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* ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse: Creator/DonRosa's Duck Family Tree sketch reveals that Mr. Duck ([[RhymeThemeNaming Huey, Dewey and Louie]]'s father) is Daisy's brother, while their mother, Della Duck, is Donald's sister. Donald and Daisy are, of course, dating.
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* A doujin drawn by the creator of ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'' shows that all of Tenchi's daughters end up marrying the sons of [[Anime/TenchiMuyoGXP Seina Yamada]]. Mind you, that's [[{{Polyamory}} seven girls between three boys]].

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* A doujin drawn by the creator of ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'' shows that all of Tenchi's daughters end up marrying the sons of [[Anime/TenchiMuyoGXP Seina Yamada]]. Mind you, that's [[{{Polyamory}} seven girls between three boys]].boys]], with one boy [[TwinThreesomeFantasy marrying triplets]].
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* ''Machinima/LiliumSims2'': Siblings Horitio and Isis are in {{Arranged Marriage}}s to another pair of siblings named Balatazar and Estella.

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* ''Machinima/LiliumSims2'': ''WebAnimation/LiliumSims2'': Siblings Horitio and Isis are in {{Arranged Marriage}}s to another pair of siblings named Balatazar and Estella.
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* In the original ''Literature/BrotherAndSister,'' the sister is married to the king at the end while the brother is still single (but fortunately [[BalefulPolymorph no longer a deer]]). Some versions give the king a sister for him to hook up with.

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* In the original ''Literature/BrotherAndSister,'' the sister is married to the king at the end while the brother is still single (but fortunately [[BalefulPolymorph [[ForcedTransformation no longer a deer]]). Some versions give the king a sister for him to hook up with.
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* In ''VideoGame/BubbleBobble'', twin brothers Bubblun and Bobblun are dating a pair of sisters named Betty/Peb and Patty/Pab.

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* In ''VideoGame/BubbleBobble'', twin brothers [[RhymeThemeNaming Bubblun and Bobblun Bobblun]] are dating a pair of sisters named Betty/Peb and Patty/Pab.
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* In Creator/MadameDAulnoy's "Princess Belle-Etoile" [[https://www.surlalunefairytales.com/book.php?id=36&tale=893 link]], a king and his brother marry two sisters. Unfortunately, there is a third sister, and the king and his brother don't have a third brother for her. She marries an admiral instead and becomes jealous. (Their children, three of the king's and one of the brother's, are then abandoned together, and despite being raised as brothers and sister, [[KissingCousins the king's daughter and the brother's son manage to fall in love and end up married]].)

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* In Creator/MadameDAulnoy's "Princess Belle-Etoile" "Literature/PrincessBelleEtoile" [[https://www.surlalunefairytales.com/book.php?id=36&tale=893 link]], a king and his brother marry two sisters. Unfortunately, there is a third sister, and the king and his brother don't have a third brother for her. She marries an admiral instead and becomes jealous. (Their children, three of the king's and one of the brother's, are then abandoned together, and despite being raised as brothers and sister, [[KissingCousins the king's daughter and the brother's son manage to fall in love and end up married]].)
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* ''Series/PasionDeGavilanes'': The popular telenovela features a ''triple''-in-law situation, as the plot concerns the entanglements between the Reyes and Elizondo families. Over the course of the series, the three Reyes brothers fall for a different Elizondo sister.
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* ''Series/TheLegendOfXiaoChuo'' has a complicated version. All three of the Xiao sisters marry men from the Yelü family: Yan Yan marries Xian, Wuguli marries Xian's cousin Xi Yin, and Hu Nian marries Xian's uncle Yansage.
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* A doujin drawn by the creator of ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'' shows that all seven of Tenchi's daughters end up marrying the three sons of [[Anime/TenchiMuyoGXP Seina Yamada]]. No, [[{{Polyamory}} the numbers don't match up]].

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* A doujin drawn by the creator of ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'' shows that all seven of Tenchi's daughters end up marrying the three sons of [[Anime/TenchiMuyoGXP Seina Yamada]]. No, Mind you, that's [[{{Polyamory}} the numbers don't match up]].seven girls between three boys]].
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* ''Film/{{Twins}}'' ends with the eponymous twins marrying sisters and each having twins of their own.

