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* ''Film/MyGirl2'': Vada Sultenfuss and Nick Zsigmond have BelligerentSexualTension throughout the movie, but will become cousins soon when her Uncle Phil gets engaged to his mother Rose. That doesn't stop Vada and Nick from having a [[THeBigDamnKiss pretty dramatic]] FirstKiss right before Vada leaves to go home.

'''Woody:''' Oh, they're doing a lot more than that. That's why they have to get married.

* In ''Film/CruelIntentions 2'', the girls in the shower claim to be this (even though in real life they were played by real-life [[{{Twincest}} identical twins]], making the scene an almost-crossover with TwinThreesomeFantasy).

* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'' has a rather large following for Ben and Gwen since the first series. This can be connected to the BleachedUnderpants history of the original draft of the show in which Ben and Gwen were not relatives but rather in the same school class.

*** The second set are [[spoiler:the Male Avatar and his ImpliedLoveInterest Azura--their mothers Mikoto and Arete were sisters]]. The twist is they ''[[SurpriseIncest don't know]]'' they're cousins, and they don't find out until quite late in the GoldenPath--a mere 3 chapters from FinalBoss which is more than late enough for the player to easily have S-supported Corrin and Azura (and note, ''only'' the GoldenPath, meaning in the other two they never find out). Even after they learn the truth, though, their S-support is explicitly romantic, making them the straight example. Of course, if ''they'' don't marry each other, it's possible for their respective ''children'', who would be second cousins, to marry each other. And if [[spoiler:the Avatar marries any of Azura's children]], he/she'll end up marrying his/her first cousin once removed.

** ''Literature/TheSuperdictionary'' has Kara and Clark [[http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvzhjklUch1r2ntbyo1_500.png deserving a rest.]] Maybe it's just hard to make her look unsexy, but... that looks far from innocent, and the repetition, though intended to drill the definition into a kid's mind, ''really'' makes it sound like she is saying "We deserve a rest, nudge nudge wink wink," and the big blue boy scout [[ObliviousToLove just isn't getting it yet]].

* ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries'': Jumba's experiments consider themselves to be cousins, but some of them are romantically involved. This is most evident with Stitch and Angel, but there also is ShipTease between Yin and Yang in their debut episode and between Bonnie and Clyde in ''WesternAnimation/LeroyAndStitch''.

** Subverted with Christopher Lightwood and Grace Blackthorn, who marry each other despite ostensibly being first cousins, since the former's father and the latter's mother are siblings. However, it's later revealed that Grace was adopted by Tatiana, meaning the two are not blood-related.

*** Aenys I, the son of Aegon the Conqueror, and his second wife Rhaenys married his cousin Alyssa Velaryon due to not having a sister.
*** Aemon I, the eldest son of King Jaehaerys I, was supposed to marry his older sister, Daenerys when they came of age, but she died at 7 years old of an illness. While Jaehaerys considered marrying him to Alyssa, another sister, Queen Alysanne pointed out how Alyssa was more interested in her second son Baelon, who was closer to her in age. As such, they had Aemon wed to Jocelyn Baratheon, who was his half-aunt since her mother, the aforementioned Alyssa Velaryon, was also the mother of Jaehaerys and Alysanne. It did help that the two were only a year apart, and fell in love with each other quickly at a feast meant to celebrate Aemon becoming the Prince of Dragonstone (the title given to the heir to the Iron Throne). They married and had one daughter, Rhaenys, who would wed her second cousin Corlys Velaryon and whose bloodline would run through House Velaryon via her granddaughter Baela.

*** Baela Targaryen, Daemon and Laena's daughter married Alyn Velaryon, who was ostensibly her first cousin as the bastard son of Laenor. Since Laenor was gay, however, it's likely that Alyn was actually fathered by Laenor's father, Corlys, making him Baela's uncle. Alyn also had an affair with Elaena Targaryen, Aegon III's daughter with Daenaera Velaryon. Daenaera's great-grandfather was Corlys' brother, making Elaena and Alyn's second cousins twice removed or first cousins three times removed, depending on who you ask.

