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Like an Old Married Couple
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Two characters who seem very comfortable with each other to the point that it seems like they have been married for a long time, though obviously it doesn't apply to couples who actually have been together for a long time. Usually it is done through constant arguments with each other, as only people who are so closely bonded can have such open communication between them (whether they will admit it or not). Someone is apt to comment that they behave just like a married couple. Typically the argument will be a back and forth of opinions, such as a "Cavemen vs. Astronauts" Debate. It is likely to get heated but neither of them are willing to just leave. In extreme cases it might start getting ugly with insults about personal issues being flung about. If not an argument based, it is often tied with Heterosexual Life-Partners where domestic issues are a common topic. The two bickering characters in question do not have to be romantically involved with each other as the trope can apply to any two individuals such as best friends, siblings, military comrades, and a couple of strangers who don't know much about each other and are not romantically or sexually involved but their situations make them bicker as if they knew each other for a long time Often applied to those with Belligerent Sexual Tension and Unresolved Sexual Tension. Compare Slap-Slap-Kiss. When this leads to an outsider concluding that they're really a couple, one of them will say "She Is Not My Girlfriend". See also Vitriolic Best Buds. Can be a staple of having characters be Mistaken for Gay by way of adding to the Ho Yay-derived humor. |
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A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris: The relationship of Christine Taylor and her brother Lee's high school friend Dayton Nickles when she comes back to the Indian reservation when she contracts a terminal illness. | |
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Finding Dory has Destiny and Bailey, a pair of "neighbours" who frequently bickers over random stuffs, but works together very well when they need to, and Bailey's echolocation serves as Destiny's guide (because she's really nearsighted). | |
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All-New Ultimates: Cloak and Dagger usually discuss that way. Black Widow once find it to be too awkward. | |
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Bone: The Two Stupid Rat Creatures, Smelly and Stinky. Pretty much every time they appear they spend most of their panel time bickering with each other like idiots. The fact that one of them is hopelessly determined to eat a quiche doesn't help. | |
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X-Men: Wolverine and Nightcrawler act as a married couple and parents, sometimes for Kitty and Piotr (with Dad-Wolverine being hard when Piotr hurts Kitty or wishing that his "daughter" remains on the team) In their neverending quest to include as many Ho Yay tropes as they possibly can without kissing on-panel, Professor X and Magneto spend seemingly more time doing this than they do actually battling. |
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In The Naked Gun 33 1/3, Frank Drebin is infiltrating a family gang hired to blow up the Academy Awards. Then his wife Jane shows up, thinking that he is cheating on her. Playing his role, he suggests they keep her as a hostage. Then they start arguing (even though they supposedly don't know each other), causing the head of the gang to get suspicious and claim that they sound like they're married. | |
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Toward the beginning of Redwall, as Matthias and Cornflower take care of the Churchmouse twins, Colin Vole comments knowingly that they're like an old wedded couple. He's instantly told off, since Matthias is in line to become a brother in the Redwall order, but sure enough, they're married by the end of the book. | |
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Someone Else's War: Asher and Eliza. Respectively sixteen and fourteen. | |
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Used in a deleted scene of The Princess and the Frog, between Naveen and Tiana. | |
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High Anxiety the Mel Brooks character and Arthur Brisbane's daughter use this to get through airport security undetected by being a loud old arguing married (Jewish) couple. | |
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Vampire Cheerleaders: Zoe and Suki's friends often joked about them being that way, due to their constant bickering. At one point, Lori even tells them to scissor and get it over with. But it's ultimately subverted in vol. 4, when it's revealed the attraction was one-sided on Zoe's end, since Suki is straight. | |
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In Calvin and Hobbes, Susie's fantasy sequences depict her and Calvin as an old married couple. Their arguments tend towards utter ridiculousness, since Calvin insists on acting like the immature six-year-old he really is. | |
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Elvenquest: It's a running gag that Lord Darkness and his head henchman Creach are like one. The episode where Darkness tries to use Creach to conceive a child, naturally, ramps it up to eleven. While Sam and Penthisilea are not this, during the last episode of series 2 they start acting like it when lost in the mountains. Then they run into an actual married couple of trolls, with the male troll passing on eating them out of sympathy... and even he's got a better thing going than Sam. |
