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Platonic Boy/Girl Heroes
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It's common for children's authors and the creators of kids' shows to make the main characters of a story a girl and a boy. They could either already be friends at the start of the story, or they could meet as the plot unfolds. Sometimes they don't even like each other, but are forced to work together. Sometimes the differences between boys and girls create conflict. Either way, it's very common in fiction. So much so that, like all tropes, it's probably done for a reason, especially since in real life, most kids have primarily same sex friends. So why is it done so often in fiction? One reason is to expand the potential audience. While some types of stories appeal primarily to one sex or the other, there are many types of stories, such as horror or adventure, that have appeal to both sexes. To try to rein in kids who might not want to read a story about a member of the opposite sex, a character of their own gender is included. Sometimes a story that appeals primarily to one sex will include a character of the opposite sex to expand an otherwise limited audience. Another reason is because many authors simply like seeing the way kids react when paired up with the opposite sex. It can be fun to see the interactions of two people who at times see the opposite sex as being like space aliens. While groups of friends may be a mixture of three boys and a girl or vice versa, or an equal mix of members of both sexes, that isn't this trope, despite often being done for the same reason. This trope only refers to when a single boy and single girl are the main characters of the story. Why? Because that's far less likely (unless they're siblings) than a group of mixed gender friends, and therefore more starkly obvious, more clearly done for the sake of the story. Note that the relationship must be platonic. Romantic relationships don't count, since those involve a more believable reason for two opposite sex kids to get together. Siblings don't count either, since that's far more common in real life and less likely to feel "forced" for the sake of getting a girl and a boy together. This sometimes leads to a Toy Ship from the fandom. Compare Platonic Life-Partners, which this trope also falls into if the boy and girl have known each other for a long time. Named after Blogger Beware's tally of the "platonic boy/girl relationship" in every single Goosebumps novel ever. |
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My Teacher Is an Alien groups Susan together with Peter, a nerdy smart boy she feels sorry for, and the two end up going on a mission to prove that their teacher is an alien. | |
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Unlike the book version, Coraline adds Wybie, a boy, who joins Coraline on her adventures. Word of God says this was done so Coraline wouldn't have to narrate to herself the whole time. | |
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Tokyo Demons splits its story into the perspectives of the main protagonist Ayase Watanabe (who is focused on the superpower mystery side) and her schoolmate Jo Oda (who is preoccupied with the organized crime side). While both have their plots intertwined over the trilogy and they ultimately become close friends, both have their own sets of love interests and end the story in a Polyamory and in a committed relationship respectively. Series author Lianne Sentar explicitly stated that she didn't want her male and female leads to end up together just because they were the most prominent opposite sex pair. | |
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In Dinosaur Island (2014), Lucas is 12, and Kate is 15, but there's no hint of romance between them. | |
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The two primary protagonists of The Kissing Booth and its sequels are high schoolers Lee and Elle, who have been best friends almost since they were born. It's emphasized that their relationship is strictly platonic, though no less meaningful to them. In fact, one of the recurring conflicts throughout the trilogy is their struggle to balance their romantic relationships and their friendship with each other. | |
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The two leads of The Seventh Tower are a boy (Tal) and a girl (Milla). They are working together more out of circumstance than anything, and for a fair amount of the series they don't actually like each other that much, and the one time the possibility of romance is brought up, Tal's reaction is that he's never even thought about it. By the end of the story they might charitably be called "friends", although "comrades-in-arms" is probably closer, and there's not a hint of romantic tension between them. | |
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Goosebumps, nearly the Trope Namer, has kids of opposite sexes as the main characters all the time. Sometimes it's opposite sex kids who are friends, and sometimes it's lampshaded: "Some people think it's weird for a boy and a girl to be friends." Sometimes a kid meets someone of the opposite sex and they get caught up in something big together, and sometimes the kid even dislikes the opposite sex, but they still get caught up in the adventure together. Although in at least one case, it was the villain impersonating the opposite sex friend, who didn't really exist. | |
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In the Young Wizards series of books, protagonists Nita and Kit are best friends who happen to be of different sexes, and despite being brought together as a team by the Power of Heaven Themselves, face considerable misunderstanding from others, to the point that Nita's parents try to forbid them to see each other due to fear their relationship is sexual. (They're actually on a Mission from God.) | |
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The two lead heroes of The Dreamstone are Rufus and his female best friend Amberley. They start off a straight case in the pilot, though many later episodes downplay them into Hero Antagonists to the all-male Urpneys. | |
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Odd Squad as an organization often features one boy and one girl as a partner duo, with the main ones being Agents Olive and Otto, Olympia and Otis, and Opal and Omar, among numerous others. | |
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Deadtime Stories mostly uses large groups of kids of both sexes, which isn't an example of this trope. However, the episode "Revenge of the Goblins" has a white girl and black boy who are both friends, with no other friends being shown or mentioned. | |
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In Encyclopedia Brown, two of the main characters are "Encyclopedia" Brown and his female bodyguard Sally Kimball. | |
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Flowing Star has Stella and Lincoln as the co-protagonists of the story, with the duo being neighbors and formed their friendship after she saved him from Chandler and his goons. | |
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The Magician's Nephew stars neighbors Digory and Polly, who decide to search a secret attic passage and accidentally stumble onto the titular magician, who sends them world-hopping for fun and profit. | |
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Infinity Train: Seeker of Crocus show Yuri (age 11) and Chloe (age 10) like this with no signs of Ship Tease at all. Amusingly, Chloe has been on a date with Tony Clark. | |
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Played with throughout Pokémon in regards to Ash's female companions. While Dawn, May, and Iris fit the mold, some of his companions subvert this (Misty and Serena have overt crushes). | |
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Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom stars boy elf Ben and girl fairy Holly. | |
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The Horse and His Boy features the Rebellious Princess Aravis and the peasant boy Shasta. While the narration states that they marry years later, they're too young and too busy for romance during the story proper. | |
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The Last Battle brings back Eustace and Jill to witness the final days of Narnia. | |
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The lead protagonists of Big Fat Liar played by Frankie Muniz and Amanda Bynes. Word of God says this was deliberately invoked in the film as very seldom do you see this trope in live-action. | |
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Fourth-Grade Celebrity has Casey, a girl, who has Walter, a boy, as her best friend, while she writes letters to a female pen pal. | |
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The Adventures of D & A has Denise Dawson and Adam Anderson, who meet in the first story, and are best friends by the second. | |
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In The Silver Chair, Eustace and Jill escape from their Boarding School of Horrors for a romp through Narnia. Puddleglum, a Narnian native, rounds out the Power Trio. | |
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Zita The Space Girl has Zita and Joseph, who, not including the aliens, are friends. Particularly before the adventure begins. | |
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The Amazing Panda Adventure features Ryan Tyler and Ling, who are united over a panda cub and have very little romance apart from the very end. | |
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The titular characters of Lilo & Stitch are even more unlikely than usual, given that one's a genetic mutant alien. | |
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