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A source of [[Values Dissonance]] in older works, because it used to be common practice for noblemen to marry younger women from friendly families, so this trope would have occurred a lot both in fiction and real life. Even in modern times, some people argue that this is not a problem as long as the former child is now an adult and able to properly consent. [[Your Mileage May Vary]] on whether or not [[There Should Be a Law]].
Known in Japan (and for some years on [[The Other Tropes Wiki]]) as the Hikaru Genji Plan, after the main character in ''[[The Tale of Genji]]'', who kidnapped a young girl named Murasaki from a life of poverty for the purpose of marrying her once she grew up. [[Don't Explain the Joke|The current name is a pun]]
This is by definition a subtrope of [[
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* Part of the plot of the 2009 anime adaptation of ''[[The Tale of Genji]]'' (see Literature example below), ''[[Genji Monogatari Sennenki]]''.
* In [[Osamu Tezuka]]'s ''[[Phoenix|Phoenix: Life]]'', Aoi falls in love with the girl he adopted when she comes of age, but she only thinks of him as a father. This ultimately leads to his {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice]], as he feels he has nothing left to live for}}.
* This is pretty much the relationship between Moeko and Mariya in the shoujo manga series ''Kindan'' (by Osakabe Mashin). Not that Mariya even really ''bothered'' [[
* Inverted in the manga ''[[Until Death Do Us Part]]'', where the heroine who ran up to the protagonist for rescue early on for help later revealed that she's staying with him not only to be rescued, but also because he's her future husband. The two she told this to were shocked on finding out and told her not to tell the protagonist about it, though she seems set on making said prediction come true. The heroine is twelve and the protagonist is in his mid-to-late twenties, which would make this a lot more squicky if not for the fact that there is no romance to speak of at this point and she is a powerful precognitive, so the foretold marriage could be decades off.
* Arguably used in ''[[Appleseed]]'' (the manga, at least—the movies are rather vague about the whole affair). Deunan is nine years younger than Briareos. She was eleven when they first met, and flashbacks have her father already aware of Bri's feelings for her when she was only seventeen. Averted slightly in that if either of them is forcing themselves on the other due to a past close relationship, it's ''Deunan''.
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* An inadvertent version almost happened in Volume 4 of ''[[Ooku]]''. {{spoiler|As she lay dying at age 27, [[She Is the King|Shogun Iemitsu the Younger]] asked the former abbot (and only true love for all that his infertility obliged her to bear the children of several other men) Arikoto to guide the eldest of her daughters as a father. [[Clueless Chick Magnet]] that he was, Arikoto had no idea what feelings his charge was developing towards him until the [[A Child Shall Lead Them|teenage]] Shogun Ietsuna gave an [[Anguished Declaration of Love]] as he carried her to safety during a disastrous fire. As soon as a proper audience count be held, Arikoto made his feeling clear by formally petitioning to be dismissed from his duties in the Inner Chambers.}}
* In ''[[Dance in the Vampire Bund]]'', while the elder did not raise the younger the relationship between seventeen year old Akira Kaburagi Regendorf and his father's [[Legal Jailbait|90-plus]] liege lady Mina Tepes has strong overtones of this; especially as Akira was [[Unequal Pairing|pledged to serve her]] from birth and one of her vast [[Embarrassing Old Photo]] collection has her holding him as an infant.
* In ''[[Hana to Akuma]]'', the entire plot is centered around Hana and Vivi falling in love with each other after he raised her as a foundling, despite the fact that most of the story happens when Hana is 10 and Vivi is a centuries old demon. Vivi attempts to resist this attraction by going to the demon world for awhile in a [[
* ''[[Occult Academy]]'' {{spoiler|(gender flipped.) Implied by the ending. 17 year old Maya's fallen in love with 23-year-old time-traveled-from-13-years-in-the-future Fumiaki, but he makes a heroic sacrifice. So she takes 10-year-old current-day Fumiaki in hand, and we see that 13 years later, they're at least living together.}}
* ''[[Black Butler]]''. Well, maybe more like [[Distaff Counterpart|Husband Husbandry]]. Or [[Our Souls Are Different|Soul Husbandry]]. Sebastian tries really hard to ... [[Unusual Euphemism|cultivate Ciel's soul.]]
