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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]].
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== Hot for Teacher ==
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* ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura]]'' featured a 4th grade girl, Rika Sasaki, in a relationship with her homeroom teacher, Yoshiyuki Terada. Yeah. To their credit, the manga made it clear they'll be waiting until they're married before they actually ''do'' anything sexually intimate (which would be at the age of at least 16 in Japan), and the anime made the crush [[Precocious Crush|completely one-sided on the girl's part]].
** Also, the main characters parents. In a subversion they met when Nadeshiko was in
** Subverted with Kaho and Touya. They ''did'' have a brief fling, yeah, but only after Kaho finished her substitute teacher stint in his school. Not to mention, Kaho cut the relationship since she was going abroads to finish her education {{spoiler|and not to mention, she already knew that in the future, [[Second Love|they'd fall for other persons]] (Eriol for her, and [[Ho Yay|Yukito]] for [[Bi the Way|Touya]]) and become [[Platonic Life Partners]]}}
* In ''[[Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch]]'', Hanon has a gigantic infatuation with her music teacher, who she refers to as Tarou-chan.
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* [[All There in the Manual|According to the guidebook]], Hanabusa of ''[[Nabari no Ou]]'' was Tobari's teacher in his senior year of high school.
* ''[[Mahoromatic]]'': Miss Shikijo seems extremely attracted to Suguru
* There
* A quite important subplot in Setona Mizushiro's ''[[Kurobara Alice]]''. The local [[Hot Teacher]] Azusa Kikukawa and her student Kouya are secretly dating... {{spoiler|and then, when Kouya is seriously injured in an accident, Azusa makes a [[Deal with the Devil]] (or more exactly, with [[Our Vampires Are Different|a bunch of rather sui-generis vampires]]) to save him: they'll save Kouya's life, and in return Azusa will give her soul to them to place it in the body of a girl named Agniezka, now named ''Alice''. Too bad "Alice" finds Kouya later, and sees in horror that he actually crossed the [[Despair Event Horizon]] and become a boerline [[Empty Shell]].}}
* This was {{spoiler|Miyabi's backstory}} in ''[[Great Teacher Onizuka]]''. She had a crush on her teacher. When she found out he was engaged, she {{spoiler|pretended he had raped her and ruined his reputation as she spread the rumor over the school.}} However, this would backfire on her as {{spoiler|one of her classmates would be expelled for assaulting said teacher and the teacher quit rather than explain his innocence.}}
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* A Hentai/Romance manga called "Teacher and Student" by artist Fuuga revolves around the budding relationship between a student and his teacher when an eviction causes them to move in together. Interestingly, there's a good deal of focus on their own concerns about the relationship, as opposed to being worried about what others will think. {{spoiler|subverted in that by the end, she's resigned and is no longer his teacher.}}
=== Comics ===
* The X-Men have a few of these. Emma Frost's [[Backstory]] miniseries has a teenage Emma developing a crush on her art teacher -- and when her mind-reading powers set in, she learns that he's attracted to her as well. Emma's [[Magnificent Bastard]] of a father gets the teacher fired (and forbids him from ever seeing Emma again). They later meet again when Emma ends up attending a college where he is teaching. There the teacher, Emma, her telepathic roommate, and Emma's new best friend get involved in a love rectangle where the roommate telepathically manipulates the best friend into accusing the teacher of sexual advances in order to remove the two people standing between her and Emma. In response to this revelation, Emma mind wipes her roommate, then uses her own psychic power to hijack her best friend's mind and make everyone think she's a lying, crazy stalker. Afterwords, Emma confesses to the teacher what she did in order to protect him, in the name of being honest with the man she loves in hopes that he would not hold it against her in the event he wanted to begin a relationship with her at last. Unfortunately, finding out that Emma was a mutant AND had used her psychic powers to get her best friend labeled insane causes him to reject Emma, turning her into the cold-blooded villain she would become.
* This student-has-crush-on-teacher version can also be found in ''[[Peanuts]]'.
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* In ''[[Gold Digger]]'', Gina's [[Action Mom|mother]] reminisces with a friend about their martial arts teacher. One night, the friend was about to sneak into her teacher's quarters to bare her soul (among other things) to him, only to find that several of his other students had the exact same idea. Naturally, a fight broke out.
=== Films -- Live Action ===
* The plot of ''[[Rushmore]]'' centers around a love triangle involving a student and his teacher, though it is largely unrequited.
* In the Canadian indie film ''[[Whole New Thing]]'', a young teenager who's been home schooled all his life by parents with somewhat lax notions about appropriateness and boundaries develops a crush on his gay male teacher. Averted in that the boy tries to push the issue and the teacher uncompromisingly shuts him down. Predictably, despite this, the film generated an outcry when it came to mainstream attention.
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* In ''[[Juno]]'', it's mentioned in passing that Juno's best friend Leah has a crush on one of her teachers.
=== Literature ===
* In ''[[Bridge to Terabithia]]'', the male lead has a crush on his teacher([[Zooey Deschanel]] in [[The Film of the Book]]). This is a plot point because {{spoiler|it's the reason he doesn't invite his best friend along on their museum tour, which is why his best friend dies that day}}.
* In another of Paterson's books, ''Jip: His Story'', the eleven-year-old protagonist has similar feelings for his (female) teacher.
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* In ''[[Anne of Green Gables|Anne of Avonlea]]'', Anne receives a rather verbose love letter form one her students [[Les Yay|Annetta Bell]]. Although, the letter is revealed to be [[Plagiarism in Fiction|plagiarized]] from several love letters Annetta's mother's former beau wrote. Annetta insists she really does love Anne with all her heart.
=== Live Action TV ===
* Ezria, generally considered the fan-favorite ship of ''[[Pretty Little Liars]]'' is made of Ezra Fitz, better known as Mr. Fitz, and his student Aria. This is even weirder because Aria's poor, oblivious mother works at the school too. Ezra eventually quits and goes to teach at- wait for it- her father's school. Additionally, Aria's father cheated on her mother with one of his students. The mother is aware of both of these student/teacher relationships... and has done essentially nothing.
* Willow on ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' apparently had something of a crush on Giles. She never acted on it, mostly because she had much larger crushes on Xander and Oz.
