Slap Slap Kiss: Difference between revisions

* Averted in ''[[Animorphs]]'', where Marco and Rachel exhibited many symptoms of this trope. Turns out that they were really too different for a relationship and ended up staying in the kinda-friendly zone. There are indications of attraction and mild flirting, but Rachel and Tobias are set up as a couple from the very first book. Later in the series, Marco makes it pretty clear that he thinks Rachel is [[Blood Knight|a rageaholic violence junkie]] and Rachel gets very impatient with his snark and suspicious caution. The trope is also played with to a certain extent: they seem to flirt in earlier books, Marco's immediate reaction to seeing that Rachel has been split in half is that there's one for him now, Nice Rachel says she would go out with him if he asked her, and in the [[Wonderful Life]] / [[What If]] book, where they never became Animorphs and Rachel never really got to know Tobias, they did end up going on a date.

* In ''[[Xanth]]'', Ogre-style-love is violent to the point of being perceived as rape by virtually all of the other non-Ogre cultures.

* DS Edgar Wield and Edwin Digweed in Reginald Hill's [[Dalziel and Pascoe]] novel ''Pictures of Perfection,'' largely because neither of them is [[Genre Savvy]] enough to realize that Hill is parodying ''[[Pride and Prejudice]]''.

* In ''[[Arch Angel]]'' by Sharon Shinn, the main characters' relationship is entirely this.