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"Star-crossed" or "star-crossed lovers" is a phrase describing a pair of lovers whose relationship is often thwarted by outside forces. The term encompasses other meanings, but originally means the pairing is being "thwarted by a malign star" or that the stars are working against the relationship. The phrase is astrological in origin, stemming from the belief that the positions of the stars ruled over people's fates, and is best known from the play Romeo and Juliet by the Elizabethan playwright William Shakespeare. Such pairings are often but not always said to be doomed from the start.

1 Definitions
2 Famous examples
3 Modern examples
4 See also

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Definitions

The phrase was coined in the prologue of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet:

"From forth the fatal loins of these two foes,
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life" (5–6).

It also refers to destiny and the inevitability of the two characters' paths crossing each other. It usually but not always refers to unlucky outcomes, since Romeo and Juliet's affair ended tragically. Further, it connotes that the lovers entered into their union without sufficient forethought or preparation; that the lovers may not have had adequate knowledge of each other or that they were not thinking rationally.

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Famous examples

Examples of famous star-crossed lovers vary in written work. Pyramus and Thisbe are usually regarded as the source for Romeo and Juliet, featured in A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights are considered one of the greatest love stories in literary works. In Wuthering Heights, the narrative tells the tale of the all-encompassing and passionate, yet thwarted, love between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, and how this unresolved passion eventually destroys them and many around them.

Lancelot and Guinevere are often remembered for their affair. Guinevere was the queen of Camelot and wife of King Arthur, while Lancelot was a trusted knight of Arthur's Round Table. In some versions of the tale, she is instantly smitten, and when they consummate their adulterous passion, it is an act which paves the way for the fall of Camelot and Arthur's death.

The legend of Tristan and Iseult (also known as Tristan and Isolde) is an influential romance and tragedy, retold in numerous sources with as many variations. The tragic story is of the adulterous love between the lovers. The narrative predates and most likely influenced the Arthurian romance of Lancelot and Guinevere, and has had a substantial impact on Western art and literature since it first appeared in the 12th century. While the details of the story differ from one author to another, the overall plot structure remains much the same.

Hero and Leander is a Greek myth, relating the story of Hero (Greek: Ἡρώ), a priestess of Aphrodite who dwelt in a tower in Sestos, at the edge of the Hellespont, and Leander (Greek: Λέανδρος, Leandros), a young man from Abydos on the other side of the strait. Leander fell in love with Hero and would swim every night across the Hellespont to be with her. Hero would light a lamp at the top of her tower to guide his way.

Pelléas and Mélisande (French: Pelléas et Mélisande) is a Symbolist play by Maurice Maeterlinck about the forbidden, doomed love of the title characters. A classical myth, was a common subject for art during the Renaissance and Baroque eras.

Troilus and Cressida is a tragedy by Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1602. The play (also described as one of Shakespeare's problem plays) is not a conventional tragedy, since its protagonist (Troilus) does not die. The play ends instead on a very bleak note with the death of the noble Trojan Hector and destruction of the love between Troilus and Cressida. Venus and Adonis is classical myth during the Renaissance. Heer Ranjha is one of the four popular tragic romances of the Punjab.

Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl refers to a number of mythical and folkloric explanations of the origins of the volcanoes Popocatépetl ("the Smoking Mountain") and Iztaccíhuatl ("white woman" in Nahuatl, sometimes called the Mujer Dormida "sleeping woman" in Spanish) which overlook the Valley of Mexico.

Layla and Majnun is a classical Arabian love story. It is based on the real story of a young man called Qays ibn al-Mulawwah from the northern Arabian Peninsula, in the Umayyad era during the 7th century. There were two Arabic versions of the story at the time. In one version, he spent his youth together with Layla, tending their flocks. In the other version, upon seeing Layla he fell passionately in love with her. In both versions, however, he went mad when her father prevented him from marrying her; for that reason he came to be called Majnun Layla, which means "Driven mad by Layla". To him were attributed a variety of incredibly passionate romantic Arabic poems, considered among the foremost examples of the Udhari school.

The Butterfly Lovers is a Chinese legend about the tragic romance between two lovers, Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai. The legend is sometimes regarded as the Chinese equivalent to Romeo and Juliet.

