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== Anime &and Manga ==

* ''[[School Days (Visual Novel)|School Days]]'': Sekai helps Makoto and Kotonoha hook up and puts a lot more effort into it than you would expect. Then she gives herself a reward for her efforts by surprise-kissing Makoto. This does ''not'' end well.

* ''[[Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl]]'': Tomari pushes Hazumu to confess to Yasuna, ends up dragged into the [[Yuri]] [[Love Triangle]] that is the main plot

* ''[[Clannad (Visualvisual Novelnovel)|Clannad]]'': Throughout the [[Anime]] series, at every opportunity Kyou tries to push Tomoya to be with her twin sister Ryou, even though she too has a crush on him. And in the Visual Novel, Ryou doesn't even ''get'' a real route. Well, she does, but it doesn't count towards the true ending of the story.

* ''[[Video Girl Ai (Manga)|Video Girl Ai]]'': Ai falls for Youta, the [[Unlucky Everydude]] she's trying to hook up with his female friend Moemi. He, ironically, was trying to hook up said friend with ''his'' best friend, Takashi. (And his selfless act is what lets him get Ai's help in the first place...)

* Ryuji and Taiga of ''[[Toradora (Light Novel)|Toradora!]]'' are another example of mutual matchmakers falling for each other.

* ''[[Hayate the Combat Butler (Manga)|Hayate the Combat Butler]]'': [[The Idiot From Osaka|Sakuya]] gave up her own spot in a [[Elaborate University High|high-class school]] so that her childhood friend Wataru could go to the same school as another childhood friend, Isumi, he has a crush on. She also loudly complains about his lack of progress in confessing his feelings to Isumi. A lot of the [[Ship Tease]] in the later chapters, however, suggest very strongly that Sakuya has a crush on Wataru herself.

*** Of course, [[Bi the Way|Nishizawa would gladly]] [[Tenchi Solution|share Hayate with Hinagiku]]...[[OT 3OT3|or is that share Hinagiku with Hayate?]]

* In ''[[Kaichou wa Maid Sama-sama]]'', {{spoiler|Aoi}} ships Usui/Misaki, but recently realizes he likes Misaki too. Despite this, he is [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy|genuinely happy]] for Misaki's relationship with Usui because being with him makes her look "cuter," and {{spoiler|Aoi}} likes it when Misaki looks cute.

* A brief subplot in [[When Harry Met Sally...]] finds Harry and Sally setting each other up with each other's best same-gender friends. Unfortunately, said friends hit it off immediately with each other, leaving Harry and Sally to continue to deal with their own feelings.

* In an [[LML. M. Montgomery]] story "The Education of Betty", a man, having been the best man while his best friend marries his true love, then did his best for the widow and orphan. When the girl is grown up, he tries to pair her with a man his own age, and demands to know why she refused -- whereuponrefused—whereupon she declares her love. Prior to that, his awareness had been limited to realizing that her mother was not so perfect after all, lacking her daughter's spirit.

* In ''[[Charmed (TV)|Charmed]]'', Coop, a cupid who's job it is to find true love for people, falls in love with his charge, Phoebe.

* The Korean manhwa ''Green Boy'' has a more direct spin on this. [[Genki Girl|Ha-Eun]] has a crush on [[Badass Bookworm|Taejin]], who is already on crushing on [[Action Girl|Jae-in]]. Since Ha-Eun wants to be friends with both Jae-in and Taejin, she happily pushes them both toward each other even as she makes no secret about her crush on Taejin to both of them while assuring them that she'd never act on it because she [[Shipper Onon Deck|finds them both adorable together]]. The trope is played with, however, when later chapters show that this is partly [[Stepford Smiler|a facade]], and she visibly struggles to stifle her [[Green-Eyed Monster]] the first time she sees them kiss.

** Linus trying to set up Charlie Brown and the Little Red-Haired Girl, but turning out to like her himself (unfortunately for Charlie, Linus is way smoother than he is).

