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* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': Batman and Poison Ivy's encounters are (almost) always sexually charged to some degree, given that she's a FemmeFatale who loves to [[TheTease playfully toy]] with her male victims. Her [[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE5PrettyPoison debut episode]] alone sees her treat a [[VineTentacles flytrap entangled]] Batman, who'd intruded into her greenhouse lair, like a gentleman caller she's all too happy to steal [[KissOfDeath a kiss]] from, even seductively labeling their time together as [[CaptiveDate "a late night rendezvous."]] Later on in the episode [[Recap/TheAdventuresOfBatmanAndRobinE5HouseAndGarden "House & Garden"]] Pamela mentioning that in the past they've had an "intense relationship" is hard not to see from a romantic angle. Truthfully though the flirtation is usually quite one sided, save for the (possibly canon) Sega CD game cutscenes where Batman, sporting an enthusiastic grin, refers to Ivy as Violet and Lilly's "pretty boss."
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* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': Batman [[Characters/DCAUBatman Batman]] and [[Characters/DCAUPoisonIvy Poison Ivy's Ivy's]] encounters are (almost) always sexually charged to some degree, given that she's a FemmeFatale who loves to [[TheTease playfully toy]] with her male victims. Her [[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE5PrettyPoison debut episode]] alone sees her treat a [[VineTentacles flytrap entangled]] Batman, who'd intruded into her greenhouse lair, like a gentleman caller she's all too happy to steal [[KissOfDeath a kiss]] from, even seductively labeling their time together as [[CaptiveDate "a late night rendezvous."]] Later on in the episode [[Recap/TheAdventuresOfBatmanAndRobinE5HouseAndGarden "House & Garden"]] Pamela mentioning that in the past they've had an "intense relationship" is hard not to see from a romantic angle. Truthfully though the flirtation is usually quite one sided, save for the (possibly canon) Sega CD game cutscenes where Batman, sporting an enthusiastic grin, refers to Ivy as Violet and Lilly's "pretty boss."
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* ''Literature/BerlinAlexanderplatz'': Seen in the interactions between Franz Biberkopf and Reinhold. The latter screws over the protagonist Biberkopf, time and time again, but Biberkopf keeps showing forgiveness for him. In the tv-adaptation by Creator/RainerWernerFassbinder, the queer subtext is made even more blatant:
-->'''Narrator:''' Reinhold and Biberkopf stare fixedly at each other. The one-armed man has no pity for the man in the prisoner's box between the two policemen...he has only a curious devotion for him. I once had a faithful comrade, never a better one could there be. I must look at him, keep on looking at him, nothing seems more important than to look at you. The world is made of sugar and dirt. I can look at you quietly, without batting an eye. I know who you are. I now find you here, m'boy, in the prisoner's box, outside I'll meet you a thousand times more, but my heart will not turn to stone on account of that.
-->'''Narrator:''' Reinhold and Biberkopf stare fixedly at each other. The one-armed man has no pity for the man in the prisoner's box between the two policemen...he has only a curious devotion for him. I once had a faithful comrade, never a better one could there be. I must look at him, keep on looking at him, nothing seems more important than to look at you. The world is made of sugar and dirt. I can look at you quietly, without batting an eye. I know who you are. I now find you here, m'boy, in the prisoner's box, outside I'll meet you a thousand times more, but my heart will not turn to stone on account of that.
* ''Literature/CaptivePrince'': Even when they still hate each other, Damen is put off by how attracted he is to Laurent. It goes the other way too, with Laurent being constantly distracted by Damen, even as he beats, bullies and harasses him.
* ''Literature/ColdDays'': In between Mab's attempts to [[SinkOrSwimMentor kill]] Harry Dresden, she gets very touchy-feely with him. The subtext is heightened by their [[spoiler:plot-related sex]] in the previous book. [[spoiler:Also the fact that as Winter Knight, being the consort to the Winter Queens is one of Harry's official duties.]]