Fight and Love with a Terracotta Warrior is a Chinese novel about the forbidden love between a general and a girl chosen to be taken to a land now known as Japan, Meng Tianfang and Han Dong-Er. After their relationship was discovered, both were condemned to death, one to be burned and the other to be made a terracotta and burned alive. Dong-Er secretly gives an elixir of immortality to Tianfang and sacrifices herself. Two thousand years later, Tianfang is released from his imprisonment in the terracotta by Zhu Lili, the reincarnation of Dong-Er.

Other classic star-crossed lovers include Devdas and Paro (Parvati) in Devdas, Paris of Troy and Helen of Sparta in The Iliad, Oedipus and Jocasta in Oedipus the King, Mark Antony and Cleopatra during the time of the Roman Empire, Khosrow and Shirin during the time of Sassanid Persia, Heloise and Peter Abelard during the Middle Ages, and Emperor Jahangir and Anarkali, and Cyrano and Roxane in Cyrano de Bergerac and Hagbard and Signy.

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Modern examples

In soap opera, modern examples of star-crossed lovers have included couples such as Cliff Warner and Nina Cortlandt, JR Chandler and Babe Carey and Bianca Montgomery and Maggie Stone from All My Children, etc.

Prime time has had various star-crossed lovers labeled as notable and "unforgettable" love stories. IGN considers Buffy Summers and Angel from Buffy the Vampire Slayer to be one of the genre's most tragic and notable star-crossed pairings. Cole Turner and Phoebe Halliwell from Charmed, Michael and Nikita from La Femme Nikita, Kara Thrace and Lee Adama from Battlestar Galactica, Clark Kent and Lana Lang from Smallville, and Lucas Scott and Peyton Sawyer from One Tree Hill are other star-crossed couples from the genre.

With film or within modern novels and books, such star-crossed couples as Jack Dawson and Rose DeWitt Bukater from Titanic, Landon Carter and Jamie Sullivan from "A Walk to Remember", Anakin Skywalker and Padmé Amidala from the Star Wars saga, Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist from Brokeback Mountain, and Jake and Neytiri from Avatar have been included.

Anime and cartoons have had their star-crossed couples as well. Gennosuke Kouga and Oboro Iga from Basilisk is one example, along with Brotherhood member Lance Alvers ("Avalanche") and X-Man Kitty Pryde ("Shadowcat") from X-Men: Evolution.

Role-playing video games have particularly featured star-crossed couples. Cloud Strife and Aerith Gainsborough from Final Fantasy VII have been called video games' greatest, as well as its most tragic, star-crossed love story. The couple is one of the most well-known video game couples in the history of video gaming. Zero and Iris from Mega Man X4 are a well-known example of a star-crossed video game couple.

In The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark are often called "The Star Crossed Lovers from District 12" because of their romance while in the Hunger Games, where only one can live.

In 2008, a web-based reality soap opera was created based on the concept of being star-crossed. In Starcrossed, Fox News astrologer Greg Tufaro takes a couple in crisis and separates them for one cycle of the moon. Each is then set up with individuals who are a better match astrologically. The show puts the question "Is love written in the stars?" to the test with the couple deciding on the 28th day of their separation whether they will stay together or remain apart.

