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* ''Manga/DeathNote'': Light believes this. In the manga when he meets Misa who is madly infatuated with him, he thinks "I can't develop feelings for her. That's how idiots get caught."

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* ''Manga/DeathNote'': [[Characters/DeathNoteLightYagami Light Yagami]] believes this. In the manga when he meets Misa who is madly infatuated with him, he thinks "I can't develop feelings for her. That's how idiots get caught."
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* ''Manga/TheDangersInMyHeart'': On his way from school, Ichikawa tries downplaying his recent LoveEpiphany towards Yamada and declares love to be a “disease/mental illness that ruins lives”, like any young boy would. [[FateDrivesUsTogether This is, of course, right before he meets Yamada near a convenience store]], who (jokingly at first) asks him for a bike ride. He then thinks to himself that ''he'' has such an illness while riding her past a police station.
** Later on, while not outright rejecting his feelings Yamada, he thinks about himself acting irrationally after his arm gets broken from a fall while he was taking photos of snow for her during a family trip.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'': Deconstructed in ''Literature/AFrozenHeart'', a TieInNovel to the film. [[spoiler:As he's never known love since childhood, Prince Hans]] derides ActOfTrueLove as an [[FlawExploitation exploitable weakness]], but it left him [[WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove incapable]] of understanding it beyond an intellectual level. As a result, Anna's recovery from the frozen heart curse, reconciliation with her sister, and her HeroicSacrifice all perplex him, and when she [[KirkSummation calls him out]] for being "frozen-hearted," it even leaves him utterly confused.

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'': Deconstructed in ''Literature/AFrozenHeart'', a TieInNovel to the film. [[spoiler:As he's never known love since childhood, Prince Hans]] derides the ActOfTrueLove as an [[FlawExploitation exploitable weakness]], flaw]], but it sadly left him [[WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove incapable]] of understanding it true love beyond an intellectual level. As a result, Anna's recovery from the frozen heart curse, reconciliation with her sister, and her HeroicSacrifice all perplex him, and when she [[KirkSummation calls him out]] for being "frozen-hearted," it even leaves him utterly confused.
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* ''Literature/MyHappyMarriage'': In chapter 15 of the manga, when Kiyoka Kudo comes to rescue Miyo Saimori, he asks Shinichi Saimori if he even loves Miyo. Not only does Shinichi Saimori make it clear that he never loved her, but he believes that love is a useless emotion and that he only cares about what he can get from Miyo. While not stated, it is heavily implied that his so-called love for his other daughter, Kaya Saimori, is very conditional, and he could’ve easily felt disdain for Kaya if he had also deemed her useless.

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* ''Literature/TheHungerGames'': Katniss Everdeen has this frame of mind from her childhood. Her parents were HappilyMarried and her mother crumbled completely when he died - in other words made her weak. In the first book, she more or less says outright that she needs to keep an emotional distance from Peeta to protect herself from that kind of weakness. Romantic love would also lead to marriage and children and she believes maternal love to be an even greater weakness, desperately wanting to protect herself from being a mother on Reaping Day.

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Katniss Everdeen has this frame of mind from her childhood. Her parents were HappilyMarried and her mother crumbled completely when he died - in other words made her weak. In the first book, she more or less says outright that she needs to keep an emotional distance from Peeta to protect herself from that kind of weakness. Romantic love would also lead to marriage and children and she believes maternal love to be an even greater weakness, desperately wanting to protect herself from being a mother on Reaping Day.Day.
** As revealed with the [[Literature/TheBalladOfSongbirdsAndSnakes prequel novel]], Coriolanus Snow, the main villain of the original series and VillainProtagonist of the prequel, also subscribes into this belief as well after [[spoiler: Lucy Gray left him out of disgust about his true colors.]]
-->'''Snow:''' It is the things we love most, that destroy us.

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* TheBible:
** Downplayed (since the concept of God's unconditional love is considered a very good thing in Christianity and Genesis says God made marriage between two people because it would not be right for people to be alone), but the Apostle Paul believed that those who weren't sexually and romantically inclined shouldn't get married. He felt it was a distraction, and used time and resources that could be spent on whatever God wanted them to do. His biggest beef was with the Christians that completely banned marriage (since people would start having sex outside of it, which is considered a sin), and the Christians that mandated it (since it would be unfair for people like him).

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Literature/TheBible: Downplayed (since the concept of God's unconditional love is considered a very good thing in Christianity and Genesis says God made marriage between two people because it would not be right for people to be alone), but the Apostle Paul believed that those who weren't sexually and romantically inclined shouldn't get married. He felt it was a distraction, and used time and resources that could be spent on whatever God wanted them to do. His biggest beef was with the Christians that completely banned marriage (since people would start having sex outside of it, which is considered a sin), and the Christians that mandated it (since it would be unfair for people like him).

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* ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'': Ironically both the Jedi and Sith share this mentality regarding love. The Jedi teach that love is a dangerous attachment that can ultimately lead to the Darkside. The Sith teach that love is a weakness that others can exploit and its influence can undermine the negative emotions they harness.

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Ironically both the Jedi and Sith share this mentality regarding love. The Jedi teach that love is a dangerous attachment that can ultimately lead to the Darkside. The Sith teach that love is a weakness that others can exploit and its influence can undermine the negative emotions they harness.



* ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords'':
** Darth Sion declares to a female Exile that he hates her because she's beautiful to him, and for that she must die. In Sion's case, love literally is a weakness because ThePowerOfHate is what keeps his [[TechnicallyLivingZombie broken and decaying body]] from falling apart.

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''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords'': Darth Sion declares to a female Exile that he hates her because she's beautiful to him, and for that she must die. In Sion's case, love literally is a weakness because ThePowerOfHate is what keeps his [[TechnicallyLivingZombie broken and decaying body]] from falling apart.
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* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade'': [[RedBaron The "Angel of Death"]] Jaffar is on the receiving end of a speech about this, as fellow assassin Legault tells him that his affection for [[MoralityPet Nino]] makes him vulnerable because she's much easier to hurt than he is. Indeed, this comes into play in his A support with Matthew, who, as part of his revenge on Jaffar for killing his girlfriend Leila, [[IHaveYourWife has his associates capture her as blackmail]] and says that he'll have her killed if Jaffar doesn't let Matthew kill him. Jaffar agrees to this plan almost immediately, despite being very capable of trying to kill Matthew instead, as demonstrated in their B support. [[spoiler:It turns out Matthew was bluffing about having Nino captured at all, of course.]]

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