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An author might attempt to make this relationship less [[Squick|squicky]] by having the student fulfill the [[Wise Beyond Their Years]] trope or by keeping things to [[Courtly Love]] only.

The relationship may be initiated by a [[Fille Fatale]] or sparked by someone being [[Hot for Teacher]]. Compare [[Mrs. Robinson]]. See [[Likes Older Women]] and [[~~Stacys~~ Mom]] for young people lusting after older people in general, [[Precocious Crush]] for a more innocent variant, and [[Mentor Ship]]. There's a version specific to magic users called [[Merlin and Nimue]], which takes its cue from the [[King Arthur|Arthurian Mythos]] where Merlin formed such a pair with several women.

The relationship may be initiated by a [[Fille Fatale]] or sparked by someone being [[Hot for Teacher]]. Compare [[Mrs. Robinson]]. See [[Likes Older Women]] and [[Stacy's Mom]] for young people lusting after older people in general, [[Precocious Crush]] for a more innocent variant, and [[Mentor Ship]]. There's a version specific to magic users called [[Merlin and Nimue]], which takes its cue from the [[King Arthur|Arthurian Mythos]] where Merlin formed such a pair with several women.

This group of tropes is among [[The Oldest Ones in The Book]]. Although generally frowned upon in [[Real Life]] today, it's had varying levels of acceptance throughout history. It was most famously acceptable in [[Ancient Greece]], where it took the form of [[Lover and Beloved]].

==== Hot for Teacher ====

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* In ''[[Honey I Shrunk the Kids (TV)|Honey I Shrunk the Kids]]'', Amy fantasizes about her history teacher who is too old for her. She then uses a time machine to go back to 1976 so he would be the appropriate age.

* In ''[[Law and Order Special Victims Unit]]'', a case featured a young high school teacher being raped by one of her students. The kicker? Said teacher was played by [[Sabrina the Teenage Witch|Melissa Joan Hart]], and the student was played by [[Veronica Mars|Cassidy Casablanca]].

* In the ''[[~~Noahs~~ Arc]]'' movie, {{spoiler|Brandon has a crush on his teacher Chance, who consistently ignores his advances....until Chance is having problems in his own relationship. Chance gives in for one night, but things return to the [[Status Quo]] afterwards}}.

* In the ''[[Noah's Arc]]'' movie, {{spoiler|Brandon has a crush on his teacher Chance, who consistently ignores his advances....until Chance is having problems in his own relationship. Chance gives in for one night, but things return to the [[Status Quo]] afterwards}}.

* In ''[[Glee]]''; when Rachel Berry gets a crush on Mr Schuester, he reacts [[Oh Crap|with horror]], remembering the dreadful outcome of the ''last'' student to have a crush on him. The old student then comes into play, giving Rachel advice about why she's crushing on Mr Schue, leading to a [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]] when Mr Schue tells Rachel that one day she'll find a man who values her for herself. Awwwwwwwwwwww!!

* Another three-episode arc in the third season of Glee deals with Puck's crush on Shelby Corcoran. He plays the Van Halen song "Hot For Teacher" for her (among other things). Gets Squicky when you consider she's Rachel's mom (Puck and Rachel dated briefly in the first season) and she adopted baby Beth (his daughter by Quinn).

* An episode of ''[[Teachers]]'' had the rare variant of a gay pupil having a crush on one of the teachers. Also has a jarring case of [[Hey ~~Its~~ That Guy]], with the gay pupil in question being played by the woman-obsessed [[Casanova Wannabe|Jay]] from [[The Inbetweeners]].

* An episode of ''[[Teachers]]'' had the rare variant of a gay pupil having a crush on one of the teachers. Also has a jarring case of [[Hey It's That Guy]], with the gay pupil in question being played by the woman-obsessed [[Casanova Wannabe|Jay]] from [[The Inbetweeners]].

* In ''[[Arrested Development (TV)|Arrested Development]]'' George Michael develops a crush on his [[Heather Graham|ethics teacher]]. His tentative attempts to explain this to his father lead him to believe his son is trying to get them together, and he ends up dating her.

* Briefly touched in ''[[Cold Case (TV)|Cold Case]]''; in one episode, a student had a crush on his idealistic teacher, who helped set his life on the right path. However, when he grew up and became a teacher himself, he understood why there was a line that teachers and students could not cross.

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* In ''[[Durarara]]'', Prof. Nasujima has a rather obvious thing for his student Anri. In his case, however, it's more of an indication that he's a giant creep than a case of forbidden love (especially since it's implied that Anri is hardly his first in this regard).

