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{{quote|''Matchmaker, matchmaker make me a match.
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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A serial Matchmaker is often [[Oblivious to Love]]. Expect several attempts to make a match for the character madly in love with the Matchmaker, and resolution only to come at the very end.
See also [[Yaoi Fangirl]], [[Yuri Fan]] and [[Perverse Sexual Lust]], for variants. Compare [[Shipping]] for more meta examples. [[Shipper
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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!]]''
== 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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** Of course, <s>Albert Chamomile...uh...</s> [[Weasel Mascot|Chamo]] isn't much better. While he's been shown to have his own reasons for his actions, he ''has'' encouraged Negi to kiss girls on multiple occasions and even setting him up with several, most notably with the "Kiss Negi" competition. He's also been shown to encourage the girls themselves on a few occasions.
* ''[[Shakugan no Shana]]'' has Ike, who tries to help Kazumi get together with Yuji, but he doesn't really have a pathological obsession with watching other people get into relationships, and {{spoiler|the ending heavily implies that he ends up paired with Kazumi.}}
* 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]]''
* Matsuda from ''[[
** Parodied in [http://silentreaper.deviantart.com/art/Death-Note-Likes-to-Watch-60793294 this] [[
* 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
* 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.}}
* In ''[[Gankutsuou]]'', Albert becomes this for Valentine and Maximilien, after [[Love Freak|becoming convinced that people should only marry for love]].
* Seto from ''[[Tenchi Muyo! GXP]]'' takes this to [[The Chessmaster|extraordinary heights]].
** She does this for both strategic use and [[For the Evulz|to screw with other people for the hell of it]] (as pictured expression should explain).
*** One doesn't get called ''[[Magnificent Bastard|Jurai no Onihime]]'' ("''Devil Princess'' of Jurai") for nothing. It's all good-natured, really, but still Seto is a force of nature that tends to completely steamroll everything and everybody in her vicinity. Her [[Fanon]] status of {{spoiler|[[Easy Amnesia|amnesiac]] Naja Akara}} notwithstanding.
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* 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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== Fan Works ==
* In the sequel to the ''[[Twilight Princess]]'' fanfic "[[Til the Sun Grows Cold
* In ''[[
* In countless ''[[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]]'' AU fanfics, it is Guinevere who plays
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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 (
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* In [[Jane Austen]]'s ''[[Pride and Prejudice]]'', Mrs. Bennet fills this role for her daughters.
** And in ''[[Emma]]'', the titular character tries to match up various members of her circle of friends. It doesn't always go so well.
* Anne from ''[[
* ''[[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
* Plenty of [[
* In an [[
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* ''[[Friends]]'' has this for one episode where Phoebe, Chandler and Monica go to great lengths to get Rachel a date for a business dinner, and start shilling their respective dates right in front of them. She at one point finds a date on her own, and they end up scaring him off in an almost [[Die for Our Ship]] manner. Naturally, the whole thing eventually blows up and Rachel ditches both guys.
* Charlie simply loves to do this on ''[[The West Wing]]''. "She's a fine-looking woman." / "''Stop saying that!!''"
* [[Doctor Who
* 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
* ''[[
* 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
* In the musical ''[[Fiddler
== Videogames ==
* In ''[[The Sims]] 2'', you can summon a gypsy woman who will provide a matchmaking service for your active Sim. The more Simoleons you're willing to shell out, the more compatible a match she will provide. [[Your Mileage May Vary]] as to whether or not the setup is actually good for your Sim.
* ''[[
== Webcomics ==
* In ''[[
* [[The Stoic|Jones]] of ''[[
** 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.
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* ''[[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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