Father, I Want to Marry My Brother: Difference between revisions

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{{quote|''"Then she puts her head upon your shoulder''

 

Children have a bit of a strange understanding as regards sexual relationships between adults. If you don't know about the intricacies of all that kind of stuff, it just seems like the husband-wife relationship is between two people who love each other a lot. Never mind what ''kind'' of love it is. Obviously, since we're talking about little kids here, the effect is usually sweet and endearing rather than creepy.

 

Related to [[Brother-Sister Incest]], [[Big Brother Worship]], [[Big Brother Attraction]], [[Like Parent, Like Spouse]], [[Precocious Crush]], and [[Wife Husbandry]].

 

== Anime and Manga ==

* ''[[Angel Sanctuary]]'''s Setsuna and his sister Sara. Carried a bit further [[Brother-Sister Incest|because they actually got together]].

*** Though if you listen to the story that comes from the whole way through, by the next day both Euphemia and Nunnally had basically forgotten about it and thought Lelouch sitting up worrying who to pick was very amusing.

** A flashback Shirley has about her father also sees her saying that she'll marry him when she grows up, which leads to a good-natured lecture on how Shirley will eventually meet someone she loves differently from him. She was a toddler at the time, so it's all innocent. Of course, she's reflecting on this after learning that {{spoiler|the boy she "loves differently" is the [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|terrorist]] who killed her father with a [[Buried Alive|weaponized mudslide]].}}

* As a child, Yuna Akashi in ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' once told her mother that she wants to marry her daddy when she grew up. Her mother later died, and she's been looking after the household chores for her dad ever since. Only recently has she ''really'' started letting go, after [[Hilarity Ensues]] from her thinking her father has started dating again (he isn't).

*** She even carries a picture of her kissing her father around [[Victoria's Secret Compartment|in her cleavage]], ''even while trapped in an alternate universe for several weeks''.

*** [[Hot Dad|Who can blame her?]]

* A variation occurs in the manga of ''[[X 1999]]'' when a flashback shows Kamui announce to Kotori that he will become her bride when they grow up.

* ''Boku Wa Imouto Ni Koi O Suru'' (I'm In Love With My Little Sister) has a flashback scene where young Yori makes a ring of flowers for his twin sister Iku. The parents say it's a lovely crown but he corrects them saying it's a wedding wreath and that he'll marry Iku one day. The parents think it's cute and simply smile. This being [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]] when they're older the siblings sneak into the church where their parents were married and exchange rings which is as close as they can get to fulfilling their childhood promise to marry each other.

 

== Film ==

* The 2008 film ''[[Fireproof]]'' opens with the following exchange (heavily paraphrased):

{{quote|'''Daughter:''' Can I marry Daddy?

* ''Wild Strawberries'' a movie about an old man afraid of well, being old, has a scene where the elderly character visits an elderly friend who reads to him some of her children's keepsakes one of which is a scribbled note from a daughter saying 'when I grow up I want to marry daddy'. The lady makes a comment about how sweet and innocent it was.

 

* An ''[[Animorphs]]'' story involves [[Kissing Cousins|Rachel and Jake]] falling in love with each other, but acknowledging that it probably can't work out with any sort of permanence. Rachel invokes this trope in her narration. "When you're seven, people think it's cute when you say you want to marry your cousin. When you're seventeen, they call you a redneck."

 

== Literature ==

* In ''[[A Tree Grows in Brooklyn]]'', the other little girls in Francie's neighborhood play a game where they have to whisper the name of the boy they want to marry, and the only person she can think of to say if she's ever asked is her father.

* In the [[Jacqueline Wilson]] book ''Midnight'', Violet remembers how as a little girl she wanted to marry her brother Will. She borders on [[Big Brother Attraction]] when she admits that she still (at age fourteen) harbours dreams of them living together.

 

== Live-Action TV ==

* ''[[Mister Rogers' Neighborhood]]'' once featured Fred singing a song about a little boy asking to marry his mother, who in turn makes an effort to explain their relationship.

* In one of the later seasons of ''[[Step by Step]]'', Lily informs her father Frank that she's gay because she loves her mother Carol. He gives her a somewhat simplistic explanation of the difference between familial and romantic love and asks her if she wants to marry her mother. She tells him that she doesn't. Because she would rather marry him.

{{quote|'''Mark''': I have a woman - Mommy.

'''Randy''': Your mommy can't be your woman, doofus.

'''Tim''': [[Deadpan Snarker|A lot of men pay a psychiatrist a lot of money to figure that one out.]] }}

* In the show ''[[Brothers and Sisters]]'' Kitty mentions such a plan. During their childhood, she would pretend to marry her brother Kevin, and they would then be immediately the parents of five children just like their parents. Not quite an example since they were only playing.

* Oh, [[The Borgias|Borgias]]. A fourteen-year-old Lucrezia tells her brother that she'll never love a husband as she loves him. The siblings then find love interests with [[Replacement Goldfish|eerie similarities to one another]].

 

== Music ==

 

== Newspaper Comics ==

* ''[[The Family Circus]]'' had a comic where one of the little boys said something like, "When I grow taller than Mommy, I'm gonna marry her!"

 

== Video Games ==

* Comes up in both ''[[Persona 3]]'' and ''[[Persona 4|4]]''. In the former, Maiko, a girl that the Main Character can Social Link with will declare her intent to marry the protagonist if he maxes her out (in the [[Expansion Pack]] her father will accuse you of pulling [[Wife Husbandry]] on purpose). In the latter, the protagonist's seven-year-old [[Values Dissonance|cousin]] will state how she wishes to marry him at the end of the game before he goes back to the city, with her father laughing it off but also not-so subtly stating that he's against such a union (Unless the player also managed to max ''his'' social link, in which case her father's objection is that she's too ''young''. He has no problem with them getting married when she's an adult).

* ''Hatsukoi'' the [[Development Hell|half translated visual novel]] Anzu fills out a marriage license and has her brother sign it when they're kids. This is the start of her route when he finds it and realizes she's treasured it for years.

 

== Western Animation ==

 

* There's a joke in which a young boy announces to his father that when he grows up, he wants to marry Grandma. The father, aghast, replies, "You can't marry my mother!", to which the boy asks, "Then why did ''you'' marry ''my'' mother?"

 

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[[Category:Love Tropes]]

[[Category:Family Tropes]]