History Main / IncestSubtext

** Claire once reunited with her long lost biological father Nathan Patrelli, they have many UsefulNotes/GeneticSexualAttraction attributes, notably when they share a motel room together after he gets hammered trying to drink some frat boys under the table for money.
** Peter and Claire had the most sexual tension and chemistry out of any two on the show. Too bad they made them Uncle and Niece. Although this did not stop [[CastIncest their actors from dating in real life]].
** It's impossible to watch Maya and Alejandro Herrera without thinking about it.

* Twins Dennis and Dee Reynolds from ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia''. In "Dennis and Dee Get a New Dad" they are explicitly accused of sleeping with each other by Frank. Furthermore there are [[IncestuousCasting cast as love interests]] in Charlie's "Dayman" play. Charlie initially casts Dennis as the villain to avoid the incestuous implications, but Dennis wants to play the hero instead and has no problem with the fact that his sister plays the love interest. Dee, however, complains, and the initially planned kiss between their roles is changed to an embrace. In addition, during the episode "Frank's Back in Business," the siblings along with Mac discover that a patron has left his wallet at the bar, leading Dennis to assume the patron's identity. When they show up to a baseball game via the tickets in the wallet and that person's associates assume that Dennis is the patron and Dee is his wife, the two have no problems playing along with this ruse. Dennis even states that he "gets off" while pretending to be another person, and when Dee questions the ruse, he asks Dee if she wants to "get off" with him. There's also the scattered moments in the series where Dennis [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther expresses his care for Dee's well-being]] in a way that almost sounds like a grand declaration of love, and while Dee herself seems to brush them off most of the time, it is implied she does return the sentiment. WordOfGod confirms as such, saying they're secretly in love with each other.

* In the ''Series/{{Degrassi}}: TNG'' movie thing where Fiona, Declan, Holly J and Jane go to New York, Fiona gets so jealous of her Declan's relationship with Holly J that she [[spoiler:full-on kisses Declan on the lips]]. Though that was partially a rash decision Fiona did while she was drunk.

* 'Lot' and 'Lot's Daughter' by Joseph Ward Moore, a father flees with his family from an impending nuclear war. However their conversation in the car convinces him his wife will be unable to cope with living in a post-apocalyptic society and his sons will eventually grow beyond his control and turn to barbarism. So he abandons them at a filling station and drives on into the wilderness with his adolescent daughter. However in the Bible after the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah and his wife being turned into a pillar of salt Lot keeps the Israelite's line going by impregnating his daughters. In the sequel story the pair are depicted surviving in the wilderness with a young son and no explanation as to his parentage.

* In ''VideoGame/BaldursGateII'', the PlayerCharacter can romance his companion Jaheira. What makes it slightly uncomfortable is that she's [[ParentalSubstitute their godmother]] and a friend of his father, although the player didn't meet her until he was already an adult.

** Klaus and Rebekah, starting from the moment they first appeared together on the parent show ''The Vampire Diaries''. In one episode, Cami asks if they're dating. Klaus has a history of hating men Rebekah is interested in, and considers himself her constant one and basically the only man worthy of her and the only man she's allowed to love.
*** And let's not forget his jealous reaction to Marcel and Rebekah's relationship, which is in itself pseudo-incestuous. (She's [[NotBloodSiblings not really his aunt,]] but Klaus is the closest thing he has to a father.) When Klaus can't kill her new boyfriend like he normally does, because this time it's his adopted son, he spends centuries keeping them apart, daggering Rebekah to punish her not only for 'betraying' him but also for 'taking' Marcel away from him. And then there's the actor's comment [[https://icebluecyanide.tumblr.com/post/64127817347/he-really-really-loves-rebekah-and-no-ones-ever]] that Klaus 'feels left out' and 'insecure.' And this sentiment being confirmed onscreen in season 4 with the line "How could either of you love each other and still have room for me?" Gee, what a [[BlatantLies totally normal]] response to finding out your sister and son are dating each other.

** While not as creepily possessive of him as he is of Rebekah, Klaus gets quite touchy about Elijah paying too much attention to other people as well. Klaus arranges circumstances so Elijah's girlfriend [[spoiler: Celeste ends up murdered.]] He claims to have done it simply out of boredom, feigning ignorance that [[spoiler: her death would hurt Elijah, but it's quite clearly feelings of jealousy and betrayal that spurred him to get rid of her.]] Elijah even blames himself, saying he should have known 'abandoning' Klaus in favour of [[spoiler: Celeste]] would lead to that result.
*** He also spends quite a lot of time gazing wistfully at him across a piano bar after the events of the season 4 finale [[spoiler: where the siblings are magically forced to separate and Elijah [[MindWipe loses all his memories,]] despite the risk that bringing two pieces of [[EvilArtifact The Hollow]] so close together poses and Elijah, ya'know, not having any idea who he is anyway.]] One of the writers [[https://twitter.com/cadlymack/status/878433524642074624]]even joked on twitter that Elijah definitely thought Klaus was hitting on him [[spoiler: since he couldn't recognise him as his brother.]]
** And then there's Elijah's insane levels of devotion to Klaus. Despite frequently being on the receiving end of Klaus' abusive paranoia, he continually sacrifices everything and everyone else in his life to put Klaus first, makes seeking Klaus' redemption his primary purpose and seems adrift whenever something interferes with that goal, and always eventually forgives him no matter what he does (which includes things like [[spoiler: [[HypnoticEyes compelling]] Elijah's innocent girlfriend to [[SuicideBySunlight kill herself]] in [[ForcedToWatch front of him]] to pay Elijah back for daggering him once, even though Klaus has daggered everyone numerous times.)]]

