}}'' and ''Film/OnGuard'' (based off Creator/PaulFeval's ''Literature/LeBossu''), with the girl having fallen in love with her guardian Lagardère and him initially resisting. It still fails not to seem creepy, mostly because he became her unofficial adoptive father sometime when she was a ''baby'', and she went with unnerving speed from regarding him as "Papa" to thinking of him as "husband on the hoof" once she learned he wasn't any blood relation. In the last adaptation to date, the {{miniseries}} ''Lagardère'' (2003), Lagardère marries her widowed mother instead. |
| 153 | * This is the plot of ''Film/TheBow'' by Kim Ki-duk. The main character is an old man, who lives in seclusion on a boat with a 16-year-old girl, whom he found at an early age. It is agreed that they will marry when she turns 17. The girl trusts him absolutely, up to the point when she meets a young boy, who plans to take her away from the old man. [[spoiler:The old man eventually marries her, but after the ceremony he rides with her on another boat, then makes her go to sleep by playing a song and jumps into the water happily, drowning himself. The girl wakes up at the bigger ship with a spontaneous orgasm. She acts like she has intercourse with a man, and it ends with blood on her crotch. She rides off with the boy.]] |
| 154 | * Part of Holly Golightly's backstory in ''Film/BreakfastAtTiffanys''. Holly married Doc Golightly [[OldManMarryingAChild when she was thirteen]], with the implication that young Holly was a rural StreetUrchin and it was simpler for him to marry her than adopt her. |
| 155 | * Played straight, and for romance, in ''Film/TheChechahcos''. Dexter and Riley, two bachelor Alaskan gold miners, become guardians to Ruth, who is about six. TimeSkip 12 years later, and Ruth is a grown woman in love with Dexter, and the maid is joking about Dexter having a baby. |
| 156 | --> '''Ruth''': [embraces Dexter] No longer your little girl, but your-- [kisses him, skips away] |
| 157 | * In ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'', Bane is Talia's protector from childhood. It is implied that his love for her is more than platonic. |
| 158 | * In the horror film ''Film/{{Embryo}}'', Rock Hudson plays a scientist who experiments on a female fetus, accelerating its growth until it's a beautiful and accomplished young woman, at which point they have sex. The young woman then discovers that her body will soon disintegrate due to RapidAging, kicking off the "horror" part of the movie. [[spoiler: The movie ends with the woman dying of old age while at the same time giving birth to the child she conceived with the scientist.]] |
| 159 | * ''Film/FinalGirl'': Unintentionally on William's part, but by the time Veronica is 18 years old, she is romantically interested in him. He carefully declines her. |
| 160 | * Definitely invoked in ''Film/GeorgyGirl'', where family friend banker Leamington has watched the spirited Georgy grow from child to woman, and makes her the outrageous (by today's standards) offer to be his mistress. By the time she's finally willing to give in it's to become his wife -- in order to keep the baby's she's been tending. It's implied that by now their promise is in form only, neither looks satisfied after the ceremony. |
| 161 | * A slightly different version occurs in ''Film/GreatBallsOfFire'', where it's suggested that Jerry Lee wanted to marry Myra ''to'' raise her (and train her in wifely obedience before she'd be old enough to "Get Ideas"). |
| 162 | * ''Film/ILoveYouRosa'': When 20-year-old Rosa's husband dies, under Jewish law his little brother Nissim is expected to marry Rosa, despite the fact that he's only 11. Soon after, Nissim runs away from home and Rosa takes him in. They embark on an odd relationship in which she is his guardian but also his semi-fiancee, with Nissim fully expecting to marry Rosa when he's old enough. (He eventually does, after various plot complications.) |
| 163 | * In Hideo Gosha's ''Film/{{Kai}}'' (桨), a man buys up the pre-teen daughter of a poor family and has her trained as a geisha. In the following years, she develops romantic feelings for him. |
| 164 | * In ''Film/LegacyAMormonJourney'', Eliza tell the gentleman who's trying to court her that she's sworn to marry Jacob because he was like a father to her when she had no one. He's the kindest man she knows. The gentleman tells her that marriage is a great reward for kindness. |
| 165 | * In ''Film/TheLionInWinter'', the marital rift / civil war between Henry II and his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine exists partly because the aged Henry took Alais as his mistress. Alais is a Princess of France, whom Eleanor had taken into her household as a ward when the girl was 8, with the plan to marry her to one of her sons (the future Richard I) when she was old enough. Alais is a young woman by the point the movie takes place, and Henry probably wouldn't actually have been involved much in her raising, but still. Bonus points for the fact that Alais is actually Eleanor's ex-husband's daughter by his second wife, which causes political problems, because they can't just simply reneg on the original engagement promise and keep her around as Henry's mistress. (Eleanor's problem with it seems to be part jealousy -- she and Henry had been a rare royal love match a few decades earlier, so she took the mistress thing harder than most queens would have -- and part a sense of being betrayed by her foster daughter.) |
| 166 | * {{Inverted}} in ''Film/MerlinsShopOfMysticalWonders'', when a man accidentally turns himself into a baby, and his wife is left to raise him. |
| 167 | * Inverted in the 2009 movie ''Film/{{Orphan}}''- the titular character is [[spoiler:actually a thirty-something year old adult who tries to come on to her legal guardians, and kills them when they refuse.]] |
| 168 | * The film (and presumably the literature it's based on) ''Film/PortraitOfJennie'' does an odd variation on this when an artist meets a mysterious, too-young girl. Jennie promises him that they are meant to be together and that she will grow up for him... and does. Very quickly. Of course, [[spoiler:she's already dead]]. Despite this description, it's a beautiful film. |
| 169 | * In ''Film/TheScorpionKing'', this trope is never explicitly spelled out but its established that [[EvilOverlord Memnon]] wants to make the [[HotWitch Sorceress]] his queen and that he has been keeping her his prisoner since she was a child. The viewers can draw their own conclusion. |
| 170 | * A gender inverted version is explored in a 1973 Turkish film called ''Film/SultanGelin''. Beautiful young Sultan [[note]] "Sultan" being a fairly common girl's name in Turkey [[/note]] is married off to the sickly son of the wealthiest man in the village in exchange for a hefty bride price, however the bridegroom dies during the wedding night. Sultan's parents don't want to give up the money they received and her in-laws don't want to give up the brand new "helping hand", so a brilliant solution is found in betrothing her to the late groom's 5-year-old brother. The in-laws then proceed to happily dump all of the child's responsibility on Sultan's head, who becomes his full-time caretaker while fully expecting to marry him when he's older. Unsurprisingly, this plan does not go very well. |
| 171 | * In Creator/ParkChanWook's ''Film/Thirst2009'', Tae-ju is adopted by Mrs. Ra with the intention of raising her as a wife for her son. The protagonist Sang-hyeon becomes her lover, alleviating the misery of her loveless marriage and the slave-like relationship she has to both her husband and foster mother. Then he [[ILoveYouVampireSon turns her into a vampire]]. |
| 172 | * ''Film/UnderSuspicion'': It's eventually revealed that Chantal was the daughter of Henry's law partner and that they met when she was 11. After Chantal's father died when she was 14 Henry apparently became her unofficial ward and started taking a more active role in her life...and sometime after she graduated from high school they got married. Victor accuses Henry of grooming Chantal, and this is implied to be why Chantal was so highly suspicious of Henry's encounter with Camille, Chantal's 13-year-old niece. |
| 173 | * In ''Film/{{Womb}}'', a woman gives birth to the clone of her dead boyfriend, raises him like a son, and eventually has sex with him. |
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| 177 | %% Do NOT add Literature/TheDresdenFiles to this list. Harry's relationship with Molly does not count. The relationship is just a crush on her part. This is a) Teacher Student Romance, Hot For Teacher specifically. b) He doesn't raise her. c) Nothing happens beyond the crush. In short, it meets none of the requirements of this trope and does not belong here. |
| 178 | * A series of '70s spy/mystery stories had Jeff Pride become the guardian for Anglo-Japanese Cherry Kobayashi when she was six. The stories are set somewhere between ten and twelve years later, she's grown to be ''very'' beautiful and sexy, and he's ''[[{{Squick}} horrified]]'' at her romantic feelings toward him. One of the funnier parts is his outrage when told that the [[ThereAreNoTherapists counsellor at her school]] ''approves'' of her intentions because he's not blood-related. The series ends with the situation unresolved. |
| 179 | * In the Tudor/Elizabethan period novels by Creator/MercedesLackey and Roberta Gellis, the elven warrior Denoriel is Elizabeth Tudor's destined protector starting several years before her birth. When Elizabeth is 14, Denoriel (and his sister Aleneil) deal with Elizabeth's awakening sexuality by getting her into Denoriel's bed. To be fair, in that era a 14-year-old female was old enough to be a mother, and Denoriel was a "safer" lover than some of the humans who were sniffing around the third in line to the throne. But this doesn't stop Denoriel from being simultaneously aroused and squicked by the idea. |
| 180 | * Creator/RobinMcKinley has so many {{May December Romance}}s that it was inevitable that a few would fit this category. This includes Aerin/Tor, and [[spoiler:Rosie/Narl]] from ''Spindle's End'', but the most straightforward example of this trope is in "Touk's House", a modification of the Rapunzel story. After a woodcutter steals herbs from a witch's garden, the witch Maugie requests a baby girl in exchange. But in this case, it's so she can raise a wife for her half-troll son. (Who is, yes, around, older, and helping to raise the child.) Needless to say, Erana's not too happy when she grows up and figures it out. [[spoiler:But it works anyway.]] |
| 181 | * ''Literature/HalfPrince'' character Zhuo Lin Bin, aka Wicked, the [[ChildhoodFriendRomance Unlucky Childhood Friend]], eventually raises Lan's daughter and is tricked into agreeing to marry her. Zhuo is reluctant at first, as he always loved her [[strike: mother]] [[strike: father]] [[MisterSeahorse parent]]. He is also concerned about the age difference, but since humans can live over 200 years in that time, it's not a major issue. |
| 182 | * The plan of the Duke in Creator/JamesThurber's ''Literature/The13Clocks'', having kidnapped the Princess Saralinda as child and raised her. He's under a curse, but on her birthday, he will be able to [[ArrangedMarriage force her to marry him]]. |
