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* The adult-oriented ''Taimanin Asagi'' franchise brings us Ingrid, a Hell Knight whom serves as both secretary and right-hand woman to Edwin Black, the vampiric BigBad of the series. While Ingrid makes it explicitly clear of her affections towards her boss, his attentions are squarely focused on Asagi herself, given his interest in her powers (and the fact that at least in [[VideoGame/ActionTaimanin one spin-off]] he already has a daughter). However, it is clear that Edwin values Ingrid dearly -- when the traitorous Taimanin Oboro abducts and tortures Ingrid for several days, Edwin personally steps in to beat Oboro within an inch of her life and oversee Ingrid's recovery afterwards.

* 'Series/{{Forever|2014}}'': Lucas is a platonic version, wanting desperately to be friends with the boss he so admires. He keeps trying, asking him to go out for a beer, some music, a club, or the like, and he gently (or not so subtly) probes for more information about Henry pretty much every episode. Henry rebuffs him off-hand, with no interest in getting closer to any mortal, but eventually he warms to Lucas, and by the end of the series he's not only gone to a karaoke bar with the gang, he's paid Lucas real compliments and trusted him with [[MissingMom a few]] [[MadScientistLaboratory secrets]] (although not yet [[ResurrectiveImmortality the big one]]). A fair number of fan works take this into non-platonic territory.

* On ''Series/{{Whitechapel}}'', Emerson Kent is (increasingly transparently) in love with his boss, Joseph Chandler. Signs include the subtle but open hostility towards any woman who shows affections towards Chandler, to the point that he [[spoiler:accuses Joe's love interest of murder in a fit of jealousy]].

* Commander Peepers' relationship with Lord Hater in ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'' is frequently played like this. His room is more or less a StalkerShrine to Hater, which he trashed in "The Buddies" in response to his mistaken impression that Hater had found another best friend (before tearfully fixing everything).

* In ''Film/ThreeTenToYuma2007'', the eyeliner-wearing bandit [[TheDragon Charlie Prince]] is implied to be in love with his boss Ben Wade, who never shows any interest in him.

-->Behind her, Diaval let out a sigh. Once, just once, it would be nice if Maleficent were able to see what was really going on. It would be nice to hear her say, “Please come with me, Diaval. We can do anything as long as we’re together.” But Diaval knew those were words he would never hear.

* Sylvia in ''Film/SinTakesAHoliday'' is extremely loyal to her boss, Stanton, and marries him when he asks her to--- not a romantic marriage, of course; he needs to wed her to escape another woman.
* In ''Film/BeautyAndTheBeast2017'', Lefou becomes this to Gaston via AdaptationalSexuality.
* In ''Film/TheMonsterMaker'', Maxine has stayed with and assisted Dr. Markoff for years--even helping him adopt his new identity and flee Europe--because she is hopelessly in love with him, and hopes that one day he will return her affection. However, he is still in love with his late wife and then becomes obsessed with Patricia, who is a dead ringer for her. When she finally snaps on learning the full depths of his depravity, Markoff decides that she has to die because SheKnowsTooMuch.
* In ''Film/FortyGuns'', Sheriff Ned Logan is in love with Jessica Drummond and allows himself to be used as her catspaw; seeing himself as her partner and hoping that one day she will reciprocate his feelings. However, Jessica has no idea of his feelings and sees him only as an employee. On realizing this, and seeing that she has fallen in love with Griff Bonnell, Logan is DrivenToSuicide.
* ''Film/FantasticBeastsTheCrimesOfGrindelwald'' has Bunty, the assistant of Newt Scamander. She has a crush on him, but he has feelings for Tina Goldstein.
* In ''Film/TheCrimeDoctorsStrangestCase'', Miss Patricia has been Walter Burns' housekeeper for 30, and before that was a dancer in his club. She has been in love with him for that entire time and he never noticed. And then he gets murdered. Could unrequited love be a motive for murder?
* In ''Film/CircusOfHorrors'', Rossiter's nurse Angela is in love with him and stays with him through his years on the run because of this. The egotistical Rossiter is completely unaware of her feelings. When he announces that he is going to marry Melina, she finally snaps and leaves him.
* ''[[Film/DrGoldfootAndTheBikiniMachine Doctor Goldfoot And The Girl Bombs]]:'' Supervillain [[Creator/VincentPrice Goldfoot's]] henchgal Hardjob shows signs being this, but since she's also a CuteMute, it can't be confirmed. Goldfoot never shows much sign of sexual interest in anyone in the two movies in which he appears, but he does allow Hardjob to escape with him at the end.
* During the epic chase near the end of ''Film/TheBluesBrothers'', a neo-Nazi confesses, "I've always loved you," to the unamused local ''Gruppenführer'' as their car goes careening off the end of an unfinished highway.

