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{{trope}}
[[File:Match_1699Match 1699.png|link=Gunnerkrigg Court|frame|"[[The Rant|Those two ended up married,]] [[Captain Obvious|you know. They are Kat's parents.]]"]]
 
{{quote|''Matchmaker, matchmaker make me a match.
 
{{quote|''Matchmaker, matchmaker make me a match. Find me a find, catch me a catch''|'''''[[Fiddler Onon the Roof]]'''''}}
 
You all know [[Alice and Bob]]. Alice has a crush on Bob. Bob [[Twice Shy|may]] or [[All Love Is Unrequited|may not]] have a crush on Alice. Then there's Jane. Jane is a close friend of Alice who has nothing but Alice's best interest in mind. So she encourages Alice to go for it with Bob. Over and over again. Jane is a matchmaker.
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See also [[Yaoi Fangirl]], [[Yuri Fan]] and [[Perverse Sexual Lust]], for variants. Compare [[Shipping]] for more meta examples. [[Shipper on Deck]] is a subtrope. See also [[Match Maker Quest]], where the player can take on this role.
 
Not to be confused with with [[The Matchmaker (theatre)|the play]] by Thornton Wilder, which was later [[The Musical|turned into a musical]] called ''[[Hello, Dolly!]]''
 
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== Anime and Manga ==
* Mutsumi Otohime from the "[[Love Hina]]" manga and anime trys more than anybody to help Keitaro and Naru be together. Mutsumi wants Keitaro to be happy (With an massive case of "[[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]]"). Even though Mutsumi has loved Keitaro since childhood.
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* Ayuki in ''[[Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl]]'' has an interest in resolving Hazumu's [[Love Triangle]], and does have the pathological obsession with seeing people other than herself getting into relationships.
* Tsuruya from ''[[Suzumiya Haruhi]]''. At times, she talks to Kyon about his relationship to Haruhi and Mikuru. Well, this quote probably says it best: ''"Well, Mikuru will always follow you! But, don't be mischievous. That's the one thing that's not allowed. If you wish to be mischievous, do it to Haru-nyan. Just my intuition. Mhm, I'm sure she'll always forgive you!"'' Oh, and she also likes to [[The Tease|tease]] him, but that's just for fun.
* Akane in the ''[[Kimagure Orange Road]]'' mangasmanga.
* Matsuda from ''[[Death Note]]'' seems to fit. He always seemed to want Light and Misa together, when really there was nothing there.
** Parodied in [http://silentreaper.deviantart.com/art/Death-Note-Likes-to-Watch-60793294 this] [[Death Note]] deviant comic. (gotta wonder about Matsuda)
* Ichigo from ''[[Please Teacher!]]'', because of her own situation.
* In the second season of ''[[Princess Tutu]]'', [[Those Two Guys|Pique and Lilie]] decide that Ahiru has a thing for Fakir and attempt to match make them, even [[Love Letter Lunacy|writing a love letter from Ahiru to Fakir]] in an attempt for them to get together. Pique [[Matchmaker Crush|even has a crush on Fakir]], but sets it aside in hopes that Ahiru could have a relationship with him. {{spoiler|What they don't realize is that it's the other way around--Ahiru is still enamoredenamoured with Mytho and is spending time with Fakir to try to save Mytho. ''Fakir'', on the other hand, [[Love Triangle|is developing feelings for Ahiru...]]}}
* In later volumes of the manga ''[[Chrono Crusade]]'', it's implied that Azmaria is silently trying to matchmake [[Will They or Won't They?|Chrono and Rosette]], including purposefully having her and Satella separated from the two of them so they can be alone.
** There's a brief scene in the epilogue of the manga that seems to imply that Rosette is trying to set up Joshua and Azmaria, too. {{spoiler|If so, it works--they get married not long before she dies.}}
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== ComicbooksComic Books ==
* May Parker had to work hard and persistently to set up a date her nephew [[Spider-Man|Peter]] and her good friend Anna Watson's niece Mary Jane. After the Gwen Stacy clone appeared, Aunt May encouraged MJ to fight for Peter's love. And after Mary Jane returned from a long absence in the 1980s, Aunts May and Anna once again set up a date between her and and Peter.
** In a time-travel story in ''[[Spider-Girl]]'', Peter and MJ's daughter Spider-Girl visits Aunt May before Peter and MJ's first date. Aunt May is at that point just about to throw in the towel because Peter keeps avoiding a meeting with the Watson girl, but "May Day" encourages her not to give up.
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* In the sequel to the ''[[Twilight Princess]]'' fanfic "[[Til the Sun Grows Cold|Til the Sun Grows Cold and the Stars Grow Old]]," Rusl plays matchmaker in order to [[Pair the Spares]] among his old Resistance buddies.
* In ''[[Red Dead Virgo]]'', Blue!Karkat was one of these before he got into SGRUB. Kanaya calls him out on deliberately pairing off poorly matched blackroms so that more trolls would kill each other to provide food for his troll eating lusus. Karkat doesn't deny it, but he still boasts that despite that he is the best relationship consultant Alternia has ever known. Appropriately enough, his title in the game is "Thief of Heart".
* In countless ''[[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]]'' AU fanfics, it is Guinevere who plays [[The Matchmaker]] to Arthur and Merlin, retaining her best friend status with the latter. It is quite [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|heartwarming]] really, considering how easily (and expected) it would be for writers to throw her into a [[Die for Our Ship]] role.
 