** It's shown that his first relationship with a student was mutually consensual, but seriously unhealthy, and he was the one to quit it since the girl was even a bigger creep than he, and he was seriously afraid for his safety. He really should have learned his lesson that time, considering Anri's big secret.

* Naruko Yokoshima, the only teacher ever seen in ''[[Seitokai Yakuindomo]]'', is a [[Christmas Cake]] [[Bottle Fairy]] who's way too excited about former [[One Gender School|all-girl Ousai]] becoming co-ed. Her main victim is Takatoshi Tsuda, [[The One Guy]], of whom she has high hopes [[Likes Older Women|liking older women]]. She has nearly taken advantage of him when she locked him up together with her in a room.

* Naruko Yokoshima, the only teacher ever seen in ''[[Seitokai Yakuindomo]]'', is a [[Christmas Cake]] [[Bottle Fairy]] who's way too excited about former [[One-Gender School|all-girl Ousai]] becoming co-ed. Her main victim is Takatoshi Tsuda, [[The One Guy]], of whom she has high hopes [[Likes Older Women|liking older women]]. She has nearly taken advantage of him when she locked him up together with her in a room.

* In ''[[Loveless]]'' a source of major [[Fetish Fuel]] is the relationship between Ritsu and his student Soubi, he teaches Soubi lessons about how to take pain (these feature a whip and a very shirtless Soubi) and later {{spoiler|goes on to take the boys virginity.}}

* In [[Dear S]], Mitsuka-sensei is pretty much hot for [[Anything That Moves]], meaning that ALL of her students have to deal with her teaching sexually-explicit foreign language lessons (that she wrote herself) while she's wearing nothing but skimpy lingerie. Even the male students find this [[Fetish Retardant|more annoying than anything else.]]

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== Comics ==

* One of [[X-Men (Comic Book)|Professor Xavier's]] deepest secrets was that he was in love with Jean Grey as a student. His [[Super Powered Evil Side]], Onslaught, was all too happy to share this with her, much to Jean's horror.

* One of [[X-Men (Comic Book)|Professor Xavier's]] deepest secrets was that he was in love with Jean Grey as a student. His [[Super-Powered Evil Side]], Onslaught, was all too happy to share this with her, much to Jean's horror.

* [[Spider-Man|Professor Miles Warren]] was infatuated with his student [[I Let Gwen Stacy Die|Gwen Stacy]], but refused to admit it, convincing himself that he saw her as the daughter he never had. Her death sent him off the deep end and led to the story that would, decades later, be revived as [[The Clone Saga]], thus proving that teachers falling for students can never lead to anything good.

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== Literature ==

* A rather hilarious introduction from an extremely NSFW erotica story features the (gay) male narrator commenting on the [[Double Standard|paradox]] of a female teacher who indulges in romantic interludes with her students being simply reprimanded and the boys congratulated, whereas if the teacher were ''male'' but the situation the same, he'd be jailed, run out of town, and/or lynched.

* According to [[Word of God]], [[Black Hole Sue|Bella's]] science teacher in the first book of ''[[Twilight (Literature)|Twilight]]'' was [[So Beautiful ~~Its~~ a Curse|attracted to her.]]

* According to [[Word of God]], [[Black Hole Sue|Bella's]] science teacher in the first book of ''[[Twilight (Literature)|Twilight]]'' was [[So Beautiful It's a Curse|attracted to her.]]

* Erik for Christine in ''[[Phantom of the Opera]]''.

* In Michael Lowenthal's ''Avoidance'', 28-year-old Jeremy works as assistant director of a boys' summer camp where there is a strong emphasis on men mentoring boys. Jeremy agonises over his sudden attraction to 14-year-old Max, one of his charges. {{spoiler|Turns out that Jeremy's own former mentor Ruff and the camp director Charlie both have similar predilections, but unlike Jeremy have used the mentor role to force themselves on boys or coerce them into sex. . Things are complicated by Jeremy's recollection that when he was 14, he desired the 50-something Ruff.}} There's a backstory in which, a few years ago, Jeremy had a friendship with a 13-year-old boy to whom he seems to have been subconsciously attracted.

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* If you play a male character in [[Knights of the Old Republic]] 2, there are hints that Atris was infatuated with the Exile. Especially apparent when she force lightnings the Handmaiden in a fit of jealous rage.

** Hell, even if you're a female Kreia tells you that Atris loved you.

* There's a rather [[Squick|squicky]] example in [[Atlach Nacha]]. Iguchi-sensei is the swim coach for [[Genki Girl]] Watanabe Tsugumi. He also happens to stalk her and attempts to rape her. Things don't end well when the [[Tall Dark and Bishoujo|main]] [[Giant Spider|character]] shows up...