* Dar and Kin in ''Film/TheBeastmaster''. It's actually achieved through FridgeLogic; their relationship to each other is never noted at all in the film after the reveal that Dar is the son of Kin's uncle the King, and they don't see any problems in a romantic relationship by film's end.
* In ''Film/TheBlueLagoon'', Richard and Emmeline are cousins, traveling with Richard's father to San Francisco, where, presumably, she would have been raised as his sister. (Her parents had died, which is why they were traveling.) After the shipwreck, and the loss of the only adult with them, Paddy the ship's cook, things get a little more personal when puberty set in and they don't have anyone to explain it to them.

* In ''Film/TheGodfatherPartIII'', Michael's daughter Mary and his nephew Vincent are in love. Michael is against their relationship, but Mary's mother Kay is not. However, Michael's objections are apparently not based on consanguinity, but the danger of Vincent's lifestyle.

* In Felix Salten's ''Literature/{{Bambi}}'', Bambi and Faline are cousins (their mothers are sisters). They start off a ChildhoodFriends but come mating season as adults and Bambi becomes deeply attracted to his female cousin. They end up having twin foals together, but by their birth [[spoiler:Bambi has already [[DisappearedDad abandoned them]]]].

* In Creator/HenryDeVereStacpoole's ''Literature/TheBlueLagoon'', first cousins Richard and Emmeline are left stranded on an island after a shipwreck. The only adult looking after them dies after a few years and the cousins have to fend for themselves as they grow up together. As a result, they fall in love and have a child together.
* In ''Literature/BrightLines'', Ella is attracted to her female cousin Charu. It's even more complicated becuse Ella was orphaned as a child and raised as Charu's sister. Charu strictly sees Ella as her older sister, but Ella only sees Charu as a cousin.
* In ''Literature/ABrothersPrice'', Jerin Whistler and the Princess Rennsellaer find, after downgrading his [[VirginTension virginity status]] to [[TechnicalVirgin technical levels]], that they share great-great-grandmothers making them third cousins. Ren declares that it is distant enough for the relation to be fine and, indeed, [[SuddenlySuitableSuitor that's how it's seen]]. At another point in the story, the adult princesses discuss their first cousin (son of their father's biological sister) Cullen as a potential husband. They collectively agree that while he'd be a good husband on his own merits, the biological relationship is just too close to be acceptable.

* In ''Literature/TheDinosaurLords'', lovers Jaume and Melodía are first cousins, and no-one bats an eye at their romance, even pushing them towards engagement. Deliberate, as the story takes place in equivalent of fourteenth-century Europe.

* In Creator/TanyaHuff's ''Literature/TheEnchantmentEmporium'' Gales, a clan of witches usually (though not always) marry their cousins to keep from diluting the magic inherent in their genes and to keep said magic secret. Furthermore, because there are far more female Gales than male the boys usually "make the rounds" of their age group cousins before settling down. This imbalance between the sexes also leads to a lot of [[PseudoRomanticFriendship "close" relationships]] between the Gale girls. One of these, between main character Alysha and her cousin Charlie is particularly focused on in the book.

* In Creator/IsabelAllende's ''Literature/EvaLuna'', when Rolf Carlé comes to America from post-UsefulNotes/WorldWarII Austria, he lives with his uncle and aunt and is attracted to both of his cousins... not only his affections are reciprocated by ''both'' girls, but they actually jump him [[ThreesomeSubtext and they "share" the cousin/lover for their teenage years]], until Rolf becomes an IntrepidReporter and the girls marry local guys. The three still remember these escapades as some of their happiest moments ever. Also it's mentioned that the girls's parents ''did'' seriously consider to have him marry one of the girls, "sighing because there was only one of him".

* In ''Un grito en las tinieblas; la vida de Zárate Arkham'', the titular character sleeps with her cousin, although both of them were possessed by the spirits of their uncle and his female servant respectively--which make the sex scene a case of double incest.

