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* ''Series/CobraKai'': Following their breakup at the end of season 1, season 2 sees Sam and Miguel enter relationships with classmates in their respective dojos. Sam briefly dates Robby Keene, her dad's first student in Miyagi-Do and Johnny Lawrence's son. Meanwhile, Miguel dates new Cobra Kai student [[DarkActionGirl Tory Nichols]]. However, the relationships fall apart after Miguel cheats on Tory with Sam at a party right before school resumes. Tory doesn't take this well and decides to attack Sam at school over it, kicking off a brawl that ends in Sam being injured and traumatized, while Miguel ends up crippled after Robby accidentally kicks him over a railing. By the end of season 3, Miguel and Sam have gotten back together, while Robby [[FaceHeelTurn joins Cobra Kai]] following his release from juvie and [[PairTheSpares eventually hooks up with Tory]].

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* ''Series/CobraKai'': Following their breakup at the end of season 1, season 2 sees Sam [[StarCrossedLovers Samantha LaRusso and Miguel enter Diaz]] spend season 2 in relationships with classmates in from their respective dojos. Sam briefly dates Robby Keene, her dad's first student in Miyagi-Do and Johnny Lawrence's son. Meanwhile, Miguel dates new Cobra Kai student [[DarkActionGirl Tory Nichols]]. However, the relationships fall apart after Miguel cheats on Tory with Sam at a party right before school resumes. Tory doesn't take this well and Tory, who has been harboring a grudge with Sam all summer, decides to attack Sam her at school over it, kicking off a brawl that ends in Sam being injured and traumatized, while Miguel ends up is crippled after Robby accidentally kicks him over a railing. By the end of season 3, railing in a blind rage. After Miguel recovers from his injuries, he and Sam have gotten get back together, while together late in season 3 after he bumps into her at school. Meanwhile, Robby is furious when he finds that Sam has dumped him for Miguel, and thus decides to [[FaceHeelTurn joins join Cobra Kai]] following to spite his release from juvie dad and Daniel, where [[PairTheSpares he eventually hooks up begins a relationship with Tory]].



** Claire Temple enters into a very short-lived relationship with Matt during the first season, but they mutually break up in the 11th episode. This is done for the status quo, as Matt's canon love interest in the show is Karen. Meanwhile, Claire goes over to ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}'' and hooks up with Luke, her canon love interest in the comics.

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** Claire Temple enters into a very short-lived relationship with Matt during the first season, but they mutually break up in the 11th episode. This is done for the status quo, as Matt's canon love interest in the show is Karen.Karen Page. Meanwhile, Claire goes over to ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}'' and hooks up with Luke, her canon love interest in the comics.



*** On the night that Mike plans to propose to Susan at the end of season 2, he's run over by Orson Hodge and ends up in a coma for six months. During this time, Susan enters a relationship with Ian Hainsworth, an Englishman whose wife is in a coma at the same hospital. She decides to commit to the relationship with Ian after Mike wakes up thanks to Edie Britt having managed to worm her way into Mike's heart. However, after Mike is arrested on suspicion of murder (and later exonerated), Susan gradually finds herself gravitating back towards him, and eventually Ian leaves her when he realizes this. At the end of season 3, Susan and Mike finally marry for the first time.

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*** On the night that Mike plans to propose to Susan at the end of season 2, he's run over by Orson Hodge and ends up in a coma for six months. During this time, Susan enters a relationship with Ian Hainsworth, an Englishman whose wife is in a coma at the same hospital. She decides to commit to the relationship with Ian after Mike wakes up thanks to Edie Britt having managed to worm her way into Mike's heart. However, when Edie breaks up with Mike after Mike is he's arrested on suspicion of murder (and later exonerated), Susan gradually finds herself gravitating back towards him, and eventually Ian leaves her when he realizes this. At the end of season 3, Susan and Mike finally marry for the first time.



** Edie Britt manages to be one of these for two of the husbands on Wisteria Lane during season 3. During the first few seasons, she's been competing with Susan for Mike's affections. When Mike wakes up from his coma at the start of season 3, Susan is out of town on a getaway with Ian, so Edie takes this opportunity to move in on Mike. Edie and Mike's relationship is short-lived, and ends when she dumps him after he's arrested for murder. After this, she pursues a relationship with Carlos Solis, who has recently divorced from Gabrielle. However, Edie has strong suspicions that Carlos still holds a torch for Gaby. Sure enough, [[SexWithTheEx Carlos begins cheating on Edie with Gaby]] after she finds out that her new husband only married her for political gain. He eventually breaks up with Edie, and remarries Gaby following the death of her new husband.

