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{{trope}}
{{quote|''Women, listen to your mothers.
''Don't just succumb to the wishes of your brothers.
''Take a step back, take a look at one another.
''You need to know the difference between a father and a lover.''
|[[The White Stripes]], "Passive Manipulation"}}
Something much [[
When
This trope appears with step-, foster, or adoptive parents as well as biological ones (see [[wikipedia:Genetic sexual attraction|genetic sexual attraction]]), sometimes to [[Bowdlerise]] it somewhat, although the power dynamics are still much the same as in parent/child incest. [[Wife Husbandry]] is one way to [[Bowdlerise]] it still
Also see [[Surprise Incest]], where the couple involved do not know they're related, also [[Brother-Sister Incest]] and [[Kissing Cousins]]. When children who don't know any better innocently suggest this, it's [[Father, I Want to Marry My Brother]]. See [[Pervert Dad]] for parents who don't ''quite'' go this far, but still have a healthy dose of [[Squick]]. See [[I Love You, Vampire Son]], when the "parent" is the vampire that sired his "son".
Not to be confused with [[Mother F-Bomb]].
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== Anime
* In Chiho Saito's ''[[Kanon
* In ''[[He Is My Master]]'', the sister-maids ran away from their home in the first place because ''they got tired of resisting their father's constant sexual advances.''
* The ironically aptly-named Electra Complex relationship between the surrogate father and daughter pair of Nemo and Electra in ''[[Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water]]''.
* The anime villain Furumizu from ''[[Witchblade (anime)|Witchblade]]'' has some creepy implications of this. Doesn't help the man has a very messed up reverse [[Oedipus Complex]].
* ''[[Berserk]]'' has an incredibly creepy example in the King of Midland and his feelings for his only daughter, Princess Charlotte. After {{spoiler|Griffith has sex with Charlotte following Guts' leaving him and the Hawks, the King goes crazy, and after throwing Griffith into the Tower of Rebirth to be put to the torture and declaring the rest of the Hawks [[Outlaw]], he tries to rape Charlotte. She barely manages to fight him off, and the experience wracks him with incredible guilt, to the point where he visibly ages and falls ill. Charlotte (very understandably) wants nothing to do with her father afterwards, and won't even see him on his deathbed}}.
* Sakurazuka Seishirou and his [[Hot Mom]] [[The Ophelia|Setsuka]] in ''[[Tokyo Babylon]]'' and ''[[X 1999]]''. No evidence about sexual encounters, thank God, but the [[Subtext]] is ''incredibly''
* The main couple in the yaoi series ''Papa to Kiss in the Dark''. {{spoiler|Technically, Kyousuke is Mira's uncle, but ''still''...}}
* It's implied in ''[[Narutaru]]'' that this trope is the reason why Akira is such a suicidal [[Shrinking Violet]].
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* In ''[[Gankutsuou]]'', {{spoiler|Andrea Cavalcanti}} actually {{spoiler|''had sex'' with his mother, Victoria.}} Extra [[Squick]] in that {{spoiler|he ''knew'' she was his mother}}.
* In the [[Hentai]] OVA ''Yu-No'', [[The Ojou|Miyo]] and [[Shrinking Violet|Canna]] have a rather asymmetric [[Schoolgirl Lesbians|sexual relationship]], with Canna obviously caring a lot about Miyo (to the point of dying for her), while Miyo barely looks at her. Then comes the last episode, where we learn that {{spoiler|Miyo is actually Canna's mother, tossed [[Time Travel|back in time]] after being impregnated by Takuya. Technically, of course, it's not incest, since [[Mind Screw|the Miyo who had sex with Canna didn't actually give birth to her]], but ''de facto''...}} And let's not forget the eponymous Yu-No herself, who is obviously enamored with Takuya, {{spoiler|who actually ''is'' her father... in the future}}. [[It Makes Sense in Context]].
* Played for laughs with [[Daddy's Girl|Yuuna Akashi]] from ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]''. Among her friends, she's known to get really jealous if other women seem interested in her [[Hot Dad]]. A recent chapter showed that this maybe due to [[Chaste Hero|inherent innocence]] about love rather than romantic designs on her father, though, as she apparently doesn't really know the difference between a kiss on the cheek and a "deep, passionate kiss." [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v28/c253/11.html This leads to her saying that she wouldn't mind giving the latter to her dad], which elicits a [[
* ''[[Boys Empire]]'' has Makoto and his mother, Umeko, having sex on several occasions... to the point {{spoiler|Umeko discovers that she's pregnant and gives birth to twins -- one the child of Makoto and one the child of her husband Masoto. Yes, this ''can'' happen.}} As per usual for Makoto, it's her idea every time. He goes along with it because that's the sort of person he is.
* While the pedophile cop in ''[[Paranoia Agent]]'' doesn't actually do anything to his daughter, he did set up cameras in her room to get pictures of her undressing and insists on the hookers [[The Mafia]] was bribing him with calling him "Daddy." [[Squick|Yuck.]]
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* This is apparent especially in the omake in ''[[Game X Rush]]'', though in this case the "parent and child" in question only ''think'' that they're related.
* This is often believed to be the case between Chibiusa and Mamoru in ''[[Sailor Moon]]''. Not helped in the manga's second arc, when {{spoiler|Chibiusa brainwashes him as Black Lady in order to have him.}} One justification for her feelings is that the series makes it pretty clear that Chibiusa doesn't completely consider or understand that Usagi and Mamoru are her future parents, and looks to them as older siblings. Although her possessed form does take Mamoru for herself, there are no indications that she feels anything but familial love for Endymion, the father figure she knows. It's repeatedly shown in the series that Chibiusa's initial personality is a copy of Usagi's; so the fact she takes likeness for Usagi's boyfriend just confirms that they both have similar preferences when it comes to boys. In the fourth series, when Chibiusa finally gains some independence (and a ''potential'' real love interest), she declares that she won't interfere with Usagi and Mamoru's relationship anymore (indicating she is growing out of considering Mamoru romantically as it's one-sided and futile anyway).
* In the ''[[Battle Royale]]'', {{spoiler|Mitsuko}} has this a bit, leading to her, at that time, stable morals being broken and turning her into [[The Vamp]] she is as of the series beginning; and this event repeatedly comes up a lot, particularly when she is {{spoiler|raping Yuichiro}}, as well as when {{spoiler|Kiriyama was torturing her with bullets}}.
* In ''[[Kaze to Ki no Uta]]'', Gilbert and his sexual relationship with his uncle Auguste is made even squickier when we find out that {{spoiler|Auguste is not Gilbert's uncle, but his father.}}
* In ''[[Chobits]]'', {{spoiler|Freya fell in love with her father/creator}}. It did ''not'' end well.
* In ''[[Bleach]]'', [[Mad Scientist|Mayuri Kurotsuchi]] heals his daughter/creation after an enemy forcibly impregnates her with himself and bursts out of her mouth (Don't ask). It is heavily implied that he does so by having sex with her lifeless body. Oddly enough, this healing sequence is played for laughs.
** More of a case of [[Screw Yourself]], really. Although Mayuri did say the only reason Renji and Uryu (read 'we') make that assumption, is because they (We) have dirty minds.
* In ''[[Kaguyahime]]'' Akira is her adoptive mother's lover.
* In ''[[Not Simple]]'', it is revealed that the older sister the protagonist Ian has been searching for all these years was, in fact, also his mother, impregnated by his father after the two slept together when she was in her early adolescence. His father's wife was forced to raise him as her own child, and she explained that the rage and resentment she felt towards his sister was the reason that she [[Abusive Parents|abused]] Ian so horribly.
* In ''[[Black Butler]]'', [[Freudian Excuse]] for some of {{spoiler|[[Cute and Psycho|Alois]] }}'s behavior. The very first scene of Season 2 gives us the blink-you'll-miss-it visual of {{spoiler|Alois getting out of a bed in which an old man is sleeping before the much more noticeable bruised-butt shot.}} The kid only mentions his father during his clearly false innocent moments, otherwise freaking out at the mention of him, stating hysterically that he "got rid of all the old man's things". The numbers of when he was "saved" from his kidnapping experience, when his father is stated to have died, and when {{spoiler|he contracted Claude}} all match up. It's eventually shown that {{spoiler|the man wasn't his real father}}. But given that {{spoiler|he eventually had to act as Earl Trancy's son, as well as the obvious fact that it's an old man having probably non-consensual sex with a boy who's only just hit puberty, mean the squick factor is still very much there.}}
** Not a case of actual incest, but Sebastian's form is almost identical to Ciel's father, due to Ciel's wish. Given the fact that Sebastian and Ciel have a lot of [[Unresolved Sexual Tension|UST]], well... [[Incest Subtext|do the math]].
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* Used in various adult comics by Rebecca (usually mother/daughter but sometimes mother/son or father/daughter): ''Housewives at Play'', ''Hot Moms'' and ''Teens at Play''.
* In Larry Welz's adult comic book series ''[[Cherry Comics]]'', the eponymous protagonist and her mother Pepper have been known to get it on with each other when no guys were available. {{spoiler|In fact, through
* In ''[[Fallen Angel (comics)|Fallen Angel]]'', it is widely believed, but not confirmed (although he has not denied it, either), that Xia has this relationship with her son, Jubal.
* Numerous examples in ''[[Lost Girls (comics)|Lost Girls]]'' by [[Alan Moore]]. {{spoiler|While most of the examples are [[Fictional Document|in-universe erotica]], Dorothy and her Uncle Henry -- really her father -- have an extended affair.}}
* In the ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' comics, Legion (a.k.a. David Haller), the psychotic, overpowered son of Professor Xavier with a legion of [[Split Personality|split personalities]], time travels to the past and is implied to have raped his own mother. [[Alternate Character Interpretation]] states that he may have even fathered himself.
