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* Dee Dee and Dexter from ''[[Dexter's Laboratory]]'' invoke this trope once in a while, especially since Dee Dee seems to prefer Dexter over every guy that may be a possible [[Love Interest]], due to the fact that every time guys (particularly Mandark) flirt with her, she sticks to Dexter. One obvious scene is the one in which Dexter and Mandark compete to save Dee Dee and, after she is saved by both, she is disgusted by Mandark, but kisses Dexter on the cheek. In another episode, Dexter becomes an adult to seduce a girl he likes, but guess who ends up attracted to him instead? ''Dee Dee''.
* There is some of this with Sally and Dr. Finklestein in ''[[The Nightmare Before Christmas]]'' [[Alternative Character Interpretation|possibly]]. In the [[DVD Commentary]], [[Tim Burton]] refers to Sally as a daughter—yet there's lines in-film like "You're mine, you know!" and "You can make ''other'' creations!" that really doesn't sound like a rebellious-daughter/overprotective-dad relationship, but like something else entirely. Consider that the creation Dr. Finklestein makes to replace Sally looks awfully like a wife -- [[Screw Yourself|that looks exactly like him]]—and that an alternate ending had [[Big Bad|Oogie Boogie]] be [[The Man Behind the Curtain|Dr. Finklestein]], jealous that Sally chose Jack over him. In [http://nightmarebeforechristmas.net/nightmare/script/2 an earlier script], the father/daughter relationship was a lot more obvious with lines like "I'm grown up now. I'll have to leave sometime" . . . yet there are bits like ''The scientist smiles, feeling Sally under his sway again'' that sounds [[Parental Incest|rather creepy]].
** It becomes far creepier in the sequel novel ''[https://the-nightmare-before-christmas.fandom.com/wiki/Long_Live_the_Pumpkin_Queen Long Live the Pumpkin Queen]'' {{spoiler|If this is considered canon, he kidnapped her when she was an infant. From her ''actual'' parents.}}
* This trope creeps into ''[[An American Tail]]'' in an eerily interesting and [[squick]]y way when you consider the song that the two siblings Fievel and Tanya sing to each other, "Somewhere Out There", was turned into a straight love song by Linda Ronstadt in an effort to make it a [[Breakaway Pop Hit]], and not a ''single word'' needed to be changed.
** To add to it, mice have no issue with incest. Speaking as someone who has bred them, they actually seem more inclined to mate with members of their litter than they are with non-relatives.
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