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The Masochism Tango

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The Masochism Tango	comment	In fictional relationships, there's a gray area between a Destructive Romance, a Friendly War, and Romanticized Abuse. Sometimes the writers make it hard for the audience to figure out if the relationship is even supposed to be a good thing or not. Sometimes the writers don't even know the answer themselves, and sometimes this question isn't even meant to have an answer—the characters are there for the audience to laugh at, and that's all there is to it. Two characters are supposed to be deeply in love — despite being blatantly unsuited for each other. They are constantly screaming at each other or worse, and yet the characters insist they like each other. Very often, the only indicator of the characters' affections for each other will be their jealousy when the other shows an interest (real or imagined) in a character outside of their tango. Basically, there are two ways this trope can emerge: The writers really don't get that the pairing isn't working out. The writers are fully aware and it's the characters who insist that their relationship is just great. In either case, the audience tends to quickly catch on, and you can bet that the shippers are already thinking up alternatives. This is not the same as an Odd Friendship or Odd Couple, where everybody knows the relationship is strange and the characters very grudgingly learn to respect each other. In the Masochism Tango, the entire relationship hinges on the mutual hatred between the two lovebirds... for better or for worse. The partners dancing to this particular beat have already resolved the Will They or Won't They? issue, and won't deny they're a couple — it's just the wisdom of their hook-up that's in question. This is what happens when a Belligerent Sexual Tension couple gets together without actually solving the belligerence. For the platonic version, see With Friends Like These... or Vitriolic Best Buds.note In comparison, Vitriolic Best Buds is closer to this trope, while With Friends Like These... is more comparable to Destructive Romance. For a milder version, see Slap-Slap-Kiss, Belligerent Sexual Tension, and No Accounting for Taste. If the characters aren't at each other's throats, but their relationship feels contrived and artificial nonetheless, they've been Strangled by the Red String. Compare All Take and No Give. If the sadism and the masochism part in the coupling is off-balance, also compare Love Martyr. Played for Drama, it can easily become Destructive Romance. If the characters are married, is also falls under Awful Wedded Life. Not to be confused with Death Trap Tango. This trope is named after a song by Tom Lehrer, quoted above. As he explains it, a certain genre of love song is "the passionate or fiery variety, usually in tango tempo, in which the singer exhorts his partner to haunt him and taunt him and, if at all possible, to consume him with a kiss of fire." In his version, the singer asks for whippings, broken bones, cigarette burns... Note that this is actually Truth in Television for many people. Probably including many tropers. If you are still confused, let Worf explain. Not to Be Confused with Real Life masochism. Or, for that matter, real tango. Or a combination of the two. Then again, some works don't really make a distinction between masochism and being a victim of abuse... Examples
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The Masochism Tango / int_10b060ee	comment	Matt and Kayleigh from Dork Tower. They remain in an On-Again, Off-Again Relationship, even though she belittles all of his interests and friends, and he is torn between staying with her and dropping her for Gilly the Perky Goth. Screaming matches and Slap-Slap-Kiss often occur.
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The Masochism Tango / int_136a1f6c	comment	Thrill Me: Nathan and Richard have this sort of relationship — at first glance, it looks one-sided, with Richard stringing Nathan along and dropping him on a whim, but we have a few moments where Richard's mask slips and we can see he feels basically the same way about Nathan. Not that that's actually any healthier.
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The Masochism Tango / int_14af8b03	comment	Dangerous Liaisons: Valmont and Merteuil live to one-up each other with tales of sexual deviance and mindfuckery, yet every time one of them talks about having any sort of genuine emotional connection with somebody else, the other one seems to explode with jealousy. This is very definitely a Destructive Romance (if indeed "romance" is even vaguely the right word), and it ends up with her getting Valmont killed (which leaves her heartbroken), and Merteuil publicly destroyed thanks to Valmont setting her up to be exposed with his dying breath.
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The Masochism Tango / int_1916b800	comment	Happy Together: Ho and Lai's relationship is a cycle of abuse, break-up, and reconciliation. It's what ultimately causes them to leave Hong Kong for Argentina, in the hopes that a change of scene will help them break out of old patterns. It succeeds when Lai finally refuses to reconcile with Ho.
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The Masochism Tango / int_1a21786a	comment	Advice and Trust: Ritsuko has convinced herself that her relationship with Gendo is good and he actually cares about her even though Gendo ALWAYS treats her like a pawn and he constantly shows nothing is as important as Yui to him. Chapter 8 provides a good example of this: Ritsuko got hurt during a battle and was taken to med bay. Gendo never went to see her. He spent hours making sure Rei and Unit 01 were fine and he came to see one of the pilots, but he did not spend a second waiting for Ritsuko's side. Ritsuko was aware of this and suitably angry. Still, when he called her to see if she was ok she felt happier, thinking he cared... until he asked if she could start to work again.
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The Masochism Tango / int_1afaadc2	comment	RENT: The song "The Tango: Maureen" tells you all about how Maureen torments the people she dates with compulsive flirting.
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The Masochism Tango / int_1b386512	comment	Ranma ½ is all about this. Ranma and Akane are emotionally and physically abusive to each other, constantly. Yet the two of them are, horrifically, the most benevolent and stable couple in the entire show, and as much as Ranma would like to leave all his unwanted "fiances" in the dust, for his own physical and mental well-being, he pointedly can't.
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The Masochism Tango / int_219914e9	comment	The Queen's Thief: Gen has a rather unbelievable but somehow endearing version of this with the Queen of Attolia, who imprisoned him and cut his hand off, and whom he must blackmail into marrying him.
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The Masochism Tango / int_21b21f35	comment	BoJack Horseman: BoJack's parents, Butterscotch and Beatrice. They stayed together for decades despite utterly despising each other and most of the relationship being a continuous string of insult-slinging. They simply hated the other so much they wouldn't let each other be happy, even if it meant being trapped in toxic co-dependence for the rest of their lives.
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The Masochism Tango / int_2275c659	comment	House: While Word of God says that House and Stacy were meant to be deeply in love, onscreen it was more like this. She's deeply self-righteous about the whole "cutting up his leg without his consent" thing and hasn't seemed to learn her lesson when it comes to her ill husband either, doesn't believe that he has any human feelings whatsoever (even when he shows her and us his adorable, romantic/cheesy side by giving her a prescription for her "heart problem") and seems to act like she wants to kill him in his sleep. For his part, he can't decide whether he wants her to be with him or if he wants her to suffer and at one point, breaks into her therapy file so he can act like the nice guy. He ended it in "Need To Know" but it really, really doesn't make him any happier.
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The Masochism Tango / int_22d87fc9	comment	That '70s Show: Hyde and Jackie. Before they got together, their interactions consisted entirely of slinging barbs and insults at each other. And after, their relationship was... pretty much the same, only now they had sex. Jackie refused to notice this. Hyde knew it but tried not to care.
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The Masochism Tango / int_2350acad	comment	Cheers Proudly coarse Carla Tortelli and snooty John Allen Hill. Hurling insults was their favorite foreplay. Sam and Diane on many occasions. They do genuinely love one another, but Diane is extremely put off by Sam's less sophisticated tastes and has a tendency to overreact to anything, while Sam is often hurt by Diane's jabs at his intelligence. Toward the end of season 2, he notes he's started being nasty to Diane just to hurt her, even though he doesn't like doing it. Their break-up drives him back to alcohol, and Diane to a mental institution. Several times from then on, they're told the relationship is unhealthy and will bring them misery, but they (mostly Diane) refuse to hear it and keep on trying to make it work. It doesn't.
