History Main / PromotedToLoveInterest

** Ender's love interest in the books was Novinha, who was about three thousand years from being born at that point. (Ender runs into relativity a whole lot because his job involves going to other planets to give strictly factual eulogies to people he doesn't know.)

** The same was done in the film of ''TheDaVanciCode''.

* [[{{AdaptationDecay}} The film version]] of ''QueenOfTheDamned'' made the main subplot a romance between the two main characters who, in the book, do not speak.

* [[{{AdaptationDecay}} The film version]] of ''QueenOfTheDamned'' made the main subplot a romance between the two main characters who, in the book, [[{{Wallbanger}} do not speak.]]

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* Somewhat (and very surprisingly) averted in the movie adaptation to ''[[IRobot I, Robot]]''. Both the male lead and the female lead are very attractive, yet they never get romantically involved. Well, not explicitly, but there are hints at it, and Susan Calvin in the short stories was an elderly, celibate misanthrope after the first few {{Time Skip}}s. She gets [[HotterAndSexier upgraded]] to a HotScientist, and at least a potential love interest, but thankfully they focused on the robots and the related ideals.

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* {{Inverted|Trope}} in ''{{Angels and Demons}}'': [[spoiler:Vittoria]] is in bed with Langdon by the end of the book, but in the movie, romance is never hinted at.

* Liz Sherman from ''Film/{{Hellboy}}''. In the comicbooks, she's Hellboy's co-worker and friend, and something of a little sister. In the movies, she ends up boinking Hellboy. No, thanks (unless that's [[RuleThirtySix your thing]]). It did give her some character, since in the comics, she's mostly a FlatCharacter that the author has no idea to do with and only narrowly avoided killing off.
** The writer (of the comic) did sign off on Liz being made the love interest. His thoughts on the... more recent development are unknown.
*** Considering he co-wrote and was a producer for the sequel those more recent developments have his stamp of approval.
** Would you be so opposed to Hellboy/Liz if you knew that in the comics and the animated movies, she gets it on with ''[[FishPerson Abe]]?''
*** Better than the guy who ''[[WifeHusbandry raised her]]''.
*** And you get some cute little fire/water deals with that pairing. Also, if you don't know [[spoiler: Abe used to be human. It's complicated.]]

* Somewhat (and very surprisingly) averted in the movie adaptation to ''[[IRobot I, Robot]]''. Both the male lead and the female lead are very attractive, yet they never get romantically involved. Well, not explicitly, but there are hints at it, and Susan Calvin in the short stories was an elderly, celibate misanthrope after the first few {{Time Skip}}s. She gets [[HotterAndSexier upgraded]] to [[HotScientist eye candy]], and at least a potential love interest, but thankfully they focused on the robots and the related ideals.

** Which begs the question: who the ''FLIP'' would wanna hook up with Rorschach?!
** Gah! No! Don't say that! You're just opening up a [[EstrogenBrigadeBait can]] [[MisaimedFandom of]] [[UglyCute worms!]]

* In a move that [[GenreSavvy savvy]] movie goers could have seen coming, the new ''{{Star Trek|XI}}'' movie does this to Lt. Uhura. What they probably didn't see coming was that she's ''Spock's'' love interest, not Kirk's.
** Which is less surprising if you keep in mind a couple of early episodes of the original series in which she was blatantly flirting with him (and, more strangely given his later characterization, him with her!).
*** Of course, given the time period of the original series, the only reason Uhura wasn't officially anyone's love interest was probably because of the interracial relationship thing.
* TheFilmOfTheBook of ''TheChroniclesOfNarnia: Prince Caspian'' creates a romance between Susan and Caspian. Guess they didn't want to wait one more movie for Caspian's marriage to Ramandu's daughter.
** Fortunately, it's only a mild romance, limited to flirting and a goodbye kiss. It's so minor that it could conceivably have happened "between the lines" of the book, and it gave Susan something to do while she was onscreen.

* Moneypenny in the IanFleming ''JamesBond'' books is just a simple secretary who has no special connection with Bond. In the movies, though, they gave them a bit of a playful, flirtatious relationship and the rest is history. Not to mention making her younger and hotter.
** Not so. In the book version of ''{{Moonraker}}'', Bond reflects on how Moneypenny is still attractive, and debates starting a romance with her, or at least thinks she's attractive. On page 14 the text says she and Bond like each other, and that Bond admires her looks. The book also mentions Bond's own secretary, and that he and several other double-0s had made several passes at her, so presumably they've all gone after Moneypenny too. Anyway, Bond's relationship with Moneypenny has never gone beyond light flirting. And with ''[[ReallyGetsAround Bond]]'' that makes her practically unique.
** Depends on what film you're watching. In ''DrNo'' it was a bit of flirting, by the time of ''DieAnotherDay'' Moneypenny was practically in love with him. CharacterizationMarchesOn?
* ''LesMiserables'' is a victim of this. In the 1998 film Fantine and Jean Valjean are shown as having a borderline doomed romance despite the fact that in the book he doesn't even meet her until she's dying of syphilis, and his willingness to help her is largely a result of his guilt over one of his employees unfairly firing her without his knowledge.
** ''SakuraTaisen'''s version of ''Les Mis'' (it was in one of the CD dramas) does that as well. It gives them a lovely duet about it and everything.

** Um, actually, the fourth book implies otherwise...
*** Strictly speaking, it just tells us to [[DidTheyOrDidntThey mind our own business]].

