Teacher-Student Romance: Difference between revisions

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.

 

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== Anime & Manga ==

** Also, the main characters parents. In a subversion they met when Nadeshiko was in highschool and Fujitaka was working there as a teacher, and it was [[Love At First Sight]]... but they got married only after her graduation.

** 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.

** The entire idea is [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] and [[Deconstruction|deconstructed]] on multiple occasions. Negi constantly worries about maintaining a normal student-teacher relationship.

** For added impact about Negi's [[Harem]], when his students [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v20/c179/11.html saw how he was speaking] to his [[Unlucky Childhood Friend]] so casually and it looked like he was only using formal forms of address with them? They did ''not'' [[Hilarity Ensues|take it well]].

* The classic anime ''[[Maison Ikkoku]]'' has a sequence of such relationships. The beautiful widow Otonashi Kyoko née Chigusa married her high school teacher, Otonashi Soichiro. Now one of her love interests, Godai Yuusaku, is being pursued by a student from her ''alma mater'', Yagami Ibuki, after he did a stint as a substitute teacher there.

* ''[[Fushigi Yuugi]]'s'' Eikoden OAV has Taka Sukinami/Tamahome working as the basketball coach of Miaka and Yui's old school; one of the girls on the team, Mayo Sakaki, falls for him.

* In ''[[Hell Teacher Nube]]'', although Kyoko's definite love interest is Hiroshi, she still harbors an unrequited crush on the titular teacher coming from the time [[Rescue Romance|he saved her from an almosr fatal demonic possession]].

* ''[[Gunslinger Girl]]''. Maria Machiavelli discusses this trope when she hints that Triela is in love with her instructor/handler Hillshire. Triella replies that even if she was in love with him, it's [[He Is Not My Boyfriend|not that kind of relationship]].

{{quote| '''Hilshire:''' Say, what did she mean by "Talk about love"?<br />

** Petrushka is around three/four years older than Triela and loves her handler. {{spoiler|They sorta get their happy ending.}}

* In the ''[[Blue Drop]]'' anime there is Mari's infatuation with her chemistry teacher, Yuuko .

* Mentioned in a [[Flash Back]] in ''[[Hanamaru Kindergarten]]''. Anzu's mother got pregnant by her art teacher, married him, and dropped out of school. [[Generation Xerox]] takes effect, as Anzu has the same idea for Tsuchida, her kindergarten teacher. Sakura, Anzu's mother, ''approves'' of this.

** It's played off as a tremendous [[Precocious Crush]], which is common with little girls and guy teachers in real life. It's never really stated whether Anzu's mom realizes this and counts the relationship as harmless (to encourage Anzu to develop feelings of love and friendship), or if she's actually serious about approving their [[Squick|marriage before she even turns 6]].

* ''[[Mahoromatic]]'': Miss Shikijo seems extremely attracted to Suguru

* There IS a hentai with the same name as the trope's title, but not the trope namer.

* 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.}}

** Also in the manga {{spoiler|Urumi Kanzaki}} develops a crush on Onizuka and it gets even stronger {{spoiler|after he saves her when she tried to commit suicide.}}

* 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.

* This student-has-crush-on-teacher version can also be found in the movie ''My Girl''. {{spoiler|Unfortunately, said teacher is also engaged, and his fiancee is moving in with him the day Veda (the student) tells him how she feels--which happens to be the [[Break the Cutie|same day of her best friend's funeral, which is being held in the parlor of HER house (her father is the town undertaker and she lives in the funeral home).]] She doesn't take the rejection well.}}

* One of the earliest examples must be 1931's ''[[Madchen In Uniform|Mädchen in Uniform]]''. Fourteen-year-old Manuela, along with a lot of other girls at her strict boarding school, falls head-over-heels for the young female Scripture teacher. The teacher explains that she can't play favourites, but she does seem to have some reciprocal attraction to Manuela. {{spoiler|Major problems result when Manuela accidentally gets drunk and proclaims her affections in front of the headmistress.}}

* ''[[Daydream Nation]]'' is a newer film that centers around a bored teenager that falls for her teacher. Maybe because she moved to a painfully small town which she hates. There, she observes her fellow high school students get wasted on drugs out of boredom, and people obsess over a serial killer who has yet to be caught. She also becomes involved with someone her age, and the rest of the film explores the insecurities that everyone, young and old, experiences in life.

* In ''[[Juno]]'', it's mentioned in passing that Juno's best friend Leah has a crush on one of her teachers.

 

* In ''[[Wayside School]]'', Dameon has a crush on Mrs. Jewls. Eventually she reciprocates... but adds that she loves everyone else, too.

