This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
Ununnilium: The examples need cleaned up a bit; they're edging into "any Love Interest I dislike" territory.
Clerval: I took out these; they can always be put back if I'm missing something but I don't see what they were doing here:
- Queen Guinevere, who was always being kidnapped or driving her lover mad, is the classic prototype of this trope.
- Dido, Aeneas' rebellious Girl of the Week in Virgil's The Aeneid.
Because Guinevere did get kidnapped (when already married to Arthur, so no "reward" there), but not a LOT, and it is hardly her primary characteristic in the legends. And even if it were all the time, I don't quite see how being kidnapped is being "obstructive" as defined in the trope description anyway. The trouble with her was that she fell in love with Lancelot, and that's not being "obstructive", that's just a Love Triangle. And Dido obstructed Aeneas from doing what, exactly? He got a safe place to stay when he needed it, ditched her when he didn't need it any more, she didn't like it, she killed herself, he felt a little sad - the end (for her). OK, she supposedly caused the rise of Hannibal, but that was centuries down the line.
