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{{trope}}
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{{quote|''If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.''
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There are two closed doors right next to each other, identical in every way except one: One has a large KEEP OUT sign on it in bold, red letters. [[Schmuck Bait|Which door is someone more likely to try to open]]? It's not rocket science.
'''Forbidden Fruit''' is a person, place, or thing absolutely irresistible to one or more characters, whose appeal lies solely in the fact it has been [[Department of Redundancy Department|forbidden, prohibited, and declared unquestionably off limits]]. They feel they must have it only because they know they can't or shouldn't have it. Frequently takes the form of a [[Sealed Evil in a Can|Pandora's Box]] you are not to open, a [[Big Red Button]] you are not to press, an experiment you are not to mess with, a person you are not allowed to be with, or [[Turn Out Like His Father|even hear about]], a potion you are not to taste under any circumstances, or [[Forbidden Zone|a place nobody is supposed to ever visit]].
Can be a result of [[Genre Blindness]], but not usually, since the attraction of '''Forbidden Fruit''' is in and of itself [[Schmuck Bait|contrary to logic]]. More often than not, the characters ''know'' that going for it would be a stupid move; they just can't help themselves. (They are particularly likely [[Youth Is Wasted on the Dumb|to be young]].)
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See also [[Curiosity Killed the Cast]], [[Don't Touch It, You Idiot!]], [[Schmuck Bait]], and [[Wanting Is Better Than Having]]. Prime source of [[Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere]], [[Do Not Do This Cool Thing]] and the [[Streisand Effect]].
For the [[Kerry Greenwood]] novel of the same name, see ''[[Corinna Chapman]]''.
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== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Ah! My Goddess]]'' has a human example, where ultra-popular 'School Queen' Sayoko's interest in Keichii originally stemmed from his complete disinterest in her.
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== Fairy Tales ==
* In "[[East of the Sun and West of the Moon]]", the heroine disobeys the bear's warnings not to speak with her mother alone.
* In "[https://web.archive.org/web/20131104130719/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/swanmaiden/stories/lang.html The Nine Pea-Hens and the Golden Apples]", the hero opens the twelfth door his wife had forbidden.
* In "[[Little Red Riding Hood]]", the little girl leaves the path, which her mother had forbidden.
* In "[https://web.archive.org/web/20131027163722/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/firebird/stories/goldbird.html The Golden Bird]", the older sons disobey the fox [[Threshold Guardians|up front]], and after initial obedience, the youngest son disobeys him repeatedly.
* In "[
* In "[https://web.archive.org/web/20130621050640/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/asbjornsenmoe/mastermaid.html The Mastermaid]", a prince working for a giant is forbidden to go through a door. Fortunately, he disobeys and finds the Mastermaid, who tells him how to survive.
* In [[Joseph Jacobs]]'s "[https://web.archive.org/web/20130718151123/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/sevendwarfs/stories/goldtree.html Gold Tree and Silver Tree]", after Gold-Tree is enchanted into her sleep, her husband the prince remarries and forbids his second wife to go into the chamber where her coffin is. The second wife disobeys and revives Gold-Tree.
* In [[The Brothers Grimm (creator)|The Brothers Grimm]]'s "[
* In "[http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/009.htm The Blue Mountains]" and "[https://web.archive.org/web/20131204111257/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/93raven.html The Raven]", the hero must stay awake to greet the heroine and fails.
* In "[https://web.archive.org/web/20131214001257/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/3ourladyschild.html Our Lady's Child]", the heroine looks through a forbidden door and is punished until she confesses.
* "[https://web.archive.org/web/20140405134935/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/6faithfuljohn.html Faithful John]" is forbidden by the old king to let the prince see a portrait, but when the prince becomes king, he overrides him.
* In "[https://web.archive.org/web/20170618020621/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/goosegirl/index.html The Goose Girl]", the queen gives the princess a handkerchief with three drops of blood in it and orders her to take great care of it; the princess is careless and loses the handkerchief, which had protected her.
