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|''Rich and Grace of '''[[Skins]]''' comparing this trope and [[Opposites Attract]]''}}
 
Relationships, particularly romantic ones, tend to thrive when the people involved are similar. People are simply more likely to get along if they share common interests, values, beliefs, and goals. Thus people with similar personalities will often flow together easily. It can actually overlap with Opposites Attract…if they’re only opposites on the surface.
 
The dynamic of this pair differs widely from [[Opposites Attract]] pair. Their personalities can often be interchangeable and both of them can have a same role if they are a part of a group. However, their common obstacle is having a harder time to compensate for each other's weaknesses.
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* In ''[[Saint Beast]]'', this is almost literal with Rey and Luca who are brought together by their ability to fly.
* In [[Claudine]], the main character and the local [[Hot Librarian]] Cecilia were united by their love of reading and poetry.
* Ban and Elaine from ''Seven Deadly Sins'' turn out to have a surprising amount of things in common, though Elaine initially assumed otherwise since she’s a fairy and Ban is a human. Both are empathetic people that were lonely before they met each other.
 
== Comic Books ==
* This was a recurring theme in the first issue of ''[[Heroes, Anonymous]]'', where former sidekick Attaboy's struggles to make it as a solo hero are helped when he discovers a kindred spirit, Lynn, who eventually becomes his girlfriend as they bond over an old sitcom from the 80s, "Birds of a Feather." Except Lynn is easily the quirkiest living being on the planet (she's absolutely obsessed with Birds of a Feather and the only music she listens to is whale songs), while Attaboy's attitude is something along the lines of [[I Coulda Been a Contender]].
* [[Scott Pilgrim]] and Ramona Flowers have many of the same flaws, such as not being totally decent to their past loves. It comes to a head in volume 6, when Ramona tells Scott what she did during their separation—exactly what Scott did: dicking around, watching reruns, and sleeping. Scott's friends declare them the perfect couple.
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* ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' General Apala Bala-Amin and her favourite expert Haley Sorlie; Haley Sorlie and Yaeyoefui (restored ancient Oafan to whom she was attached) — [//www.schlockmercenary.com/2016-03-07 others] began to [[Lampshade Hanging|notice]] why. Captain Kaff Tagon and Daggermother Ezraene Venombrook [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2017-07-16 seem to be alike, too].
* ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' with goody-two-shoes [https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2015-03-04 dorks] Elliot and Ashley. Also, the new best friend of the latter: shortly after being introduced to Ashley, Nanase [https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2017-09-18 thought she's ''suspiciously'' nice] and another common acquaintance compared her to Grace, because that was the only baseline for being so much of "[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/party-010 Goody Two Shoes]<sup>spoilers!</sup>". And then they [https://www.egscomics.com/comic/party-060 met]. [https://www.egscomics.com/comic/party-238 Here]'s [[The Rant|the commentary]] on how this was supposed to work, and how it adds up in this specific case.
*While Masculine Girl and Feminine Boy is in full effect, Elan and Haley from [[The Order of the Stick]] happen to have a lot of things in common. They both have had troubled childhoods, both are extremely charismatic, both of them are reasonably intelligent, and both are them are vulnerable to the vampire gaze.
 
== Web Original ==