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* ''Film/{{Twins}}'' ''Film/Twins1988'' ends with the eponymous twins marrying sisters twins and each having twins of their own.
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* Another set of weird marriages in the Goryeo royal family: King Yejong married Queen Sundeok of the Incheon I clan and had a son with her. That son, King Injong, grew up to marry two of Sundeok's younger sisters. [[{{Squick}} Which means]] [[RoyalInbreeding he was their nephew as well as their husband]], and their sister became their ''mother-in-law''.
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* UsefulNotes/YeonsangunOfJoseon married Lady Sin from the Geochang Sin clan. Yeonsan's half-brother I Yeok (the future King Jungjong) married Lady Sin's niece.
* King Taejo of Goryeo married Lady Dongsanwon of the Suncheon Bak clan. Taejo's son Jeongjong married two of Dongsanwon's sisters. This meant Jeongjong was both Dongsanwon's stepson and brother-in-law, and his son Prince Gyeongchunwon was both Dongsanwon's nephew and step-grandson.

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* In a [[Literature/TheLionKingSixNewAdventures series of books]] about ''Franchise/TheLionKing'', Simba and Nala have a son, Kopa, thus making him Kiara's brother. Guess who Kovu's sister, Vitani, is almost always paired up with.
* In ''Webcomic/HowIBecameYours'', Zuko gets together with Katara and Azula with Sokka.
* Many ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' fanfics and fans ship both Taito (Taichi and Yamato) and Takari (Takeru and Hikari)
* Many ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' fans/fanfics that ship Sam and Gabriel also ship Dean and Castiel.
* The ''Fanfic/MegsFamilySeries'' features a BetaCouple in [[TheDitz Chris]] and [[DumbBlonde Jillian]], who are the siblings of OfficialCouple [[ButtMonkey Meg]] and [[OriginalCharacter Zack]] respectively (Half-siblings in Zack and Jillian's case).
* In ''Fanfic/AFrozenHeadache'', it's mentioned that Adgar and Arianna are brother and sister. Frederic and Idun are also siblings. Adgar and Idun are Elsa and Anna's parents, while Frederic and Arianna are Rapunzel's parents.
* Downplayed in ''Fanfic/SonOfTheSannin''. Naruto is dating Hinata while his cousin Karin ends up with Hinata's cousin Neji. The possibility of a natural attraction between the two clans is briefly suggested after the latter couple hooks up.
* The ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' fandom has the [[ShipMates double ship]] of [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Remilia]]/[[MindOverManners Satori]] and [[CreepyChild Flandre]]/[[DissonantSerenity Koishi]]. Note that until the 2019 manga ''Webcomic/TouhouChireikidenFoulDetectiveSatori'', [[ShipsThatPassInTheNight the Scarlets and the Komeijis had never actually interacted in canon]].
* ''Fanfic/LetMeHear'' ships Blake/Ruby and Weiss/Yang, with Ruby and Yang being biological sisters while Blake and Weiss are adopted sisters.
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* In ''Princess Belle-Etoile'', a king and his brother marry two sisters. Unfortunately, there is a third sister, and the king and his brother don't have a third brother for her. She marries an admiral instead and becomes jealous. (Their children, three of the king's and one of the brother's, are then abandoned together, and despite being raised as brothers and sister, [[KissingCousins the king's daughter and the brother's son manage to fall in love and end up married]].)

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* In ''Princess Belle-Etoile'', Creator/MadameDAulnoy's "Princess Belle-Etoile" [[https://www.surlalunefairytales.com/book.php?id=36&tale=893 link]], a king and his brother marry two sisters. Unfortunately, there is a third sister, and the king and his brother don't have a third brother for her. She marries an admiral instead and becomes jealous. (Their children, three of the king's and one of the brother's, are then abandoned together, and despite being raised as brothers and sister, [[KissingCousins the king's daughter and the brother's son manage to fall in love and end up married]].)



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* In a [[Literature/TheLionKingSixNewAdventures series of books]] about ''Franchise/TheLionKing'', Simba and Nala have a son, Kopa, thus making him Kiara's brother. Guess who Kovu's sister, Vitani, is almost always paired up with.
* In ''Webcomic/HowIBecameYours'', Zuko gets together with Katara and Azula with Sokka.
* Many ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' fanfics and fans ship both Taito (Taichi and Yamato) and Takari (Takeru and Hikari)
* Many ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' fans/fanfics that ship Sam and Gabriel also ship Dean and Castiel.
* The ''Fanfic/MegsFamilySeries'' features a BetaCouple in [[TheDitz Chris]] and [[DumbBlonde Jillian]], who are the siblings of OfficialCouple [[ButtMonkey Meg]] and [[OriginalCharacter Zack]] respectively (Half-siblings in Zack and Jillian's case).
* In ''Fanfic/AFrozenHeadache'', it's mentioned that Adgar and Arianna are brother and sister. Frederic and Idun are also siblings. Adgar and Idun are Elsa and Anna's parents, while Frederic and Arianna are Rapunzel's parents.
* Downplayed in ''Fanfic/SonOfTheSannin''. Naruto is dating Hinata while his cousin Karin ends up with Hinata's cousin Neji. The possibility of a natural attraction between the two clans is briefly suggested after the latter couple hooks up.
* The ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' fandom has the [[ShipMates double ship]] of [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Remilia]]/[[MindOverManners Satori]] and [[CreepyChild Flandre]]/[[DissonantSerenity Koishi]]. Note that until the 2019 manga ''Webcomic/TouhouChireikidenFoulDetectiveSatori'', [[ShipsThatPassInTheNight the Scarlets and the Komeijis had never actually interacted in canon]].
* ''Fanfic/LetMeHear'' ships Blake/Ruby and Weiss/Yang, with Ruby and Yang being biological sisters while Blake and Weiss are adopted sisters.
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** ''{{Literature/Emma}}'': Brothers John and George Knightley marry sisters Isabella and Emma Woodhouse. As in ''Literature/SenseAndSensibility'', the heroine's marriage takes place at the end, while her sibling's marriage took place before the start of the book, so Emma and her Mr. Knightley have been LikeBrotherAndSister all her life.