* There's a rather [[Squick|squicky]] example in [[Atlach Nacha]]. Iguchi-sensei is the swim coach for [[Genki Girl]] Watanabe Tsugumi. He also happens to stalk her and attempts to rape her. Things don't end well when the [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo|main]] [[Giant Spider|character]] shows up...

* Quistis in ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]'' infamously makes advances on her student Squall during the first part of the game. Though their age ranges are compatible (she's eighteen, he's seventeen) Squall still points out that it's incredibly unprofessional of her. {{spoiler|Later she realizes that her feelings for Squall were not romantic at all, causing her much embarrassment}}.

* In [[World of Warcraft]], Stalvan Mistmantle has one-sided feelings for his female student. The age gap is never quantified, but he claims that he's only a few years older than she is, while she refers to him as an old man. His feelings are not reciprocated and are portrayed as an obsession that [[Love Makes You Evil|turns him evil]] and leads him to [[If I Can't Have You|kill her]] [[Murder the Hypotenuse|and her lover]].

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== Anime & Manga ==

* ''[[Marmalade Boy]]'' plays this trope straight with the relationship between Miki's best friend Meiko Akizuki and her teacher Shinichi Namura. Also one of the few times a match up like this is portrayed in a sympathetic manner, specially due to [[Star Crossed Lovers|the crap they go through]]. {{spoiler|And they ''do'' get [[Happily Married]] by the end of the series -- the last episode of the anime series features their wedding party.}}

* ''[[Marmalade Boy]]'' plays this trope straight with the relationship between Miki's best friend Meiko Akizuki and her teacher Shinichi Namura. Also one of the few times a match up like this is portrayed in a sympathetic manner, specially due to [[Star-Crossed Lovers|the crap they go through]]. {{spoiler|And they ''do'' get [[Happily Married]] by the end of the series -- the last episode of the anime series features their wedding party.}}

* ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura (Manga)|Cardcaptor Sakura]]''

** The manga is probably the most extreme example, featuring a fourth grade teacher giving his student an engagement ring -- and portraying the relationship as wholesome and innocent.

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* The ''raison d'etre'' of ''[[Please Teacher (Anime)|Please Teacher]]''.

** With the justification that the main character had a strange medical condition that, at one point, left him in a coma long enough that his body didn't age for three years - leaving him chronologically 18 though mentally (and physically) still 15. This is less of a justification for the age difference (Mizuho's age being undisclosed), and more to enable Kei to marry and live with with Mizuho legally. Ironically, the issue seems less about the age difference and more about her being Kei's teacher, making their romance an awkward situation the two are called upon to conceal as it is a breach of the school's professional propriety.

** In a humorous twist, after Kei confirms his "marriage" to the principal, the principal reveals his own [[May December Romance]] with a former student to them, leading both Kei and Mizuho to wonder whether it was entirely legal. Their wondering aloud about the girl's age, however, has the principal coughing at their moral inconsistency, prompting them not to inquire into the matter any further.

** In a humorous twist, after Kei confirms his "marriage" to the principal, the principal reveals his own [[May-December Romance]] with a former student to them, leading both Kei and Mizuho to wonder whether it was entirely legal. Their wondering aloud about the girl's age, however, has the principal coughing at their moral inconsistency, prompting them not to inquire into the matter any further.

** It's implied at the end of the anime that Koishi is also starting to get romantically involved with her teacher Yamada-sensei.

* In the classic anime ''[[Maison Ikkoku]]'' the beautiful widow Otonashi Kyoko née Chigusa successfully married her high school teacher, Otonashi Soichiro.

* ''[[Ayashi no Ceres]]'' features a minor plot involving Yuki Urakawa, a girl who's in a relationship with her science teacher. {{spoiler|Though it turns out that he's just using her to test out the drug that awakens the latent powers of the descendants of celestial maidens.}}

* ''[[Yes Precure 5|Yes! Precure 5]]'' has Coco and Nozomi. Nozomi is a middle school student, and Coco is her teacher. Oh, and he's actually [[Interspecies Romance|a small extradimensional creature resembling a plush tanuki]] (and Nozomi is fully aware of this from the day they met). This romance is portrayed as not being unusual in any way, and nobody ever questions it. To be fair, it's pretty clear that their romantic relationship has nothing to do with their student-teacher relationship.

* A high school romance is the main storyline of the Korean comic ''[[Unbalance X Unbalance]]''. It has the younger male student and the older female teacher dynamic. It's more of a [[Will They or Won't They]] thing so far, but still. There's also [[Les Yay]] version of this in the [[Manhwa]].

* A high school romance is the main storyline of the Korean comic ''[[Unbalance X Unbalance]]''. It has the younger male student and the older female teacher dynamic. It's more of a [[Will They or Won't They?]] thing so far, but still. There's also [[Les Yay]] version of this in the [[Manhwa]].