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The Masochism Tango / int_24a62796	comment	Dallas: JR and Sue Ellen Ewing to the nth. He cheats, she drinks and cheats, he cheats and has her committed... and on the dance goes. Most of the horrible things Sue Ellen does are fairly reasonable reactions to JR's misdeeds, but many argue that he was only slightly overreacting to her being a right old bitch in the first place. The more heinous infractions include: JR using Sue Ellen's alcoholism as his go-to blackmail or attempting to push her off the wagon for the same reason, Sue Ellen's use of their son as a pawn knowing it's JR's only weak spot, JR cheating on and conspiring against Sue Ellen with her own sister, believing Sue Ellen shot him and allowing her to rot in jail when her crazy sister was the actual culprit, and Sue Ellen actually shooting him a few years later. Somewhere in there, they get a divorce, RE-MARRY (because of all the love), then re-divorce. The two are so massively screwed up that they make a certain sense together, but even at the best of times, he makes it clear that she will always be second to Ewing Oil.
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The Masochism Tango / int_25f6f1a0	comment	Umineko: When They Cry contains a very creepy and villainous example of this: Lambdadelta and Bernkastel fight each other in a game whenever they come across each other in the ocean of the kakera. The penalties for the loser are very severe cases of a Fate Worse than Death. And yet they always assure themselves how much they "love" each other. However, as we learn later in the story, this may be justified as it's all meant to escape the boredom that can literally kill them. By fighting each other, they relieve that boredom in order to survive and spend time with each other. And in the very end, they get their Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other-moment.
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The Masochism Tango / int_267cbfa	comment	Dominic Deegan: Dominic and Luna have turned bitter fighting over each other's habits into foreplay. They like each other's ability to stand up for themselves.
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The Masochism Tango / int_28508de	comment	Musa and Riven in Winx Club. They constantly get on each other's nerves and nearly break up for good once, but they really do love each other.
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The Masochism Tango / int_2a139e05	comment	The Orville: Bortus and Klyden's marriage shows them constantly at odds, to the point where it seems like they actually hate each other. There's a massive disagreement when their child is born female, with Klyden revealed to be a Boomerang Bigot, over giving the child "corrective surgery" to make her male. Then Bortus gets addicted to holographic pornography and starts ignoring his marriage, so Klyden tries to divorce him by stabbing Bortus through the heart per Moclan customs. Then Klyden exposes Bortus' former partner for being heterosexual and starts to indoctrinate their son with his Homonormative Crusader beliefs, earning Bortus' ire. Bortus then gives Klyden a "The Reason You Suck" Speech in front of his own commanding officer. This comes to a head when Topa finds out that she was born female, with Bortus supporting Topa's choice to have the surgery reversed over Klyden's objections. Their marriage dissolves as Klyden disowns his family and returns to Moclus.
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The Masochism Tango / int_2a9edae	comment	The Kids in the Hall: There's a sketch where a couple is being very loud in a restaurant with their arguing. Mark's character complains to them and he gets punched in the face by the guy, only to get up and see that the couple has forgotten about him and begun making out passionately.
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The Masochism Tango / int_2ad4ca99	comment	David Byrne's "They Are in Love" opens with a description of a couple in the throes of this. Oddly enough, the narrator goes on to speak of all the positive effects love has had in his own life.
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The Masochism Tango / int_2b82b95f	comment	iCarly: The Sam/Freddie pairing. Once they get together, the next episode is about them constantly fighting, to the point where Carly tells them they need to sort out their problems or they should break up. The next episode says they only fought three times that day, and that Sam still hits Freddie, just not in the face. They then get into a massive almost break-up moment when Sam is revealed to have sabotaged an admission paper that could have helped him get into any college he wanted. They still stay together through both episodes.
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The Masochism Tango / int_2b9a2c08	comment	The entire point of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.
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The Masochism Tango / int_378832f5	comment	Kevin Spencer's parents love tormenting each other (especially Percy). Kevin and Shawna are occasionally this.
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The Masochism Tango / int_380c805e	comment	The Star of the Guardians is all built around the Masochism Tango between two of the three main characters.
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The Masochism Tango / int_38ce5997	comment	The Boys (2019), the relationship between Homelander and Stormfront starts with them having very violent sex, exacerbated by them both being superpowered. They hit and throw each other, and Homelander, to paraphrase Stormfront, lasers her tits. The next episode has them making out and having sex in an alley while coated in the blood of a robber after Homelander crushed the robber's skull.
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The Masochism Tango / int_3b15ba15	comment	Terkel in Trouble contains the sappy love song "Piss off and die!"
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The Masochism Tango / int_3b91d912	comment	Evangelion 303: Shinji went through this in chapters 11 and 12. After waking up from her several-month-long coma Asuka blamed herself for the failure of the mission, the destruction of the aircraft and her best friend's death, saw herself like a pathetic failure and was permanently angry at herself and everybody. For several months she treated Shinji with silence and utter disdain or hitting him and insulting him cruelly. Shinji did not know how to help her but he would not dump her either because he had become too co-dependent to live without her. Finally, Shinji managed to help her and she got better slowly, but she felt so guilty for her atrocious behaviour that she ran away. When he found her and proposed her Asuka could not believe it and she asked him: "You're in love with a woman who tried to kill herself — and take you with her? What's wrong with you?"
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The Masochism Tango / int_3e5de40b	comment	Scrubs: Dr. Cox and Jordan. These two are stunning, simply because even when they are openly together and obviously planning on spending the rest of their lives together, they continue to insult, demean and torment each other, even when they're happy. Both also undergo significant Character Development and gradually show softer sides to their characters and let their defenses down, but this part of their relationship never changes. It also seems like their relationship actually thrives on the fighting, and that their shared hatred actually brings them together. This was showcased best in one episode where Jordan no longer wants to fight because of Jack. So Dr. Cox tries to initiate fights with other people, to which Carla says that she won't fight with him. They eventually patch things up after Cox tells Jordan she's just like her mother, and they agree not to fight in front of Jack... but can do it all they want when he's not around. By the final season, Cox tells Jordan that he's tired of pretending like they don't like each other because "newsflash: we do!" To which Jordan responds by gasping and saying, "Take that back!"
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The Masochism Tango / int_444f7f18	comment	Kushiel's Legacy: Phèdre nó Delaunay and Joscelin Verreuil embody this trope for the first two books of the series. The former is a masochistic prostitute who frequently sleeps with people as a method of solving problems, and the latter is her celibate combat butler-bodyguard. Phèdre nó admits—to her shame—that she actually really enjoys the agony of it. They iron it out in the first few years, though, and are eventually Happily Married.
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The Masochism Tango / int_44fe781e	comment	Shinji and Asuka from Neon Genesis Evangelion. Both love each other, but they are not exactly mentally sound (both are afraid of getting hurt by other people, but Asuka pushes them away while Shinji runs from them), and their relationship is not healthy: Asuka is a fiercely competitive young woman who teases Shinji in what she considers flirting, while Shinji is a reclusive, socially inept introvert who doesn't respond well to her flirtations, either acting as an Extreme Doormat till she's placated or lashing back at her on occasion, leading Asuka to be even angrier, more insecure and more depressed. The two's Belligerent Sexual Tension paired with their inability to discuss their feelings for one another contributes to both of their worsening mental states, as well as The End of the World as We Know It.