* In the dystopian divergent timeline of the ''[[Age of Apocalypse]]'', Magneto and Rogue eventually marry and have a son despite their initial surrogate father-daughter relationship after she permanently absorbed the powers and part of the psyche of his own secretly long-lost biological daughter Polaris. In addition, Rogue is canonically ''even younger'' in this reality than any of Magneto's prior biological children: Polaris and their fellow X-men Pietro and Wanda. One saving grace might be the fact that the mainstream continuity hadn't settled on Polaris being Magneto's actual daughter when this story was written, so the Oedipal aspect wasn't as blatant originally. Though it still was a story where Rogue wound up in love with her main father figure...
** Their fellow ''AoA'' X-Men, the reformed berserker Sabretooth and the jailbait amazon Blink are a fan-favorite cult pairing despite having a surrogate father-daughter relationship, as he rescued her as a child from Apocalypse's slave pens and raised her to adolescence. This is due to the intense [[Beauty and The Beast]] nature of their relationship, which is exacerbated by the fact that they are both highly sensuous warriors with a deeply intimate psycho-emotional bond and physically demonstrative displays of affection. They were separated when they were both made to lead separate teams of inter-dimensional heroes known as [[Exiles]], but were eventually reunited on a single team. In fact, Blink's then-boyfriend and fellow Exiles teammate Mimic was revealed to have known that she would never love him or anyone else as much and feared that she loved Sabertooth instead. This was shown by the fact that despite having proven herself as a leader, Blink deferred to Sabretooth during field missions. Despite later being separated again on different teams, they are currently still both single, leaving fans ever hopeful. The fact that Mimic resembled Victor in more ways than one though is [[Like Parent, Like Spouse|hardly coincidental]].
** Fellow ''AoA'' mutant Nate Grey has one hell of an [[Oedipus Complex]] story. The genetically-engineered son of his reality's Scott Summers and Jean Grey
* A plot line in ''[[The Avengers (Comic Book)|Mighty Avengers]]'' has one of the characters (the gynoid Jocasta) ending her relationship with her grandfather (Hank Pym, who created Ultron who created Jocasta) when she realizes that he is still in love with her dead sister/mother (his ex-wife/on-off lover Janet van
* The main character of ''The Tale of One Bad Rat'' is trying to come to terms with having been molested by her father as a child.
* Crazy Jane from [[Grant Morrison]]'s celebrated run on ''[[Doom Patrol]]'' is a multi-powered Metahuman who lived with multiple personalities after being raped by her father. Morrison based Jane on the [[Real Life]] psychiatric patient/memoirist Truddi Chase.
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* The famous [[Memetic Mutation|Twinkie House meme]] actually comes from a(n) (in)famous gay comic called ''My Wild and Raunchy Son 2''. It's an entire series of exactly what you think it is from an artist (Josman) famous for that specific genre (once even involving a ''grandfather'' of all people). To avoid allegations that he had a serious thing for his own dad, the artist said in an interview what he ''really'' loved were twins doin' it, and drew a token twincest story to prove it. No one believed him when that story still somehow managed to involve an older man in the mix...
* One of the minor characters seen in hell in ''[[The Sandman]]'' tells the newly-arrived young thugs that "I took my mother by force, and strangled my sister when she wouldn't submit to my advances."
* Averted - and demonized - in the sixth issue opening of ''Young Captain Adventure'' from ''[[Penthouse Comix]]'' as a way of saying [[Everyone Has Standards]]:
{{quote|'''Narrator:''' Joey was, by now, as hopelessly in love with Hericane as she was with him. Which is hardly surprising when you consider that Emily and Joey's dad were bed-mates in the 70s, though Joey is not aware of this as yet. (And don't get any ideas, people, Joey's mom is ''not'' Hericane. That would be... ''sick''.)}}
== Fairy Tales ==
* Commonly referenced in [[Fairy Tale
* There is an ''extremely'' bizarre Russian fairy tale which involves a priest's daughter being tricked by a farmhand into having sex with him, without her knowing what it is (he tells her that his dick is a "comb" and that he is "combing" her). When her father finds out her confusion, ''he'' has sex with her and the tale ends with the narrator telling the audience that from then on, the priest had sex with both his wife and his daughter.
** [[Flat What|What.]]
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* Implied between Jessica and her father in ''The Gift''
* Babs Johnson with her son in ''[[Pink Flamingos]]''
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* ''U Turn''
* ''[[The Grifters]]''. Implied until the end {{spoiler|when indeed the mother's lust comes out into the open with tragic results.}}
* ''Sherrybaby''
* ''Savage Grace''. The film focuses largely on the real-life incestuous relationship between heiress Barbara Daly Baekeland and her son
* ''Three seats for the 26'', a French movie where Yves Montand plays himself and buxom sex bomb Mathilda May plays his illegitimate daughter Marion (a character created for the movie, not based on any real person). They meet and, not knowing that they are parent and child, feel attracted to each other and eventually have sex. [[The Reveal]] comes when Marion's mom tells her that Montand is her biological father. Marion isn't shocked or anything, she just makes an "oopsie!" face. Later, the two go tell Montand the truth. Montand, unlike Marion, '''is''' shocked, and looks at her daughter with a horrified face... but Marion just smiles and shrugs, which makes Montand relax and realize that
* Similarly, in the French ''Murmur of the Heart'', eventually, the main character (a 15-year-old) and his mother have a one night stand. They decide to treasure it and never bring it up again.
* ''[[Chinatown]]'' featured Father/Daughter incest in an infamous reveal about Mrs. Evelyn Mulwray and a woman who Jake Gittes took to be the mistress of Mulwray's late husband. She's actually the sister ''and'' the daughter of Mrs. Mulwray because Mrs. Mulwray was raped by her father Noah Cross, who takes on [[Complete Monster]] status after the reveal in question. Noah crosses the [[Moral Event Horizon]] even ''further'' when {{spoiler|at the end, he forcibly takes his granddaughter into his car, implying he wants to do the exact same thing to her.}} [[What Could Have Been|Evelyn Mulwray was going to be played by Anjelica Huston, John's real-life daughter]], as an utterly perverse [[Casting Gag]].
** Spoofed in a cutaway on ''[[The Cleveland Show]]'', where Cleveland mentions a remake of ''[[Chinatown]]'' with [[Hannah Montana|Miley Cyrus]] reenacting the famous "She's my sister ''and'' my daughter" scene.
** Also spoofed in E!'s ''100 Shocking Moments In
* Father/Daughter happens to Forrest's love interest Jenny in ''[[Forrest Gump]]''. Her dad was "very, very affectionate, indeed".
* Marty McFly has to deal with the romantic attentions of his own 50s-era mother in ''[[Back to The Future]]'' after unwittingly recreating the events which led her to fall in love with his father. Marty then has to get his mother and father together so that he isn't erased from history before trying to get back home to his own time. It's not actually as squicky as it could have been. The novelization is even squickier, since when she kisses Marty, she says that it's like kissing her ''brother''.
** She says that in the film, too. How does she ''know''?
*** Maybe it feels like kissing her brother because Marty takes after him, to the point where they have similarly-shaped lips?
**** Or, you know, it ''could'' just be the fact that "like kissing your brother" is a relatively common saying for kissing someone you have no sexual attraction to. It's like when people react to [[She Is Not My Girlfriend]] by saying that the not-girlfriend/boyfriend is like a sibling to them and actually mean it.
* ''[[Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure]]'', though it was never pursued beyond a few "Dude, your mom's hot!" "Shut up!" exchanges and Bill eventually telling Sigmund Freud that he has a "slight Oedipal complex". Of course, "mom" was actually a stepmother only a few years older than her stepson, not his birth mother.
* {{spoiler|''[[Oldboy]]''}} and {{spoiler|''Angel Heart''}} both have lead characters who accidentally sleep with their own daughters. Spoilered because it's a huge twist in both cases, so [[Schmuck Bait|highlight at your own risk]].
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* The French film ''Ma Mère'' has a very complicated incestuous relationship between a mother and her son.
* And let's not forget the infamous "bath scene" in [[Pia Zadora]]'s [[So Bad It's Good|classic]] ''Butterfly''.
* Heavily implied in ''[[The Manchurian Candidate (novel)|The Manchurian Candidate]]'' as part of the [[More Than Mind Control]] of the title character, but the Hays Code wouldn't let them say it outright.
** The original novel was much more explicit about this, hence the film's notoriety even ''before'' the Kennedy assassinations.
** Strangely, the '60s version with the Hays Code in full force was actually ''more'' explicit with this than the later remake. That was '''not''' a motherly kiss.
*** According to some, maybe! The kiss scene in the 2004 remake involves a lot of touching/body language that's pretty telling.
* In the (in)famous indie film
* ''[[Rebel Without a Cause]]'': subverted, in that the attempts to deny even the appearance of incest destroy the normal expressions of affection. Judy's father refuses to show affection for her, stating that she's "getting too old for that kind of stuff", and when she kisses him, he slaps her.
* An early version of ''[[Friday the 13th (film)]]: The Final Friday'' revealed that Jason and his mother regularly had sex with each other, with this revelation even having an accompanying flashback of them doing it.
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* The romantic interest in Aussie film ''Romper Stomper'' is also molested by her dad.
* In ''[[Dogma]]'', while not specifically stated, it is suggested by the following exchange:
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'''Loki:''' You're his father, you sick fuck!
[Whitland starts crying] }}
* In the oft-maligned (for a good reason: it's [[Mind Screw|farking confusing]]) ''An Awfully Big Adventure'', Alan Rickman's character P.L. O'Hara deflowers his daughter. In all fairness, though, not only did he not know she was his kid, she didn't know it, either, and it's implied that she never found out. (O'Hara, on the other hand, did, and drowned himself because of it. So, squicky, but not as much as it should have been.)