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** Edie Britt manages to be one of these for two of the husbands on Wisteria Lane during season 3.
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During the first few seasons, she's been competing with Susan for Mike's affections. When Mike wakes up from his coma at the start of season 3, Susan is out of town on a getaway with Ian, so Edie takes this opportunity to move in on Mike. Edie and Mike's relationship is short-lived, and ends when she dumps breaks up with him after he's arrested for murder. murder.
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After this, she breaking up with Mike, Edie pursues a relationship with Carlos Solis, who has recently divorced from Gabrielle.Gaby. However, Edie has strong suspicions that Carlos still holds a torch for Gaby. Sure enough, [[SexWithTheEx Carlos begins cheating on Edie with Gaby]] after she finds out that her new husband only married her for political gain. He eventually breaks up with Edie, and after Victor dies, he remarries Gaby following the death of her new husband.Gaby.



** Katherine Mayfair is Mike's love interest during season 5 while he's divorced from Susan. They almost elope, too, until Mike abandons her at the airport in order to rescue Susan and MJ from Dave. Afterwards, he breaks up with Katherine and remarries Susan. Katherine doesn't take this breakup all that well.

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** Katherine Mayfair is Mike's love interest during season 5 while he's divorced from Susan. They almost elope, elope to Las Vegas too, until Mike abandons bails on her at the airport in order to rescue Susan and MJ from Dave. Afterwards, he breaks decides to break up with Katherine and remarries remarry Susan. Katherine doesn't take this breakup it all that well.well, and spends the first half of season 6 harassing Susan and Mike up until she has a nervous breakdown and has to be committed.
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* About a year after Beatrice's death in the ''Literature/VitaNuova'', [[Creator/DanteAlighieri Dante]] begins to write a sonnet about another beautiful woman, only to have a vision of Beatrice that makes him realize his attraction to the new woman was a vain and shallow imitation of Love.

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* About a year after Beatrice's death in the ''Literature/VitaNuova'', ''Literature/LaVitaNuova'', [[Creator/DanteAlighieri Dante]] begins to write a sonnet about another beautiful woman, only to have a vision of Beatrice that makes him realize his attraction to the new woman was a vain and shallow imitation of Love.
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* Kaoru Sayama in ''VideoGame/Yakuza2'' becomes Kiryu's love interest by the end of the game (they even share a [[TheBigDamnKiss Big Damn Kiss]] near the end), but right in the beginning of ''VideoGame/Yakuza3'', they split up via a flashback, where she decides leaves for America to expand her career, and even other people mention how they just weren't meant to be together. From then on she is pretty much [[PutOnABus never heard from again in the series]].

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* Kaoru Sayama in ''VideoGame/Yakuza2'' becomes Kiryu's love interest by the end of the game (they even share a [[TheBigDamnKiss Big Damn Kiss]] near the end), but right in the beginning of ''VideoGame/Yakuza3'', they split up via a flashback, where she decides leaves for America to expand her career, and even other people mention how they just weren't meant to be together. From then on she is pretty much [[PutOnABus never heard from again in the series]]. She finally [[TheBusCameBack returns]] in ''VideoGame/LikeADragonInfiniteWealth'', where it's revealed that despite being MarriedToTheJob, she's still very much in love with Kiryu and even though she believes him to be dead, a part of her is still [[IWillWaitForYou waiting for him]].

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* ''Series/Daredevil2015'':
** Claire Temple enters into a very short-lived relationship with Matt during the first season, but they mutually break up in the 11th episode. This is done for the status quo, as Matt's canon love interest in the show is Karen. Meanwhile, Claire goes over to ''Series/LukeCage2016'' and hooks up with Luke, her canon love interest in the comics.
** Elektra Natchios is introduced a third of the way through season 2 and spends nine episodes working with Matt to take down the Hand before she's killed off by Nobu. But she's then revived in ''The Defenders'', and is last seen with Matt below a collapsing Midland Circle and her survival is ambiguous.