-->''Mab moved very slowly, very gracefully. There was something serpentine about the way she slithered up my body and lay with her chest against mine. (...) [She] made a low, hungry sound in her throat as she leaned down, until her lips were almost touching my ear.\\
"I have no use for weakness, wizard." She shivered in a kind of slow, alien ecstasy.''
* ''Literature/ACourtOfThornsAndRoses:'' Feyre and Rhys, ''[[UnresolvedSexualTension so much]]''. The fact that they have to act as lovers multiple times, including a [[FakeOutMakeOut rather handsy kiss]], does not help. [[spoiler:By the end of the second book, it's no longer "foe" or "subtext".]]
* In the pornographic book ''Crystals of Mida'', Jalav and Ceralt both rape the other, depending on which side is currently winning the war between their races.
-->''Mab moved very slowly, very gracefully. There was something serpentine about the way she slithered up my body and lay with her chest against mine. (...) [She] made a low, hungry sound in her throat as she leaned down, until her lips were almost touching my ear.\\
"I have no use for weakness, wizard." She shivered in a kind of slow, alien ecstasy.''
* ''Literature/ACourtOfThornsAndRoses:'' Feyre and Rhys, ''[[UnresolvedSexualTension so much]]''. The fact that they have to act as lovers multiple times, including a [[FakeOutMakeOut rather handsy kiss]], does not help. [[spoiler:By the end of the second book, it's no longer "foe" or "subtext".]]
* In the pornographic book ''Crystals of Mida'', Jalav and Ceralt both rape the other, depending on which side is currently winning the war between their races.
* ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'': Some interpret there to be romantic tensions between Dracula and Lucy, Dracula and Mina, and/or Dracula and Jonathan. Literary scholars regularly debate whether any of this was intentional or not. Not only was Stoker a rather old-fashioned type writing when the social and sexual liberation movements were just beginning to take off, but some historians have theorised that Stoker himself was a heavily closeted [[InternalizedCategorism self-hating gay man]], and further, commonly assumed by literary scholars that Stoker used the story of ''Dracula'' to work through some issues, so the sexualized nature of the vampires took on a whole new meaning as an unsubtle appeal for restraint. (Scholars also note that while Dracula is knifed, [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything female vampires are killed by having something long and hard stuck in them]].)
** When the female vampires in the castle attempt to "kiss" (read: bite) Jonathan, Drac shows up and chases them off, saying, "He belongs to me!" [[HomoeroticSubtext There is little to no heterosexual explanation for the passage that follows]]:
--->"How dare you touch him, any of you? How dare you cast eyes on him when I had forbidden it? Back, I tell you all! This man belongs to me! Beware how you meddle with him, or you'll have to deal with me." The fair girl, with a laugh of ribald coquetry, turned to answer him. "You yourself never loved. You never love!" On this the other women joined, and such a mirthless, hard, soulless laughter rang through the room that it almost made me faint to hear. It seemed like the pleasure of fiends. Then the Count turned, after looking at my face attentively, and said in a soft whisper, "Yes, I too can love." - ''Dracula,'' chapter 3, Jonathan Harker's Journal, 16 May.
** When the female vampires in the castle attempt to "kiss" (read: bite) Jonathan, Drac shows up and chases them off, saying, "He belongs to me!" [[HomoeroticSubtext There is little to no heterosexual explanation for the passage that follows]]:
--->"How dare you touch him, any of you? How dare you cast eyes on him when I had forbidden it? Back, I tell you all! This man belongs to me! Beware how you meddle with him, or you'll have to deal with me." The fair girl, with a laugh of ribald coquetry, turned to answer him. "You yourself never loved. You never love!" On this the other women joined, and such a mirthless, hard, soulless laughter rang through the room that it almost made me faint to hear. It seemed like the pleasure of fiends. Then the Count turned, after looking at my face attentively, and said in a soft whisper, "Yes, I too can love." - ''Dracula,'' chapter 3, Jonathan Harker's Journal, 16 May.