* In ''[[Fruits Basket]]'', Kyoko married Katsuya just after he finished being a student teacher there.

* {{spoiler|Alice}} in the ''[[Serial Experiments Lain]]'' anime is shown {{spoiler|masturbating to a fantasy involving her teacher}}. The final episode {{spoiler|shows an older Alice married to him.}}

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* In ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]] -- Gurren Academy'', a manga [[Alternate Universe]] of ''Gurren Lagann'', Dayakka and Kiyoh serve as this.

* The [[Shoujo]] manga, ''Chocolate Cosmos''.

* Sensei and Ninomiya-kun, the [[Show Within a Show]] of ''[[Minami Ke]]''. A major example of [[Stylistic Suck]] as well, with the 'relationship' mainly involving [[Say My Name|the principal characters shouting each other's names]] [[~~Cliche~~ Storm|while in utterly cliched soap opera settings.]]

* Sensei and Ninomiya-kun, the [[Show Within a Show]] of ''[[Minami Ke]]''. A major example of [[Stylistic Suck]] as well, with the 'relationship' mainly involving [[Say My Name|the principal characters shouting each other's names]] [[Cliché Storm|while in utterly cliched soap opera settings.]]

* In ''[[Gokusen]]'', delinquent [[Bishonen]] student Shin falls hard for nerdy yakuza-heir teacher Kumiko {{spoiler|not to mention ends up with her in the end, though it's after he graduates}}.

* In the manga ''[[Faster Than a Kiss]]'', 16-year-old Kaji Fumino and her teacher, 24-year-old Ojiro Kazuma actually ''get married'' pre-book. It's explained that Fumino and her four year old brother are orphans, and are tired of being passed around to relatives. Her and her teacher end up in a quick spat where she challenges him and says, "Then, can you marry me and take care of us?!" He takes her seriously and they end up married. As the book progresses, they both grow to seriously fall in love with each other.

* One arc of ''[[The World God Only Knows (Anime)|The World God Only Knows]]'' features a [[Hot Blooded]] student teacher as the girl Keima has to woo over. Getting her attention isn't that difficult, with his playing in class, so she views him as a troubled but brilliant student that she absolutely must help (she's that kind of person).

* As the title suggests, this is the basis of the plot for ''[[My Wife Is a High School Girl]]''. Student Asami and teacher Kyosuke marry and have to keep their relationship a secret to outsiders. [[Hilarity Ensues]] in one episode when a woman who was told they were siblings spies on them and ends up getting an [[Brother Sister Incest|even worse idea]]. Also, Asami's father's response to the marriage is to make them sign a [[Jail Bait Wait]] contract until she finishes school.

* As the title suggests, this is the basis of the plot for ''[[My Wife Is a High School Girl]]''. Student Asami and teacher Kyosuke marry and have to keep their relationship a secret to outsiders. [[Hilarity Ensues]] in one episode when a woman who was told they were siblings spies on them and ends up getting an [[Brother-Sister Incest|even worse idea]]. Also, Asami's father's response to the marriage is to make them sign a [[Jail Bait Wait]] contract until she finishes school.

* [[Playing With a Trope|Not quite played straight]] in ''[[No Bra]]'' where Mizutani-sensei has started throwing herself at Masato not because she has feelings for him or actually wants him, but because she doesn't want to get kicked out of the apartment (she's been [[Pretty Freeloaders|freeloading]] there under the pretense of keeping an eye on Masato and Yuki) and knows Masato has trouble saying no to a girl if she's getting physical with him.

* In ''Teacher's Pet'', Misuzu-sensei ends up having sex with her fifteen-year-old student, Masahiro. Who is also the younger brother of her co-worker and boyfriend. Oops.

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* In [[Speed Grapher]], 33-years-old Saiga starts as a mentor figure to 15-year-old Kagura, and teaches her about the outside world. And the [[Your Mileage May Vary|saddest/worst/best/whatever]] thing is that, considering the [[Crapsack World]] they live in, this is actually the ''best'' relationship they have in their whole lives. {{spoiler|And it's ultimately what ''saves'' her life.}}

* The ''[[Baccano (Light Novel)|Baccano]]!'' light novels suggest that the mother of Huey's children is his former alchemy teacher, Renee.

* ''[[Twenty Year Old Girl X Thirty Year Old Maiden]]'' is a [[Girls Love]] manga about a [[Teacher Student Romance]], although the student in question is in college which decreases the [[Squick]] factor.

* ''[[Twenty Year Old Girl X Thirty Year Old Maiden]]'' is a [[Girls Love]] manga about a [[Teacher-Student Romance]], although the student in question is in college which decreases the [[Squick]] factor.