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 :''[[love addiction]], [[amour fou]], [[obsessive love]], [[liebestod]]''
-"'''Star-crossed'''" or "'''star-crossed lovers'''" is a phrase describing a pair of lovers whose [[Intimate relationship|relationship]] is often [[wikt:thwart|thwarted]] by outside forces. The term encompasses other meanings, but originally means the pairing is being "thwarted by a malign star" or that the stars are working against the relationship.<ref name="Levenson">Levenson (ed.), Jill L. (2000). Romeo and Juliet, The Oxford Shakespeare (Oxford World's Classics). Oxford: Oxford University Press. page 142 ISBN 0192814966.</ref> The phrase is [[astrology|astrological]] in origin, stemming from the belief that the positions of the stars ruled over people's fates, and is best known from the play ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'' by the [[Elizabethan]] playwright [[William Shakespeare]]. Such pairings are often but not always said to be doomed from the start.
+"'''Star-crossed'''" or "'''star-crossed lovers'''" is a phrase describing a pair of lovers whose [[Intimate relationship|relationship]] is often [[thwart|thwarted]] by outside forces. The term encompasses other meanings, but originally means the pairing is being "thwarted by a malign star" or that the stars are working against the relationship. The phrase is [[astrology|astrological]] in origin, stemming from the belief that the positions of the stars ruled over people's fates, and is best known from the play ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'' by the [[Elizabethan]] playwright [[William Shakespeare]]. Such pairings are often but not always said to be doomed from the start.
-[[File:DickseeRomeoandJuliet.jpg|right|200px|thumb|The phrase "star-crossed lovers" was coined in Shakespeare's ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]''.]]
 ==Definitions==
 The phrase was coined in the prologue of Shakespeare's ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'':
 <blockquote>
-"From forth the fatal loins of these two foes,<br>A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life" (5–6).<ref>[http://www.william-shakespeare.info/act1-script-text-romeo-and-juliet.htm Full text / script of the play Romeo and Juliet Act I by William Shakespeare<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref></blockquote>
+"From forth the fatal loins of these two foes,<br>A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life" (5–6).
+</blockquote>
-It also refers to [[destiny]] and the inevitability of the two characters' paths crossing each other. It usually but not always refers to ''unlucky'' outcomes, since Romeo and Juliet's affair ended tragically. Further, it connotes that the lovers entered into their union without sufficient forethought or preparation; that the lovers may not have had adequate knowledge of each other or that they were not thinking rationally.<ref name="Levenson"/>
+It also refers to [[destiny]] and the inevitability of the two characters' paths crossing each other. It usually but not always refers to ''unlucky'' outcomes, since Romeo and Juliet's affair ended tragically. Further, it connotes that the lovers entered into their union without sufficient forethought or preparation; that the lovers may not have had adequate knowledge of each other or that they were not thinking rationally.
 ==Famous examples==
-[[File:Leighton-Tristan and Isolde-1902.jpg|right|250px|thumb|[[Tristan and Iseult|Tristan and Isolde]]]]
+Examples of famous star-crossed lovers vary in written work. [[Pyramus and Thisbe]] are usually regarded as the source for ''Romeo and Juliet'', featured in ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'', and [[Catherine Earnshaw]] and [[Heathcliff (Wuthering Heights)|Heathcliff]] from ''[[Wuthering Heights]]'' are considered one of the greatest love stories in literary works. In ''Wuthering Heights'', the narrative tells the tale of the all-encompassing and passionate, yet thwarted, love between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, and how this unresolved passion eventually destroys them and many around them.
-[[File:Layla and Majnun2.jpg|right|250px|thumb|[[Layla and Majnun]]]]