| 183 | * ''Literature/SixteenThirtyTwo'' has a mix between this and PerfectlyArrangedMarriage. Princess Kristina of Sweden (9) and Prince Ulrik of Denmark (28) were set up in an ArrangedMarriage. Subsequently, Ulrik became Kristina's guardian, and the two have been quite fond of each other (Kristina being WiseBeyondHerYears helped). Here, the romantic relationship (or expectation of one) came ''before'' the adult became the child's guardian. Also played with in that in most cases of Wife Husbandry, the older male is the dominant one in the relationship, where here, Kristina is ''already'' bossing Ulrik around. Still, at least life with Kristina will never be boring. |
| 184 | * In ''Literature/TheAccursedKings'', new King Philippe V promises his five-year old daughter to the grown-up duke of Burgundy, who accepts after seeing that she has no physical deformity, and sends her off to be brought up in Burgundy. |
| 185 | * Takura from ''Literature/AnthologiesOfUllord'' starts off with her father effectively selling her to Shadi to pay off his debt. Shadi then becomes her guardian and raises and protects her (despite her having been a teenager when they met). And a few years into her adulthood, her friend/servant-like relationship to Shadi becomes romantic and sexual after she presses for it. And they remain a couple afterward. |
| 186 | * Creator/MaggieFurey's ''Literature/{{Aurian}}'' books: |
| 187 | ** Aurian is raised by her deceased father's friend Forral, from the age of seven to around eleven, complete with Aurian claiming that "I'm not going to marry a prince, I'm going to marry you." When Forral leaves after injuring her during their sword training, Aurian goes on to study magic at the Mage's Academy and becomes the Archmage's protégé. When Forral later returns, they both find themselves attracted to each other, and eventually after much angsting they consummate their love. It helps ([[MayFlyDecemberRomance or just makes it worse]]) that Aurian is a mage and thus immortal. |
| 188 | ** Far worse is the Archmage Miathan's perverse lust for Aurian once she "matures" upon the return of Forral into her life. While he's been raising her to be a [[TykeBomb loyal ally]], he gradually goes from benevolent father to attempted rapist. |
| 189 | * The oldest and most elaborate printed version of ''Literature/BeautyAndTheBeast'', written in 1740 by Villeneuve, uses a gender-reversal of this as one of its many subplots. The Beast, once restored, recounts how he was tended in boyhood by his nurse, an evil fairy in disguise, but as he grew older she began to treat him less like her charge and more as a lover, hoping to seduce him into marriage. His growing refusal of this lead to his enchantment by the spurned fairy. |
| 190 | %%* The legendary King Cophetua had no interest in women until he fell in love with a beggar child and decided to raise her to be his queen. This story is best known through Creator/AlfredLordTennyson's poem "The Beggar Maid." |
| 191 | * In the ''Literature/BelisariusSeries'' novel ''Fortune's Stroke'' by Creator/EricFlint and Creator/DavidDrake, Empress Shakuntala was raised and trained by the great warrior-assassin Raghunath Rao since age 10, and is desperately in love with him. Unusually, their biggest obstacle isn't age -- she considers marrying men who are even older, for political purposes -- it's the caste difference. She is very much the pursuer, and although Rao returns her feelings, he is entirely aware of how inappropriate they are, and goes to great lengths to try to dissuade her. Since EveryoneCanSeeIt, their friends eventually start pushing them together. |
| 192 | * Raven in ''Literature/TheBlackCompany'' has this come up accidentally. When Darling, the little girl he sort-of adopted and raised in hiding, becomes a young woman she starts crushing on him (as basically the only man she knows). After arranging other guardians he fakes his death and makes a run for it when he figures out what's happening. |
| 193 | * Subverted in Creator/CharlesDickens' ''Literature/BleakHouse''; while really grateful to him, the heroine essentially tells her guardian that she loves him as a daughter and not as a wife. |
| 194 | * In ''Literature/TheBrideOfAdarshan'', the main character, Prince Alexid, is forced into a political marriage with the youngest princess of a conquered nation (a nation Alexid was largely in charge of conquering). How young? [[{{Squick}} Ten]]. To the story's credit, this is treated as pure politics, even as Alexid and Justinia do grow closer to each other, with Alexid taking on a Guardian/Big Brother role towards her. The story also clearly implies that that will mature into something real by the time Justinia comes of age, assuming that they survive the political shenanigans around them. |
| 195 | * The world of ''Literature/ABrothersPrice'' has a [[GenderRarityValue huge deficit of men]]. Few are conceived, fewer are born, so monogamy is not only impractical but totally unheard of. When a man marries, he marries all the sisters of a family -- sisters who are themselves the children of several sisters married to one man. Not all of the sisters will be of age, and the husband is expected to raise and dote on his child brides just as he would with the children he fathers on their older sisters. |
| 196 | * Spider Robinson wrote a short story, "Soul Search" (featured in the anthology ''Time Travelers Strictly Cash'' from the ''Literature/CallahansCrosstimeSaloon'' series), which asked what happens when you have a universe with both reincarnation and cryogenics. At the end, [[spoiler:when one character dies, the man who loves her tracks down the baby she was reincarnated as and adopts her, intending to marry her in eighteen years.]] Her plan had been this as well, but a bit more sinister version: [[spoiler:cryogenics comes in because she was going to ''kill'' the three children she'd determined had the highest chance of being her late husband's new form, in hopes of the soul returning to the frozen, now-healed body. When her life is eventually threatened by a lab accident, the people working for her -- the man mentioned above included -- allow her to die. However, ''he'd'' determined that a soul grows in maturity with each life, so it's with the hope that she's better in her next life that he prepares to enact the Hikaru Genji plan.]] |
| 197 | * In ''Literature/ChildOfDarkness'', Celeste is adopted by a wealthy woman whose father-in-law has fallen for Celeste, and wants to marry her when she is a little older or at least convince her to have a child with him so the child can inherit the family's money. [[spoiler:They drug and rape her when it becomes clear their little scheme isn't going to work.]] |
| 198 | * The disturbing aspect of this is the entire point of the Creator/FyodorDostoevsky short story "A Christmas Tree and a Wedding." Made even worse because the real motives of the older man are to get at the girl's finances, with him mentally calculating how much interest her bank balance will accumulate in the years before she comes of age. |
| 199 | * In P. C. Hodgell's ''Literature/ChroniclesOfTheKencyrath'', villain Gerridon takes in the abandoned Jame at age seven with the express plan of bringing her up to be his replacement bride and replacement sorceress. Unfortunately for him, his retainers subvert his brainwashing intentions ... Made somewhat more squicky by the fact that Jame's mother is [[spoiler:Gerridon's sister, Jamethiel]] and that Gerridon sent her there explicitly to ensure the birth of his future bride. Of course, [[spoiler:Jamethiel is also Gerridon's wife... the Kencyrath have no problems with incest. In fact, due to their magically robust genes, incest is a good way to create more powerful children]]. |
| 200 | * In ''Literature/TheCityWithoutMemory'', Squirrel is TheUnfavorite in her noble family since her very birth, and Veri-Meri (a spy in her brothers' service) is the only one to cheer her up and keep her company, all the while telling her she is to be his wife, period. She already shows signs of StockholmSyndrome when the friendly treatment and compassion of the main characters, as well as the start of a healthy romantic relationship with a NiceGuy, break the spell, and she runs away. |
| 201 | * Played straight in ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo''. Edmond Dantes (as the Count) rescues Haydée (the Albanian-Greek daughter of Ali Pasha) from slavery when she's a child. He raises her as his daughter, though the two fall in love once Haydée becomes an adult. |
| 202 | * In one of the short stories from the anthology ''Cuentos de Angustias y Paisajes'' by Carlos Salazar Herrera, a boatman tried to marry the girl he raised, even though she called him ''[[{{Squick}} dad]]'', but she apparently drowned before he could force her into it. However, [[spoiler: it was noted she was an excellent swimmer and a man she seemed to fancy disappeared around the same time]]. |
| 203 | * ''Literature/TheDarkElfTrilogy'': |
| 204 | ** He doesn't raise her, but Drizzt Do'Urden clearly thinks of the human girl Catti-brie, whom he met when she was about ten, as something like a little sister. However, as she grows up, she seems to have fallen for him, and he doesn't even notice until she's already involved with someone else... at which point, with some more overt hinting from her, he finds himself very attracted to her. Some years later, they finally connect. |
| 205 | ** Even more squicky is Drizzt's relationship with his sister (though they are actual siblings). She seemed taken with him from the time he was an ''infant'', and did most of the work in raising him. At his graduation from the warriors' academy, he is repulsed by the drug-fueled demon orgy and leaves. His sister follows him, and [[BrotherSisterIncest tries to seduce him]]. He is about as repulsed as ever, thankfully... [[BigScrewedUpFamily drow are messed up]]. |
| 206 | * ''Literature/TheDemolishedMan'' has an accelerated version -- as part of her treatment for the trauma she's undergone, Barbara D'Courtney is mentally regressed to childhood and placed in Lincoln Powell's care. Over the course of the three weeks it takes to regain her adult personality, she falls in love with him. |
| 207 | * In the titular short story from ''The Doctor's Sweetheart and Other Stories'', Doctor John is thirty when he first meets the eight-year-old Marcella, and "[h]e had the most to do with bringing her up..." and "Marcella was one of those girls who develop early... at fifteen, she was a woman, loving, beautiful, and spirited." The Doctor realizes he loves her, but vows not to put himself forward as a suitor, given her age and inexperience; but it's too late and she already loves him, anyway, so: "...one day, just a month before her sixteenth birthday, the two came hand in hand to Miss Sara and me... and told us simply that they had plighted their troth to each other." Of course her legal guardian uncle interferes and takes her away; but she comes back to marry the doctor when she is twenty-one, as she had promised. |
| 208 | * In ''Literature/TheDoorIntoSummer'', a thirty-year-old man, and an eleven-year-old girl who thinks of him as an [[HonoraryUncle uncle]], use [[HumanPopsicle cryogenics]] to "even things out": he goes into the deep freeze first, for thirty years, while she waits ten years, then goes in for twenty years, so eventually they both come out and he's still thirty and she's twenty-one. |
