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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.

 

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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.}}

* 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]]'' mangas.

* Ichigo from ''[[Please Teacher]]''

* 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 enamored 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...]]}}

** 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]].

** 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.

 

== Fan Works ==

 

 

* 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.

 

 

* 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.

* ''[[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 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.

 

 

* ''[[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!!''"

* ''[[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 Topenga's interview with Yale until the very end of the episode, where he is caught off guard that she wants to move to Yale.}}

* 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 ==

* In the musical ''[[Fiddler On the Roof]]'' there is Yente, the (professional) matchmaker, who fails to make any successful matches in the story.

 

== 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 ==

** 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.