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* In ''[[Repo! The Genetic Opera]]'', Rotti says this to Amber when she asks him for more surgery. He refuses at first, but one look at her botched face job has him change his mind.
* Columbia to Frank in ''[[The Rocky Horror Picture Show]]''. In the end, though, {{spoiler|she does finally call him out on his behavior and ultimately refuses to cooperate with him in the film's [[Stealth Pun|climax]]}}.
* [[Lifetime Movie of the Week|Lifetime Movies]] often portray marriage that way with a selfish, abusive and ungrateful husband and a loving, faithful, ever-suffering wife who just endures the selfishness and [[Jerkass
== [[Literature]] ==
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* In [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[The Stand]]'', his own mother calls Larry Underwood a "taker", which comes back to haunt him many times.
** To put it in the words of his friend Wayne Stukey, there's "something in [Larry] that's like biting on tinfoil."
* And another [[Stephen King]] example: In ''[[IT]]'', Eddie and his mother (in the past) and Eddie and his wife (in the book's present) both come off as the second variety of
* In ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]'', Hank Rearden's idle family live off his success and insult him for it at the same time. An even more explicit version of the second type is railroad executive James Taggart's marriage to Cherryl Brooks; his lifting her out of her life as a dime-store worker left her as a [[Fish Out of Water]] unable to cope in her husband's social circle and dependent on him for
* In one lesser-known story by German author [[Janosch]] about a donkey falling in love with an owl. (With the donkey being the giver, and the owl being the taker.) Does he want to suggest that men in love should act like that?! Now that's a [[Family-Unfriendly Aesop]].
* In ''[[Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets]]'', there's the implication that {{spoiler|Ginny's relationship with Tom Riddle was the second variant, obviously with Riddle as the manipulative Giver of his companionship and Ginny as the controlled Taker}}.
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** In ''[[The Great Divorce]]'', one damned soul is a woman who wants to give everything to her son as long as he's under her control, and another damned soul is not happy as long as his wife could be happy without him.
** In ''[[The Screwtape Letters]]'', the last letter, after Wormwood's failure, is addressed in the most affectionate terms, looking forward to devouring him.
** In ''[[Till We Have Faces]]'', Orual wants Psyche to be
* In Alma Katsu's ''The Taker'', Lanny is the Giver and Jonathan is the Taker. A sort of mix between the two types: Lanny will do anything for Jonathan, no matter the cost or risk to herself - including [[Poisonous Friend|a few things he would not have wanted her to do for him, had she bothered to ask him.]]
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* Al Bundy's family is like this on ''[[Married... with Children]]'', doing very little to contribute to the household and whining whenever they don't get their way. Peggy is the worst one. Whereas the kids eventually get jobs and start paying their own way, what she contributes to the relationship is questionable, given that she refuses to get a job, cook or clean the house, and constantly spends Al's money on useless junk and Bon Bons.
* [[House (TV series)|House]] and Wilson are almost a subversion of this, since their relationship, while strange and disturbing, actually seems to ''work'' for both of them - House's selfishness has prevented him from having any other friends, and while Wilson keeps embracing vulnerable people and nursing them towards health and self-confidence, he invariably loses all interest in them once they no longer need him to take care of them. The only person who could put up with the ultimate Giver in the long run is the ultimate Taker, and vice versa.
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''
** This may be [[Laser-Guided Karma]] for Spike's earlier relationship with Harmony, whose final speech to him is roughly "[[Love Martyr|I thought if I gave and gave and gave you'd come around.]] Maybe be a little nicer, instead of treating me like your dog. But then I realized you're the dog."
* On ''[[The Sarah Silverman Program]]'' Sarah is The "Taker" to her Sister, Laura. Sarah refuses to work. All her money and her apartment is provided to her by her sister, for which Laura receives zero gratitude.
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