** Molly and Arthur Weasley were popularly thought to be this, as a certain Ignatius Prewett married Lucretia Black, who was Arthur's second cousin. However, Lucretia was Molly's aunt by marriage, not mother.

** After Tonks's Patronus takes a canine form, Harry wonders if she had been in love with Sirius, her cousin once removed, since he was an Animagus who turned into a dog. [[spoiler:It turned out to be Lupin, a werewolf, however.]]

** Interestingly, as a case of PragmaticVillainy, while the Malfoys are Fantastic Racists, they avoid first cousin marriage--explicitly because they've seen how this drove several other pureblood families insane. Granted, there are so few pureblood families that they still end up marrying third degree cousins etc. at times, but they try not to be stupid about it. Sometimes they'll even marry half-bloods rather than a first cousin.

** The ''Literature/LastHeraldMageTrilogy'' has Treven and Jisa, grandson and great-granddaughter of Queen Elspeth the Peacemaker, marry in secret before inheriting the throne from Jisa's father Randale. They are actually [[NotBloodSiblings not blood cousins]], since Randale was infertile and turned to [[ChosenConceptionPartner Herald Vanyel]] instead, but this is ''not'' widely known. It caused brief controversy in court before everyone became resigned to it; given that both Elspeth and Randale made serious use of AltarDiplomacy it may be they objected at least as much to the marriage as the relationship itself.

* In ''Literature/HopeLeslie'', there's William and Alice and, years later, Hope and Everell, but in both cases they are distant cousins.
* In the young adult book ''Literature/HowILiveNow'' by Meg Rosoff, teenage cousins Daisy and Edmond fall passionately in love. Daisy wonders uneasily for a while "if that's the feeling your supposed to have when your cousin touches a perfectly innocent part of your anatomy that's even fully clothed". By the middle of the book, she doesn't care. The book treats their romance sympathetically.

* [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-Zagged]] twice in ''Literature/InCryptid'': Sarah and Artie like each other but CannotSpitItOut. They're [[NotBloodSiblings only cousins by marriage]], plus she's adopted, ''plus'' they're different ''species'' (she's not even a mammal), so the main obstacle to them getting together is each one thinking the other doesn't like them that way.[[note]]And then there's the whole telepathy angle: Sarah's species, cuckoos, telepathically makes people like them, and Artie is an incubus, who produces LivingAphrodisiac pheromones that attract any human (or near-human) attracted to men. Except Sarah isn't even a mammal, so his pheromones have no effect on her, and Artie is descended from great-grandma Frances, who had some genetic resistance to cuckoos that her descendants inherited.[[/note]]

* In ''Literature/JudeTheObscure'' Jude and his cousin Sue fall in love. It's the reason they resist their attraction in the first place which causes so many problems down the line. Though the novel attempts to make the argument that the judgments and restrictions of society are worse than the actions of the characters.

** [[TheAlcoholic Hunn Raal's]] three cousins Serap, Risp and Sevegg seem devoted to him, and rumor has it that's because their loyalties are forged beneath the furs. They're second cousins, so it's legal, but still raises eyebrows.

* In the ''Literature/KushielsLegacy'' series by Creator/JacquelineCarey, distant royal cousins (his father is her great-grandfather's brother) Imriel and Sidonie fall for each other. Hard. However, their relatives (and the nation at large) aren't so much annoyed at the idea of relatives marrying so much as they are annoyed that Imriel's mother tried to take over the kingdom (twice, orchestrating an invasion the first time around) and at least some of the populace (mostly the ones still healing the scars from the invasion) thinks Imriel would do the same.

** Kit Herondale's feelings for Ty Blackthorn are also this. Not only do the Blackthorns have the same, unnamed Herondale ancestor that Kit's family is descended from, one of Kit's ancestors is a woman named Eva Blackthorn, who married Tobias Herondale and started the whole Lost Herondale line.