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* ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'' has Irie who plans on doing this to Satoko. While it's hard to judge just how earnest he is about it, it's seemingly played for laughs.
* Implied in ''[[Saber Marionette J]]'' in the very final last episode, where a young elementary-age Cherry is still in love —and [[Fille Fatale|lust]]— with Otaru, even after she's been reborn as a fully-organic human girl, along with her sisters, Lime and Bloodberry, who he's now raising as his adopted daughters.
* During a flashback in ''[[Fairy Tail]]'', Markarov takes the then eight-year-old Erza to [[Dr. Jerk|Porlyusica]] for treatment. Markarov comments that Erza will be very beautiful when she grows up. Porlyusica, who knows very well that Markarov is a [[Dirty Old Man]], asks if he's [[
* Gender flipped In ''[[Eureka Seven]]'', the eldest of Eureka's 3 adopted kids Maurice had some form of romantic affection towards his foster mom Eureka. He even resents and gets jealous of the protagonist Renton for being her lover, threatening to shoot him in episode 45, claiming that he can be a better replacement for Renton. If Eureka didn't resolve this issue, Maurice probably might end up playing this trope, despite knowing Eureka {{spoiler|killed his family}}.
* Clearly discussed (in a strangely gender-flipped way) in ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'', where some of the girls are plotting to raise Negi (their ten-year-old teacher) to be the perfect boyfriend. Explicitly called the 'Reverse Hikaru Genji Raising Plan'.
== Comic Books ==
* One of the outright weirdest examples of this trope happened in a [[Silver Age]] issue of ''
* [[X-Men]]: According to rabid anti-fans of Magneto, he apparently did this to Rogue in the Age of Apocalypse, as they initially had a surrogate father-daughter relationship when he mentored her after she accidentally permanently absorbed the powers and part of the psyche of his own secretly long-lost biological daughter Polaris , who was even older than her.
* It happens in ''[[Lex Luthor: Man of Steel]]'' when Lex Luthor creates the superheroine Hope to serve as his own private Superman as well as concubine. He {{spoiler|sacrifices her to discredit Superman}}.
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* Some [[Gorillaz]] fanwriters have this happen between Noodle and either Murdoc or 2D (or, very occasionally, Russel). A less-squicky-than-usual variation in the fic ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3315543/1/A_Man_Out_Of_Time A Man Out Of Time]'' involved, thanks to time travel, Noodle meeting and falling in love with Murdoc's sixteen-year-old self, then {{spoiler|using another time jump to allow her thirty-six-year-old self to come back to Kong and meet the forty-year-old Murdoc}}.
* ''[[Legolas By Laura]]'': Legolas adopts the eponymous Laura as his sister, or daughter, or something - it's unclear - when she's a baby. Ten years later, he rescues her from orcs, and agrees to "be her boyfriend". [[Lolicon|Even though she's still ten.]] The [[So Bad It's Good]] quality of the fic suggests that either it's a [[Troll Fic]] or the author was also ten, and the [[Beige Prose]] makes it far less squicky and more funny than it sounds.
* In the ''[[Oneiroi Series]]'' (an ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'' fanfiction series), [[Complete Monster|Xykon]] practically raised [[Split Personality|Tiasal/Deirdre]], and he has this weird thing going on where he's almost but not quite started a sexual relationship with her. Unlike the other examples, he never exactly planned on it and she's the only one who's actually interested in the sex, but he uses it to manipulate her. (And [[Word of God]] says that he gets enjoyment out of it despite being [[Dem Bones|a walking skeleton]] because it gives him a power trip.) {{spoiler|The trope is also inverted with Deirdre as she actually [[Rape as Drama|forces]] her [[Oedipus Complex|father]] (who also practically raised her [[Disappeared Dad|after a while]]) into sleeping with her. And she's implied to be planning on doing the same to her uncle (who raised her while her dad didn't), and [[Word of God]] says that she wants to do it to all the men who were involved in raising her. She has issues.}}
* Mao and C.C.'s [[Mayfly-December Romance|relationship]] is explored in-depth in ''[[Code Geass: Mao of the Deliverance]]'', with plenty of backstory and [[Flash Back]], including the implication that C.C. {{spoiler|had sex with him}} when he became a teenager, increasing his [[Yandere]] [[Fan Boy]] treatment of her [[Up to Eleven]].