** The episode "Teacher's Pet" in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' shown Xander having a crush on his substitute teacher, Miss French {{spoiler|who turns out to be a big, praying mantis creature who likes eating virgins.}}
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* 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 ''[[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 (band)]] 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
* 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 series)|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]]''; 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.
* Invoked by Stephen Colbert during the Wisconsin Teacher's Union Strike. Hi, Stephen!
* Both Bud and Kelly on ''[[Married... with Children]]'' had relationships with teachers.
* Ruby Buckton on ''[[Home and Away]]'', first having a short-lived crush on her English teacher Miles, then two years later falling in love with her music teacher and songwriting partner Liam. The latter did not end well.
* In ''[[Waterloo Road]]'', student Jonah Kirby starts a sexual relationship with Francesca Montoya, his Spanish teacher.
* In ''[[The Wonder Years]]'', Kevin Arnold has a crush on Miss White, who later gets married. Kevin finds her name change to Mrs. Heimer and subsequent pregnancy rather jarring, as they clash with his idealized vision of Miss White.
* Throughout ''[[The Parkers]]'', Nikki Parker, who is attending junior college with her daughter, has the hots for Professor Oglevee. The professor always hated her and avoids her whenever she chases him until by the end of the series, their relationship becomes mutual.
* In ''[[3rd Rock from the Sun]]'', Tommy has a crush on a teacher who rejects his advances. He arranges to sit next to her at a football game. When everyone else stands up to cheer, there is a loud slapping sound, and the fans sit down to reveal Tommy holding his cheek looking hurt while his teacher stares straight ahead looking shocked.
* A less squicky example occurs with Lena and Dwayne in ''[[A Different World]]'' since they are both adults. Lena develops a crush on Dwayne when he starts tutoring her in Calculus (he is also her teacher for the class) and she is crushed when he doesn't reciprocate. Lena later reveals, in a very heartwarming scene with Whitley, Dwayne's girlfriend, that she felt very alone at college since she had never been away from her family and friends before so she latched on to the first person who tried to befriend her.
=== Music ===
* Busted's song "What I Go To School For" was based on a crush their bassist had on a teacher in real life. It's been covered (also [[Disneyfication|Disneyfied]] by The [[Jonas Brothers]] which made it about a Freshman crushing on a Senior.
* The [[Van Halen]] song "Hot for Teacher" is one of the alternate [[Trope Namer|Trope Namers]].
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* The hit "Forelska i lærern" (literally, "In love with the teacher") by the Norwegian band "The Kids" (not to be confused with the Belgian band of the same name).
=== [[Video Games]] ===
* ''[[Persona 3]]'', one of the "social links" the protagonist has to develop is a friendship with another student, a boy who claims to be involved with, and then engaged to, his female homeroom teacher. {{spoiler|It turns out the relationship was all in the boy's head, with the teacher being all but unaware of his fantasy, and horrified when she discovers how the boy thinks of her.}} The weird thing is that in order to improve your friendship with the student (which has positive effects on your game status), the protagonist has to encourage the boy's romantic aspirations even if you realize that it's a very, very bad idea.
** [[Fridge Brilliance|Makes sense from a certain perspective, though.]] It's obvious from very early in the link that Kenji [[Cloudcuckoolander|lives in his own little world]], and has a habit of [[But Thou Must!|not listening to you]] when you try to bring him down to earth. Since you can't really change anything about it, you might as well play along until it all blows up in his face, at which point he needs his supportive friend to help him get over it. Additionally, {{spoiler|the main character is [[Not So Above It All]]. See "Hot for student", below.}}
* In ''[[Professor Layton and the Unwound Future]]'', one of Professor Layton's students has a very obvious crush on him.
** Also hinted in ''[[Professor Layton and The Eternal Diva|Eternal Diva]]'' that his former student Janice also has a crush. {{spoiler|Or is it just Melina talking?}}
* Because the protagonist of ''[[Canvas 2]]'' is a teacher, you're of course going to have several of these. Five, in fact. There are more students with a crush on Hiroki, but they're not heroines.
* In ''[[Katawa Shoujo]]'', Lilly had feelings for her English tutor in the past, and turned down her many [[Love Confession|love confessions]] to save herself for him, but knew that she could never have him, and never confessed. Hisao thinks of such relationships as "taboos born of such things as purity and youth," and is glad Lilly never acted on it.
=== Webcomics ===
* In ''[[Red String]]'', Sayuri Morita develops a crush on Igarashi-sensei when he's the only one who listens to her, is nice to her, etc. She attempts to kiss him when he's asleep in his office but chickens out, and then goes for it when they're singing karaoke together. He rebuffs her since, unfortunately for her, he's too professional to ever pursue such a relationship . . . and he's gay.
* In a [http://www.scarygoround.com/?date=20101013 guest-strip] for ''[[Bad Machinery]]'', Mildred has a dream about her teacher, Ryan Beckwith.
* In ''[[World of Fizz]]'', [http://fergoandenrique.comicgenesis.com/d/20110502.html Alex for Ms. O'Hare] Even the story title is called this.
=== Western Animation ===
* ''[[South Park]]'' episode "Tom's Rhinoplasty": the boys have a crush on the substitute teacher, Ms. Ellen. But even besides the obvious age problem, she turns out to be a lesbian. {{spoiler|Unfortunately, nobody told Wendy that}}.
* ''[[As Told by Ginger]]'' has Ginger trying to ask her teacher out on a date. During an inter-school quiz. ''Which is being televised.''
* In ''[[Cybersix]]'', the protagonist is pined after by one of her female students. Of course, seeing as the protagonist is a [[Wholesome Crossdresser]] and the student doesn't know, this [[Played for Laughs|makes for funny]].
* ''[[Hey Arnold!]]'' had an episode where he had a crush on his substitute teacher. He accidentally overheard her talking to another teacher about her fiancé, also named Arnold, and of course [[Hilarity Ensues|hilarity ensued]].
* ''[[Braceface]]'' had an episode with one of the characters having a crush on a substitute teacher. Rather noticeably it's one of the few kid's shows where someone points out that a teacher-student relationship would be ''illegal.''
* [[Handsome Lech]] Kid Flash flirted with [[Black Canary]] in an episode of ''[[Young Justice (animation)|Young Justice]]'' during their first training session.