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The Masochism Tango / int_4617a9f2	comment	Married... with Children: Al and Peg pretty much treat each other as mortal enemies, and even take glee in ruining things that the other would enjoy, however, each becomes insanely depressed/violent/jealous on those occasions where it looks as though the other has found someone else.
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The Masochism Tango / int_47dfc6f	comment	Duncan and Courtney in the Total Drama series. Heather and Alejandro in World Tour. They even perform a literal masochism tango in the penultimate song, intentionally injuring each other while dancing together. Enforced in Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race with the Daters/Haters: despite a very bad break up, they have to keep working together to stay in the race.
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The Masochism Tango / int_4a47d090	comment	The White Lotus: Daphne and Cameron initially seem to have an idyllic and affectionate marriage, but the season reveals that their relationship is more dysfunctional than they let on. Cameron is unapologetically unfaithful and irresponsible, while Daphne copes by enjoying the privileges their marriage gives her and retaliates by being unfaithful in turn and acting spontaneous in ways she knows irritate him.
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The Masochism Tango / int_4b887bd7	comment	Scar Tissue: Shinji and Asuka's relationship became self-destructive between Third Impact and the beginning of the fic. Asuka had become so paranoid, angry, and unstable that she constantly abused Shinji physically and emotionally. Shinji never tried to stop her because he thought that he deserved it after his own awful behaviour (never being there for her, leaving her alone after her Mind Rape, masturbating over her naked breasts when she was in a coma, doing nothing as she was butchered and eaten alive, trying to kill her...). At the same time, Asuka felt guilty and repulsed with herself every time she mistreated him. As a result of it, their bodies were quickly deteriorating until the beginning of the fic, when Asuka determined never to hit him again and they started to rebuild their relationship.
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The Masochism Tango / int_5293b208	comment	Kamen Rider Ex-Aid: One of the reasons why Taiga lets Nico stay is because she pushes him, punches him around and they yell at and insult each other. He is just so messed up he can only accept that sort of bad attention that she gives him. It doesn't look like that, but they really do care about each other. They have, on occasion, expressed their affection with threats of bodily harm if the other one gets hurt doing something stupid or with a screaming match because it already happened. One way or another, they are still worse off without each other.
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The Masochism Tango / int_573cc59a	comment	Jeremy and Ian from A Cruel God Reigns do this constantly. Sometimes it is really hard to tell if Jeremy actually consents to have sex with Ian, in addition to Ian sometimes striking Jeremy out of anger. And Jeremy, while eventually admits to liking Ian and realizing he loves him, is almost always cold and callous towards Ian, telling him often outright that he hates him.
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The Masochism Tango / int_5755b96a	comment	In The Order of the Stick, they rescue an old man at his wife's request. Then the couple meets again, and they wonder how much of a good deed it was.
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The Masochism Tango / int_578932f1	comment	Druid City: Hunter Hastings, with Misa Saito and Mannie Sue. Misa is too determined and independent to be tied down by the productive, but fragile, Hunter. Mannie Sue is too damaged and vulnerable to be with the wiser and far more unscrupulous Hunter.
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The Masochism Tango / int_5bfd17b7	comment	A list of all the times the various Degrassi series did this would be a Wiki in itself. Some of the more notable cases: Joey and Caitlin on Degrassi High were supposed to be Star-Crossed Lovers — even though Joey was a classic Small Name, Big Ego with self-esteem problems and Caitlin was a stern, moralistic social activist. They broke up and got together again too many times to count. The same thing happened in the fourth season of Degrassi: The Next Generation, which paired J.T. who is goofy, irresponsible, and tactless with Liberty who is humorless, workaholic, and a world-class Control Freak. They insist that they're in love, but all we see is them arguing. At one point, J.T. brags about their sex life in public, and Liberty pours cold soda down his pants. Emma, the resident idealistic goody-two-shoes on Degrassi: The Next Generation, has had several boyfriends — all of them extremely bad boys. First, she dated a Troubled, but Cute boy whom she broke up with twice. Then she dated an amateur DJ whom she felt eternally awkward around. Then she began performing oral sex on the same boy whom she had tried to get expelled one season earlier. She wound up catching gonorrhea from him. Then Emma began dating Peter, whom she first met when he was blackmailing her best friend. And when she broke up with him, she went back to the very same Troubled, but Cute boy she started with (for a while, anyway).
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The Masochism Tango / int_5cd1aa89	comment	Nineteen Eighty-Four.
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The Masochism Tango / int_6059ad6b	comment	xkcd has Black Hat Guy and his love interest. Subverts the "blatantly unsuited for each other" part though: They're both horrible people. Demonstrated here. In this case, it's the Sadism Tango.
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The Masochism Tango / int_6276800c	comment	Like Dr. Cox and Jordan, The Nostalgia Critic and The Nostalgia Chick have much more fun this way. They've chloroformed each other, both got a bit "BAD TOUCH!" when the other is unconscious, she's tried to kill him and he's locked her in his basement, but he's in love and is one of the very few people she cares about.
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The Masochism Tango / int_66df4af1	comment	The Secret Life of the American Teenager: Friends with Benefits Ricky and Adrian. They mostly either just argued and/or had sex. They never went on dates and Ricky never wanted to be seen in public with her. Their relationship consisted mostly of them cheating on each other and claiming each sexual conquest as retaliation. When her father asked her what she liked about Ricky besides looks, Adrian couldn't answer. They mostly seemed to show genuine affection through jealousy towards those they viewed as threats to their relationship. Their relationship later ended when Adrian had sex with their mutual friend, Ben.
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The Masochism Tango / int_6894dd90	comment	Kouji Nanjo and Takuto Izumi from Zetsuai1989 and Bronze. Their Masochism Tango is more like a full-length ballet, and it seems to run in Izumi's family, since his mother killed his father for cheating on him while she's in her Yandere phrase, then killed herself twelve years later.
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The Masochism Tango / int_6d7c7f1c	comment	SomethingPositive: Jason and Aubrey are proof that this trope is what happens when Vitriolic Best Buds get married.*
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The Masochism Tango / int_6d9202b9	comment	Duke and Missi, from The Vampair, whose increasingly elaborate games of cat-and-mouse alternate between seductive and destructive behavior. It's especially pronounced on Missi's end, since she can discard the cane and go home any time, but stays so she can keep getting back at The Duke. "The Showdown" is almost a literal case, as the two actually do swing dance while trying to mess with and one-up the other. The creator even did some 2021 Valentine's Day Speed Sketches of Duke and Missi to the trope-naming song!
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The Masochism Tango / int_6e1d5f36	comment	Farscape: John and Aeryn. From their very first meeting, they're beating on each other (usually Aeryn is smacking John around but not always) and it becomes a common theme in the series. Which made the following musical tribute inevitable.
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The Masochism Tango / int_6e9f0b8c	comment	May I Take Your Order: Depending on your choices, eldritch Talaiporia can really go to town on regenerative masochist boyfriend Hendrik. And getting the best ending involves dealing some serious damage in creative ways.
