Literature, Toys, Comic Book, and Other
Romantic and tragic themes found in modern supercouple stories have often been borrowed from classic literary couples. Romeo and Juliet, due to their enduring legacy and popularity, are considered an ideal supercouple outline for aspects of forbidden or tragic love, and the relationship between Anthony and Cleopatra has been described as fitting the power-couple trope.
In the genres of toys and comic books, toys were given their first prominent supercouple with the creation of Ken and Barbie by Mattel in 1961 and comic book supercouples such as Clark Kent and Lois Lane (created in 1938) and Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson (created in 1966) are still popular today. The kinds of characters being described as supercouples is also broadening. For example, Marvel Comics listed two non-household name superheroes (Rictor and Shatterstar) in a recent gay relationship as one of their superhero supercouples of 2010 alongside several of their more traditional pairings.
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“Whereas the comic confronts simply logical contradictions, the tragic confronts a moral predicament. Not minor matters of true and false but crucial questions of right and wrong, good and evil face the tragic character in a tragic situation.”
—Marie Collins Swabey. Comic Laughter, ch. 7, Yale University Press (1961)