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It isn't at all unusual for siblings to be close to each other. Lots of siblings will hang out with each other and show some sibling affection towards each other. If someone else sees them and knows that they're related, they won't raise any eyebrows. If they do not know that they're related, they might think the two are dating. Oftentimes, the one who catches the two together is a lover or love interest of one of the siblings, and thus thinks that they are cheating or doesn't like them. Drama and/or Hilarity Ensues. This trope is often used as a type of The Reveal where the audience does not know that the two siblings are related beforehand, and are led to believe that the person is cheating or likes someone else. And, of course, this is most definitely Truth in Television. This is somewhat the inverse of, but definitely comparable to, Like Brother and Sister — in which they have a close, platonic, but non-genetic relationship. If the characters themselves don't know, it's Surprise Incest. Conversely, if the third party does know the other two are related but still thinks they're romantically or sexually involved, that's Mistaken for Incest. If their resemblance to a romantic couple is particularly convincing, there may be Incest Subtext at work; if it's more convincing than the idea that they're brother and sister even to the audience who's already in on the secret, that's probably Platonic Writing, Romantic Reading. Sometimes though, it happens to be Exactly What It Looks Like. This can happen with cousins, as well. With parents, it may overlap with Absurdly Youthful Mother: if a character's parent doesn't look old enough to be their parent, mistaking them for a romantic partner is all the more likely. Compare Mistaken for Related. If the two siblings are the same gender, then this also crosses over with Mistaken for Gay. Also an inversion of Relatively Flimsy Excuse, when a character lies about another character being related to them in order to provide a cover story. Warning: Spoilers Ahead. |
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In Zero Time Dilemma, when Carlos talks about Maria, Junpei asks if Maria is his girlfriend. Maria is Carlos's sister. | |
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Badly Drawn Kitties used this once. Lucy overheard Lydia's boyfriend Dirk and another woman declaring their love for each other and assumed because of the woman's foreign accent that she wasn't related to Dirk. It turned out she was in fact his sister and she'd just been studying in England, and so had picked up the accent. | |
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Happens in The Space Gypsy Adventures episode, Damien's Valentine's Day Panic. Jehlise sees Damien talking with another girl in the spaceport cafe, and assumes that Damien has dumped her in favor of 'his own kind' (the girl is a young fox with 'raccoon markings', like Damien). When she confronts him about it the next day, he explains that the girl is in fact his cousin Anita. | |
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In Kevin & Kell, a well-intentioned Kell sets her friend Aby Eyeshine up on a blind date with Rudy's hunting coach, Sam Pardus. Sam and Aby, in accordance with the trope, are brother and sister, but Kell didn't know that (all parties found the whole thing amusing). Sam being disguised as a leopard (while Aby is a house cat) and changing his last name in order to coach the Caliban Academy team despite being domesticated makes it that much harder for Kell to find out. | |
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Pirates SMP: On Day 2, Scott starts to ask Owen if Acho, whom he'd been talking to and questing with earlier that day, has been saying anything about stars past. Owen immediately gets suspicious of the questions… and assumes that Scott's trying to get a date. Scott is, in fact, Acho's older brother who's been concerned about star after star left home without notice over a year before the start of the SMP, and whom he thought was dead until the previous day. The conversation immediately takes an awkward turn and the assumption is quickly corrected. | |
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Inverted in Virtue's Last Reward. When Sigma sees a young girl on a picture Tenmyouji has, he mistakenly thinks that the girl is Tenmyouji's granddaughter. Quark then clarifies that the girl was Tenmyouji's first love. Tenmyouji denies. Sigma doesn't buy his denial and calls him "hopeless romantic". | |
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Acception: Arcus assumes Maud and Gale are a couple for way longer than seems feasible. | |
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Not Always Right and its spinoffs: Inverted in one story; the two people are a couple but are mistaken for siblings. And in another story where a man who is mistaken for a young teenage boy wants to buy an M-rated video game, and when his wife comes in to tell the clerk that he's allowed to buy that game, she is mistaken for his mother and told that the game may not be appropriate for her son. A nosy lady at a restaurant on Not Always Friendly tries to shame a man for getting dinner with a girl young enough to be his daughter. The man replies that the girl IS his daughter, shaming the lady instead for making assumptions. In this Not Always Working story, a sacked cleaner tries to blackmail the owner by telling his wife he's been seeing another woman. The owner is furious ... because he and his sister have been trying to arrange a surprise party and now it's ruined. As the owner, his wife, and the submitter (the replacement cleaner) go back inside, the sacked cleaner remains standing there, apparently still trying to process what just happened. |