** [[spoiler:Prior to Voldemort's demise, Bellatrix had an affair with him and conceived a daughter with him.]]
* Brienne is this to Renly in ''Literature/AClashOfKings''. The fact that he's [[IncompatibleOrientation gay]] means that even if he did notice he'd never return her feelings the way she wants, and she's unaware of his orientation.
* In ''Literature/MakingMoney'', Chief Cashier Miss Drapes is one to bank manager Mr. Bent, who probably thinks love is silly. They do get together in the end, though.

* In the ''Literature/ChristCloneTrilogy'', Gerard Poupardin has an unrequited love for Albert Moore. When Moore died at the time his sins were exposed by Christopher Goodman in the first book, Poupardin sought revenge in an attempt to kill Goodman, only for Tom Donafin to shoot Goodman first, so Poupardin killed Donafin instead.
* In one of the ''Literature/GarrettPI'' novels, Garrett has to point out to queenpin Belinda Contague that her driver/bodyguard Joel is very much smitten with her. She never gets a chance to deal with Joel's feelings, one way or the other, because he dies defending her from an ambush by some rival villains she'd crossed.
* ''Literature/TheConquerorsSaga'', ''And I Darken'' has an example of a main character being this to another: Radu is infatuated with Mehmed, who only sees him as a friend. And who is in a relationship with his sister. And, while Mehmed talks about how much he loves and trusts Radu, emotionally Radu doesn't appear to mean too much to him—it took him days to notice Radu wasn't even with them during a trip back to his home, for example.
* ''Literature/HerculePoirot'': "[[Literature/TheLaboursOfHercules The Lernean Hydra]]" starts when a doctor is married to a hypochondriac wife, who dies. The doctor insists there was no foul play, but of course the village thinks he murdered her in order to marry the young pharmacist (and he admits to Poirot that he would already have asked her if it wasn't for the suspicion). After it turns out the woman's corpse was full of arsenic, the doctor is arrested... [[spoiler:but it wasn't the doctor ''or'' the pharmacist, but the nurse, who thought the doctor would marry her after his wife died, and went WomanScorned when she realized she wasn't the one he loved.]]
** In another Agatha Christie novel, Sparkling Cyanide, a secretary who always thought she would eventually marry her boss, George, is a suspect for George's wife's murder, [[spoiler:and eventually for George's murder too]]. Slightly subverting the trope though, many characters believe that George would have eventually fallen in love and married her if he had never met his wife, and in the novel proper, he trusts her more than anyone else. [[spoiler: This comes back to bite him, since she would never have been able to kill him and his wife and almost murder his sister-in-law if he didn't trust her to do everything for him.]]
* ''Literature/JohnPutnamThatcher'': In ''Green Grow the Dollars'', secretary Barbara Gunn has been in love with her boss for six years and has some bitterness about how "the woman who had moved into Scott's apartment was named Hilary, not Barbara."

* Played with in ''Series/{{Arrow}}'', Felicity has ShipTease with Oliver that evolves into a full-blown crush by Season 2. Oliver at first seems oblivious but by Season 3 is shown to return her affections. However, he refuses to explore a relationship with her mostly due to his CartwrightCurse (the first and only time he takes her out on a date, the restaurant gets blown up by an RPG) and ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies.