** And then she knocked him down. But it's cool, that's her job and it only bruised his ego.
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* ''[[Johnny Bravo]]'' episode "Welcome Back, Bravo": Johnny is sent back to fourth grade. Naturally, the first thing he does is hit on the teacher (she responds with, "I don't date my students").
== Hot for Student ==
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* It's implied that Komoe-sensei of ''[[To Aru Majutsu no Index]]'' has a crush on Touma. For added for she looks like a little girl.
* In ''[[Jungle wa Itsumo Hale Nochi Guu]] Deluxe'' when Hare tries to cheer up his scary [[Mood Swinger|Mood swinging]] substitute teacher after her attempted relationship with his regular teacher fails, she turns her attention to him to Hare's horror.
* In ''[[Chou Kuse ni Narisou]]'', Nagisa is chased by a [[Yaoi Guys|homosexual male]] teacher who [[Cross Dresser|mistakes her for a boy]].
* ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'', in which it's a deliberate psychological ploy by the [[Big Bad]] to manipulate the [[Tragic Hero]]. Very [[Squick
* ''[[Mahoromatic]]'' uses this trope to a disturbing extent, especially in the first series, with a (perhaps) twenty-five-year-old teacher lusting after the middle-school-aged male lead; fortunately, this somewhat overused source of comedy is not as prevalent in the second series. The [[After the End]] finale shows the two meeting up some 8-10 years later. She comments how he's lost his looks, then walks off with a pair of [[Shotacon|preteen male students]].
* There is a squicky one-way instance in ''[[Azumanga Daioh]]'', in which Kimura becomes obsessed with Kaorin ([[Schoolgirl Lesbians|of all girls]]), declaring that they will always be together. Kimura himself is pretty squicky, since he apparently became a teacher ''just to ogle teenage girls''. It's later revealed he has an incredibly hot and incredibly nice wife.
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* 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 ''[[DearS]]'', 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.]]
* ''[[Tenshi ni Narumon]]'': It may look like a one-sided crush (and sexual harassment) on Raphael's part, but the truth is Mikael is as hot for his teacher as his teacher is for him. (Mikael has just huge problems with [[Self Denial]].)
* One of Keima's captures in ''[[The World God Only Knows]]'' involved a student teacher who thinks of him as a genius but troubled student. {{spoiler|When she was done teaching, ''she'' kissed ''him''.}}
* ''[[Kyo Kara Maoh!
=== 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.
* [[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.
=== Films ===
* ''[[Black Swan]]'': The art director is a little hands on with his instruction.
* One of the professors in ''[[Good Will Hunting]]'' makes repeated passes at his much younger female students, though he's always politely turned down.
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* In ''[[25th Hour]]'', Philip Seymour Hoffman's character is hot for one of his students, played by Anna Paquin.
=== 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 (novel)|Twilight]]'' was [[So Beautiful It's a Curse|attracted to her.]]
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* The ''[[Dragonriders of Pern]]'' series has a relationship between Robinton and his apprentice Menolly. After {{spoiler|Robinton's heart attack}} he admits to himself that his feelings aren't completely platonic and that there are moments he feels jealous of her relationship with Sebell. This makes him support their love even more.
=== Live Action TV ===
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''
** The seventh-season episode "Him," in which a magic jacket casts love spells on half the female cast, making Buffy, Willow, Anya, and Buffy's little sister Dawn chase after the high school football hero, R.J.. Anya is hundreds of years older than the guy, but it's Buffy who follows this trope: she's a counselor at the school now, and before she tries to ''kill the principal'' for her beloved, she gets him up on a desk with naughty things in mind... in time for her lovesick little sister to walk in and catch them (and for Xander to scold Buffy).
** [[Word of God]] states that Professor Maggie Walsh had feelings for Riley. Seeing as he views her more as a mother figure - and she's completely deranged - this is exceedingly creepy. It's even creepier when you remember that she {{spoiler|was experimenting on Riley too.}} It was extra super creepy that she watched Buffy and Riley have sex from a video camera installed in his room, then decided to have Buffy killed off. Call that lady [[Squick|Queen Squick]].
* In ''[[Veronica Mars]]'', Veronica defends one of her favorite teachers against a claim of this. She goes through the girl's diary, and checks the dates, and so gets him off. {{spoiler|She then finds out that it was all true, and that the girl who said she was his lover was really a friend of the actual girl, and she did get pregnant and so wasn't in school. Veronica then got him fired.}}
* In Series 3 of ''[[Skins]]
* Although never outright stated, the very fact that the [[Beware the Nice Ones|supposedly sweet]], [[The Ingenue|seemingly wholesome]] Selena Coombs of ''[[American Gothic]]'' is in fact a [[Femme Fatale]], [[Hot Librarian]], and [[Evil Teacher]] all rolled into one makes speculation about this trope inevitable. There are certainly more than a few moments where seeing this ravishing, suggestively dressed, beautiful woman speaking to her class of grade schoolers in that sultry Southern drawl left this editor feeling...[[Squick|uncomfortable]]. It doesn't help that the actress in question almost seemed aware of this fact, since she almost always focused her attention on the young boys in her classroom. Somewhat justified in Caleb's case, since Buck wanted her to keep an eye on his 'son'...but even there, considering [[Sex Is Evil|what one of the best ways to corrupt Caleb would be]], scenes of closeness between the two [[Freud Was Right|appear to have a deeper meaning]]... <br />One lost episode, however, does offer an aversion of this. In "The Potato Boy", Ms. Coombs invites Caleb to her house, all alone, for 'special tutoring' ...but once there, {{spoiler|she ends up confessing her [[Backstory|tragic past]], crying in Caleb's lap, and taking comfort from him in a purely platonic, if unexpected way, almost doing a [[Heel Face Turn]] because of it.}} Actually a very touching, surprising bit of [[Character Development]]. (Which was then [[Kudzu Plot|promptly forgotten about]] [[Snap Back|for the rest of the series]].)
* In ''[[Law and Order SVU]]'' there was the one where a principal was raping one of her students and it is found out that a brain tumor is making her act like this.
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* In the British soap opera, ''Hollyoaks'', secondary school teacher, Becca Dean falls in love and embarks on an affair with a teenage student, Justin Burton.