* Inverted and most likely played for [[Squick]] in the ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'' fanfic ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20120408051936/http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4567400/1/Seven Seven]'', when {{spoiler|Jacob proceeds to strip Renesmee (who looks eighteen but is only seven, thus the title), and she is both frightened and unwilling.}}
* There are a few ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]'' fanfics that pairs Twilight Sparkle and Spike.
* This seems to be at least partly
* If a Chinese webnovel has a main pairing of a martial artist/cultivator and their Shifu/Shizun, expect this plot to appear in fics, or at least the variant where the student falls in love and plots to seduce/marry the teacher who raised them.
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* In the novel (and anime, and films) ''[[Daddy Long Legs]]'', the main character Judy ends up marrying her patron. At least in the novel, Judy's interaction with the titular Daddy-Long-Legs ( {{spoiler|aka the [[Bunny Ears Lawyer|eccentric millionaire]] Jervis Pendelton, her roommate Julia's uncle}}) is limited to the letters she send to him, so they don't really have an actual relationship until she meets him in person (not realizing he's her patron) and they begin a romance. On the other hand, he ''does'' occasionally abuse his authority as her patron to interfere with her relationships with other young men, particularly her best friend Sallie's older brother, Jimmie McBride.
* In Chapter Fourteen of [[L. Frank Baum]]'s ''[[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz]]'', a bit of backstory (about the enslavement of the Winged Monkeys) mentions this trope. In the past, the Sorceress Gayelette in the North (implied to be someone other than the Good Witch of the North that Dorothy met, but the latter only gets a name in adaptations and second-party continuations) couldn't find a suitable husband, so she picked an attractive little boy and had him raised to be her ideal husband.
* The story "The Education of Betty" from [[
** Also appears in the titular short story from ''The Doctor's Sweetheart and Other Stories''. Doctor John is thirty when he first meets the eight year old Marcella, and "[h]e had the most to do with bringing her up..." and "Marcella was one of those girls who develop early...at fifteen, she was a woman, loving, beautiful, and spirited." The Doctor realizes he loves her, but vows not to put himself forward as a suitor, given her age and inexperience; but it's too late and she already loves him, anyway, so: "...one day, just a month before her sixteenth birthday, the two came hand in hand to Miss Sara and me...and told us simply that they had plighted their troth to each other." Of course her legal guardian uncle interferes and takes her away; but she comes back to marry the doctor when she is twenty-one, as she had promised.
* In Junichiro Tanizaki's ''Naomi,'' Joji tries this with the fifteen-year-old of the title, rationalizing that it gives him time to scope out his potential bride.
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* In [[Anne McCaffrey]]'s ''[[Tower and The Hive|Damia]]'', the titular character falls in love with Afra, her mother's best friend and advisor, who is ''twenty four years older'' than she is and ''literally'' helped raise her from the day she was born. At first you may think it's sweet... and then, about a week after you've read the book, [[Fridge Logic|you think about it]], and [[Squick|the eeeeeeeeewwwwww]] hits ya right in the face.
** Twice in the same series: In the prequel ''Pegasus'' books, Tirla marries Sascha (thirty-something) on her sixteenth birthday, or pretty much the instant she was legally allowed to. Although he hadn't raised her since birth, he had taken on a protective, father-figure role in her life since she was about age twelve.
* [[Robin McKinley]] has so many [[
* In ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'', Jorah Mormont feels this way about Daenerys Targaryen. Dany only loves Jorah platonically, and she eventually ends up {{spoiler|banishing him from her presence when he admits he was spying on her for Robert Baratheon, the man who usurped her father's throne, and he will not concede that he was wrong for deceiving her.}}
** Worse is Petyr Baelish adopting Sansa Stark, whose mother he was in love with and to whom he's now transferred that affection based on the fact that [[Replacement Goldfish|she looks exactly like Catelyn did]]. Oh, she's also thirteen years old. And pretending to be Petyr's bastard daughter. And when he asks her to come "give her father a kiss", he does not mean on the cheek.
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* Something akin to this happens in ''Sundays at Tiffany's'' by [[James Patterson]]. The main character, Jane, had an imaginary friend named Michael when she was eight. He was much older than her, and it's established that he doesn't know how he came to exist, just that he takes care of children by being their imaginary friend and has been doing this for quite some time now. {{spoiler|As the story progresses, they eventually meet again when Jane grows up and fall in love. Toward the end Michael gives up his immortality to be with Jane. A bit disturbing, considering Michael is, in all probability, extremely old}}.
