History BattleCouple / LiveActionTV

* Rick Castle and Kate Becket from ''Series/{{Castle}}'': She's a New York PD Detective and he's a tag-along writer. Together they fight crime! Kate will [[HeIsNotMyBoyfriend never admit they are a couple]] but EveryoneCanSeeIt so she doesn't have to. [[spoiler: They have been together since the beginning of season 5.]]

* Ethan Chandler and Vanessa Ives of ''Series/PennyDreadful'' during the episode "And Hell Itself My Only Foe". When Pinkerton agent Warren Roper shows up to forcibly bring Ethan back to America, threatening also to rape and kill Vanessa, Ethan and Vanessa both end up attacking him, simultaneously kicking (Ethan) and stabbing him (Vanessa) to death.

* ''Series/KamenRiderDragonKnight'': Features Len and Kase, who are separated for the first half of the show due to her being MIA from a previous battle that [[KillEmAll didn't go well]]. Unlike the general version of the trope, they're both superheroes that fight physically; "magic" is only used to boost the power of their normal attacks.

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** As seen in multiple {{flashback}}s Angelus and Darla were a Battle Couple for 150 years, cutting a bloody swath across Europe and were soon [[CoupledCouples joined]] by Spike and Drusilla in what was essentially the demonic vampire version of Music/{{ABBA}}.

* Rick Castle and Kate Becket from ''Series/{{Castle}}'': She's a New York PD Detective and he's a tag along writer. Together they fight crime! Kate will [[HeIsNotMyBoyfriend never admit they are a couple]] but EveryoneCanSeeIt so she doesn't have to. [[spoiler: They have been together since the beginning of season 5.]]

** Chuck and Sarah become this late in the third season. Especially evident in "Chuck vs. the Honeymooners", when their fighting (while cuffed together) looks a much like a dance as a fight, and in "Chuck vs. the First Fight", where they fight bad guys while quarreling with each other.

** The Doctor and River Song; he is a MemeticBadass both in-universe and out, and she is [[spoiler:a part-Time Lord genetically bred child created as a weapon to fight the Doctor. She fell in love with him instead]]. They've fought off alien invaders back-to-back, while flirting and their names strike fear in villains everywhere. River once made a Dalek beg for mercy! [[spoiler: They're married!]]

** Madam Vastra and Jenny Flint; sword-wielding interspecies lesbian detectives who fight crime in Victorian London (and sometimes other eras). The 2012 Christmas special confirms that they're not just together, they're ''married''.

* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'': John Crichton and Aeryn Sun. A slight variant, as he starts off being mostly useless in combat (he was a scientist before he was shot across the universe), but by the end he's not only protecting her as much as she protects him she finds his insane "plans" and constant, nigh-incomprehensible-to-aliens pop culture references charming and fun. Perhaps best shown at the start of the Peacekeeper Wars. They are reformed after two months NotQuiteDead in the same passionate kiss they were in before. They pull apart, stare tenderly into each others eyes, and at ''the exact same moment'' pull out their weapons and have the whole room covered. It's awesome.

* ''Series/{{Lost}}'': Kate and Sawyer used to a formidable tagteam regardless of their relationship status at the moment. Kate also occasionally had this with Sayid.

* ''Series/{{Legends of Tomorrow}}'': Leonard Snart and Sara Lance in Season 1. The former is an expert thief who is very savvy and intelligent, not to mention, his ability to hold himself in a fight through his proficiency at using the Cold Gun as well as his keen hand to hand combat experience and the latter is an ActionGirl who is excellent at using batons and can beat 10 men twice her size.

* ''Series/{{Sharpe}}'': Richard Sharpe and Teresa Moreno from the novels and TV series are the archetype. They met fighting in Spain. They fell in love, married and had a daughter (not necessarily in that order). In between these episodes, they fought against Napoleon's armies in Spain.

** All Klingon relationships. Klingons adore Battle Couples and they are OlderThanDirt in their culture. Not only is there the legendary pair Kahless and Lukara but stories of Battle Couples go back from the legendary to the mythic when the Klingon AdamAndEve decided to sack the heavens together instead of fighting each other. In every Klingon marriage an important part is promising to be a Battle Couple. [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Worf]] and [[ActionGirl Jadzia Dax]] tended to have their most dramatic moments exemplifying this trope.
** Many Bajoran relationships fall along similar lines to the klingons.

** Hopper and Joyce enter the Upside down together to save Joyce's son Will, however despite being sweethearts in highschool Hopper and Joyce aren't a couple [[CantSpitItOut or at least won't admit to being so]]. [[spoiler: Season 3 plays it mostly straight as Hopper and Joyce fully realize their feelings for each and save the day together, then Hopper seemly dies]].

* ''Series/{{NCIS}}'': Tony and Ziva disguise themselves as this in the episode "Under Covers", and goodness knows [[FanPreferredCouple many viewers want them to be this all the time]].

* ''Series/{{Legends of Tomorrow}}'': Leonard Snart and Sara Lance in Season 1. The former is an expert thief who is very savvy and intelligent, and can hold himself in a fight with his proficiency in using the Cold Gun as well as his keen hand to hand combat and the latter is an ActionGirl who is excellent at using batons and can beat 10 men twice her size.

* ''Series/{(Legends of Tomorrow)}'': Leonard Snart and Sara Lance in Season 1. The former is an expert thief who is very savvy and intelligent, and can hold himself in a fight with his proficiency in using the Cold Gun as well as his keen hand to hand combat and the latter is an ActionGirl who is excellent at using batons and can beat 10 men twice her size.

* ''Series/[(Legends of Tomorrow)]'': Leonard Snart and Sara Lance in Season 1. The former is an expert thief who is very savvy and intelligent, and can hold himself in a fight with his proficiency in using the Cold Gun as well as his keen hand to hand combat and the latter is an * ActionGirl who is excellent at using batons and can beat 10 men twice her size.

** Buffy and Spike form an instinctive fighting team from the moment they [[EnemyMine reluctantly team up to fight Angelus]] at the end of Season 2. It's a sign they're NotSoDifferent and foreshadows their eventual pair-up in Season 6.

** Emma and Hook have progressed from [[FoeYay flirty enemies]] to allies to friends to [[RelationshipUpgrade this]] over the course of the show. Their typical response to the other being in danger is to [[LetsGetDangerous get dangerous]] and kick the ass of the aggressor.