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The Masochism Tango / int_6f734712	comment	Smallville: Lana and Clark. All the time they were together he was more emo than Batman. They even lampshaded this in a season 8 episode, when Lana returns to the show. And literally when she has kryptonite inside her, causing him ACTUAL pain.
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The Masochism Tango / int_6f7cfb8d	comment	In the original novel The Princess Bride, Buttercup's parents were described as having this type of relationship, to the point that when her father died and her mother almost immediately followed, it was believed to be the sudden lack of opposition that killed her.
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The Masochism Tango / int_6fd83d6d	comment	Gambit and Rogue in X-Men, due to the fact that Rogue's powers make having a relationship with ANYONE impossible combined with Gambit's very much flexible idea of right and wrong often causing Rogue to go into a tirade about how she can't trust Gambit, who refuses to give up on Rogue or even cross the line by bringing up Rogue's own dark history of Moral Event Horizon-crossing when it came to Ms. Marvel, whenever Rogue uses Gambit's past against him. It's invoked on Gambit's side, as he's said his actual motivation for dating Rogue was to punish himself for his (rather small and inconsequential and blameless) role in the Morlock Massacre.
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The Masochism Tango / int_72aa44bf	comment	Mouth to Mouth: Sherry and Rose have a rare literal and filial version of this.
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The Masochism Tango / int_73d7930f	comment	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Played this for laughs in a Story Arc about Klingon romances — the Klingon concept of foreplay involves wrestling bitchslapping and broken bones, and the cowardly Ferengi Quark winds up having to participate (and insisting while getting patched up in sickbay that it was Worth It.) You can see Worf's dating advice here. Dax manages to hold her own with Worf in that episode (both come in to sickbay, supporting each other, with various bruises and fractures at the end); apparently, she was used to it enough as Curzon to manage. Cardassians have a similar custom of snapping at each other during their courtship period. A female Cardassian engineer argued the toss extensively with O'Brien, only to reveal later that she found him attractive, bluntly declaring, "I assure you that I am quite fertile." She took the news that O'Brien was already married surprisingly well, saying at the end that Keiko was a lucky woman.
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The Masochism Tango / int_73f9139d	comment	Joey and Caitlin on Degrassi High were supposed to be Star-Crossed Lovers — even though Joey was a classic Small Name, Big Ego with self-esteem problems and Caitlin was a stern, moralistic social activist. They broke up and got together again too many times to count.
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The Masochism Tango / int_74647dfd	comment	Nearly every song by Maroon Five is about this. Particular stand-outs are "One More Night" and "This Love," songs told from the point of view of men in abusive or parasitic relationships who know they're unhealthy but just can't get out of them.
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The Masochism Tango / int_75972e28	comment	Rival Schools: Natsu and her sometimes boyfriend, Shoma, bicker so often that it's a wonder to the fans and their friend, Roberto, why they don't simply cut their losses and see other people. Their shouting matches have even led to physical altercations, at times, with Roberto being stuck in the middle trying to act as the voice of reason. But he's just as likely to sigh and let 'em get it out of their system.
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The Masochism Tango / int_7680545c	comment	The Nanny: Niles and C.C Babcock. Throughout the first five seasons, they'd shoot insults back and forth out of the wind. Then, Niles realized he was in love with her, and proceeded to get rejected. 3 times. (It didn't help that the first time he said anything of this to her it was a marriage proposal. And then another. And another.) Eventually, they got married and were expecting when the show went off.
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The Masochism Tango / int_78621bac	comment	A contestant on America's Got Talent performed an act to the song of the same name in which he danced a Tango in between having her smash cinder blocks on his stomach while on a bed of nails among other things.
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The Masochism Tango / int_7910dd12	comment	The Boys in the Band, which is inspired by Woolf, features Vitriolic Best Buds Michael and Harold.
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The Masochism Tango / int_797793b1	comment	Yoh and Anna from Shaman King. Though at least Anna shows her love regularly by running at the heel to Yoh's help. Eventually subverted. They become decidedly more openly relaxed with each other during the American half of the tournament, regularly spending time together, saving each other, and even hints of affection when no one but Amidamaru was around (who of course respectfully looked away, blushing). Yoh seems less frightened of Anna, implying that she was particularly strict before to prepare him for the tournament, which is probably a huge reason for his survival. The reveal that Yoh fell in love first and earned Anna's love by accepting her as she was, and the implication that they slept together before Yoh left Japan first probably helps. Either way, as their relationship is expanded upon, we see that this isn't really the case.
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The Masochism Tango / int_79b17f0f	comment	Ant-Man and The Wasp, or Hank Pym and Janet van Dyne, were this to a tee long before the notorious issue of The Trial of Yellowjacket in which Hank slaps Janet, leading to the end of their marriage. Janet is far younger than Hank and is a Doppelgänger Replacement Love Interest who resembles his first wife, Dr. Maria Trovaya. Personality-wise, Janet is an extroverted socialite interested in fashion and invested in being a public superhero. She is often playful and flirty with her fellow male teammates and insensitive to Hank. Hank is introverted and insecure, prefers to stay in his laboratory, and rarely communicates openly with her. This in part leads to his breakdown as a "bad-boy" Yellowjacket. Janet consents to marry him in this state, knowing that he's normally too shy to do it despite both of them wanting to. While Janet believed she was helping Hank, he backbites and hurts her emotionally during their marriage until the slapping incident leads her to call it quits.
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The Masochism Tango / int_7aaf9e41	comment	Batman: The relationship between the Joker and his "girlfriend" and gun moll Harley Quinn. It's an interesting study on dependent and abusive relationships, whereby Dr. Harleen Quinzel, the Joker's psychiatrist at Arkham Asylum, finds herself falling for the psychopathic supervillain as he mentally manipulates her into taking his side. It's a variation of A Match Made in Stockholm; here, the Joker didn't kidnap Harley, and Harley imagines that she came to love the Joker of her own accord (or if she acknowledges his manipulation playing a part, he clearly did it because he was in love with her).
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The Masochism Tango / int_7b6c4921	comment	Emma, the resident idealistic goody-two-shoes on Degrassi: The Next Generation, has had several boyfriends — all of them extremely bad boys. First, she dated a Troubled, but Cute boy whom she broke up with twice. Then she dated an amateur DJ whom she felt eternally awkward around. Then she began performing oral sex on the same boy whom she had tried to get expelled one season earlier. She wound up catching gonorrhea from him. Then Emma began dating Peter, whom she first met when he was blackmailing her best friend. And when she broke up with him, she went back to the very same Troubled, but Cute boy she started with (for a while, anyway).
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The Masochism Tango / int_82439e64	comment	The Office (US) plays this for laughs with Ryan and Kelly. They are absolutely terrible for each other and share nothing in common, except for the fact that they are both narcissistic, vain, shallow, manipulative, immature, self-obsessed, and selfish drama addicts. They make each other miserable whenever they're actually in a relationship, but whenever they break up and one seems to be taking an interest in another person, the other will pull out all the stops to sabotage any other relationship and ensure that they get back together.
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The Masochism Tango / int_829dbe7f	comment	Passion Pit's video for single "Carried Away" depicts a couple that seems to be this, constantly fighting then forgiving each other.
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The Masochism Tango / int_82e13999	comment	Antichrist takes this to the logical extreme.