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* In Peter Greenaway's ''8 1/2 Women'', Philip, while mourning his late wife, wakes up in bed with his adult son Storey; from the pillow talk viewers are to understand that something sexual happened between them. The father is [[Squick|horrified]]; the son is alarmingly eager to rationalize it. After this, the two men fill the house with a group of mistresses, but the [[Oedipus Complex|Oedipal]] implications...pale by comparison.
* Played for ''laughs'' (yes, laughs) in ''[[History of the World Part One]]'':
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'''Josephus:''' Hey, motherfucker! }}
* In the movie of ''[[Tank Girl (film)|Tank Girl]]'', the character makes a joke implying that her first sexual experience was with her father. Probably just a joke but considering the nature of the character, maybe not.
* In ''[[Precious]]: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire'' {{spoiler|the title character is raped by her father, resulting in two children. The first child has Down's Syndrome.}} And in the movie it's strongly implied (and in the book, outright said) that {{spoiler|Precious' mother forces her to "take care of her" (i.e., perform oral sex on her) because she feels that her daughter drove her boyfriend off and, as she says, "who was gonna love me?"}} That movie is ''fucked''.
* The ''[[Black Christmas]]'' remake has a flashback sequence that reveals Mrs. Lenz, drunk one night and obsessed with having another child, went up to [[Bertha in The Attic|the attic where her son Billy was kept]] and raped him. She wound up giving birth to a daughter named Agnes nine months later.
* In indie film ''Unspeakable'', {{spoiler|James Fhelleps loses his teenage daughter in a car wreck, then goes on a killing spree when he thinks his daughter is talking to him through a dead hooker, pleading with him to save her. After this ends in his death, it turns out to be a dream, caused by guilt over his [[Nightmare Fuel|incestuous molestation of his daughter]].}}
* According to Danny Butterman in ''[[Hot Fuzz]]'', [[Dumb Muscle|Michael "Lurch" Armstrong]]'s mother and sister are one and the same. That means...
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* ''Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me''.
* In ''The Goddess of 1967'', {{spoiler|Deidre is the product of this. Perhaps that's why she's blind...}}
* Flashbacks in ''[[Hellraiser Deader]]'' implicate Amy was sexually abused by her father. The lurking phantom of parental incest is all over the first two movies in the series. "Come to daddy" and all that. There's no evidence that it actually happened, but the idea is pretty firmly put into viewers' heads.
* ''[[Splice]]'': {{spoiler|Dren with both of her/his parents, although technically Clive is only a step-parent, at best.}}
* In the ''Millicent and Therese'' segment of ''[[Trilogy of Terror]]'', about two sisters who hate each other, Millicent claims that Therese seduced their father when she was sixteen. {{spoiler|Since Millicent and Therese are actually [[Split Personality|the same person]], it's likely that this is an ... uncharitable interpretation of what actually happened.}}
* ''National Lampoon's Vacation'': Cousin Eddie and his daughter Vicki.
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'''Audrey:''' So? Everybody does that.
'''Vicki:''' Yeah, but Daddy says I'm the best at it. }}
* In ''[[Year One]]'', Zed rather casually admits to laying with his mother although he does say he felt rather awkward about it in the morning.
* In ''[[Psycho]] IV'', it is revealed that Norman Bates and his mother had a really really... ''odd'' relationship, wherein she apparently teased him sexually in his adolescence and then punished him for his [[Raging Stiffie|natural reactions]]. As a result, he lusted after his mother and was jealous of her many boyfriends, and assumed the reverse was true, which resulted in a woman being knifed in the shower some 20 years after Mrs. Bates died. It is not clear if they ever consummated this or if he just had one hell of an Oedipus complex.
* Played for laughs in ''[[Nanny McPhee]]'', when Great-Aunt Adelaide Stitch assumes that Cedric intends to marry one of his daughters, Evangeline, to fulfill her demand that he remarry within the month. While Cedric did plan on marrying Evangeline, she was his scullery maid and not actually his daughter. That he is marrying a servant seems to bother her more than the idea of incest.
** It's even funnier when you remember Great-Aunt Adelaide is played by [[Angela Lansbury]], who played Mrs. Iselin in the original ''[[The Manchurian Candidate (novel)||Manchurian Candidate]]''.
* Part of [[The Reveal]] about [[Whoopi Goldberg]]'s character in ''Clara's Heart'' is that {{spoiler|she was raped by her son, who then killed himself}}.
* Implied between {{spoiler|Nina and her mother}} in ''[[Black Swan]]''. Fan debate rages heavily.
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* ''[[Aguirre, the Wrath of God]]'': Just after {{spoiler|his crew is dead}} Aguirre declares that he'll marry his daughter and found a new 'pure' dynasty. It's evidence of his looming madness ... hopefully, and not something he planned all along.
* Whether or not a "mild" form of this occurred is the central focus of ''[[Eve's Bayou]]''. {{spoiler|The theatrical release makes it more explicit that Cisely kissed her father and he stopped her, while the director's cut leaves it ambiguous who initiated the kiss.}}
* In ''[[Machete]]'', Booth admits to Padre in [[Confessional
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* After they [[The Bible|escaped from Sodom]], Lot's daughters believed that since their fiances were dead, they wouldn't have the opportunity to have children. Having children being [[Serious Business]] back then, they got their father drunk and raped him in order to have his children. Nine months later, they each had a son, Moab and Ben-Ammi. The former's name sounds something like the Hebrew word for "from Father" and latter's name means (literally) "son of my paternal uncle" or (figuratively) "son of my people" in Hebrew. Another version had that the daughters believed that they and their father were literally the last people left alive. Given that idea and the fact that they were seemingly the last living women and their father the last living man, they felt they had a duty to repopulate the world. Some critics contend that the Hebrews made up this story to put dirt on their enemies, the Moabites and the Ammonites, who were much like the Hebrews in all respects except religion, despite the fact that the Davidic line comes from the Moabites via Ruth. Also, these particular acts came before the institution of the sexual laws in Leviticus; as such, they may serve as a kind of retroactive [[An Aesop|Aesop]]: "This is what happened to people back before we had those laws against sleeping with close relatives, so aren't you glad we have them now?"
* From the ''[[Gemma Doyle]]'' trilogy. This is {{spoiler|Felicity's}} backstory. When she got "too old," Daddy dumped her, later taking in another young relative as a "ward"...
* The father threatening marriage is found in many medieval [[Chivalric Romance
* ''Gregorius or The Good Sinner'', a 12th-century German epic poem by Hartmann von Aue. The orphaned son and daughter of the ruler of Aquitaine [[Brother-Sister Incest|have an illict love affair]], resulting in the birth of a baby son, who is put into a box and cast adrift. He lands on an island in the Channel, where he is christened Gregorius. After growing up he becomes a knight and comes to the aid of the queen of a besieged city, whom he marries. It is then discovered that she is his mother. She becomes a nun, he a penitent hermit who has himself chained to a rock for seventeen years, after which he is elected pope. Thomas Mann retold the story in his novel ''Der Erwählte'' (The Chosen One, 1951). Here Gregorius and his mother/wife Sibylla have two daughters.
* There's an e. e. cummings poem about this: 'annie died the other day'.
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* In Henry Fielding's ''The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling'', Jones sleeps with a woman who, it is later revealed, is thought to be his mother. (Turns out she isn't.)
* [[Robert A. Heinlein]] is notable for the [[Free-Love Future]] portrayed in many of his novels, in which familial relationships are sexually taboo only by tradition, which most sensible people discard as long as the matter is consensual and there's no genetic risk.
** His protagonist Lazarus Long sexes up his mom towards the end of ''[[Time Enough for Love]]''. He goes back in time to when he was 5 or so. At first he's [[Squick
** And let's ''not'' get started on Heinlein's ''[[All You Zombies]]''. {{spoiler|The protagonist is a hermaphrodite, who travels through time, [[Selfcest|has sex with him/herself]] and becomes both his/her own father and mother. And son and daughter, logically. And is also the same person who took himself back in time to meet herself.}}
** Lazarus came by it honestly. In ''[[To Sail Beyond the Sunset]]'', Maureen tries to have sex with her father. (By the end of the book, it's strongly implied that she finally manages it.) In the same book, there's a consensual sexual encounter between Maureen's first husband (Lazarus/Woodrow's father) and their oldest daughter, who is an adult, pregnant, and soon to marry her child's father.
** In ''[[
** In ''[[The Number of the Beast]]'', Lazarus Long's free-spirited ways inspire protagonists Deety and Jacob (her father) to do the deed.
** In ''[[Job: A Comedy of Justice]]'', not only does Satan's wife tell him he should boink their daughter as a way of getting the girl past her teenage-rebellion stage, but she insists the girl will cry when her dad first makes his intentions known—and then will put up no resistance, leading to them both having some of the most enjoyable sex of their lives.
* Invoked in ''[[The Silence of the Lambs|Red Dragon]]'', when the FBI agents claim that the eponymous [[Serial Killer]] "may have had sexual relations with his mother" as part of the highly sensational smokescreen that they feed to the press, because they specifically want to offend him into doing something stupid. In actuality, the killer's [[Freudian Excuse]] is significantly less [[Freud Was Right|Freudian]], though still fairly [[Squick|effed up]].
* The title character of [[Stephen King]]'s ''Dolores Claiborne'' had an asshole husband who, among other things, was trying to get into the pants of his own teenage daughter. This was one of several factors that eventually led to Dolores killing him.
