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Matron Chaperone
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The duenna (or chaperone) is a Stock Character whose main purpose is to provide an obstacle to the male Love Interest. Almost always a comedy character, she is older than her charge and intent on protecting her from the debauched hordes of unmarried men who (according to the chaperone) are waiting around every corner. Said young ladies are as anxious to get rid of her as her suitors. May also be an Old Retainer. Usually a devout older woman who may be very naive about the world, though a common variation is one who has had a very eventful life, and thus knows exactly what to expect from young men. See also: Moral Guardians, Overprotective Dad, Maid and Maiden (the maid is chaperoning and the maiden is being chaperoned), Lady-in-Waiting. |
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In the A Memoir By Lady Trent series, the eponymous Lady Trent has to have a female companion everywhere she goes to avoid scandal for being an unmarried woman in the company of men, even though she's a widow with a son. Subverted in that her "chaperones" are just as annoyed by it as she is and her Love Interest cares about her far too much to risk scandal. She ends up getting married primarily because the travel accommodations got too complicated for her companion to go on an expedition with her, so she married Suhail to make it "proper". | |
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The Drowsy Chaperone has the titular Chaperone, who is the Chaperone of Janet, the bride-to-be. It's somewhat of a subversion, as the Chaperone isn't there to prevent Janet from seeing many men, but just one (the groom, Robert), and is actually more interested in sexual relationships than Janet is. | |
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Briefly mentioned in early chapters of Beauty: A Retelling of Beauty and the Beast; Beauty remarks that once her eldest sister Grace is engaged, she stops wanting to go to parties and things, so their middle sister Hope has to go in the company of their chaperone, "the last of our outgrown governesses". | |
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In Double Homework, when Rachel’s mom finds out that she’s dating (and sleeping with) the protagonist again, she insists on supervising their joint training sessions afterwards, at least for a time. | |
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In Heidi, Fräulein Rottenmeier's role seems to prevent the title character (who is a rather adventurous 5-year-old) from having too much influence on her ward Klara, who is very frail. | |
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This is a plot point in Charley's Aunt; Charley and Jack want to confess their love and propose to Amy and Kitty, but they can't be alone with the girls due to impropriety. Charley's aunt is expected to arrive at any moment to chaperone the four of them. When she's delayed, however, they draft one of their buddies to pretend to be her, since he's already in drag for a play. | |
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The Nurse in Romeo and Juliet is an early subversion (or perhaps inversion). While she is Juliet's guardian and a concerned party in her romantic affairs, she's also a Reasonable Authority Figure who quite quickly becomes convinced (after meeting him) that Romeo is actually good husband material, and subsequently encourages Romeo and Juliet to be together. She's also a bawdy old woman who regales Juliet with tales of the sex jokes her late husband used to tell. It's possible she's supposed to be a parody of the more familiar "stern and overprotective" version of the stock character, and her unusual willingness to encourage her ward's romance (which, of course, doesn't end well) is part of the joke. | |
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In Airborn, Ms. Simpkins fits this to a tee; she's not very brave, tries to keep her charge Kate from doing anything fun, and is especially suspicious when any young men are around. | |
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In Drowtales, Lady Ariel's slave Vaelia assigns herself the role of Duenna (Ariel is a shapeshifter). Also played with in that Ariel doesn't exactly want the attentions of her male suitor either, and is too young to really understand what he's trying to do to her. | |
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In one episode of The Golden Girls, Blanche is uncomfortable about having made a date with a man in a wheelchair, so to avoid intimacy she takes Sophia along, claiming that she is her grandmother and chaperone. | |
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In All Men of Genius, it's assumed by many characters that this is the situation with Cecily and her governess Miriam, though in fact, Miriam isn't actually very old and is a lot less prim when she isn't under observation. She's in a relationship with one of the senior students at the Academy, and goes out drinking with him and his friends. This causes problems when another student notices and tries to blackmail her into letting him hook up with Cecily. | |
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Garulfo: Noémie is an example of the "interesting life" variant: | |
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In Code Geass, Alicia Lohmeyer's role seems to be less to protect Nunnally's virginity (Nunnally is blind and in a wheelchair and hasn't started dating yet) than to keep her from getting too far out of line politically. She appears to be a Shout-Out to Miss Rottenmeier from Heidi, Girl of the Alps. | |
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Dot Matrix from Spaceballs has this as one of her functions, even if she's actually not older than Princess Vespa. | |
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Cyrano de Bergerac has a character named Duenna who, predictably, is Roxanne's chaperone. | |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Dauphin": Salia, the future queen of Daled IV, is accompanied by her governess Anya, who is very protective of her. When Wesley is attracted to Salia and they get together, Anya turns into a giant monster and breaks into Wesley's cabin to stop them. | |
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