Bennifer

Bennifer

A supercouple or super couple (also known as a power couple) is a popular or wealthy pairing that intrigues and fascinates the public in an intense or even obsessive fashion. The term originated in the United States, and was coined in the early 1980s when intense public interest in fictional soap opera couple Luke Spencer and Laura Webber from General Hospital made the pair a popular culture phenomenon. Outside of the soap opera medium, the supercouple title has proliferated as a way of referring to certain fictional couples from primetime television dramas and film, such as Gone with the Wind, whose Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara characters popularized the catchphrase "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn." The supercouple created by the ill-fated ex-lovers Rick and Ilsa in Casablanca has been called one of cinema's most beloved couples, and is regarded by the American Film Institute as the film industry's "top" romance.

With regard to real-life pairings, tabloids and the mainstream media have focused on wealthy or popular celebrity couples, and have titled them supercouples. Examples are the former pairing of Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez (which became known by the portmanteau "Bennifer"), the relationship of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie ("Brangelina"), and Japanese former pairing Jinnai Tomonori and Norika Fujiwara.

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