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* ''Series/Daredevil2015'':
''Series/CobraKai'': Following their breakup at the end of season 1, season 2 sees Sam and Miguel enter relationships with classmates in their respective dojos. Sam briefly dates Robby Keene, her dad's first student in Miyagi-Do and Johnny Lawrence's son. Meanwhile, Miguel dates new Cobra Kai student [[DarkActionGirl Tory Nichols]]. However, the relationships fall apart after Miguel cheats on Tory with Sam at a party right before school resumes. Tory doesn't take this well and decides to attack Sam at school over it, kicking off a brawl that ends in Sam being injured and traumatized, while Miguel ends up crippled after Robby accidentally kicks him over a railing. By the end of season 3, Miguel and Sam have gotten back together, while Robby [[FaceHeelTurn joins Cobra Kai]] following his release from juvie and [[PairTheSpares eventually hooks up with Tory]].
* ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}'':
** Claire Temple enters into a very short-lived relationship with Matt during the first season, but they mutually break up in the 11th episode. This is done for the status quo, as Matt's canon love interest in the show is Karen. Meanwhile, Claire goes over to ''Series/LukeCage2016'' ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}'' and hooks up with Luke, her canon love interest in the comics.
** Elektra Natchios is introduced a third of the way through season 2 and spends nine episodes working with Matt to take down the Hand before she's killed off by Nobu. But she's then revived in ''The Defenders'', ''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}'', and is last seen with Matt below a collapsing Midland Circle and her survival is ambiguous.ambiguous.
* ''Series/DesperateHousewives'':
** Susan Mayer gets two temporary love interests during the show's run, as temporary respites from her main relationship with Mike Delfino.
*** On the night that Mike plans to propose to Susan at the end of season 2, he's run over by Orson Hodge and ends up in a coma for six months. During this time, Susan enters a relationship with Ian Hainsworth, an Englishman whose wife is in a coma at the same hospital. She decides to commit to the relationship with Ian after Mike wakes up thanks to Edie Britt having managed to worm her way into Mike's heart. However, after Mike is arrested on suspicion of murder (and later exonerated), Susan gradually finds herself gravitating back towards him, and eventually Ian leaves her when he realizes this. At the end of season 3, Susan and Mike finally marry for the first time.
*** During the five year time skip between seasons 4 and 5, [[GriefInducedSplit Susan and Mike divorce]] as a result of conflict over a vehicular collision they got into that claimed the lives of Paige and Lila Dash. Come season 5, Susan is in a FriendsWithBenefits relationship with a painter named Jackson Braddock. They nearly marry, but it's mostly because Jackson is Canadian and in the US on an expired visa, and needs a wife so he can avoid being deported. Unfortunately, this never comes to be, because Lila Dash's widowed husband Dave Williams, who has been seeking revenge for his family's deaths, reports Jackson to ICE. He then tries to kill Susan and MJ (her and Mike's son), but Mike rescues them. Afterwards, they share a passionate kiss, and ultimately remarry at the start of season 6.
** Edie Britt manages to be one of these for two of the husbands on Wisteria Lane during season 3. During the first few seasons, she's been competing with Susan for Mike's affections. When Mike wakes up from his coma at the start of season 3, Susan is out of town on a getaway with Ian, so Edie takes this opportunity to move in on Mike. Edie and Mike's relationship is short-lived, and ends when she dumps him after he's arrested for murder. After this, she pursues a relationship with Carlos Solis, who has recently divorced from Gabrielle. However, Edie has strong suspicions that Carlos still holds a torch for Gaby. Sure enough, [[SexWithTheEx Carlos begins cheating on Edie with Gaby]] after she finds out that her new husband only married her for political gain. He eventually breaks up with Edie, and remarries Gaby following the death of her new husband.
** Victor Lang is a politician that Gaby meets late in season 3 while she's divorced from Carlos. While they hit it off rather quickly, the relationship turns south when he begins neglecting her for his political career, and she also learns (on their wedding day, no less) that he only married her for political gain, prompting her to begin cheating on him with Carlos. When Victor finds out about the affair from Edie, he tries to kill Carlos during a tornado, only to be killed when he's impaled from behind by a fencepost. Gaby quickly remarries Carlos shortly thereafter.
** Katherine Mayfair is Mike's love interest during season 5 while he's divorced from Susan. They almost elope, too, until Mike abandons her at the airport in order to rescue Susan and MJ from Dave. Afterwards, he breaks up with Katherine and remarries Susan. Katherine doesn't take this breakup all that well.
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* The ''Literature/MortalEngines'' quartet has two of these: [[spoiler:Kate Valentine]]; in an interesting variation, [[spoiler:Kate]] also has a Temporary Love Interest, [[spoiler:Bevis Pod]].