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The Dresden Files: The entirety of Harry Dresden and Karrin Murphy's professional relationship and friendship is rooted in this trope. Jim Butcher once mentioned to a fan that he even thought their eventual hookup was due to this trope, as Harry loved annoying Murphy even in the very first book long before either of them realized they had feelings for each other. | |
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Anaak Jahad's parents in Tower of God. Sure, her mother mourns the lack of luxury from her old days as Jahad's Princess; sure, they fight a lot, but dammit, they are risking their lives to be together and he makes the best damn chicken pie of the whole Tower, so they make it work. | |
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Speaking of Star Wars, in Rogue One this is basically the relationship between Base Morbus and Chirrut Imwe, two old semi-monks of the order that guarded the old Jedi temple. Leading to endless fan speculation that the two really ARE an old married couple... | |
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Monk and Ham in the Doc Savage novels. | |
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The bickering between Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin can take on this edge since their working relationship specifically revolves around the latter being hired to nag, provoke and irritate the former into working when he is determined not to. | |
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It's more subtle than usual, but in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Ron and Hermione's bickering strongly reminds Harry of Molly and Arthur Weasley's bickering at one point. Molly and Arthur are an old married couple. Pretty damn cool method of Foreshadowing. | |
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Practically every character who is sarcastic or has a bad temperament in Homestuck (Read: EVERYONE) is prone to this, most notably Karkat with Terezi, Rose with Dave, and Dirk with Roxy. Other noteworthy examples include the endless bickering of Spades Slick and Diamonds Droog, and John and Jade later on in the story. | |
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Wolverine and Nightcrawler act as a married couple and parents, sometimes for Kitty and Piotr (with Dad-Wolverine being hard when Piotr hurts Kitty or wishing that his "daughter" remains on the team) | |
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Tagii in Schlock Mercenary while joking about "her" self and the captain after he was inconvenienced by his father's wishes to get him married. Of course, Tagii is an AI... but they both know it's possible — Tagon personally knows two AI who got Wetware Body, one of which indeed married a human — so his stunned reaction was not groundless. Karl Tagon jokes about Kathryn and Nick — he didn't know yet that their history together doesn't leave much chances to that, but they indeed did shut up. |
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Black Widow (2021). Natasha, Yelena, Alexi and Melina were a KGB sleeper cell in the United States for three years, posing as a typical American Nuclear Family. Although there are repeated comments about how they were not a real family, that doesn't stop everyone from dropping back into these roles when they meet up again. | |
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In one of the Bunnicula books, "Return to Howliday Inn", the ghost (actually Hamlet the dog pulling some ventriloquism) comments that Harold and Chester argue like an old married couple. | |
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This is the relationship between Maleficent and Diaval, helped by the fact they've been Parental Substitutes for Aurora ever since she was a baby. | |
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British statesman Lord Chesterfield in Letters to His Son: "the Duke of Newcastle and Mr. Pitt jog on like man and wife; that is, seldom agreeing, often quarreling; but by mutual interest, upon the whole, not parting." (letter 221) | |
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Akira and Seiji from Spirit Hunter: NG have been friends since childhood, and it shows with how comfortable they are with hurling insults and bickering. Kaoru even jokingly calls them 'lovebirds' after Akira threatens to smack Seiji for teasing him. | |
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Scientists Dr. Newton Geiszler and Dr. Hermann Gottlieb in Pacific Rim, which may be the most popular pairing in the fandom despite a couple of canonical pairings. Though they almost never stop fighting over their approaches to the kaiju, they really do seem to care about each other. | |
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In the final scene of The Moon is Blue, when Patty suddenly starts arguing with Don about spending so much money on gambling, he tells her, "Will you kindly shut up? We're not married yet." She smiles, realizing what he's just said. | |
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In Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Spirit of Justice, they do a little investigating-slash-sightseeing together in the Kingdom of Khura'in. Despite the country being on the verge of a revolution and the atmosphere being incredibly tense, they spend most of their time together amicably bickering. Awww... | |
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Minotaur Hotel: Luke and Kota start off on the wrong foot when they first meet but eventually get into this type of relationship. | |
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Tonker and Lofty in Monstrous Regiment. Jackrum blurts out 'What are you, married?' at them in the middle of the book, though it's quite likely that he already knew they were an item. | |