-Examples of famous star-crossed lovers vary in written work. [[Pyramus and Thisbe]] are usually regarded as the source for ''Romeo and Juliet'', featured in ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'', and [[Catherine Earnshaw]] and [[Heathcliff (Wuthering Heights)|Heathcliff]] from ''[[Wuthering Heights]]'' are considered one of the greatest love stories in literary works.<ref name="guardian.co.uk">{{cite news| title=Emily Brontë hits the heights in poll to find greatest love story |publisher=guardian.co.uk|accessdate=2007-09-12|url=http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2145906,00.html | location=London | first=Martin | last=Wainwright | date=2007-08-10}}</ref> In ''Wuthering Heights'', the narrative tells the tale of the all-encompassing and passionate, yet thwarted, love between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, and how this unresolved passion eventually destroys them and many around them.
 [[Lancelot]] and [[Guinevere]] are often remembered for their affair. Guinevere was the queen of [[Camelot]] and wife of [[King Arthur]], while Lancelot was a trusted knight of Arthur's [[Round Table]]. In some versions of the tale, she is instantly smitten, and when they consummate their adulterous passion, it is an act which paves the way for the fall of Camelot and Arthur's death.
 [[Pelléas and Mélisande]] (French: Pelléas et Mélisande) is a Symbolist play by [[Maurice Maeterlinck]] about the forbidden, doomed love of the title characters. A classical myth, was a common subject for art during the Renaissance and [[Baroque]] eras.
-[[Troilus and Cressida]] is a tragedy by Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1602. The play (also described as one of Shakespeare's [[Shakespearean problem play|problem plays]]) is not a conventional tragedy, since its protagonist (Troilus) does not die.<ref name="Oates">Oates, Joyce Carol (1966/1967). ''The Tragedy of Existence: Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida''. Originally published as two separate essays, in [[Philological Quarterly]], Spring 1967, and Shakespeare Quarterly, Spring 1966.</ref> The play ends instead on a very bleak note with the death of the noble Trojan [[Hector]] and destruction of the love between Troilus and Cressida.<ref name="Oates"/>
+[[Troilus and Cressida]] is a tragedy by Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1602. The play (also described as one of Shakespeare's [[Shakespearean problem play|problem plays]]) is not a conventional tragedy, since its protagonist (Troilus) does not die. The play ends instead on a very bleak note with the death of the noble Trojan [[Hector]] and destruction of the love between Troilus and Cressida. [[Venus and Adonis]] is classical myth during the [[Renaissance]]. [[Heer Ranjha]] is one of the four popular tragic romances of the [[Punjab region|Punjab]].
-[[Venus and Adonis]] is classical myth during the [[Renaissance]]. [[Heer Ranjha]] is one of the four popular tragic romances of the [[Punjab region|Punjab]].
-[[File:Burtonstairs.jpg|right|200px|thumb|[[Frederick William Burton|Hellelil and Hildebrand]]]]
-[[Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl]] refers to a number of [[Mythology|mythical]] and [[folklore|folkloric]] explanations of the origins of the [[volcano]]es [[Popocatépetl]] ("the Smoking Mountain") and [[Iztaccíhuatl]] ("white woman" in [[Nahuatl]], sometimes called the Mujer Dormida "sleeping woman" in Spanish)<ref>Secor, R.J. ''Mexico's Volcanoes: A Climbing Guide'' [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0898867983&id=lkBQYwphkqYC&pg=RA1-PA61&lpg=RA1-PA61&ots=OMfOO6pD9B&dq=Popocatepetl+iztaccihuatl&sig=DFVtuc4dpDFs3XVLKRJoWM9O65E#PRA1-PA22,M1]</ref> which overlook the [[Valley of Mexico]].
-[[Layla and Majnun]] is a classical [[Arabic literature|Arabian love story]]. It is based on the real story of a young man called Qays ibn al-Mulawwah from the northern [[Arabian Peninsula]],<ref>[http://www.theosophy-nw.org/theosnw/world/mideast/mi-jcok.htm ''Sunrise'' (June/July 2000), Theosophical University Press: "Follow Your Heart: The Story of Layla and Majnun", by J. T. Coker]</ref> in the [[Umayyad]] era during the 7th century. There were two [[Arabic literature|Arabic]] versions of the story at the time.<ref>[http://www.artarena.force9.co.uk/aralm.htm ArtArena: "The Original Legend in Arabic Literature"]</ref> In one version, he spent his youth together with Layla, tending their flocks. In the other version, upon seeing Layla he fell passionately in love with her. In both versions, however, he went mad when her father prevented him from marrying her; for that reason he came to be called Majnun Layla, which means "Driven mad by Layla". To him were attributed a variety of incredibly passionate romantic [[Arabic poetry|Arabic poems]], considered among the foremost examples of the Udhari school.
