Basic Trope: An uncle with inappropriate desires for his niece or nephew.
- Straight: Charlie deeply lusts for his niece Alice and sometimes gropes her.
- Exaggerated: Charlie is attracted to his niece Alice and had slept with her several times and married her. He also crushes on his nephew Bob (and masturbates over photos of Bob) and cheats on her with his other niece Stella.
- Downplayed:
- Charlie finds his niece Alice to be sexually attractive, but knows she probably won't consent to anything romantic or sexual with him and thus keeps that crush to himself.
- Charlie is not Alice's uncle but her cousin. The age gap is significant enough for it to not be a case of Kissing Cousins.
- Justified:
- Charlie is a pervert without morals or principles and is willing to sleep with anyone he deems attractive. The fact that sex with them implies a huge power imbalance and a huge risk for any children born of such a union doesn't matter to him.
- Charlie is from a culture where incest is normal and encouraged, at least in the upper class.
- Charlie is from a Big, Screwed-Up Family. His passionate lust for Alice is only the tip of the iceberg.
- Charlie is The Executioner from an ancient dynasty, thus he has a limited choice of spouse due to being socially ostracized for his profession. He concludes a marriage of politics with his niece Alice. No one in his family questions him and even the Church Militant gave him special permission to do so. Research on genetics wasn't invented yet, so there are no way he knows the medical implications of incest. His society doesn't view this kind of incest as normal, but since he is already seen as an infamous executioner, no further damage can be done to his already filthy reputation.
- Inverted: Cool Uncle
- Gender-Inverted: Claire is a creepy aunt towards her nephew, Bob.
- Subverted: Charlie dresses shabby and looks like a creep, but is actually well-adjusted and even quite nice.
- Enforced: The story is a historical drama that tries to be as accurate as possible. The authors do find incest disgusting, especially one as unequal as between uncle and niece, but they want or need to have Shown Their Work.
- Averted: Charlie deeply cares for his niece Alice and wouldn't dream of doing anything perverted to her.
- Charlie and Alice are not related
- Defied: "I'll never sleep with any of my nieces or nephews even if they were the only ones left on earth!"
- Deconstructed:
- Alice cuts contact with her uncle Charlie after learning what the "special" affection he has for her is.
- Alice suffers deep psychological scars after being molested by her uncle. Since Charles still loves her, he decides to change his behavior.
- Charlie is arrested for pedophilia (in this case, Alice is still underaged). If not, he is scratched off the grandfather's will and his brother wants nothing to do with her.
- Reconstructed:
- Charlie stalks her under a false identity. He also kept her phone number and other information.
- After getting the psychological help, Alice is able to heal. As soon as she meets her uncle to say she forgives him, he falls right into his old lust.
- Charlie contacts her secretly.
- Played for Laugh: Charlie repeatedly tries to make a move on Alice. She defends herself by kicking him until he's a little cartoon twinkle in the sky.
- Played for Drama: Charlie is a very troubled man who happened to fall in love with his own niece Alice. He is torn between his lust and his morality.
- Played for Horror: No matter how hard Alice tries to warn her parents, they refuse to believe her and repeatedly leave her unsupervised with him.
- Plotted a Good Waste:
- Charlie is the youngest brother in a Big, Screwed-Up Family. His older brother has three beautiful children with the unfortunate Alice as the eldest daughter who is promised to Charlie who is madly in love with her. The marriage, in the beginning, is a domestic discipline type relationship with a lot of sex involved. One day, Charlie goes to far in a sexual activity (something Alice wasn't comfortable to begin with) and she escaped. Alice, now free from the abusive marriage with her own uncle, tries to reconstruct her life in the outside. Something harder than she imagined, as her marriage cost her her reputation (making people less willing to help her) even though she didn't fully consent to it. Along the way, she finds a refuge, makes friends and finds work whilst pregnant with her uncle's child, and deals with psychological scars and deformations from having such a messed-up family. Will she find the way to have a normal life?
- Alice is married to her uncle Charlie she finds very creepy. Charlie couldn't be happier, since he wanted her since she was three. Thus starts a slice of life story of them getting to know each other and dealing with marital problems with a vague flavor of "creepy uncle lusts (and probably masturbates on pictures of her he obtained without her permission) for cute niece" lurking over each plot point.
Back to Creepy Uncle