* [[spoiler:Hrathen]] towards [[spoiler:Sarene]], in ''Literature/{{Elantris}}''. Later turns from subtext to LoveEpiphany, although the latter character remains totally oblivious to any of this.
* In ''Literature/InConquestBorn'', the {{Deuteragonist}}s are wrapped up in an obsessive, InterplayOfSexAndViolence -driven, long-distance relationship in which the goal of each is killing the other. They are both utterly at home with the ruthless ambition and deep-seated rage they sense in each other, to the point that no one else can take the place they occupy in each other's lives.
* In ''[[Literature/KingdomsDisdain The Kingdom's Disdain]]'', Princess Sareash and the warlock/assassin Worm tread a fine line between pure disdain and sexual/romantic attraction. [[spoiler: To the point she can't bring herself to kill him because he's "too beautiful".]]
* In ''Literature/LoyalEnemies'', Shelena and Veres are nominally mortal enemies, what with her being a werewolf and him a monster hunter specialized in werewolves. But setting aside Shelena's questionable decision to drag him half-dead out of a ditch and take him home to heal, there's some increasing romance subtext between them as the book goes on. Forced to work together, they have to share her hut, ride on the same horse and spend nights talking at the campfire. Shelena just can't keep her paws off Veres, sticking feathers up his nose at night and getting almost stabbed for her trouble. Veres, on his part, is very interested when the talk comes to Shelena's preferences in men, and he's always just around the corner when Shelena has gotten herself into trouble again. When asked by Delirna how Veres is in bed, instead of denying anything, Shelena's answer is '[[DeadpanSnarker Like a corpse.]]' And when Shelena [[spoiler:almost dies from an arrow wound]], Veres uses his own life force to [[spoiler:drag her back from the brink of death]]. Enemies, mortal ones. Sure.\\
Eventually, Shelena has a LoveEpiphany, but that doesn't put the subtext to rest until the very end of the book, as Veres' point of view is never shown.
* ''Literature/ReignOfTheSevenSpellblades'': The Campus Watch's tournament match against the old council in volume 10 features enough homoeroticism to make ''Film/TopGun'' blush, between Leoncio Echevalria's previously known VillainousCrush on Alvin Godfrey, Khiirgi's {{Combat Sadomasochis|t}}m against Lesedi Ingwe who hates her for seducing her girlfriends and making them cry, and Gino Beltrami's duel with Tim Linton literally ending with Beltrami kissing Tim with DruggedLipstick to cause a DoubleKnockout.
* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': [[HeroicBastard Jon Snow]] and [[WellIntentionedExtremist Mellisandre]]--in a highly predatory, MrsRobinson sort of way. It doesn't help matters that Mel seems to have inherited Jon's dead girlfriend's catchphrase (and of course, the hair color). Well, Mel does need someone [[DeusSexMachina to make shadow babies with]].
* In ''Literature/InConquestBorn'', the {{Deuteragonist}}s are wrapped up in an obsessive, InterplayOfSexAndViolence -driven, long-distance relationship in which the goal of each is killing the other. They are both utterly at home with the ruthless ambition and deep-seated rage they sense in each other, to the point that no one else can take the place they occupy in each other's lives.
* In ''[[Literature/KingdomsDisdain The Kingdom's Disdain]]'', Princess Sareash and the warlock/assassin Worm tread a fine line between pure disdain and sexual/romantic attraction. [[spoiler: To the point she can't bring herself to kill him because he's "too beautiful".]]
