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10 Of Our Favorite Incestuous Relationships

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


Luke and Leia

Luke and Leia

This was the first one you thought of, right? Incest: it made Han Solo not look like so much of a dick.

After all, it’s not stealing the hero’s girl if the girl turns out to be his sister, right? I mean, come on, he’s totally not going to tap that anymore. (Yes, I know Han was willing to let Luke and Leia have each other if they wanted to before he found out they were twins. I’m talking about Han the character who was made by writers, not Han the person who makes his own decisions.)

But we all know the canonical story of Luke and Leia, the one that gets as far a a bout of tonsil-hockey motivated more by trying to make the other guy jealous rather than deep romantic affection. Let’s talk about the story that was almost canon.

Published in 1978, Splinter of the Mind’s Eye is a Star Wars Expanded Universe novel set between the release of A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back, intended to pave the way for a low budget made-for-TV sequel, should A New Hope prove less than successful. Which is to say, it was written in that nebulous period where George Lucas wasn’t sure if he was ever going to get to make another Star Wars movie, let alone two. And so he hadn’t really figured out if he wanted Luke and Leia to be a romantic pair or a genetic pair.

The novel is questionably canonical, partly because it features Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader meeting each other face to face for the first time… before they would meet each other for the first time in Empire Strikes. However, it’s mostly considered non-canon because Lucas had apparently not outlined his indecision about the twins to author Alan Dean Foster. The novel features a prominent romantic tension between the two, including Luke openly admiring Leia’s curves, and this nugget (both found on TVTropes)

The Princess grew aware of how tightly she was clinging to him. Their proximity engendered a wash of confused emotion. It would be proper to disengage, to move away a little. Proper, but not nearly so satisfying.

Aaand, we need to take a quick squick break already.


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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

    tinyurl.com/2df4ccp

  • 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

    tinyurl.com/2df4ccp

  • 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.

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