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Zootopia: Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde. While its ambiguous as to whether their relationship is romantic or platonic, Judy acts like a nagging wife towards Nick, who in return acts like an lazy and oafish husband pretending to listen. They showed this while trying to solve the missing mammal cases. Bucky and Pronk Oryx-Antlerson, Judy Hopps' noisy neighbors, argue like this for at least half of their screen time (limited as it was), though their arguments are mostly childish exchanges along the line of "No, YOU shut up!". According to co-producer Jared Bush (who voiced Pronk), Bucky and Pronk actually are a married couple! |
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In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Snape enters the Shrieking Shack and remarks to Sirius and Lupin, "Listen to you two, quarreling like an old married couple." | |
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Girl Genius had it Played for Laughs with Moloch commenting on Violetta and Tarvek here. With Ironic Echo when Tarvek reflects it on Violetta and Moloch himself (she had some interest in him, though it's not clear how much reciprocated) later. | |
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As Malevolent progresses, Arthur and the Entity/John start to gain a mutual fondness for each other, but they still bicker. The first episode of season 4 involves an argument over seeing a movie. | |
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In Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead, oldest sister Sue Ellen returns home from work, where she and her younger brother Kenny get into a typical "harried, overworked husband vs. harried, overworked housewife" argument, with Kenny as the "wife"—"You don't appreciate me or anything I do around here!"—and Sue Ellen as the "husband"—"You don't appreciate me and all the hard work I do to take care of all of you!" (him and their younger siblings) | |
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The Lion King: Timon and Pumbaa do not show much of this in the films but its very evident in their own series as they frequently bicker with each other. Apparently, their philosophy of "Hakuna Matata" does not protect them from having such bicker spats. | |
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Red vs. Blue: The Blood Gulch Chronicles Exhibit uh... 307: |
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Storks: Junior and Tulip quickly get into this, though they also argue like a newly married couple when they are dealing with the baby. | |
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In The Fountainhead, sculptor Steven Mallory carves a naked statue of female lead Dominique Francon. Steve never touches her, and there's never anything romantic or sexual between them, but the intimate nature of the process leads to them developing a particularly close friendship, where they feel as comfortable with each other as people who have been married for decades. | |
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In Cooking With Wild Game, although they have only lived together for a few months, Ai Fa can predict when Asuta is about to say something stupid, which she uses to prepare punishment (for example, a bucket of water to throw on him) accordingly. | |
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In The Most Popular Girls in School, Shay and Mackenzie argue like this (according to Youtube comments). It really doesn't help that they were Childhood Friends. | |
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During the Portal 2 co-op speedrun at Awesome Games Done Quick 2012, the other viewers joked that there was this kind of chemistry between romscout and ShadowWraith. In the bonus stream, Flicky and PJ had a similar dynamic when they played The Adventures of Cookie & Cream. | |
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In Plume, this is what "cooperation" between Corrick and Dom looks like, with Dom being the carefree one and Corrick trying to play the part of a responsible adult. | |
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Incandescence: In the first issue, small-time crooks Wayne and Trevor. Wayne keeps giving Trevor grief about playing on his phone instead of looking out for the car’s owner. Also in the first issue, Ball and Chain bicker over whether to use their stolen money on a TV or new flooring, then get in another spat about Chain’s interest in Incandescence’s Spandex, Latex, or Leather super-suit when he says it’s more attractive than Ball’s costume. In the third issue, Golden Arrow and Enigma. Golden Arrow says his communication earpiece doesn’t work, and Enigma immediately claims operator error. Golden Arrow continually expresses disdain at having to work with the Fembot Enigma, which she is always quick to fire back at. |
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Booster Gold: Booster used the phrase (in #36 of his ongoing title) to describe his own relationship with Blue Beetle (Ted Kord), after Vril Dox II assumed they were lovers. (This was rather a broad-minded assumption on Vril's part, but only because Ted had been transformed into a chipmunk at the time). | |
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Kitten and the Emperor in If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device. Magnus lampshades it in episode 16: | |
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Sid and Momma Dino’s interactions in Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs when their different parenting methods are brought up. When trying to feed the baby T-Rexes, Sid points out how he tries to have a conversation with her and all she does is growl at him. | |
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In Strange Magic, late in the film the fairy knight Roland realizes that his ex-fiancée the fairy princess Marianne and the seemingly "evil" Bog King have fallen in love because they start arguing like a couple. He asks, in a very shocked way, "Are you actually having... a lover's tiff?" | |