* In the ''[[Star Wars Expanded Universe]]'' Ahsoka unsuccessfully flirts with her Master, but of course he's [[Single-Target Sexuality|Padmésexual]].

{{quote| {{spoiler|'''Susan''':Molly has it bad for you, Harry.}}<br />

{{spoiler|'''Harry''':No, she doesn't. We settled that early on. Isn't happening.}}<br />

** The ghosts in "I Only Have Eyes For You" were a female teacher and one of her male students in 1955. The teacher realises the relationship is wrong and tries to break it off, only to be killed by her distraught lover.

* In ''[[Degrassi Junior High]]'', Caitlin worries that she's a lesbian because she has a crush on a female teacher.

* In the first two seasons of ''[[Fisica O Quimica]]'' young teacher Irene had a romantic affair with young student Isaac, which was explored realistically, but they started to gravitate back towards each other before {{spoiler|he died from a brain hemorrhage}}.

* 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]] afterwards}}.

* 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, It's That Guy!]], with the gay pupil in question being played by the woman-obsessed [[Casanova Wannabe|Jay]] from [[The Inbetweeners]].

* Invoked by Stephen Colbert during the Wisconsin Teacher's Union Strike. Hi, Stephen!

* 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.

* 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.

 

* "Teacher I Need You" by [[Elton John]].

* The music video for [[Boyzone]]'s ''Key To My Life'' has the band as schoolboys, with one of them, played by Stephan Gatley, having a crush on their teacher.

* The first verse of "Passin' Me By" by [[The Pharcyde]].

* The music video for ''Traumst Du'' by Oomph shows the male students in this particular class deliberately doing things wrong so that they can be punished by their teacher, who's a [[Bastard Girlfriend]]. Apparently, they like it when she canes their backsides...{{spoiler|and so does the school janitor, who's watching the whole thing via hidden cameras [[Squick|so he can masturbate over her]].}}

* A lesser-known example: "High School Confidential" by Rough Trade.

* 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).

* ''[[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.}}

** 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.

== 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}}.

* 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.''

** And then she knocked him down. But it's cool, that's her job and it only bruised his ego.

* In the ''[[Family Guy]]'' episode ''Fast Times at Buddy Cianci High'', Chris Griffin has a crush on his substitute teacher, Mrs Lockhart. {{spoiler|She ends up falling in love with him, asking him to murder her husband and elope with her. Chris doesn't.}}

* ''[[The Simpsons]]'' has Lisa's crush on substitute teacher Mr. Bergstrom. Overall, he more fills a need for a mentor figure/role model for Lisa, but she does mention his "Semitic good looks" as one of the reasons she likes him.

* 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.

* ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'', in which it's a deliberate psychological ploy by the [[Big Bad]] to manipulate the [[Tragic Hero]]. Very [[Squick|Squicky]].

* ''[[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]].

* ''[[Princess Tutu]]'' features a teacher (Neko-sensei) who threatens his delinquent female students (often the main character) with having to marry him. This is taken as a severe threat by everyone but the rare students who actually like him, whom he is deathly afraid of and avoids or turns down (the subversion). His actions are based on a Japanese myth, but it plays like a commentary on this trope.

** ... wasn't Neko-sensei a [[Interspecies Romance|cat]]?

* Yukari-sensei in ''[[Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu]]'' is constantly throwing herself at her students and generally acting inappropriately... and the students want none of it.

* In the ''[[Blue Drop]]''[[Manga]], some of the all female race Arume run various girls' schools that double as their lesbian harems.

* [[Boys Love]] example: Atsushi from ''[[Kusatta Kyoushino Houteishiki]]'' (''Equation of the Perverted Teacher'') has been infatuated with Masami aka Ma-chan, his neighbor and caretaker, for years. He transfers to his new highschool and finds Ma-chan... or so he thinks, as the guy he thinks it's Ma-chan is actually Ma-chan's older brother, Masayoshi, who works as the school nurse and basketball coach.

* In the ''[[Full Metal Panic]]!'' manga, the [[Camp Gay]] substitute teacher for Sōsuke's high school's men's swim team is shown to have the hots for Sōsuke. [[Even the Guys Want Him|Not that anyone can blame him]]. He is shown blushing and drooling over Sōsuke's body, and is very obviously jealous and shocked when he interprets Kaname's "I work well with Sōsuke because we have a bond" as being that they've done it.

* 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.}}

* 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''.}}

 

 

 

== Films ==

* One of the professors in ''[[Good Will Hunting]]'' makes repeated passes at his much younger female students, though he's always politely turned down.

