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[[Wicked Stepmother]] may be referred to in either 2 or 3 -- regardless of accuracy.

 

* In the Anime/Manga ''[[Midori no Hibi]]'', Seiji helps his neighbor Shiori to accept her new mother after Shiori's initial dislike.

* ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'' is an interesting example: Tsumihoroboshi-hen has Rina, the new girlfriend of Rena's father. It turns out that {{spoiler|She's the lover of Satoko's [[Evil Uncle]] Teppei and plans to extort money from Rena's father, and when Rena finds out, Rina tries to kill her. Rena ends up killing her in self-defense. Then she kills Teppei. [[It Got Worse|Things go downhill from there]]}}. Of course, Rena has issues with Rina even before all of the stuff above. It mostly had to do with the fact that {{spoiler|Rena's mom cheated on her dad. She liked her mom's boyfriend before her mother told her that she was pregnant and intended to divorce her father to marry the boyfriend}}.

** {{spoiler|Mariko Shinobu}}'s father mixed it with {{spoiler|[[Your Cheating Heart]], as he first cheated on Mariko's mom with an actress and then ran away with her, pretty much abandoning Mariko and her mom.}} Her classmates, and specially [[Alpha Bitch|Aya Misaki]], also use this to bully her.

*** In fact, one of Aya's earliest [[Kick the Dog]] moments come from first trying to shame {{spoiler|Nanako}} over her family, and when {{spoiler|Mariko}} jumps in defense of her new friend, she reveals {{spoiler|Mariko}}'s family situation ''to the whole school''. No wonder {{spoiler|Mariko}} snaps ''badly'' on her. {{spoiler|It's even WORSE when the Shinobus DO get divorced (very publically), Aya again gloats about it... and Mariko actually ''[[Girl with Psycho Weapon|attacks her with a boxcutter]]''.}}

* {{spoiler|Bianca}} from ''[[Hana no Ko Lunlun]]'' can't forgive her mother for pulling this (despite the second husband being a nice guy), so she runs away to Venice and there she runs into Lunlun...

* In the prequel to ''[[Slam Dunk]]'', ''Piercings'', 11-year-old Ayako isn't too happy when her mother starts dating again.

 

* The modern [[Batwoman]], Katherine "Kate" Kane, lost her mother when she was 12 years old, and her father got remarried to a wealthy Gotham socialite, who awkwardly enough is also named Catherine. Kate is always very quick to point out that Catherine is her ''step''mother, but they seem to get along well enough (though the fact that Kate is [[Lipstick Lesbian|gay]] is implied to be a wedge between them, and Kate does remark that she lives to see her stepmother offended when she [[Les Yay|dances with Maggie Sawyer at a charity ball]]).

 

== Fan Works ==

* ''"Letters to an [[Disappeared Dad|Absent Father]]'', a mini-comic series set in the ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' universe has this as one of its subjects. Delia states that she's gonna start dating again, going as far as to say, "I'm lonely, Ash..." Ash responds by shouting her down (in front of his friends, no less) and storming out, leaving her in tears. {{spoiler|In the last panel, a highly distraught Ash is writing down all the details in a letter to his father}}; Ash still clings to the hope that [[When You Coming Home, Dad?|his long-lost, estranged father will someday come home]].

 

== Film ==

* In the movie ''Freaky Friday'', Anna doesn't get along with her mother's fiance, despite him being a really nice and friendly guy, which also increases the tension between her and her mother. When he shows support for her band however, Anna realizes that he really is a good guy for her mom and their family, and she only disliked him initially because she didn't want her [[Disappeared Dad|dead dad]] "being replaced."

* [[Juno]] gets along quite well with her stepmother, who in turn, supported Juno during her pregnancy, even calling out a doctor lady who sterotyped her daughter.

* In ''[[Love Actually]]'', Sam got along fine with his stepfather Daniel, who raised him after his mother died. And when {{spoiler|Daniel met another woman}}, he had no problem with it.

* ''[[Sleepless in Seattle]]'' has this in spades, with Jonah being horrified with the women his dad meets, to the point that he tries to sabotage their dates. Of course, he has the perfect woman in mind for his dad...

 

== Literature ==

* In later books of ''[[Percy Jackson and The Olympians]]'', Percy's mother Sally begins dating Paul after her husband Gabe "mysteriously" disappears. Percy is fine with this for the most part (though he does call Paul "Blowfish" for some time after mishearing his last name) because Gabe was an abusive asshole to both him and Sally and Paul, in contrast, is a nice guy who makes Sally genuinely happy.

* The titular character in ''[[Ella Enchanted]]'' isn't too happy when her father announces he's getting remarried after her mother's death. She's outright dismayed when she learns the woman he's marrying is the mother of her two worst enemies.

 

== Live-Action TV ==

* ''[[Mad Men]]'' gives us something of a combination of an inversion and Type 1: Don Draper invites his secretary Megan Calvet on a vacation to California with him and his kids specifically because she handled them so well on a visit to the office. It's only on the trip that he sleeps with her and ''then'' proposes after she's established a firm rapport with Sally and Bobby: when he announces his decision to marry her, they are actually kind of happy it happened.

 

* In ''[[Persona 3]]'', Yukari Takeba is disgusted with her mother's constant search for new lovers because she thinks it dishonors the memory of her dead father. {{spoiler|As the link progresses, Yukari learns that her mother wants to remarry, but ultimately decides to wait until Yukari is ready.}}

** ''[[Persona 4]]'' has Eri Minami, the Temperance social link, who recently married a single father and is trying to become close to her new stepson, Yuuta, but doesn't have any success. Meanwhile, Yuuta is convinced that Eri hates him because the two are so distant (what with Yuuta's father overseas at the time). It's up to the main character to help their relationship improve.

 

* The early days of ''[http://www.jaynaylor.com/betterdays/ Better Days]'' often had this as a plot element with Fisk's widowed mother Sheila trying to find someone new, including once dating her kid's principal ({{spoiler|this ended badly, with him being psychotic and raping Sheila only to die under suspicious circumstances}}) and their married next-door neighbor Sam (who was also the father of Fisk's best friend, just to complicate things), who after having an affair with Sheila and being caught eventually married her years later. Fisk then had a [http://www.jaynaylor.com/betterdays/archives/2007/06/chapter-18-reac-25.html a conversation] with his mother where he told her that it was too late for Sam to replace his father, it didn't matter, she was happy now, [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|and that was what mattered]].

* In ''[[Kevin and Kell]]'', Lindesfarne (Kevin's daughter) bonds rather quickly with new stepmother Kell, while Rudy (Kell's son) has more trouble accepting stepfather Kevin, but does eventually. Species issues are probably relevant - Rudy, being a canine (fox/wolf cross), has some trouble accepting a rabbit as outranking him. Lindesfarne, on the other paw, does not have the pack structure issue complicating her relationship with Kell.

 

== Western Animation ==

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