* In the ''Series/{{Decoy}}'' episode "To Trap a Thief," a secretary covers up her boss's insurance fraud for this reason. She never told him about her feelings because he's married with two kids.

* Orsino in ''Theatre/TwelfthNight'' is painfully oblivious to "Cesario's" infatuation.

* To an extent, Shawn in ''Theatre/BubbleBoy''.
* Mrs. Lovett in ''Theatre/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet''. She enables Sweeney's serial murders and disposes of his victims by baking them into pies. She continues to make romantic overtures to him despite his obvious disinterest due to him only having eyes for his late wife and revenge on the judge who took her. This is played literally in the [[Film/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet movie]], where Sweeney never actually looks directly at her UNTIL [[spoiler: he finds out she lied about his wife's death... and then Mrs. Lovett finally has his attention. She comes to regret it]].

-->'''Raiden:''' She's not talking to you, idiot.

* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5'': Excella Gionne makes the mistake of falling in love with Wesker. She tries to get him to feel the same way, mostly by dressing in a SexyBacklessOutfit with a NavelDeepNeckline. She also says "I have my eyes set on something much... ''bigger''" when he tells her her position at Tricell is secured, with a very obvious [[EatingTheEyeCandy gaze downwards.]] He [[IgnoreTheFanservice pushes her away when she puts her hands all over him]], and [[spoiler: eventually betrays and kills her.]]

* [[spoiler: Izebel]] in ''VideoGame/TearsToTiara2'' was personal secretary to the Governor-General of Hispania Hasdrubal, and also guardian to his son. She was very much in love with him. Hasdrubal actually has feelings for her but wants to follow his late wife's wishes by raising Hamil first. Unfortunately, TheEmpire messed everything up while Hamil was still a very young child.
* Selvaria from ''VideoGame/ValkyriaChronicles'', is a very straight and tragic example of this trope. She fell in love with her boss, Maximillian, because he saved her from a life of being a lab rat and took her in as one of his generals. The moment Maximillian caught on to her feelings for him, he began using emotional and psychological manipulation to keep her in his service and make her believe that he would return her affections if she performed her role to her utmost. [[spoiler: And in the end, said love and devotion is rewarded with Maximillian ordering her to [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness use her Final Flame]] so he can win the war he started. And she goes through with it because the revelation that she was and had always been nothing to him but a means to an end is enough to make her cross the DespairEventHorizon, so she has nothing more to live for, and even ''[[LoveMartyr still]]'' loves him in spite of it.]]

* In ''Webcomic/{{Erfworld}},'' Maggie the Thinkamancer eventually falls "rather desperately" in love with her commander, Parson, as revealed to Parson by the Hippiemancer Janis. The revelation troubles him considerably because, while he likes her well enough, he simply doesn't love her back that way. He at one point seriously considers taking a LovePotion to resolve the issue.

* In ''Webcomic/MagickChicks,'' Sandy is hopelessly in love with Faith, who's known for [[ReallyGetsAround having slept with much of the student body]] at Artemis - excluding Sandi, who's been [[HopelessSuitor permanently]] [[SleepsWithEveryoneButYou "friend-zoned".]]

** Tsukiko serves [[BigBad Xykon]] because she thinks [[ILoveTheDead undead are good love interests]]. He finds it as unsettling as the rest of Team Evil does since she's lusting over a friggin ''{{lich}}'' -- and besides, he's been completely asexual since he died. When [[spoiler:Redcloak kills her with her own wights, Xykon doesn't hold it against him, and only expresses annoyance at the prospect of losing a useful minion; even then, he doesn't even remember her name.]]

-->'''Thrym:''' Is that all I am to you? A resource to be used in your scheme?\\

* In ''Webcomic/SandraOnTheRocks'', Tatiana is a textbook case (albeit to a boss who's merely a {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, not a master villain), with the small extra quirk of [[UsefulNotes/{{BDSM}} bondage]] fantasies.