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In Persona 5, one of Yusuke's confidant events has him and Joker go to the park on a rowboat to find inspiration for his art. Yusuke ends up drawing a man and woman in a rowboat next to theirs, believing them to be a couple in love. They notice him drawing them, and they clarify that they're just brother and sister. | |
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Luann: In one arc, Brad, smitten with Toni, goes to a car show where she's at but sees her with some more handsome guy. Brad is upset, but it later turns out the guy is her brother — although it also later turns out that Toni does in fact already have a boyfriend. | |
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In the opera Rigoletto, the courtiers learn that Rigoletto secretly has a young woman living in his house. They assume she's his mistress, kidnap her and give her to the lecherous Duke to humiliate the hated jester. As it turns out, she's his innocent, virginal daughter, and his response to her kidnapping isn't embarrassment, but vengeful Papa Wolf rage. | |
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A comic in MAD had a man see his wife walking down the street with another man and immediately assume she was cheating on him. When he confronts her about this, she explains (through a picture of them as babies in a carriage together) that they are actually siblings. | |
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Ménage à 3: Zii makes this mistake, then, panicked, tries to cover herself under it. (Zii is new at monogamy.) Her boyfriend is sweetly understanding. | |
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In one Blondie (1930) strip, Blondie and Dagwood's kids are at the beach. Alexander offers to get Cookie a cold drink, and while he's en route to the refreshment stand, another guy stops him and compliments him on his luck in being with such a beautiful girl. The bemused Alexander explains that she's his sister. | |
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An ironic one comes up early on in Daughter for Dessert. Moe Mortelli, on seeing Amanda, thinks she's the protagonist's girlfriend. If only he could see what they would eventually get up to.... | |
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In the Child Ballad "Child Maurice" or "Gil Maurice", the titular character is murdered by a jealous lord whose wife he arranged to secretly meet in a forest. The wife then confesses to the lord that he was not her lover, but an illegitimate son that she bore in secret before their relationship. | |
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A nosy lady at a restaurant on Not Always Friendly tries to shame a man for getting dinner with a girl young enough to be his daughter. The man replies that the girl IS his daughter, shaming the lady instead for making assumptions. | |
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In Fate/Grand Order, Miyamoto Mushashi teases Fuuma Kotarou for sneaking glances at Katou Danzou, thinking he has a crush on her. He later explains to Musashi that Danzou was his adoptive mother. | |
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Done in Too Much Information (2005), when the two main girls of Ace's Unwanted Harem sees him driving a pretty, blond girl around in his sports-car... it's actually his cousin, whom he's giving a ride to an abortion clinic so her parents won't find out. | |
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In My Candy Love, upon the player character's first meeting with Amber, she is told to "stay away from Nathaniel." She then goes to talk to Nathaniel and has the option of warning him about a girl named Amber who likes him. Since Amber is his twin sister, he's a little ticked off (although to be fair, the player had no way of knowing that). | |
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Zero Escape: Inverted in Virtue's Last Reward. When Sigma sees a young girl on a picture Tenmyouji has, he mistakenly thinks that the girl is Tenmyouji's granddaughter. Quark then clarifies that the girl was Tenmyouji's first love. Tenmyouji denies. Sigma doesn't buy his denial and calls him "hopeless romantic". In Zero Time Dilemma, when Carlos talks about Maria, Junpei asks if Maria is his girlfriend. Maria is Carlos's sister. |
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Tales of Zestiria: In one of the Earthen Historia, the party witness a flashback to the author of the Celestial Record founding a village, alongside a woman holding a baby. In the English localizationnote In Japanese, the woman is simply described as appearing to be family. the Earthen Historia linked to this event describes the woman as being his wife, and the baby their son. The woman is actually his sister, Muse, and the child is his nephew, the human Mikleo respectively. | |
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In Savestate, brother and sister Kade and Nicole have been mistaken for a couple on at least two occasions. | |
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This happens when Chrom meets Lucina in Fire Emblem: Awakening. Whoever his wife is at first assumes he's having an affair. Turns out Lucina is their Kid from the Future. | |
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In JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven, Narciso Anasui/Narc Anastasia is aghast when he finds his crush, Jolyne, talking to a young guy he doesn't recognize. Turns out it's a younger version of Jotaro Kujo... Jolyne's future dad, something that also takes Jotaro by surprise. | |
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There is a meta version in the fandom of Housepets! Some believed that Cosmic Chess Game combatants Pete and Spirit Dragon may have been ex-partners, or even had some present Belligerent Sexual Tension going on. It was revealed in the epilogue of the arc "Heaven's Not Enough" that they were actually brother and sister. | |
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