* ''Black Bird'' has a relationship between the main character, Misao, and her teacher, Kyo. To be fair, he's only her teacher because the head of a demon clan who marries Misao brings prosperity to that clan.

* In ''[[Kiss X Sis]]'' Keita and his teacher both seem to have a strong attraction towards each other, despite both knowing that a student/teacher relationship is wrong.

* In ''[[Ciel the Last Autumn Story]]'', one begins to develop between the main character, Yvienne, and her teacher, Krohiten. Though to be fair, there are [[Interspecies Romance|plenty of]] [[Mayfly December Romance|bigger issues]] with their budding relationship than the fact that he's teaching her magic.

* In ''[[Ciel the Last Autumn Story]]'', one begins to develop between the main character, Yvienne, and her teacher, Krohiten. Though to be fair, there are [[Interspecies Romance|plenty of]] [[Mayfly-December Romance|bigger issues]] with their budding relationship than the fact that he's teaching her magic.

* In the manga, ''[[Gakuen Alice]]'' shows {{spoiler|Mikan Sakura's parents, Izumi and Yuka}} are an example of this. {{spoiler|Izumi}} was a teacher at the academy from the time {{spoiler|Yuka}} was in elementary school. The attraction was eventually mutual, and was particularly ''developed'' when she was in high school.

* ''[[Yuru Yuri]]'' throws some pretty blatant [[Les Yay|hints]] that [[Student Council President|Rise]] [[The Quiet One|Matsumoto]] and [[Mad Scientist|Nishigaki-Sensei]] have...something going on between the two of them.

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** In season two, there was the episode "I Only Have Eyes For You," where a pair of poltergeists repeatedly acts out moments from their teacher/student romance--including the student's anguished murder of his older lover, who tried to break it off, and suicide--by possessing hosts to play the part.

** At first Buffy's relationship with Riley ''should'' fit, or at least border on, this trope -- in real life, some universities consider it ''very'' dodgy for a freshman to date ''any'' graduate student, let alone the TA of a class you're in.

* ''[[Ally McBeal]]'' defended a teacher who slept with her student in a [[Ripped ~~From~~ the Headlines]] case.

* ''[[Ally McBeal]]'' defended a teacher who slept with her student in a [[Ripped from the Headlines]] case.

* In the fourth season of ''[[Degrassi the Next Generation]]'', Paige has an affair with the hunky student-teacher Matt. Their relationship is portrayed as a completely normal and decent thing to do, except that school rules unfairly ban it. As Paige points out to him, he's only three years older than her. A girl who hates Paige discovers her secret and taunts her, but when the relationship is exposed, ''no kid in the entire school cares'', even though Paige has plenty of enemies. Matt gets fired, and the two of them think this is a good thing since now they can be together in public. Then he suddenly moves away, in a scene that ends with Paige's classic line: "You're dumping me and giving me drugs?!"

** Darcy is struggling after being a victim of an attack, she tells Snake (Mr. Simpson) her secret. He's the only person she wants to let in and becomes desperately attached to him. And flirty. "I think I can do better."

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* Chris successfully seduces his Psychology teacher Angie in ''[[Skins]]''.

* Played for laughs (male student/female teacher) in an episode of ''[[Blossom]]''. When Blossom is standing for student president, her campaign team discovers her opponent had a relationship with one of his teachers. The ridiculously seductive teacher (with her face pixellated) is interviewed, and claims she hadn't realised he was a student. The interviewer points out she gave him an A, to which she replies "He earned it". Blossom's campaign team, meanwhile, work very hard at presenting it as entirely the student's fault.

* This trope was a major plot point in ''Saved By The Bell: The College Years'', in which Kelly dated her professor. She even dropped his class in order to avoid the awkwardness. Zack was not amused, and gave Lasky a hell of a [[What the Hell Hero|chewing-out]] at one point.

* This trope was a major plot point in ''Saved By The Bell: The College Years'', in which Kelly dated her professor. She even dropped his class in order to avoid the awkwardness. Zack was not amused, and gave Lasky a hell of a [[What the Hell, Hero?|chewing-out]] at one point.

* ''[[Dead Like Me]]'' had George's father dating a student of his, but it's not ''as'' bad as other examples, as this is a relationship in college, not high school (or [[Squick|elementary school]]). Note that this relationship did break up a marriage, and didn't last very long anyway. Serves them right.

* In the ''[[Rumpole of the Bailey]]'' episode "Rumpole and the course of true love" the case Rumpole is defending is a young high school teacher who slept with his student. Privately none of the lawyers seem to care very much, least of all the prosecuting attorney. She reasons that the girl was almost 16 anyway and "probably asked for it."