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** ''{{Literature/Emma}}'': ''Literature/{{Emma}}'': Brothers John and George Knightley marry sisters Isabella and Emma Woodhouse. As in ''Literature/SenseAndSensibility'', the heroine's marriage takes place at the end, while her sibling's marriage took place before the start of the book, so Emma and her Mr. Knightley have been LikeBrotherAndSister all her life.
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* ''WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie'': The "After Today" musical number scene features twin boys kissing twin girls.
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May and Mary were best friends, not siblings in Trouble.


** Explicitly done in Creator/MarkMillar's ''ComicBook/{{Trouble}}'', one of several reasons it was immediately declared CanonDiscontinuity.
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* A doujin drawn by the creator of ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'' shows that all seven of Tenchi's daughters end up marrying the three sons of [[Anime/TenchiMuyoGXP Seina Yamada]]. No, the numbers don't match up.

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* A doujin drawn by the creator of ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'' shows that all seven of Tenchi's daughters end up marrying the three sons of [[Anime/TenchiMuyoGXP Seina Yamada]]. No, [[{{Polyamory}} the numbers don't match up.up]].
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* In the ''Double Trouble'' and ''Triple Trouble'' series by Michael J. Pellowski, this is the explanation given for why the Daniels twins have an identical cousin. Their father's older brother married their mother's younger sister.
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** In most versions of Gareth's story, after he marries his DamselInDistress Lyonesse, her sister, the DamselErrant Lynette, falls in love with his brother Gaheris. Other versions have it the other way around.

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** In most versions of Gareth's story, after he marries his DamselInDistress Lyonesse, her sister, the DamselErrant Lynette, falls in love with marries his brother Gaheris. Other versions have it the other way around.
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* This occurs in ''ComicBook/JemAndTheHolograms'' with dating, not marriage. Kimber is dating Stormer. Stormer is the sister of Craig, who happens to be dating Kimber's foster sister Aja. Craig finds it amusing. They go on a double date, however Craig and Aja end up finding their siblings to be SickeningSweethearts.

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* This occurs in ''ComicBook/JemAndTheHolograms'' ''ComicBook/JemAndTheHologramsIDW'' with dating, not marriage. Kimber is dating Stormer. Stormer is the sister of Craig, who happens to be dating Kimber's foster sister Aja. Craig finds it amusing. They go on a double date, however Craig and Aja end up finding their siblings to be SickeningSweethearts.

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* At the very beginning of ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'', best friends King Robert and Ned Stark intend to do this. They had already betrothed Sansa and Joffrey, while Robb and Arya escorted Myrcella and Tommen to dinner, with the implication that they were trying to set them up. Later Catelyn Stark makes a contract with Walder Frey for Robb and Arya to marry two Frey siblings.

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At the very beginning of ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'', beginning, best friends King Robert and Ned Stark intend to do this. They had already betrothed Sansa and Joffrey, while Robb and Arya escorted Myrcella and Tommen to dinner, with the implication that they were trying to set them up. Later
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Catelyn Stark makes a contract with Walder Frey for Robb and Arya to marry two Frey siblings.siblings.
** According to ''Literature/TheWorldOfIceAndFire'', siblings Daeron II and Daenerys Targaryen (Queen Daenerys' namesake) were wedded to a pair of siblings from House Martell: Myriah and Maron, respectively.
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* ''Series/QueenForSevenDays'' has an especially bizarre example since the wives are actually aunt and niece, but are close enough in age to be sisters. Lee Yung marries Shin Bi, and later his half-brother Lee Yeok marries Shin Bi's niece Chae-gyeong.
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* In ''VideoGame/BubbleBobble'', twin brothers Bubblun and Bobblun are dating a pair of sisters named Betty/Peb and Patty/Pab.
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** Grand Princess Jinyan married Lin Xie while Jinyan's brother the Emperor and Lin Xie's sister Lin Yueyao; this causes Prince Qi and Lin Shu to be "double cousins". Because Consort Jing is Lin Xie's adopted sister, Prince Jing and Lin Shu are also considered "double cousins". This goes a long way in contributing to EveryoneIsRelated.

