History Main / ParentalIncest

* In IsaacAsimov's ''Robots of the Dawn'', there is a planet with such loose morals, that one of the characters ''received a lifelong trauma when her father refused to become her first man''. And ''she'' could never figure out why he refused.

** I'm sorry, that's completely ridiculous. What people tend to forget in that little relationship is that Malekith is fused into magic life support armor. Somehow I doubt that they included a zipper in that thing.
*** It's armor designed by the soon-to-be grand matriarch of the ENTIRETY of the Dark Elf race/nation. Who, as stated above, is a devoted and open follower of Slaanesh. And even those Dark Elves that don't outright worship Slaanesh are wanton heathens. Of *course* the armor has a removable codpiece. And knowing the setting it's not even a loving thing, but a "just because it feels good" thing.

** In another Rickman film, ''An American Haunting'' it turns out that [[spoiler: the "ghost" haunting the house is actually a psychic phenomena caused unconsciously by the daughter's trauma of being raped by her father. In scenes set in the modern day the daughter's ghost appears to a mother whose daughter, it turns out in the end, is also being molested by her father]]

* ''Gregorius or The Good Sinner'', a 12th-century German epic poem by Hartmann von Aue. The orphaned son and daughter of the ruler of Aquitaine [[BrotherSisterIncest have an illict love affair]], resulting in the birth of a baby son, who is put into a box and cast adrift. He lands on an island in the Channel, where he is christened Gregorius. After growing up he becomes a knight and comes to the aid of the queen of a besieged city, whom he marries. It is then discovered that she is is mother. She becomes a nun, he a penitent eremite who has himself chained to a rock for seventeen years, after which he is elected pope. Thomas Mann retold the story in his novel ''Der Erwählte'' (The Chosen, 1951). Here Gregorius and his mother/wife Sibylla have two daughters.

* ''Gregorius or The Good Sinner'', a 12th-century German epic poem by Hartmann von Aue.

* Father/Daughter happens to Forrest's love interest Jenny in ''ForrestGump''

** A variation: TheChessmaster Littlefinger is simultaneously trying to pass off his [[UnluckyChildhoodFriend childhood friend and unrequitied love]] Catelyn's daughter Sansa (who looks strikingly like her) as his natural-born child ''and'' trying to seduce her, apparently seeing Sansa as a ReplacementGoldfish for her mother. FatalFlaw, anyone? Eh? Eh?

** It's explained in [[http://www.fivehorizons.com/archive/articles/rs102893.shtml this article]]. "Alive" is the story of a young man who never knew his biological father until he was told the truth by his mother later in life (a true incident from Eddie Vedder's own life). In the song, the mother is sexually attracted to her son and the relationship is consummated, leading the protagonist to become so messed up that he becomes a serial killer of prostitutes (the song "Once"), and ends up on death row (the song "Footsteps"). However, Vedder has veered away from this interpretation in later years, claiming that the fans "lifted the curse" off the song, and he now sees it as a life-affirming anthem.

* Other examples from Greek mythology besides Oedipus: Myrrha tricked her father Theias into incest after Aphrodite inspired her with passion for him and got pregnant. Theias, horrified and angry, killed Myrrha with an axe. Her corpse turned into a myrrh tree and, ironically, produced [[ChickMagnet Adonis]]. Nyctimene committed incest with her father and was turned into an owl. Owls are therefore not seen by day because they are ashamed of themselves. Also, Phaedra's unrequited love/lust for her stepson Hippolytus.

** That ain't all that Gaia's gotten up to. She also provides quite possibly one of the only instances of ''[[BeyondTheImpossible GREAT]] [[NoJustNo GRANDPARENTAL]] [[BrainBleach INCEST!!]]'' Hephaestus, the son of Hera, who is the daughter of Kronos, who is the son of Gaia, was overcome with unrequited lust after [[AttemptedRape he tried and failed to rape Athena]] and prompted ejaculated on the earth. Since the earth IS Gaia, she became pregnant.
* Well, Heracles is Zeus' son. And his great-great-grandson (Alcmene was the granddaughter of Perseus).

* In the ''PrincessMaker'' series, it is possible to make the girl marry her adopted father. Many squick at this but some don't. See WifeHusbandry.
** They are not blood related and, depending on what age you set for the "father," the age gap isn't big at all.

* ''DrawnTogether'': Princess Clara's father loves watching strippers... even if they're his own daughter. He especially loves watching his daughter make out with her attractive black roommate. And Clara, [[InnocenceVirginOnStupidity naive person that she is]], equates his leering with paternal love.

* http://www.anorak.co.uk/246946/strange-but-true/incest-watch-pearl-carter-is-having-her-grandsons-phil-baileys-baby.html

* Woody Allen and Soon-Yi Previn (he was her quasi-stepfather, being her adoptive mother's boyfriend, but still....)

** And in the same vein, it was rumored that Nero slept with his own mother/was seduced by his own mother to retain power. A lot of the later emperors had no problem sleeping with their brothers/sisters/nieces/ what have you.

* ChessPiece has Prince Danny who states that no one can have his father except "maybe" him. WordOfGod is that he is quite serious. The exchanges between father and son are often like that of lovers, which is very much intentional.

* This is often believed to be the case between Chibiusa and Mamoru in ''SailorMoon''. Not helped in the manga's second arc, when [[spoiler: Chibiusa brainwashes him as Black Lady in order to have him.]]

* Cherry Poptart and her mother Pepper have been known to get it on with each other when no guys were available. [[spoiler:In fact, through time travel, Cherry was her mother's first sexual experience ("I took your cherry!") and it seems pretty likely that Pepper returned the favor ("I taught her everything she knows!").]]

* ''{{Kuroshitsuji}}'': Not explicitly stated yet, but the show drops some pretty big hints making this a FreudianExcuse for some of [[{{Yangire}} Alois's]] behavior. To elaborate: The very first scene of Season 2 gives us the blink-you'll-miss-it visual of Alois getting out of a bed in which an old man is sleeping before the much more noticeable bruised-butt shot. Alois only mentions his father during his clearly false innocent moments, otherwise freaking out at the mention of him, stating hysterically that he "got rid of all the old man's things". The numbers of when he was "saved" from his kidnapping experience, when his father is stated to have died, and when he contracted Claude all match up.

** To be fair, it went both ways, as at that same time, Linda was also dating Charlie Hill, the rumored third-party cause of their messy divorce, as well as the schoolfriend of Hulk and Linda's son Nick. However, the guy was at least never noted to be a lookalike of either Hulk or Nick.

** Of course, "genetic sexual attraction" is complete bullshit.

* In Aleksandr Sokurov's film ''Father and Son'', Aleksey and his father's relationship is about as HoYay (or squicky, depending on your perspective) as it gets without actually doing the deed. This includes [[BigBallOfViolence homoerotic smackdowns]] and [[NotWhatItLooksLike almost-naked caressing]]. SoYeah.

** Not to mention that according to WordOfGod, had the series continued [[spoiler:Sophie, who thanks to some visions, is probably aware of the fact that Justin is her father, would have married him. And did I say that there would have been a child involved, who may or may not to be Justin's?]] SoYeah.

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* Greek mythology is full of incest all way around. Justified by the fact that they are all gods/titans and they just "can".

* In ''[[KanonByChihoSaito Kanon]]'' the incestuous parent/child relationship is the hub of the whole plot.