25+ People Are Sharing Which Famous Fictional Couples Wouldn’t Actually Be Together in Real Life
Ross and Rachel, Friends
Ross and Rachel would have been a nightmare in real life. A nerdy, intellectual snob paleontologist like Ross would believe a waitress was as far beneath him as his long-buried fossils. They had nothing in common; he liked dinosaurs, while she was interested in fashion.
Ross and Rachel didn’t even like each other; they often displayed jealousy and resentment, couldn’t communicate, always argued, and dated other people. Furthermore, Ross was entitled, whiney, condescending, and possessive. In Friends’ decade-long run, they never made it work. Rachel deserved someone better… like Joey!
Allie and Noah, The Notebook
Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling’s The Notebook is a beloved forbidden love story set in 1940s North Carolina. Noah’s pursuit of Allie is meant to be chivalrous, but he’s dangerous, obsessive, and emotionally abusive.
The first time he sees Allie, he gatecrashes her Ferris wheel carriage, asks her out in front of her date, then hangs off the wheel and threatens to let go unless she agrees to a date. If this happened now, she’d call the cops, but it was the South in the 1940s, which makes it perfectly normal behavior.
Rey and Kylo Ren, Star Wars
Rey and Kylo Ren first bond in Star Wars: The Last Jedi via Force-Skype. They’re both lonely and feeling the pressures of being the last hope of the Jedi and the Sith. But Rey would never have felt any loin-stirring feelings towards Kylo because he ended his father, Han Solo’s life, right before her eyes.
Yeah, Kylo eventually finds redemption by helping Rey defeat the Emperor and sacrificing his life to save her. But he’s a cold-blooded criminal who Rey should never, ever kiss.
Shiv and Tom, Succession
Succession’s Shiv Roy only got with Tom Wambsgans to spite her father, Logan. And, while Tom loved the idea of a fairytale wedding, he only got with Shiv to get close to Logan and climb to the top of Waystar RoyCo. They married, fought, conducted secret and sanctioned affairs, split up, and rekindled more often than Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.
Shiv and Tom used one another, so their shame and resentment made them say unforgivable things. If this was a real marriage, they’d have divorced years ago.
We all adore a good love story, but few fictional couples would make perfect real-life partners. From iconic films like Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Gone With the Wind to beloved TV shows like Friends, Succession, Game of Thrones, and The Muppet Show, we run down our favorite fictional couples who should never have been together. In fact, if they got it on in real life, half of them would probably be in jail.