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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* In the [[Ultimate Spider -Man]] line, the second Spider-Man, Miles Morales, is approached by his uncle, the super thief Prowler, for training. Little does he know, the Prowler needs Spider-Man to deal with the extremely powerful Maximus Gargan--the Scorpion.
* Some tellings of [[Spider -Man]] give him this sort of connection to [[Norman Osborn]], aka the Green Goblin. Especially when the Green Goblin's son is [[Why Are You Not My Son|not living up to his father's expectations]].
* In the ''[[Green Lantern (Comic Book)|Green Lantern]]'' comics, [[Sinestro]] has taken an interest in Soranik Natu, the current Lantern from his home planet of Korugar. Where Sinestro was hated for being a [[Knight Templar]] tyrant (and the next Korugarian Lantern, Katma Tui, was hated by proxy), Korugar is coming to love Soranik. Both are viewing the peoples' growing devotion to her as practically ''asking'' her to be a dictator herself, which Sinestro views as her bringing order where he can't anymore while Soranik is greatly troubled by it. And it's no help at all that {{spoiler|Sinestro is Soranik's biological father}}.
 
== [[Film]] ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* [[Final Fantasy VI|Terra and Kefka]] in ''[[Final Fantasy Dissidia]]''.
* In the [[Fan Sequel]] ''[[The Silver Lining (Videovideo Gamegame)|The Silver Lining]]'', Graham has a strange vision where {{spoiler|Manannan}} claims his real plan had been to treat {{spoiler|Alexander}} as an apprentice and surrogate child. {{spoiler|Alexander's}} reaction to the revelation is a combination of squick/horror/disbelief.
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Robin and Slade from the ''[[Teen Titans (Animationanimation)|Teen Titans]]'' cartoon. The similarity is emphasized whenever they fight each other, and ''especially'' when they fight [[Enemy Mine|together]], as their fighting styles are nearly identical.
** To a somewhat lesser extent, this is observable between Cyborg and Brother Blood as well.
** Slade and Terra have a bit of this, too. Terra allows him to mentor her and...[[Mind Rape|things]] [[Training From Hell|go]] {{spoiler|[[Redemption Equals Death|downhill]]}}.
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* Rex and Van Kleiss from ''[[Generator Rex]]''. Although it seems that he is more interested in Rex's nanites than the boy himself.
** Van Kleiss himself supplied that he would be happy if Rex was a vegetable as long as he was still breathing. Unlike some other examples, Rex is [[Genre Savvy]] enough to take advantage of this without entering such a relationship. In the episode "Alliance" Rex uses guile and half-truths to undermine Van Kleiss in various ways. Most notable of them is getting Circe to defect from the Pack. Circe was convinced that Van Kleiss wants to take Rex in like he did with her. So when Rex is forced into an arena with No-face for a [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]], Rex makes it clear to the onlooking Circe that Van Kleiss places no value on him other than his life.
* Omi and Chase Young from ''[[Xiaolin Showdown (Animation)|Xiaolin Showdown]]''.
 
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