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The Masochism Tango / int_8577f936	comment	Wuthering Heights: Played with, in that most of the characters think Heathcliff and Cathy are a terrible match, even though most readers will agree that their trademark brand of selfishness, vindictiveness, contempt for others, and mutual obsession means they really are perfect for each other. While their relationship may well have turned out to be a Destructive Romance even if they had been together from the start, it would probably not have gotten to quite the level of vengeful spite it did when they tried to live apart.
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The Masochism Tango / int_86c3beca	comment	Parodied in the webcomic Girl Genius: the Jagermonster Andre is convinced that the construct Von Pinn loves him. His "proof"? She mauls him on a regular basis without ever quite killing him. Considering she apparently has an already horrific reputation for violence, the fact that she simply takes so long mutilating and dismembering Andre is seen as validation by everyone else on the dirigible. It's reached the point where everyone dismisses the sounds of screaming and roars with "That would be Andre". On top of that, Jagers are kind of like that to begin with. Case in point: crush at the first knockdown. You could say all the Sparks are this way, too. Gil and Tarvek are never more attracted to Agatha than when she's being crazy, beating them/other people up, and wanting to experiment on people. Agatha's the same for them.
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The Masochism Tango / int_877bc78	comment	Goldie and Scrooge in The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck. Carl Barks wrote 'em that way, Don Rosa made 'em awesome at it.
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The Masochism Tango / int_877eac68	comment	Louise and Saito from The Familiar of Zero.
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The Masochism Tango / int_87a178c3	comment	Apparent in The Comedy of Errors.
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The Masochism Tango / int_87cd6283	comment	Miserable: The song is about a man who is with a woman who is abusive and uses him, but he can't get away from her because of the way he lusts for her. The video visualizes this by portraying the singer's girlfriend as a giantess who uses her sex appeal to toy with him and his band mates via dressing in a bikini and high heels and letting them walk on provocative parts of her body. By the time any of them realize how dangerous she is for them it's too late and one-by-one she happily eats each of the singer's friends alive, before she finally grabs him, tosses him into her mouth, and swallows him. As much as the singer insisted he enjoyed or didn't mind her abuse, the way he and the guys react with utter fear right before she devours them shows that they actually didn't want to be used like this but were helpless to stop her.
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The Masochism Tango / int_891a219c	comment	In the The Land Before Time films, many fans have expressed a liking for a pairing between Littlefoot and Cera. You'd think the species difference would be enough of a put-off, but in addition, the two do argue a lot (in three films, resulting in all-out fights). However, Cera has been known to be jealous when Littlefoot makes new friends.
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The Masochism Tango / int_8954ed21	comment	In Paradise Kiss, Yukari and George get together almost immediately, but their romance is unhinged from the get-go. He is sometimes genuinely sweet and gentlemanly with her, but it's hard to notice amidst all the icy contempt and plain insults he throws at her. To make things worse, it's heavily implied his conflicted emotions towards her stem for her similarity to his mother. Naturally, it just couldn't end well for them... yet still ended up better than other examples: they break up out of their own accord and in somewhat amiable terms, George leaves the country to pursue his goals and Yukari decides to live her own life and build her own career. In the Distant Finale, she actually marries her Victorious Childhood Friend Hiro.
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The Masochism Tango / int_89fa77a	comment	Coronation Street: Steve and Karen McDonald. Despite marrying for a bet, the two quickly realized that they really did love one another after all. However, much to the amusement of fans of the show, their subsequent storylines focused on how Karen completely browbeat her husband. Eventually, the couple split after both had affairs (including one scene where Karen had sex with her lover despite knowing that Steve could hear everything), but got back together and then divorced (Karen forced Steve to do this so she could have a proper wedding). Unfortunately, their second wedding was ruined by Tracy Barlow, who had slept with Steve (when he was separated from Karen) and had his baby. Despite the fact that Karen chose to re-marry Steve many more arguments followed, but the final straw came when Karen suffered a nervous breakdown following a miscarriage and abducted Steve's daughter by Tracy. Steve decided to put an end to The Masochism Tango for good.
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The Masochism Tango / int_8d1da56f	comment	Jhené Aiko "The Worst" has her singing about falling in love with a toxic partner, which she can't bring herself to leave despite knowing he's bad for her.
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The Masochism Tango / int_8ecb86b	comment	Redeeming Love: Michael and Angel's marriage suffers through a period of this. She's a Broken Bird former prostitute who doesn't realize how Love Hungry she actually is; he's a Love Martyr with no relationship experience and a divine mandate to love his wife unconditionally. It's a very weird relationship since all Angel has enough self-confidence to do is try to seduce Michael, which he keeps refusing because he knows she won't make an emotional connection with sex. They don't even fight that much; she runs away, he goes after her, she cheats on him, he refuses to rise to the bait and fumes in silence, she goes to ridiculous lengths to try to make up for her failures. It all works out eventually since, as the title implies, it is ultimately a story about how Unconditional Love Redeems.
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The Masochism Tango / int_8ef19f57	comment	Nip/Tuck: Sean and Julia McNamera are so ungodly ill-suited for each other from the moment they appear onscreen than any other two people in the universe would have come to their senses and cut ties years ago: they tend to split up and recombine a minimum of once per season, swearing every time they do either one that this time, it's going to stick. It never does, and one wonders if even the writers can put up with their whining for much longer.
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The Masochism Tango / int_9068877a	comment	Church and Tex in Red vs. Blue are this.
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The Masochism Tango / int_90f42a9b	comment	The Wheel of Time: It's actually the societal norm for romance to be The Masochism Tango in Saldaea, much to the bafflement of Perrin when he marries Faile. As The Parody puts it: A story Thom Merrilin tells Mat: When Thom was young, he encountered a blacksmith's wife whose husband would control who she talked to and beat her up if she so much as looked at other men. Thom gallantly offers to rescue her — and is forced to hastily leave the village when she immediately runs and tells her husband! Thom later finds out that she would control the money, and beat her husband up if he as much as had a single beer at the inn. The moral of the story is to not judge before you have heard both sides.
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The Masochism Tango / int_927963ad	comment	In The Great Divorce, a husband and wife who leave the line for Heaven because they're too busy quarreling. It is clear that they will go on trashing each other forever.
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The Masochism Tango / int_9285fe6	comment	The relationship seen between Mai and Zuko has become this as of Avatar: The Last Airbender - Smoke and Shadow. Their relationship is not just unhealthy, it's toxic. The two love each other but their conflicting morals and lack of communication lead to countless fights and their constant break-ups. She spends pages describing what a horrible boyfriend Zuko is and how badly a relationship with him had hurt her. This leads to her making harsh jokes at his expense and she expresses the need for her to "move on" by dating Kei Lo.
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The Masochism Tango / int_95521c97	comment	The Spectacular Spider-Man has Sally Avril dating Randy Robertson, and even Randy seems unable to understand why he sticks around with such an obnoxious harpy.
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The Masochism Tango / int_9cc59f9c	comment	Apparently quite standard for the titular protagonist's race on Buck Godot: Zap Gun for Hire, as seen here. Of course, being Heavyworlders, they do seem to be rather durable, too — and high explosives are very romantic.
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The Masochism Tango / int_9e4f602d	comment	The Maids is entirely devoted to a couple of psycho lesbians competing in making the other one feel miserable. Oh, and they both succeed.
