40 Fictional Relationships That Are Hashtag Relationship Goals for Sociopaths

Looking back, we have no idea how most of these couples got together at all
40 Fictional Relationships That Are Hashtag Relationship Goals for Sociopaths

Movies and TV shows have this uncanny way of making us think that their fictional romances are just so magical. Unluckily for them, time has a way of providing a different lens. Take the movie Big. Josh and Susan’s relationship seems lovely on the surface, until you realize that a woman in her 30s is basically in a romantic relationship with a 12 year-old. 

Sorry to burst that and the rest of these lovely bubbles.

Twilight

In Twilight, Bella is 17. Edward is 108. HOW MANY BELLAS HAVE THERE BEEN? Really, why is this man still going to high school? What could he possibly be getting out of the experience? How many high schools has Edward attended? How many young girls have mooned over him? A man doesn't go to high school for 90 years without dating. CRACKED.COM Twilight, 2008

While You Were Sleeping

Lucy from While You Were Sleeping pretends to be engaged to Peter, a man she hasn't met. THEN BECOMES ENTANGLED WITH HIS BROTHER. Lucy deceives Peter's family to see him while he's in a coma. When Peter wakes up, he assumes he's got amnesia and proposes to her again. And she accepts, despite now being in love with his brother Jack. CRACKED.COM While You Were Sleeping, 1995

Pretty Woman

Edward and Vivian are a couple at the end of Pretty Woman. THEY'RE TOGETHER FOR THE MONEY. At that point he has already paid her for sex, and the only thing they have in common is their shared taste for expensive things. Buying yourself a woman isn't exactly a solid basis for a relationship. CRACKED.COM Pretty Woman, 1990

Ocean’s 11

In Ocean's Eleven, Tess leaves Danny because she can't overlook his being a criminal. UNTIL НЕ ROBS HER BOYFRIEND. No matter how charming you are, robbing a casino is still pretty much illegal, even if the owner is dating your ex. But somehow Tess has no qualms about going back to Danny after the heist. CRACKED.COM Ocean's Eleven, 2001

The Graduate

In the comedy classic The Graduate Dustin Hoffman moves to a woman's town and follows her around until she's furious. It's supposed to be cute because stalking laws didn't exist in 1967. CRACKED.COM

Manhattan

MANHATTAN M V al won the BAFTA Award for best film in 1980. SH MEKUAL - - - In retrospect, it's unseemly to praise Woody Allen for making a film about his romance with a teenage girl. CRACKED.COM

American Beauty

... TELL US NOW. AMERICAN BEAUTY The award-winning movie stars Kevin Spacey pining after an underage person. Nina J. says it definitely doesn't hold up because it feels like, especially when you watched it as an underage girl, that those creepy guys are cool and if they assault you, you're going to be guilty. CRACKED.COM

Sixteen Candles

CRACKED JAKE RYAN OFFERS HIS PASSED OUT GIRLFRIEND UP AS A PLAY THING. SIXTEEN CANDLES He's played up as the perfect high school good guy, but why, because he likes the nerdy girl? His infatuation becomes outright stalking, and he hands his drunk, passed out girlfriend to the perverted Anthony Michael Hall saying, Do whatever you want.

Superbad

SETH'S CRACKED ENTIRE PLOT IS DATE RAPE. SUPERBAD His master plan is to get Emma Stone's character drunk enough to sleep with him. When he discovers she doesn't drink, he whines, gets grabby, and vomits on her. Worse, he seems to be practicing for a string of similar assaults in college.

That ‘70s Show

That Jackie looks down on Fez for being a foreigner %70s through all of That Show '70s Show. But then at the end of Season 8, she wants to be his girlfriend. It's awkward enough that she was already in relationships with two guys in their group (Kelso and Hyde). It also took her eight seasons to realize Fez is the one for her? CRACKED COM

Wedding Crashers

John is lying to Claire and Claire has a serious boyfriend... but those are pretty typical hurdles to overcome in a rom-com. WEDDING GRACKED.COM CRASHERS However the lie is that they're RELATED, yet Claire starts kissing John without first consulting a family tree, which is insane.