*** At the end of season 4, he goes to the extremes of [[spoiler: intentionally erasing his own memories]] because he either doesn't believe he can trust himself to stay away from Klaus with willpower alone, or considers doing so to be unbearable torture, or a combination of both.

*** And then of course there's the ultimate example in the finale, [[spoiler: where it is obvious that the biggest reason for Elijah choosing to unnecessarily sacrifice himself alongside Klaus is that he simply couldn't stand to live in a world without him.]]

*** In season 5, there is a scene where he recalls Klaus asking him to run away from [[AbusiveParents Mikael]] together, just the two of them, when they were children. He refused to leave Kol and Rebekah behind. Over 1000 years later, despite the massive and unpredictable changes it would have made to their lives, including likely never seeing the rest of their family again, he tells Hope it was a mistake, and that they should have gone through with it.

** And then there's Elijah's insane levels of devotion to Klaus. Despite frequently being on the receiving end of Klaus' abusive paranoia, he continually sacrifices everything and everyone else in his life to put Klaus first, makes seeking Klaus' redemption his primary purpose and seems adrift whenever something interferes with that goal, and always eventually forgives him no matter what he does (which includes things like [[spoiler: [[HypnoticEyes compelling]] his innocent girlfriend to [[SuicideBySunlight kill herself]] in front of him to pay Elijah back for daggering him once, even though Klaus has daggered everyone numerous times.)]]

** Freya and Finn Mikaelson toy with this line as well. Finn only stays with his family after being brought back a second time for Freya.

* ''Film/BackToTheFuture'': Lorraine as a teenager is strongly attracted to Marty [=McFly=], not realizing he is her future son. However, she changes her mind after kissing him because it feels "weird".

* ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'':

** In ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', a Republic City hotel staff member apologizes to CreepyTwins Eska and Desna, saying that they were mistakenly booked in a room with [[ThereIsOnlyOneBed only one bed.]] Eska tells him that it's not a mistake. [[BaitAndSwitch "Desna sleeps in the tub."]]. But then Eska turns her head and looks right at the audience for second, as if to say "I know what you were thinking."

* Magica and Poe from ''WesternAnimation/Ducktales2017'' are very close and affectionate towards each other, giving each other pet names. In order to use their magic, they are required to hold their hands. They sit together on thrones like a king and queen, and Magica describes them as having made "beautiful magic" together. It probably doesn't help that Edgar Allan Poe, who Poe is named after, married his cousin.

* In the penultimate episode of ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'', Dipper's RousingSpeech to his twin sister Mabel [[spoiler:urging her to come with him out of [[LotusEaterMachine Mabeland]] and [[GrowOldWithMe grow up with him]] sounds pretty close to a LoveConfession of the romantic variety. There's also a brief moment where the two twins look like they're about to kiss before they instead perform a "[[CallBack sincere sibling hug]]" as a PlatonicDeclarationOfLove]].

* A production of ''Don Pasquale'' where Norina and Malatesta gave off some... interesting vibes while going over their plan for her to trick the eponymous don. He does seem ''very'' enthusiastic in teaching her to seduce men, and refers to her affectionately as a "little vixen" at one point. (It helped that both the actors were friends in real life.)

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': In the fifth episode, Claudia is sexually frustrated because she doesn't have an immortal companion and lover like Lestat and Louis are to each other. Envious of their union, she asks which of her vampire fathers will fuck her. Lestat's response strongly suggests that he would have if [[NotGrowingUpSucks she had the body of an full-grown woman]].

** Howard appears to have some kind of [[ChildSupplantsParent oedipus complex. He's accidentally called his wife Bernadette "Ma" at least twice, to his embarrassment. One time when Bernadette yelled at him in his mother's voice, he claimed she sounded "sexy". One episode lampshades it: Howard mentions having to rub ointment on his mother, and when asked why she couldn't do that herself, Howard responded: "Because we have a deeply unhealthy relationship." He later imagines them both in the roles of Norman and Norma Bates from the film 'Psycho'. He also confesses to having sexual relations with a female cousin at a family gathering.