* Paige in ''WesternAnimation/TronUprising'' is non-romantically fanatically devoted to General Tessler, which is understandable since she believes he [[spoiler:saved her life from ISO's, when in fact he was responsible for the massacre that killed her friends.]]
* Waylon Smithers to Mr. Burns in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', a trait that has received steady {{Flanderization}} as the show has gone by. While Burns is completely oblivious to Smithers being both gay and ''very'' in love with him, he's usually light on the abuse, with most of it coming from his wealthy, comically out-of-touch eccentricities.

--->'''Marge:''' Hello, Mrs. Pennycandy.
--->'''Lois:''' It's ''Miss'' Pennycandy, I can assure you. I'm sorry to inform you that Krusty will not be joining Bart for dinner.
--->'''Marge:''' This is the fifth time he's cancelled. How can he hurt someone who loves him so?
--->'''Lois:''' Oh, Mrs. Simpson, I've wasted my womanhood asking that same question.

* Mercy Graves to ComicBook/LexLuthor in ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries''. He saved her from an existential gutter and got her undying loyalty, which was broken when, during an attack by Brainiac, Luthor chose to run away rather than save her from some fallen debris. Superman saved her, and she chose to rethink her loyalty to Lex, which panned out in ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', where she gains control of Lexcorp and later stops helping Lex altogether. At least until he gets out of prison and makes a [[spoiler: fake]] run for US President.
* Zhu Li in ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' is hinted to have a crush on her overly demanding boss Varrick, who's so self-centered he doesn't notice. Eventually, it's his [[MistreatmentInducedBetrayal mistreatment of her]] that leads her to betray him and pledge her loyalty to Kuvira instead in season 4. Varrick seems genuinely shocked when she lists off all the ways he's mistreated her over the years. At the end [[spoiler:this was shown to have been a [[FakeDefector ruse]] so she can sabotage Kuvira's plans from within, though it's implied she drew on her real feelings for Varrick to make it more convincing, and they end up getting married after everything's over]].
* {{Subverted|Trope}} in ''[[WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Total Drama Pahkitew Island]]:'' [[BigBadWannabe Max]] claims that his "minion," [[HypercompetentSidekick Scarlett]], is "hopelessly in love" with him, but insists that "evil doesn't date." Several other characters seem to think they're dating. Not only did she ''never'' feel that way about him, as the season goes on she begins to hate him more and more, and switches between [[TheChessmaster manipulating him and trying to get him eliminated]].
* Commander Peepers' relationship with Lord Hater in ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'' is frequently played like this. His room is more or less a StalkerShrine to Hater, which he trashed in "The Buddies" in response to his mistaken impression that Hater had found another best friend (before tearfully fixing everything).
** Supervising Director [[http://owner-of-wendys.tumblr.com/post/144329284124/i-worked-on-the-second-season-as-an-animator-and Dave Thomas]] confirms that Peepers being portrayed in this way was intentional.
* This is one of the common interpretations of Pearl and Rose Quartz's relationship in ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', with most of their canon portrayal being based around the LadyAndKnight dynamic. The other common interpretation is that Rose was in a casual, open relationship with Pearl until Greg came around, with Pearl being an InsecureLoveInterest to her [[UnequalPairing 'liege']]. (The AlternativeCharacterInterpretation of this interpretation is that Rose actually ''played along'' with Pearl's inferiority complex.)
* Scorpia from ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'' spends the first three seasons pretty obviously carrying a torch for Catra. She does anything Catra asks, refers to them as "soulmates," is desperate to impress her, and seems to want to be a MoralityChain for her, but Catra barely notices. Or rather, she might, but since she's barely capable of even being a good friend to Scorpia, it doesn't really matter. Plus, regardless of whether Catra actually treated Scorpia with respect, she is ultimately far more romantically interested in [[WeUsedToBeFriends her ex-best friend Adora]] anyway.
* In ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'', [[spoiler:Nathalie is in love with her boss Gabriel Agreste, who is [[SingleTargetSexuality very fiercely devoted to his wife Emilie]] to the point of [[LoveMakesYouEvil taking up supervillainy]] in an effort to heal her from her coma. In fact, said devotion is what ''made'' her fall in love with him in the first place. So, being a woman of honor, she [[TheDragon assists him in said supervillainy]], even sometimes using the broken Peacock Miraculous to do so even though it's heavily implied to be the very thing that caused Emilie's coma in the first place, as its broken state makes its special ability CastFromHitPoints when it isn't supposed to. To be fair, Nathalie is somewhat aware of how fucked up the situation is. The writers have also hinted that Nathalie does have a reason of her own for wanting Emilie back]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'', by the episode "Skooled!", it's made abundantly clear that Gemini serves Miss Heinous out of love, yet she treats him with nothing but contempt. After Rasticore rejects her, Gemini offers her his own continued service, only for Heinous to rip out his heart and use it to blow up Rasticore.
--> '''Gemini:''' If you wanted my heart, all you had to do was ask.
* Anna from ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' is the devoted secretary of Gallagher Elementary's [[AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil fourth grade]] [[PresidentEvil president]] Jimmy. She works tirelessly for him out of love and assumes the feeling is mutual but is heartbroken to learn otherwise in "Operation: S.N.O.W.I.N.G." when Jimmy reveals his plans to make Numbuh 1's girlfriend Lizzie his (unwilling) queen. Anna helps the Kids Next Door defeat Jimmy and finally [[LoveConfession confesses her love for him]]. He is both surprised and touched.

