This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
Working Title: Battle Couple: From YKTTW
Insanity Prelude: I can't be the only one who immediately thought of Snake and Otacon. Right?
Willy Four Eyes: Probably. I always thought Snake/Otacon fit better under Spy Couple, since Snake is a secret agent and all.
Lale: Cut this unnecessary note — "(It helps that she's like the only female knight in existence—the only other major one is Britomart in The Faerie Queene, and she's Bradamante's expy." Action Girls are actually more common in ancient literature than you think. The Faerie Queene also has Belphoebe, Palladine (another knight), and a legion of evil Amazons. The Aeneid has the soldier Camilla...
Moved Winters and Nixon to Bash Brothers, Ho Yay be damned.
Kat: Do Aral and Cordelia Vorkosigan count? They met during a war and ended up fighting on the same side due to a temporary truce, but to the best of my knowledge they never did it again.
Vampire Buddha: If you want to post an example, SAY WHERE IT'S FROM, DAMMIT!
- * Adeline and Slade Wilson, till his double life got their son kidnapped and rendered mute, then she shot out his eye (she was trying to kill him, but enhanced reflexes saved his life, if not his eye).
Morgan Wick: I call for the intro to be re-written. As is it seems to be mostly about military battle couples and Real Life examples and doesn't seem to take the Action Girl into account.