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The Masochism Tango / int_a309c5a5	comment	Hannah Montana: One wonders if Lilly and Oliver's (previously Platonic Life-Partners) Relationship Upgrade was, in fact, an upgrade. They seem to alternate between being Sickeningly Sweethearts and being at each other's throats.
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The Masochism Tango / int_a47c82f2	comment	Devious Maids: Evelyn and Adrian Powel often berate, insult, and scheme against one another. They despise each other deeply, but they also love each other. It is a very complicated relationship. The trope is referenced almost directly:
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The Masochism Tango / int_a6543322	comment	Touhou Project Fanon and Kaguya/Mokou shippers often display Kaguya and Mokou in The Masochism Tango since Kaguya and Mokou have been trying to constantly kill each other for years and years. It doesn't work because of their immortality. This fan comic displays this interpretation rather well. (Warning: Ads are NSFW)
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The Masochism Tango / int_a658be61	comment	The Twits is all about a couple who are this trope ad absurdum. They are also highly abusive people in general: towards the neighborhood children, and towards their pet monkeys. The pet monkeys end up orchestrating their demise.
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The Masochism Tango / int_a6b9b759	comment	Riley and Zaboo's relationship in The Guild is more of a sadomasochism tango with Riley as the top and Zaboo as the bottom. He later grows a spine and breaks up with her.
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The Masochism Tango / int_a92c264a	comment	One of the perks of the Exterminatus Now forum is watching Lothar, one of the comic writers, and his girlfriend Raye get into their regular multi-post arguments and insult exchanges.
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The Masochism Tango / int_a993be1f	comment	For the Echani in Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords, repeated duels constitute both courtship and foreplay. When asked, HK-47 says to the exile "Definition: 'Love' is making a shot to the knees of a target 120 kilometers away using an Aratech sniper rifle with a tri-light scope... Love is knowing your target, putting them in your targeting reticule, and together, achieving a singular purpose against statistically long odds."
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The Masochism Tango / int_acb92fd0	comment	Father Ted: A Running Gag was that the couple who run the local shop is always having a screaming row or in the process of attempting to kill each other until the moment the priest walks in, at which point they immediately become a pair of outwardly-cheerful Stepford Smilers. There's an element of real-world social commentary under the humour; at the time Father Ted started airing (1995), divorce was still illegal in Ireland.
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The Masochism Tango / int_b0fc9724	comment	Saturday Night Live had a pair of recurring characters circa 2005 called The Needlers: The Couple That Should Be Divorced that basically epitomized this trope: Sometimes, an Only Sane Man in the sketch will tactfully suggest they seek couples counseling. The Needlers will act like this suggestion has come out of nowhere and declare that their marriage is just fine, before going right back to bitching at each other. Worse yet, at least one skit had them mentioning that they were going to counseling and that it was helping a great deal, making you wonder just how bad things were before. This trope is driven home by the fact that every skit ended with them storming off somewhere, presumably to continue the argument in private, but in reality to have sex. After which, of course, they would go right back to screaming at each other.
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The Masochism Tango / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones: The incestuous, decades-long affair-slash-defacto-marriage between Queen Cersei and Ser Jaime Lannister. They're both prideful, volatile people, and when paired with the stress caused by secrecy, you end up with a mild version of the Masochism Tango from the beginning, which then gets dialed up. Like in the books, Jaime does slowly begin to drift apart from his sister, but—unlike in the books—he still remains committed to her for far longer, despite recognizing her flaws. Eventually, at the end of Season 7, upon seeing that Cersei has no intention of helping out in Final Battle when Gondor Calls for Aid, Jaime finally has enough and leaves Cersei to go help. During that time he tries to rebound with his friend Brienne, but that serves as the catalyst for him realizing that he wants to be with Cersei anyway. He goes back to convince her to surrender, thus saving her life. He fails to get to her in time, and they die in each other's arms.
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The Masochism Tango / int_b3aba9af	comment	There's definitely a few in Six Feet Under, but none are more obvious than Nate and Lisa. Nate clearly doesn't care for Lisa at all when they're together ("I am so proud of us for making this thing work," he says, then cringes a few seconds later when Lisa says "Oh Nate, I love you so much sometimes it terrifies me.") Lisa, on the other hand, holds ridiculously high standards for Nate and snipes away at him when he can't meet them. Both of them spend a season being ridiculously passive-aggressive towards each other, but when Lisa dies, the guilt of his awful behavior starts to devour Nate.
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The Masochism Tango / int_b4196ef8	comment	Living Single: In very stark contrast to the loving couple of Overton and Synclaire, there is Kyle and Maxine. The first season initially had them sniping at each other until a drunken one-night stand eventually awakens feelings in one another (hell, the following episode actually had them engage in an actual tango where they routinely insulted each other and Kyle literally left Max on the floor in The Stinger!) Soon, while he did develop feelings of love for her, her usual "take no prisoners/hates being vulnerable/all men are pigs" attitude sabotaged any real growth in their relationship until they bitterly broke up in season four and he moved to London. At least until a Surprise Pregnancy (using his sperm for a donor bank) eventually brought them back together, seemingly for good in happily remaining a couple and raising their resulting daughter.
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The Masochism Tango / int_b96564e6	comment	Fawlty Towers: Basil and Sybil Fawlty are a classic — if rather more complex — example of this trope switching between this and No Accounting for Taste. Casually insulting one another, both face to face and behind their backs, Sybil does seem to appreciate even these acerbic exchanges. And Basil does occasionally try to do something vaguely nice, such as remembering their wedding anniversary (but of course, gets a dangerous kick out of making her believe he has forgotten until the last moment):
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The Masochism Tango / int_bbc1f9dc	comment	Taken very literally in Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, where the squirrel couple fight over the acorn while a tango plays in the background.
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The Masochism Tango / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: The Doctor and River Song. In between constantly snarking at each other, constantly lying to each other in order to prevent paradox, and her punching/slapping him in the face a few times over, she also repeatedly tries to kill him because she was raised to be his assassin. And then, when she has to kill him because it's a fixed point in time and not doing so would rip the universe apart, she adamantly refuses because she thinks she loves him too much. Their relationship only gets more complicated from that point on.
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The Masochism Tango / int_cbe46c83	comment	The Almighty Johnsons: Ty and Eva's marriage is characterized by violent sex and sexualized violence. According to Agnetha and Olaf, this is standard for a relationship between deities.
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The Masochism Tango / int_cf6f9a97	comment	City Hunter: Kaori + 100 Ton Hammer = Poor, poor Ryo Saeba.
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The Masochism Tango / int_d2bae484	comment	The Amazing Race: Happens Once a Season And Tara & Wil from Season 2 were the series' Ur-Example, with their behavior towards each other making fans wonder how they EVER agreed to marry each other. As TWOP recapper Miss Alli commented during a rare moment of Tara laughing at one of Wil's jokes and Wil visibly beaming at his success: "This is so weird. If he likes her this much, then why is he so mean to her?" In The Amazing Race 6'' had almost every couple fighting in the second half of the season. The most notable was Jonathan & Victoria, which is worse than Tara & Wil as Jonathan comes off as abusive. In season 9 Lake & Michelle (mostly Lake) swap insults, rants, and epithets for nearly the entirety of every episode after the first. When finally eliminated from the Race, they declare their love for each other in such a way that you begin to wonder what chunk of their lives was left on the cutting room floor. In the first All-Stars season, Eric & Danielle were forced together by Executive Meddling and argue often. Said arguing intensified in the second half of the season. Unlike others, they were an overall weaker team but they were able to make it to the final leg and actually won. In Season 12, Nathan & Jennifer fought the entire race rather than mend their broken relationship, which is why they came on the show in the first place. Season 16 gave us Brent & Caite, who's fighting and yelling gotten them deemed The Scrappies of the season, upon other things.