Star Wars

STAR THE RISE OF SKYWALKER WARS KYLO REN AND REY It's ok to play with the trope of good girls liking bad boys but most would draw the line at space mega Hitler. CRACKED.COM

Dragonball Z

GRACKED.COM DRAGONBALL I still don't understand how Goku and Chi-Chi are married. She constantly yells at Goku because he likes to train and fight. She is even worse with him when their son Gohan is with Goku training or fighting.

Warm Bodies

In Warm Bodies, R wins over Julie by shielding her from a fall. A few days earlier, R was a zombie and he ate Julie's boyfriend. Somehow that doesn't bother her anymore. CRACKED.COM

Notting Hill

Notting Hill Will and Anna's relationship is anything but romantic. Anna is a movie star who dates Will while she is in a relationship with someone else, and when their scandal is publicized, she blames Will for it. Despite admitting that his obsession for her is unhealthy, Will apologizes to Anna to win her over once more. CRACKED COM

Clueless

In Clueless, Cher realizes she's in love with her ex-stepbrother, Josh. Even though they're not related by blood, it would still be weird. They were living under the same roof as family for a while. If anybody asks them how they met, the answer will definitely raise eyebrows, no matter how they explain it. Also, their parents could go from being exes to in-laws. CRACKED COM

Seinfeld

In Seinfeld, George Costanza proposed to Susan Ross, and she said yes. Why would a rich and ambitious lady marry a neurotic idiot with anger issues? CRACKED.COM

Ace Ventura

The romance between Ace Ventura and Melissa is basically like an adult dating a 6-year-old. Ace Ventura: Pet Detective Melissa is a smart businesswoman, while Ventura is a childish, some would say clinically insane, Pet Detective who on occasion uses his butt cheeks to talk. Those two dating is simply MIND-BOGGLING. CRACKED.COM

Glee

glee Dave Karofsky & Blaine Anderson Dave used to bully Blaine's partner, Kurt, because he's gay. After Dave comes out of the closet himself, he ends up dating Blaine, who is at that point still in love with Kurt. Why would Blaine think it's a good idea to date someone who used to bully the love of his life? CRACKED COM

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40 Fictional Relationships That Are Hashtag Relationship Goals for Sociopaths

Never Been Kissed

In Never Been Kissed, Josie writes a column that BLOWS HeR cover AS A REPORTER posing as a student, so she can have a romantic relationship with the teacher who is into her. At the same moment, she outs him as a pedophile, because he didn't know she was an adult until then. CRACKED.COM Never Been Kissed. 1999

Overboard

In Overboard, Joanna literally FALLS in Love with Dean, after she falls into the water. Joanna is a mean heiress who falls off her yacht and gets amnesia, and disgruntled contractor Dean decides to kidnap her, take her home, and tell her she's his wife. CRACKED.COM Overboard. 1987.

Picture Perfect

HOLINESS At the end of Picture Perfect, KATE wins NICK BACK WITH A BIG ROMANTIC GESTURE. She makes her big play while he's trying to film another couple's wedding. So the bride and groom get to stand by and watch while she turns their day into her thing. CRACKED.COM Picture Perfect 1997.

Say Anything

In Say Anything, Lloyd and Diane are meAnT TO ве TOGeTHeR. Lloyd proves this by aggressively stalking a girl who has repeatedly told him no. CRACKED.COM Say Anything. 1989

Tron: Legacy

Sam winds up romantically involved with A COMPUTER PROGRAM in Tron: Legacy. In fact, Quorra is a program created by Sam's father, making her effectively Sam's sister. CRACKED.COM Tron: Legacy. 2010

Titanic

At the end of Titanic, Jack and Rose are reunited in THE AFTERLIFE. It's all incredibly romantic, unless you're the man she married. And it may be a little awkward for her kids and grandkids, when they eventually show up. CRACKED.COM Titanic 1997

Ghost

At the end of Ghost, Sam and Molly finally get one LAST mAKe- OUT session. Because Sam has possessed the body of Oda Mae, the female medium Molly just met. CRACKED.COM Ghost 1990

Can’t Hardly Wait

In Can't Hardly Wait, Preston gives Amanda a LOVE LETTER that he's been carrying around with him for four years. They have never spoken. Amanda literally has no idea who Preston is. CRACKED.COM Can't Hardly Wait. 1998