* The original ''[[Cyrano De Bergerac]]'' -- that—that is, the original play, not the [http[wikipedia://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrano_de_BergeracCyrano de Bergerac|real person he's very loosely based on] -- provides]—provides a retrospective [[Matchmaker Crush]]. Cyrano has been in love with his cousin Roxane for years before she and [[Romantic False Lead]] Christian (who happens to be a friend of Cyrano) first meet, and Cyrano helps hook them up because [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]], not because he likes the False Lead.

* Viola in ''[[Twelfth Night (Theatre)|Twelfth Night]]'' ends up [[Playing Cyrano]] when she's disguised as a boy and the man she's fallen in love with sends her to the girl ''he'' likes with love messages. Then the girl falls in love with ''her''....

* Julia in ''[[Two Gentlemen of Verona (Theatre)|Two Gentlemen of Verona]]'', worried about her love interest who's been away, disguises herself as a boy and follows him. To her dismay, she finds him running after a different girl, and when he doesn't recognize her in her disguise she ends up delivering a love note for him.

* Quoted above: Sain from ''[[Fire Emblem Elibe|Fire Emblem Rekka no Ken]]'' tells such phrases to his best friend and partner Kent in their B support, having noticed Kent's [[Bodyguard Crush]] on their common lady of liege Lyndis, whom he also has a crush on. (Then again, this ''is'' [[Chivalrous Pervert|Sa]][[Shipper Onon Deck|in]] we're talking about.)

* In ''[[Tokimeki Memorial]]'', your best friend (alias, the main guy's friend) Yoshio Saotome is always ready to help out with tips about the girls in the game. However, he might have feelings for one of these ladies as well... Lucky for you, he's more likely to fall for your girl's friend (i.e.: if you woo Shiori, he may hook up with her best friend Megumi) than fight you. {{spoiler|In the radio drama canon, in fact, he's seen dating the [[Meganekko]], Mio Kisaragi.}}

** ''Tokimeki Memorial 2'' has Kotoko Minaduki, who wishes for her best friend, Hikari (the heroine, and main love interest of the protagonist) [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy|to finish with her childhood friend of a protagonist]]. Being a solid Type A [[Tsundere]], she will NOT hesitate giving [[Armor-Piercing Slap|Armor Piercing Slaps]] to him if she ever feels he neglects Hikari. Yet the protagonist can woo Kotoko (much to her resistance to her growing feelings for him), leading to this trope, and {{spoiler|a [[Slap Slap Kiss]] (coming all from Kotoko) [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]] on Kotoko's ending where she and Hikari are in love with the protagonist}}.

** ''Tokimeki Memorial 4'' has Miyako Okura, a [[Hidden in Plain Sight]] [[Secret Character]] who's more than happy to play the part of the [[The Matchmaker]], in spite of being an [[Unlucky Childhood Friend]]... Unless you manage to [[Dogged Nice Guy|nag her into a date]]. {{spoiler|It all goes downhill from there, and unlocking her effectively [[Poisonous Friend|cuts you off from being able to win almost all characters you haven't met yet.]] For worse, Miyako soosoon shows her [[Yandere]] side too...}}

* Rider in ''[[Fate/stay Stay Nightnight]]'', judging by Hollow Ataraxia. She's clearly pushing Sakura and Shirou together the best she can (very awkward, uncomfortable and dangerous-feeling way) in Heaven's Feel, but in the sequel she's revealed to have something of an attraction to him as well. Oh, and Sakura gets [[Yandere|very]] jealous when Shirou admits that Rider is very beautiful and he likes her. He means it in a completely platonic way, but Sakura's self esteem isn't very good.

** Interestingly enough, being nice to Rider still gets you Sakura points -- andpoints—and this includes the scene where Shirou says Rider is pretty. [[OT 3OT3]]?

* In [[Katawa Shoujo (Visual Novel)|Katawa Shoujo]], we have {{spoiler|Misha doing this in Shizune's route. In a subversion, Misha isn't in love with Hisao... [[Schoolgirl Lesbians|but with]] ''[[Schoolgirl Lesbians|Shizune]]''.}}

* Inverted with ''[[Candi]]''. Linda tries to convince Candi to ''leave'' her boyfriend, and winds up falling for him during her scheme to break them up to help Candi.

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