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{{quote|''Yeah, but Monica, do you really want to be in a relationship where you can actually use the phrase, "That's not how your dad used to do it"?''|'''Phoebe''', ''[[Friends]]''}}
This is often a result of a [[Mayfly-December Romance]], [[Human Popsicle]] or [[Time Travel]], and it may involve a [[Jail Bait Wait]].
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* In Shimizu Reiko's ''A Million Pound Love'', an 80-year-old millionaire asks a 20-year-old playboy to marry her. She is due to die in a few months and says that he will inherit all her money if he marries her. He agrees, but finds himself falling in love with her. On her deathbed, he discovers that it was not him she fell for, but his grandfather.
* ''[[Kare Kano]]'' (His and Her Circumstances), Asaba - a straight male, always had [[If It's You It's Okay|confusing]] feelings about male lead Arima. At the end of the series he hooks up with Arima's daughter.
* In ''[[Otome wa Boku
* Implied in ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' that Rei might have had feelings for Gendo at one point. When he turns out to not care for her at all, she starts to get attracted to Shinji instead.
* Combined with [[Reincarnation Romance]]
** Also combined with [[Reincarnation Romance]] {{spoiler|as well as [[Parental Incest]]}} in ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro
* In ''[[Kodomo
* The first [[Fullmetal Alchemist]] gives us {{spoiler|[[Big Bad]] Dante, who had planned to trick/seduce Ed into loving her - by [[Grand Theft Me|taking over]] [[Body Surfing|Rose's body]], as a replacement for Dante's first love, Hohenheim.}}
* In ''[[Tenchi Muyo
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* The ''[[Captain America (comics)]]'' example below is also in the comics: due to [[Comic Book Time]], Sharon "Agent 13" Carter was originally said to be the younger sister of Peggy Carter, but she's now her neice.
* An old [[EC Comics]] science fiction tale had an astronaut testing a faster than light spaceship. From his point of view, it works fine. Then he returns home and find that decades have passed. His girlfriend is now an old woman, married to his best friend. He ends up falling in love with their daughter, who is now his age.
* The ''[[Spider
== [[Fan Fiction]] ==
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== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Austin Powers]]'' in the first movie falls in love with and marries the daughter of his (married) female assistant from the 1960s, Mrs. Kensington.
* In the ''[[Captain America (1990 film)]]'', film after Cap woke up in contemporary times he fell in love with the daughter of the girl he was involved with in the 1940s.
* A gender-flipped version. In ''[[Bicentennial Man]]'', the Android butler, Andrew, comes back after making himself more human and falls in love with the granddaughter of the woman he loved in the past, who looks ''exactly the same'' to the point that they are played by the same actress.
* In ''[[
* In ''[[Drowning Mona]]'' {{spoiler|Rona is playing wheel of fortune with both Jeff and Phil Dearly.}}
* This is gender-reversed in some adaptations of the French novel ''Le Bossu'' (''The Hunchback''), though not all of them. In the novel and its two major film adaptations, the hero marries his ward or adopted daughter, the natural daughter of his former love interest, who is herself the widow the man whose death he is avenging. In the 2003 French miniseries ''Lagardère'', the titular character instead winds up with his original love interest after raising her daughter as his own.
* Ilsa, the extraordinarily fortunate villainess in ''[[Indiana Jones and
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'''Indiana:''' I ''was'' the next man.
''(Awkward silence)'' }}
== [[Literature]] ==
* In ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'', Littlefinger seems to have this for Sansa.
* Afra Lyon in the ''[[
** [[Discussed Trope|Discussed in the book]] where Afra rejects this accusation by saying that he and Rowan were never meant for each other. [[Your Mileage May Vary|YMMV]] on whether to believe him or not.
* Infamously in the ''[[Twilight]]'' series, when Jacob imprints on Bella's daughter while said daughter was still an infant.
** Arguably [[Inverted Trope|inverted]]; it's implied in his internal narration that he was only in love with Bella because she would be the mother of his true love, Reneesme.
* In ''The Judas Tree'' by Cronin. Somewhat subverted, though; the man is the one who ditched the first girl in order to marry a rich woman. Years later, he comes back and falls for his first love's daughter. It doesn't end well.
* In ''[[Pollyanna|Pollyanna Grows Up]]'', when Pollyanna and Jimmy discover that Mr. Pendleton was in love with Pollyanna's mother, they believe this is his intention, and Pollyanna feels obligated to marry him if he wants her. Fortunately for [[Victorious Childhood Friend|Jimmy]], he doesn't.
* ''[[
* In [[Jodi Picoult|Jodi Picoult's]] ''Second Glance'', a man falls in love with a ghost and ends up with her granddaughter.