* On ''Swingtown,'' Laurie Miller is ferociously pursuing her hot teacher Mr. Stephens. He discourages her affection and when they do get together, they avert the trope since he's not her teacher any more..

* ''~Dawson's Creek~'' had Pacey and his English teacher have an affair. Most of the adults involved took it seriously, while Pacey's friends, though somewhat disbelieving, didn't see anything wrong with it. Considering that they were teenagers and their friend seemed happy, that's fairly realistic no matter what the genders involved.

* ''[[Law and Order Criminal Intent|Law & Order: Criminal Intent]]'' did a fairly obvious by-the-numbers [[Ripped ~~From~~ the Headlines]] episode based on the Letourneau case, even casting an actress (Anne Dudek) who kinda looks like her.

* ''[[Law and Order Criminal Intent|Law & Order: Criminal Intent]]'' did a fairly obvious by-the-numbers [[Ripped from the Headlines]] episode based on the Letourneau case, even casting an actress (Anne Dudek) who kinda looks like her.

* This featured in ''[[Neighbours]]'' with Rachael meeting and getting the number of a cute twentysomething who turns out to be her new teacher. Initially he gets mad (he thought she was in University) and tries not to encourage her, but she persists and they date in secret for a bit, then the writers obviously got bored and had him get busted, allowing for a long court case, shortish prison stay, then another attempt at a relationship (he isn't teaching anymore of course), until the overwhemlingly negative attitudes of everyone around them prompt him to move away.

* Happened in ''[[Soap]]'' with Billy and his teacher. [[Contrived Coincidence|She just happens to leave her job at the school right as he turns eighteen]], but the relationship ''still'' doesn't last. Oh, and ''he'''s the one who breaks it off {{spoiler|(which causes her to become a [[Yandere]])}}.

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** The fact that Scully has had two affairs with instructors was clumsily handled. Given that the affair with her professor shook her so badly she left medical school for the FBI makes it very unlikely she would seek something similar in the FBI Academy. Especially given that early X-Files Scully is not someone ruled by her emotions but very much by logic and reasoning.

** Both these relationships do establish Scully's obvious "type" and might partially explain her attraction to Mulder. In "En Ami", [[Big Bad]] CGB Spender points out that Scully is attracted to powerful men, but fear their power.

* In the [[~~Thirty~~ Rock (TV)|30 Rock]] episode "Queen of Jordan", Susan Sarandon plays Frank's former teacher, who was in a relationship with him when he was 14. Surprisingly(considering the [[Double Standard]]), based on Frank's apparent age and the fact that the teacher was only recently released from prison, it appears that she served a significantly longer sentence than is typically associated with female-teacher/male-student cases.

* In the [[30 Rock (TV)|30 Rock]] episode "Queen of Jordan", Susan Sarandon plays Frank's former teacher, who was in a relationship with him when he was 14. Surprisingly(considering the [[Double Standard]]), based on Frank's apparent age and the fact that the teacher was only recently released from prison, it appears that she served a significantly longer sentence than is typically associated with female-teacher/male-student cases.

* Steven and Selina on ''[[Home and Away]]'', and later Lucas and Naomi. In the latter case, the two had met and hooked up before she knew she'd be teaching in Summer Bay.

* In ''[[Gossip Girl]]'' Dan has an affair with his young teacher, Miss Carr when he was in his senior year at high school. For about 2 episodes.

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** In ''[[The Old Republic]]'', Jedi Consulars, Jedi Knights, and Sith Warriors all have attractive female padawans (apprentice in the Sith Warrior's case) who are romance options. The Sith Inquisitor is the only Force-using class that ''doesn't'' have this as an option, their apprentice being a reptilian humanoid...

** Sith Inquisitor get Ashara. She's not formally his apprentice, but that's a minor technicality reality vividly argues otherwise.

* In ''[[Tokimeki Memorial]] 2'', the player's teacher, [[Cool Big Sis|Asou Kasumi]], is available as a love interest. [[Teacher Student Romance]] is more common in the ''Girl's Side'' games; in "1st Love," both homeroom teacher [[Stern Teacher|Himuro]] [[Defrosting Ice Queen|Reiichi]] and school principal [[Dirty Old Man|Amanohashi]] [[Lolicon|Ikkaku]] are available, and in "2nd Kiss," there's [[Absent Minded Professor|Wakaouji]] [[Kindhearted Cat Lover|Takafumi]]. In all cases, the teachers are [[Nintendo Hard|more difficult to win over]] than classmates, in part because they're well aware that a relationship with a student is inappropriate.