Big

In the movie Big, Josh and Susan have a SWEET Romance. Even though Susan is in her 30s, and Josh is a 12-year-old kid who has magically turned into a grownup. It's actually Josh's childlike nature that Susan is attracted to. CRACKED.COM Big. 1988

Groundhog Day

According to the original script for Groundbog Day, Phil spends 10,000 YEARS CAUGHT in A Time LOOP. Which means Rita ends up with a man older than human civilization who spent most of his life trying to get her to sleep with him. CRACKED.COM Groundhog Day 1993

Harry Potter

Everything Severus Snape did was motivated by his LOVE FOR LILY. Right down to his patronus, a doe. But Lily and Snape were never anything more than friends, and Lily was happily married to another man. The entire relationship was in Snape's mind. CRACKED.COM Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2010, 2011.

The Terminator

In The Terminator, Kyle Reese travels back in time to protect Sarah Connor. And to score with her. HER UNBORN SON SETS THEM UP. Reese informs Sarah that her son John manipulated him into being obsessed with her. That apparently gets her motor revving. And she really likes her future son's taste in dudes. It's an ouroboros of weirdness. CRACKED.COM The Terminator, 1984

The Notebook

In The Notebook, Noah has known Allie for five minutes when he makes a decision: НЕ VOWS TO STALK HER FOREVER. His efforts to WOO her include suicide attempts and creepy letters that keep coming until she gives in. Then she leaves him for someone else, until Noah builds a house for them to be dysfunctional together in. CRACKED.COM The Notebook, 2004

Spider-Man 2

At the end of Spider-Man 2, Mary Jane runs in slow motion to Peter Parker's doorway. SHE LEAVES HER FIANCE FOR HIM. CJ There is no indication that the dude's ever done anything wrong. But she still abandons him to immediately find the apartment of the guy who had told her that they couldn't be together. CRACKED.COM Spider-Man 2, 2004

Starman

In Starman, an alien crash-lands on Earth and romances a woman named Jenny Hayden. HE'S USING THE BODY OF HER DEAD HUSBAND. Jenny initially resists him, but finally she gives in to his charms. Starman has to return to his home planet at the end of the movie, but he leaves Jenny with a little present: She's now pregnant with his space child. CRACKED.COM Starman, 1984

Iron Man

Tony Stark and Pepper Potts have had a romantic relationship for nearly a decade. SHE HAS ALWAYS BEEN HIS EMPLOYEE. At first she's his personal assistant, making a relationship inappropriate. Later he makes her CEO of Stark Industries. Preventing that sort of quid pro quo is exactly why we have workplace sexual harassment policies. CRACKED.COM Marvel Cinematic Universe

Dances With Wolves

In Dances With Wolves, John Dunbar and Stands With A Fist meet as captives of the Sioux and end up together. THEY MARRY OUT OF STOCKHOLM SYNDROME. Like abused dogs under new owners, the two fall in love with the tribe, then each other, a wolf, everything. Psychologists tell us that a love predicated on a disorder is doomed to fail. CRACKED.COM Dances With Wolves, 1990

Failure to Launch

In Failure to Launch, Paula gets a chance to confess her love for Tripp. BY HAVING HIM KIDNAPPED. Tripp's friends and family happily go along with the plan to tie him up and gag him so Paula can pour out her heart to him. Because kidnapping is fine and adorable, as long as you do it out of genuine love. CRACKED.COM Failure to Launch, 2006

Star Trek

As a human, Uhura acts based on emotion, while Spock is your typical emotionally unavailable Vulcan. IT'S GOING TO BE A DISENGAGED RELATIONSHIP. If they ever have a child, it can look forward to a distant father and a frustrated mother. The only silver lining is that the kid will never be bullied on Vulcan, since the planet no longer exists. CRACKED.COM Star Trek, 2009

Captain America

In Captain America: Civil War, Steve Rogers finally kisses his neighbor, Sharon. SHE'S HIS DEAD GIRLFRIEND'S GRANDNIECE. His previous girlfriend from the '40s, Peggy, had died mere days before this kiss. And Steve actually only makes a move after learning that Sharon was Peggy's grandniece-and that she was spying on him for SHIELD. CRACKED.COM Captain America: Civil War, 2016

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