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* The ''Literature/MortalEngines'' quartet has two of these: [[spoiler:Kate Valentine]]; in an interesting variation, as [[spoiler:Kate]] also has a Temporary Love Interest, [[spoiler:Bevis Pod]].



* In the final few episodes of the first season of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', Sokka had a romane with the princess of the Northern Water Tribe, Yue. In the season finale, Yue sacrifices herself to save the life of the moon spirit and restore the balance of the moon and ocean, resulting in in her [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence Ascending To A Higher Plane Of Existence]]. Losing her has a lasting impact on Sokka, and he brings her up several times throughout the rest of the series.

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* In the final few episodes of the first season of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', Sokka had a romane romance with the princess of the Northern Water Tribe, Yue. In the season finale, Yue sacrifices herself to save the life of the moon spirit and restore the balance of the moon and ocean, resulting in in her [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence Ascending To A Higher Plane Of Existence]]. Losing her has a lasting impact on Sokka, and he brings her up several times throughout the rest of the series.
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* In the ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'', Luke Skywalker went through girlfriends like most people go through socks. It was so sad. Fortunately, the suffering [[strike:ended]] [[spoiler:was substantially delayed]] when he married Mara Jade.

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* In the ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'', ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'', Luke Skywalker went through girlfriends like most people go through socks. It was so sad. Fortunately, the suffering [[strike:ended]] [[spoiler:was substantially delayed]] when he married Mara Jade.
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* ''Film/AuthorAuthor1982'': Alice is set up to be Ivan's love interest after his wife Gloria dumps him, but they only date briefly before realizing that a long-term relationship won't work between them and have an amicable breakup.
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* In the ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'', Luke Skywalker went through girlfriends like most people go through socks. It was so sad. Fortunately, the suffering [[strike:ended]] [[spoiler:was substantially delayed]] when he married [[TheyDo Mara Jade]].

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* In the ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'', Luke Skywalker went through girlfriends like most people go through socks. It was so sad. Fortunately, the suffering [[strike:ended]] [[spoiler:was substantially delayed]] when he married [[TheyDo Mara Jade]].Jade.
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* ''Series/{{Haven}}'': Nathan's brief season one love interest, Jess, arrives and leaves over the course of three episodes. The episode where she decides LoveCannotOvercome Nathan's involvement with the Troubles is used to kick off Audrey and Nathan's UnresolvedSexualTension, so it was clear that she was both never meant to be a serious contender and that she wouldn't be returning. Chris Brody in season two as Audrey's ThirdOptionLoveInterest in the Nathan/Audrey/Duke LoveTriangle straddles the line between this and RomanticFalseLead, as he lasts longer and is more fully developed before being PutOnABus.
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* In the final few episodes of the first season of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', Sokka had a romane with the princess of the Northern Water Tribe, Yue. In the season finale, Yue sacrifices herself to save the life of the moon spirit and restore the balance of the moon and ocean, resulting in in her AscendingToAHigherPlaneOfExtistence. Losing her has a lasting impact on Sokka, and he brings her up several times throughout the rest of the series.

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* In the final few episodes of the first season of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', Sokka had a romane with the princess of the Northern Water Tribe, Yue. In the season finale, Yue sacrifices herself to save the life of the moon spirit and restore the balance of the moon and ocean, resulting in in her AscendingToAHigherPlaneOfExtistence.[[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence Ascending To A Higher Plane Of Existence]]. Losing her has a lasting impact on Sokka, and he brings her up several times throughout the rest of the series.

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* Sokka got one of these in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' with Yue. Although technically she [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence Ascended To A Higher Plane Of Existence]] as the moon. She is, however, mentioned more than once and the memory of her "departure" does stay with Sokka.
-->'''Sokka:''' My first girlfriend turned into the moon.\\
'''[[spoiler: Zuko]]:''' That's rough, [[MemeticMutation buddy.]]