* ''De man die zijn haar kort liet knippen'' (''The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short''). A teacher at girls' high school, middle-aged and married with a small daughter of his own, is madly in unrequited love with one of his teenage pupils and is heartbroken when she graduates. {{spoiler|It's implied that years later the memory of his love is one of the things that drive him possibly crazy.}}

* ''Le souffle au cœur'' (''Murmur of the Heart''). Laurent, 14 and a half, is in confession when his priest and teacher makes a pass at him. Laurent asks to go back to class. The priest, annoyed, gives him an excessive penance: thirty Hail Marys. The priest seems to have a reputation for making passes at the boys. However, during the private lessons he later gives a convalescent Laurent nothing much, if anything, happens.

* In Lindsay Anderson's ''if...'', a middle-aged chaplain and mathematics teacher at a boys' boarding school seems to take an interest in Jute, a pretty new boy in his class, probably 13 years old. The chaplain is skewered by Anderson's satire, as are most of the adults in the film.

 

 

== 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.

* 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.

* ''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".

** Later the lyrics were censored to: "My English teacher wanted to flunk me in junior high / thanks a lot, next semester I'll be 35 / I smacked him in his face with an eraser / chased him with a stapler / and told him to change the grade on the paper". The following lines made it into the album release, though (only changed for the radio version).

 

 

* 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.

* 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]].

== 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.}}

** 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.

** Heck, Sakura's own ''parents'' are part of this trope. Her father Fujitaka married Nadeshiko, ''one of his students.'' They fell in love when he was her teacher, but married when she graduated high school, if that helps. It was only his first year as a teacher, and since Nadeshiko was in high school, they weren't too far apart.

** Touya's relationship with teacher Kaho Mizuki is actually an aversion, as they only confessed to loving each other after Kaho's term as student teacher had ended.

*** Kaho's later relationship with [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|Eriol]] is even more of an aversion, as not only was Kaho never Eriol's teacher, he's actually older than her and she's one of the few people to know that he's old enough to be a father.

** 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 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.}}

* 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.}}

* One of the cruelest versions of this trope is showcased in ''[[Bokurano]]''. {{spoiler|Chizuru and Hatagai-sensei's relationship was [[Break the Cutie|so horrible]] that she broke down and ended up becoming a full-fledged [[Yandere]]}}

* [[Schoolgirl Lesbians|Schoolgirl Lesbian]] Naitou and her teacher Hayato in ''[[Manga/Shoujo Sect|Shoujo Sect]]''.

* 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''.

* 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.

* 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.

* 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.

* In ''[[Wolf Guy Wolfen Crest]]'', Very [[Hot Teacher]] Aoshika slowly develops feelings for Inugami Akira, the [[Badass]] Werewolf who enters her life. This would be entirely normal except for the fact that she's already divorced and he's fifteen. As a [[Seinen]] piece, this is actually played for drama and Aoshika finds the source of her defensiveness of the boy just as disturbing to her as it would be to child services. [[Fan Service|Not that it'll stop her in the end]], most likely.

* This is the plot of ''[[Junsui Adolescence|Pure Water Adolescence]]'', except it's with the ''school nurse''.

* 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]].

* 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.}}

* ''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 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.

 

 

 

== [[Fanfic]] ==

 

 

* 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.

* Alexander Payne's ''[[Election]]'' has the relationship between overachiever Tracy Flick and her teacher Dave Novotny.

* The Australian movie ''The Heartbreak Kid'' (''not'' related to any of the American movies called ''[[The Heartbreak Kid]]'') revolves around a male student and a female teacher falling for each other while setting up a high school soccer team. Unlike many examples, the two are fairly close in age and both over the (Australian) age of consent (he's 18 and in the final years of high school, she's 22 and fresh out of university), which tends to alleviate the [[Squick]] factor inherent in this trope somewhat, if not necessarily the ethical concerns.

* ''Lust och fägring stor'' (''All Things Fair''). Affair between a 15-year-old male pupil and his 37-year-old female teacher.

* 15-year-old Trish "the Dish" in ''[[Mallrats]]'' is sleeping with dozens of men, including some teachers, as part of a research project.

* 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."

* ''[[A Beautiful Mind]]'' has John Nash and his wife Alicia.

{{quote| '''Teacher''': Oh, Michael, this can't work. I'm 34 and you're 12!<br />

'''Michael''': Don't be negative! }}

 

== Live Action TV ==

** 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.

** In the first-season episode "Teacher's Pet," a new hot-babe teacher seduces boys (including Xander) and invites them to her home. Of course, she turns out to be a giant man-eating mantis who preys on virgins. Hooray for metaphors.

