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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'': Mirage is, by her own words, "attracted to power" and the misunderstood. There is the implication she and Syndrome are in a relationship, [[MistreatmentInducedBetrayal but once he gambles with her life when Mr. Incredible threatens to kill her, she sours on the relationship]].

* In ''VideoGame/GalaxyAngel'', Almo Blueberry, one of the Elsior's BridgeBunnies, is in love with the ship's subcommander, Lester Coolduras. He's of course completely oblivious to this. Her partner Coco Nutmilk in turn gains one when Tapio Ca becomes her subordinate in the second trilogy.

* 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]].

* ''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 hearthbeats... 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 ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'': Mirage is, by her own words, "attracted to power" and the misunderstood. There is the implication she and Syndrome are in a relationship, [[MistreatmentInducedBetrayal but once he gambles with her life when Mr. Incredible threatens to kill her she sours on the relationship]].

** 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.]]

** Yet another variety of this setup with Marcus Cole and Commander Susan Ivanova. Ivanova was a stern, duty-driven officer, and Marcus something of a free-spirited loner. He makes his feelings towards her very clear, and she spends much of their time together parrying his advances. Part of her problem with him was that as a Ranger (sort of a space-faring warrior monk), he didn't really fit anywhere in the command structure she was familiar with. Their relationship ends tragically as well [[spoiler: when Marcus sacrifices his life, [[CastFromHitPoints literally]], to save a mortally wounded Ivanova,]] leaving her to bitterly reflect that AllLoveIsUnrequited.

* Hubert from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'' is pretty obviously in love with his liege, Edelgard. He'll outright tell her in their A support conversation, but despite her surprise she still doesn't seem to see him as more than a trusted friend. Even in their paired ending, should the player go for it, states that they never pursued a romance [[PlatonicLifePartners despite spending the rest of their lives together]]. Hubert doesn't mind if those feelings are unrequited, however, and simply wants Edelgard's dreams and happiness to come to pass. [[spoiler:On Crimson Flower, [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy he'll take steps to make sure Byleth becomes Edelgard's emotional anchor and possible romantic partner]], simply because he knows how Edelgard treasures them.]]
* In ''VideoGame/GalaxyAngel'', Almo Blueberry, one of the Elsior's BridgeBunnies, is in love with the ship's subcommander, Lester Coolduras. He's of course completely oblivious to this. Her partner, Coco Nutmilk, in turn gains one when Tapio Ca becomes her subordinate in the second trilogy.

* [[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.

** 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 on the prospect of losing a useful minion; even then, he doesn't even remember her name.]]

** Krusty the Clown has one in his secretary, Lois Pennycandy.

* In ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'', [[spoiler:Nathalie is in love with her boss, Gabriel Agreste, who is very fiercely devoted to his wife Emilie to the point of [[BigBad 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]].

* 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.

* In ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'', Molly Hooper is infatuated with Sherlock, but he ignores and often insults her, only being nice to her when he needs a favor from her (e.g. complimenting her hair when he needs to see a body from the morgue where she works). In the second season, Sherlock undergoes a bit of CharacterDevelopment to show he genuinely cares about her, in his own way. He even apologizes to her when he accidentally made her look like a fool at a gift exchange. In the season's finale, she's one of the very few people who never lose faith in him [[spoiler:and is the one he comes to for help with faking his death]]. During the events of the third season, the relationship between her and Sherlock grows into an awkward (especially when her new BF is revealed to be a ReplacementGoldfish) but genuinely trusting friendship. It helps that Molly is a bit of a conscience to Sherlock, and doesn't mind occasionally chewing him out for his insensitive behaviour towards others or even himself.

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* ''Literature/HerculePoirot'': 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. 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 her 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.]]

* ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'' strongly implies this with [[DarkActionGirl Gorast]] (and probably the only reason it's not more explicit is that [[NoHuggingNoKissing the series doesn't allow "romance"]]). While most of the Makuta serve [[BigBad Teridax]] out of [[GodhoodSeeker promises of godhood, divine envy]], or [[NobleDemon mere obligation]], Gorast is an exception for working entirely out of [[UndyingLoyalty loyalty to Teridax]], acting on sheer faith that his EvilPlan would and ''should'' come to fruition. Teridax, being the ManipulativeBastard that he is, simply sees her as another pawn in a long lineup of players, having exploited her personal loyalty [[HunterOfHerOwnKind to have her kill off Makuta dissenters to the plan]]. [[spoiler:In the end, Teridax repays her by [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness letting her and her fellow Makuta brethren get consumed in an energy storm]] as he ascends to godhood. She spends her final moments [[VillainousBSOD completely shutting down]] from sheer betrayal, disbelief, and horror that everything she'd done was AllForNothing.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arcane}}'': Sky is the assistant to [[ScienceHero Jayce and Viktor]] with an obvious crush on the latter. Viktor is far too focused on his work to notice, especially since his studies are the only hope to cure his deteriorating health. [[spoiler:When he accidentally kills Sky during a Hextech experiment he's striken with guilt, especially after discovering a love letter she wrote to him [[CannotSpitItOut hidden in her notebook]].]]

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arcane}}'': Sky is the assistant to [[ScienceHero Jayce and Viktor]] with an obvious crush on the latter. Viktor is far too focused on his work to notice, especially since his studies are the only hope to cure his deteriorating health.

* ''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.

* 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 feelings are 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.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'' Mirage is, by her own words, "attracted to power" and the misunderstood. There is the implication she and Syndrome are in a relationship, [[MistreatmentInducedBetrayal but once he gambles with her life when Mr. Incredible threatens to kill her she sours on the relationship]].

* ''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 [[AbsoluteCleavage very]] [[SexyBacklessOutfit impractically]]. 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.]]

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

** Hubert from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'' is pretty obviously in love with his liege, Edelgard. He'll outright tell her in their A support conversation, but she more-or-less just laughs it off. Even in their paired ending, should the player go for it, states that they never pursued a romance.

* ''WesternAnimation/MegaMind'': GenderFlipped: Hal Stewart works as a cameraman for news reporter Roxanne. Hal starts out as a personification of this trope for quite a large part of the movie towards her, yet it's downplayed because she doesn't totally ignore him and does show some genuine appreciation for the work he does for her and with her on their job. However, once he realizes that Roxanne will never return the same ''romantic'' feelings for him (emphasis on romantic because she will only ever see him as a coworker and employee and nothing more), instead of accepting it and continuing to be overly obsequious to her, he actually starts to become obnoxious towards her. It gets even worse when he realizes she's starting to fall in love with Megamind [[spoiler: (who was originally the antagonist of the film and their common enemy but has a [[HeelFaceTurn Heel–Face Turn]] and actually becomes a good guy, or more specifically, an affable, [[ClassicalAntiHero classical anti-hero]] throughout the movie)]], and he actually has a drastic [[FaceHeelTurn Face–Heel Turn]] and becomes the ''real'' villain and antagonist in the climax of the film, calling himself Titan.
** 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: Mega Mind, (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.]]

* ''Manga/SgtFrog'': Private Tamama has a clear-as-day crush on his Sergeant Keroro. Unfortunately for Tamama, he is ObliviousToLove... and just plain oblivious in general.

