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'''Deva''': A hypothetical offspring of [[TheCruella Cruella de Ville]] and [[LordOfTheRings Sauron]].

* Typhon and Echidna from Greek mythology. She's a beautiful woman with the lower body of a snake, and a fondness for eating travellers. He's a giant with one hundred dragon heads, and a tendency towards deicide. Together they sired the {{Hellhound}}s Orthrus and Cerberus, the [[MixAndMatchCritters Chimera]], the NighInvulnerable Nemean Lion, the Sphinx, and the [[HealingFactor nearly unkillable]] Hydra. It becomes even better if you realise that among the Greek pantheon they're probably the two deities/monsters who are the most faithful to one another; there are no reports of either sleeping around (admittedly, when you look like that...), in sharp contrast with [[JerkassGods Zeus]], who to say the least, ReallyGetsAround. Truly a match made in Tartarus.

You know how the story goes, right? BigBad meets TheBaroness, TheBaroness meets BigBad, their eyes meet, and horribly discordant music that sounds not unlike the screaming of tortured souls arise. It's black magic... a match made in hell!

* Typhon and Echidna from Greek mythology. She's a beautiful woman with the lower body of a snake, and a fondness for eating travellers. He's a giant with one hundred dragon heads, and a tendency towards deicide. Together they sired the {{Hellhound}}s Orthrus and Cerberus, the [[MixAndMatchCritters Chimera]], the NighInvulnerable Nemean Lion, the Sphinx, and the [[HealingFactor nearly unkillable]] Hydra. It becomes even better if you realise that among the Greek pantheon they're probably the two deities/monsters who are the most faithful to one another; their are no reports of either sleeping around, in sharp contrast with [[JerkassGods Zeus]]. Truly a match made in Tartarus.

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* Some examples in the WhateleyUniverse, natch. Some of the Bad Seeds (a clique you can only join if at least one of your parents is a supervillain) go to [[SuperheroSchool Whateley Academy]]. Nephandus has as parents The Troll Bride and Hexmaster. In a slight subversion, they're regarded as the Battling Bickersons of the supervillain world.

If ''both'' were faking it, expect them to [[RashEquilibrium show their true colors]] at the same time. HilarityEnsues - and [[ResetButton it's never mentioned ever again]].

* In ''{{Naruto}}'', [[PersonOfMassDestruction Pain]] and [[DarkChick Konan]] are a rather peculiar example, [[spoiler: since Pain is in fact the animated body of UnluckyChildhoodFriend Yahiko while the "true" Pain is Nagato, a skinny-to-the-bone SquishyWizard, that controls all of the bodies of "Pain". Hence it is unknown who Konan felt the most for until her HighHeelFaceTurn.]]

Contrast MinionShipping and MadLove. BonnieAndClyde is basically the petty crime version of this. In the case of fiction with [[RoguesGallery multiple villains]] where taking two out of the equation would still leave a bunch of bad guys, if it's genuine on both sides this can be used as a prelude to a HeelFaceTurn or at the very least a GetOutOfJailFreeCard. If the couple in question is heterosexual, [[FemaleSuccessIsFamily expect the man to be the more important half of the couple ]]

* Lechuck tried to do this in ''TalesOfMonkeyIsland'', infecting Elaine with the Voodoo Pox to turn her into a Pirate God like himself which made her turn evil. [[spoiler:It was all a plan by Elaine, to allow Guybrush to save her defeat Lechuck later]].

** Deathwing and Sintharia. However, they were only together because she was the only one of his consorts strong enough to ''survive'' the mating after his FaceHeelTurn.

* In ''{{Mai-HiME}}'', Miyu and Alyssa make a nice couple - so loving towards each other that Mai at first has a hard time believing that they're actually villains. Not a sexual relationship, but definitely a loving one.

*** [[spoiler:This gave them a GetOutOfJailFreeCard at the end, where they're resurrected and allowed to become nuns. Not that they're repenting, or anything; they're just as amoral.]]

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* Even earlier, TheDCU has the Sportsmaster and the Huntress, two GoldenAge villains revealed to have married when they returned in the 1960s.

** Certain mods do have examples, including Vico and the player in A Dance With Rogues and Alex and the player in The Bastard of Kosigan.

* Angelus and Darla of ''[[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]]'' / ''{{Angel}}'' fame.

* Sensui and Itsuki from ''YuYuHakusho'' are a rare [[HoYay homosexual]] example. Well, sometimes...

Lord Worldbreaker and Lady Firestorm are, individually, serious threats to the heroes, but what happens if they're suddenly working ''intimately'' together? That's when it gets ''really'' dangerous. A pair of villains capable of channeling ThePowerOfLove is enough to give even the most hardened group of heroes a serious challenge, and worse yet, seeing the villains in love may make them doubt their own motivations. Should one of the villains fall, the other one grieving over their fallen lover is quite likely to initialize an AlasPoorVillain scenario, and maybe even a MyGodWhatHaveIDone. Should another villain start messing with the happy couple, it's usually played as a KickTheDog moment.