| 209 | * The world of ''Literature/{{Dragonlance}}'' has a race of LizardFolk called "draconians", all of whom are the result of the eggs of good dragons being stolen and subjected to evil magics which transform what's inside of them; instead of baby dragons hatching from them, multiple draconians hatch from a single egg. Draconians were created to be reliable soldiers for the BigBad of the story. However, only ''male'' draconians were ever hatched. Eventually, after thirty-some years pass in TheVerse, readers learn that eggs containing female draconians ''do'' exist; they were never hatched because there was concern that if draconians reproduced, then they would become too numerous to control. The adult male draconians embark on a quest to find the female eggs and hatch them, in an effort to keep their race from dying out one by one. They succeed, and find themselves in the position of raising twenty baby females to adulthood. No matter who these females conceive children with, it will end up being somebody who remembers them as babies. |
| 210 | * The story "The Education of Betty" from Creator/LMMontgomery's ''[[Literature/AnneOfGreenGables Further Chronicles of Avonlea]].'' Best friends fight over girl. The one who marries her quickly dies, so the other becomes a sort of unofficial godfather to his best friend's daughter. He falls in love with her, but knows how inappropriate it is, so he tries fixing her up with his nephew. She'll have nothing of it, and marries him anyway. |
| 211 | * ''Literature/TheElenium'': |
| 212 | ** As a young man, Sparhawk acted as Ehlana's personal tutor and champion until his exile. Ehlana treasured how safe she felt whenever he was around and decided she was going to marry him well before she reached puberty and made good on the decision when he returned. Sparhawk tried to resist as he felt it was inappropriate but she ultimately won him over. |
| 213 | ** Danae settled on the older Talen as her future husband while even younger than Ehlana, helped along by [[spoiler:being the goddess Aphrael]]. Sparhawk recognizes the instant she made the choice and that, much like him, Talen had both no clue and no chance of escape. |
| 214 | * In the 19th-century book series ''Literature/ElsieDinsmore'', Elsie's father's best friend Edward Travilla complains frequently that he and Elsie aren't closer in age, because she'd be the perfect bride. He starts saying this when she's ''seven'', right after she's been encouraged to call him her Uncle Edward. She marries him as soon as she hits 22, and the entire family rejoices. [[TeenPregnancy Her parents had her quite young]], so Edward Travilla is only about 16 years older than she is, but since he begins talking about wanting to marry her when she's a small child, and remains a huge influence in her life (taking her side against her insanely controlling father, trying to break things up with her first love[[note]]To be fair, said first love was a lying GoldDigger[[/note]]), he comes off as creepy rather than romantic. |
| 215 | * In ''Literature/EmilyOfNewMoon'' and its sequels, by L.M. Montgomery, this is what Dean Priest plans for Emily. Yes, he saves her life the first time they meet. Yes, he's the only adult who understands Emily and she's the only person (other than her now-dead father) who was ever his real friend. But he's old enough to be her father, and at their first meeting he's saying things like "Your life belongs to me, now," and "[[JailBaitWait I'll wait for you]]," and "One day I'll teach you all about lovers' talk." In the third book they actually get engaged, [[spoiler: but Emily breaks it off. Eventually Dean is able to be reconciled to her as a friend.]] |
| 216 | * In Creator/JaneAusten's ''Literature/{{Emma}}'', the titular character falls in love with her sister's brother-in-law, who has been something like a real elder brother to her since childhood. He even remarks to her that he has [[spoiler: been in love with her ever since she was thirteen at least]]. Not quite as overt as other examples, since there was no intent and both parties had no idea they were in love until Emma had a presumed suitor, but still mildly squicky to modern readers. |
| 217 | ** In the modern-era remake ''Film/{{Clueless}}'', this character is replaced by Cher's "ex-stepbrother" (his mother was married, to then divorced from, her father), who is only two or three years older than Cher. This cuts down on the squick considerably. |
| 218 | * In the ''Literature/ErebusSequence'', it's downplayed and gender-swapped with Lucien (protagonist of the first book) and Rafaela (his eventual love interest). She's not ''that'' much older than him, and is more his nanny and maid than mother figure, but their relationship nevertheless started out as caregiver-and-kid. |
| 219 | * The villain in Sandra Brown's novel ''Literature/FatTuesday''. [[spoiler:And after his bride figured out just how crooked he was, he threatened to ''replace her with her little sister''.]] |
| 220 | * The novel ''Literature/FireAndHemlock'' has a variation: while Tom is not involved in raising Polly ''per se'', he is her moral support when her parents aren't there for her. She befriends him at age eleven or so and when they discuss what she should call him, she suggests "Uncle Tom." It also stresses the angle that she is the insistent partner, writing what amounts to a self-insert romance novel about them as a tween, while he tries to distance himself by dating a woman his age. |
| 221 | * ''Literature/ForgottenRealms'': Mirt the Moneylender, the AuthorAvatar of Ed Greenwood, rescued his wife-to-be Asper [[ConvenientlyAnOrphan from a sacked city as a baby]], raised her as a daughter, and continues to think of her as his "little girl" after marrying her. |
| 222 | * Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'s parents are a semi-example. His mother was the daughter of his father's best friend, and he adopted her after said friend died. |
| 223 | * ''Literature/FredTheVampireAccountant'': Gideon, who is an ancient dragon, is betrothed to Sally and pretends to be her slightly-older playmate. It is unclear how much Sally knows about this arrangement or what she thinks of it. |
| 224 | * ''Literature/FullMetalPanic'': |
| 225 | ** Everything short of explicitly stated to have been successfully executed by [[spoiler:Gauron]] with the twins Yu Fang and Yu Lan. [[spoiler:The twins are so completely heartbroken by the fact that he's on the verge of death that they willingly undertake a suicide mission at Gauron's behest, rather than outlive him]], and Melissa Mao at one point notes that they seem to be devoid of any emotion other than total despair. Being able to see him again is the only thing that brings them a shred of happiness. In fact, their grief over [[spoiler: Gauron's impending death]] is used as a narrative counterpoint and equivalent of Sousuke's sadness at being separated from Kaname (as Mao notices that Sousuke's eyes and expression are exactly the same as Yu Lan's). |
| 226 | ** Apparently, as clarified further in the novels, he tried to execute a Hikaru Genji Plan with [[PaedoHunt the young Sousuke]], but failed completely. He pretty much told 12-year-old Sousuke, "Why don't you come to my camp? There's food, ammunition, and AS parts there." (Which sounds suspiciously like a "There's candy over in my van, little boy" scenario.) Knowing [[spoiler:Gauron]], it's highly doubtful that his plans were anything pure and kindhearted. Of course, Sousuke refuses, and [[spoiler:Gauron]] spends the next five years unable to forget "beautiful" Sousuke. |
| 227 | * ''Literature/FuManchu'': Attempted. A year after Dr. Petrie marries Fu Manchu's former servant Karameneh, their daughter is born, but she supposedly dies when she's just three weeks old. It turns out she was kidnapped by Fu Manchu or one of his servants, and raised for the purpose of bearing a son for him when she's old enough (he specifically states that no romance is intended, just using her to bear his child). This is thwarted when she meets and falls for Alan Sterling (the narrator of ''The Bride of Fu Manchu'') instead, and Fu Manchu, seeing his plan has effectively been sabotaged (however unintended), releases her to be with him. |
| 228 | * ''Literature/GardenOfShadows'', the prequel of the Literature/DollangangerSeries, gives the backstory of the Dollanganger children's grandparents, Malcolm and Olivia. Malcolm and his half-brother Christopher's mutual parent was their father Garland, whose second wife was Alicia, the daughter of one of his friends. Garland didn't raise Alicia, but he knew her from the time she was a little girl, helped to provide for her and her mother after her father's death, and married her once she was of legal age. As Alicia confides to Olivia (the protagonist), "He kissed me when I was fourteen. We knew then, you see." |
| 229 | * In ''Literature/GarrettPI'''s ''Cold Copper Tears'', thirty-plus Garrett teams up with street kid Maya, whom he'd saved from her stepfather's molestation as a young girl. Now eighteen, she repeatedly declares her intention to marry him. [[spoiler: They do hook up, but she eventually married someone else because Garrett was too ''immature'' about commitment.]] Not as creepy as most, as he was never actually her guardian and she always saw him as more hero than parent. |
| 230 | * A reluctant example (on the part of the guardian) in Maurine Whipple's novel of pioneers in southern Utah ''Literature/TheGiantJoshua''. Abijah and Bathsheba adopted the protagonist Clorinda while she was a young orphan. When she is 16, Mormon prophet Brigham Young asks Abijah and Clorinda to marry. Abijah reluctantly thinks "it was enough to have to raise her without having to marry her" but they obey. |
| 231 | * Creator/MercedesLackey's ''Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar'' series has a major villain, Hulda, who uses this as her means of ascending to power. She poses as a nursemaid to Princess Elspeth of Valdemar, intending to corrupt her and become the power behind the throne when she grows up (never mind that the Companions would never have Chosen her in that state, and only a Herald can be Monarch). When that plan fails, she does the same with Prince Ancar of Hardorn -- becoming his lover in the process -- and succeeds in having him usurp his father's throne. It is later revealed that she did all this as an agent of the Eastern Empire. |
| 232 | * Inverted by Raul and Aenea in the last two books of the ''Literature/HyperionCantos''. Raul's hired as Aenea's bodyguard when she's eleven and he's 27, and is with her as a guardian for the next five years, until she sends him out on a mission for her. But Aenea is [[WiseBeyondTheirYears a messiah figure with knowledge of the future]] and Raul is sort of dense, so he's mostly there to fight people and lift heavy objects, and some of the off-color remarks she makes about their future relationship go right over his head. Due to the relativistic effects of travel he's still 32 when they next meet but she is nearly 22, and she immediately begins a sexual relationship with him. |
| 233 | * In ''Literature/TheIdiot'', by Creator/FyodorDostoevsky, that is the future Totsky originally planned for Nastassya Filippovna and one of the reasons she feels herself unworthy of Prince Myshkin's love. However, it was actually Mistress Husbandry in this case, and it didn't remain a plan. Though it's not explicitly stated, it's clearly understood that Nastassya was either coerced or manipulated into becoming his kept woman when she was 16, which situation went on for a few years until she couldn't take it anymore. |