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** A variation: [[The Chessmaster]] Littlefinger is simultaneously trying to pass off his [[Unlucky Childhood Friend|childhood friend and unrequited love]] Catelyn's daughter Sansa (who looks strikingly like her) as his natural-born child ''and'' trying to seduce her, apparently seeing Sansa as a [[Replacement Goldfish]] for her mother. [[Fatal Flaw]], anyone? Eh? Eh?
* The main male character in the ''Spellkey Trilogy'' is the product of father/daughter incest and is an outcast as a result.
* ''[[Deerskin]]'', by [[Robin McKinley]], is based directly on the original Donkeyskin
* In [[Mercedes Lackey]]'s ''[[Heralds of Valdemar]]'' series, this theme gets used several times. In ''Magic's Promise'', a minor character was sexually molested by his mother; the trauma from this triggered his latent [[Psychic Powers]]. Further, in the ''Mage Winds'' trilogy, [[Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter]] Nyara is raised by her father, [[Big Bad]] Mornelithe Falconsbane, as a sex toy and guinea pig for his sadistic magical experimentation.
** Also in Lackey's book with Holly Lisle, a young girl is being molested by her (step?)father and develops psychic powers and split personalities. You later find out the dad used to be mentally tortured by his own father, and his eventual [[Karma|comeuppance is very fitting.]]
** In another Valdemar book, [[The Empath|Talia]] uses her powers to punish a man who raped both his daughters and murdered one by [[Mind Rape|forcing him to relive his younger daughter's experiences.]]
** Another of Lackey's books, ''Unnatural Issue'' is based on the fairy tale The King Who Wished Marry To His Daughter, and had a more disturbing version. {{spoiler|He wished to use his daughter's body as a vessel for her dead mother's spirit, and marry her all over again, even making plans to dismiss all the servants who knew about the girl and return with his new 'young bride'. In a particularly creepy scene, the heroine overhears her father ruminating on the things he's going to do to her (well, her body anyway) and is as horrified as you might expect.}}
* A book that may have taken place in [[The Low Middle Ages]] had a Bastard (that's his name or nickname) as its narrator. At one point he's forced to settle with the (third?) cheapest whore at a
* In Lewis Grassic Gibbon's ''Sunset Song'', Chris's (the female protagonist) father tries to talk her into sleeping with him, although she refuses.
* In ''Watch Your Mouth'' by Daniel Handler, there's an incest epidemic amongst the Glass family. Cynthia Glass sleeps with her father. Her mother sleeps with her son. Cyn and her brother sleep together ... And then there's a golem.
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** Then he rapes his daughters/granddaughters, as do his sons/grandsons.
* An [[Older Than Radio]] example: ''[[Paradise Lost]]''. Though it's all very metaphorical, the idea goes that Sin sprang fully-formed from Satan's head (not unlike Athena with Zeus). He then had sex with her, impregnating her with Death, who after he was born raped her repeatedly. One [[Big Screwed-Up Family]].
* Father/Daughter happens to a secondary character in ''[[Peyton Place]]''. It was deemed to be too [[
** Actually, it was her stepfather in the original novel too, but it's still very squicky. There are also undertones of this with Norman Page and his [[My Beloved Smother|overbearing mother]], who punishes him (for ''talking to girls'') with enemas and naked whippings.
* In ''[[The History Of Danish Dreams]]'', Carsten often spies on his mother Amalie while undressing or having sex while he's a child, and when he's a teenager, they start a sexual relationship. Eventually, Amalie comes to her senses and sends him off to a boarding school so they won't be tempted to do it anymore.
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* In [[Isaac Asimov]]'s ''Robots of the Dawn'', there is a planet with such loose morals, that one of the characters ''received a lifelong trauma when her father refused to become her first man''. And ''he'' could never figure out why he refused.
* [[Dean Koontz]] uses [[Villainous Incest|non-consensual incestuous relationships]] fairly frequently in character backstories. In addition to the [[Brother-Sister Incest]] that figures into ''The Bad Place'', in both ''Whispers'' and ''Life Expectancy'', a major character is the product of a father raping his daughter. Additionally, in ''What the Night Knows'', a major character is the product of three generations of line-breeding in his family, starting with a brother-sister pairing, then the father/uncle impregnating his daughter/niece, then impregnating his twin granddaughters/grandnieces, one of whom is the mother of the character in question. The other twin and her daughter (also fathered by the family patriarch) state in their last documented conversation with their relative that they're both about a month pregnant.
* [[Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey]] has possibly the most horrific example of this, and {{spoiler|one of the more unusual in that it's the ''son'' who rapes the mother...and the grandmother...and the great-grandmother, and....obviously, there's a bit of time travel involved.}}
** Similarly in ''Up the Line'', by [[Robert Silverberg]], one of the Couriers, who has some ''major'' father issues, has a goal to sleep with every female ancestor he has, as a gesture of contempt toward their mates.
* In [[Octavia Butler]]'s ''Imago'', almost all of the human race has been rendered sterile. At least one woman and at least one man are still fertile,
* Due to their obsession with blood purity, the [[God-Emperor|God Emperors]] in ''[[The Stone Dance of the Chameleon]]'' have been known to engage in this, as well as in [[Brother-Sister Incest]]. {{spoiler|We see this happen in the story when Molochite - who is himself already a product of [[Brother-Sister Incest]] - weds his mother Ykoriana after he ascends the throne.}}
* Heavily implied in ''[[To Kill a Mockingbird]]'': when Mayella is explaining what ''really'' happened with Tom Robinson, she says she'd never kissed a grown man before, because what Papa did to her "don't count".
** That line was cut from the film for obvious reasons, but Mayella's actress Colin Wilcox-Paxton said she communicated the incestuous relationship through her body language and facial expressions. She revealed in the documentary that comes with the deluxe DVD set, that she was acutely aware that Mayella's experience was real. "I saw these girls on the streets of violence, these very underprivileged girls. These girls from awful, awful backgrounds. I mean, most of them took it for granted they'd be molested by the time they were... certainly 12, by a father, an uncle, a brother -- or someone down the road."
* The "novelization" of the 1980 ''Flash Gordon'' included a small scene of Emperor Ming and Princess Aura pleasurably reminiscing about the most recent time they had (BDSM-heavy) sex together.
** The conversation begins with Aura complaining about 'missing their closeness'. Seems Daddy's been to busy oppressing to have time for her lately.
* In the short story "Clean Slate" the protagonist {{spoiler|kills her parents and becomes a serial killer}} when her father breaks off their longterm affair after she turns 18.
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* In ''[[Book Girl]] and the Famished Spirit'', one character is implied to have been sexually abused by her uncle/guardian, {{spoiler|who is eventually revealed to be her real father -- which she knew, but he didn't}}.
* In one of his columns, [[Dave Barry]] called for readers to send in candidates for what should be the national insect. In his next column, he mentions that someone wrote in saying "My vote for the national incest is mother-son. Thank you for asking."
* ''[[wikipedia:Invisible Man|The Invisible Man]]'' by Ralph Ellison contains a scene where the narrator finds a man with two pregnant women in his yard. It turns out one is his wife and the other his daughter whom he accidentally entered (they shared a bed) while dreaming. She enjoyed it so much she [["It's Not Rape If You Enjoyed It"|begged him to continue]] resulting in both his wife and daughter being pregnant by him at once.
* This is actually the {{spoiler|motive}} behind the major case in the novel ''Case Histories'' and its subsequent TV adaptation. {{spoiler|The little girl at the center of case was murdered by her oldest sister because the sister realized that their father had the intention of sexually abusing her like he had been doing with the sister. In order to spare her little sister from the same fate, she murdered and buried the little girl in their neighbor's yard and subsequently entered a convent.}}
* ''[[In Death]]'': Eve Dallas was subjected to this by her own father. She had to kill him to get out of it. ''Born In Death'' reveals that Madeline Bullock and her son Winfield Chase had been in a sexual relationship for years. [[Squick]].
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* In ''[[The Thirteenth Tale]]'', it's implied that George Angelfield at least had a sexual interest in his daughter. Certainly when she ran off, his reaction was more like a spurned lover than a father.
* In Sara Douglass' ''Wayfarer Redemption'' sextet, this is the only form of incest ''not'' permitted to the Icarii. Everything else, including grandparent/grandchild, is fair game (so long as it's consensual). When [[Wolf Star]] kisses {{spoiler|Azhure}} passionately, he admits that what he did was "unclean"... and thereby admits his parentage.
* [[Michael Moorcock]]'s Clovis Marca (Clovis Becker in a later edition) of ''The Shores of Death'' was the product of a consensual father-daughter relationship—and ''she'' was born of apparently just-as-consensual [[Brother-Sister Incest]].
* ''[[The Color Purple]]'' zigzags this. Initially, the reader is led to believe - much like Celie does at first - that Celie was raped repeatedly by her abusive father Alphonso and impregnated by him ''twice''. Eventually, her sister discovers that Alphonso is not her true father, but this also comes with the revelation that their true father was lynched and Alphonso took advantage of their mother's ensuing nervous breakdown to marry her and gain her wealth. Yeah, raping his stepdaughter was only one of ''many'' reasons why the man was scum.
== Live Action TV ==
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* ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'', in a very roundabout way coupled with [[Cloning Blues]]: {{spoiler|Ellen Tigh sleeps with human-like Cylon Cavil in order to protect her husband. It's later revealed that Ellen is one of the <s>Final</s> Initial Five Cylon scientists who created the Significant <s>Seven</s> Eight human-Cylons, and Cavil was modeled after Ellen's ''father'' and ''knew all along'' who she was (Cavil is an angry, spoilt, sadistic teenager with an Oedipus complex in an old human's body, which he hates Ellen for "blessing" him with). Then there's Saul Tigh himself, also a member of the Initial Five, who becomes infatuated with much younger-looking Caprica-Six, possibly because she looks ''a lot'' like a young Ellen. Tigh gets Six pregnant, but she suffers a [[Convenient Miscarriage]] after Tigh switches (is forcibly switched?) his affections back to Ellen. Ellen calls Tigh out on basically screwing (one of) his own daughter(s). But doesn't do so to Tyrol, another member of the Five, even though he too was doing it to one of the Eights.}}
** {{spoiler|This calling out is doubly ironic given that Ellen slept with Cavil on New Caprica to get Tigh released.}}
* In ''[[Beverly Hills, 90210]]'', {{spoiler|Valerie}} makes a sad example of this when her backstory is finally revealed.