=== Music ===
* The song itself doesn't contain any hint of this, but the ''video'' for Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart" casts her as a teacher at a boy's prep school, who has... interesting dreams about her students. Brilliantly parodied [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj-x9ygQEGA here].
* ''My Name Is'' by [[Eminem]]: "My English teacher wanted to have sex in junior high / the only problem was, my English teacher was a guy / I smacked him in his face with an eraser / chased him with a stapler / and stapled his nuts to a stack of papers".
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* Referenced in the first verse of "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" by [[ACDC]]: "You're having trouble with your high school head / He's giving you the blues / You wanna graduate, but not in his bed? / Here's what you gotta do..."
=== [[Video Games]] ===
* ''[[Persona 3]]'', one social link is with someone playing an online game, who turns out to be a teacher with a crush on one of her students. {{spoiler|It turns out to be the protagonist's teacher, who has a crush on him.}} It never goes any further than this...
** If you max the relationship out, then she eventually finds out that she was talking to you all along, and awkwardly asks you out on a date before quickly taking it back.
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* 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]].
=== Western Animation ===
* In the ''[[Daria]]'' episode "Lucky Strike", one of the substitute teachers openly attempts to sexually proposition Quinn's friend Tiffany. This is more of him being a predator that any romantic feelings being involved. Daria's mother Helen learns what he is doing and gets him tossed out instantly. Daria is forced to teach the class instead.
{{quote|'''Ms. Li:''' If someone asked me to teach a class, I'd be honored. Besides, we wouldn't be in this fix if it weren't for your mother.
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* In the ''[[Dexter's Laboratory]]'' episode "Dexter Detention", Miss Wimple seems a little bit ''too'' affectionate towards Dexter. She faints when errs even so slightly.
=== Real Life ===
* Infamously, bisexual French existentialist feminist Simone de Beauvoir. During her time as a French high school teacher, she seduced several of her female students, and also passed on some of them to her partner Sartre. Finally, the mother of a Nathalie Sorokine had enough, sued her and had her fired.
* As a 26-year-old teacher, W. H. Auden fell in love with a 13-year-old pupil of his, Michael Yates. Auden encouraged Yates's career as a designer and Yates unknowingly inspired some of Auden's most celebrated love poetry. Yates became a lifelong friend of Auden's, and the friendship eventually included Yates's wife. Chester Kallman, Auden's partner, chose Yates to walk with him behind Auden's coffin.
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* Robert King, founder, artistic director and conductor of the celebrated period music ensemble The King's Consort, was convicted aged 46 for sex with boys of 12-16. The sex had happened when King was in his 20s; King had since married and had a kid. The boys were all at the time pupils of King's at a secondary school or music students referred to him by other teachers.
== Mutual Attraction ==
=== 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.}}
* ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura]]''
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* In ''[[Shinshi Doumei Cross]]'', Ushio and the school doctor Senri end up together. The fact that Senri's an ehebophile and Ushio is/was an implied lesbian [[Unfortunate Implications|left a bad taste in a few reader's mouths]].
* ''[[Tenshi ni Narumon]]'' has Raphael and Mikael - believe it or not, it's not as squicky as it sounds, although they are also angels, which may make it sound even worse. And it's pretty much consensual on both parties (Mikael may have problems admitting it, though)
* In ''[[Speed Grapher]]'', 33-
* The ''[[Baccano]]!'' light novels suggest that the mother of Huey's children is his former alchemy teacher, Renee.
* ''[[20-Year-Old Girl X 30-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.
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* ''[[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.
=== Comics ===
* In ''New X-Men: Academy X'', [[The Medic|Josh Foley]] aka [[Healing Hands|"Elixir"]] has a secret relationship with Rahne "Wolfsbane" Sinclair, who is one of the youngest teachers at the Institute (being only 19, to Josh's 16). What was really disturbing about it was that Josh had a not-secret girlfriend his own age ([[Naive Everygirl|Laurie Collins]] aka [[The Ingenue|"Wallflower"]]) ''[[Your Cheating Heart|at the same time.]]''
* Alison Bechdel's autobiographical graphic novel ''[[Fun Home]]'' centered around her closeted gay father, a high school English teacher who over the years had affairs with his students and at one point underwent a trial for buying beer for one of them. She noted that though the offense was for buying alcohol for minors, the real offense "dare not speak its name." As Bechdel is a lesbian herself, she at one point wonders how she would have fared if she came of age in the repressive 50s like her father did... "Would I have had the guts to be one of those Eisenhower-era butches? Or would I have married and sought succor from my high school students?"
* The title character of ''Skim'' gets into a lesbian relationship with her art teacher, but as far as we know, it never gets past the kissing. The teacher is deeply troubled by it and gets herself transferred to another school.
=== [[Fanfic]] ===
* Very heavily implied in [[X-Men]] fanfic ''[[Mutatis Mutandis]]'', between teacher Wolverine and teenage student Northstar. It's on several instances and first indicated when Northstar and his friends are greeting the new student. Later, the new student notices Wolverine wathcing Northstar as he works out.
=== Films -- Live Action ===
* There's a coach/player version in ''[[Bend It Like Beckham]]'', though Jess could already play soccer well enough to get her a spot on the team.
* In ''[[Cracks]]'', a group of girls at a boarding school all seem to be crushing on their teacher (played by [[Eva Green]]). It gets creepy, though, when the teacher shows affection for the new girl - who is clearly NOT interested.
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* Technically it's a sports coach rather than a teacher, but the relationship between Neil and his coach in ''[[Mysterious Skin]]'' has strong elements of this. Neil looks back on the experience positively at first, but eventually realizes he was used, and the coach himself is a [[Depraved Homosexual]] who doesn't seem to care one way another about consent. (Please note that Neil, at the time, isn't even capable of consenting, seeing as he is ''eight years old.'')
* In ''[[Never Been Kissed]]'', Drew Barrymore's character's teacher gets a thing for her... good thing she's actually an undercover newspaper reporter in her late 20's. When the teacher finds out, he's equal parts confused, angry, and relieved.
