1 | Tropes that result in or occur during a situation wherein one loves another who doesn't return the feelings. |
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3 | !!Tropes: |
4 | [[index]] |
5 | * AbhorrentAdmirer: A common victim of unrequited love is someone regarded as disgusting by the recipient of their love. |
6 | * AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder: A character's feelings fade after their love interest is gone for a long time. |
7 | * AllLoveIsUnrequited: No romantic affections are returned. |
8 | * AttemptedHomewrecker: Someone wants to be with someone who is already in a relationship and unwilling to cheat. |
9 | * AttractivenessIsolation: When someone who is otherwise attractive has trouble getting a date due to potential suitors believing that person won't want to return their affections. |
10 | * BalancedHarem: Every haremette has a chance with TheHero, but only one is going to win him ([[MarryThemAll usually]]). |
11 | * CelibateHero: A common magnet of unrequited love is someone who wants nothing to do with romance. |
12 | * ChasteHero: A common magnet of unrequited love is someone who can't even comprehend love and sexuality. |
13 | * ChildhoodFriendRomance: A character has a crush on someone they've known since childhood, but the recipient of the crush only likes them as a friend. |
14 | * CommitmentIssues: Character doesn't want to settle down into a relationship, so any potential suitors aren't likely to win their affections. |
15 | * CompetingWithACorpse: Someone is still hung up on a deceased loved one and can't move on. |
16 | * DefrostingIceQueen: They initially don't return someone's love, but come around after a while. |
17 | * DidNotGetTheGirl: The end result of unrequited love is not hooking up with that person. |
18 | * DisposableFiance: The RomanticFalseLead who loses their partner's affections. |
19 | * DoggedNiceGuy: They just can't take a hint that the recipient of their love is just not interested. |
20 | * EverythingButTheGirl: They can achieve or gain everything they want with the exception of their love interest's affections. |
21 | * FalseSoulmate: Sometimes they're revealed to be this because they don't return a character's love. |
22 | * TheFirstCutIsTheDeepest: A character's first relationship ended badly and now they have trouble returning other people's affections. |
23 | * FootDraggingDivorcee: The character may be putting off or resisting the divorce because they still love their spouse. |
24 | * GreenEyedEpiphany: A character only realizes they love someone after they get together with a different person. |
25 | * GreenEyedMonster: A victim of unrequited love gets enraged at seeing the object of their affection with someone else. |
26 | * HanahakiDisease: A terminal disease where someone vomits flowers because of unrequited love. |
27 | * HeartbrokenBadass: Even badasses can be victims of unrequited love. |
28 | * HopelessSuitor: They never had a chance of getting their feelings returned. |
29 | * IfICantHaveYou: Commonly said when you're not good with being rejected by someone you love. |
30 | * IgnoredEnamoredUnderling: A character loves the person they work under, but they don't love them back. |
31 | * IncestantAdmirer: Similar to AbhorrentAdmirer, but said admirer [[IncestIsRelative is related to the object of their affections.]] |
32 | * IncompatibleOrientation: Differing sexual orientation prevents romantic affections from being returned. |
33 | * TheILoveYouStigma: Love is not returned because the word "love" makes the recipient uncomfortable. |
34 | * IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: A more positive outcome of unrequited love is when a character is willing to let the object of their affections go be with the one they really love. |
35 | * JealousRomanticWitness: A character watches their LoveInterest being romantic with their rival suitor. |
36 | * JustFriends: The recipient of an unrequited crush only likes the other person as a friend. |
37 | * LoveCannotOvercome: [[TheHero The Hero's]] adventurous lifestyle scares their LoveInterest away from returning their feelings. |
38 | * LoveDodecahedron: Almost everyone is in love with at least one other member of the cast but no two people are in love with each other. |
39 | * LoveHungry: Character desperate for love goes out of their way to make their unrequited crush love them. |
40 | * LoveMartyr: The object of their affections not only doesn't return their feelings, but actively treats them like crap yet they willingly put up with their abuse because they love them. |
41 | * LoveTriangle: Two people like the same person, only one is liable to win this. |
42 | * LoveWillLeadYouBack: Character pines after someone who left them and may never come back to them. |
43 | * LovesMeNot: Someone with an unrequited crush plucks something to determine if they have a chance with the object of their affections. |
44 | * LovingAShadow: They only love the idea of a person rather than the person themselves. |
45 | * MadLove: The one who suffers unrequited love is too insane to take a hint that their crush doesn't love them. |