** Tywin and Joanna's daughter Cersei is also sleeping with her cousin Lancel (her cousin on Tywin's side, if you're curious). It becomes a plot point, thanks to how sensitive that information is--though not because he's her cousin, but because she's the king's widow, and how jealous her {{twincest}}uous brother is. Yeah, it kinda runs in their family... and has done for centuries: there are two main lines of Lannisters, the ruling family based in Casterly Rock and the cadet, Lannisport branch in charge of the harbour, customs and navy. They crisscross regularly. What? Do you really think the Rock could ever trust another House to run their trade hub?

** The Targaryens, due to their obsession with blood purity, would marry their siblings--or cousins if they did not have a sibling to marry. Around the Dance of the Dragons, the Targaryen intermarriages with each other and their relatives the Velaryons makes for a very TangledFamilyTree (though maybe less inbred considering Rhaenyra's "Velaryon" children were more likely the result of an affair, though they all died without issue).
*** Aegon the Conqueror's parents, Aerion Targaryen and Valaena Velaryon, were cousins of some variety, as Valaena was herself a Targaryen on her mother's side. This meant that future Targaryen-Velaryon couplings were consanguineous to a degree.
*** Aenys I, the son of Aegon the Conqueror and his second wife Rhaenys, married his cousin Alyssa Velaryon due to not having a sister.
*** Aemon I, the eldest son of King Jaehaerys I, was supposed to marry his older sister, Daenerys, when they became of age, but she died at 7 years old of an illness. While Jaehaerys considered marrying him to Alyssa, another sister, Queen Alysanne pointed out how Alyssa was more interested in second son Baelon, who was closer to her in age. As such, they had Aemon wed to Jocelyn Baratheon, who was his half-aunt since her mother, the aforementioned Alyssa Velaryon, was also the mother of Jaehaerys and Alysanne. It did help that the two were only a year apart, and fell in love with each other quickly at a feast meant to celebrate Aemon becoming the Prince of Dragonstone (the title given to the heir to the Iron Throne). They married and had one daughter, Rhaenys, who would wed her second cousin Corlys Velaryon and whose bloodline would run through House Velaryon via her granddaughter Baela.

*** Viserys I's daughter Rhaenyra married her second cousin Laenor Velaryon (brother of the aforementioned Laena Velaryon). After Laenor died, she married her uncle Daemon, and had three children with him, including Viserys II, from whom the current generation of Targaryens are descended.

*** Baela Targaryen, Daemon and Laena's daughter, married Alyn Velaryon, who was ostensibly her first cousin as the bastard son of Laenor. Since Laenor was gay, however, it's likely that Alyn was actually fathered by Laenor's father, Corlys, making him Baela's uncle. Alyn also had an affair with Elaena Targaryen, Aegon III's daughter with Daenaera Velaryon. Daenaera's great-grandfather was Corlys' brother, making Elaena and Alyn second cousins twice removed or first cousins three times removed, depending on who you ask.

** Lord Wyman Manderly at one point suggests him or his second son Ser Wylis marrying his cousin Lady Donella Hornwood, partially hoping to get her lands for sure, but also as an attempt to protect her because taking care of your own is something House Manderly actually cares about. [[spoiler: House Bolton is, as a result, directly in their crosshairs thanks to how terribly Ramsay treated Donella when he forced her to marry him -- then "let" her die alone.]]
** Implied with [[EthicalSlut Arianne Martell]] and her cousins, the Sand Snakes. Arianne offers to fight any other woman who is sleeping with her lover, unless they are a Sand Snake, for she "loves her cousins well". She and a cousin also tried to "share" their first partner, but [[SpeedSex it didn't quite pan out]].

* ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'' has a complicated case. Suguha Kirigaya wrestled with [[BigBrotherAttraction feelings for her older brother]] Kazuto, then when he became [[TheMostDangerousVideoGame trapped in a VR game]], her mother revealed that he was actually her cousin, adopted as an infant after his own family died in a traffic accident--him discovering that fact on his own led to him distancing himself from his adopted family. Suguha was overjoyed when Kazuto finally came out of his coma, less so when he revealed he'd found a girlfriend while stuck in the video game, and since Suguha knew that her feelings for him were unhealthy and unrequited, she tried to find a safer target for her affections, like this "Kirito" guy she met online one night in another VR game. ''Then'' Suguha found out [[LovesMyAlterEgo Kirito and Kazuto were one and the same]], meaning she'd fallen in love with her cousin twice over, which resulted in a brief HeroicBSOD. Most of this aside from the SurpriseIncest at the end is omitted from the anime adaptation.

* Camille and Thérèse in ''Literature/ThereseRaquin'', though their marriage didn't involve much, if any, sexual activity.
* German novel ''Literature/TheTinDrum'' has Agnes and Jan Bronski. It is left to speculation on whether main character Oskar is Jan's son or that of Agnes's husband Alfred. [[spoiler: Agnes's second child is definitely from Jan and she kills herself because of realizing that.]]

* In ''Literature/MansfieldPark'', the main character, Fanny Price, marries her first cousin Edmund Bertram. (The elder Mr. Bertram was concerned about adopting Fanny for this very reason, though his objection was not to incest but to Fanny beng of a much lower status than a baronet's son.)

->'''Matt:''' ''[Asking about Kevin]'' Boyfriend?
->'''Jasmine:''' God, no. [But] wants to be.
->'''Matt:''' And you don't.
->'''Jasmine:''' No.
->'''Matt:''' Seems like a nice guy.
->'''Jasmine:''' He's my cousin.
->'''Matt:''' ''[Eyes widening]'' Jesus.
->'''Jasmine:''' He was adopted.
->'''Matt:''' Oh.
->'''Jasmine:''' Still. It is and will always be disgusting to me.

** One of Ren's sisters would rather marry Cullen Moorland, but his mothers were sisters to their father; they are seen as full cousins, and with birth defects and inbreeding being major concerns in this world, especially among the nobility with its fears of being polluted by common blood, she is voted out (her sisters do concede that Cullen would otherwise be a good husband).
** [[spoiler:Eldie Porter is revealed to be the child of people who are genetically full cousins, but socially considered to be [[BrotherSisterIncest siblings]].]] She's healthy--the onus is on [[VillainousIncest her parents]] for breaking taboo like that. It should be noted that in this world [[GenderRarityValue men are very rare]], and a man marries every sister in a family; the sisters themselves are born of several different mothers.

** In the spin-off series ''Manga/RockLeesSpringtimeOfYouth'', Neji is implied to have more than just familial affection for Hinata, because there is a scene where he imagines the story of ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'', in which he casts himself as Romeo and Hinata as Juliet. In his fantasy, they're called ''Nejio and Hinaette'' and look at one another with sparkles in their eyes, before they run towards each other and embrace lovingly. In the same series, he gets so angry when he hears about Hinata trying to date Naruto, that he attacks Hinata in fury, and it's not just the big brother instinct anymore, but plain jealousy. Bear in mind that their fathers were identical twins, meaning that Neji and Hinata share 25% of their genes (meaning they are [[BrotherSisterIncest genetic half-siblings]]), as opposed to the 12.5% that would normally be the case for first cousins.

** [[StalkerWithACrush Karin]] showed some interest in [[spoiler:Naruto]] at one point. Consider the fact that [[spoiler:they're ''both'' from the [[TheClan Uzumaki clan]]]]. Her attraction to Sasuke is also this to a lesser degree, since [[spoiler: the Uzumaki and Uchiha are genetically related, however distantly]]. To be fair to her, [[spoiler: Karin doesn't actually ''know'' any of this!]]

** [[StalkerWithACrush Karin]] showed some interest in [[spoiler:Naruto]] at one point. Consider the fact that [[spoiler:they're ''both'' from the [[TheClan Uzumaki clan]]]]. Her attraction to Sasuke is also this to a lesser degree, since [[spoiler: the Uzumaki and Uchiha are genetically related, however distantly]].