+[[Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl]] refers to a number of [[Mythology|mythical]] and [[folklore|folkloric]] explanations of the origins of the [[volcano]]es [[Popocatépetl]] ("the Smoking Mountain") and [[Iztaccíhuatl]] ("white woman" in [[Nahuatl]], sometimes called the Mujer Dormida "sleeping woman" in Spanish) which overlook the [[Valley of Mexico]].
-[[The Butterfly Lovers]] is a [[Chinese legend]] about the tragic romance between two lovers, Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai. The legend is sometimes regarded as the Chinese equivalent to Romeo and Juliet.<ref>[http://www.amazon.com/dp/0966542142 Amazon.com]</ref><ref>[http://www.newsgd.com/culture/art/200703070041.htm Guandog News]</ref>
+[[Layla and Majnun]] is a classical [[Arabic literature|Arabian love story]]. It is based on the real story of a young man called Qays ibn al-Mulawwah from the northern [[Arabian Peninsula]], in the [[Umayyad]] era during the 7th century. There were two [[Arabic literature|Arabic]] versions of the story at the time. In one version, he spent his youth together with Layla, tending their flocks. In the other version, upon seeing Layla he fell passionately in love with her. In both versions, however, he went mad when her father prevented him from marrying her; for that reason he came to be called Majnun Layla, which means "Driven mad by Layla". To him were attributed a variety of incredibly passionate romantic [[Arabic poetry|Arabic poems]], considered among the foremost examples of the Udhari school.
+[[The Butterfly Lovers]] is a [[Chinese legend]] about the tragic romance between two lovers, Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai. The legend is sometimes regarded as the Chinese equivalent to Romeo and Juliet.
 [[Fight and Love with a Terracotta Warrior]] is a Chinese novel about the forbidden love between a general and a girl chosen to be taken to a land now known as [[Japan]], Meng Tianfang and Han Dong-Er. After their relationship was discovered, both were condemned to death, one to be burned and the other to be made a terracotta and burned alive. Dong-Er secretly gives an elixir of immortality to Tianfang and sacrifices herself. Two thousand years later, Tianfang is released from his imprisonment in the terracotta by Zhu Lili, the reincarnation of Dong-Er.
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-In [[soap opera]], modern examples of star-crossed lovers have included couples such as [[Cliff Warner and Nina Cortlandt]], [[JR Chandler and Babe Carey]] and [[Bianca Montgomery and Maggie Stone]] from ''[[All My Children]]'',<ref>{{cite web | title=Peter Bergman Biography | publisher=hollywood.com |accessdate=2007-07-15 |url=http://www.hollywood.com/celebrity/Peter_Bergman/195311#fullBio}}</ref><ref name="ABc.com">{{cite episode |title=All My Children |series=All My Children|network=[[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] |airdate=2006-04-20 | minutes=60|accessdate=2007-05-23}}</ref><ref name="AfterEllen">{{cite web| first=Sarah | last=Warn |title=The End of a Lesbian Era on All My Children|publisher=[[AfterEllen.com and AfterElton.com|AfterEllen.com]]| date=2005-02-24|accessdate=2007-07-28 |url=http://www.afterellen.com/archive/ellen/TV/2005/2/amc.html}}</ref> etc.
+In [[soap opera]], modern examples of star-crossed lovers have included couples such as [[Cliff Warner and Nina Cortlandt]], [[JR Chandler and Babe Carey]] and [[Bianca Montgomery and Maggie Stone]] from ''[[All My Children]]'', etc.
