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* It may never have been revealed to the characters, but [[Elf Quest|Cutter]] once got it on with Kahvi during a pre-battle orgy, and Kahvi takes up with him while Cutter's family is lost in time, though it doesn't really work out. Much later, readers learned that Kahvi is the daughter of former Wolfriders chief Two-Spear. Cutter is a direct descendant of Two-Spear's half-sister, Huntress Skyfire, making Kahvi his cousin four times removed. Which, especially considering the small gene pool of the Wolfriders, isn't spectacularly close. And with Recognition preventing conception for any but good genetic combinations, the elves may not ''have'' an incest taboo.

** Also, if one looks at Scouter/Tyleet's relationship, you'll realize they're 2nd cousins (Brothers Longbranch and One-Eye, Longbranch sires Nightfall, One-Eye sires Scouter, Nightfall has Tyleet, Scouter and Tyleet Recognize). It makes sense, however, that such in-pairings will happen in such a small tribe- so yes, Recognition probably does take care of the biggest problem with incest. Thankfully, however, we haven't been subjected to any -closer- pairings...

* A story arc in ''[[The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers]]'' has Fat Freddy looking for his old home in Cleveland, broke, hungry, and bemoaning his perpetual bad luck. Just then, to his delight, a cute girl appears, befriends him, takes him home, feeds him, and joins him in the bathtub. A car pulls in and she warns "Here come my parents!" - Freddy sees them and exclaims "Holy Toledo, these are ''my'' parents too!"

* ''[[Star Wars]]''. Yes, ''Star Wars''. Media such as [[Marvel Star Wars]] and [[Splinter of the Minds Eye]], produced before Lucas decided Luke and Leia were twins, makes it explicit that they're mutually very interested, but in ''Splinter'' neither of them is aware that the other feels the same, and in [[Marvel Star Wars]] being interrupted every time their relationship goes beyond declarations of friendship and [[Holding Hands|hand-holding]] is a [[Running Gag]]. Said gag might have been a continuation of [http://www.starwarsholidayspecial.com/swcs/episode5/mask.html a scene] cut from [[The Empire Strikes Back]].

* In ''[[A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum|A Fvnny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forvm]]'', the heroine is a virgin slavegirl arranged to be sold/married off to the Roman general responsible for having destroyed the land where she grew up. She is somewhat reluctant to marry even before she falls in True Love with the hero. But everything ends happily when a set of matching rings proves the general and his perspective bride are long-list siblings, enabling the hero and heroine to marry.

* Parodied in ''[[Back to the Future (film)|Back to The Future]]'' (see above quote) where Marty knows that young Lorraine will be his mother, but she doesn't, so she pursues him romantically to his great dismay. She seems to develop some kind of supernatural sixth sense pertaining this as she kisses him, claiming it felt like kissing her own brother.

** Which leads you to wonder how she knew what kissing her brother open-mouth-style felt like..

* The major couple in ''[[The Beastmaster]]'' turn out to be cousins, though not one person ever remarks on this. Considering that she's described as his half-brother's cousin, maybe they're [[Not Blood Siblings|not blood cousins]] after all. She could always be the niece of the king's second wife.

* The Japanese film ''[[Bubble He No Go]]'' has a father sending his daughter (who doesn't know he's her father) back in time some 20 years to find her mother, only to find her younger father instead, who tries to shag her, but she refuses, only to almost give in but then he shortly before realizes that... and so on.

{{quote|'''Jill''': Would it help if you went back to thinking I'm your sister?

'''Joe''': What?! Like I'm some sort of white-trash perv?!

* In ''[[Lone Star]]'' {{spoiler|two characters that had dated in high school over their parents' STRONG objections reconnect as adults. They later find a photograph of his dad and her mom and realize why their parents were so opposed to them dating, namely, that they're half-siblings. But they're very much in love and she says that, due to complications in her last pregnancy, she can no longer have children. It's implied that they will stay together.}}

* In ''[[Tromeo and Juliet]]'', the eponymous pair find out at the end they're brother and sister, but decide to get married anyway. In true Troma fashion, they have hideously deformed kids.

* In the film ''[[Jean De Florette]]'' Papet and his nephew Ugolin drive a hunchback to his death in order to get his land. In the sequel ''[[Manon of the Spring]]'' {{spoiler|Ugolin sees the hunchback's daughter Manon bathing in a pond and falls desperately in love with her. He commits suicide when she rejects him. At the end his uncle Papet learns that Manon's father was his long-lost son. That means Ugolin was in love his own niece.}}

* In the Michael J. Fox film, ''[[The Secret Of My Success]],'' Brantley is asked to escort the wife of his boss to her country home. She takes an immediate liking to him and convinces him to [[Two-Person Pool Party|stay for a swim, which leads to her seducing him.]] Not long after, Brantley realizes that she is his Aunt Vera (by marriage, as his boss is his blood-related uncle, Mr. Prescott). Brantley is disgusted, but Vera isn't - [[Squick|she later pursues him sexually.]]