| 234 | %%* What Augon Hunnamek had planned for Jessamin in ''Literature/{{Indigo}}'''s ''Infanta''. [[spoiler:As Jessamin turned out to be the [[EnfantTerrible mortal avatar of a sea-demon]] called [[MeaningfulName The Serpent who Devours]], that didn't turn out well.]] |
| 235 | * In Creator/PGWodehouse's ''Literature/JeevesAndWooster'' stories, Roderick Spode and Madeline Basset come close to this sort of relationship, although Spode was merely a friend of her family's, and not her actual guardian. Of course, we're not supposed to like either of them, so the inherent squick, when they finally get together in ''Literature/StiffUpperLipJeeves'', is likely deliberate. |
| 236 | * Inverted in ''Literature/{{Kurenai}}'': while Shinkurou is very protective of the little girl he's caring for, any romantic affection seems to occur solely on Murasaki's side (notice her MeaningfulName). [[spoiler:Then again, considering Murasaki's BigScrewedUpFamily, this can be seen as played straight from ''their'' part.]] |
| 237 | * An odd version occurs in ''[[Literature/KushielsLegacy Kushiel's Dart]]'': Anafiel Delaunay adopts both Phèdre and Alcuin and believes that both will eventually come to see him as a father/mentor figure. Both of them, however, fall in love with him. Phèdre thinks there's a sort of LoveTriangle going on, although Delaunay is completely {{oblivious|ToLove}} to both of their feelings for him until Phèdre point-blank tells him. Shortly after that, Alcuin eventually finds the courage to make a move, and he and Delaunay begin a LoverAndBeloved relationship. |
| 238 | -->'''Phèdre:''' He is not suited to the [[VowOfCelibacy Cassiline Brotherhood]], my lord. After all, he is in love with you.\ |
| 239 | '''Delaunay:''' Alcuin? You cannot mean it. If anything, I have stood as a father to him, or... or at the least, an uncle.\ |
| 240 | '''Phèdre:''' My lord, if you believe that, I have [[SnakeOilSalesman a vial of the Magdalene's tears I would sell you]]. You are Alcuin's rescuer from sure death, as you are mine from ignominy, and you could have either one of us by crooking your smallest finger. But I have watched Alcuin, and he would happily die for you. There is no one else in the world for him. |
| 241 | * Henry does this unintentionally in ''Literature/TheLastAmericanVampire''. [[spoiler:He raises the orphaned Virginia Dare after the slaughter of the Roanoke colony, which left Virginia the only living survivor and Henry a vampire. When she reaches maturity, he's more than a little disturbed to find himself attracted to her, until she climbs into his bed and makes it quite clear the interest is mutual. He marries her, then later turns her (at her request). This also has some major unintended results, that span most of the book.]] |
| 242 | * This was Humbert Humbert's motivation for marrying twelve-year-old Dolores' mother Charlotte in ''Literature/{{Lolita}}''. Of course, [[WouldHurtAChild he wasn't really planning to wait that long]] -- and didn't have to, thanks to Charlotte's fortunately timed death. Taken even ''further'' when it's revealed that [[spoiler:he was planning on impregnating Dolores so that by the time she's aged beyond his interest, he will already have the next Lolita]]. |
| 243 | * In a sense this is what happens between Lord Vincent Stanton and his cousin Adrienne in the Satanic Gothic romance ''Literature/LordSatan'' by Janet Louise Roberts. Adrienne is seventeen, has lived a working-class life, educated by her father; now he's just died and she's prepared to earn her own living. Vincent, who appears to be about forty, invites her to live with him. He treats her as more of a daughter at first. Since she's so young and likes fairy tales and "toys" (''[[GetYourMindOutOfTheGutter objets d'art]]''), he infantilizes her and calls her "child" and "little girl". She's just lost her father, so responds as younger than she is. As they fall in love he begins to see she really is a woman and respects her judgment; she realizes that [[OurDemonsAreDifferent he is a devil]], but actually [[SatanIsGood devoted to justice and healing]], and she stands up for herself on the matter of joining Satanic cults and the like. |
| 244 | * In ''{{Literature/Malevil}}'', Emmanuel is torn on his precise relationship with fourteen-year-old Evelyne. He is trying to raise her as best he can, for her sake and the [[AfterTheEnd future of mankind]] after WorldWarIII, but he realizes that their relationship is not entirely adopted father/daughter and borders on paedophilia. He recognizes his DirtyOldMan habits and understands that if Evelyne grows to be beautiful then he has most likely raised a bride for himself. |
| 245 | * Fanny and Edmund in ''Literature/MansfieldPark''. Although Edmund is only seven years older than Fanny, he is her only true friend and plays a very great role in forming her mind and character. |
| 246 | * In Creator/SidneySheldon's ''Literature/MasterOfTheGame'', as a child Kate [=MacGregor=] vows to marry David Blackwell (who is about twenty years older than her); as her father died while she was a baby, he's one of the few adult men in her life and by far the nicest to her. She eventually succeeds at this plan once she's an adult, even though he does all he can to discourage it. |
| 247 | * One Literature/MissMarple short story, [[spoiler: "The Herb of Death"]], features an older man in love with his ward. [[spoiler: When she doesn't return his affection, he murders her rather than letting her marry another man.]] |
| 248 | * In Junichiro Tanizaki's ''Literature/{{Naomi}}'', Joji tries this with the fifteen-year-old of the title, rationalizing that it gives him time to scope out his potential bride. |
| 249 | * The romance between the main characters in Lynn Flewelling's ''Literature/{{Nightrunner}}'' series thankfully isn't an example of this trope (it's more a [[TeacherStudentRomance mentor/apprentice]] thing), but this trope is referenced in the first book. An oracle tells Seregil that he "will be father, brother, friend, and lover" to his 16-year-old new apprentice Alec, and that Alec is "his child now" (i.e., his responsibility). Seregil's reaction is basically to admit to the "father/brother" part in a metaphorical sense (Alec had been recently orphaned when Seregil found him and needed a bit of mature guidance still, and Seregil introduced him to society as his legal ward in their cover identity),[[note]]FridgeLogic makes the reader wonder how he can be so sure about the lack of blood relation, though. Seregil has a habit of sleeping around, has been sexually active for [[OlderThanTheyLook about 30 years]], has been to Alec's area of birth before, and [[OurElvesAreDifferent half-faie]] like Alec are almost unheard-of in that area of the world. So how can they be sure that the human man Alec thinks was his dad didn't simply adopt him? Until Alec actually gets a vision of his 'faie mother 2 years after the beginning of their romantic relationship, that is.[[/note]] and he happily embraces the label "friend." But he gets squicked at the very idea of "lover", for a number of UnequalPairing reasons as well as at the juxtaposition with "father/brother". Fast forward to a year later in book 2, when Alec has a couple of sexual experiences with women (which Seregil had been encouraging), and Seregil finds himself falling for the youth despite his own better judgment.[[note]]Though he keeps that entirely to himself until Alec makes it extremely clear that he's fallen in love as well and not inclined to wait any longer by forcefully kissing Seregil.[[/note]] |
| 250 | * ''Literature/TheObsidianTrilogy'': Played somewhat worryingly straight in Creator/MercedesLackey's and James Mallory's series. The human Wild Mage Idalia and the elven warrior/[[spoiler:Dragon Mage]] Jermayan are in love. Elves, however, marry for life, and only once, and like [[OurElvesAreDifferent most elves]], Jermayan's people can live for much longer than the healthiest human. After they reconcile themselves to this, [[spoiler:Idalia dies as part of a price for a powerful spell she cast. Then the queen of the elves has a child...and the child has most of Idalia's features; apparently reincarnation is something elves believe in. He notes that now they're both elves, "eighteen years is not so long to wait".]] |
| 251 | * In ''Literature/OnlyEverYours'' by Louise O'Neill, women are no longer born naturally; they are artificially engineered in laboratories, and trained to be perfect wives and companions for men. The "Father", the ruler of the Euro-Zone, designates [[spoiler:Isabel]] as his future wife from the day of her design. He doesn't raise her himself (since all girls are brought up in the School), but does visit her to groom her for their future marriage, as well as instructing the chastities to shape her into the kind of woman he wants. [[spoiler:Ultimately subverted as Isabel is DrivenToSuicide rather than face the prospect of living as his wife.]] |
| 252 | * Jack Vance plays with this in ''Literature/ThePalaceOfLove'', with the villain cloning a girl who spurned his lechery years ago and arranging for the clones to receive various upbringings which (according to his thinking) should make at least one of them susceptible to him. Not played completely straight in that he doesn't do the raising himself, though he does direct the manner of it. It still proves his undoing, though, because the hero protagonist has learned of the plan and figures (correctly, as it turns out) that at least one of them has to know which of several potential suspects is the man she was raised to love. |
| 253 | * In ''Literature/PeaceLikeARiver'', Jape Waltzer's "daughter" is really a girl he bought off some guy in Utah. He freely admits that he's "raising himself a wife", apparently planning to marry her when she's a bit older. However, Davy absconds with her (presumably with her consent) before this happens. |
| 254 | * ''Literature/{{Phenomena}}'' contains an odd case of this, albeit gender-flipped. Through the story is there a woman called ''[[TheEvilPrince Tarkan]]'s woman'', and one never gets to know much about her. It's strongly implied that they are romantically involved. [[spoiler: Then it's revealed that she was the one that brought him to [[TheGoodKing King Veha]] when he was a baby, and as the King was [[ParentalNeglect very busy]], she apparently came back and raised the boy herself every now and then. One day, after he left Tarkan to rule the country [[WhatTheHellHero for a while]], King Veha returns and finds Tarkan and this woman doing something (presumably sexual, but it's not specified), and it's implied that they are now married. As punishment for this taboo relationship, he decides to banish them; she is sentenced to become an immortal OminousOwl, and Tarkan to be an evil thought/idea until some [[TheChosenOne chosen children]] can defeat him once and for all. This leads to the [[TheProphecy Phenomena]] being written, and thousands of years later, the story begins.]] |
| 255 | * In ''Literature/ThePrioryOfTheOrangeTree'', the immortal sorceress Kalyba [[spoiler:raised the orphan Galian Berethnet like a son and then fell for him when he was grown. Since he couldn't see his mother-figure as a wife, she made herself look like a woman he ''did'' love, Cleolind, and married him. When he figured it out, he was so horrifed that he hanged himself]]. Ead and the other protagonists are disgusted when they learn this, but Kalyba waves it off as love being "complicated" when you're immortal. |
