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Camacan
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09:47:41 PM Oct 12th 2010
Looks like this is incorrect — moved it here:

  • Not just Inu YashaAnything and everything by Rumiko Takahashi. The woman is addicted to this trope. It runs in her veins to the exclusion of blood.
    • Well, in all fairness Sango and Miroku do end up married in the end, as well as Inu-Yasha and Kagome.
      • And of course there's Maison Ikkoku, where Godai and Kyouko get married, and had at one and a half on-screen sex scenes.

Camacan
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09:48:11 PM Oct 12th 2010
edited by Camacan
I think this is just speculation about some flirting.

  • [[QI]] Every time Rob Brydon makes an appearance on the show, this trooper expects that Brydon, and the host, [[Stephen Fry]] to descend in to angry man-sex right on the stage, fueled by Fry's constant Welsh Jokes.
Camacan
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10:16:23 PM Oct 12th 2010
Almost certainly not an example: the tension is resolved in the same book as it is introduced and they form a couple. They may have some rocky patches but we're not talking the sustained UST of the trope.

  • Carrot and Angua in the City Watch sub-series of Discworld. It's hinted that they live together, but Angua has a lot of hang-ups about her being a werewolf and him being human, and Carrot's just too much of a nice guy to press things. Just when it seems like they may be coming to an understanding at the end of The Fifth Elephant, the next book in the series is Night Watch, which is centered on another character and contains only brief cameos for Carrot and Angua. By the next book, Thud!, they seem to be back to the status quo and nothing has changed.
    • Actually, it was very much resolved in the first book Angua was introduced in, and all other characters definitely consider them a couple. They just don't marry or have children.
vivalapasta
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10:55:33 PM Nov 28th 2010
I hope this doesn't sound too noobish, but... examples don't necessarily have to be sexual, right?
celticwhisper
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08:05:57 AM Mar 16th 2011
X-Files, "War of the Coprophages." Scully expresses incredulity with a strong hint of jealousy at finding out Mulder is working with a Dr. Bambi Berenbaum. Added it in as an example, was removed by Mr Death almost immediately thereafter.

Putting it up for public review. My rationale is that Scully's expression of disbelief at Dr. Berenbaum's name implies jealousy on her part that Mulder is working with another woman while she's hundreds of miles away. Supported by the tone of her voice when she later greets Dr. Berenbaum in person with "Let me guess...Bambi."

Keep or discard?
MrDeath
08:08:48 AM Mar 16th 2011
Her disbelief is just because her name is Bambi which is, let's face it, not a name that's going to be taken seriously. It's got nothing to do with jealousy. It's the name, that she focuses on, not the gender.
celticwhisper
09:02:47 AM Mar 17th 2011
Noted.

Other opinions?
178.102.248.122
09:58:00 AM Mar 19th 2011
Celticwhisper is right. Scully specifically asks 'she?' when she finds out Mulder is talking about a female scientist, not a male one.

Add it back on.
MrDeath
03:08:00 PM Mar 21st 2011
Just asking about a gender doesn't necessarily make it an example of this trope. It still seems to me that Scully is more concerned about her name being Bambi than the fact that Mulder is associating with a woman.
celticwhisper
08:44:25 AM Mar 22nd 2011
Her vocal inflection when she says it, however, does.
CarlosJMunez88
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08:39:41 PM Jun 14th 2011
edited by CarlosJMunez88
Might this count as an example?:

In the webcomic The World Of Vicki Fox, the earliest strips, particularly "Sisters", shows Vicki's struggle with her attraction to her local church pastor, Steve. After a scheme concocted by her "not quite Evil Twin" sister Zephy to seduce Steve (just to bully Vicki) is foiled, Vicki and Steve are seen talking. It becomes quite clear to any viewer that she REALLY wants him, but, as her official profile on the site explains, she can't ask him out herself because it would defy "tradition". This is understandable. But that's not what makes me think this example is worthy.

It isn't until the next strip, "Pecan Festival", that we see the two together again having a bit of tea. But after that... the whole conflict seems to have disappeared from comic altogether since... It has frustrated the hell out of me for years.
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