** 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."

* ''Degrassi'' faux-spinoff ''The Best Years'' has a subplot about Noah, a geeky college freshman, getting involved with the teacher of his film-studies class, and about her husband, who turns out to be the teacher of his business class, eventually finding out.

* 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.

* 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.

* 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]])}}.

** There was one back in about 1998/99 or so, where two lower-sixth form students went clubbing, and one of them, Evelyn, gets flirting with a university student, whose number she gets and they go on a couple of dates. Then he turns up as a new trainee teacher for her A-Level classes....things get awkward, they agree to break off the relationship right away, but news about how they first met spreads around school anyway and he is forced to resign (not just from the position, but from his teacher training course and the teaching profession as a whole. Eventually, Evelyn discovers that while they were dating (they had slept together on one, maybe two occasions during that period) she had gotten pregnant by him; they move away and set up home together, and it's implied they got married at some point too.

* In ''[[Cutey Honey the Live]]'', we have [[Psycho Lesbian]] Mayumi Karasugawa, who often seduces her female students.

* ''[[Friends]]''

** Brennan had a relationship with her teacher in college. He defended it by saying she was a very advanced student. Zack seemed rather interested in the idea, commenting "I'm an advanced student" rather indignantly.

** In another case, Brennan while wondering about why the victim was into younger men casually asked her intern whether he would date a woman much older than him. The intern reacted with shock and thought she was flirting with him.

* 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 Reno911! when a teacher, played by [[Carmen Electra]] is casually handcuffed by Junior and Wiegel with the student being a stereotypical nerd. To clear the confusion, of doing ''him,'' as in a nerd and not a cuter boy, the teacher explains he's a [[Biggus Dickus]] [[Kidanova]] with matching stamina, proving this when Wiegel is caught making out with him, [[Blatant Lies|claiming he came onto her when it was the other way around]] and for good measure, [[Refuge in Audacity|Junior took a cell phone pic and sent it to]] [[Camp Gay|Dangle.]]

* 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 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.

* 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.

* On ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'' Ted briefly dates a woman who is a graduate student at the college where he is teaching architeture. College rules actually prohibit professor-student relationships. Ted finds this ridiculous in their case since he is only a few years older than her and she is an economics student and never will interact with him academically. The relationship does not last long enough for this to matter.

** However, we found out that the Mother was also in that economics class, though Ted would not date her until much later.

* 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?

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mBsD_JNIZI "Just Sixteen"] by Velvet Revolver

* [[ABBA|"I was in a trance... When I kissed the teacher...?]]

* The [[Mind Screw|bizarre implications]] of the "[http://mvoat.blogspot.com/search/label/Bonnie%20Tyler Total Eclipse Of The Heart]" video.

* ''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.

* In the [[Dating Sim]] ''True Love'', one of the [[Chivalrous Pervert]] male lead's possible girlfriends is his young and beautiful teacher. {{spoiler|Curiously, to get her attention you need to save ''another'' girl from a [[Near-Rape Experience]]}}

* ''Sims 2: University'', like any Sims game, lets you have sex ("Woo Hoo") with anyone, if you get your relationship with them high enough. This includes university professors, who are Sims that can be invited on dates or to one's home... and incidentally, doing so will increase a Sim's grades.

* In a school assignment in ''[[Mana Khemia Alchemists of Al Revis]]'', [[The Hero]] asks his homeroom teacher Professor Zeppel what sort of food the [[Hospital Hottie|school nurse]], also a teacher herself, would like (making food that the latter teacher liked ''is the assignment''). Zeppel, [[Hello, Nurse!|with good reason]], comes to the obvious conclusion...

{{quote| '''Raine :''' [Snowflakes] all look like the same cold snow, but in reality, they're very sensitive to the environment around them.<br />

'''Lloyd :''' Well yeah, I get that, but...<br />

* 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.

 

 

 

== Web Original ==

* ''[[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]".

 

== Real Life ==

* [[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).

* Joseph Campbell married one of his students after she had graduated, with the implication being that their relationship began during her time as a student in his class.

* ''Notes on a Scandal'' is all about this.

* The main plot of ''July Rhapsody''.

 

 

* 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.

* 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"

 

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== [[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]].

* Parodied in [[Brutal Legend]]. The [[Naughty Nuns|Battle Nuns]] are latex clad demonic nuns who talk like very, very naughty teachers to their demonic servants.

 

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

 

== Western Animation ==