* The disturbing aspect of this is the entire point of the [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]] short story "A Christmas Tree and a Wedding." Made even worse because the real motives of the older man are to get at the girl's finances, with him mentally calculating how much interest her bank balance will accumulate in the years before she comes of age.
* In ''[[Emily of New Moon]]'' and its sequels, by L.M. Montgomery, this is what Dean Priest plans for Emily. Yes, he saves her life the first time they meet. Yes, he's the only adult who understands Emily and she's the only person (other than her now-dead father) who was ever his real friend. But he's old enough to be her father, and at their first meeting he's saying things like "Your life belongs to me, now," and "[[
* A boatman tried this in one of the short stories from the book ''Cuentos de Angustias y Paisajes'', the girl who called him ''[[Squick|dad]]'', she apparently drowned. However, {{spoiler|it was noted she was an excellent swimmer and a man she seemed to fancy disappeared around the same time}}.
* In the antebellum book series ''Elsie Dinsmore'', Elsie's father's best friend complains frequently that he and Elsie aren't closer in age, because she'd be the perfect bride. He starts saying this when she's '''seven''', right after she's been encouraged to call him her Uncle Edward. She marries him as soon as she hits 21, and the entire family rejoices. Her father had her quite young, so Edward Travilla is only about 16 years older than she is, but since he begins talking about wanting to marry her when she's a small child, and remains a huge influence in her life (taking her side against her insanely controlling father, trying to break things up with her first love), it's never not creepy.
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* Due to the infamous one-child policy in China, and the accompanying widespread infanticide of infant girls, there are now people who do this so their sons can have wives. It's pervasive enough that there are now detectives whose entire careers are dedicated to finding people's daughters and bringing them back... just as there are people who make livings kidnapping and selling girls for wives.
** In more ancient times, some affluent Chinese families had the tradition of adopting, fostering, or just flat out buying children in order to raise then and marry them to their offspring when they came of age. While usually girls were subject to this, if the family has only had daugthers they would get a boy to adopt [[Heir Club for Men|so they could keep the fortune within the family]].
* Adult male baboons sometimes abduct subadult females from their mothers and raise them apart from the troop, as a safer alternative to fighting over potential mates. The male grooms and guards his captive like a protective father while he [[
* John "Johnny Appleseed" Chapman apparently [[wikipedia:Johnny Appleseed#Attitude towards marriage|attempted this]].
* WB Yeats [[wikipedia:Iseult Gonne|did]] a subverted version of this trope. In his younger days he pined after Maude Gonne, who spurned him and married an abusive [[Complete Monster]] named John MacBride. After John MacBride's death Maude still refused Yeats' offers of marriage,so he finally proposed to Iseult Gonne, Maude's illegitimate daughter, who was born before her marriage to MacBride (he was 52 and she was 23). She turned him down, but apparently they became good friends and Yeats was something of a father figure to her.
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** Averted in similar cases when a gay couple, who differ significantly in age, opt for legal adoption of the younger by the elder as their only means of becoming a family under law. While it might look like this trope to the uninformed, such couples' romantic relationships generally pre-date the legal fiction of a "parental" one.
* [[George Takei]] once said "If you can't find a good man, raise one." This is a joke referencing the fact that his partner, Brad Altman, is much younger than him. However, they do not fit the trope in real life.
* A much darker example is found in the life of the late murderer, rapist, and death row inmate [[w:Franklin Delano Floyd|Franklin Delano Floyd]]. In 1975, Floyd married Sandra Francis Brandenburg, the mother of four-year-old [https://unidentified-awareness.fandom.com/wiki/Suzanne_Sevakis Suzanne Marie Sevakis]. When Brandenburg was convicted of passing a bad check and had to serve a 30-day jail sentence, Floyd disappeared with Suzanne. He then raised her as his own daughter for the next fourteen years, while moving from town to town and frequently changing their names, and subjecting her to sexual abuse. In 1989 he apparently forced the now-18-year-old Suzanne to marry him. A year later, after running away from Floyd with a college student with whom she'd established a relationship, she was killed in a hit-and-run accident. At the time of his death on while on Death Row, Floyd was the leading suspect in her murder.
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