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From YKTTW Working Title: Cast Incest
I never got any definitive feedback on whether this was distinct enough to be a trope. I made the page just to stop it expiring but there won't be any tears on my part if it's redundant enough to get deleted.
Das Auto: Needs an Index. Characters and Casting maybe?
Das Auto: Thanks
Wellinever: Thankyou.
Prfnoff: Split out the "inverted" examples onto the Incestuous Casting page, which I made using examples from this trope's YKTTW. The statement that "there are, fortunately, too few examples to have their own page" was obviously false.
Kilyle: When I was in acting class in college, I was the one trying to write scripts for my group to perform. Now, we have a pair of twin boys who I'd actually homeschooled with back in the day, and, hey, twins - who'd pass up an opportunity for some misunderstanding and mayhem in a script? So I wrote up an idea for a story in which Alice was dating Bob when Bob's twin brother Jim showed up in town and was seen making out with women - leading to the "Oh, it was your twin and you weren't actually cheating on me!" reveal, you know?
Now, I gave it a functional title, then passed it around in class in a stack of potential ideas to see which ones I ought to write up further. It wasn't until a comment from the twins that I realized how bad the title sounded out of context: Romance Utilizing Twins.
- One Twin: "I am not even going to pretend to make love to my brother."
Following Kilyle's example I'm moving all the troper tales over here into the discussion page.
- In a school-play example, this troper's understaffed drama club had a similar example to the one above- the guy had to pretend to flirt with his sister. Both were severely weirded-out.
- This troper once had a crush with the person playing her brother onstage during A Christmas Carol.
- This tends to be quite common in high school and college theater. This particular troper was involved with another core cast member during the production of Our Town. The guy she was dating? Played her onstage father. This got squicky rather fast when he was hitting on me right before our cue.
- In this troper's the Youth Theater group, The boy playing Dracula is the step-brother of the girl playing one of the Brides of Dracula. Whenever she delivers a romantic line well, he gets weirded out.
- In more of a subversion category, This Troper was in 2 plays in a row where she had to act romantically against the same guy. The problem though was that the last play we had been in, Dont Drink The Water, had featured him playing my father. My family members were sufficiently squicked.
- My director had to postpone a cast list upon realizing he had accidentally put a brother and sister as a romantic couple.
- I had the unforgettable experience of watching my Happily Married parents do an improv skit as brother and sister. Squick.
Frankly I find the Firefly example implausible. Jewel Staite said at a convention that none of the actors had dated each other. Source?