* ''[[Notes On a Scandal]]'', starring Judi Dench, has this in all directions. The protagonist's new friend, a married woman with two kids of her own,
* In ''[[The Pelican Brief]]'', the main character is dating one of her law professors. We're apparently supposed to forgive this gross violation of ethics because she's a brilliant student and doesn't need an unfair advantage to get an A.
* ''Il sapore del grano'' (''The Flavour of Corn''). Lorenzo, a university student doing a year's teaching, develops a romantic friendship with twelve-year-old Duilio, one of the boys in his class. The [[Lover and Beloved]] dynamic is both invoked and subverted. Duilio teaches Lorenzo to drive a tractor and identify trees and offers him the simple affection which Lorenzo, who lacks a family and whose sexual relationships with women are emotionally unsatisfying, needs. When Lorenzo's girlfriend, seeing a postcard from Duilio, asks if he's one of Lorenzo's pupils, Lorenzo says, "No, he's the one who taught me everything I know."
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=== Literature ===
* The book (and film) ''Notes on a Scandal'' involves a teacher having an affair with a 15-year-old pupil. Since the age of consent is 16 in the UK, she gets arrested and sent to prison for ten months. And even if he were sixteen, it's still illegal. Adults in a position of trust, such as teachers, aren't allowed to have relationships with any of their students while they're still in school/sixth form. However, at university level it becomes ''slightly'' more acceptable in that you won't get arrested.
* The Chinese wuxia novel ''Return of the Condor Heroes'' has Yang Guo, a young rogue martial arts student, falling in love with his master, Xiao Long Nu. The issue, however, was less of age than it was of position; in those times, it was traditional for students to revere and respect their masters in the same way one would a parent. Society's inability to accept their relationship plays a very important part in their romance.
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* Matilda initially seems to want this in ''[[The Monk]]'', claiming to have dressed as a man and entered the monastery to be close to Ambrosio, and even later when she starts seeking his love in return. He gives in to his growing attraction and starts a relationship with her. She seems to get bored of him about as fast as he gets bored of her, though.
=== Live Action TV ===
* Used many times in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''.
** When Wesley first appears in the third season, he and Cordelia circle each other. In fact, when they first met he assumed she was a teacher (possible [[Lampshade Hanging]] on the [[Dawson Casting]]), but heavy awkwardness ensues when he realized she was a student, and he promptly drops the subject. Though it is brought up a few times with him ogling her, and the episode where Buffy read minds. She was hinted at being seventeen as Faith teases him, saying "Jailbait". She evidently had a birthday before the prom though, when Giles informs Wesley she's 18. Wesley has a first dance with her, and they share a hilariously awkward kiss that obliterates half a season of romantic tension, and never brought it up again. Even three years later in the alternate universe of the ''Angel'' episode "Birthday," Wesley and Cordy still remember what a flop their "relationship" was and quickly change the subject when Gunn mentions it.
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* ''[[That '70s Show]]'' has an episode in which Fez wants his English teacher to be his prom date. Early on at the prom, he asks her to dance and she declines. At the end on the episode, they are seen dancing. He asks Eric for the key to the hotel room that he & Donna didn't use. The teacher says she is not going to a motel with him, and he replies, "Yes, and you also said you would not dance with me." This teacher also happened to be [[Grey DeLisle]].
* In an early episode of ''[[The Sopranos]]'', a girl on Meadow's soccer team attempts suicide by slitting her wrists. Turns out she was having an affair with the coach, who was leaving to coach on a college team.
* Played for laughs on
* In ''[[Numb3rs]]'', we have the villainous duo of Crystal Hoyle and Buck Winters.
** And on the side of good and true, we have Charlie and Amita. To be fair, Amita completed her thesis in Season One, so by the time they started dating in late Season Two, they were ''former'' teacher and student. Also, Charlie's a prodigy, so their age difference is somewhere on the order of just 5 years.
* Ben and Ms. Young on the short-lived ''Life as We Know It''.
* ''[[Pretty Little Liars]]'' has a 16 year old girl meet an attractive young man at a bar. They talk, find out that they have similiar music taste, and that he is teaching English and she is "majoring" in it. They then go to make out in the bathroom. First day back at school, guess what? He's the new English teacher. "Holy crap," are his exact words.
* In the UK ''[[Queer as Folk]]'' Stuart narrates to camera how he lost his virginity to his (male) PE teacher. When he was ''eleven''.
* In Season Four of ''[[One Tree Hill]]'', Brooke Davis enters into relationship with Nick Chavez, whom she met online, who later turns up as her new English teacher at Tree Hill High. They continue dating, in secret until it is revealed that he has cheated on her.
* On ''[[The X-Files]]'', we findt that Scully has done this ''twice''--once with a professor in medical school and an instructor in the FBI Academy. The professor in medical school had a strong impact on the plot; in "all things" it's revealed that Scully was unaware that Daniel (her professor) was still married. Scully, shocked and ashamed, broke off the relationship and joined the FBI. Over 10 years later (during "all things"), they meet again. Daniel is under the impression that Scully is still in love with him, and invites her to run away with him. It ends with Scully realizing that doesn't regret the way her life turned out and {{spoiler|marks the episode in which she and Mulder begin a sexual relationship.}}
** 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 ''[[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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** Also Season 4, Serena and Ben. Who already had something quasi-romantic going on when she was [[Jail Bait|sixteen]].
* Implied in ''The L Word'' that Tim had a relationship with one of the girls from the swim team he coaches after he and Jenny break up. Somewhat less shocking, since it's a college team and Tim is at most in his mid-20's
* In ''[[Waterloo Road]]'' there was Jonah and his Spanish Teacher, who were in a secret relationship for months. She ended up pregnant with his child. In the end of the series, they got found out, but managed to run away to get married before the police caught them.
* ''[[Community]]'' has a rare example where the student, Jeff, is actually older than the teacher, Prof. Slater.
* ''[[The Fast Show]]'' featured the character of Janine, a [[Dumb Blonde]] teenage single mother. In one sketch she refused to disclose who the father of her baby was, because [[I'll Never Tell You What I'm Telling You|"it's not fair to grass on your headmaster."]]
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* On ''[[The Walking Dead (TV series)|The Walking Dead]]'', Shane brags to Rick about sleeping with their 30 year old female PE teacher when he was in high school.