* ''[[Boston Legal]]'' had a plotline that involved a mother sleeping with her son.
* On ''[[Grounded for Life]]'', Claudia accidentally takes Jimmy to see a movie about this. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
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* ''[[Nip Tuck]]'' had some mother & (adopted) son incest.
* There were a couple ''[[NYPD Blue]]''s where it was one of the plots-of-the-week, both father-daughter and mother-son. It was also eventually revealed as part of {{spoiler|Diane Russel}}'s backstory.
* In ''[[Wizards of Waverly Place]]'', there is an episode where Justin lifts his mom Theresa's dress. Well, he lifts it because he wants to see her shoes (to find out if Alex is in her body), but it still comes off as slightly creepy and [[
* The controversial ''[[The X-Files]]'' episode "Home" centered around an murderous family of inbred hicks, complete with mother/son incest. {{spoiler|The eldest brother turns out to be his younger brothers' father.}}
* An episode of ''[[CSI]]'' revealed that the [[Mauve Shirt|recently introduced]] character Keppler {{spoiler|1=had, some years ago, murdered a man who he believed had raped his wife (or possibly girlfriend or fiancee, it's not made clear). He is then blackmailed by his father-in-law who has just murdered a prostitute and a fellow officer who had helped cover up the crime (which the CSIs are investigating). In the end he realises that his wife's rapist was her father. He proceeds to track down the villain to stop him murdering the last witness to his crime, [[Redemption Equals Death|getting shot for his trouble]] and [[My Name Is Inigo Montoya|then getting back up in time to shoot him and protect the witness]], before he [[Killed Off for Real|dies]].}}
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** And in another episode, the girl in question {{spoiler|loved her father so deeply and believed he loved her back that her body actually began acting as though she was pregnant--even though he hadn't even touched her and found the concept repulsive. It turns out ''she'' killed her mother, out of jealousy}}.
** A horrific episode from the first-season, "Blood Drops", features two sisters who survive the murder of their father, mother and two brothers. In the end, the older girl is revealed to have arranged the murder of her father, who had raped her, fathered her sister/daughter (played by Dakota Fanning), and was now molesting her. The others were killed because they had never stopped him.
** In the episode "Committed" from Season 5, {{spoiler|they are investigating a murder at a criminally insane institution of one of a male inmates and find out that the victim was having an illicit affair with a fellow male inmate. Turns out that the mother of the patient the victim was having an affair with had lied her way into being a nurse at the mental hospital so that she could continue her lifelong
** Season 10 episode "Lost and Found" has the team assuming that dear old dad had knocked up his own daughter with their son/half-brother before disappearing. {{spoiler|Turns out she was raped by her mother's brother.}}
** Season 12, "Genetic Disorder". Mother does it with son, gets pregnant, dumps off baby to hide it. The kid goes [[Ax Crazy]] later and lashes out at the genealogist who uncovered the secret, and the body gets left in the bed of Doc Robbins and his wife, the genealogist's next client.
* After Bill O'Reilly was interviewed on ''[[The Colbert Report]]'' and [http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/182583/january-25-2007/right-away- made an accidental] [[Double Entendre]] about how impressed he was by [[Stephen Colbert]]'s interviewing skills, Colbert revealed that he and O'Reilly had had sex. While not technically related, O'Reilly is the inspiration for the Colbert character, who sees him as [["Well Done, Son" Guy|the father he never had]] and calls him "[[Everything's Worse with Bears|Papa Bear]]". It's more than a little [[
* ''[[The Practice]]'' had an episode involving a case about this. It was very vague about whether or not they actually had sex and who was the aggressor was, which was part of what the case hinged on. In the end it showed the mother sleeping peacefully and the son watching her, implying he was in love with her.
* Played with in an episode of ''[[Supernatural]]''. Dean goes back in time to see his parents as teenagers. Dean comments on how his mom is a total babe and that he will be going to hell ([[Back
** And in an earlier episode, Agent Henriksen tells Dean that he thinks [["Well Done, Son" Guy|John]] brainwashed Dean into believing that demons and ghosts are real and probably molested him as a child. Of course, Henriksen said this just to make Dean angry.
** And in "Family Remains", the antagonist is first believed to be the ghost the daughter of the first victim. After all of the standard ghost-warding stuff fails, they figure out it was the dead daughter's daughter, who was a result of her father/grandfather raping her mother/half-sister. Jeez, these geneologies get complicated.
** Let's not forget poor Bela/Abby, who sold her soul to Lilith in exchange for having her father (and it may be implied her mother as well, though we never see her) killed because he was molesting her.
* In ''[[Scrubs]]'', after a session with [[Wide-Eyed Idealist]] psychiatrist Dr. Molly Clock, it is revealed that [[Casanova Wannabe|The Todd's issues with women]] stems from his relationship with his mother (they made out once).
* In ''[[Profit]]'', Jim and his step-thanks-to-[[Executive Meddling]]-mother are engaged in an on-off sexual relationship, when she isn't [[Blackmail|threatening to tell the cops he set his dad on fire so he'll buy her things.]]
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* Scott Barringer, Hayden Christensen's character on ''[[Higher Ground]]'', was seduced and sexually abused by his step-mother. His love interest, Shelby, ''just happened'' to have had the same thing happen to her from her stepfather (who got her younger sister too).
* ''[[Law & Order|Law and Order]]'' had an episode about the murder of a teenaged girl. The cops keep pursuing the girl's father, as evidence indicates the girl was sexually abused, but he keeps protesting his innocence. It's ultimately revealed that {{spoiler|it was the girl's ''mother'' who was raping her and ultimately murdered her.}}
** Used again by a young man facing a murder charge as part of an insanity plea that he'd regularly been pressured into sex with his mother. The court ordered shrink doesn't believe his insanity plea but does admit that the incest makes him look sympathetic in front of a jury.
* ''[[Law and Order SVU|SVU]]'' had an episode about a college student caught dumping her unwanted baby. By her father. Who she basically just met. Because she tracked him down. {{spoiler|And it's not the first time she's gotten pregnant by him.}} Naturally, their father is an upstanding pillar of the community. {{spoiler|After she's sentenced (or committed, I can't remember), he tries for custody of his (grand)son, but is shot down hard by Benson and Stabler.}}
** {{spoiler|She's committed -- but not for the unwanted live baby they found; she is aquitted of that. But later they find that she had a "stillbirth" a couple years prior, and Benson confronts her with that - and the girl blurts out that her father was also THAT baby's father, and she'd actually killed that baby herself. So she's committed for that earlier murder. The fact that the father had been schtupping his daughter longer than they'd thought makes them all the more determined to deny him custody.}}
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* ''[[Quincy]]'' investigated a case of this.
* Strongly averted in one episode of ''[[Dollhouse]]'', where the [[Body Surf|body surfing]] mother is [[Who Dunnit to Me?|investigating her own murder]] and is suddenly kissed by her adult son. She quickly pushes him away and starts gagging.
* In one episode of ''[[Numb3rs]]'' that deals with an [[Expy]] of the FLDS, a girl finds out that she is the product of
* Done [[Tear Jerker|tear jerkingly]] in an episode of ''[[ER]]'', in which a little girl innocently reveals the "game" her father plays with her. The information causes Malucchi to have a terrible [[Heroic BSOD]]: he charges into the operating room, where said father is being treated, and begins beating the shit out of him on the operating table while screaming and sobbing incoherently.
* ''[[Criminal Minds]]'' had quite a few [[Serial Killer
* ''Outrageous Fortune'' has Judd sleeping with his girlfriend's mid-twenties daughter during mid six season, {{spoiler|they get married at the end of the season.}}
* ''Lincoln Heights'': "Baby Doe". Jenn (a nurse) and Eddie (a police officer) find an abandoned baby in a dumpster. They track down the mother, a teenager with abusive parents. Her father is especially hateful and at one point at the hospital where Jenn works, he spits in his daughter's face. Jenn wipes it off and has the saliva tested for DNA. Yep, he's the father of his daughter's baby.
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* On ''[[Roar]]'' Fergus is initially quite attracted to Molly until he realizes that she's his daughter.
* In the [[Doctor Who]] episode ''Father's Day'', Rose's father Pete unknowingly invokes it in a hypothetical remark of "if I was going out with you" and is confused about her emphatic, repeated protests.
* In ''[[Boardwalk Empire]]'', this is revealed to be in the back story of {{spoiler|Jimmy Darmody and his mother Gillian}} and was at least partially the cause of {{spoiler|Jimmy enlisting in [[World War
== Music ==
* "Alive" by [[Pearl Jam]] is about a mother who reveals to her son that the man he thought was his father was actually his stepfather... and then she makes advances on her son because he looks like his dead (birth) father.
** Seeing as [[Something Something Leonard Bernstein|no-one has ever understood a word Eddie Vedder sings in any of their songs]], this has yet to be confirmed or refuted.
