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* ''Film/AFewGoodMen''. Once the case is over, Creator/TomCruise and Creator/DemiMoore don't get together. They just leave. This aspect of the film could be considered a subversion of the typical movie conventions of protagonists always getting with the heroine regardless of their relationship working out in reality. In the case of this film, the pair were only brought together due to the legal case the plot follows. Though they had chemistry, it is noted that they have no grounds for a dedicated relationship once the trial is over.

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* ''Film/AFewGoodMen''. Once the case is over, Creator/TomCruise Kaffee and Creator/DemiMoore Galloway don't get together. They just leave. This aspect of the film could be considered a subversion of the typical movie conventions of protagonists always getting with the heroine regardless of their relationship working out in reality. In the case of this film, the The pair were only brought together due to the legal case the plot follows. Though they had have chemistry, it is noted that they have no grounds for a dedicated relationship once the trial is over.

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* ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderManSeries'': Gwen Stacy dies near the end of [[Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan2 the second film]], and [[spoiler:Peter's reappearance in ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'' reveals he never got over her death and doesn't have anyone back at his universe.]]

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* ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderManSeries'': Gwen Stacy dies near the end of [[Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan2 the second film]], and [[spoiler:Peter's reappearance in ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'' reveals he never got over her death and doesn't have anyone back at his universe.universe despite the introductions of both Felicia Hardy and Mary Jane Watson (Spidey's other prominent love interests in the source material, [[DeletedRole though MJ is ultimately omitted]]) prior to Gwen's death.]]



* Toward the end of Harold Ramis' remake of ''Film/{{Bedazzled|2000}}'', the hero finally finds the courage to ask out his love interest. As it turns out, she's seeing someone. This is actually a plot point: at the beginning of the movie the main character mentions that she's recently split up with her [unseen] boyfriend, and [[spoiler:his final wish, that [[IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy she have a happy life]], apparently undoes the break-up]]. He handles it admirably, given what he's been through. Although, bizarrely, the hero ''does'' then end up with another, kookier, more down-to-earth girl who is ''played by the same actress''.

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* ''Film/AnotherEarth'': The film begins with protagonist Rhoda Williams getting into a car accident which kills a mother and a child and renders the father comatose. After getting released from prison years later, she begins working as a cleaning lady and eventually gets involved with John, one of her customers who is a reclusive and depressed man. Turns out John is the widower from the movie's prologue, and when she comes clean to him, their budding relationship is predictably torpedoed.
* Toward the end of Harold Ramis' Creator/HaroldRamis' remake of ''Film/{{Bedazzled|2000}}'', the hero finally finds the courage to ask out his love interest. As it turns out, she's seeing someone. This is actually a plot point: at the beginning of the movie the main character mentions that she's recently split up with her [unseen] boyfriend, and [[spoiler:his final wish, that [[IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy she have a happy life]], apparently undoes the break-up]]. He handles it admirably, given what he's been through. Although, bizarrely, the hero ''does'' then end up with another, kookier, more down-to-earth girl who is ''played by the same actress''.


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* ''Film/TheMyth'': General Meng Yi and Princess Ok-soo/Concubine Li fell in love, but the General was slain in battle and both the Princess and the General's NumberTwo are rendered immortal for drinking the Elixir of Youth not long after. Meng Yi is then reincarnated as protagonist Jack and is eventually reunited with the Princess, but once she finally realizes that he's essentially a different person now, she decides to stay at the collapsing CaveBehindTheFalls while he is forced to escape.
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* The beginning of ''Film/{{Barbie}}'' quickly establishes the current state of the relationship (or lack thereof) between Stereotypical Barbie and Beach Ken: he desperately wants to impress her and have her pay attention to him, and she mostly ignores him. Near the end of the movie, after the main plot has been resolved, Barbie ends up telling Ken that she ''still'' isn't in love with him and never has been, and that what Ken really needs to do is create an identity for himself that doesn't revolve around her.
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* ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderManSeries'': Gwen Stacy dies near the end of [[Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan the second film]], and [[spoiler:Peter's reappearance in ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'' reveals he never got over her death and doesn't have anyone back at his universe.]]

