Power Grid

10 Of Our Favorite Incestuous Relationships

by The Mary Sue Staff | 12:31 pm, August 16th, 2011

Allow Us To Explain

So we decided to do a grid about incest, because who doesn’t love incest?

…Okay, everybody. Everybody doesn’t love incest.

But first, let’s take a time out for a helpful vocabulary lesson:

Now that we have sufficiently educated everybody who didn’t gleefully, purposefully seek out and devour bad fanfiction when they were teenagers, we can get back to our point.

Despite incest being one of the most universal* cultural taboos in world history (right up there with cannibalism!), we sure like incest in our fiction. In folklore, where the Greek and Egyptian pantheons are founded on incestuous couples, and incestuously romantic or born heroes abound, not to mention all the examples (or near examples) from the Bible. And we like to put it in our popular culture as well! Sometimes we’re subtle or wishy washy about it, sometimes it’s a great big squickfest, but these are our favorites because we find them fascinating.

We’d like to thank our runners up, Revolutionary Girl Utena (disqualified not because it doesn’t totally have incest in it like ALL the time, but because we put RGU on almost every power grid), Veronica Mars (because wow, that was complicated), Back to the Future, and Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch.

*I said “most universal,” so as to imply that it’s not entirely universal. As with all taboos (including, again, cannibalism) there are exceptions.

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Francesca M

“I did the Nasty in the Pasty.” – Fry

Still one of my favorite running bits from the series. The reaction when he realizes that she’s actually his grandmother is freaking brilliant.
Erin Norris

What, no Arrested Development love?
Anonymous

I think this is my new favorite grid ever. For reals.

Not canon, but you gotta love the Magus/Schala “implied action” in Chrono Trigger.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1208921 Nikki Lincoln

Not including Veronica Mars on here means I will probably have to get rent the whole series from Netflix. Again.
http://twitter.com/SylviaSybil Sylvia

“got the fifteen-year-old president of his fan club pregnant (the sex was consensual)”

No. No, it wasn’t. By definition it wasn’t consensual, because the whole point of statutory rape is that the child isn’t old enough to give consent yet.
Anonymous

You are correct. Doc definitely emotionally manipulated her into having sex with him.

By saying that it was “consensual” I meant imply that Doc did not force her to have sex with him with physical or violent means, which is of course not the actual meaning of the term. I should have been more clear, and I’m going to go edit the entry. My apologies.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Ana-Laura-Lopes/100000871735679 Ana Laura Lopes

No Angel Sanctuary? :(
http://natface.tumblr.com natface

Ha, I just said the same thing to Susana!
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_OD35QQZNBPZJXWTCBY7N4EE7VY Sarah

You might want to take a second look at the “King Arthur and Mongrause [sic]” entry. There are a whole bunch of typos in there.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_KE6TZWN7TLX7TF5AH7TFKDKETY Femanon

No Lestat and Gabrielle? Although I prefer Lestat with his little kitten Louis better, his love with Gabrielle is part of my wincest list.
Anonymous

What about the kids from “Flowers in the Attic”?
http://www.facebook.com/people/Teresa-Rebecca-Cunningham/100000219160779 Teresa Rebecca Cunningham

The Hannah Montana pic isn’t Jackson/Hannah, it’s Jackson/Lily (Hannah’s best friend).
http://twitter.com/steviferg st3v1 f3rg

Connor & Cordelia in Angel. Not technically incest, but close enough = all kinds of squicky.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_7G4SWUX2MCWWXLMYNN347JMIZY Frodo Baggins

You… have… a “wincest” list?

*cringes*
Anonymous

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http://davedorm.com Dave Lowe

Let’s not Magenta and Riff Raff, the two aliens from planet Transexual Transylvania in the Rocky Horror Picture Show. Science fiction double feature, indeed!
http://twitter.com/SylviaSybil Sylvia

Thank you, I appreciate the correction.
Randy Bounder

I thought I was the only person who ever read “Splinter of the Mind’s Eye.”

And I think that Futurama episode is one of the funniest ever. ”Ohh, a lesson in not changing history from Mr. ‘I’m My Own Grandfather!’”
Anonymous

How about Hikaru and Kaoru From Ouran High School Host Club? Come on twincest for the win?
http://twitter.com/noizangel Nicole Winchester

RGU SHOULD be on every power grid. Nanami forever.

(She didn’t want to sleep with her brother, just be him. That’s my story, anyway.)
Anonymous

Didn’t Lazarus Long sleep with his own mom toward the end of “Time Enough For Love”? I think that should have made the list.
Anonymous

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http://pulse.yahoo.com/_Z4CJFSWSF6NJQ2QO56FEBHKHJM K

Does Venture Bros. count? Doesn’t incest require the two to be related by blood to each other? Unless Hank’s half-brother’s mom was also *Hank’s* mom, I don’t see how it’s incest.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Kristin-Frederickson/852880113 Kristin Frederickson

“Jackson eventually gives up trying to be his sister’s girlfriend,”

Double oops
http://www.facebook.com/people/Ernesto-Jose-Narvaez-Osorio/100000325861618 Ernesto Jose Narvaez Osorio

I hate you…..
Anonymous

Heck, what about the entire V.C. Andrews* canon?

*The actual V.C. Andrews, not the “completist” who wrote everything after her car wreck.
Karen C

I believe V.C. Andrews died of cancer, not in an accident.
Kim H

I can’t be the only one who wanted to see Wincest on here, right? Right? You guys? Oh, I feel gross.