History Main / ForbiddenFruit

* ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'': Represented by the Holy Grail. It cannot leave its resting place and acts as a forbidden fruit that no-one is supposed to obtain. [[spoiler:Dr. Elsa Schneider discovers this the hard way when she tries to take the grail out of the temple and triggers a CataclysmClimax. She finds herself suspended above a deep chasm with a choice to let Indiana pull her to safety or reach for the grail. Obsessed, she thinks she can reach it, but falls to her death when her hand suddenly slipps out of its leather glove. Indy himself almost repeats the tragedy until his dad [[YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious calls him Indiana rather than Junior]], which is enough of a surprise to make Indy listen and climb out]].

* Represented by the Holy Grail in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade''. The grail could not leave its resting place and acted as a forbidden fruit that no-one was supposed to obtain. [[spoiler:Dr. Elsa Schneider discovered this the hard way when she tried to take the grail out of the temple and triggered a CataclysmClimax. She found herself suspended above a deep chasm with a choice to let Indiana pull her to safety or reach for the grail. Obsessed, she thought she could reach it, but fell to her death when her hand suddenly slipped out of its leather glove. Indy himself almost repeats the tragedy until his dad [[YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious calls him Indiana rather than Junior]], which is enough of a surprise to make Indy listen and climb out]].

* ComicBook/{{Rogue}} of the ''ComicBook/XMen'' is this for Gambit. Her mutant powers keep her from touching others or else they will be rendered comatose. Gambit, [[TheCasanova relentless and successful womanizer]], finds himself stuck on the notion of a woman that even he can't have. It helps that the two have a fair deal in common, having similar [[SouthernBelle cultural]] [[RaginCajun backgrounds]] and being on the wrong side of the law before joining the X-Men, making her that much more irresistible for him. Needless to say, they ''always'' take advantage of any time her powers are down.

* Played unusually literally in Christina Rossetti's ''Literature/GoblinMarket'', where magical fruit serves as a temptation to young women. Seeing as Lizzie gives Laura more of the fruit by letting the goblins press it to her lips and then [[BrotherSisterIncest letting Lizzie]] [[LesYay kiss the juice off of her]], it's safe to say that the fruit is a metaphor for sex.

* ''Literature/TheCasteelSeries'': Invoked. Heaven moves in with her grandmother and her grandmother's husband, Tony Tatterton. Tony allows her to live with them on several conditions, one of which is that she stay away from his brother Troy. Heaven ignores this, and she and Troy end up falling in love. When Tony finds out, he admits that he'd been hoping that might happen and that the reason he'd forbidden her to have any contact with Troy was that "the forbidden fruit is often the sweetest." [[spoiler:Then this trope hits again, hard, when it's revealed that Tony is Heaven's real father, making Troy her uncle.]]

* In ''Webcomic/SandraOnTheRocks'', Eloise wants to sleep with her her [[KissingCousins cousin]], Pierre, partly because she thinks "Forbidden fruit is hot!"[[note]]Despite the fact that cousin relationships are perfectly legal in France.[[/note]] She eventually gets what she wants, but only [[spoiler:in the Volume 3 PrintBonus story]].

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See BriarPatching when this trope is invoked by a character. See also AppleOfDiscord, ArtifactOfAttraction, CuriosityKilledTheCast, DontTouchItYouIdiot, SchmuckBait, and WantingIsBetterThanHaving. Prime source of ColdTurkeysAreEverywhere, DoNotDoThisCoolThing, a WhatsInsidePlot, and the StreisandEffect. Compare and contrast ThoughtAversionFailure, when someone who is told not to think about something will inevitably think about it — ''involuntarily'' (because of the way our brains function), and ForcedMeme, where a blatant attempt to make something popular fails due to not having that "mystique" that draws people in.

* In ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'', the Beast tells Belle that she can go anywhere in his castle except for the West Wing. Naturally, Belle rushes to explore the West Wing the moment she has the chance.

* Scar from ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'' uses this on Simba to lure him to the elephant graveyard.

** Most notably in the "Seeking Mr Eaten's Name" quest, which is an entire, very extended storyline ''made'' of this trope. [[spoiler: Among other things, it requires you to commit suicide seven times in a variety of horrific ways.]] This also has the distinction of being Forbidden Fruit ''in-universe''; the [[PowersThatBe Masters of the Bazaar]] will send you a cease and desist note if you take up the quest, telling you in no uncertain terms that it will destroy you.

* Hoborg's crown in ''VideoGame/TheNeverhood'' becomes this. It's the one thing Klogg could not have in the new world, but it was all that he wanted. When Klogg eventually stole the crown, it transformed him into an ugly-looking creature, corrupting him. (Not that Klogg really seemed to care.) [[spoiler:If Klaymen takes the crown for himself, it transforms him into a creature similar to that of Klogg, corrupting him as well.]]