* ''WesternAnimation/MegaMind'': GenderFlipped: Hal Stewart works as a cameraman for news reporter Roxanne. Hal starts out as a personification of this trope for quite a large part of the movie towards her, yet it's downplayed because she doesn't totally ignore him and does show some genuine appreciation for the work he does for her and with her on their job. However, once he realizes that Roxanne will never return the same ''romantic'' feelings for him (emphasis on romantic because she will only ever see him as a coworker and employee and nothing more), instead of accepting it and continuing to be overly obsequious to her, he actually starts to become obnoxious towards her. It gets even worse when he realizes she's starting to fall in love with Megamind [[spoiler: who was originally the antagonist of the film and their common enemy but has a [[HeelFaceTurn Heel–Face Turn]] and actually becomes a good guy, or more specifically, an affable, [[ClassicalAntiHero classical anti-hero]] throughout the movie]], and he actually has a drastic [[FaceHeelTurn Face–Heel Turn]] and becomes the ''real'' villain and antagonist in the climax of the film, calling himself Titan.

* ''WesternAnimation/MegaMind'': GenderFlipped: Hal Stewart works as a cameraman for news reporter Roxanne. Hal starts out as a personification of this trope for quite a large part of the movie towards her, yet it's downplayed because she doesn't totally ignore him and does show some genuine appreciation for the work he does for her and with her on their job. However, once he realizes that Roxanne will never return the same ''romantic'' feelings for him (emphasis on romantic because she will only ever see him as a coworker and employee and nothing more), instead of accepting it and continuing to be overly obsequious to her, he actually starts to become obnoxious towards her. It gets even worse when he realizes she's starting to fall in love with Megamind [[spoiler: who was originally the antagonist of the film and their common enemy but has a [[HeelFaceTurn Heel–Face Turn]] and actually becomes a good guy throughout the movie]], and he actually has a drastic [[FaceHeelTurn Face–Heel Turn]] and becomes the ''real'' villain and antagonist in the climax of the film, calling himself Titan.

* ''WesternAnimation/MegaMind'': GenderFlipped: Hal Stewart works as a cameraman for news reporter Roxanne. Hal starts out as a personification of this trope for quite a large part of the movie towards her, yet it's downplayed because she doesn't totally ignore him and does show some genuine appreciation for the work he does for her and with her on their job. However, once he realizes that Roxanne will never return the same ''romantic'' feelings for him (emphasis on romantic because she will only ever see him as a coworker and employee and nothing more), instead of accepting it and continuing to be overly obsequious to her, he actually starts to become obnoxious towards her. It gets even worse when he realizes she's starting to fall in love with Megamind, and he actually has a drastic [[FaceHeelTurn Face–Heel Turn]] and actually becomes the villain and antagonist in the climax of the film, Titan.

* ''WesternAnimation/MegaMind'': GenderFlipped: Hal Stewart works as a cameraman for news reporter Roxanne. Hal starts out as a personification of this trope for quite a large part of the movie towards his boss and coworker Roxanne, yet it's downplayed because she doesn't totally ignore him and does show some genuine appreciation for the work he does for her and with her on their job. However, once he realizes that Roxanne will never return the same ''romantic'' feelings for him (emphasis on romantic because she will only ever see him as a coworker and employee and nothing more), instead of accepting it and continuing to be overly obsequious to her, he actually starts to become obnoxious towards her. It gets even worse when he realizes she's starting to fall in love with Megamind, and he actually has a drastic [[FaceHeelTurn Face–Heel Turn]] and actually becomes the villain and antagonist in the climax of the film, Titan.

* ''WesternAnimation/MegaMind'': GenderFlipped: Hal Stewart works as a cameraman for news reporter Roxanne. Hal starts out as a personification of this trope for quite a large part of the movie towards his boss and coworker Roxanne, yet it's downplayed because she doesn't totally ignore him and does show some genuine appreciation for the work he does for her and with her on their job. However, once he realizes that Roxanne will never return the same
''romantic''feelings for him (emphasis on romantic because she will only ever see him as a coworker and employee and nothing more), instead of accepting it and continuing to be overly obsequious to her, he actually starts to become obnoxious towards her. It gets even worse when he realizes she's starting to fall in love with Megamind, and he actually has a drastic [[FaceHeelTurn Face–Heel Turn]] and actually becomes the villain and antagonist in the climax of the film, Titan.