* In an early episode of ''[[The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]'', a girl at the high school that Cameron and John are attending under assumed identities is exposed as having carried on a relationship with one of her teachers, and kills herself when this is made public.
* Arguably Puck and Shelby of ''[[Glee]]''. Arguably, both because Shelby is kind of reluctant and thinks it's a really bad idea (which it is!), and because Puck's motives are kind of unclear. Shelby is the adoptive mother of his daughter, Beth, and he's expressed multiple times how much he cares about Beth and that he wants to be in her life. So, does he want to be with Shelby because of Shelby herself, or because he wants to be a family with her and Beth?
* Darker than normal example in the ''[[Criminal Minds]]'' episode ''I Love You Tommy Brown'', a woman and [[Manipulative Bitch]]- who turns out to be an ex-con, jailed for her relationship with one of her underage students, the titular Tommy Brown- goes on a killing spree hunting for the baby, a son named Johnny, that resulted from that relationship, executing the various foster parents who cared for the child on trial bases (forcing one to strip to humiliate them, then [[No Kill Like Overkill|shooting them repeatedly because they were praying]], then after finding her infant boy (shooting and leaving the woman who had him for dead) goes to the home of the student and convinces him to run away with her- he chooses to stay even after he hears her shoot his teenage classmate / neighbour (who had a crush on him), but turns on her when the team informs him that she had already had another teacher-student romance before him and had actually been writing to ''him'' while she was in jail. The name of this first student? Johnny. She named the child she had with the second student after the first.
* ''[[Smallville]]'' has Lana and Jason in Season 4. Made somewhat less squicky by the fact that the two had already been dating for a while when he gets the job, and the fact that he was a football coach and had little to no involvement in the context of school.
=== Music ===
* This trope is the underlying plot of "Don't Stand So Close to Me", by [[The Police]]. In that song, a schoolgirl develops a crush on a young teacher, and he guiltily returns her feelings. A scandal erupts when a rumour begins to spread that they slept together, though whether they actually did or not is unclear.
* Lionel Richie's video for "Hello" has a college professor follow his blind student from class to class (somehow being ignored in almost all of them) because he's in love with her. At the end, the student reveals that her own love for him has given her the ability to "see" him well enough to sculpt his face. Even with the strong stalker vibes, the last scene of him holding her hands is kind of sweet.
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* ''Don't Let Me Get Me'' by [[Pink]] at one point says she had a relationship with her teacher. In the video, it shows said teacher in the front of the class looking suggestively at her.
=== Theatre ===
* Pretty much the whole plot of ''[[Phantom of the Opera]]'', where the Phantom falls in love with his voice student Christine.
* One of the main plots of the play/film ''[[The History Boys]]''. The male students like one of their teachers so much, they let him harmlessly grope them so he can get a cheap thrill. Later, another teacher attempts to start up an actual relationship with one of the boys, but it never actually gets anywhere despite mutual interest. {{spoiler|The second teacher spends much of the film extremely aware of how inappropriate it is, and is only able to give in to the student's flirtations once the year is over.}}
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* In Tom Stoppard's ''Arcadia'', a young man, Septimus, is the private tutor of a teenaged girl named Thomasina and they eventually fall in love. {{spoiler|Thomasina's death the night before her 17th birthday breaks Septimus's heart and turns him into a half-mad hermit.}}
* ''Butley'' by Simon Gray. Butley, a lecturer in English literature at a London university, finds out that his wife of a year is leaving him for another man. He also finds out that his long term live-in friend/boyfriend is leaving him for another man. Said friend/boyfriend, now a colleague of Butley's, used to be his student and it's implied that that's when their relationship began.
* In Shakespeare's ''[[Taming Of The Shrew]]'', Bianca falls for her tutor Lucentio, who took the job in the hope that she would.
=== [[Video Games]] ===
* A really weird and rather murky version of this exists in ''[[Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne]]''. Yuko Takao, the teacher in question, is rather beloved by her students, and the Demifiend/Hitoshura in particular is singled out by her as being someone she trusts to be there for her when she really could use your help. Also, though you play a [[Heroic Mime]], it's explicitly lampshaded by all the other characters who know her that the two of you have a very good rapport, and on the street prior to the actual start of the game, one fellow high school student points out that its quite obvious the two of you are close. However, even though its made quite clear that the main protagonist does care about her quite a lot (and you do wind up rescuing her), the exact level of the relationship (deep respect for the other all the way to outright love) between the two of you is never clearly defined.
* In the H-Game ''[[Crescendo]]'' a considerable subversion occurs. Kaori Shito, the school nurse, is a possible hook-up for your protagonist (a student), but she does not actively try to seduce you. In fact, she actually tries to avoid doing anything remotely offensive on school grounds, and off them she tries very hard not to act on her feelings for you. If you get her good ending, she caves in, but makes the responsible choice to quit her job as a school nurse because she did something against the ethics of her profession. It should be noted you both have feeling for each other, but your character tries his hardest not to act on his either, and her reasons for avoiding you {{spoiler|are because she had a student fall for her once, (he was depressed and she tried to be a mother figure to him, but he fell for her instead) it ended with her turning him down because it wasn't ethical, and he killed himself because he couldn't handle the rejection, and as a result tried very hard to avoid the same situation with you}}. The above said, if you get her good ending, she will even quit an arranged marriage to be with you, and {{spoiler|your fellow female classmates get a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] where they help sabotage the arranged marriage meeting, despite their own feelings for you, because they want you to be happy.}}
* In the [[H-game]] ''Heart de Roommate'', the hero can start a relationship with his homeroom teacher, Yoshiko. The school ends up finding out about it and they are forced to stay away from each other until the end of the year. The weirdest part? ''Yoshiko got in trouble for being in a relationship with a student before.''
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* Happens in a vague sense in ''[[Tales of the Abyss]]''. After {{spoiler|Luke destroys Akzeriuth}}, Tear teaches him to control his hyperresonance, granted, the sessions are informal and Tear isn't a full-fledged teacher; they both fall in love with each other.
* The second ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]]'' could go there with [[Player Character|Female Exile]] and the Jedi Disciple. {{spoiler|Disciple was supposed to be Exile's ''padawan'' before she left for the Mandalorian Wars. However, her leaving meant he never was chosen, and he was washed out of the Order - becoming a Republic soldier instead}}. Ten years later, [[He's All Grown Up]], and still has a cross of hero-worship and [[Hot for Teacher]] when it comes to the Exile...