* In ''Literature/LoyalEnemies'', Shelena and Veres are nominally mortal enemies, what with her being a werewolf and him a monster hunter specialized in werewolves. But setting aside Shelena's questionable decision to drag him half-dead out of a ditch and take him home to heal, there's some increasing romance subtext between them as the book goes on. Forced to work together, they have to share her hut, ride on the same horse and spend nights talking at the campfire. Shelena just can't keep her paws off Veres, sticking feathers up his nose at night and getting almost stabbed for her trouble. Veres, on his part, is very interested when the talk comes to Shelena's preferences in men, and he's always just around the corner when Shelena has gotten herself into trouble again. When asked by Delirna how Veres is in bed, instead of denying anything, Shelena's answer is '[[DeadpanSnarker Like a corpse.]]' And when Shelena [[spoiler:almost dies from an arrow wound]], Veres uses his own life force to [[spoiler:drag her back from the brink of death]]. Enemies, mortal ones. Sure.\\
Eventually, Shelena has a LoveEpiphany, but that doesn't put the subtext to rest until the very end of the book, as Veres' point of view is never shown.
* ''Literature/ReignOfTheSevenSpellblades'': The Campus Watch's tournament match against the old council in volume 10 features enough homoeroticism to make ''Film/TopGun'' blush, between Leoncio Echevalria's previously known VillainousCrush on Alvin Godfrey, Khiirgi's {{Combat Sadomasochis|t}}m against Lesedi Ingwe who hates her for seducing her girlfriends and making them cry, and Gino Beltrami's duel with Tim Linton literally ending with Beltrami kissing Tim with DruggedLipstick to cause a DoubleKnockout.
* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': [[HeroicBastard Jon Snow]] and [[WellIntentionedExtremist Mellisandre]]--in a highly predatory, MrsRobinson sort of way. It doesn't help matters that Mel seems to have inherited Jon's dead girlfriend's catchphrase (and of course, the hair color). Well, Mel does need someone [[DeusSexMachina to make shadow babies with]].
* In ''Literature/TheWitchlands'', Safi is annoyed to find out that the "Chiseled Cheat" - the man who stole all her money, now revealed to be [[spoiler:a Hell-Bard, hunting Safi]] - is still very attractive despite being her enemy.
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* ''Literature/BerlinAlexanderplatz'': Seen in the interactions between Franz Biberkopf and Reinhold. The latter screws over the protagonist Biberkopf, time and time again, but Biberkopf keeps showing forgiveness for him. In the tv-adaptation by Creator/RainerWernerFassbinder, the queer subtext is made even more blatant:
-->'''Narrator:''' Reinhold and Biberkopf stare fixedly at each other. The one-armed man has no pity for the man in the prisoner's box between the two policemen...he has only a curious devotion for him. I once had a faithful comrade, never a better one could there be. I must look at him, keep on looking at him, nothing seems more important than to look at you. The world is made of sugar and dirt. I can look at you quietly, without batting an eye. I know who you are. I now find you here, m'boy, in the prisoner's box, outside I'll meet you a thousand times more, but my heart will not turn to stone on account of that.
* ''Literature/CaptivePrince'': Even when they still hate each other, Damen is put off by how attracted he is to Laurent. It goes the other way too, with Laurent being constantly distracted by Damen, even as he beats, bullies and harasses him.
* ''Literature/ColdDays'': In between Mab's attempts to [[SinkOrSwimMentor kill]] Harry Dresden, she gets very touchy-feely with him. The subtext is heightened by their [[spoiler:plot-related sex]] in the previous book. [[spoiler:Also the fact that as Winter Knight, being the consort to the Winter Queens is one of Harry's official duties.]]
-->''Mab moved very slowly, very gracefully. There was something serpentine about the way she slithered up my body and lay with her chest against mine. (...) [She] made a low, hungry sound in her throat as she leaned down, until her lips were almost touching my ear.\\
"I have no use for weakness, wizard." She shivered in a kind of slow, alien ecstasy.''
* ''Literature/ACourtOfThornsAndRoses:'' Feyre and Rhys, ''[[UnresolvedSexualTension so much]]''. The fact that they have to act as lovers multiple times, including a [[FakeOutMakeOut rather handsy kiss]], does not help. [[spoiler:By the end of the second book, it's no longer "foe" or "subtext".]]