| 256 | * In the ''Literature/RendezvousWithRama'' sequels by Gentry Lee, Nicole des Jardins's daughter Simone Wakefield's life pretty much is this trope. The man she chose to marry at fourteen, Michael O'Toole, is not only fairly old (in his sixties if memory serves), but also her stepfather for all intents and purposes. He helped deliver Simone at birth, actively raised her and her siblings, and fathered Simone's half-brothers with Nicole. Granted, the Wakefield/O'Toole family were not exactly suffering an embarrassment of riches in the human gene pool, but still. {{Squick}}. |
| 257 | * Deconstructed in ''Literature/RobRoy''. Rashleigh Osbaldistone tried to groom Diana Vernon when she was a teenager, earning her undying hatred when she realized the reason that he was such a nice mentor to her. |
| 258 | * In the first book in ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'', Count Olaf tries to marry his young ward Violet. He didn't use a "position of trust", though -- he tried to force her so he can inherit her and her siblings' money. |
| 259 | * [[GenderInvertedTrope Gender-inverted]] in ''Literature/ShakuganNoShana'', in which a female Crimson Lord by the name of Pheles raises a boy named Johan and the two later fall in love after Johan was grown up. |
| 260 | * The story "'Sieur George" by George Washington Cable has the title character raise the daughter of the woman he (apparently) once loved; when she's sixteen, he points out that it would now be scandalous for them to be living together... unless, of course, they were married. She promptly leaves their small apartment and never speaks to him again. |
| 261 | * In "Skrut" ("Скрут") by Maryna and Serhiy Dyachenko (in Russian) this is the main villain's backstory. The horrible spider monster used to be a knight who saved a little girl on a battlefield, and decided to raise her to become his wife. When she grew up she rejected him as a husband because she only could see him as a father. Betrayed by his beloved, the knight turned into a monster. |
| 262 | * ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': |
| 263 | ** Daenerys was intended to be married to her older brother, her only family, but he sells her to a warlord instead. |
| 264 | *** Jorah, who became a sort of father figure and protector, seemed to be hoping it would work out this way. |
| 265 | ** It's strongly implied that Petyr Baelish is doing this to Sansa Stark. He has her pass as his bastard daughter and has requested a kiss on the mouth from her when they were alone. It's also implied that Sansa is acting as a ReplacementGoldfish for her mother, who looked just like Sansa and whom Petyr loved. Oh, and that he first laid his lecherous eyes on her when she was ''eleven'' [[spoiler:(and Catelyn was still alive)]] already made her uncomfortable. |
| 266 | ** Being set in a relatively realistic medieval world, some of the minor characters are married couples where one partner or the other is severely younger than the other one. These are generally political rather than romantic relationships, and generally the older partner is supposed to wait quite a while until the younger one has grown up, but there is still quite a bit of DeliberateValuesDissonance to the whole thing. Tyrek Lannister (13ish at the time) is literally married to an infant, whom he has to help raise, which leads to some very BlackComedy when [[spoiler:he probably dies, leading to some people in-universe commenting how the girl is now the only one in the Kingdom to be widowed before she was weaned]]. |
| 267 | * When Sarek appears on ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration,'' Picard mentions in passing that he had attended "your son's wedding" some two decades earlier. So...whom did Spock marry? The EU novels come to the rescue: Spock married Saavik, to whom he had been a surrogate parent. |
| 268 | ** Oddly enough, in ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'', Saavik briefly played a nurturing role to the (young but rapidly aging) Spock, including mention of the fact that he is going through ''Pon Farr''. Since that is a case of MateOrDie, she may have taken the logical (if, to us, squicky) choice. (This is confirmed in the novel ''Unspoken Truths'', which says that she had a bit of squick about it herself, but saw no logical alternatives.) |
| 269 | ** The ''Literature/StarTrekDepartmentOfTemporalInvestigations'' novel ''Forgotten History'' has a scene set shortly after Spock starts looking after Saavik, which says that by Vulcan standards he is ''not'' a parent in any sense, apparently just to reduce the squick level of their later relationship. |
| 270 | ** In the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' novel ''The Vulcan Academy Murders'', Dr. Daniel Corrigan, a middle-aged human doctor, has had a highly successful partnership with the Vulcan healer Sorel, and has become something of a favored uncle to Sorel's daughter T'Mir. Years later, when T'Mir returns from several years studying xenobiology at Starfleet Academy, she and Corrigan become bond-mates. Subverted in that 1) Corrigan underwent an experimental neural treatment that he and Sorel pioneered that had the side benefit of extending his life-span, and 2) he hadn't allowed himself to consider T'Mir as a life-mate or wife, until ''she proposed to him''. |
| 271 | * In S.L. Viehl's ''Literature/{{Stardoc}}'' series, this turns out to be [[spoiler:exactly why Grey Veil created Cherijo in the first place]]. Retconned later, when it's revealed that [[spoiler:Cherijo turning out to be an OppositeSexClone was a surprise to him, as every other clone was male. It turns out that his assistant was an alien, who deliberately messed with his experiment to create a female clone. The trope may still be in effect, since that was the man's intention after Cherijo grew up]]. |
| 272 | * In Creator/EdithWharton's novel ''Literature/{{Summer}}'', Lawyer Royall takes in Charity when she is 5 and then drunkenly enters her room in an attempt at starting a sexual relationship when she turns 17. He continues to make advances, proposing to her twice. |
| 273 | * Something akin to this happens in ''Sundays at Tiffany's'' by Creator/JamesPatterson. The main character, Jane, had an imaginary friend named Michael when she was eight. He was much older than her, and it's established that he doesn't know how he came to exist, just that he takes care of children by being their imaginary friend and has been doing this for quite some time now. [[spoiler:As the story progresses, they eventually meet again when Jane grows up and fall in love. Toward the end Michael gives up his immortality to be with Jane. A bit disturbing, considering Michael is, in all probability, extremely old.]] |
| 274 | * OlderThanPrint: ''Literature/TheTaleOfGenji'': (''Genji Monogatari'') from Japan. Plagued by forbidden feelings for the Emperor's wife, Fujitsubo, (his step-mother), Hikaru Genji becomes obsessed with her ten-year-old niece, Murasaki, who is the spitting image of her. After encountering resistance from the girl's guardians, who feel she's currently too young to be courted, he kidnaps her. He once had a debate with a friend over the idea that the perfect wife is one a man has raised and moulded himself, so he sets out to do exactly that with Murasaki. Years later when Genji 'adopts' another girl, Tamakazura the daughter of his best friend, he tells Murasaki that it is perfectly harmless and platonic, he is being a father to the girl since hers can't be, etc. To which she replies dryly that as she recalls ''their'' relationship began in much the same way and has, if she is not mistaken, become ''anything'' but platonic and paternal! |
| 275 | * In ''Literature/TheThornBirds'', this is the sole plot of the book. Especially awkward since the man in question is a Catholic priest. Father Ralph first meets Meggie Cleary when she's just nine years old, and is an integral part of her life for the next ten years. After she grows up and marries another man, they reunite and have a brief, torrid affair which results in the birth of a son, Dane. When confessing to his superior, Father Ralph even admits that if he had met Meggie as an adult, the affair would never have happened; it's specifically ''because'' he had known her from childhood onward that he developed feelings for her. |
| 276 | * ''Literature/TimeEnoughForLove'': |
| 277 | ** Lazarus Long (under an assumed identity) adopts a young girl named Dora on a pioneer planet after her parents die in a fire. She discovers who he really is and upon reaching her majority, knowing he's only been waiting for that to move on, she asks him for SomeoneToRememberHimBy. This makes him apoplectic until he realizes that she is very much serious. In his own words he coolly calculates that he can afford to spend the [[MayflyDecemberRomance time]] to make his adopted daughter's 'pitifully short life' happy and marries her. She winds up being the greatest love of his life. |
| 278 | ** Lazarus initially balks at having a relationship with his OppositeSexClone twin "daughters" (that he's had a hand in raising since birth), but eventually caves. |
| 279 | * ''Literature/TimeForTheStars'' ends with the spacefaring Tom Bartlett returning to earth to marry his great-grandniece, whom he's been in telepathic contact with since she was a toddler. What's more, she's descended from Tom's identical twin brother, so in genetic terms Tom is marrying his own great-granddaughter. |
| 280 | * Happens via time travel in ''Literature/TheTimeTravelersWife'' in a StableTimeLoop: When the unwitting Time Traveler Henry meets Clare for the first time, she immediately starts a relationship with him and eventually marries him. Only after this does he begin to time travel to various points in Clare's childhood, causing her to fall in love with him over time until [[StableTimeLoop they meet as adults]]. |
| 281 | * In the prequel ''Literature/ToRidePegasus'' books, Tirla marries Sascha (thirty-something) on her sixteenth birthday, or pretty much the instant she was legally allowed to. Although he hadn't raised her since birth, he had taken on a protective, father-figure role in her life since she was about age twelve. |
| 282 | * In Creator/AnneMcCaffrey's ''Literature/TowerAndTheHive'''s ''Damia'', the titular character falls in love with Afra, her mother's best friend and right hand man, who is ''twenty four years older'' than she is and ''literally'' helped raise her from the day she was born. |
| 283 | * In ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'', male werewolves sometimes "imprint" (a sort of one-way soulmate-recognition thing) on girls while the girls are still toddlers or even infants ([[spoiler:as Jacob does on Bella's baby daughter Nessie]]). In such cases, the male werewolf becomes a sort of uncle/older brother figure, or even a father figure, to the child, and it's assumed that of ''course'' she'll want to marry him once she's of age. To quote the series, "why would she say no?" It's also discussed how sad it is that the relevant werewolf is going to have to ''wait fourteen years to have sex with his adopted daughter''. |
| 284 | -->"You never saw a real parent so jazzed to play whatever stupid kiddie sport their rugrat could think up. I'd seen Quil play peekaboo for an hour straight without getting bored. [...] Though I did think it sucked that he had a good fourteen years of monk-i-tude ahead of him until Claire was his age."[[note]]Making things convenient for [[spoiler:Jacob]], [[spoiler:Nessie]] will age faster than Claire.[[/note]] |