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* In the final few episodes of the first season of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', Sokka got one of these in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' had a romane with the princess of the Northern Water Tribe, Yue. Although technically she [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence Ascended To A Higher Plane Of Existence]] as In the moon. She is, however, mentioned more than once season finale, Yue sacrifices herself to save the life of the moon spirit and restore the memory balance of the moon and ocean, resulting in in her "departure" does stay with Sokka.
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AscendingToAHigherPlaneOfExtistence. Losing her has a lasting impact on Sokka, and he brings her up several times throughout the moon.\\
'''[[spoiler: Zuko]]:''' That's rough, [[MemeticMutation buddy.]]
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* ''Literature/MythOMania'' invokes this trope almost every time Cupid fires an arrow with either an orange or a yellow tip; while red-tipped arrows make people permanently fall in love, orange tips' effects wear off after three days, and love induced with a yellow tip only lasts an hour.[[note]]Cupid hooked up Hades and Persephone by shooting the former with an orange-tipped arrow, but the couple formed a love genuine enough to last beyond the third day.[[/note]]

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* ''Literature/MythOMania'' invokes this trope almost every time Cupid fires an arrow with either an orange or a yellow tip; while red-tipped arrows make people permanently fall in love, orange tips' effects wear off after three days, and love induced with a yellow tip only lasts an hour.[[note]]Cupid hooked hooks up Hades and Persephone by shooting the former with an orange-tipped arrow, but the couple formed forms a love genuine enough to last beyond the third day.[[/note]]
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Removed the entry for Fred, from the tv show Angel, as she relates to Wesley. Fred was a major character and Wesley’s unrequited love for her lasted seasons. As well, even after death when her body is possessed by Illyria, she remains a key character. Hardly “never mentioned again” material.


* ''Series/{{Angel}}'': [[spoiler:Fred]] is one for Wesley, ''very'' temporarily. They were love interests for a while, but she was killed off shortly after they finally became an OfficialCouple.
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* Kaoru Sayama in ''VideoGame/Yakuza2'' becomes Kiryu's love interest by the end of the game (they even share a [[TheBigDamnKiss Big Damn Kiss]] near the end), but right in the beginning of ''VideoGame/Yakuza3'', they split up via a flashback, where she decides leaves for America to expand her career, and from then on is [[PutOnABus never heard from again]].

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* Kaoru Sayama in ''VideoGame/Yakuza2'' becomes Kiryu's love interest by the end of the game (they even share a [[TheBigDamnKiss Big Damn Kiss]] near the end), but right in the beginning of ''VideoGame/Yakuza3'', they split up via a flashback, where she decides leaves for America to expand her career, and from even other people mention how they just weren't meant to be together. From then on she is pretty much [[PutOnABus never heard from again]].again in the series]].
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* Kaoru Sayama in ''VideoGame/Yakuza2'' becomes Kiryu's love interest by the end of the game (they even share a [[TheBigDamnKiss Big Damn Kiss]] near the end), but right in the beginning of ''VideoGame/Yakuza3'', they split up via a flashback, where she decides leaves for America to expand her career, and from then on is [[PutOnABus never heard from again]].
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** ''Series/StargateSG1'': Samantha Carter is a total black widow, and Daniel Jackson hasn't done too well either; nearing the end of the series, Samantha just got a seemingly-long-term boyfriend who still had an extended stay in the hospital during his introductory episode, and the height of Daniel Jackson's success is a love interest that merely spent a couple of seasons possessed (and effectively dead). The SG-1 team, like so many other heroes, may be effectively bulletproof, but best not to get involved with them: it does ''not'' rub off. Dr Jackson eventually averted this by hooking up with a fellow member of SG-1 in the finale...only to have the relationship fall victim to a (literal) ResetButton.
* These happen in ''Series/StargateAtlantis'' too: Sheppard and very rarely [=McKay=] are on the receiving end. While, to some people, [[ChickMagnet Sheppard]] had tons of {{UST}} going on with Weir, her disappearance mid-series left him without a single potential relationship that would last beyond a single episode. McKay on the other hand took his time and ended up with [[spoiler:[[HospitalHottie Keller]]]] in the final season.

