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The couple that slays together, stays together.

Odo, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , "Shadows and Symbols" "Well, I was hoping that our relationship would be a long and happy one, but I suppose I'm willing to settle for short and exciting."

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This is the kind of couple where bullets figure prominently in the story of their romance. Where "war buddy" and "significant other" are synonyms. If you harm either one of them, the survivor will kill you as surely as the sun rises. Their mere presence increases the chance of a Back-to-Back Badasses scene to nearly 100%. They may also bicker or flirt in the middle of a fight, much to the confusion or consternation of their opponents. They tend to be extremely resistant to breakup since their bond was forged in combat, so if they're married, they're Happily Married. In fantasy settings, they'll probably manifest as Sword and Sorcerer. If they have gone all the way, expect them to engage in a lot of Glad-to-Be-Alive Sex. It's also possible they may get it on before the fighting. Add a kid or two for a Badass Family with a Mama Bear and a Papa Wolf.

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In Real Life, it's also the same as above — and often, they're officers. There are laws in some areas against this sort of thing if one outranks the other to prevent the superior from forcing the under-ranked into it.

See Adventure Duo, Bash Brothers, Sibling Team, and Fire-Forged Friends for other, not necessarily romantic forms of this trope. If they're criminals, they're an Outlaw Couple. If they are royalty who do this as one of their jobs, they are also a Ruling Couple. If they're villains, they live in Unholy Matrimony. Absolutely no relation whatsoever to this classic board game.

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In general, a lot of games have options to create love interests or to romance NP Cs, and unless you're planning on having the love interest stay home, they have to be combat-capable. Dungeons & Dragons in particular has the Ceremony spell, where two married humanoids get a +2 bonus to AC and saving throws as long as they're within 30 feet of each other during the first 24 hours of their marriage.

Ah, the sweet romance and Unholy Matrimony that is Vlad and Isabella von Carstein in Warhammer Vlad is one of the deadliest melee characters and a decent Wizard to boot, being a Vampire Lord. Isabella's no slouch as a Vampire Hero, though her role is to be a Combat Medic. They get a significant buff if they share a unit. Either goes into a frenzy if the other is killed. In universe, when Vlad was killed, Isabella threw herself to her death, and in the End Times, a resurrected Vlad's love for Isabella let Vlad be coerced by the big players that ended up causing the Class X destruction of the setting

Weapons Of The Gods, the wuxia RPG based on the comic of the same name, has several sections on this trope as exemplified in Shen Zhou, both on setting lore and mechanical impacts of the relationship. The example couple given for the section "Husband and Wife" is Sun and Yin, who keep arguing about Sun's oath of compassion and Yin's reluctance to honor that oath as Sun's wife while surrounded by and fighting an enemy army all by themselves.

Exalted has this as part of the mechanics; specifically, all Solars and Lunars are matched up in three hundred pairs called Bonds. The Bond is not necessarily romantic, it can just as easily be platonic; in fact, most examples of it are. Nonetheless, the possibility is there - for one, the Exalted setting has very little prejudice against homosexual pairings, and for the other, Lunars are consummate shapeshifters.

Couples in Magic: The Gathering occasionally share a creature card, with one example being Pia and Kiran Nalaar . They may not have shared their daughter's pyromancy, but they were still pretty good at making things go boom pre- Death by Origin Story.

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