* The final BigBad of the original ''Literature/{{Slayers}}'' season, [[spoiler:Copy Rezo]], has Eris, who loves him enough to [[spoiler:find a way to bring him BackFromTheDead]] but is shot InTheBack by him the moment when [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness she stops being useful.]]
* Karin from ''Franchise/{{Naruto}},'' she [[spoiler:used to be]] part of Taka (or Hebi), a group lead by [[ChickMagnet Sasuke]] merely out of her infatuation for him. Not only [[CelibateHero couldn't he care any less]] for her (or his other teammates for that matter), but also [[spoiler:he didn't hesitate to sacrifice her for one second in order to get to Danzo]].
* Excel from ''Manga/ExcelSaga'' is this to her boss. All her attempts to woo him are met with ComedicSociopathy.

* ''Anime/LastExile'' has the XO in love with captain Alex Rowe, who is so dead set on revenge he couldn't care less for her one way or the other, and keeps her around only because she's professional enough to not let it get in the way of her work. This gets even weirder when you consider she's the princess of his nation. And it gets even more tragic when [[spoiler: the "sonar" operator hears him call out a dead loves name with his last breath, and lies to the XO that he called out her name instead.]]
* Liang Qi of ''{{Anime/Canaan}}'' is quite insanely devoted to her "nee-sama", Alphard Alshaya. Alphard does not return Liang Qi's affection, instead being focused on her enemy, the title character. As you can quite imagine, Liang Qi murderously despises Canaan for this. Near the end of the anime, Liang Qi's mental state [[SanitySlippage takes a turn for the worse]] when Alphard abandons her, resulting in the most horrific and heartbreaking VillainousBreakdown in the anime.
* ''{{Anime/Neon Genesis Evangelion}}'': Both Maya's [[YuriGenre affection]] for Ritsuko and Hyuga's for Misato were revealed [[spoiler: during Instrumentality.]]
* ''Anime/TenchiMuyoWarOnGeminar'': Emera is madly in love with Dagmyer and serves him even after it becomes clear that he doesn't care about her and he's turning into a lunatic.

* The youma Thetis is blatantly in love with Jadeite in episode 12 of ''Anime/SailorMoon'', but he coldly brushes her off...until she says she has a plan to gather energy. She stays by his side and uses her power all for his benefit, and of course she ends up getting killed for him. Even after that, all he can think about is how much trouble he's in with Queen Beryl for failing again.
* Raphtalia in ''Literature/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero'' is in love with Naofumi, but due to Malty's betrayal, he is incapable of recognizing this. [[spoiler:The same holds true for Sadina and Atlas]].