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** Grand Princess Jinyan married Lin Xie while Jinyan's brother the Emperor and married Lin Xie's sister Lin Yueyao; this causes Prince Qi and Lin Shu to be "double cousins". Because Consort Jing is Lin Xie's adopted sister, Prince Jing and Lin Shu are also considered "double cousins". This goes a long way in contributing to EveryoneIsRelated.
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* ''Series/NirvanaInFire'':
** A really strange example in that Jingrui is adopted by both the Xies and the Zhuos so they are in a sense in-laws through him. Then his little sister (from the Xies) and his older brother (from the Zhuos) get married so they are double-in-laws. Jingrui laughingly notes that when his sister has her baby he'll be both a paternal and maternal uncle.
** Grand Princess Jinyan married Lin Xie while Jinyan's brother the Emperor and Lin Xie's sister Lin Yueyao; this causes Prince Qi and Lin Shu to be "double cousins". Because Consort Jing is Lin Xie's adopted sister, Prince Jing and Lin Shu are also considered "double cousins". This goes a long way in contributing to EveryoneIsRelated.
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* In Creator/TheBrothersGrimm tale "Literature/SnowWhiteAndRoseRed," Snow White winds up with the prince who was [[spoiler: turned into a bear]] while Rose Red marries his brother. Since the girls grew up sharing everything, this is the closest they can come to sharing a husband, too. In the ''Anime/GreemsFairyTaleClassics'' adaptation, there's a bit of AdaptationExpansion: the brother appears earlier in the story, Rose Red [[RescueRomance helps him when he's wounded]] and there's quite a bit of ShipTease [[BetaCouple the two]].

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* In Creator/TheBrothersGrimm tale "Literature/SnowWhiteAndRoseRed," Snow White winds up with the prince who was [[spoiler: turned into a bear]] while Rose Red marries his brother. Since the girls grew up sharing everything, this is the closest they can come to sharing a husband, too. In the ''Anime/GreemsFairyTaleClassics'' ''Anime/GrimmsFairyTaleClassics'' adaptation, there's a bit of AdaptationExpansion: the brother appears earlier in the story, Rose Red [[RescueRomance helps him when he's wounded]] and there's quite a bit of ShipTease [[BetaCouple the two]].
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* Natsuki Enomoto and Yuu Setoguchi are the first pair to become an OfficialCouple in the ''Music/ConfessionExecutiveCommitteeLoveSeries''. Meanwhile, Natsuki's little brother Kotaro is in love with Yuu's younger sister, Hina. [[spoiler:Although Hina has a crush on her upperclassman Koyuki at first, she eventually reciprocates Kotaro's love after Koyuki graduates]].

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* Natsuki Enomoto and Yuu Setoguchi are the first pair to become an OfficialCouple in the ''Music/ConfessionExecutiveCommitteeLoveSeries''.''Music/ConfessionExecutiveCommitteeLoveSeries'', eventually getting married later down the line. Meanwhile, Natsuki's little brother Kotaro is in love with Yuu's younger sister, Hina. [[spoiler:Although Hina has initially had a crush on her upperclassman Koyuki at first, Koyuki, she eventually reciprocates Kotaro's love after Koyuki graduates]].graduates. Later songs imply that Hina and Kotaro remained together throughout Natsuki and Yuu's engagement]].
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* Natsuki Enomoto and Yuu Setoguchi are the first pair to become an OfficialCouple in the ''Music/ConfessionExecutiveCommitteeLoveSeries''. Meanwhile, Natsuki's little brother Kotaro is in love with Yuu's younger sister, Hina. [[spoiler:Although Hina has a crush on Koyuki at first, she eventually reciprocates Kotaro's love after Koyuki graduates]].

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* Natsuki Enomoto and Yuu Setoguchi are the first pair to become an OfficialCouple in the ''Music/ConfessionExecutiveCommitteeLoveSeries''. Meanwhile, Natsuki's little brother Kotaro is in love with Yuu's younger sister, Hina. [[spoiler:Although Hina has a crush on her upperclassman Koyuki at first, she eventually reciprocates Kotaro's love after Koyuki graduates]].
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* A doujin drawn by the creator of ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'' shows that all seven of Tenchi's daughters end up marrying the three sons of [[Anime/TenchiMuyoGXP Seina Yamada]]. No, the numbers don't match up.

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