** It's explained in [http://www.fivehorizons.com/archive/articles/rs102893.shtml this article]. "Alive" is the story of a young man who never knew his biological father until he was told the truth by his mother later in life (a true incident from Eddie Vedder's own life). In the song, the mother is sexually attracted to her son and the relationship is consummated, [[Go Mad
** "Daughter" ''sounds'' rather explicit in its subject matter (Father/Daughter incest), once you get past Vedder's nigh-unintelligible singing voice. Though it reads like that ("she holds the hand that holds her down"), "Daughter" is actually about a child with dyslexia ("mother reads aloud - child tries to understand it"), whose parents don't understand her disability and use harsh physical punishment to deal with it ("the shades go down"). Explained [[wikipedia:Daughter (song)#cite note-3|here]] on [[The Other Wiki]].
* No sex happens, but the video for "[http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=LE06lqT0Y2g Lemon Incest]" by Serge Gainsbourg and his young daughter Charlotte is extremely creepy.
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** The song "Wiener Blut" from the album "Liebe ist für alle da" is about the Fritzl case (see "Real life" below)
* As a possible reference to [[Oedipus Rex]], The Doors' "The End" has the line "Father/ Yes son?/ I want to kill you/ Mother, I want to... fuck you".
* Played for laughs in the [[Tom Lehrer]] song "I Got It From Agnes" with the lines "Max got it from Edith, who gets it every spring. She got it from her daddy, who gives her everything."
** "There once was a man named Oedipus Rex, You may have heard about his odd complex."
* Also played for laughs with [[The Lonely Island]]'s "Motherlover", where two studs agree to "fuck each other's mothers" for Mother's Day.
* "Janie's Got a Gun" by [[Aerosmith]]. "What did her daddy do?" indeed.
** According to [[Pop Up Video]], the line "He jacked the little bitty baby" originally used the word raped instead of jacked.
* Does anybody else find it kinda [[Squick
* [[Motorhead]]'s "Don't Let Daddy Kiss Me" from ''Bastards''.
* "Royally Fucked" by [[Mindless Self Indulgence]].
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* "Kiss Daddy Goodnight" by Carey's Problem is a blatant example of this.
* [[Big Black]] has "Jordan, Minnesota", inspired by [[Ripped from the Headlines|an infamous case from the '80s]], which describes a man abusing his ''[[Squick|five-year-old]]'' son.
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== Religion and Mythology ==
* This is absolutely everywhere in ancient mythology and folklore. [[The Other Wiki]] has a fairly comprehensive list [[wikipedia:Incest in folklore|here]].
* The most famous example of
** [[Distaff Counterpart|Electra]], if [[Freud Was Right]] about her desires. She murdered her mother, and her name was used for the gender-inversion of the Oedipus complex.
* Other examples from Greek mythology besides Oedipus: Myrrha tricked her father Theias into incest after Aphrodite inspired her with passion for him and got pregnant. Theias, horrified and angry, killed Myrrha with an axe. Her corpse turned into a myrrh tree and, ironically, produced [[Chick Magnet|Adonis]]. Nyctimene committed incest with her father and was turned into an owl. Owls are therefore not seen by day because they are ashamed of themselves. Also, [[Hippolytus|Phaedra's unrequited love/lust for her stepson Hippolytus]], which ended with Hippolytus dead (or banished away and then taken in by Artemis in other versions) and Phaedra [[Driven to Suicide]].
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*** Also, before being kidnapped by her uncle Hades, Persephone was raped by her father, Zeus, who was also her uncle, as her mother was his sister, Demeter.
*** Both examples involving Zeus are from the Orphic cosmologies. The Orphics seem to have regarded Demeter, Rhea, and Persephone as manifestations of the same underlying divinity.
** To be honest to this trope, this troper's high school teacher always called the guy Zeus the Loose, didn't understand it much until we went further into greek mythology...
* Antaeus is the son of Poseidon and Gaia. Gaia is Kronos's mother. Kronos is Poseidon's father. Truly, Greek myth knows no limits.
** Also consider that Uranus was both Gaia's first son and the father of her other children.
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== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' examples:
** Belial and Fierna are father/daughter rulers of the fourth layer of Hell, and are believed to have this sort of relationship; both are embodiments of [[Lust]], after all. Being devils, it's very much a [[Big Screwed-Up Family]].
** Another D&D example, this time being the squickier grandparental incest; Lolth, evil goddess of the drow, forced her grandson, a drow war-god, to be her bodyguard and consort for a long time before he was killed off. He apparently hated both positions.
** ''Van Richten's Guide to Witches'', from the ''[[Ravenloft]]'' setting, tells the myth of how hags were first created, and this Trope plays a vital part. Here's the ''short'' version: A woman is a faithful and loving wife towards her husband for many years, bearing him three sons. But the husband is unfaithful, and blatantly rejects her in favor of a younger woman. Her sons refuse to defend her, equating youth with usefulness. The rejected wife is granted dark powers by a malevolent entity, uses a disguise to seduce her husband, kidnaps his lover and holds her hostage, then murders him. Later, she seduces her oldest son (a powerful warrior) the same way, is impregnated by him, then kills him. Then she uses dark magic to transfer her unborn child to the captive woman's womb, and she bears the first annis. She does the same with her second eldest son, a farmer and outdoorsman, uses the same dark magic, and the infant is the first greenhag. Her youngest son, a sailor and fisherman, is not fooled by such a trick and wary due to the deaths of his siblings, so this time she disguises herself as his wife to seduce him, kills him, and again, impregnates her hostage, bearing the first sea hag. Van Richten himself admits in his narrative that the ghastly story is likely apocryphal, and a sidebar confirms this view.
* In [[Warhammer]] the Dark Elf Witch King Malekith and his mother Morathi are strongly implied to be lovers. Given that Morathi is a devoted follower of Slaanesh and will screw [[Anything That Moves]], this is likely true.▼
** A rather unpleasant way of avoiding this due to Loophole Abuse is found in the ''Book of Vile Darkness'', where it mentions a cruel tyrant who was a previous owner of the [[Artifact of Doom| Despoiler of Flesh]], a cursed artifact which could reshape the flesh of others. This despot was attracted to his very beautiful daughters, but [[Even Evil Has Standards| he refused to force himself on them.]] Instead, to satisfy his urges, he used the Despoiler on his slave girls to make them look like his daughters, and used them instead.
** In ''[[Planescape]]'', the Temple of the Abyss (a [[Religion of Evil]] operating in the heart of the Lady's Ward, [["Not Making This Up" Disclaimer| Sigil's version of the financial district]]) is run by the fiendish High Priest Noshteroth of the Umber Scales and his equally-fiendish understudy Noxana the Unwilling. Some Cagers say Noxana is his lover, some say she's his daughter, and many claim she's both. Whether this is true or not is up to the Dungeon Master, although [[Fate Worse Than Death| given what Noshteroth did to Autocron the Bellringer]], it's clear he is a [[Papa Wolf]] and/or [[Crazy Jealous Guy]] whom you do ''not'' want to cross.
▲* In [[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]] the Dark Elf Witch King Malekith and his mother Morathi are strongly implied to be lovers. Given that Morathi is a devoted follower of Slaanesh and will screw [[Anything That Moves]], this is likely true.
* The ''[[Exalted]]'' setting book for the Blessed Isle says that a high-ranking mortal Realm official is in a relationship with her Dragon Blooded father. It's apparently taboo enough for them to keep it a secret, but not so taboo that there are any consequences for the fact that the rest of the Dynasty knows anyway.
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** If such a thing did happen in real life, then Nero was [[Abusive Parents|a victim of sexual abuse]]; he actively hated his [[Evil Matriarch|overbearing, controlling mother]] who had essentially forced him into emperorhood in the first place, taking the benefits and leaving him the problems (judging from the few reasonably accurate records, he was a tyrant out of indifference rather than malice). [[Self-Made Orphan|And then he had her killed]].
* The plot of Paula Vogel's ''How I Learned To Drive''. (Well, actually her uncle, but Peck is as close to a father as L'il Bit has.) Oddly enough, the relationship is presented as sympathetically as possible, without downplaying the fact that Peck does horrible things.
* ''[[Oedipus Rex]]'' (and the [[Oral Tradition|much older story]] it is based on) is possibly the [[Trope Maker]], although [[Common Knowledge|contrary to popular belief]], [[Surprise Incest|neither Oedipus nor Jocasta knew they were mother and son for most of the story]].
* There's an uncomfortable moment in act 2 of ''[[Wicked (theatre)|Wicked]]'' where the Wizard is trying to seduce Elphaba back to his side. The implication is there, and you later find out that he's her father.
* In Arthur Miller's play ''A View from the Bridge'' the main character is in love with his niece, whom he raises as a daughter, but he can't even admit this to himself.
* In ''[[Spring Awakening]]'' one of the boys is said to have had a wet dream about his mother, and also {{spoiler|the characters of Martha and Ilse are/were both sexually abused by their fathers
* In ''[[The Marriage of Figaro]]'' (both the Mozart opera and the original Beaumarchais play), Marcellina is determined to make Figaro follow through on a contractual obligation to marry her. Until it's discovered that Figaro is her [[Incest Is Relative|long-lost bastard child]].
* "Accidentally" implied (and, like everything, played for laughs) in ''[[The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)|The Complete Works of William Shakespeare]]'', when they [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFE1gDjCxTM combine all sixteen comedies into one].
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* Some versions of the musical ''[[Pippin]]'' imply this with Fastrada and her son Lewis.
* In [[Richard Wagner]]'s ''[[Der Ring Des Nibelungen|Die Walküre]]'', Wotan seems way ''too'' fond of his daughter Brünhilde. His wife Fricka calling Brünhilde "the bride of his desire" also doesn't help.