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The Masochism Tango / int_d3120543	comment	Poison Berry in My Brain: Ichiko and Saotome try their best to make their relationship work out, and both of them are clearly attracted to one another. However, when Ichiko becomes more successful financially, Saotome is left feeling that he can never catch up to her as an equal and becomes jealous of her independence, which then ends up making Ichiko feel that she is to blame for their issues. In the end, Ichiko decides to break up with him.
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The Masochism Tango / int_d461f757	comment	Battlestar Galactica (2003) Lee Adama and Kara Thrace had their epic "I hate you, I love you, I hate you" outlaste three seasons, several space battles, two drunken sex accidents, two whirlwind marriages (to other people), one inexplicable weight gain (and more inexplicable loss), one case of A Match Made in Stockholm, one apparent death, and many fans' patience, and was only resolved when Starbuck was revealed to have been Dead for Real and up and vanished. It's been suggested recently that these two actually work well as a deconstruction of this trope and that RDM was trying to show just how dysfunctional this type of pairing would be if portrayed realistically. Saul and Ellen have been dancing theirs for a long time. Several thousands of years, in fact. Although it's hard to tell how much of it is really them and how much of it is the fact that they've had their heads seriously messed with by someone with a seriously messed up head.
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The Masochism Tango / int_d4fdfff4	comment	ER has a familial version with Abby and her bipolar mother Maggie. Abby outright describes their relationship as "the dance we do"—-her mother shows up all cheerful and enthusiastically swearing that things are going to be different than the hundred other times this has happened. Abby however, recognizes this as the beginning of a manic phase and knows that it's only a matter of time before she goes off the wall and causes chaos—she outright says this to Carter just after this has indeed happened. Her mother then disappears for months before turning up again, this time in a depressed phase, possibly to the point of being suicidal. Despite how miserable the whole thing makes Abby, it's obvious that she can't bring herself to get out of it, even telling her mother after her latest suicide attempt, "I will always show up because you have that power over me."
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The Masochism Tango / int_d8570146	comment	Enforced in Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race with the Daters/Haters: despite a very bad break up, they have to keep working together to stay in the race.
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The Masochism Tango / int_dbb68ab6	comment	In the The Chronicles of Narnia book The Horse and His Boy, Shasta aka Prince Cor and Aravis spend most of the book arguing and making up. At the end of the story, it's mentioned that they get married so they can argue and make up more efficiently. "Efficiently" should in this case be read as "by having lots of sex". Of note here: at no point does one character abuse the other physically or emotionally. However, the relationship still feels forced because they also didn't do anything resembling flirting. Also, Aravis is the only (human) woman in the story.
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The Masochism Tango / int_df290812	comment	Gossip Girl: Blair and Chuck. Blair actually explicitly says "Only a masochist could love such a narcissist." Frequently leans more towards Love Martyr with Blair, because although she's manipulated and insulted him too, Chuck's actions are generally more damaging.
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The Masochism Tango / int_e279a84b	comment	Annie Get Your Gun has Annie and Frank switching from Sickeningly Sweethearts to a Masochism Tango-style song in the space of two minutes.
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The Masochism Tango / int_e293455a	comment	Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Xander and Cordelia. Later, Xander began dating Anya, an ex-demon whose idea of a romantic evening (at first) was to brag about all the men she'd tortured and killed over the centuries, though they actually developed a nice rapport later on. In contrast, Buffy and Spike were straight Destructive Romance, not Played for Laughs at all towards the end.
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The Masochism Tango / int_e5344bd2	comment	Revolutionary Road: Frank and April Wheeler spend most of the film fighting. Yet when April dies from a botched abortion, Frank is devastated.
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The Masochism Tango / int_e5952917	comment	In Hotspring Souls! and its sequel Slice of Souls!, the Bearer of the Curse and the Emerald Herald have this kind of relationship. The Bearer of the Curse is an Extreme Doormat and Henpecked Husband, always having to endure his wife's non-stop nagging and being blamed for everything that goes wrong. At one point he's made to sleep on the floor without any blankets or pillows, and in the sequel, he almost gets hit in the face by flying pots and pans in the kitchen when the Emerald Herald is having a tantrum over a broken dishwasher.note Though to be fair, she wasn't actually trying to hit her husband. Their relationship is so bad even that their pet cat has to intervene. Towards the end of the same chapter, though, the two finally address the root of their relationship problems and the Emerald Herald admits that she doesn't hate the Bearer of the Curse— she just has a lot of emotional baggage left over and she's thankful that he still stays with her despite everything. From that point on, the two actively make an effort to fix their marriage and in the later chapters, they start to act more like a couple again.
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The Masochism Tango / int_e936047a	comment	Hey Arnold! gives us the April Fool's tango between Arnold and Helga... solely fueled BY REVENGE. She might love the guy, and he might think she's more than what she appears, but that moment is nothing but rage and spite (despite what most fans think). Of course, the whole thing is a setup for Helga to fool Arnold, but Arnold finds out about it and decides to out-wit her.
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The Masochism Tango / int_ea4f62db	comment	Family Guy: This might be part of the reason why Lois stayed with Peter for more than a few months, let alone the two decades of marriage. The time travel episode has Peter ditch her repeatedly thanks to a Reset Button, and every time she seems annoyed but unsurprised.
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The Masochism Tango / int_ee384546	comment	In Cyberpunk 2077, Alt Cunningham was for Johnny Silverhand the Veronica to Rogue's Betty, and her dynamic with Johnny when she was still alive alternated between rough and passionate sex to calling him out on his numerous flaws. Johnny, in turn, belittled her, didn't give her a clear view of their relationship (whether they were a couple or just friends with benefits) and, in an optional interaction in his flashbacks, he can even grab her by her hair and threaten her. Despite Johnny's unwillingness to admit it, the two were deeply in love to the point that his famous song "Never Fade Away" was his eulogy to her and even as a Virtual Ghost she does everything in her power to help him and V.
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The Masochism Tango / int_f0a86c12	comment	How I Met Your Mother Ted and Zoey in season 6. Ted insists that they actually have a very healthy relationship and merely "challenge" each other instead of agreeing about everything like Marshall and Lily. However, Future Ted admits that in hindsight, Lily and Marshall's relationship was much more functional and his own relationship with Zoey was a disaster. Also, Robin and Barney have some of this. During the episode "Slapsgiving 2: Revenge of the Slap," when arguing she should get Marshall's transferred slap (instead of Ted), she claims, "I've never hit Barney... in the face."note This isn't actually true, since she punched him twice in "Symphony of Illumination" (Though it's possible she was referring to something dirty.)
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The Masochism Tango / int_f361b493	comment	One of the earliest television examples, Fred and Ethel Mertz from I Love Lucy. If divorce had been as common in the first half of the 20th century as it is now, they probably would have split up twenty years before the series began. Reality Subtext: actors William Frawley and Vivian Vance openly despised each other, and flatly turned down a spin-off series starring the two of them.