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* ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderManSeries'': Gwen Stacy dies near the end of [[Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan [[Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan2 the second film]], and [[spoiler:Peter's reappearance in ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'' reveals he never got over her death and doesn't have anyone back at his universe.]]
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** The ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' trilogy ends with Peter "Star Lord" Quill not getting with his love interest Gamora. While there was sexual tension in the first two films, Gamora is killed off by her father, Thanos, in the film ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar''. In ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol3'', Gamora comes back after the blip, but is not the same Gamora who died. She makes it clear to Peter that she is not the same Gamora he fell in love with. In the end, she goes back to her space pirate gang, and Peter goes back to earth to spend time on his home planet.

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** The ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' ''Franchise/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' trilogy ends with Peter "Star Lord" Quill not getting with his love interest Gamora. While there was sexual tension in the first two films, Gamora is killed off by her father, Thanos, in the film ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar''. In ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol3'', Gamora comes back after the blip, but is not the same Gamora who died. She makes it clear to Peter that she is not the same Gamora he fell in love with. In the end, she goes back to her space pirate gang, and Peter goes back to earth to spend time on his home planet.
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** Franchise/SpiderMan: His first LoveInterest, Liz, turned out to be the daughter of Adrian Toomes aka Vulture, a criminal he's been trailing recently, thus dooming their budding romance, not helped by the fact he was forced to ditch her at their homecoming dance to save the day (''Film/SpiderManHomecoming''). He eventually gets together with Michelle Jones (''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome''), [[spoiler:but she's forced to forget he even existed due to Peter requesting Doctor Strange to UnPerson him to prevent a multiversal CosmicFlaw (''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'').]]

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** Franchise/SpiderMan: His ComicBook/SpiderMan's first LoveInterest, Liz, turned out to be the daughter of Adrian Toomes aka Vulture, a criminal he's been trailing recently, thus dooming their budding romance, not helped by the fact he was forced to ditch her at their homecoming dance to save the day (''Film/SpiderManHomecoming''). He eventually gets together with Michelle Jones (''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome''), [[spoiler:but she's forced to forget he even existed due to Peter requesting Doctor Strange to UnPerson him to prevent a multiversal CosmicFlaw (''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'').]]
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* ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderManSeries'': Gwen Stacy dies near the end of [[Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan the second film]], and [[spoiler:his reappearance in ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'' reveals he never got over her death and didn't have anyone back at his universe.]]

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* ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderManSeries'': Gwen Stacy dies near the end of [[Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan the second film]], and [[spoiler:his [[spoiler:Peter's reappearance in ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'' reveals he never got over her death and didn't doesn't have anyone back at his universe.]]



** Franchise/SpiderMan: His first LoveInterest, Liz, turned out to be the daughter of Adrian Toomes, a criminal he's been trailing recently, thus dooming their budding romance (''Film/SpiderManHomecoming''). He eventually gets together with Michelle Jones (''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome''), but she's forced to forget he even existed due to Peter requesting Doctor Strange to UnPerson him to prevent a multiversal CosmicFlaw (''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'').
** ComicBook/DoctorStrange is ultimately rejected by his LoveInterest Christine in his [[Film/DoctorStrange2016 first movie]] because of how much of a {{jerkass}} he was before getting his powers. He attends her wedding at the start of the sequel ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness'', and despite his best efforts to hide it he spends the entirety of the film quietly lamenting his mistakes. Later in the movie, an alternate Strange reveals that nowhere in the multiverse has a relationship between the two worked out.