-[[Prime time]] has had various star-crossed lovers labeled as notable and "unforgettable" love stories. [[IGN]] considers [[Buffy Summers]] and [[Angel (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)|Angel]] from ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV series)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' to be one of the genre's most tragic and notable star-crossed pairings.<ref name="tv.ign.com">{{cite news | first=Eric Goldman, Brian Zoromski, Dan Iverson | title=IGN's Top 10 Favorite TV Couples | publisher=IGN |accessdate=2007-06-12 |url=http://tv.ign.com/articles/764/764349p2.html}}</ref> [[Cole Turner]] and [[Phoebe Halliwell]] from ''[[Charmed]]'', [[Michael]] and [[Nikita]] from ''[[La Femme Nikita (TV series)|La Femme Nikita]]'', [[Kara Thrace]] and [[Lee Adama]] from ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'', [[Clark Kent]] and [[Lana Lang]] from ''[[Smallville]]'', and [[Lucas Scott]] and [[Peyton Sawyer]] from ''[[One Tree Hill (TV series)|One Tree Hill]]'' are other star-crossed couples from the genre.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://edition.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/TV/04/06/review.charmed/index.html | work=CNN | title=Commentary: The guilty pleasure of 'Charmed' | date=2005-04-08 | accessdate=2010-05-24}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | first=Jennifer| last=Armstrong | title=La Femme Nikita: The Complete Second Season (2005) | accessdate=2008-12-10 |url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,1036995,00.html | publisher=Entertainment Weekly | date=2005-03-15}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | first=Andrew| last=Johnston | title=Final Flight | accessdate=2008-12-27 | url=http://dev.timeoutny.com/newyork/articles/tv/28191/final-flight | publisher=Time Out NY}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Kristin Kreuk as Lana Lang | accessdate=2009-02-09 | url=http://www.cwtv.com/shows/smallville/cast/kristin-kreuk | publisher=The CW}}</ref><ref name="popwatch.ew.com">{{cite news|first=Jennifer|last=Armstrong
+[[Prime time]] has had various star-crossed lovers labeled as notable and "unforgettable" love stories. [[IGN]] considers [[Buffy Summers]] and [[Angel (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)|Angel]] from ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV series)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' to be one of the genre's most tragic and notable star-crossed pairings. [[Cole Turner]] and [[Phoebe Halliwell]] from ''[[Charmed]]'', [[Michael]] and [[Nikita]] from ''[[La Femme Nikita (TV series)|La Femme Nikita]]'', [[Kara Thrace]] and [[Lee Adama]] from ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'', [[Clark Kent]] and [[Lana Lang]] from ''[[Smallville]]'', and [[Lucas Scott]] and [[Peyton Sawyer]] from ''[[One Tree Hill (TV series)|One Tree Hill]]'' are other star-crossed couples from the genre.
-|title='One Tree Hill' sneak preview: Time jumps, hot new characters, and life without Chad Michael Murray|publisher=''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''|date=2009-08-20|accessdate=2010-06-21|url=http://popwatch.ew.com/2009/08/20/one-tree-hill-sneak-preview-time-jumps-hot-new-characters-and-life-without-chad-michael-murray/}}</ref>
-With [[film]] or within modern novels and books, such star-crossed couples as Jack Dawson and Rose DeWitt Bukater from ''[[Titanic (1997 film)|Titanic]]'', [[A Walk to Remember (novel)#Characters|Landon Carter]] and [[A Walk to Remember (novel)#Characters|Jamie Sullivan]] from "[[A Walk to Remember (novel)|A Walk to Remember]]", [[Anakin Skywalker]] and [[Padmé Amidala]] from the ''[[Star Wars]]'' saga, [[Ennis Del Mar]] and [[Jack Twist]] from ''[[Brokeback Mountain]]'', and Jake and Neytiri from ''[[Avatar (2009 film)|Avatar]]'' have been included. <ref>{{cite news| url=http://articles.latimes.com/1998/mar/16/local/me-29454 | work=Los Angeles Times | title='Titanic' Refuses to Sink, Passes 'Star Wars' as Top Moneymaker | first=John M. | last=Glionna | date=1998-03-16 | accessdate=2010-05-24}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117916821.html?categoryid=31&cs=1 | work=Variety | title=A Walk to Remember Movie Review | first=Joe | last=Leydon | date=2002-01-24}}</ref><ref>http://www.natalieportman.com/articles/nparticles_en.php?viewarticle=1&article_number=170</ref><ref>{{cite web | first=Dan| last=Harris | title=Christian conservatives serve up 'Brokeback' backlash | accessdate=2006-05-27 | url=http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=1566879 | publisher=ABC News }}</ref><ref name="www.MTV.Com">{{cite web|author=Eric Ditzian, with reporting by Josh Horowitz|title=James Cameron Compares His 'Avatar' And 'Titanic' Couples. The director notes the similarities between Sully and Neytiri, and Jack and Rose.|publisher=[[MTV]]|date=2010-01-07|accessdate=2010-01-09|url=http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1629226/story.jhtml}}</ref>
