Love-Obstructing Parents: Difference between revisions

[[Your Princess Is in Another Castle|Not so much.]]

 

 

* The ones who supposedly are trying to help push your relationship along in the tackiest, tawdriest way possible. Usually a subset of [[Hard-Drinking Party Girl]], They make any feelings of desire you have towards your girlfriend feel dirty and rushed, which is just as effective in halting any relationship progression. These are usually older sisters or occasionally even mothers (who may be more low-key about it)

 

If you're lucky, you will eventually gain their respect, and maybe even count them as [[True Companions]]. Unfortunately, this does not aid in relationship building as their friendship means you will ''never'' be alone with the girlfriend.

 

 

Sometimes, the In-Laws include a sensible 'neutral' party, like an aunt or grandmother. Unfortunately, they rarely ever get involved in any useful way. See [[Harem Nanny]].

 

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== Anime and Manga ==

* Skuld and Urd from ''[[Ah! My Goddess]]'' would be ur-examples of the first and second types respectively. The first manga was written in 1988; Keiichi and Belldandy still haven't consummated their relationship, although Keiichi did get as far as actually admitting he loved Belldandy in ''2006''... That said, remember that 20 years of [[Real Life]] time is approximately less than a year of in-story time.

** Played with in one particular fanfic. The two fathers figure out what they're doing wrong, and very heavy-handedly cancel the engagement and engage their children to the worst choices they can think of, Kodachi and Tsubasa. Ranma and Akane elope together the very same night.

** It was probably to add a little spice to their life AND get a video of them of their night life. Which still doesn't make sense, since Maho ''already'' had videos of them, unless Maho was keeping ''those'' a secret from her mother.

*** Well, would you tell your mother that you had videos of your sister having sex?

* You could look at Hayate's relationship with Nagi in ''[[Hayate the Combat Butler]]'' as playing with this. The only real relative of Nagi's is her grandfather Mikado, who seems to harbor a definite dislike of Hayate, and whom Nagi is ''terrified'' of.

** It could be a complete inversion though, with all of [[Magnificent Bastard|Mikado's]] [[The Chessmaster|plans]] serving to push the two of them closer.

 

* A non-anime example: C-3PO in ''[[Star Wars]]''. "Sir, might I suggest that you?it can wait."

** Which was of course taken further in ''[[Spaceballs]]''; Dot Matrix is equipped with a virgin alarm set to "go off before you do".

 

* [[Ur Example]]: ''[[Bewitched]]''. All of Samantha's family (except for Aunt Clara, and ''maybe'' Uncle Arthur) hate, or at least immensely dislike Darrin, especially Endora, the [[Evil Matriarch]]. In fact most of the Witch and Warlock community take a low view of Darrin, resulting in him being transformed and having curses put on him all the time. He isn't even safe from the ones who like him, as Aunt Clara is a bit of a senile version of [[The Ditz]] who can't cast a spell right and whose backfired ones usually hit Darrin, and while Uncle Arthur ''might'' like Darrin a bit, he's a [[Screwy Squirrel|prankster]] who likes to play tricks on him.

 

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[[Category:Family Tropes]]