46 | * MixtapeOfLove: Mixtapes can be a bad way to show your affection for someone. |
47 | * MurderTheHypotenuse: In extreme cases, a character might try to bump off their love rival. |
48 | * MutualPining: Two characters have mutual feelings but are so convinced that their feelings are unrequited that they suffer over it instead of pursuing them. |
49 | * NoGuyWantsToBeChased: Male characters don't return the feelings of women who actively pursue them. |
50 | * NotGoodWithRejection: Not getting romantic affections returned can cause the victim to [[LoveMakesYouEvil turn evil]] or [[SpurnedIntoSuicide off themself]] (or their love interest. [[MurderSuicide Or both]]). |
51 | * ObliviousToLove: A character's love interest doesn't even realize they have romantic feelings for them. |
52 | * TheObstructiveLoveInterest: The LoveInterest who constantly rejects someone crushing on them due to misinterpreting their behavior. |
53 | * PatientChildhoodLoveInterest: If they're unlucky, their friend may never return or even notice their affections. |
54 | * PeerlessLoveInterest: Usually considered to be way out of their league (possibly with an added dose of LovingAShadow). |
55 | * PiningAfterProtagonistsParent: One of [[TheHero The Hero's]] parents has an unrequited suitor. |
56 | * PrinceCharmingWannabe: He thinks he's a woman's perfect guy, she disagrees. |
57 | * RejectedMarriageProposal: Often because the one being proposed to doesn't return the proposer's feelings. |
58 | * RejectionAffection: Continuing to chase after an unrequited crush no matter how often they reject you. |
59 | * RomanticRunnerUp: They could've been [[TheHero The Hero's]] main LoveInterest, but ultimately, they never get any feelings returned. |
60 | * RunawayBride: The bride decides she doesn't actually want to get married on the day of the wedding. |
61 | * RunawayFiance: A character accepts a marriage proposal but then decides to run off before the big day. |
62 | * SelfProclaimedLoveInterest: They consider themself to be someone's LoveInterest, but the other person disagrees. |
63 | * ShipSinking: Something happens in the story that prevents a couple from ever getting together, even if one of them has feelings for the other. |
64 | * SighOfLove: Sighing longingly when in the presence of a LoveInterest that you know you can't have. |
65 | * SleepsWithEveryoneButYou: A promiscuous character won't have sex with this person despite being willing to shag just about everyone else. |
66 | * SpurnedIntoSuicide: A person kills themself when their LoveInterest won't return their feelings. |
67 | * StalkerWithACrush: A common unrequited love victim is the character who creeps out the recipient of their affections by stalking them. |
68 | * {{Starboarding}}: Romantic pairings that are one-sided. |
69 | * StringingTheHopelessSuitorAlong: A HopelessSuitor is trying to move on, but the one they love won't let them. But the person still doesn't want the suitor. |
70 | * SupportingHarem: The supporting cast of a HaremGenre story who have one-sided crushes on one of the leads ([[TopWife usually]]). |
71 | * TorchSong: Sentimental ballads often sung about unrequited love, thus "holding the torch" for the one who doesn't love them back. Often sung by female characters. |
72 | * TwiceShy: Two characters with mutual love are both too shy to openly return the other's feelings. |
73 | * UnbalancedByRivalsKid: The child of an unrequited crush and a love rival causes distress for a character. |
74 | * UnluckyChildhoodFriend: A ChildhoodFriendRomance never happens between the ChildhoodFriends no matter how much one of them would want it to. |
75 | * UnnecessarilyCruelRejection: A character rejects someone's love in a meanspirited way. |
76 | * UnrequitedLoveLastsForever: Continuing to love someone you can't have. |
77 | * UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo: A crush is not returned so the crusher gets over it, only for the crushee to develop feelings for the former. |
78 | * UnrequitedTragicMaiden: She's hopelessly in love with a man she can never be with. |
79 | * UnwantedHarem: When one character is the love interest for multiple people and would rather not be. |
80 | * UnwantedSpouse: A character's whose spouse doesn't want to be married to them (can be a mutual feeling but not always). |
81 | * VillainousCrush: Evil character crushes on TheHero, naturally they don't return their feelings. |
82 | * VillainessesWantHeroes: Female villain has a one-sided crush on TheHero. |
83 | * WomanScorned: Her LoveInterest doesn't return her feelings, and now she's vengeful about it. |
84 | * {{Yandere}}: A common victim of unrequited love who tries to murder anyone they see as a threat to their love. |
85 | * YouNeverDidThatForMe: Realizing that your crush doesn't love you by seeing how they treat others compared to you. |
86 | * YoureNotMyType: Not returning someone's affections because that person doesn't fit your ideal mold. |
87 | [[/index]] |
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