+With [[film]] or within modern novels and books, such star-crossed couples as Jack Dawson and Rose DeWitt Bukater from ''[[Titanic (1997 film)|Titanic]]'', [[A Walk to Remember (novel)#Characters|Landon Carter]] and [[A Walk to Remember (novel)#Characters|Jamie Sullivan]] from "[[A Walk to Remember (novel)|A Walk to Remember]]", [[Anakin Skywalker]] and [[Padmé Amidala]] from the ''[[Star Wars]]'' saga, [[Ennis Del Mar]] and [[Jack Twist]] from ''[[Brokeback Mountain]]'', and Jake and Neytiri from ''[[Avatar (2009 film)|Avatar]]'' have been included.
-[[Anime]] and [[cartoons]] have had their star-crossed couples as well. [[Gennosuke Kouga]] and [[Oboro (Basilisk)|Oboro Iga]] from ''[[Basilisk (manga)|Basilisk]]''<ref>http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/basilisk/dvd-1</ref> is one example, along with Brotherhood member Lance Alvers ("Avalanche") and X-Man Kitty Pryde ("Shadowcat") from ''[[X-Men: Evolution]].''
+[[Anime]] and [[cartoons]] have had their star-crossed couples as well. [[Gennosuke Kouga]] and [[Oboro (Basilisk)|Oboro Iga]] from ''[[Basilisk (manga)|Basilisk]]'' is one example, along with Brotherhood member Lance Alvers ("Avalanche") and X-Man Kitty Pryde ("Shadowcat") from ''[[X-Men: Evolution]].''
-[[Role-playing video game]]s have particularly featured star-crossed couples. [[Cloud Strife]] and [[Aerith Gainsborough]] from ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'' have been called video games' greatest, as well as its most tragic, star-crossed love story.<ref name="technology.inquirer.net">{{cite web|first=Alexander|last=Villafania| title=The most memorable video game love teams|url=http://technology.inquirer.net/infotech/infotech/view_article.php?article_id=47164
+[[Role-playing video game]]s have particularly featured star-crossed couples. [[Cloud Strife]] and [[Aerith Gainsborough]] from ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'' have been called video games' greatest, as well as its most tragic, star-crossed love story. The couple is one of the most well-known video game couples in the history of video gaming. [[Zero (Mega Man)|Zero]] and [[Iris (Mega Man)|Iris]] from ''[[Mega Man X4]]'' are a well-known example of a star-crossed video game couple.
-}}</ref><ref name="egmclaim">{{cite news | title = 10: The 10 Most Important Games| publisher = ''[[Electronic Gaming Monthly]]'' | date = January 2005 |accessdate = 2007-10-09}}</ref><ref name="ign.com">{{cite web|author=IGN Staff|title=Top 10 Tuesday: Best Videogame Romances|publisher=[[IGN]]|url=http://pc.ign.com/articles/688/688840p1.html}}</ref> The couple is one of the most well-known video game couples in the history of video gaming.<ref name=technology.inquirer.net/><ref name=egmclaim/><ref name=ign.com/> [[Zero (Mega Man)|Zero]] and [[Iris (Mega Man)|Iris]] from ''[[Mega Man X4]]'' are a well-known example of a star-crossed video game couple.
 In ''[[The Hunger Games]]'', [[Katniss Everdeen]] and [[Peeta Mellark]] are often called "The Star Crossed Lovers from District 12" because of their romance while in the Hunger Games, where only one can live.
-In 2008, a web-based reality soap opera was created based on the concept of being star-crossed. In ''Starcrossed'', [[Fox News]] astrologer [[Greg Tufaro]] takes a couple in crisis and separates them for one cycle of the moon. Each is then set up with individuals who are a better match astrologically. The show puts the question "Is love written in the stars?" to the test with the couple deciding on the 28th day of their separation whether they will stay together or remain apart.<ref name=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,422646,00.html">{{cite news|first=Greg|last=Tufaro| title=Can The Stars Predict Your Perfect Match?|url=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,422646,00.html | work=Fox News | date=2008-09-15}}</ref>
+In 2008, a web-based reality soap opera was created based on the concept of being star-crossed. In ''Starcrossed'', [[Fox News]] astrologer [[Greg Tufaro]] takes a couple in crisis and separates them for one cycle of the moon. Each is then set up with individuals who are a better match astrologically. The show puts the question "Is love written in the stars?" to the test with the couple deciding on the 28th day of their separation whether they will stay together or remain apart.
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