* In ''[[Tokimeki Memorial]] 2'', the player's teacher, [[Cool Big Sis|Asou Kasumi]], is available as a love interest. [[Teacher-Student Romance]] is more common in the ''Girl's Side'' games; in "1st Love," both homeroom teacher [[Stern Teacher|Himuro]] [[Defrosting Ice Queen|Reiichi]] and school principal [[Dirty Old Man|Amanohashi]] [[Lolicon|Ikkaku]] are available, and in "2nd Kiss," there's [[Absent-Minded Professor|Wakaouji]] [[Kindhearted Cat Lover|Takafumi]]. In all cases, the teachers are [[Nintendo Hard|more difficult to win over]] than classmates, in part because they're well aware that a relationship with a student is inappropriate.

* In ''[[Grim Grimoire]]'', Opalnaria, the Necromancy teacher, is extremely distrustful of any student/teacher relationships because her former teacher was assassinated by her student lover. Opalnaria herself teaches Hiram, and the guy eventually declares his love for her, shocking the hell out of Opalnaria. She even tries to say how the relationship wouldn't work because she is actually [[Older Than They Look|about 100 years old]], but by the end of the game one of the teachers informs the main character that Opalnaria {{spoiler|cast a spell on herself to make herself look like a schoolgirl so that she could be with Hiram}}.

* In ''[[Magical Diary]]'' the Horse Hall PC can end up forced into marriage with one of her professors. It's up to the player's choices whether the PC was at all interested in him, and whether or not any attachment develops between them later. Otherwise, they're lined up for a quickie divorce.

* In ''[[Fire Emblem Elibe|Fire Emblem 6]]'', if you get an A support between Roy and Cecilia, they marry at the end of the game.

* In the [[Interspecies Romance|pigeon]] [[Dating Sim]] ''[[Hatoful Boyfriend (Video Game)|Hatoful Boyfriend]]'', one of your romance options is your math teacher [[Absent Minded Professor|Kazuaki]]. He's initially reluctant to get into a relationship with you because {{spoiler|he believes he doesn't have room in his heart to love anyone after the emotional trauma of his brother's death}}, but if you successfully romance him, {{spoiler|he [[I Will Wait for You|promises to wait at the school so that you can come to him again]] when you're grown up if you still love him then}}.

* In the [[Interspecies Romance|pigeon]] [[Dating Sim]] ''[[Hatoful Boyfriend (Video Game)|Hatoful Boyfriend]]'', one of your romance options is your math teacher [[Absent-Minded Professor|Kazuaki]]. He's initially reluctant to get into a relationship with you because {{spoiler|he believes he doesn't have room in his heart to love anyone after the emotional trauma of his brother's death}}, but if you successfully romance him, {{spoiler|he [[I Will Wait for You|promises to wait at the school so that you can come to him again]] when you're grown up if you still love him then}}.

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* One episode of ''[[Shark]]'' involves characters theorizing that the motive a boy had for the murder of his father involved a sexual relationship with his art teacher. Stark quotes the public official alluded to a the top of this article. {{spoiler|The theory was inaccurate.}}

* One episode of ''[[The George Lopez Show]]'' addressed the [[Double Standard]] of this trope.

* Happens with [[Girl of the Week|almost distrubing frequency]] in ''[[~~Twenty One Jump Street|~~21 Jump Street]]''. It helps that Johnny Depp's character was [[Older Than They Look|in his mid-twenties]], not actually a student, and in the most [[Egregious]] example, met before he was actually assigned to her school.

* Happens with [[Girl of the Week|almost distrubing frequency]] in ''[[21 Jump Street]]''. It helps that Johnny Depp's character was [[Older Than They Look|in his mid-twenties]], not actually a student, and in the most [[Egregious]] example, met before he was actually assigned to her school.

* Subverted in ''10 Things I Hate About You''; in order to shed her 'good-girl' image, Bianca fakes a rumor about her relationship with an older man, who is later though to be the Geometry teacher, Mr. Ross. Things go too far, of course, and nobody believes that Bianca was lying. {{spoiler|Mr. Ross never heard the rumor, but was revealed to, in fact, have a relationship with ''another'' girl, and sent to prison.}}