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** ''Series/StargateSG1'': Samantha Carter is a total black widow, and Daniel Jackson hasn't done too well either; nearing the end of the series, Samantha just got a seemingly-long-term boyfriend who still had an extended stay in the hospital during his introductory episode, and the height of Daniel Jackson's success is a love interest that merely spent a couple of seasons possessed (and effectively dead). The SG-1 team, like so many other heroes, may be effectively bulletproof, but its best not to get involved with them: it does ''not'' rub off. Dr Jackson eventually averted this by hooking up with a fellow member of SG-1 in the finale...only to have the relationship fall victim to a (literal) ResetButton.
* These happen in ''Series/StargateAtlantis'' too: Sheppard and very rarely [=McKay=] are on the receiving end. While, to some people, [[ChickMagnet Sheppard]] had tons of {{UST}} going on with Weir, her disappearance mid-series left him without a single potential relationship that would last beyond a single episode. McKay [=McKay=] on the other hand took his time and ended up with [[spoiler:[[HospitalHottie Keller]]]] in the final season.
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* ''Anime/KirbyRightBackAtYa'': Whispy, of all people, who is a ''talking tree'' gets his temporary love interest in the form of a flower. Dedede has her transformed into a monster, and Kirby has to kill her. To make things even ''more'' bizarre, when Whispy fell for her, she wasn't even ''sentient''. She didn't come to life until after the transformation started.

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* ''Anime/KirbyRightBackAtYa'': Whispy, of all people, who is a ''talking tree'' tree'', gets his temporary love interest in the form of a flower. Dedede has her transformed into a monster, and Kirby has to kill her. To make things even ''more'' bizarre, when Whispy fell for her, she wasn't even ''sentient''. She didn't come to life until after the transformation started.
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* These happen in ''Series/StargateAtlantis'' too: Sheppard and very rarely [=McKay=] are on the receiving end. While, to some people, [[ChickMagnet Sheppard]] had tons of {{UST}} going on with Weir, her disappearance mid-series left him without a single potential relationship that would last beyond a single episode. [[HollywoodNerd McKay]] on the other hand took his time and ended up with [[spoiler:[[HospitalHottie Keller]]]] in the final season.

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* These happen in ''Series/StargateAtlantis'' too: Sheppard and very rarely [=McKay=] are on the receiving end. While, to some people, [[ChickMagnet Sheppard]] had tons of {{UST}} going on with Weir, her disappearance mid-series left him without a single potential relationship that would last beyond a single episode. [[HollywoodNerd McKay]] McKay on the other hand took his time and ended up with [[spoiler:[[HospitalHottie Keller]]]] in the final season.
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** Kira's love interest Bareil dies eventually but doesn't really fit the trope. He was around for over a full season (even making a few appearances before he and Kira got together) and Kira spends quite a while mourning after he dies. ''Both'' of her next two love interests (or three if one counts [[FoeYay Dukat's one-sided flirtations]]) talk about how important Bareil was to Kira and the impact of his death on her. [[spoiler: Odo]] even sends her away while on his deathbed because he doesn't want her haunted by witnessing it the way she did when Bareil died.

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** Kira's love interest Bareil dies eventually but doesn't really fit the trope. He was around for over a full season (even making a few appearances before he and Kira got together) and Kira spends quite a while mourning after he dies. ''Both'' of her next two love interests (or three if one counts [[FoeYay Dukat's one-sided flirtations]]) flirtations) talk about how important Bareil was to Kira and the impact of his death on her. [[spoiler: Odo]] even sends her away while on his deathbed because he doesn't want her haunted by witnessing it the way she did when Bareil died.
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Stories involving [[TheDrifter Drifters]] or {{Knights Errant}}s tend to involve this, if only because the lone wandering hero archetype tends to require that friends and love interests encountered during an adventure be [[ButNowIMustGo left behind at adventure's end]].

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Stories involving [[TheDrifter Drifters]] or {{Knights {{Knight Errant}}s tend to involve this, if only because the lone wandering hero archetype tends to require that friends and love interests encountered during an adventure be [[ButNowIMustGo left behind at adventure's end]].
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** Eileen for Sam in later seasons, who first seems like a GirlOfTheWeek, then comes BackForTheDead, then BackFromTheDead and then it seems like they are really getting along until she disappears. [[spoiler: WordOfGod is that she could be Sam's unseen wife from the finale episode but isn't necessarily. It's almost like the writers were had some issues with making a love interest stick, even one that was relatively well-liked and provided a great bit of disability representation since she was played by a deaf actress.]]
** Castiel had two temporary love interests. First, it was Meg 2.0, who is [[spoiler: killed off]] in Season 8. Then, it's Hannah, an angel who has an obvious crush on him but eventually returns to Heaven.
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* The second episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' has Nevareth, who strikes up a brief romance with Luz as part of the episode's parody of typical SummonEverymanHero stories [[spoiler:until it turns out that he and everyone else Luz met on her quest were illusions created by one of Eda's business rivals]].

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