| 285 | * ''Literature/TheVampireChronicles'': |
| 286 | ** Marius, an ancient Roman Vampire, encounters a female vampire named Eudoxia who grooms a young mortal whom she eventually plans to turn into a vampire companion, and urges Marius to do the same. Once he finds Amadeo (later known as Armand), he does. |
| 287 | ** It's implied that Claudia and Louis (one of her 'vampire fathers') have romantic feelings for each other, which is a source of {{squick}} when you remember that Claudia has the body of a six-year-old and Louis was in his twenties when he became a vampire. |
| 288 | * In Creator/GKChesterton's story "The Vanishing of Vaudrey", this is Vaudrey's motivation for adopting Sybil Rye. She's horrified when he proposes to her, and her refusal is what [[spoiler:motivates him to plot the revenge that leads to his own death]]. |
| 289 | * In Creator/HenryJames's first novel, ''Literature/WatchAndWard'' (1878), Roger Lawrence is 29, wealthy, and unsuccessful at love. He decides to adopt 12-year-old Nora Lambert after her father commits suicide as a result of Roger's refusing him $100. Roger plans to raise Nora to be the perfect wife. Years later, Nora has romantic entanglements with two other men and rejects Roger's proposal, feeling duped by the whole arrangement. Roger eventually rescues her from a bad situation, and a grateful Nora marries him. |
| 290 | * Creator/AnthonyTrollope's ''Literature/TheWayWeLiveNow'' plays this realistically and tragically: Roger's love for Hetta (who has the added bonus of being his [[KissingCousins cousin]]) is portrayed as more pitiable than creepy. She isn't into it, though, and ends up with a guy closer to her own age. |
| 291 | * A downplayed and subverted example appears in the Creator/UrsulaKLeGuin novella ''The Wild Girls''. The main (human) antagonist wants to marry the 13-year-old slave girl Mal, but promises not to consummate the marriage until she's 15, the generally practiced marriageable age in their society. He claims he only wants to marry the girl now so he won't have to compete with other men for her hand when she comes of age. [[spoiler: Turns out he never even intended to keep his promise.]] |
| 292 | * In Chapter Fourteen of Creator/LFrankBaum's ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz'', a bit of backstory (about the enslavement of the Winged Monkeys) mentions this trope. In the past, the Sorceress Gayelette in the North (implied to be someone other than the Good Witch of the North that Dorothy met, but the latter only gets a name in adaptations and second-party continuations) couldn't find a suitable husband, so she picked an attractive little boy and had him raised to be her ideal husband. |
| 293 | * Daisy Ashford's Victorian classic ''Literature/TheYoungVisiters'' lightly touches on this; the middle-aged Mr. Salteena is fond of having young women come visit him so that he may present them to proper society; he proposes to his latest female friend, Ethel, only to have her turn him down, all done in genteel form of course. His heartbreak is tempered by Ethel's new gentleman friend getting him a peerage. |
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| 296 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 297 | * A gender inversion occurred on ''Series/{{Angel}}'', between Connor and Cordelia; later lampshaded in the comics with Connor's line about "My first time was with a woman who changed my diapers?!" (Though she didn't actually raise him.) |
| 298 | ** Also lampshaded in the series: |
| 299 | --->'''Angelus:''' She's practically your mother. There should be a [[Theatre/OedipusRex play]]. |
| 300 | ** It is played with when it is later revealed, [[spoiler:that Cordelia had died/ascended and not been resurrected/returned as they thought. It was actually an ancient Lovecraftian terror inhabiting Cordelia's body. This doesn't keep it from being any less creepy, but it's not Cordy's fault.]] |
| 301 | * In ''Series/{{Carnivale}}'', Jonesy was a surrogate father/uncle figure to Sofie when she joined the troupe at a young age, and by the time the series is set (where she is around 18 or 19) it's quite clear he has feelings for her. |
| 302 | * ''Series/CriminalMinds'': |
| 303 | ** An episode focused on a family whose tradition it was to "make wives" for their sons. They would do so by having the boy pick a girl he liked and then the whole family would abduct her and murder her parents. Aw, bonding. |
| 304 | ** The episode "Hope" took the most disturbing elements of this trope and distilled them into the creepiest possible form. The unsub kidnapped a little girl with whom he became obsessed and waited for her to grow up. [[spoiler: After Hope's suicide, he kidnapped her mother, with the intention of "creating a new Hope," i.e. an ''infant'' [[ParentalIncest and his own biological daughter]] to be his new bride.]] |
| 305 | * Played with and ultimately subverted in regards to River Song from ''Series/DoctorWho''. She's been adventuring with the Doctor her whole life and she's admitted that that's what led her to love him. It's working in reverse, too; the Doctor is young right now compared to River and as they're adventuring together, he's begun falling in love with her. Strictly speaking, she probably doesn't remember their ''real'' first meeting, because she was a newborn and the Doctor was [[TimeyWimeyBall initially unaware of who she was]]. From the Doctor's perspective, [[StableTimeLoop he first met her as an adult]]. |
| 306 | * [[FridgeLogic If you think about it]], eventually inverted on ''Series/{{Farscape}}'': [[spoiler:In the time-travel episode "Kansas", 16-year-old John Crichton loses his virginity to Chiana, and gets his memory of the event muddled. Years later, he meets her for, from her point of view, the first time and rather quickly takes her as a little sister or occasionally even daughter figure, which works ''really'' well to her benefit, considering he has little reason to trust her at their first meeting otherwise]]. Yeah. |
| 307 | * ''Series/FatherBrown'': In "The Prize of General Gerard", the General had adopted a young Chinese girl named Jia-Li. As she matured, Gerard's nephew Edward (whose mother had married Gerard after his father's death) had fallen in love with her, but Gerard made it quite clear that he planned to take Jia-Li as his mistress, her own desires be damned, and further planned to have Edward committed to keep him away from her. [[spoiler: Considering that Jia-Li ended up murdering Gerald, one may safely assume that the attraction was one-sided. Oh, and [[ShoutOutToShakespeare Gerard had also killed Edward's father]] [[Theatre/{{Hamlet}} and married his mother]]. [[AssholeVictim What a sweet guy.]]]] |
| 308 | %% Monica and Richard from Friends are not an example. Do not add it again. |
| 309 | * ''Series/GameOfThrones'': Given the Targaryen tradition for sibling marriage, Viserys likely had this in mind for Daenerys, whom he helped raise in exile. |
| 310 | * ''Series/IntoTheBadlands'': Very much implied between Quinn and Jade, his soon-to-be second wife who just so happened to be his son's childhood friend [[spoiler: and secret lover]]. Also downplayed in season two between he and [[spoiler: Veil when he forces her to marry him, because then you remember that it was mentioned in season one that Quinn gave an infant Veil to her adopted parents as a gift for saving him (and Veil is around the same age as Jade and Ryder). An then you remember that [[VillainousCrush he's always had this creepy fascination with her since season one.]]]] |
| 311 | * One sided version: In the ''Series/MurderSheWrote'' episode "A Murderous Muse," the manager Byron has been pressuring his student Leslie to marry him. The twist is that she isn't quite 18 yet, and Byron has raised her like a father since she was 8 years old. |
| 312 | * In season 2 of ''Series/TheMusketeers'', Rochefort thinks this is the case with Queen Anne, who he mentored as a child. Unfortunately, she does not return his feelings. |
| 313 | * A very weird case from ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''. Joel, creator of the Bots, has always been the father figure to them. Except in ''Wild Rebels'', where he and [[TeamMom Gypsy]] have a few romantic moments, such as Joel cheering her up when she's depressed [[ItMakesSenseInContext (even if he almost suffocates so he can talk to her clearly)]] and giving her a serenade later on. |
| 314 | * ''Series/OnceUponATimeInWonderland'' as {{Gender Flip}}ped. Amara took Jafar in as a child, raised him, trained him… then they make out when he's older. Slightly lessened due to the fact that Jafar has a new actor when he's older, while Amara still has the same actress, and so she appears to not have aged at all. This is possibly intentional, and implies she uses some magic to stay young. |
| 315 | * In season 2 of ''Series/OrangeIsTheNewBlack'', we find out in flashbacks that Vee seduced RJ, who was her foster son in all but name, once he grew up. Subverted in that [[spoiler: she was only doing it as a ruse to get revenge on him for trying to start his own business without her]]. |
| 316 | * Gender-inversion again in ''Series/TheOriginals''. The current BigBad of the series, Marcel, was adopted by the [[spoiler: hybrid]] vampire Klaus when he was a human child in the 1800s, and was raised by both him and Klaus' sister Rebekah. Years later, Rebekah and Marcel fall in love with each other, much to Klaus' displeasure. It's heavily implied that he and Rebekah still have a thing for each other. |
| 317 | * Gender-inversion on ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'': Tammy One, the terrifying [[IntimidatingRevenueService tax auditor]] first wife of Ron Swanson. She delivered him as a teenage candy-striper, she apparently played no small part in his rearing, and taught him at school. This is a particularly strong form in that she actually intended to marry him the whole time. |
| 318 | * ''Franchise/StarTrek'': |
| 319 | ** In the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "Requiem for Methuselah" the Immortal Mr. Flint has created and educated a female android to become his mate. Unfortunately her hormones first start moving for Kirk. Even more unfortunately the powerful conflict between her new desires and her long standing filial love for Flint kills her. |
| 320 | ** In ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' S2 E6 "The Schizoid Man" dying scientist Ira Graves is desperately in love with and very possessive of his young assistant Kareen, who we are informed has lived with him on his isolated planet ever since she lost her parents while "very young", essentially being raised by him. Initially subverted in that even the creeptastic Graves is too ashamed to make a move on her, but he goes on to proposition her after [[spoiler: he takes over Data's body]]. |
| 321 | ** In the ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'' episode "Vaulting Ambition" [[spoiler: Terran Emperor Philippa Georgiou]] implies this was the relationship between [[spoiler: Mirror!Burnham and Mirror!Lorca. Lorca started out as a father figure to Burnham, and then became "something more" (she flat-out calls this "grooming"). It's further implied he's trying to recreate this relationship with regular universe Burnham]]. |