* In the pornographic book ''Crystals of Mida'', Jalav and Ceralt both rape the other, depending on which side is currently winning the war between their races.
* ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'': Some interpret there to be romantic tensions between Dracula and Lucy, Dracula and Mina, and/or Dracula and Jonathan. Literary scholars regularly debate whether any of this was intentional or not. Not only was Stoker a rather old-fashioned type writing when the social and sexual liberation movements were just beginning to take off, but some historians have theorised that Stoker himself was a heavily closeted [[InternalizedCategorism self-hating gay man]], and further, commonly assumed by literary scholars that Stoker used the story of ''Dracula'' to work through some issues, so the sexualized nature of the vampires took on a whole new meaning as an unsubtle appeal for restraint. (Scholars also note that while Dracula is knifed, [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything female vampires are killed by having something long and hard stuck in them]].)
** When the female vampires in the castle attempt to "kiss" (read: bite) Jonathan, Drac shows up and chases them off, saying, "He belongs to me!" [[HomoeroticSubtext There is little to no heterosexual explanation for the passage that follows]]:
--->"How dare you touch him, any of you? How dare you cast eyes on him when I had forbidden it? Back, I tell you all! This man belongs to me! Beware how you meddle with him, or you'll have to deal with me." The fair girl, with a laugh of ribald coquetry, turned to answer him. "You yourself never loved. You never love!" On this the other women joined, and such a mirthless, hard, soulless laughter rang through the room that it almost made me faint to hear. It seemed like the pleasure of fiends. Then the Count turned, after looking at my face attentively, and said in a soft whisper, "Yes, I too can love." - ''Dracula,'' chapter 3, Jonathan Harker's Journal, 16 May.
* [[spoiler:Hrathen]] towards [[spoiler:Sarene]], in ''Literature/{{Elantris}}''. Later turns from subtext to LoveEpiphany, although the latter character remains totally oblivious to any of this.
* In ''Literature/InConquestBorn'', the {{Deuteragonist}}s are wrapped up in an obsessive, InterplayOfSexAndViolence -driven, long-distance relationship in which the goal of each is killing the other. They are both utterly at home with the ruthless ambition and deep-seated rage they sense in each other, to the point that no one else can take the place they occupy in each other's lives.
* In ''[[Literature/KingdomsDisdain The Kingdom's Disdain]]'', Princess Sareash and the warlock/assassin Worm tread a fine line between pure disdain and sexual/romantic attraction. [[spoiler: To the point she can't bring herself to kill him because he's "too beautiful".]]
* In ''Literature/LoyalEnemies'', Shelena and Veres are nominally mortal enemies, what with her being a werewolf and him a monster hunter specialized in werewolves. But setting aside Shelena's questionable decision to drag him half-dead out of a ditch and take him home to heal, there's some increasing romance subtext between them as the book goes on. Forced to work together, they have to share her hut, ride on the same horse and spend nights talking at the campfire. Shelena just can't keep her paws off Veres, sticking feathers up his nose at night and getting almost stabbed for her trouble. Veres, on his part, is very interested when the talk comes to Shelena's preferences in men, and he's always just around the corner when Shelena has gotten herself into trouble again. When asked by Delirna how Veres is in bed, instead of denying anything, Shelena's answer is '[[DeadpanSnarker Like a corpse.]]' And when Shelena [[spoiler:almost dies from an arrow wound]], Veres uses his own life force to [[spoiler:drag her back from the brink of death]]. Enemies, mortal ones. Sure.\\
Eventually, Shelena has a LoveEpiphany, but that doesn't put the subtext to rest until the very end of the book, as Veres' point of view is never shown.
* [[HeroicBastard Jon Snow]] and [[WellIntentionedExtremist Mellisandre]]--in a highly predatory, MrsRobinson sort of way-- from ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''. It doesn't help matters that Mel seems to have inherited Jon's dead girlfriend's catchphrase (and of course, the hair color). Well, Mel does need someone [[DeusSexMachina to make shadow babies with]].
