"Gift of the Magi" Plot: Difference between revisions

This is a [[Sub-Trope]] of [[Whole-Plot Reference]] and a multiple person subtrope of [[Two Rights Make a Wrong]].

 

 

== Anime and Manga ==

* [[Ditzy Genius|Miyako]] of ''[[Hidamari Sketch]]'' invoked this as [[Romantic Two-Girl Friendship|Hiro and Sae]] exchanged gifts... [[Cultural Cross-Reference|Of course nobody understood what she said.]]

* In chapter 4 of ''[[Franken Fran]]'', a high school couple unknowingly swap genitals. The girl [[Rape as Backstory|was raped as a child]] and has an irrational reaction to being touched by a man, and the boy swaps genders for her sake. So does she, and [[Black Comedy|it's all treated as a joke at the end.]] {{spoiler|Namely, the girl catches on that intention, and so Fran gives them each other's organs.}}

* In ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'', this is part of Hiei's backstory. One of the conditions the demon surgeon made Hiei agree to before implanting Hiei's [[Evil Eye]] was that Hiei could never reveal his true identity to his [[Separated at Birth]] sister. The same sister that Hiei wanted to find using the [[Evil Eye]]. When Hiei meets the surgeon again and has to duel him, the surgeon agrees to rescind the condition if Hiei wins. While Hiei claims that he had no intention of ever revealing himself to his sister, the surgeon believes that actually meeting her might have changed Hiei's mind.

* [http://countyoursheep.com/d/20030808.html This ''Count Your Sheep'' strip] is an interesting variation on the trope.

* ''[[Xkcd]]'' turns it inside-out [http://xkcd.com/506/ here].

* A transformation-based version happens in ''[[The Dragon Doctors]]'' . Euryale, a gorgon, pays a wizard to turn her into a human so she won't turn her boyfriend to stone, but at the same time he's paid someone else to turn him into a rock-skinned being so she wouldn't have to worry about doing the same.

* In ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' Torg and Riff buy each other a flannel shirt and a new overcoat... but they both sold their shoulders to medical science to pay for the others gift.

* ''[[Wonderella]]'' gives us [http://nonadventures.com/2009/12/19/where-the-toys-are/ half a gift.] The other half involves toy hamsters.

* [[Nedroid]] knows [http://nedroid.com/2008/12/beartato-135/ exactly] what to make of this.

 

 

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