* "[[Tatterhood]]" forbids her family to watch while she fights witches and trolls; when her sister does, her head is turned to a calf's head. Not to mention Tatterhood's existence came about because her mother ate something she was forbidden to.
* Though it is very prevalent in fairy tales—still, there are also a multitude of fairy tales aversions, a small sample of which: "[
* Appears in the "[[Bluebeard]]". A mysterious nobleman leaves his young wife a key to a door which she ''must never open''. Of course, she does open it, and discovers the mutilated corpses of his former wives.
* In the story ''Strega Nona'', a young man named Anthony works for the kindly old titular character. She has a magic kettle that she uses to conjure pasta, and she tells him not to touch it. Naturally, he disobeys her.
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* An episode of ''[[Will and Grace]]'' featured Jack finding a mysterious locked room in Karen apartment that even Roasario is afraid to enter. Jack relented after Karen literally wrestled him away, only to fall into the room on accident. {{spoiler|The room is a nursery that Karen set up after a pregnancy scare; the fact that she kept it at all is a major [[Pet the Dog]] moment.}}
* ''[[Caitlin's Way]]'': When Caitlin and Griffin are looking for a shortcut home, Caitlin instantly wants to cut through a field with a NO TRESPASSING sign simply because she saw the sign there, calling it "an invitation."
* Symbolically invoked in
* In the ''[[Married... with Children]]'' episode "A Little of the Top" Al was accidentally circumcised and had to abstain from sex for a month. For most of their marriage, Al put great effort into avoiding sex with his wife. But now that it was forbidden, she suddenly became some sort of irresistible sex goddess whose every casual action seemed to turn him on.
* ''[[Lizzie McGuire]]'' The episode "First Kiss" has Lizzie getting her first boyfriend, which her dad isn't too thrilled about, but her mom assures him that the number one way to make a boy even more appealing to a girl is to tell her she can't see him.
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== Tabletop Games ==
* 4e D&D's H1 module, ''Keep on the Shadowfell'', has a door with a sign that says "Danger! Stay away!" and then scratched below "REALLY!" Guess how many adventuring parties DON'T go through that door? {{spoiler|Inside is a room that holds a very vicious blue slime monster (that has TPKed many a party attempting said module.)}}
* Pretty much every Tabletop RPG Dungeon Crawl ever. As in:
{{quote|'''Old Guy in Tavern:''' There's an ancient ruin over yonder said to hold a terrible curse. Legend says that there are creatures in there that will drive you mad! Nobody who has ventured in has ever returned alive!
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* ''[[Everway]]'' supplement "Spherewalker Sourcebook", story "The Serpent of Ice". A magician who lives behind a waterfall tells a tribe of hunters that they can take all of the water they want from below the waterfall, but not to take any from the spring that feeds the waterfall. The chief of the tribe and her son decide to take water from the spring anyway, and the water turns into a serpent that kills the son.
* ''[[Risk]]: Legacy'' is a campaign-oriented version of the classic board game, with a series of envelopes that you're supposed to open over a series of fifteen games; they contain various items that affect the layout of the board, the abilities of the various factions, and other things that change how future games are played. There's one sealed envelope at the bottom of the box that simply reads "DO NOT OPEN. EVER". {{spoiler|The contents of this envelope vary between different copies of the game, and may or may not have far-reaching consequences for your campaign.}}
== Video Games ==
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{{quote|'''Tali''': I mean a young woman gets rescued by [[Knight in Shining Armour|a dashing commander]] who lets her join his crew and then goes off to ''save the galaxy?'' How could she ''not'' develop an interest in him?}}
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* One panel in webcomic ''[[Casey and Andy]]'' showed an [[Star Wars|Imperial Admiral laughing while putting signs around a door saying "Warning! No Bothans!"]]
* Subverted in ''[[Oglaf]]'', in which the main character is pestered by a magic door to open it. [[Sealed Evil in a Can|It isn't explained what's inside it, why it's sentient, or why the Mistress wants him to open it so darn bad.]]
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