** The same could be said of almost every implied romance in KotOR2, as most of the characters can eventually become Jedi students of the main character. And since most of those characters will only become Jedi if you increase their affection towards you, almost any opposite gender teacher/student pairing bears a degree of potential for romance. And that's not even mentioning the somewhat unwholesome attitude Kreia has toward you at times, or the implied relationship between Kreia and Sion...
** 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...
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* In the [[Interspecies Romance|pigeon]] [[Dating Sim]] ''[[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}}.
=== Web Comics ===
* In ''[[Namir Deiter]]'', Gabby's cousin is Tipper's TA, and she sets them up [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy|to get herself over Tipper for good]], despite both this fact and [[Slap Slap Kiss|her hating him passionately]]. They go to great lengths to keep their relationship secret, but it turns out that since he was only a TA at the time, it wasn't actually against policy, although it's mentioned that he might have gotten in trouble if it had come out before her graduation. They're now engaged, with the wedding planner already hired.
=== Web Original ===
* The series ''[[Sono Hanabira ni Kuchizuke wo]]'' has a web novel/side story called ''Seeking a Sweet Bewitching Kiss'' which uses a [[Girls Love|lesbian]] version of this trope with its main pairing. The student is younger than most as she's an [[Lolicon|elementary]] [[Schoolgirl Lesbians|schoolgirl]] although it's made ''extremely'' clear to a reader that the student is the [[Seme|dominant]] one in the relationship.
* ''[[Chaos Fighters]]'' has a few examples: {{spoiler|Kenny with Pheryl}} in ''The Secret Programs'', {{spoiler|Irtial with Thene prior to}} ''Cyberion Strike'' and Enrei with Gareia in ''Chemical Siege''.
* ''[[The Onion]]'' article "[http://www.theonion.com/articles/lonely-teacher-outcast-student-begin-somewhat-ende,21153/ Lonely Teacher, Outcast Student Begin Somewhat Endearing Sexual Relationship]".
=== Western Animation ===
* Taken to satiric extremes in the ''[[South Park]]'' episode "Miss Teacher Bangs a Boy", where the new teacher at school has an affair with a ''kindergartener'', Kyle's baby brother Ike. This episode also satirizes the way [[Double Standard|reaction to such student-teacher affairs differ depending on the gender of the teacher]], as the police and general public are outraged at the thought of a teacher having sex with a student... until they realize that it's a young, attractive woman having an affair with a male student, at which point they all congratulate Ike ("Nice...").
* In an episode of ''[[A Kind of Magic]]'' of Xilam between the protagonist, Tom, and his teacher, Miss Tinker, mostly thanks a spell than turns Tom in a [[Prince Charming]].
* In an episode of ''[[The Cleveland Show]]'', Lester reveals that his morbidly obese wife Kendra was once his guidance counselor, and had "guided" him into dropping out of school and moving in with her. He admits that she was a terrible guidance counselor.
=== Real Life ===
* [[Renamed Tropes|Former]] [[Trope Namer]] Mary Kay Letourneau was the teacher involved in a widely publicized case in the U.S. for engaging in a sexual relationship with her junior-high student, Vili Fualaau (and eventually marrying him and having his two daughters, after serving an eight-year prison term for molestation). The case was noted for the mixed public reaction to it, often underlining the attractive appearance of the teacher. Many condemned the breach of ethics involved in engaging in sexual acts with underage children, while at least one public official famously asked, "[[Double Standard Rape (Female on Male)|Where were teachers like her when I went to school?]]"
* [[Denis Leary]] met his wife at Emerson College, when he taught there. See, it's not always creepy (it does help that they were both adults at the time).
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* The medieval scholar Peter Abelard famously took up with his sometime-student Heloise.
* [[Charlie Chaplin]] often "mentored" very young actresses and later began relationships with them. He met Lita Grey when he was 26 and she was 13, and impregnated and married her when she was 16.
* Singer Céline Dion met her future husband René Angelil at the tender age of 12, as he was her voice lessons teacher. He was 38 and
** Reportedly he said; 'All right, if you're sure, I'll be the first.' and she thought; 'And the last.' So far he has been.
** He has a daughter from a previous marriage
* As a young man, T. C. Worsley spent a few months as a live-in private tutor to a 13-year-old boy. He fell for the boy, who also became much attached to him. The night before Worsley left, the boy begged to sleep in Worsley's bed and lay happy in Worsley's arms, but Worsley, though he felt the boy was subconsciously longing for and would benefit from a gentle, affectionate sexual initation, didn't dare try anything.
* At age eleven, Gavin Lambert had his first sex with the music teacher at his school. Lambert grew up to be a gay writer and said he felt "nothing but gratitude" to the teacher for his sexual initiation.
* John Ruskin, the eminent Victorian art critic, social thinker and philanthropist, and Rose La Touche, twenty-nine years younger. Ruskin was engaged to teach Rose art when she was nine. He seems to have fallen in love with her when she was about eleven. They exchanged many affectionate notes. He proposed to her when she was seventeen and again when she came of age, but she refused because of their religious differences. She may have been anorexic, insane or both, and she died at age twenty-seven, which set off Ruskin's own bouts of madness.
== Other ==
=== Anime & Manga ===
* A number of instances in ''[[Great Teacher Onizuka]]''
* In ''[[Tona Gura]]'', Hatsune Arisaka's former teacher Kogorou, also leading to a case of [[Hot for Teacher]] on Hatsune's part. Younger sister Kazuki's awkward pursuer Yuuji Kagura suspects he also holds these feelings for Kazuki, also a former student. Best evidence is, Yuuji's wrong, although Kogorou is flattered by her attention. Given the age difference between Hatsune and Kogorou, some feel this may make him a bigger pervert than Yuuji.
* {{spoiler|The motive behind the murders}} in a ''[[Kindaichi Case Files]]'' story.
=== Films -- Live Action ===
* ''[[Loving Annabelle]]'' is a lesbian variant, and one of the most awesome-yet-heartbreaking movies ever.
* ''Children of a Lesser God'', where the female student also is deaf and has some serious psychological issues.