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* This is more of a [[Shipping|fan reaction]] than anything that actually happens in the game, but for some reason, an alarming number of naughty ''[[The Elder Scrolls|Oblivion]]'' mods are targeted at Seed-Neeus and Dar-Ma, the mother-and-daughter Argonian team in Chorrol. (Some involve threesomes with the player character, some just have them directly go after each other, but most at least involve the two naked in the same room....) That, or when advertising more generic naughty mods (nudity mods, remodeled/textured female bodies, etc.,) Seed-Neeus and Dar-Ma seem to be the examples in the screenshots a disproportionate amount of the time.
* {{spoiler|Angela and Thomas Orosco}} in ''[[Silent Hill]] 2'' are the only instance of this in canon, although fans [[Epileptic Trees|theorize]] that the trope has appeared elsewhere in the series as well.
** To be more precise, some fans have actually ''[[Shipping|shipped]]'' Heather, the heroine of ''Silent Hill 3'', and her father in a combination of [[Wife Husbandry]] and [[May-December Romance]]. There are some [[Not Blood Siblings|mitigating circumstances]], though the power dynamic can still make this one awfully [[
*** Now that [[Silent Hill: Shattered Memories]] is out, in a way, that the ship is now canon. Cheryl of SHSM {{spoiler|does indeed love her father. Very, VERY much. And this time, there's not even the mitigating circumstances any more. She's his blood daughter, as far as we know.}}
* In ''Clock Tower 3'', Lord Burroughs is so obsessed with his daughter that he ignores his wife, murders his son-in-law, and abducts his daughter. Later, he transfers his obsession to his granddaughter, the heroine Alessa, who's the very image of her mother. She manages to stop him though. Also a case of [[Love Makes You Evil]].
* In the ''[[Princess Maker]]'' series, it is possible to make the girl marry her adopted father. Many squick at this but some don't. (See [[Wife Husbandry]].) They are not blood related and, depending on what age you set for the "father," the age gap isn't big at all.
** In Anime/Manga, a 15-year-old raising a 10-year-old is often used in those cases of "[[Promotion to Parent|older sibling raising younger sibling(s) due to being orphans]]." Considering the "father" is a war hero (there are just as many young heroes as there as old in Anime/Manga), it "should" be easier.
** In the second game... not only the ending is ''very'' hard to get (the daughter must have ''very'' low morals, to start), but it's frowned upon by the Gods and the townspeople. The Guardian Deity openly says they're very surprised that this is happening, and only (reluctantly) approve because they're not related by blood.
* Warden Clement of ''[[House of the Dead]]: Overkill'' almost definitely had this relationship with his mother, transplanting her brain into the body of [[Action Girl|Varla Gunns]] and making out with her. In the end, {{spoiler|after the main characters kill the giant mutant version of his mother, he insists on [[Squick|returning to the womb]] in order to [[The Atoner|undo his wrongs]]}}. Agent G then notes the irony of [[Cluster F-Bomb]] flinging Washington using Motherfucker all the time except with Clement, which he somehow relates into how deep down, Washington actually likes G as a friend.
* The [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/pokeparents Pokedad] [[Memetic Mutation|meme]] has [http://pokedads.blogspot.com/search/label/LIKIDAD Lickitung] representing this trope.
** Also Ninetales and Gardevoir.
* In Ending E of the [[
* Characters in ''Medieval: [[Total War]]'' can have this as a surprisingly common trait, reducing their religious support if it's discovered. This can sometimes happen with rather unlikely characters, such as unmarried 15 year olds. Strangely, [[Brother-Sister Incest]] never happens unless you specifically order it.
* In the first ''[[Devil May Cry]]'', Dante falls for Trish because she looks exactly like his mother, in sexy clothes. It's never really explored.
* In the [[Mirror Universe|dimension of Praetoria]] in ''[[City of Heroes]]'', the [[Evil Twin|evil Emperor "Tyrant" Cole]], mirror of the main hero "Statesman", has his needs attended to by the villainess "Dominatrix"
** As of a recent official Q&A for the Going Rogue expansion, this has been rather humorously averted. The devs of the game had actually ''failed to notice'' this implication when the Praetorians were featured originally, and several fans calling attention to it got a rather entertaining "oh, crap, we did ''not'' mean to do that" reaction from them. Content since has been revised to avoid any sort of implication along these lines.
*** The comic actually implied it a lot more directly while at the same time pointing out the familial connection.
* Used as [[Demonic Possession|a path to immortality]] by the [[Big Bad|vil]][[Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil|lain]] {{spoiler|Croseus Verlac}} in the interactive fiction game ''[[Anchorhead]]''
* In ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro ni]]'', it turns out that {{spoiler|Kinzo had an affair with his (dead) mistress's daughter. Kinzo was already pretty screwed up even before he met Bice, wanting to die before she gave him a reason to live...so when she died, and their daughter grew to look more and more like her mother as she got older, Kinzo lost touch with reality and truly believed his daughter WAS his deceased mistress reincarnated. And he does seem to deeply regret his sin, wanting nothing more than to apologize to her and the child that resulted from that sin. After this daughter dies, the child who resulted from that affair (Yasu) then grows up to become the 'Beatrice' of 1986...and falls in love with at least two of the cousins (who are technically also [[Ambiguous Gender|his/her nephews)]] though he/she didn't actually know they were related until years later}}.
* Features into the backstory of Yaginuma and {{spoiler|Shinji}} in ''[[Kara no Shoujo]].'' The first's sister was raped by their father in an attempt to shield him, causing him to put up a [[Jerkass Facade]] that you only get to see come down once. The latter was raped {{spoiler|by his mother and accidentally killed her.}}
* ''[[Monster Girl Quest]]'': Luka can potentially be raped by his grandmother {{spoiler|Ilias}} and aunt {{spoiler|Eden}}. It's complicated by the fact that the latter two are {{spoiler|angels, which are made of holy energy}}, so the biological relation between them is unclear. ''[[Monster Girl Quest Paradox]]'' continues this trend, adding in Luka's mother, other aunt, and daughter from an alternate universe.
* ''[[Mortal Kombat 11]]''; as if the idea of a brutal, gory, battle to the death against one of your own parents isn't creepy enough...
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'''Cassie Cage:''' EW, NO! Seriously?
'''Johnny:''' Wait, WHAT? Not what I meant!}}
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* The [[Life Embellished|supposedly autobiographical]] sideplots of [[Kit N Kay Boodle]] feature the artist and his girlfriend having sex in front of her mother, who masturbates to it in clear view of them. In a later one, the girlfriend's mother has cybersex with the artist's father in a chatroom containing the artist, the girlfriend, and several of their friends, none of whom seem remotely uncomfortable with the idea (though the artist wilts when his father demands grandchildren). Crush Yiff Destroy described the sideplot thus: "While it may not be entirely true, it cannot be read as anything other than an expression of the author's deepest Freudian issues."
* [[Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff]] does this in one comic. The exchange goes something like this:
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* [[Questionable Content]]: in the very first appearances (only two or three strips) of Marten's mom, her face is drawn EXACTLY like Faye's - and {{spoiler|Marten at the time has a crush on Faye}}. Her look changes quickly until she looks almost identical to Dora - {{spoiler|who Marten will become involved with shortly afterword. Dora also used to masturbate to Marten's mom's image, the squickiness of which is brought up by a horrified Marten.}}
* In the old [[Drowtales]], the [[All There in the Manual|manual]] stated exclusively that this is common practice among Drow. Since the number of children one has is a status symbol, parents often train their own children the art of concieving offsprings. Drowtales has been dramatically toned down with each remake, removing all referances to underage sex in particular, so it's very unlikely this still is the case.
* In [[Life with Lamarr]], remember when {{spoiler|1=[http://jill-sandwich.com/lwl/index.php?episode=56 Breen and Mossman]}} got it on during a Breencast? Well, it [https://web.archive.org/web/20111224003349/http://jill-sandwich.com/lwl/index.php?episode=187 turns out] that {{spoiler|''she's his mother'', and Breen had aged extremely quickly due to his father, Kleiner, messing around with age serum}}.
* Implied but averted in [[Girl Genius]], where Prince Aaronev of Sturmhalten was {{spoiler|trying to download the mind of Lucrezia/the Other into his daughter's body.}} The process fails and eventually {{spoiler|kills her}} but given just how obsessed he is with the Other, and how the Other {{spoiler|in Agatha's body}} fawns all over his son saying how alike they look, what he appears to have had in mind for his daughter's posessed body becomes pure [[Fridge Horror]].
* In [[Sister Wulfia Focka]] ... well, let's just say that the [[Big Screwed-Up Family]] formed by the eponymous [[Naughty Nuns|naughty nun]], her demon lover and their child is really screwed up. {{spoiler|Even before Lyl has to [[Offing the Offspring|kill the kid]].}}
* The doom cultists in ''[[
* The title character of ''[[Niels]]'' thinks of sex as the ultimate expression of paternal love (whether for an actual father, or merely a father figure.) The author has lampshaded the implications for when his foster son turns eighteen.
* ''[[Sinfest]]'' has had many gags that imply [
* In ''[[Erstwhile]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20130826194327/http://www.erstwhiletales.com/allfur-03/#.T2_AA9m6SuI the king resolves on this in ] "All-Furs".
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* ''[[American Dad]]'': In one episode, Hayley dates her father's identical body double. Her mother Francine is understandably uncomfortable with it, making her feel sick [[Squick|emotionally]] and [[Vomit Indiscretion Shot|physically]].
** That's only half of the story. Stan and Francine get rid of the body double after he makes a move on Francine. But to make sure that Hayley doesn't [[Berserk Button|lose it]], Stan pretends to be his own double on the camping trip Hayley and body double planned together. Unfortunately for Stan, Hayley decides that they are finally going to have sex, and Stan has to fend off increasingly explicit advances Hayley makes towards him while being disturbed that she would do such things. {{spoiler|Including a threesome with a waitress.}}
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** In another episode Francine looses her memory and runs off with Hayley's boyfriend. Stan suggest that both he and Hayley should get back at them by dating eachother. [[Didn't Think This Through|He quickly reconsiders]].