* ''[[Medium]]'': Indirectly causes a lot of emotional stress for psychic teen Ariel Dubois: {{spoiler|Her college interviewer's dead husband fathered a child with one of his students, and asks Ariel to erase the file with incriminating photos on his (now his wife's) computer in exchange for a perfect interview with his wife. Ariel does so, but then decides to do the right thing and restore the file. The interviewer returns to tell Ariel that she's going to help the baby financially, but unfortunately for Ariel's future she also thinks that she planted the file after being dumped by her husband. Even the dead husband is stunned despite knowing what would happen.}} <br />''The very next episode,'' Ariel starts losing time ''[[Futurama]]''-style, jumping hours, then ''years'' into the future where she's [[Happily Married]] to a friend from high school and they have an adorable daughter. {{spoiler|She's certain the time-skips have to do with a teacher who was murdered right before the decade-long jump, and right before her mom is about to tell her how the teacher's kid ties into all this, she's thrown ahead another seven years -- where her mother is ''dead'', killed that same night. Desperate for answers, she goes to see the dead teacher's son, who's ''the spitting image of high school sweetheart husband '''who's about to kill her''''' -- and then she wakes up, safe in the present and a few hours before her teacher's murder by her teenage babydaddy (he had a full-ride scholarship and wasn't about to risk it for his desperate ex-lover).}} Needless to say, after all that Ariel really, really needs a hug.

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== Web Original ==

* Short story [http://www.fictionpress.com/s/2832171/1/One_Gay_Teacher/ ''One Gay Teacher''] is about a high school Graphics teacher named Mr Rheem who gets involved in these sorts of situations a lot. In the first half of the story, one of his students, [[Stalker With a Crush|Rosalynn]], falls for him and attempts to seduce him, much to the chagrin of her best friend [[Only Sane Man|Amy]]. It turns out that Mr Rheem is gay, and thus the relationship could never work, but that doesn't stop Rosalynn from breaking into his house so she can be amongst his things. {{spoiler|Mr Rheem ends up shooting both Rosalynn and Amy.}} In the second half of the story, Mr Rheem is now in a relationship with Michael, one of his male students, and the relationship is being kept a secret. Michael's best friend, [[Cluster F Bomb|Cali]], discovers this relationship through finding photos of Michael on Mr Rheem's computer, and also photos of {{spoiler|Amy and Rosalynn's dead bodies.}} The story ends with Mr Rheem {{spoiler|shooting Michael, but not killing him}} and Cali arriving on the scene to find that Mr Rheem has been knocked out.

* Short story [http://www.fictionpress.com/s/2832171/1/One_Gay_Teacher/ ''One Gay Teacher''] is about a high school Graphics teacher named Mr Rheem who gets involved in these sorts of situations a lot. In the first half of the story, one of his students, [[Stalker With a Crush|Rosalynn]], falls for him and attempts to seduce him, much to the chagrin of her best friend [[Only Sane Man|Amy]]. It turns out that Mr Rheem is gay, and thus the relationship could never work, but that doesn't stop Rosalynn from breaking into his house so she can be amongst his things. {{spoiler|Mr Rheem ends up shooting both Rosalynn and Amy.}} In the second half of the story, Mr Rheem is now in a relationship with Michael, one of his male students, and the relationship is being kept a secret. Michael's best friend, [[Cluster F-Bomb|Cali]], discovers this relationship through finding photos of Michael on Mr Rheem's computer, and also photos of {{spoiler|Amy and Rosalynn's dead bodies.}} The story ends with Mr Rheem {{spoiler|shooting Michael, but not killing him}} and Cali arriving on the scene to find that Mr Rheem has been knocked out.

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'''Chris:''' "I think Mrs. Griffin's hot!"<br />

'''Lois:''' Go to your room. }}

* Skirted around by ''[[Kim Possible]]''. The producers seem very much aware of, and quite responsive to, the [[Periphery Demographic]] that includes [[Foe Yay|shippers of the teen heroine with her]] [[Dark Action Girl]] [[Arch Enemy]] Shego, so they surely knew exactly what the fans would make of Shego turning good, becoming Kim's teacher and friend and staying in the Possible family's spare room. Kim describes her as "[[Like Brother and Sister|like a]] [[Onee Sama|big sister!]]" A thousand voices [[Squee]] in shippy joy and suddenly fall to [[Les Yay|writing]] [[Fan Fiction]] [[Les Yay|and drawing fanart]].

* Skirted around by ''[[Kim Possible]]''. The producers seem very much aware of, and quite responsive to, the [[Periphery Demographic]] that includes [[Foe Yay|shippers of the teen heroine with her]] [[Dark Action Girl]] [[Arch Enemy]] Shego, so they surely knew exactly what the fans would make of Shego turning good, becoming Kim's teacher and friend and staying in the Possible family's spare room. Kim describes her as "[[Like Brother and Sister|like a]] [[Onee-Sama|big sister!]]" A thousand voices [[Squee]] in shippy joy and suddenly fall to [[Les Yay|writing]] [[Fan Fiction]] [[Les Yay|and drawing fanart]].

* In ''[[Birdz]]'', Eddie Storkowitz has the hots for his teacher, Miss Finch. It's entirely one-sided, though.