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Who is Your Favorite Fictional Couple?

February 14, 2012 by Nathan Bransford

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Romeo and Juliet. Tristan and Isolde. Coach and Mrs. Taylor.

So many incredible couples in literature and myth and plays and movies. Couples that inspire us, madden us, make us laugh, cry, and best of all, make us insanely jealous.

Who’s your favorite fictional couple?

Art: The Love Letter by August Toulmouche

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  1. D.G. Hudson says

    February 15, 2012 at 2:36 am

    Thanks Nathan, how could I forget Ingrid Bergman (??) I must have been thinking Key Largo with Bogie and Bacall.

    I appreciate the correction, sheesh.

    Glad I checked back in. . .

  2. Holly says

    February 15, 2012 at 3:08 am

    I would vote for Elizabeth and Darcy for sure. More recent I like Marco and Celia from The Night Circus.

  3. Terin Tashi Miller says

    February 15, 2012 at 3:15 am

    The couple–the English captain (Marlow?) and Dona Rita of Spain–in Joseph Conrad's "Arrow of Gold."
    Hands down and without question.
    Unrequited, but true, honest, generous, giving (rather than taking) love.

  4. Carla Marvin says

    February 15, 2012 at 3:49 am

    It's already been said, but I vote for Richard Rahl and Kahlan Amnell from Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series! They are a couple that has been through more than any can even imagine, losing and finding each other over and over and over…if you haven't read this series, I definitely recommend it!

  5. Joseph Ramirez says

    February 15, 2012 at 4:04 am

    Lady and the Tramp.

    🙂 😛

    J/k. I liked Tonks and Lupin.

  6. Anonymous says

    February 15, 2012 at 4:43 am

    The couple from Brokeback Mountain.

  7. Susie says

    February 15, 2012 at 4:45 am

    Excellent question! Many MANY favorites in here! for me, Polly and Tom from Alcott's An Old-Fashioned Girl (since all my Austen, Collins, Rowling etc favorites were all listed). And I think Laura and Almonzo too 🙂

  8. Anonymous says

    February 15, 2012 at 5:22 am

    Another vote for Nick and Nora Charles, with or without Asta. Now there was individual personalities with a common chemistry!

  9. marion says

    February 15, 2012 at 5:59 am

    Elizabeth & Darcy. They wouldn't settle for anything but the best. (Maybe why Jane Austen never married?!)

    But someone mentioned Rose & Mr. Allnut. Now, there's a powerful pair!

  10. Angeliss says

    February 15, 2012 at 8:03 am

    Oh goodness… I love Nick and Nora. (movies, since I have yet to read the novels- they're on my list!)

    But I also love Sophie and Howl, Hadassah and Marcus, and Tommy and Tuppence Berensford.

    My all-time favorite, however, would be Carl and Ellie Frederickson.

  11. Maria S McDonald says

    February 15, 2012 at 12:07 pm

    A few of my favourites:

    Claire & James Fraser from Outlander.
    Henry & Clare De Tamble from The Time Traveler's Wife.
    Tatiana & Alexander Barrington from 'The Bronze Horseman' series.

  12. CindyLou Foster says

    February 15, 2012 at 2:02 pm

    Laura & Almanzo

    And more recently: Isabelle & Cole St. Claire from the Shiver series. Love them.

  13. CindyLou Foster says

    February 15, 2012 at 2:04 pm

    How could I forget Harry Dresden & Susan!?

  14. But I digress... says

    February 15, 2012 at 2:47 pm

    Annie Reed and Sam Baldwin. I never saw a movie where the starring couple do not become a couple until the very end. Great story!

  15. Tammy says

    February 15, 2012 at 5:22 pm

    Heathcliff and Cathy.

    "Do not leave me in this abyss where I cannot find you."

  16. Daniel McNeet says

    February 15, 2012 at 5:48 pm

    Nick and Nora Charles from the Thin Man detective series.

  17. Deniz Bevan says

    February 15, 2012 at 6:26 pm

    Jamie and Claire Fraser, from Outlander, hands down.
    Also maybe Tommy and Tuppence from the Agatha Christie series. And Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane…

  18. Nicole says

    February 15, 2012 at 6:47 pm

    Ash and Anjuli from The Far Pavilions.

    John and Aeryn from Farscape.

    Plus SO many others and a lot of the ones already named. 🙂

  19. Natalie Essary says

    February 15, 2012 at 7:42 pm

    Heathcliff and Catherine. I know…not the happiest of tales, but I love them. Goth at heart. I can't help it.

  20. StaceyW says

    February 16, 2012 at 12:59 am

    I'm going to agree with the commenter who said Anne Shirley and Gilbert Blythe. They're the couple who introduced me to great love and great literature.

  21. Rin says

    February 16, 2012 at 1:13 am

    Wheel of Time: Nynaeve and Lan Mandragoran

    the Elenium and Tamuli series: Sparhawk and Ehlana

    and of course, the classics: Mr. Darcy and Liz Bennett, Jane Eyre and Edward Rochester

    Would it be weird if I also said Sherlock Holmes and Watson? /g

  22. Anonymous says

    February 16, 2012 at 4:41 pm

    Lionblaze and Heathertail from Warrior Cats

  23. Anonymous says

    February 16, 2012 at 8:44 pm

    Shout out to the two people who said Siman + Kaylee and Amy + Rory. YES. I would add Mal + Inara, or even Mal + myself since technically we're a fictional couple as well.

    Then…Emma + Mr. Knightley
    Snape + Lily
    Jeeves + Wooster (no? …sheesh)

  24. Vicki Orians says

    February 17, 2012 at 12:29 am

    I might be cliche in saying this, but Romeo and Juliet. That tragic love story has been an inspiration for me.

  25. wendy says

    February 17, 2012 at 11:37 am

    I'd like to echo Luciferadi's preference of Sophie and Howl from Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones. I loved everything about this story but especially the characters.

  26. Anonymous says

    February 19, 2012 at 10:18 pm

    Phoebe and Mike from Friends. <3

  27. A Nerd and A Free Spirit says

    February 19, 2012 at 11:05 pm

    Corey and Topanga? DJ and Steve?

    Anne Shirley and Gilbert Blythe.

    ~Kathryn

  28. Anonymous says

    February 22, 2012 at 11:28 am

    Florentino Arizo and Fermina Daza – no doubt about it.

  29. Gina says

    February 22, 2012 at 10:05 pm

    Arthur Clennam and Amy Dorrit in Dickens's "Little Dorrit."

  30. Durvin says

    February 23, 2012 at 2:39 am

    Vladimir and Estragon, depending on your interpretation. Beckett formally declared that he wasn't sure himself.

  31. LR says

    February 27, 2012 at 3:16 am

    Hmmm tough question…
    A few come to mind:
    Poppee & Olive
    George Burns & Gracie Allen
    Wesley & Buttercup
    Harry & Sally
    Wallie & Eve
    Thomas & Veda

  32. MaireStar says

    March 3, 2012 at 6:27 am

    Hazel Grace Lancaster and Agustus Waters of course.

  33. Anonymous says

    July 8, 2012 at 3:36 pm

    Morticia and Gomez Addams from "The Addams Family." Anyone who says they aren't a good couple haven't watched it.

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