| 322 | * ''Series/{{Taken}}'': In "Charlie and Lisa", Mary Crawford and Dr. Wakeman, whom she called "Uncle Chet" as a child, start a clandestine sexual relationship which lasts for nine years. It is something that they had both wanted since she was thirteen. |
| 323 | * ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' |
| 324 | ** The episode "The Fugitive" features an alien king who has disguised himself as an old man on earth, where he uses his powers to entertain children. He is close friends with a little girl but is eventually discovered by his people, who want him back. He says he knows it would be thousands of years before he could leave the job. He eventually returns to his planet to be king, but takes the little girl with him, where the epilogue heavily implies the little girl might eventually become a queen. |
| 325 | ** A disturbed, gender-inverted example is heavily implied to happen at the end of the episode "A Short Drink from [[FountainOfYouth a Certain Fountain]]". The story has a wealthy, old man fighting to keep up with his selfish, [[GoldDigger gold-digging]] and far younger TrophyWife. He then gets rejuvenated via an experimental serum. [[spoiler: By the end, he's regressed to an infant due to the serum not being perfected. As a kind of poetic justice for her self-serving ways, the man's wife now has to take responsibility and raise what was her husband now as her son and the roles will be switched by the time he reaches her age.]] |
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| 327 | |
| 328 | [[folder:Myths & Religion]] |
| 329 | * ''Literature/TheBible'': |
| 330 | ** In ''Literature/BookOfEzekiel'' 16:8, {{God}} Himself uses this as a metaphor for how His relationship with the Israelites was ''supposed to work out''. |
| 331 | ** Subverted in the ''Literature/BookOfEsther''. Mordecai doesn't marry Esther, even though he's supposed to as a kinsman redeemer. She married King Xerxes instead. Though, there is some debate among scholars as to whether she was actually abducted after her marriage to Mordecai. |
| 332 | * Myth/ClassicalMythology: Gender-swapped in the myth of Persephone and Adonis. Aphrodite once entrusted Persephone with a mortal boy, Adonis. Persephone raised him, but when he came of age she fell in love with him and refused to give him back to Aphrodite. Finally, Zeus decided that Adonis will spent one third of each year with Persephone, one third with Aphrodite, and one third wherever he wishes. |
| 333 | * OlderThanPrint: King Conchobar of Ulster intends to pull this off with Deirdre in ''Literature/TheExileOfTheSonsOfUisnech'', but Deirdre falls for Naoise before he can make his move. |
| 334 | * According to traditional [[UsefulNotes/{{Islam}} Islamic sources]], UsefulNotes/TheProphetMuhammad was betrothed to Aisha, [[BestFriendsInLaw the daughter of his best friend Abu Bakr]], when she was six and she moved in with him three years later. It had unexpected tragic consequences: in order to quell any possible objections that such a marriage should be disallowed, Muhammad issued a specific ruling that there is no such thing as affinity based on wardship alone - and to this day legal adoption of unrelated children is not allowed in Muslim countries... |
| 335 | [[/folder]] |
| 336 | |
| 337 | [[folder:Theatre]] |
| 338 | * In Beaumarchais' play ''Theatre/TheBarberOfSeville'' (and the operas based on it, of which Rossini's is the most famous), Doctor Bartholo plots to marry his ward Rosine (Bartolo and Rosina in Rossini). Count Almaviva and Figaro foil the plot. In the play, it's implied that it's just because she has been left a large dowry by her natural family and he wants to keep it for himself. When he realises the man she eloped with is very rich and will let him keep it, he's contented. However, Rossini's opera suggests that Bartolo has some real attraction to Rosina too, as he proclaims that he only becomes more charmed with her the more scornful she becomes of him. |
| 339 | * In ''Theatre/HMSPinafore'', little Buttercup, the captain's nursemaid, ends up marrying him. |
| 340 | * This plot is lampshaded and averted in Creator/OscarWilde's ''Theatre/TheImportanceOfBeingEarnest'', as while Jack/Ernest has his excessively pretty ward Cecily being raised in the countryside like male characters in similar comedies, he is not interested in a romantic relationship with her. His best friend, however, is. |
| 341 | * In ''Theatre/TheLionInWinter'', Henry has raised Alais with the intention of making her his daughter-in-law, though she becomes his mistress in the meantime. When he decides to [[IHaveNoSon disown his sons]], he then plans to annul his marriage to Eleanor, make Alais queen, and have sons by her instead. |
| 342 | * Done in ''Theatre/ALittleNightMusic'', but subverted. A paraphrased line: "Just imagine, a few years ago, you were Uncle Frederick. And now, you're Darling Frederick." *Giggle* *Cue squirming and uncomfortable audience.* [[spoiler:The girl discovered that it was just a crush and Frederic discovered his true love in a former mistress. His 18-year-old ex-wife ran off with his son, who was the same age.]]) |
| 343 | * In the 17th-century play ''The London Cuckolds'', one of the title characters has a girl raised in the country to be so much of an idiot that she'll believe just about ''anything'' anyone tells her (except that she does know trees don't have rats on them), and when he brings her to town to be his wife, HilarityEnsues (no, really). Initially he doesn't plan to consummate the marriage, telling her instead her "wifely duties" are to guard his nightcap in full armor, but the two main characters of the play end up interfering with that plan. |
| 344 | * In Creator/GilbertAndSullivan's ''Theatre/TheMikado,'' Ko-Ko attempts to marry his ward, Yum-Yum, though by the end he's [[PairTheSpares paired off]] with Katisha, a woman closer to his age. It's hinted that Katisha had also tried to do this with the much younger Nanki-Poo. |
| 345 | * In ''Theatre/{{Pagliacci}}'', this is a possible interpretation of Canio and Nedda's marriage, as we learn that Nedda was an orphaned StreetUrchin whom Canio took in. The libretto doesn't say how old she was at the time, but most productions do portray her as much younger than her middle-aged husband. |
| 346 | * And in ''Theatre/ThePiratesOfPenzance'' (notice a trend here?), Frederic's onetime nursemaid Ruth, who is the only woman he has seen in 13 years, convinces him that she is a beautiful woman, and that he should marry her. This plan falls apart the second he sees a group of girls his own age. |
| 347 | * Used in Creator/{{Moliere}}'s comedies ''School for Wives'' and ''School for Husbands'', where in both cases a male character has a female ward they plan to marry -- this doesn't end up working in either case, as the girls confront their patrons and earn their freedoms. By the way, in ''School for Wives'', the man's definition of "perfect" is "as idiot as possible". |
| 348 | ** Ironically, while the would-be husbands are the butt of the comedy in both plays, Molière himself ''did'' end up marrying a girl who had been a young member of his theatre company, and was rumoured to be the daughter of his long-term mistress (scholars now think she was probably her niece). They even played the lead roles in the first public performance of ''School for Wives''. |
| 349 | * Judge Turpin tries to pull this with his ward Johanna Barker in ''Theatre/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'', since she reminds him so much of her mother Lucy, for whom he had a major lust and whom he eventually raped. It doesn't work because Johanna wants nothing to do with him in that way and seeks to elope with Anthony the sailor once she finds out what her adoptive father's intentions are. When Turpin finds this out, he is furious enough to have Johanna thrown into a [[BedlamHouse madhouse]], where she is eventually rescued by Anthony. [[spoiler:And her real father, the title character, eventually catches up to Judge Turpin and takes very bloody revenge upon him.]] |
| 350 | * The plot to Creator/ArthurMiller's ''Theatre/AViewFromTheBridge''. However, Eddie Carbone cannot admit to himself or anyone else that he has romantic feelings towards Catherine, his wife's sister's daughter. Every time someone hints he might have "too much love" for Catherine, he says he isn't that kind of person. Tragedy results. |
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| 352 | |
| 353 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 354 | * The protagonist Rex Raglen can fall under this in ''VideoGame/AgarestSenki'' if you get the True Ending. He can get every single woman who's not part of his ancestor's harem and all of them raised him up. |
| 355 | ** Leonis from ''VideoGame/AgarestSenkiZero'' also fall under this. Most of the women he can romance has raised him as a baby. (He even considers Alice as his surrogative mother and Mimel as his older sister) |
| 356 | * ''Bakumatsu Renka Karyuu Kenshi Den''. Heroine Shizuki Rin is adopted by male lead Iori, who [[spoiler:was in love with Rin's mother.]] |
| 357 | * A gender-reversed variant in ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'' -- talking to the right people reveals that caveman Kino was found as a child by NubileSavage Ayla, who raised him. They end up marrying after the credits. Ayla's somewhere in her twenties at the time, Kino in his late teens. |
| 358 | * This can be done by the player in ''VideoGame/CrusaderKings'': the PC take an opposite-gender youth from his/her court (or the court of a lord willing to send his/ her child or retainer's child away), mentor the child, then marry him/her once s/he reaches 16. Eugenic-minded players tend to do this on a large scale: seeking bastards, children of low-ranking nobles or commoners with promising stats and/or traits, raising them or tasking their most skilled retainers to raise them, then marrying the grown children to themselves, or their children, or their other relatives in order to strengthen their dynasty. If anything, players are encouraged to do this due to the way the [[InTheBlood game's mechanics]] work: by giving the player's dynasty members the right spouses, it's possible for it to end up with several characters whose stats go through the roof, allowing the player's realm to [[RisingEmpire expand and dominate its rival and neighbors]] thanks to the [[ChessmasterSidekick hypercompetent generals, lords and councilors]] serving an [[RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething equally talented sovereign]]. |
| 359 | * In ''VideoGame/CrisisCore'', the ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' prequel, one of the little girl [=NPCs=] in the slums apparently [[FatherIWantToMarryMyBrother wants this relationship with her uncle]]. If you bother the conversation a little further, you find out that it's just from her point of view, sure, but the girl's uncle is DON CORNEO, the notorious mobster and pervert from the original game. He also apparently laughed and patted her head or something similar when she told him she wanted to marry him. Not only is he [[{{Gonk}} ugly as sin]], he's well-known for being a creeper and morally impossible. So... |
| 360 | * In ''VideoGame/CultOfTheLamb'', the ''Sins of the Flesh'' expansion introduced a CreatureBreedingMechanic that allows the Lamb to breed their followers and raise the resulting children as their own into their {{cult}}. There's nothing stopping them from marrying said children the instant they turn 18, however. |