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Shasta and Aravis in The Horse and His Boy. They end up getting married "so as to go on doing it more conveniently." | |
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During a discussion of gay marriage on The News Quiz, Alan Coren claimed to be in "a form of marriage" with his regular News Quiz and Call My Bluff sparring partner Sandi Toksvig (it may or may not be relevant that Sandi is in fact a lesbian). | |
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The Avengers: Captain America and Iron Man, throughout almost all of their friendship. | |
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Dumbing of Age: This is how Dorothy defines Billie and Walky's relationship. Billie is not amused. When Joe and Danny start bickering, Jacob comments "You guys are a little married, huh." |
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The Trials of Apollo: Nico di Angelo and Will Solace have been together for six months, and argue like they've been married for five decades. It's both hilarious and adorable. | |
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Astro City: Crackerjack and Quarrel have been with each other so long that they're effectively married, even though they've never been exclusive to the other and have broken up (and gotten back together) dozens of times. | |
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The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob!, Bob says this to the Pirates of Ipecac. And it turns out he's right! | |
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The Perfect Run: This turns out to be the secret behind the Psycho condition. Yes, really. When the heroes get a translator set up, they discover that the elixirs that make up a Psycho's powers are constantly arguing, both trying to reshape the body according to the first wish they received, and based on their interpretation via their color. This is why their powers are constantly fluctuating, which drives them insane. Fixing the problem is basically as simple as a third person coming in and saying "why don't you just get a divorce?" | |
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This dynamic occurs fairly often in the Ace Attorney series. Lampshaded in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies, because Edgeworth and Phoenix have finally hit that stage. Bobby Fullbright even points out that they're a good illustration of the phrase "close enough to argue". In their brief appearance in court together, they don't so much argue over facts as quibble about interrupting each other: In Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Spirit of Justice, they do a little investigating-slash-sightseeing together in the Kingdom of Khura'in. Despite the country being on the verge of a revolution and the atmosphere being incredibly tense, they spend most of their time together amicably bickering. Awww... Apollo and Athena's dynamic is noted to be like this in Spirit of Justice. A magician in the second case mistakenly assumes they're a comedy duo practicing their "old married couple" routine when they were actually just conversing and interacting like they normally do. Apollo and Athena are both shocked that this is how they appear to others. |
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The Murderbot Diaries. In "Network Effect" when Murderbot gets miffed with the AI controlling the starship Perihelion and refuses to speak to it, the humans want to know if they have a relationship. Assuming they're referring to a sexual relationship Murderbot is grossed-out, but it's not helping its case when Muderbot and Perihelion later use their combined code to create a sentient killware virus which the humans promptly compare to making a baby. | |
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In Boundary the two linguists are described as this by several characters. They end up getting a Relationship Upgrade at the end making then the Gamma Couple. | |
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Hyeon and Nadine from Dawn of a New Age: Oldport Blues spend much of their time together bickering, which entertains multiple characters who can't help but see it as a spat between lovebirds. They were actually a couple for a while, though their relationship now is inarguably platonic since Nadine has come to realise that she's a lesbian. | |
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Sword Art Online: This is how Lisbeth realizes Kirito and Asuna are practically an Official Couple, despite Asuna denying it moments later. | |
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Young Avengers: Wiccan and Hulkling's relationship often smacks more than a little of this. Of course, there is a reason for that... | |
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Lilo & Stitch: Gantu and Reuben (Experiment 625) in the series, have several bicker spats with each other as they make snarky comments towards each other which range from their professions to their looks. Jumba and Pleakley have some of their moments of this as well, which includes disguising themselves as such a couple and even having some spats with each other. |
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Well There's Your Problem: Justin and Liam are former roommates and college friends, and can and will frequently bicker about their respective families and personal lives on-air or bring up bizarre stories of trips and experiences they've shared together (often involving alcohol, trains, tourist traps and American football). Alice brought up their tendency to bicker like an old married couple on their first liveshow. | |
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