* ''[[Drawn Together]]'': Princess Clara's father loves watching strippers... even if they're his own daughter. He especially loves watching his daughter make out with her attractive black roommate, Foxxy Love. And Clara, [[Virginity Makes You Stupid|naive person that she is]], equates his leering with paternal love.
** "You smell like your mother..." ''Said while making out with her.'' [[Squick|Yikes]].
* ''[[American Dragon: Jake Long]]'' In episode when Jake return to the parent's past his Grandpa paired Jake and his mother together. to their horror. He didn't know the future though, and later when he said they were on a date... They didn't agree
* ''[[Family Guy]]'' plays up this vibe deliberately with Chris, who has a pretty obvious attraction to his mother Lois. She seems more or less oblivious to it, and it's always [[Played for Laughs]] as a [[Running Gag]], but a brief scene in the extra material of [[The Movie|the movie's]] DVD showed just what it would look like if the writers ever decided to do something serious with it.
** In "Airport '07", when Peter wants to be a redneck, he tries to hit on Meg, using the [[Yawn and Reach]]. She runs away screaming.
** In "Dial Meg For Murder", Meg [[Took a Level
** One episode also has a joke in this vein about ''[[Gilmore Girls]]'' characters Lorelai and Rory Gilmore.
** From [[The Movie]]: "Now that we've practiced kissing and cuddling, we'll practice eating out... at a fancy restaurant!"
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*** Though the people we see in the house for "family game night" don't look anything like his relatives that we've seen, so it may have just been a weaksauce excuse he made up.
*** There was also the time he got an erection while hugging his recently sex-changed father.
* ''[[Rick and Morty]]''; [[Dirty Old Man]] that he is, this is where [[Villain Protagonist]] Rick Sanchez draws the line. He is ''disgusted'' when Summer (or rather a facsimile of Summer in someone else's dream) suggests and "inter-generation sandwich" with him and Morty.
== [[Real Life]] ==
'''''Moderator's Note:''' When adding examples here, please keep in mind the [[Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment]]. Also, as per [https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Topic:Wirzpadowhlk3dgo this discussion], please add documented historical examples only. "Not really incest, but" or "It was rumored that" or "You know what they say" means it is not an example for this page.''
* Thomas Mann's diaries record that he felt strongly attracted to his son Klaus, the second of his six children, when Klaus was 14.
* Kathryn Harrison, had a incestuous relationship with her biological father and later wrote an autobiographical account of it, "The Kiss", which helped publicize the then-undocumented phenomenon of [[wikipedia:Genetic sexual attraction|Genetic Sexual Attraction]].
* [http://www.anorak.co.uk/246946/strange-but-true/incest-watch-pearl-carter-is-having-her-grandsons-phil-baileys-baby.html Pearl Carter bears her grandson Phil Bailey's baby]
* Josef Fritzl, who imprisoned his daughter Elisabeth and fathered seven kids by her (in addition to the seven-counting-his-daughter that he sired by his wife). Truly an [[Memetic Mutation|Australian]] disgrace.
* Woody Allen and Soon-Yi Previn (he was her quasi-stepfather, being her adoptive mother's long-time boyfriend, but still
* As part of a BBC ''[[My Shocking Story]]'' documentary on incest, a mother/son couple was interviewed in near-total darkness, as they are understandably fearful of being found out... unlike the ''other'' mother/son couple (? or maybe they were a [[May-December Romance]] brother and sister) who were perfectly fine with being interviewed on camera.▼
▲* Woody Allen and Soon-Yi Previn (he was her quasi-stepfather, being her adoptive mother's long-time boyfriend, but still....)
▲* As part of a BBC ''My Shocking Story'' documentary on incest, a mother/son couple was interviewed in near-total darkness, as they are understandably fearful of being found out... unlike the ''other'' mother/son couple (? or maybe they were a [[May-December Romance]] brother and sister) who were perfectly fine with being interviewed on camera.
* Pick any random Pharaoh from Egypt. Odds are good this may be the circumstances of their birth, although it's equally as likely that they were the produce of kissing cousins or brother-sister incest.
** This is slightly arguable, due to different use of terminology in those days. For example, all the women in the palace technically belonged to the Pharaoh's harem, his mother included, but harem in this case did not absolutely mean exchange of sexual favours, though it theoretically could, and the Pharaohs called their wives as their sisters, regardless of whether they actually were related or not - the ''appearance'' of incest was more important to the Egyptian Pharaohs
** Actually, DNA testing of various mummies has proven that there truly was a great deal of incest going in the royal family throughout Egypt's history. In fact, the incest between very close relatives went on to such a degree that it's made it difficult for expert sceintists to distinguish different generations.
* Some years ago TV actress [[wikipedia:Mackenzie Phillips|Mackenzie Phillips]]
▲* TV actress [[wikipedia:Mackenzie Phillips|Mackenzie Phillips]] recently told Oprah Winfrey that her father, musician John Phillips, raped her when she was nineteen on the eve of her wedding while she was passed out. An allegedly "consensual" sexual relationship ensued for several years after that. Ms. Phillips ended it when she became pregnant and had an abortion because she didn't know if the father was her husband or John Phillips.
* Serial killer [[wikipedia:Fred West|Fred West]] was raised in a household were incest was considered fine, his father told him to "do whatever [he] wanted, just don't get caught", and his mother allegedly sexually abused him from age 12. His wife [[wikipedia:Rosemary West|Rosemary]] also grew up in a home where incest was accepted and her father would visit their house after they were married to have sex with his daughters. West also raped his own daughters.
* Casanova once planned to get married, but it turned out that the woman in question was his own illegitimate daughter. So they just had sex instead. [[Squick|Along with her mother.]]
* Anais Nin wrote that before age 11, she was accustomed to her father photographing her naked. Her family told her he had beaten her frequently, but she couldn't remember it. She suspected he had also molested her. When she was about thirty he came back into her life and had an intense sexual affair lasting several months.
* British former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott discovered on a TV programme he was filming for BBC Wales that his great-great grandmother had four children by her father.
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naser_al-Din_Shah_Qajar Nassereddin Shah Qajar, Fourth King of the Qajar Dynasty of Iran], had about 50 wives, so naturally he had a lot of children. An amusing (probably apocryphal) story about him claims he saw a beautiful woman in his palace one day, became smitten with her, and proposed to her right there. He noticed everyone around him was looking at him strange, and when he asked why, they told him she was one of his daughters. [[Subverted Trope| Fortunately, this revelation caused him to rescind the proposal.]]
* Ex-GAFF member [https://web.archive.org/web/20121213001333/http://wiki.fandomwank.com/index.php/Hellfire Hellfire]. Quotes straight from the horse's mouth: "My Mom was a controlling bitch, wouldn't any man with a wife like that turn to his daughter for sex? Yes, of course he would" and "If I got married, it would be to another person who liked incest, and if I had a son, yes, I would fuck my son, too, because it's the loving thing to do".
* Supermodel Janice Dickinson witnessed her father sexually abusing her sister and he attempted to do with the same to her
* Comedian [[Billy
* Though not ''technically'' incest genetically, [[Jake Roberts|Jake "The Snake" Roberts]] was conceived when his father raped his stepdaughter (Jake's older stepsister); this revelation led to Roberts' long bout with alchoholism and substance abuse.
* Happens more often than people might think with long-lost relatives, be they parents and children or [[Brother-Sister Incest|siblings]] thanks to [http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2003/may/17/weekend7.weekend2 genetic sexual attraction]. There have been several cases around the world where two children who were adopted have met and married one another with no idea they were siblings, because it's theorized that, lacking the [[wikipedia:Westermark effect#Westermarck effect|Westermarck Effect]], two people can be drawn to one another because of similar pheromones and other physical cues. Nearly always extremely traumatizing to the parties involved, so much so that the actual percentage of those who experience it is unknown, as many people are understandably hesitant to come forward about it.
* One of the ''many'' accusations thrown at [[Marie Antoinette]]. At her trial during the height of the Terror, she was accused by Hebert of personally teaching the Dauphin to masturbate, in order to weaken his character and control him. She refused at first to answer to the charge, but when one of the jurymen insisted, she turned to the women in the court, appealing to them as mothers. This nearly secured her acquittal, much to the fury of Robespierre.
* Billionaire Bruce Mcmahan [http://www.villagevoice.com/2006-09-26/news/daddy-s-girl/ seduced] his biological daughter and had a long secret affair with her, which continued on even when she was already legally married to someone else.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20131212094417/http://spectrum.columbiaspectator.com/spectrum/epstein-pleads-guilty-to-misdemeanor-charge-of-attempted-incest David Epstein] at
* In December
▲* In December of 2011, at a pep rally in Rosemount High School in Minnesota, a bunch of students were blindfolded and given a partner to kiss. The pairs then started to make out, with one pair rolling on the floor and a person pulling the hands of her blindfolded partner down onto her butt. The students then took off their blindfolds to see that their partner was ''their own mother or father.'' Yeah. There's an article and a ''video'' of the disastrous prank [http://www.theblaze.com/stories/minn-high-school-apologizes-for-incest-prank-involving-blindfolded-kids-kissing-their-parents/ here]
* The practice of fathers taking their daughters to "Purity balls" to ensure that [[My Girl Is Not a Slut|their daughters remain "pure" until marriage]]. And it involves dressing up, dancing with each other, and the father giving a ring to his daughter, who then promises her virginity to her father until she's married, at which point she'll give it to her husband. The resemblance to date nights has been pointed out numerous times.
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