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* {{spoiler|The school psychologist and Micah}} get it on in ''[[Easy A]]''. He's not the brightest bulb in the tree, though, and is well over the age of consent. Of course, his [[Strawman Religious|wildly conservative parents]] aren't too happy once he gets chlamydia...
=== Literature ===
* Subverted in ''We Need to Talk about Kevin'', in which the titular character claims his teacher made advances toward him. Though we only hear about the incident through an unreliable narrator, it is likely that nothing of the sort took place, and Kevin is just trying to get the teacher fired for the hell of it.
* ''Doing It'' by Melvin Burgess subverts the hell out of this trope by showing just how psychologically messed up a teacher would have to be to want to have sex with her student and why, on the long run, this sort of relationship would be damaging to the student in question on the long run.
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* The protagonist of [[Election]] hates the student who had an affair with his friend and ruined his career {{spoiler|then starts having an affair with her too, but she's already out of school by then}}.
=== Live Action TV ===
* At least half of the plots on ''[[Boston Public]]'' consisted of this trope, or fake-outs (where it was revealed at the last minute that the relationship was a hoax).
* 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.}}
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* 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.}}
* ''[[Franklin and Bash]]'' has episode dealing with this where the teacher unknowingly had a one-night stand with a student [[Younger Than They Look|who seemed older]]. They met at a beach before she started teaching at his school, and took her to a bar so she thought he was over 21. Franklin has to defend her to the school board, and crushes on her a little during the case, leading to Bash invoking the page quote.
* There are indications of such feelings in Grissom and Sara's dialogue on ''[[CSI]]''. They met when he was a lecturer at the college she was attending. But, they did not act on anything to do with those feelings until many years later, likely sparing both a lot of trouble.
* There is an episode of ''[[Yeralash]]'' where a boy prints photos of his female teacher. His father calls him a sycophant. However, right then, the teacher comes and complains the boy doesn't like her. They go into his room to show her wrong... turns out he's been using the photos as [[Dartboard of Hate|Dartboards of Hate]]. When one of the suction cup arrows intended for a photo sticks of the father's forehead, the mother's only response is "That'll teach you not to say our son's a sycophant"
=== Theatre ===
* Happens in ''The Sparrow'' between student-body president/cheerleading squad captain Jenny McGrath and biology teacher Mr. Christopher. Jenny goes into Mr. Christopher's room during the Homecoming Dance to confide in him, as she is jealous of Emily Book's popularity after she used [[Mind Over Matter|her telekinetic powers]] to save Jenny from falling off the Greenview banner that hangs in the gym. Jenny giggles after receiving attention from Mr. Christopher, which reminds him of his dead wife. They slow-dance, which leads them to share a kiss.
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* 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.
=== [[Video Games]] ===
* A questline in ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' introduces you, after the fact, to a one-sided version of this gone [[If I Can't Have You|very, very wrong]].
* In ''[[Psychonauts]]'' Milla jokingly calls Raz a "flirt" when he attempts to suck up to her.
* Parodied in ''[[Brutal Legend]]''. The [[Naughty Nuns|Battle Nuns]] are latex
* Freeware game ''[[Don't take it personally, babe, it just ain't your story|don't take it personally babe, it just ain't your story]]'' takes many [[Shoujo]] and [[Visual Novel]] tropes and runs with them, and this one is no exception. However, by casting the [[Player Character]] as the [[Perspective Flip|teacher instead of the student]], it allows the player to determine whether the Trope is [[Subverted Trope|subverted]], [[Averted Trope|averted]], [[Deconstructed Trope|deconstructed]], or even ''[[Reconstructed Trope|reconstructed]]''. This works because the [[Hot for Teacher]] student is, otherwise, the most emotionally well-adjusted member of the class.
=== [[Web Comics]] ===
* This is the backstory to Merlin and Morgan in the contemporary arc of ''[[Arthur, King of Time and Space]]'', as described [http://www.arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/0097.htm here]. And when Morgan becomes a teacher at the school herself, Arthur is [http://www.arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/0371.htm attracted to her], but it's [http://www.arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/0213.htm not mutual]. (Merlin and Morgan may or may not also have had a relationship in the space arc [where she was his apprentice], but that's [http://www.arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/0026.htm kind of expected].)
* ''[[Magick Chicks]]'' gives us a complicated example. Jacqui is attracted to her teacher, Mr. Delatorre, but he doesn't return her affections. He does go out on a date with a new teacher who yelled at Jacqui for hitting on Delatorre...who is actually [[Master of Illusion|Jacqui in disguise]].
=== Western Animation ===
* ''[[Family Guy]]''
** In the episode "Fast Times at Buddy Cianci Jr. High," Chris crushes on his sexy, scantily clad English teacher, Mrs. Lockhart. When she learns of his feelings from Peter ("Our son would like to...plow you?"), she instructs him to kill her husband so that they can be together. (Of course, she has no intention of "being together" with Chris at all; she just wants her husband dead.) The plot was loosely based on the [[Real Life]] case of [[wikipedia:Pamela Smart|Pamela Smart]].
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* In ''[[Birdz]]'', Eddie Storkowitz has the hots for his teacher, Miss Finch. It's entirely one-sided, though.
=== Real Life ===
* Happens a ''whole'' lot. Try to get a [[Hot for Student]] news story frontpaged on strange news repository [[Fark]] these days. Unless it's got some sort of special angle, it's not going to make it. That's right, folks: it's no longer [[Fark]], it's ''news.'' For bonus points, [[Fan Nickname|farkers]] even [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism|cynically]] rate any such relationship based on the attractiveness and genders of the persons involved. (The winning combination, by the by, is hot [[Yuri Fanboy|girl-on-girl]] action.)
* Edward O. Wilson's book tour presentation for ''Consilience'': one topic he discusses is research on what facial features in the opposite sex are most attractive to men and to women. There had been a hypothesis that the most attractive face would be the average of all faces, but it turns out that for men, the most attractive female face departs from the average in several ways: larger eyes, higher cheekbones, smaller chin, fuller lips -- all features indicative of juvenescence. "And if you doubt it," Wilson concludes, "just ask any middle-aged professor whose second wife is a graduate student." In a largely academic audience, this generates a huge laugh because of just how common it is.
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