* In ''Literature/TheWitchlands'', Safi is annoyed to find out that the "Chiseled Cheat" - the man who stole all her money, now revealed to be [[spoiler:a Hell-Bard, hunting Safi]] - is still very attractive despite being her enemy.
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* ''Literature/BerlinAlexanderplatz'': Seen in the interactions between Franz Biberkopf and Reinhold. The latter screws over the protagonist Biberkopf, time and time again, but Biberkopf keeps showing forgiveness for him. In the tv-adaptation by Creator/RainerWernerFassbinder, the queer subtext is made even more blatant:
-->'''Narrator:''' Reinhold and Biberkopf stare fixedly at each other. The one-armed man has no pity for the man in the prisoner's box between the two policemen...he has only a curious devotion for him. I once had a faithful comrade, never a better one could there be. I must look at him, keep on looking at him, nothing seems more important than to look at you. The world is made of sugar and dirt. I can look at you quietly, without batting an eye. I know who you are. I now find you here, m'boy, in the prisoner's box, outside I'll meet you a thousand times more, but my heart will not turn to stone on account of that.
* ''Literature/CaptivePrince'': Even when they still hate each other, Damen is put off by how attracted he is to Laurent. It goes the other way too, with Laurent being constantly distracted by Damen, even as he beats, bullies and harasses him.
* ''Literature/ColdDays'': In between Mab's attempts to [[SinkOrSwimMentor kill]] Harry Dresden, she gets very touchy-feely with him. The subtext is heightened by their [[spoiler:plot-related sex]] in the previous book. [[spoiler:Also the fact that as Winter Knight, being the consort to the Winter Queens is one of Harry's official duties.]]
-->''Mab moved very slowly, very gracefully. There was something serpentine about the way she slithered up my body and lay with her chest against mine. (...) [She] made a low, hungry sound in her throat as she leaned down, until her lips were almost touching my ear.\\
"I have no use for weakness, wizard." She shivered in a kind of slow, alien ecstasy.''
* ''Literature/ACourtOfThornsAndRoses:'' Feyre and Rhys, ''[[UnresolvedSexualTension so much]]''. The fact that they have to act as lovers multiple times, including a [[FakeOutMakeOut rather handsy kiss]], does not help. [[spoiler:By the end of the second book, it's no longer "foe" or "subtext".]]
* In the pornographic book ''Crystals of Mida'', Jalav and Ceralt both rape the other, depending on which side is currently winning the war between their races.
* ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'': Some interpret there to be romantic tensions between Dracula and Lucy, Dracula and Mina, and/or Dracula and Jonathan. Literary scholars regularly debate whether any of this was intentional or not. Not only was Stoker a rather old-fashioned type writing when the social and sexual liberation movements were just beginning to take off, but some historians have theorised that Stoker himself was a heavily closeted [[InternalizedCategorism self-hating gay man]], and further, commonly assumed by literary scholars that Stoker used the story of ''Dracula'' to work through some issues, so the sexualized nature of the vampires took on a whole new meaning as an unsubtle appeal for restraint. (Scholars also note that while Dracula is knifed, [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything female vampires are killed by having something long and hard stuck in them]].)
** When the female vampires in the castle attempt to "kiss" (read: bite) Jonathan, Drac shows up and chases them off, saying, "He belongs to me!" [[HomoeroticSubtext There is little to no heterosexual explanation for the passage that follows]]:
--->"How dare you touch him, any of you? How dare you cast eyes on him when I had forbidden it? Back, I tell you all! This man belongs to me! Beware how you meddle with him, or you'll have to deal with me." The fair girl, with a laugh of ribald coquetry, turned to answer him. "You yourself never loved. You never love!" On this the other women joined, and such a mirthless, hard, soulless laughter rang through the room that it almost made me faint to hear. It seemed like the pleasure of fiends. Then the Count turned, after looking at my face attentively, and said in a soft whisper, "Yes, I too can love." - ''Dracula,'' chapter 3, Jonathan Harker's Journal, 16 May.