 
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* Rafiki plays this role in ''[[The Lion King|The Lion King 2]]''.
* The first twenty minutes or so of ''[[Mulan]]'' focuses on Mulan's appointment with the town matchmaker, which has disastrous results.
* A rather subtle case in the ''[[Hellboy (film)|Hellboy]]'' film with John Myers. Hellboy thinks he is John is taking Liz out on a date, but the whole time, John is trying to convince Liz to accept Hellboy. Hellboy follows and [[Hilarity Ensues]].
 
 
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* Anne from ''[[Anne of Green Gables]]'' seemed to make a habit of this. She finally gave it up when she threw a party intended to bring a couple together... except the party was a complete disaster and it turns out the couple were already engaged.
* ''[[Washington Square]]'' has a [[Genre Savvy]] variant of this trope in Aunt Penniman; played with in that {{spoiler|the man she is trying to match her niece with is an obvious [[Gold Digger]], but she is so enamored with living out a romance novel that she doesn't care.}}
* In the XV fifteenth-century Spanish novel "La Celestina", the title character is both the [[Trope Namer]] and [[Trope Codifier]] for the Spanish language. So much that it's even [[Memetic Mutation|used in real life]] for naming people who matchmake their friends.
* Plenty of [[P. G. Wodehouse|PG Wodehouse]]'s characters indulge in this. [[Jeeves and Wooster (novel)|Jeeves]], in particular, spends a good deal of time and [[Zany Scheme|scheming]] in not only setting up couples, but breaking up the ones he doesn't approve of. (Bertie does a lot of this, too, but usually because [[Extreme Doormat|he gets talked into it]]. On one of the few occasions when he ''did'' instigate matchmaking--betweenmatchmaking—between Bingo Little and Honoria Glossop--hisGlossop—his scheme failed so disastrously that {{spoiler|he ended up unwillingly engaged to Honoria}}.)
* In an [[L. M. Montgomery]] story, "The Education of Betty", a man, having been the best man while his best friend marries his true love, then did his best for the widow and orphan. When the girl is grown up, he tries to pair her with a man his own age, and demands to know why she refused -- whereuponrefused—whereupon she declares her love. Prior to that, his awareness had been limited to realizing that her mother was not so perfect after all, lacking her daughter's spirit.
 
 
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* A variation is shown by Dr. Phlox in ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]''. "I do believe that they are about to mate. Do you think that they would let me watch?"
* ''[[Boy Meets World]]'' had Shawn take up this role for a while when Corey and Topanga broke up, with a lot of people commenting he took the breakup harder than they did, and being the number one champion of the get-back-together cause.
** Also reversed later in the show, where Corey becomes obsessed with getting Shawn and Angela back together. Doubly so at the end of the show when {{spoiler|Corey completely IGNORES''ignores'' Topenga's interview with Yale until the very end of the episode, where he is caught off guard that she wants to move to YaleConnecticut.}}
* ''[[iCarly]]'': Carly does this for Sam on multiple occasions. Once during ''iMake Sam Girlier'', another time during ''iSpeed Date'', and again in 'iOMG' although in that case she might not be correct as to who Sam likes.
* The title character in ''[[Frasier]]'' is always doing this, mostly as a way to vicariously live through the other couples while he himself is consistently lonely or having relationship troubles. These attempts almost always either fail hilariously or leave him bitter and miserable if they're successful, but {{spoiler|his machinations regarding Niles and Daphne (which began with painkiller-stoned ramblings), ended with [[Happily Ever After]].}}
* In ''[[Gilligan's Island]]'', Mrs. Howell was a matchmaker in one episode.
 
 
== Theater ==
* Thornton Wilder's ''[[The Matchmaker (theatre)|The Matchmaker]]'' and its [[The Musical|musical sisteradaptation]] ''[[Hello, Dolly!]]'' focus around a professional matchmaker at the turn of the twentieth century. Both works are farcical in nature.
* In the musical ''[[Fiddler Onon the Roof]]'' there is Yente, the (professional) matchmaker, who fails to make any successful matches in the story.
 
 
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** Surma also did a little of this for Anja and Donald, as seen in the page image.
* ''[[Fans]]'': Meighan secretly hired Julia to the staff of Station 13, a company she co-founded with Tim and Guthrie, largely to get Tim and Julia together.
{{quote| '''Guthrie''': I am not very sexual, Meighan, but I am not blind. I know that Julia has been unfortunate in love. I know Tim makes a terrible first impression, so simply "fixing him up on a date" would be counter-productive. And you know better than I how his compassion shines under conditions of shared stress."}}
* ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'': Schlock [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2016-12-13 tries] his pseudopodia at this. It's as much of a mixed blessing as you could expect.
 
 
== Web Original ==
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