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* In ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' fic "[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13653421/1/Ash-s-Adventure-Girls-Hunter-Edition Ash's Adventure: Girls' Hunter Edition]]", a key element of society in this version of events is that various female characters from the anime are now [=PokeGirls=], humans who can use Pokemon attacks. Most of the time this transformation occurs after the girls are defeated in battle and captured by their opponent in human balls, but human balls can be used in other situations, such as Ash catching Misty because she was injured and he had no other way to help her. Later scenes confirm that [=PokeGirls=] instinctively ''want'' to submit to their owners, as shown when [[spoiler:Jessie is instinctively disappointed at Ash rejecting her even though he only caught her when he had no other way to stop her attack and neither wanted her to stay on his "team"]]. It's also noted that most [=PokeGirls=] immediately acknowledge their trainers' superiority due to the initial capture, requiring Misty to take steps to encourage Ash to "make" her submit to him in later sexual encounters, such as helping him be on top during their first time. May speculates that part of the reason Misty is so willing to submit to Ash is that she's been disappointed by authority figures such as her parents, older sisters and the League basically all her life, whereas Ash (in his role as her trainer) is the only such figure who's shown that he genuinely cares about her.

* In ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' fic "[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13653421/1/Ash-s-Adventure-Girls-Hunter-Edition Ash's Adventure: Girls' Hunter Edition]]", a key element of society in this version of events is that various female characters from the anime are now [=PokeGirls=], humans who can use Pokemon attacks. Most of the time this transformation occurs after the girls are defeated in battle and captured by their opponent in human balls, but human balls can be used in other situations, such as Ash catching Misty because she was injured and he had no other way to help her. Later scenes confirm that [=PokeGirls=] instinctively ''want'' to submit to their owners, as shown when [[spoiler:Jessie is instinctively disappointed at Ash rejecting her even though he only caught her when he had no other way to stop her attack and neither wanted her to stay on his "team"]]. It's also noted that most [=PokeGirls=] immediately acknowledge their trainers' superiority due to the initial capture, requiring Misty to take steps to encourage Ash to "make" her submit to him in later sexual encounters, such as helping him be on top during their first time. A flash-forward reveals that a similar power dynamic will be at least a part of Dawn and Serena's relationships with Ash; Dawn initially called Ash "Master" when she first joined him (and still does it to tease him) while Serena will occasionally call Ash her King.

* In ''Series/TwinPeaks'', the relationship between Benjamin Horne and Catherine Martell has a shade of this, involving him [[IKissYourFoot kissing her feet]] and her [[DeadpanSnarker replying to his compliments with sarcastic quips]]. [[spoiler:Then he's accused of murder and arrested, and she visits him in the jail. She takes off her shoe, and he kisses her foot, pleading her to confirm his alibi.]]

* ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'': Jake is very into it when Amy (his girlfriend, fiancé, then wife) acts domineering, which increases when she's promoted to Sergeant. For instance, when she's twisting his thumb around during the Halloween Heist, he asks her to "do it harder".
* PlayedForLaughs in ''Series/LoveAndAnarchy'': a young IT employee Max takes a compromising picture of his boss Sofie and blackmails her into paying for his lunch, after which she steals his phone and in turn makes him do something embarassing at his work to get it back. As a result, forcing each other to do increasingly outlandish things becomes the cornerstone of their romantic relationship.

* In ''Series/TheAlienist'', Kreizler and his servant Mary have a very weird power dynamic in their relationship, where on the one hand, Kreizler is Mary's boss, but on the other hand, he is highly dependent upon her because of his bad arm. Mary seems to enjoy Laszlo's timidity whenever he needs her to do something for him.
* ''Series/{{Dietland}}'': Implied with Kitty. She threatens to fire Dominic, then offers that he can stay if he kisses her foot. [[spoiler:He's about to do it when she tells him she just wanted to see if he would.]]

* In ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'', Artemis mentions that she's slept with a lot of paraplegic guys because she "likes the power".
* ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'': At the end of the episode "[[Recap/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAirS1E19ItHadToBeYou It Had to Be You]]", it is revealed that Janet has one, which causes her to not only choose Carlton over Will after he gives a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, but lose her controlling attitude in the process.
* ''Series/BetterCallSaul'': Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould have gone on record on having a female domination kink, and Jimmy and Kim's relationship is this all over. There's a season six joke that centres around him being willing to have something up his ass, they end up getting turned on by her as her boss bossing Jimmy as Kim around and they decide to have a shower, and she's slammed him into a wall to make out with him. It also has more of the emotional side, as she tells him there are lines they don't cross and she's not letting him serve her by feeding her when her arm is in a cast.

Since romantic relationships frequently have a playful or thrill-seeking edge, aspects that have to do with power, subjugation, punishments, etc. have often been sexualized. The most extreme manifestations of this formed a subculture on its own, known as BDSM[[note]]Bondage and Discipline (BD), Dominance and Submission (DS), Sadism and Masochism (SM)[[/note]], but milder elements have found their way into mainstream culture.

* ''Webcomic/SabrinaOnline'': Carli Chinchilla and her husband Spike (a massive wolf) paired with the sheer size difference between the two. Carli with her constant MotorMouth is practically begging for Spike to show off his physical power, and while the ''Sabrina Online'' depiction is fairly humorous the author's NSFW spin-off material plays with the couple's imbalance more explicitly.