* [[spoiler:Hrathen]] towards [[spoiler:Sarene]], in ''Literature/{{Elantris}}''. Later turns from subtext to LoveEpiphany, although the latter character remains totally oblivious to any of this.
* In ''Literature/InConquestBorn'', the {{Deuteragonist}}s are wrapped up in an obsessive, InterplayOfSexAndViolence -driven, long-distance relationship in which the goal of each is killing the other. They are both utterly at home with the ruthless ambition and deep-seated rage they sense in each other, to the point that no one else can take the place they occupy in each other's lives.
* In ''[[Literature/KingdomsDisdain The Kingdom's Disdain]]'', Princess Sareash and the warlock/assassin Worm tread a fine line between pure disdain and sexual/romantic attraction. [[spoiler: To the point she can't bring herself to kill him because he's "too beautiful".]]
* In ''Literature/LoyalEnemies'', Shelena and Veres are nominally mortal enemies, what with her being a werewolf and him a monster hunter specialized in werewolves. But setting aside Shelena's questionable decision to drag him half-dead out of a ditch and take him home to heal, there's some increasing romance subtext between them as the book goes on. Forced to work together, they have to share her hut, ride on the same horse and spend nights talking at the campfire. Shelena just can't keep her paws off Veres, sticking feathers up his nose at night and getting almost stabbed for her trouble. Veres, on his part, is very interested when the talk comes to Shelena's preferences in men, and he's always just around the corner when Shelena has gotten herself into trouble again. When asked by Delirna how Veres is in bed, instead of denying anything, Shelena's answer is '[[DeadpanSnarker Like a corpse.]]' And when Shelena [[spoiler:almost dies from an arrow wound]], Veres uses his own life force to [[spoiler:drag her back from the brink of death]]. Enemies, mortal ones. Sure.\\
Eventually, Shelena has a LoveEpiphany, but that doesn't put the subtext to rest until the very end of the book, as Veres' point of view is never shown.
* [[HeroicBastard Jon Snow]] and [[WellIntentionedExtremist Mellisandre]]--in a highly predatory, MrsRobinson sort of way-- from ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''. It doesn't help matters that Mel seems to have inherited Jon's dead girlfriend's catchphrase (and of course, the hair color). Well, Mel does need someone [[DeusSexMachina to make shadow babies with]].
* In ''Literature/TheWitchlands'', Safi is annoyed to find out that the "Chiseled Cheat" - the man who stole all her money, now revealed to be [[spoiler:a Hell-Bard, hunting Safi]] - is still very attractive despite being her enemy.
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* Music/MiikeSnow's UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan is about a PunchClockVillain with captured a Franchise/JamesBond expy trapped in his evil lair. He has him strapped to a table staring down a giant laser, but just as he is about to kill him, the clock strikes five and the villain reluctantly powers down the machine and goes home. As the villain spends time with his picturesque family, he can't get the hero off his mind. As soon as the next work day starts, he rushes back to execute the hero to banish the thought of him from his mind... only to realize that he can't bring himself to do it, and he instead releases the hero, and they each realize that they're in love with the other before retiring to a peaceful domestic life together.
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* The music video for Music/MiikeSnow's UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan is about a PunchClockVillain with captured a Franchise/JamesBond expy trapped in his evil lair. He has him strapped to a table staring down a giant laser, but just as he is about to kill him, the clock strikes five and the villain reluctantly powers down the machine and goes home. As the villain spends time with his picturesque family, he can't get the hero off his mind. As soon as the next work day starts, he rushes back to execute the hero to banish the thought of him from his mind... only to realize that he can't bring himself to do it, and he instead releases the hero, and they each realize that they're in love with the other before retiring to a peaceful domestic life together.