* In ''[[One Hundred Years of Solitude]]'', the biggest fear of the matriarch Ursula is that some of their descendants born with a pig's tail, in the fear that it could be the end of both her family and the town. This finally happen long time after her death, when the last members of the family, Amaranta Ursula and Aureliano Buendía, {{spoiler|aunt and nephew respectively,}} mate and give birth a pig-tailed baby {{spoiler|who is eaten by ants, after his mother dies in childbirth and his father forgot to take care of him because of his deep grief}}. Both lovers were unaware of their real relation, and Aureliano Buendía only discovers it in the last page of the novel, {{spoiler|just seconds before the destruction of the town}}.

* In Poppy Z. Brite's novel, ''Lost Souls'', a teenage runaway called Nothing meets up with a trio of real vampires led by the captivating Zillah, and becomes Zillah's lover. Halfway through the novel, it's revealed that {{spoiler|Zillah is Nothing's father}}.

** Stated in Janet Morris' ''A Man and His God'', they are definitely brother and sister.

* In the novel ''The Shadow of the Wind'', Julian, an illegitimate child who doesn't know who his father is, has a secret relationship with {{spoiler|Penelope, the daughter of a rich man who mysteriously decided to take Julian in and pay for his education}}. It is, however, not until years later, {{spoiler|long after Penelope has died giving birth to Julian's child}}, that he learns that she was actually his half-sister.

* In ''[[The Nanny]]'', Fran finally meets a guy who seems absolutely perfect for her: Jewish, a doctor, and understands her. At Fran's cousin's wedding, they see each other, and kiss. Cue Fran's mother...

{{quote|'''Sylvia:''' Oh, Fran, I see you've met your cousin.

* ''[[Bored to Death]]'', {{spoiler|Jonathon and his girlfriend find out they're half-siblings.}} Left unresolved due to cancellation.

* In one episode of ''[[Boy Meets World]]'', Eric hooks up with a girl at a [[It Makes Sense in Context|combined school rave/parents' anniversary party]] who turns out to be his cousin. While they didn't get anywhere, he's still thoroughly squicked at the situation.

How it turned you on just knowing it's a sin }}

* Mentioned in the [["Weird Al" Yankovic]] song, ''A Complicated Song'' - "How was I supposed to know / we were both related? (I tell you if I) / Knew she was my cousin / we never would have dated".

** Subverted in the related song (most likely a parody) "Son Don't Go Near the Eskimo" which leads the listener to suspect a similar conclusion, making the big reveal (the girlfriend is not his sister, but she has "the coldest nose in Alaska") somewhat anticlimactic.

* In the folk song "I'm My Own Grandpa," the narrator marries an older woman with an adult daughter. The narrator's father then marries the daughter, making the son's stepdaughter his stepmother. Because the narrator is married to his stepmother's mother, he has become his own step-grandfather. Not actually incest, either.

== Mythology ==

* In the [[Visual Novel]] ''[[Ever 17]]'', {{spoiler|Sara}} is pretty clearly attracted to {{spoiler|the Kid}}, and vice versa... until it turns out that they're long-lost siblings, at which point they switch gears surprisingly smoothly into a platonic relationship, without so much as a moment of disgust over having flirted.

* In the ''[[Baldur's Gate]]'' series, Imoen and the main character (if he's male) have the sort of sorta flirty relationship you'd expect from lifelong friends of opposing genders. For that matter, if the main character's female they have the sorta flirty relationship you'd expect from lifelong friends [[Girls Love|of that sort]]. When ''Baldur's Gate II'' was released and Imoen was not one of the characters with whom you could pursue a romantic relationship, a lot of fans of the original were very surprised and rather disappointed... until {{spoiler|you found out that Imoen was your half-sister}}.

* Where to start with ''[[Fire Emblem]]'', well Genealogy of the Holy War is king, so lets start with it. Two of the biggest examples are Celice and Yuria; upon meeting they seem instantly attracted to each other, but it turns out that {{spoiler|Yuria is Celice's inbreed half-sister, as Celice's mother was brain washed and forced to breed with her (also brainwashed) half-brother}}. In the first half, Claude's most popular pairing is with Sylvia, who is hinted to be his long-lost sister but said by [[Word of God]] to be a distant cousin.

* Shows up occasionally in fanworks made with ''[[The Sims]] 2'': unattended children can be taken away by a social worker, and then adopted into a different family. The adoption code nukes the family connection to the birth parents and creates one with the adoptive parent(s). Some players have used this loophole to have siblings, and twins, adopted into different families, strike up romances. Since there's no genetic penalty for incest, they can even have kids. [http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,11779.0.html Read all about it].

* In the PSX RPG ''[[Dragon Valor]]'', where one of the two possible final generations of Dragon Valors are always a twincestuous pair of brother-and-sister twins.

* In the [[PlayStation 2]] adventure game ''[[Shadow of Destiny]]'', with Eike and Dana living happily ever after, despite secretly being biologically father-and-daughter, in Ending E.

** Well, there's a reason why it's one of the worst endings. And Dana seems to be at least subconsciously aware of the connection on some level and is bothered by it.