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The Masochism Tango / int_f4e799ee	comment	A literal version in Burn Notice, with Michael and Fiona, as at one point they come to blows about it. They eventually resolve things and are back to a semi-dysfunctional couple, with the occasional outburst by Fiona, such as her slapping him when he was planning a trip to Cuba, "to remind [him] to be careful," just after giving him a kiss for luck.
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The Masochism Tango / int_f655ed11	comment	Frasier: A one-sided example came with Niles and Maris (starting about late S2 and finishing in S6). She manipulated him, dominated him, you could very well say that she was emotionally abusive and she put him through torment during their divorce. What's interesting is that Niles seems to go for or even cause these types (due to his submissiveness when it comes to women); His emaciated pet was Maris in dog form, Mel might have treated him better but was still dominating and even Daphne became shriller and bitchier after they got together. In the episode "The Focus Group", Niles actually intentionally attempts to instigate one of these between him and Daphne after they got into their first argument and he...enjoyed it so much. This, mind you, is before they got together, so it fails pretty miserably. Daphne's just too polite to take the bait and only argued with him in the first place because she was already at her wit's end.
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The Masochism Tango / int_f6c05e8e	comment	Friends: Ross and Rachel often fell into this trope in their worst moments, crossing over with Slap-Slap-Kiss.
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The Masochism Tango / int_f7ecf724	comment	Zagi and Karim of Jyu-Oh-Sei. They have both expressed pretty genuine feelings for each other, but you'd never guess from the way he treats her 90% of the time.
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The Masochism Tango / int_f8705c18	comment	In the Hellsing TV series, although not a couple (but Studio Gonzo did hint they have feelings for each other), Alucard and Integra act like this until she almost dies because of his bad judgment in sneaking out to fight his Worthy Opponent. Afterwards, their dynamic softens considerably. In the manga, their relationship is completely different and more of a Bodyguard Crush dynamic.
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The Masochism Tango / int_f888a677	comment	The Morrigan and Baphomet dance around this relationship in The Wicked + The Divine. While they do truly love each other, they've been dysfunctional and furious with each other for one reason or another since their introductions, and as of issue 28, they've been veering into Destructive Romance and Domestic Abuse.
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The Masochism Tango / int_f8956ef3	comment	Hiei and his boss, Mukuro from YuYu Hakusho. Here's a quote, "Perhaps that's why I feel you understood me...after all, we're both only capable of expressing ourselves through our violence." This isn't just Domestic Abuse played for laughs—he says this to her while they're in the middle of a DEATHMATCH. Against each other. His birthday present to her? Her evil, sexually abusive dad, bonded to a tree that keeps him from ever moving and repairs any of his wounds instantly, so that she can torture him at her leisure. And she's genuinely touched by this.
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The Masochism Tango / int_fae7fdee	comment	Life with Derek: Sam and Casey suffered through an extremely fragile on-again, off-again relationship for several episodes before finally calling it quits for real.
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The Masochism Tango / int_fdc8bf28	comment	Blanche and Harry Morton in The Burns and Allen Show: constantly fighting, yelling, and insulting each other. They only team up when something happens that they both want to condemn more than each other, usually involving a mistaken impression that George has done something terrible. Starting in 1949, they are probably the Sitcom Ur-Example.
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Jonathan Creek / int_ad1ab367	type	The Masochism Tango
Just Shoot Me! / int_ad1ab367	type	The Masochism Tango
La que se avecina / int_ad1ab367	type	The Masochism Tango
Life with Derek / int_ad1ab367	type	The Masochism Tango
Living Single / int_ad1ab367	type	The Masochism Tango
Nip/Tuck / int_ad1ab367	type	The Masochism Tango
Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story / int_ad1ab367	type	The Masochism Tango
Santa Barbara / int_ad1ab367	type	The Masochism Tango
Saved by the Bell / int_ad1ab367	type	The Masochism Tango
Sparkhouse / int_ad1ab367	type	The Masochism Tango
Strange Empire / int_ad1ab367	type	The Masochism Tango
Succession / int_ad1ab367	type	The Masochism Tango
That '70s Show / int_ad1ab367	type	The Masochism Tango
The Bold and the Beautiful / int_ad1ab367	type	The Masochism Tango
The Orville / int_ad1ab367	type	The Masochism Tango
The Secret Life of the American Teenager / int_ad1ab367	type	The Masochism Tango
The Suite Life of Zack & Cody / int_ad1ab367	type	The Masochism Tango
The White Lotus / int_ad1ab367	type	The Masochism Tango
Two and a Half Men / int_ad1ab367	type	The Masochism Tango
White House Farm / int_ad1ab367	type	The Masochism Tango
& Juliet (Theatre) / int_ad1ab367	type	The Masochism Tango
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Theatre) / int_ad1ab367	type	The Masochism Tango
RENT (Theatre) / int_ad1ab367	type	The Masochism Tango
The Boys in the Band (Theatre) / int_ad1ab367	type	The Masochism Tango
The Comedy of Errors (Theatre) / int_ad1ab367	type	The Masochism Tango
The Taming of the Shrew (Theatre) / int_ad1ab367	type	The Masochism Tango
Thrill Me (Theatre) / int_ad1ab367	type	The Masochism Tango
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Theatre) / int_ad1ab367	type	The Masochism Tango
Aveyond (Video Game) / int_ad1ab367	type	The Masochism Tango
Baroque (Video Game) / int_ad1ab367	type	The Masochism Tango
Blood Drive (Video Game) / int_ad1ab367	type	The Masochism Tango
Façade (Video Game) / int_ad1ab367	type	The Masochism Tango
FaÃ§ade (2005) (Video Game) / int_ad1ab367	type	The Masochism Tango
Rival Schools (Video Game) / int_ad1ab367	type	The Masochism Tango
Spiritfarer (Video Game) / int_ad1ab367	type	The Masochism Tango
The Trader of Stories (Video Game) / int_ad1ab367	type	The Masochism Tango
May I Take Your Order (Visual Novel) / int_ad1ab367	type	The Masochism Tango
Muv-Luv Extra (Visual Novel) / int_ad1ab367	type	The Masochism Tango
The Vampair (Web Animation) / int_ad1ab367	type	The Masochism Tango
Starfighter (Webcomic) / int_ad1ab367	type	The Masochism Tango
Centurii Chan (Webcomic) / int_ad1ab367	type	The Masochism Tango
Dork Tower (Webcomic) / int_ad1ab367	type	The Masochism Tango
xkcd (Webcomic) / int_ad1ab367	type	The Masochism Tango
The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius / int_ad1ab367	type	The Masochism Tango
The Spectacular Spider-Man / int_ad1ab367	type	The Masochism Tango
Ugly Americans / int_ad1ab367	type	The Masochism Tango
X-Men: The Animated Series / int_ad1ab367	type	The Masochism Tango
Nigel McGuinness (Wrestling) / int_ad1ab367	type	The Masochism Tango
Ashita no Nadja / int_ad1ab367	type	The Masochism Tango
Advice and Trust (Fanfic) / int_ad1ab367	type	The Masochism Tango
Fangs And Fins / Fan Fic / int_ad1ab367	type	The Masochism Tango
A Cruel God Reigns (Manga) / int_ad1ab367	type	The Masochism Tango

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