* In [[John C. Wright]]'s ''[[The Golden Oecumene
* The Japanese novel ''Thousand Cranes'' plays this straight when the main character sleeps with his deceased father's ex-lover, then [[Gender Flip
* In the [[Denouement]] of [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]]'s ''[[John Carter of Mars|Warlord of Mars]]'', Thuvia's hopeless crush on John Carter is showing every sign of being cured by meeting his son Carthoris. (Things go wrong so that she and he get their own book, ''Thuvia, Maid of Mars''.)
* ''The Third Life of Grange Copeland'' is all over this: Grange was having an affair with Josie, and eventually runs off to the North. Then Josie starts sleeping with Grange's son Brownfield, who ''also'' sleeps with Josie's daughter Lorene. Then he marries Josie's niece, Meme, while Grange comes back and marries Josie. The whole family is already completely screwed up, and that's ''before'' {{spoiler|Brownfield murders Meme}}.
* In ''Her Fearful Symmetry'', Julia has a crush on the married Martin, which he declines. She later goes for his son.
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'', Kitty towards Gob.
* In the French TV series ''L'amour en héritage'', the french painter was in love with Maggie (he was already older than she was), and then she left. He married some other girl, but then he met Maggie's daughter and had an illegitimate child with her. {{spoiler|She died}} and he was left taking care of his daughter.
* ''[[The 4400]]'' had Lily and Richard. When Richard was abducted, he was engaged to a woman named Lily. He was returned many years after her death, only to meet fellow abductee Lily - the original's granddaughter. The two fall in love and marry.
* In ''[[Friends]]'', Monica is attracted to Richard's son. [[It Got Worse|Initially]].
* On ''[[
== [[Religion]] ==
* In [[The Bible]], Joseph manages to barely resist an affair with Potiphar's wife. He later marries the daughter of a man named Potipherah, which is similar enough to Potiphar that some believe them to be the same person. ([[Averted Trope|Averted]] in the Muslim version of this story, where Potiphar's wife is more sympathetic and eventually marries Joseph herself.)
** One Jewish tradition holds that Potiphar's wife wanted to sleep with Joseph because she knew from divination that they were destined to have descendants
** Joseph's brother, Judah, [[Inverted Trope|inverts]] this trope: in accordance with the law of levirate marriage he winds up marrying Tamar, the widow of his two older sons.
== [[Theater]] ==
* [[
== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[Avalon Code]]'', Mayor Georg married the granddaughter of his first love.
* In ''[[Devil May Cry]] 3'', Dante encounters [[Evil Is Sexy|Nevan]] [[Red Baron|the]] [[Shock and Awe|Lightning]] [[Hot Witch|Witch]], [[Horny Devils|a devilishly curious woman]] [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|whose words sounds like]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mf1Tq3xnp0U she's a prostitute willingly offering to get into Dante's pants] (she's either a succubus or [[wikipedia:Leanashe|leanashe]]; the game doesn't clarify). Her dialogue ("Your father was a handsome devil. But you're no slouch yourself.") implies that she also had lusted after Dante's father Sparda in the past. Of course, [[Shipping Goggles|the fans got a bit carried away with all of the]] [[Foe Yay]]/[[Ship Tease]] and as a result, [[Cargo Ship|Dante/Nevan]] enjoys a good deal of popularity among Dante's [[Launcher of a Thousand Ships|naval fleet]].
* In ''[[
* Bizarrely [[Inverted Trope|inverted]] in the second ''[[Shadow Hearts]]'' game. Karen is in love with Yuri, but he can never return her feelings because he loves Alice. {{spoiler|The good ending sends Karen back in time, where she meets and falls in love with Yuri's dad.}}
* ''[[Legend of Dragoon]]'' apparently tries to bridge this with a [[Love Dodecahedron]], since {{spoiler|Rose, who was involved with Zieg ten thousand years ago}} begins to fall for {{spoiler|Dart, his son}} and is honest with herself about ''why''. Things only get more complicated when {{spoiler|Dart}} becomes involved with someone else and it's revealed that {{spoiler|Zieg}} is still alive (and was happily married for at least a little while).
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[The Simpsons]]'': Mr. Burns' illegitimate son was the result of a [[One Night Stand]] with the daughter of his old college crush.
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* In one episode of ''[[The Pirates of Dark Water]]'', and elderly alchemist reveals that she was Ren's father's ex-girlfriend. [[Woman Scorned|She never got over losing Primus to Ren's mother]]. She later used a potion to restore her youth and blackmailed Ren into marrying her in a crazed attempt to reclaim her past happiness. Sadly, the potion backfired on
== [[Real Life]] ==
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