* In ''Manga/MagicKnightRayearth'', the sorceress Alycone- supposed to protect Princess Emeraude- is so infatuated with BigBad Zagato that she switches sides once he [[spoiler:allegedly]] kidnaps the Princess. In the manga, Zagato allows Alycone to die once [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness she fails one too many times]] but she lives on in the anime, sticking around to wonder [[WhyDontYaJustShootHim why Zagato doesn't just off Emeraude]] and is stunned once she figures out [[spoiler: it's because Zagato actually ''loves'' her.]]
* In ''Manga/TokyoGhoul[=:Re=]'', Kanae turns out to be this to his master ([[KissingCousins and cousin]]), Shuu Tsukiyama. While his feelings seem to have developed [[PrecociousCrush early on]], he remains in denial about them until [[BreakingSpeech confronted]] about them. But his growing obsession and jealousy begin spiraling out of control, leading him to try to MurderTheHypotenuse.
** Mutsuki turns out to be this to Sasaki/Kaneki, his beloved mentor. While Sasaki/Kaneki does care for him he's instead romantically interested in Touka. Mutsuki notices and is revealed to be harboring a more murderously psychotic crush than originally thought on Kaneki which he realizes out of jealousy towards Touka and Kaneki's closeness.
* The ''Manga/BoardingSchoolJuliet'' character Somali appears to be this to Aby, her jealousy and impulsive declarations of love going ignored. [[spoiler:The truth is more complicated. Aby requites her feelings to some degree, but remaining single [[TheCasanova gives him social leverage]], and in the refined politics of the West, people are judged not only on who they are, but who they date...and Somali ''does not'' fit in. They could date, but it would lessen his chances of being elected prefect and gaining the power to "change the world".]]

* ''Manga/FoodWars'': One of Asahi Saiba's subordinates among the Noir Chefs is a woman who goes by Sarge, who is all but stated to be in love with him. Unfortunately, he's too focused on Erina Nakiri to even notice her.
* ''Manga/SgtFrog'': Tamama has a [[{{Yandere}} worryingly obsessive thing]] for Keroro. Unfortunately for Tamama, the sergeant is oblivious as he is [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain incompetent at world domination]].

* Featherstone to Herr Starr in ''ComicBook/{{Preacher}}'' (and ButtMonkey Hoover for Featherstone). However, though she declares her love for Starr, he doesn't care and says so outright. Only at the very end does she finally realize what a monster he is.

* ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen'': Cyclops left the X-Men and joined the Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy. He still loves Jean and does not even notice the Scarlet Witch's explicit advances on him. She's hugging and caressing him, talking about heartbeats... and he's still talking about the way the last mission ended. He eventually returned to the X-Men, and none of this was ever brought up again. Possibly for the best, given the Scarlet Witch's [[BrotherSisterIncest other romantic interest]].
* In issue #3 of ''ComicBook/StarWarsVaderDarkVisions'', an unnamed Imperial nurse develops an obsessive crush on Darth Vader. Vader doesn't seem to be aware of her existence, much less reciprocate. And when the nurse approaches an unmasked Vader in his meditation chamber and professes her love to him, Vader silently ignites his lightsaber through her chest, killing her. Then telling his subordinates over comms to remove the garbage from his quarters.

* In the fanfic ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/57176/twilight-sparkle-historys-greatest-monster Twilight Sparkle: History's Greatest Monster]]'', Twilight is transported to an AlternateUniverse where she apparently rules with an iron hoof as the Lord Librarian, with Trixie as her enamored underling. While trying to keep appearances while avoiding actually doing evil, she pretends to return Trixie's affection and is briefly horrified at what she might have just set in motion.
* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' fanfic, ''FanFic/LikeOneSunderedStar'' uses this to explain why the Draconian Dignitary was always willing to suffer through Jack Noir's paperwork for him and never questioned his leadership among the Midnight Crew. So far, this infatuation does not seem to have carried over to the current universe.

* The ''Pokémon'' oneshot ''Fanfic/{{Witchcraft}}'' depicts Ariana as being in love with her boss Giovanni. Giovanni seduces Ariana to have her [[DarwinistDesire bare his child]], but there's no romance to their relationship. It's unrequited on Ariana's side.

