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{{quote|''Women, listen to your mothers.<br />
''Don't just succumb to the wishes of your brothers.<br />
''Take a step back, take a look at one another.<br />
''You need to know the difference between a father and a lover.''|[[The White Stripes]], "Passive Manipulation"}}
Something much [[Squick|squickier]] than [[Brother
When this trope shows up in media, it's usually used to highlight the specific psychological issues that a character has, particularly if it features in the [[Backstory]] of a [[Serial Killer]] or other psychopath, or [[Villainous Incest|to give an already nasty villain that extra bit of shudder factor]]. Incest between a father and daughter is often portrayed in media as being predatory on the part of the father, and in a lot of cases when it's revealed, it's a crossing of the [[Moral Event Horizon]] that serves to get the audience completely against the father in question. When the daughter is the aggressor in the relationship, it usually means the daughter is seriously twisted in some way or at least has serious issues. In cases of mother and son incest, the usual scenario is a case of a [[My Beloved Smother|Beloved Smother]] or other [[Evil Matriarch]] who loves her son (often a [[
This trope appears with step-, foster, or adoptive parents as well as biological ones (see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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 further -- though not out of [[Squick]] range.
Also see [[Surprise Incest]], where the couple involved do not know they're related, also [[Brother
Not to be confused with [[Mother F
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