| 361 | * The PlayerCharacter in ''VideoGame/DragonsDogma'' can potentially do this, as the game allows you to romance virtually ''anyone'', including 14-year-old Symone who you're stuck babysitting at one point [[spoiler:and potentially [[RecruitedFromTheGutter rescue from the gutter]] if you get her father arrested]]. |
| 362 | * In ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' Murasaki Shikibu, the writer of the original Tale of Genji, pens a script where her character, Gabriella, married her adopted father Miguel, something pointed out by the other characters as not being too surprising given her past work. At the end we learn [[spoiler:this was actually a subversion, as Miguel only thought of Gabriella as his daughter and was never romantic towards her, only marrying her to protect her and insure she could live comfortably after he passed]]. |
| 363 | * Inverted in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemRadiantDawn''. Micaiah found Sothe as a child and raised him but due to her long lifespan, she looks younger than Sothe in the current game. However, they are so far ahead of everyone else as a canon couple that they start out with max support for each other. You HAVE to go out of your way to make them not end marrying each other. |
| 364 | * In ''VideoGame/HarvestMoon64'', Elli's potential suitor was the baker Jeff, who had at least a supporting role in parenting her (presumably her grandmother Ellen was dominant). He arrived in Flowerbud a decade prior when he was twenty. Elli is roughly ten years his junior. |
| 365 | * In Creator/{{Koei|Tecmo}}'s renderizations of the Sengoku Era of Japan (''VideoGame/SamuraiWarriors'', ''VideoGame/{{Kessen}}'', etc), Hideyoshi Toyotomi is constantly courting Oda Oichi, a girl 11 years younger than he is. She always rejects him and even calls him a persistantly annoying monkey in the ''Samurai Warriors'' series. She later marries the young pretty boy lord Nagamasa Azai and has a daughter who is later known as Lady Yodo. After Nagamasa is killed in a battle against Oichi's brother Nobunaga, Hideyoshi helps raise the young Yodo and she eventually becomes his concubine, producing a son named Toyotomi Hideyori. |
| 366 | * The ''VideoGame/PrincessMaker'' series of video games have this trope as a [[MultipleEndings possible ending]] if you develop a close enough relationship with the girl you raise from age 10 on (the youngest you can make the "father" in a later version of the game is 16). It should be noted that, depending on which guardian spirit you have, she will also frown on it but all will approve because they're not blood related and they truly love each other. The only requirement is that the girl have max relationship with her "father" and not have promised to marry anyone specific (since those marriages takes priority over this one). The girl herself can have any non-marriage profession ending, including being queen through her own abilities rather than through marriage. |
| 367 | * Subverted in ''VideoGame/RuneScape'': Char suggests this of Zaros: he raised her after the extinction of her race, trained her as a [[MsFanservice dancer]], and she's very attracted to him, but even Char admits it's unclear whether Zaros reciprocates, or is even ''capable'' of romance. |
| 368 | * ''VideoGame/TheSims'': |
| 369 | ** It's quite possible in ''VideoGame/TheSims2''. Basically, it involves taking a child-Sim away from its parents, and sending it to live in the same house as an adult Sim, who from then on takes care of it and acts as a surrogate parent. When the child grows to be an adult, the relationship score should be high enough for them to fall in love and marry. |
| 370 | ** In ''VideoGame/TheSims3'', it's easier, since you can have children not related to you from the get-go. |
| 371 | ** In ''VideoGame/TheSims4'', the relative check stops after a few generations. Hypothetically, a Sim can marry and have children with their great-grandchild. Under most circumstances this wouldn't happen for obvious reasons, but if you've turned aging off or turned the great-grandparent into a vampire, you can cause an extreme variant of this trope to occur. |
| 372 | * In ''VideoGame/SoulNomadAndTheWorldEaters'', [[spoiler:Hawthorne]] is revealed to be a ''serial perpetrator'' of raising, sexually abusing and 'disposing of' female children, [[spoiler:his daughter Tricia being the latest victim. Although he is killed before this happens in the normal storyline, in the Demon Path, he succeeds and [[BreakTheCutie breaks her utterly]]]]. The [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent Nereids']] plan for Penn is similar to this since due to their status as a OneGenderRace they need a male from another race in order to breed. |
| 373 | ** The Nereids' plan is ''slightly'' less squicky since its clear that they care dearly about him as a person and not just as breeding stock. With this example, Penn is in for an... interesting life. |
| 374 | * In the ''VideoGame/SoulSeries'', Setsuka realized she was in love with her mentor and father figure after he succumbed to the injuries sustained in a fight with Mitsurugi. |
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| 376 | |
| 377 | [[folder:Visual Novels]] |
| 378 | * ''VisualNovel/DaughterForDessert'' gives this a whole new dimension with the protagonist and Amanda, given the incest factor. |
| 379 | * ''Franchise/WhenTheyCry'': |
| 380 | ** ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'' has Irie, the closest thing Satoko has to a (non-abusive) guardian, who says that he wants to marry Satoko when she grows up. He may have been joking, though; then again he also really likes girls doing cosplay and has quite the range of options prepared too... and since this is ''Higurashi'', it would still be one of the least screwed up things in the series. Satoko's abusive uncle, technically the brother of her stepfather, has also thought that she might one day grow up to be as attractive a woman as her mother, making it more tolerable to act as her guardian. |
| 381 | ** In ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'', it's revealed that [[spoiler:Kinzo raised his illegitimate daughter, Beatrice II, as his mistress because he deluded himself into thinking that she was the reincarnation of her mother and his beloved first mistress, Beatrice Castiglioni. However, she didn't return his feelings... even though Kinzo had a child with her.]] |
| 382 | [[/folder]] |
| 383 | |
| 384 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 385 | * In ''Webcomic/DailyGrind'', this happens between Howlett and Jolene. Even with as many mitigating circumstances thrown in as one can possibly imagine, it is still creepy. A [[strike:man]] serpent of Howlett's obvious moral qualities ''ought'' to have rejected Jolene's advances rather than declare that reaching a certain chronological age magically makes her able to make her own decision. Of course, their relationship is completely non-sexual, and Howlett is only five years older than Jolene, but even Howlett seems creeped out a bit by the whole thing. He just hasn't figured out how to defuse it without someone getting hurt. |
| 386 | * Mandy and Grim in ''Webcomic/GrimTalesFromDownBelow''. While Mandy never exactly looked up to him, Grim was a major part of her childhood. He used to treat her like his snarky niece, then several years later, he married her. |
| 387 | * ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'': At least two of the people [[spoiler:[[TimeAbyss Jones]]]] dated were people she helped raise from childhood. |
| 388 | * The Dr. Steve/Oasis relationship from ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' has a few overtones of this. After raising Oasis to adulthood and taking control of her brain, Steve's plans include having her give him firsthand accounts of a lesbian date and wearing skimpy clothes while she serves him food. |
| 389 | * ''Training Slaves to Make a Harem'' by Aldehyde focuses on a noble who takes in three abused and enslaved demon children and plans on raising them into future members of the titular harem. However, the way he goes about this is him slowly raising them as members of his own house and from all outward appearance treating the children like his own daughters, never once coming onto them. Unbeknownst to him, the girls eventually return the sentiment, as they desperately want to couple with him. |
| 390 | [[/folder]] |
| 391 | |
| 392 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 393 | * The "Majou Shuukai de Aimashou" ("An Encounter With Witches") art meme consists of BeforeAndAfterPictures showing a witch taking in an abandoned child, and the same people years later (with the grown child as a servant, bodyguard or apprentice, but all too often as the witch's husband/wife). Of course, the meme proved controversial because of the romance variants, so one popular alternative ended with the witch being a proud adopted (grand)parent of the child...until ''that'' variation got subverted, and trends shifted to the witch considering themselves a parent and the child falling in love with the witch anyway. |
| 394 | [[/folder]] |
| 395 | |
| 396 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 397 | * ''{{WesternAnimation/Gargoyles}}'' |
| 398 | ** A rather unusually creepy example, where Goliath's clone [[EvilCounterpart Thailog]] creates clones of the other Manhattan Clan's gargoyles as his family... including one to be his concubine. And he designed her by mixing DNA from Demona (Goliath's [[PsychoExGirlfriend Psycho Ex-Wife]]) and Elisa Maza (the human protagonist and Goliath's current LoveInterest). |
| 399 | ** Princess Katherine, as a young adult, escaped to Avalon along with the Magus (who was roughly the same age as her), Gargoyle eggs, and the child Tom. The Magus later narrates a FlashBack to Goliath, detailing how as Tom grew up, his and Katherine's relationship started to become less child-parent and more romantic. Eventually they began living as husband and wife, raising the young Gargoyles as their own children. |
| 400 | * In the second ''WesternAnimation/MuzzyInGondoland'' movie, Corvax's plan to kidnap the ''infant'' daughter of Bob and Princess Sylvia to teach the baby to adore him so she'll eventually marry him and let him become king, or at least make him [[EvilChancellor royal advisor]] again. Oddly enough, such a creepy plot is PlayedForLaughs, mainly due to Corvax and his minion, Thimbo, [[PityTheKidnapper sheer ineptitude at getting the baby to do what they want]]. |
| 401 | * ''WesternAnimation/OnyxEquinox'': The FlashbackEpisode reveals that Mictlantecuhtli kidnapped Mictecacihuatl as a baby to make her his bride, and raised her himself. However, it's somewhat downplayed in that he clearly only wanted a wife for ceremonial purposes, and never did anything sexual with her. |
| 402 | * [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] in ''WesternAnimation/UglyAmericans'': Mark Lily agrees to raise Callie's sister Lilith (who ages one year per day) so she will marry Dwayne Boneraper when she comes of age. He treats her like his own daughter, but before her wedding ceremony she reveals she plans to kill both Callie and Dwayne before marrying Mark. |
| 403 | [[/folder]] |
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