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* ''WashingtonSquare'' has a GenreSavvy variant of this trope in Aunt Penniman; played with in that [[spoiler: the man she is trying to match her niece with is an obvious GoldDigger, but she is so enamored of living out a romance novel that she doesn't care.]]

* ''TalesofLegendia'' has Norma, who spends the first half of the game trying to get uptight and shy Chloe to interact with main lead [[ChasteHero Senel]]. When Shirley, the female lead, joins the party though, Norma also seems to be helping her with her relationship with Senel, even if she seems to be more supportive of Chloe.

This person is notable for several things. One, they can't seem to grasp the concept of personal space. Two, they seem to have a pathological obsession with hooking up their friends. If the subject is a single pair, the revelation that [[MatchmakerCrush this person has feelings for one or both of them]] is entirely possible. Otherwise, this is something of a LoveTriangle with only one romantic connection.

See also YaoiFangirl, YuriFan and PerverseSexualLust, for variants. Compare {{Shipping}} for more meta examples. ShipperOnDeck is a subtrope. See also MatchMakerQuest, where the player can take on this role.

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* Haruna Saotome from ''MahouSenseiNegima'', who has taken a personal interest in seeing her friend Nodoka advancing her relationship with their teacher Negi. The best way to summarize her mentality is that when Nodoka builds up the nerve to ask Negi to go with her group on the trip, Haruna berates her for settling for just that, ''dares her'' to confess to him, and starts talking about actual romantic dating.
** Of course, [[strike:Albert Chamomile...uh...]] [[WeaselMascot Chamo]] isn't much better. While he's been shown to have his own reasons for his actions, he ''has'' encouraged Negi to kiss girls on multiple occasions and even setting him up with several, most notably with the "Kiss Negi" competition. He's also been shown to encourage the girls themselves on a few occasions.

* In ''MikiFalls'', this is part of the job description of the Deliverers, super-natural beings charged with protecting love.

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* Mr Mxyzptlk, of all [[strike:people]] beings, when Clark and Lois had split up in the ''{{Superman}}'' comics.

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* A variation is shown by Dr. Phlox in ''StarTrekEnterprise''. "I do believe that they are about to mate. Do you think that they would let me watch?"

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* ''TalesofLegendia'' has Norma, who spends the first half of the game trying to get uptight and shy Chloe to interact with main lead [[ChasteHero Senel]]. When Shirley, the female lead, joins the party though, Norma also seems to be helping her with her relationship with Senel, even if she seems to be more supportive of Chloe.

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[[caption-width:325:"[[TheRant those two ended up married,]] [[YouShouldKnowThisAlready you know. They are Kat's parents.]]]]

* ''Tales of Legendia'' has Norma, who spends the first half of the game trying to get uptight and shy Chloe to interact with main lead [[ChasteHero Senel]]. When Shirley, the female lead, joins the party though, Norma also seems to be helping her with her relationship with Senel, even if she seems to be more supportive of Chloe.

* AnneOfGreenGables seemed to make a habit of this. She finally gave it up when she threw a party intended to bring a couple together... except the party was a complete disaster and it turns out the couple were already engaged.

* [[TheStoic Jones]] of GunnerkriggCourt does a little of this, of all people.

You all know AliceAndBob. Alice has a crush on Bob. Bob may or may not have a crush on Alice. Then there's Jane. Jane is a close friend of Alice who has nothing but Alice's best interest in mind. So she encourages Alice to go for it with Bob. Over and over again. Jane is a matchmaker.

* In ''RedDeadVirgo'', Blue!Karkat was one of these before he got into SGRUB. Kanaya calls him out on deliberately pairing off poorly matched blackroms so that more trolls would kill each other to provide food for his troll eating lusus. Karkat doesn't deny it, but he still boasts that despite that he is the best relationship consultant Alternia has ever known. Appropriately enough, his title in the game is "Thief of Heart".

* Thornton Wilder's ''The Matchmaker'' and its musical sister ''HelloDolly'' focus around a professional matchmaker at the turn of the twentieth century. Both works are farcical in nature.
* In JaneAusten's ''PrideAndPrejudice'', Mrs Bennet fills this role for her daughters.
** And in ''{{Emma}}'', the titular character tries to match up various members of her circle of friends. It doesn't always go so well.
* In the musical ''FiddlerOnTheRoof'' there is Yente, the (professional) matchmaker, who fails to make any successful matches in the story.

* ''{{Friends}}'' has this for one episode where Pheobe, Chandler and Monica go to great lengths to get Rachel a date for a business dinner, and start shilling their respective dates right in front of them. She at one point finds a date on her own, and they end up scaring him off in an almost DieForOurShip manner. Naturally, the whole thing eventually blows up and Rachel ditches both guys.
* Charlie simply loves to do this on ''TheWestWing''. "She's a fine-looking woman." / "''Stop saying that!!''"

* A variation is shown by Dr. Phlox in ''StarTrekEnterprise''. "I do believe that they are about to mate. Do you think that they would let me watch?"

** Parodied in [[http://silentreaper.deviantart.com/art/Death-Note-Likes-to-Watch-60793294 this]] DeathNote deviant comic. (gotta wonder about Matsuda)
* ''BoyMeetsWorld'' had Shawn take up this role for a while when Corey and Topanga broke up, with a lot of people commenting he took the breakup harder than they did, and being the number one champion of the get-back-together cause.
** Also reversed later in the show, where Corey becomes obsessed with getting Shawn and Angela back together. Doubly so at the end of the show when [[spoiler: Corey completely IGNORES Topenga's interview with Yale until the very end of the episode, where he is caught off guard that she wants to move to Yale.]]

* Rafiki plays this role in [[TheLionKing The Lion King 2]]

* AnneOfGreenGables seemed to make a habit of this. She finally gave it up when she threw a party intended to bring a couple together... except the party was a complete disaster and it turns out the couple were already engaged.

* Mr Mxyzptlk, of all [[strike:people]] beings, when Clark and Lois had split up in ''{{Superman}}'' comics.
* In ''ElGoonishShive'', Sarah talks Grace out of "playing Cupid" for Nananse and Ellen, then does so herself.

* [[DoctorWho The Eleventh Doctor]]. [[ShipperOnDeck Particularly for his companions Amy and Rory]], but he also helps his landlord-for-a-week with his unspoken crush on a friend. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Amy.
* May Parker and had to work hard and persistently to set up a date her nephew [[{{Spider-Man}} Peter]] and her good friend Anna Watson's niece Mary Jane. After the Gwen Stacy clone appeared, Aunt May encouraged MJ to fight for Peter's love. And after Mary Jane returned from a long absence in the 1980s, Aunts May and Anna once again set up a date between her and and Peter.

See also YaoiFangirl, YuriFanboy and PerverseSexualLust, for variants. Compare {{Shipping}} for more meta examples. ShipperOnDeck is a subtrope. See also MatchMakerQuest, where the player can take on this role.

*In the musical ''FiddlerOnTheRoof'' there is Yente, the (proffesional) matchmaker, who fails to make any successful matches in the story.