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** Franchise/SpiderMan: His first LoveInterest, Liz, turned out to be the daughter of Adrian Toomes, Toomes aka Vulture, a criminal he's been trailing recently, thus dooming their budding romance romance, not helped by the fact he was forced to ditch her at their homecoming dance to save the day (''Film/SpiderManHomecoming''). He eventually gets together with Michelle Jones (''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome''), but [[spoiler:but she's forced to forget he even existed due to Peter requesting Doctor Strange to UnPerson him to prevent a multiversal CosmicFlaw (''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'').
(''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'').]]
** ComicBook/DoctorStrange is ultimately rejected by his LoveInterest Christine in his [[Film/DoctorStrange2016 first movie]] because of how much of a {{jerkass}} he was before getting his powers. He attends her wedding at the start of the sequel ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness'', and despite his best efforts to hide it he spends the entirety of the film quietly lamenting his mistakes. Later in the movie, an alternate Strange reveals that apparently, nowhere in the multiverse has a relationship between the two worked out.
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** The ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' trilogy ends with Peter "Star Lord" Quill not getting with his love interest Gamora. While there was sexual tension in the first two films, Gamora is killed off by her father, Thanos, in the film ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar''. In the third film Guardians film, Gamora comes back after the blip, but is not the same Gamora who died. She makes it clear to Peter that she is not the same Gamora he fell in love with. In the end, she goes back to her space pirate gang, and Peter goes back to earth to spend time on his home planet.

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** The ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' trilogy ends with Peter "Star Lord" Quill not getting with his love interest Gamora. While there was sexual tension in the first two films, Gamora is killed off by her father, Thanos, in the film ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar''. In the third film Guardians film, ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol3'', Gamora comes back after the blip, but is not the same Gamora who died. She makes it clear to Peter that she is not the same Gamora he fell in love with. In the end, she goes back to her space pirate gang, and Peter goes back to earth to spend time on his home planet.
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** The ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' trilogy ends with Peter "Star Lord" Quill not getting with his love interest Gamora. While there was sexual tension in the first two films, Gamora is killed off by her father, Thanos, in the film ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar''. In the third film Guardians film, Gamora comes back after the blip, but is not the same Gamora who died. She makes it clear to Peter that she is not the same Gamora he fell in love with. In the end, she goes back to her space pirate gang, and Peter goes back to earth to spend time on his home planet.

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* Happens in a [[DownerEnding majorly depressing]] way in ''The Last American Virgin''. It's unusual in that it was supposed to be a light teen comedy, but ends with the protagonist buying a gift for the girl that he thought loved him and going to a party to give it to her only to see [[spoiler:[[WhyWouldAnyoneTakeHimBack her making out with the jerk who dumped her after knocking her up]]. He angrily leaves the party without saying a word to either of them, and the last shot of the movie is him driving home alone through the night, [[TearJerker heartbroken, completely defeated, and silently sobbing]]]]. According to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_American_Virgin#Plot_synopsis The Other Wiki]], this is the only film of the kind where it happens.

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* Happens in a [[DownerEnding majorly depressing]] way in ''The Last American Virgin''.''Film/TheLastAmericanVirgin''. It's unusual in that it was supposed to be a light teen comedy, but ends with the protagonist buying a gift for the girl that he thought loved him and going to a party to give it to her only to see [[spoiler:[[WhyWouldAnyoneTakeHimBack her making out with the jerk who dumped her after knocking her up]]. He angrily leaves the party without saying a word to either of them, and the last shot of the movie is him driving home alone through the night, [[TearJerker heartbroken, completely defeated, and silently sobbing]]]]. According to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_American_Virgin#Plot_synopsis The Other Wiki]], this is the only film of the kind where it happens.happens.
* In ''Film/LastTrainFromGunHill'', Linda clearly has a past with Craig Belden, but she is the only one in town to actually help Morgan. They have some chemistry, but as the last train pulls out of town, she stays in Gun Hill, kneeling over Craig's body.
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* ''Film/WildWildWest'': Rita (Creator/SalmaHayek) reveals that Dr. Escobar is not her father, but her husband. Which she should have mentioned before. Although, Jim and Gordon end up with something arguably more awesome: the bad guy's 80-foot SpiderTank!

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* ''Film/WildWildWest'': Rita (Creator/SalmaHayek) reveals that Dr. Escobar is not her father, but her husband. Which she should have mentioned before. Although, Jim and Gordon end up with something arguably more awesome: the bad guy's 80-foot SpiderTank!

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