** This can also be considered a very rare example of [[WomanScorned Man Scorned]] (the male version of the Woman Scorned trope) because once he has his Face–Heel Turn and becomes a supervillain, he actually tries to use her not returning his romantic feelings as a motivator to get revenge and attempts to kill her. [[spoiler: Megamind, (mentioned above) because he transforms into the good guy and hero throughout the film, is the one who, of course, ends up saving and rescuing her and who ultimately defeats Hal/Titan.]]

* 'Series/{{Forever|2014}}'': Lucas is a platonic version, wanting desperately to be friends with the boss he so admires. He keeps trying, asking him to go out for a beer, some music, a club, or the like, and he gently (or not so subtly) probes for more information about Henry pretty much every episode. Henry rebuffs him off-hand, with no interest in getting closer to any mortal, but eventually he warms to Lucas, and by the end of the series he's not only gone to a karaoke bar with the gang, he's paid Lucas real compliments and trusted him with [[MissingMom a few]] [[MadScientistLaboratory secrets]] (although not yet [[ResurrectiveImmortality the big one]]).

* The adult-oriented ''Taimanin Asagi'' franchise brings us Ingrid, a Hell Knight whom serves as both secretary and right-hand woman to Edwin Black, the vampiric BigBad of the series. While Ingrid makes it explicitly clear of her affections towards her boss, his attentions are squarely focused on Asagi herself, given his interest in her powers (and the fact that at least in one spin-off he already has a daughter). However, it is clear that Edwin values Ingrid dearly -- when the traitorous Taimanin Oboro abducts and tortures Ingrid for several days, Edwin personally steps in to beat Oboro within an inch of her life and oversee Ingrid's recovery afterwards.

* ''Anime/ValkyriaChronicles:'' [[LadyOfWar Selvaria]] [[PersonOfMassDestruction Bles]] toward [[BigBad Prince]] [[{{Jerkass}} Maximillion.]] She feels deeply indebted to him and eventually fell in love with him, for [[spoiler: saving her from the research facility that was turning her and the other Valkyur into [[TykeBomb living weapons]]]], so she thought. In truth, he uses them for the exact same purposes. What makes it even more tragic is that Selvaria is fully aware Maximillion cares nothing for her and only sees her as a tool. At the same time, [[spoiler: it's also implied that [[ChivalrousPervert Jaeger]] is in love with her, though she's either unaware of it or chooses to ignore it.]] Despite all this, [[MyMasterRightOrWrong she served Maximillion faithfully.....]] even when he [[LoveMartyr ordered her to die]] [[YouHaveFailedMe for failing him.]]

* In the fanfic ''Twilight Sparkle: History's Greatest Monster'', Twilight is transported to an AlternateUniverse where she apparently rules with an iron hoof as the Lord Librarian, with Trixie as her enamored underling. While trying to keep appearances while avoiding actually doing evil, she pretends to return Trixie's affection and is briefly horrified at what she might have just set in motion.

* In ''{{Doonesbury}}'', Honey Huan used to feel this way about Duke.

* To an extent, Shawn in ''Theatre/BubbleBoy''

* During the epic chase near the end of ''Film/TheBluesBrothers'', a neo-Nazi confesses, "I've always loved you," to an unamused local ''Gruppenführer'' as their car goes careening off the end of an unfinished highway.

* During the epic chase near the end of ''Film/TheBluesBrothers'', as their car goes careening off the end of an unfinished highway, one neo-Nazi confesses his love to the local ''Gruppenführer'', who isn't amused.

* The final BigBad of the original ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'' season, [[spoiler:Copy Rezo]], has Eris, who loves him enough to [[spoiler:find a way to bring him BackFromTheDead]] but is shot InTheBack by him the moment when [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness she stops being useful.]]

* Raphtalia in ''LightNovel/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero'' is in love with Naofumi, but due to Malty's betrayal, he is incapable of recognizing this. [[spoiler:The same holds true for Sadina and Atlas]].