* ''StarshipTroopers'' does this with "Dizzy" Flores who, in the book, is a guy in the same platoon as Rico, and is only mentioned in the first chapter, due to the fact that he dies during a drop, and is not romantic at all. (Per the other wiki and, you know, the book.) [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Troopers_(film)#Comparison_with_the_novel]] Of course, Dizzy gets an upgrade with boobs and boinked, ftw. It's good both ways.

** Not exactly. The book has the immortal boy asking her to wait until she's 17, take a drink from the same place he did, and remain find him so they can stay together forever. Hardly "nothing more".

** It was nothing more than a TokenRomance, and a {{Wallbanger}} to boot.
---> [[spoiler:"Have you ever done it with a yoga master?"]]
* The original ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' does this with April and Casey, years before the relationship actually becomes canonical in the comic books.
** Actually April and Casey were flirting with each other as far back as Volume I of the original comics, which the movie is mostly based on.
* This is actually inverted in the movie adaptation of ''{{Psycho}}''. In the original novel Lila and Sam become romantically involved [[spoiler:after Mary is killed and they try to solve her murder.]] Hitchcock made their relationship platonic in the film.

* Would have happened with Chris and Jill if George A. Romero did direct the ''Film/ResidentEvil'' movie.
* ''Film/{{Lord of the Rings}}''. Okay so Arwen was present in the books as a love interest but she wasn't present a whole lot. The movies upped that so she made an appearance (even if it was just in a dream/flashback/whatever) in every single movie.

* [[{{AdaptationDecay}} The film version]] of QueenOfTheDamned made the main subplot a romance between the two main characters who, in the book, [[{{Wallbanger}} do not speak.]]

* Adaptations and pastiches featuring SherlockHolmes always do this to Irene Adler, the one person to outsmart and upstage Holmes and to whom he refers to as 'the' woman. Although this is canonically along the lines of grudging admiration, when going off the source material and looking for someone to be Holmes' LoveInterest it's either her [[HoYay or]] [[HeterosexualLifePartners Watson]]... despite that in the ''one'' story Irene Adler is in, Holmes comes in laughing over [[spoiler:how he helped her get married to someone else.]] Even if Holmes was into relationships, Irene seems pretty stoked with [[spoiler:her hot lawyer husband]], but, of course, nobody cares what the woman wants. It seems that if they'd actually bothered to read the stories someone like Violet Hunter would make more sense.

So. You're adapting this great book for the screen. It's got action, comedy, drama, rom...what, it ''doesn't'' have romance? Well, that won't do, we can't [[StrictlyFormula break the formula]]. Looks like it's time for a previously platonic character to be PromotedToLoveInterest.

See also HotterAndSexier.

* ''LesMiserables'' is a victim of this. In the 1998 film Fantine and Jean Valjean are shown as having a borderline doomed romance despite them being strictly platonic in the novel.

** Platonic doesn't even begin to cut it. They don't even meet until Fantine is already in the early stages of syphilitic insanity. Their entire relationship consists of him paying for her medical treatment and feeling guilty because one of his employees fired her without his knowledge, while she raves about her daughter. That's not a promotion to love interest, that's a catapult to love interest.
** Subverted in the musical, in which Valjean's interactions with Fantine are basically a condensed version of the book.

* Adaptations and pastiches featuring SherlockHolmes often do this to Irene Adler, the one person to outsmart and upstage Holmes and to whom he refers to as 'the' woman. Although this is canonically along the lines of grudging admiration, when going off the source material and looking for someone to be Holmes' LoveInterest it's either her [[HoYay or]] [[HeterosexualLifePartners Watson]].
** What is particularly annoying with this is that in the ''one'' story Irene Adler is in, Holmes comes in laughing over [[spoiler:how he helped her get married to someone else.]] Even if Holmes was into relationships, Irene seems pretty stoked with [[spoiler:her hot lawyer husband]] but of course nobody cares what the woman wants. It seems that if they'd actually bothered to read the stories someone like Violet Hunter would make a hell of a lot more sense. Especially since Irene Adler is a high-class call girl black-mailing a king. Holmes nailing his most loathed type of criminal? Yeah sure, that's not completely stupid at all.

*** Strictly speaking, it just tells us to [[DidTheyOrDidntThey mind our own business]].

* {{Inverted|Trope}} in ''{{Angels and Demons}}'': [[spoiler: Vittoria]] is in bed with Langdon by the end of the book, but in the movie, romance is never hinted at.

* Would have happened with Chris and Jill if George A. Romero did direct the ResidentEvil movie.
* I'm surprised that ''{{Lord of the Rings}}'' hasn't been mentioned yet. Okay so Arwen was present in the books as a love interest but she wasn't present a whole lot. The movies upped that so she made an appearance (even if it was just in a dream/flashback/whatever) in every single movie.

*** Better than will the guy who ''raised her''.

** Not sure what Bradbury thought of the "love interest" part of it, but he considered rewriting the book to have her [[spoiler:survive.]] SoYeah.

* In the stage musical of Film/BeautyAndTheBeast, Cogsworth and the wardrobe are portrayed as a couple, but are much more reserved about it than Lumiere and the duster.
* In the musical of ''TheProducers'' the previously minor part of Swedish secretary Ulla is not only expanded into leading lady but she becomes Bloom's love interest and briefly is the center of a one-sided LoveTriangle between him and Max.