* ''Series/House'': in 'Fools for Love' the team deal with a boyfriend and girlfriend who inexplicably develop the same incredibly rare genetically inherited condition at the same time. The boy eventually reveals that his father was a racist who committed suicide when he discovered his son was dating the daughter of their African-American housekeeper. House suggests that his father wasn't actually a racist at all, that he only objected to THAT black girl as she was actually his daughter and they were half siblings experiencing Genetic Sexual Attraction.

* Kayfabe siblings Paul Burchill and [[Wrestling/KatarinaWaters Katie Lea]] debuted a controversial angle in 2008 that implied incest between the two of them, with Katie calling Paul "beautiful" and talking about how she enjoys watching him inflict pain. Paul's CatchPhrase would then be "whatever Katie wants, Katie always gets."[[note]]Katie Lea and Paul were ''lovers'' in OVW, which had a developmental deal with WWE, who decided to make them siblings as well[[/note]] Wrestling/{{WWE}} just happened to be going PG that year so the incest part of their pairing was dropped before anything big happened.

* PlayedForLaughs in Asuka Kazama's ending in ''VideoGame/Tekken5''. Asuka defeats Jin Kazama (her cousin, although she wasn't aware of the connection until ''6'') and, trying to wake him, accidentally undoes his [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Devil Jin transformation]]. When he tries to get up in a hurry, [[AccidentalPervert he trips over her and lands face-down in her boobs.]] There's no way to really interpret Asuka's initial facial impression afterwards; it could be shock, embarrassment, or begrudging attraction... but then she turns violently angry and [[PervertRevengeMode punches him for being a "pervert."]]

** Howard appears to have some kind of OedipusComplex. He's accidentally called his wife Bernadette "Ma" at least twice, to his embarrassment. One time when Bernadette yelled at him in his mother's voice, he claimed she sounded "sexy". One episode lampshades it: Howard mentions having to rub ointment on his mother, and when asked why she couldn't do that herself, Howard responded: "Because we have a deeply unhealthy relationship." He later imagines them both in the roles of Norman and Norma Bates from the film 'Psycho'. He also confesses to having sexual relations with a female cousin at a family gathering.

* This is the impression many get upon playing through the story of ''[[VideoGame/SoulSeries Soulcalibur V]]''. Not only is Patroklos saddled with an OedipusComplex for his [[spoiler:deceased]] mother Sophitia (to the point that [[spoiler:Elysium, the spirit of Soul Calibur, can manipulate him purely by [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith assuming his mother's form and beckoning to him]]]]), but his interactions with Pyrrha tend to carry an incestuous undercurrent as well. Patroklos grew up raised by his father Rothion, who told him stories about his mother, spurring Patroklos [[SoProudOfYou to follow in her path as a holy warrior]], whereas [[DarkMagicalGirl Pyrrha]] was stolen away from her family at a young age (and thus has no memory of them), but their affection, which ''should'' be a strong case of [[TheFourLoves storge]], goes on a crash collision and veers right into eros territory. And then there's official art such as [[http://soulcalibur.wikia.com/wiki/File:Soul_Calibur_New_Legends_Of_Project_Soul_019.JPG this]]...

* IncestSubtext/CastleTownDandelion
* IncestSubtext/CodeGeass

* The Prentiss family in ''Film/TheManchurianCandidate''. (In the original novel, the incest is quite explicitly mentioned.) The original film version showed a very possessive and not at all chaste kiss between Eleanor and her son Raymond, and the 2004 remake featured heavy subtext in every scene that showed them together, including some very ambiguous touching and kissing moments. In the novel, Raymond's mother had an incestuous relationship with her father. When [[spoiler:her brainwashed son is under her control she remarks how much he looks like her father and makes him do what she wants.]]

* Twins Dennis and Dee Reynolds from ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia''. In "Dennis and Dee Get a New Dad" they are explicitly accused of sleeping with each other by Frank. Furthermore there are [[IncestuousCasting cast as love interests]] in Charlie's "Dayman" play. Charlie initially casts Dennis as the villain to avoid the incestuous implications, but Dennis wants to play the hero instead and has no problem with the fact that his sister plays the love interest. Dee, however, complains, and the initially planned kiss between their roles is changed to an embrace. In addition, during the episode "Frank's Back in Business," the siblings along with Mac discover that a patron has left his wallet at the bar, leading Dennis to assume the patron's identity. When they show up to a baseball game via the tickets in the wallet and that person's associates assume that Dennis is the patron and Dee is his wife, the two have no problems playing along with this ruse. Dennis even states that he "gets off" while pretending to be another person, and when Dee questions the ruse, he asks Dee if she wants to "get off" with him. There's also the scattered moments in the series where Dennis [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther expresses his care for Dee's well-being]] in a way that almost sounds like a grand declaration of love, and while Dee herself seems to brush them off most of the time, it is implied she does return the sentiment.