1 | Romance and love can outrank magic, technology, or even a PhysicalGod, in influence on the progression of a story. But how it influences the story is a crapshoot. |
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3 | '''The Good:''' Love acts as a FixerSue or DeusExMachina, overcoming all. |
4 | * TheDulcineaEffect: Being in love instills a desire to protect. |
5 | * LoveAtFirstSight: Instantly loving a person. |
6 | * LoveRedeems: Love makes a character do a HeelFaceTurn. |
7 | * ThePowerOfFriendship: Love for your friends empowers. |
8 | * ThePowerOfLove: Feelings of love empowers. |
9 | * TrueLovesKiss: Romantic kiss that cures ills. |
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11 | '''The Bad:''' Love is an ArtifactOfDoom, corrupting even unambiguously good people who lack the willpower to sacrifice their relationships for their morals into a FaceHeelTurn. Murder mystery series seem to love this one. |
12 | * ClingyJealousGirl: Her love causes her to have unreasonable jealousy towards other girls who go near her guy. |
13 | * CrazyJealousGuy: His love causes him to go psycho whenever his girl is around other guys. |
14 | %%* Driven By A LoveInterest: Love makes you too focused around one person to the point of neglecting your own future. |
15 | * IfICantHaveYou: Unrequited love ignites violence against the one who refuses them. |
16 | * LoveMakesYouEvil: Being in love causes the character to throw away their morals. |
17 | * MurderTheHypotenuse: Killing off someone who stands in the way of your love. |
18 | * WomanScorned: Being dumped or rejected by her love causes her to snap and possibly kill. |
19 | * {{Yandere}}: Love causes a character to become insanely jealous and murderous towards those who seek to take their love away from them. |
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21 | '''The Ugly:''' Love is an ArtifactOfDeath, bringing doom and pain to all who encounter it. |
22 | * CartwrightCurse: Everyone TheHero loves is always fated to die. |
23 | * DestructiveRomance: Love relationship that causes one or both parties nothing but heartache and possibly even death. |
24 | * FatalAttractor: Repeatedly falling in love with immoral or mentally unwell people. |
25 | * LiteralManeater: She [[ImAHumanitarian eats you alive.]] |
26 | * LoveHurts: Falling in love will get your heart broken. |
27 | * LoveMakesYouCrazy: Falling in love costs you your sanity. |
28 | * LoveMartyr: Putting up with horrendous abuse for the sake of being with the one you love. |
29 | * OfficialCoupleOrdealSyndrome: Lovers have to deal with so much crap. |
30 | * OutWithABang: One or both of the lovers are killed during the act. |
31 | * RoaringRampageOfRomance: Perceived threats to one's relationship trigger violent overprotectiveness. |
32 | * SexSignalsDeath: Making love gets one or both of the lovers killed later on. |
33 | * SpurnedIntoSuicide: Not getting love returned leads to taking your own life. |
34 | * StarCrossedLovers: Lovers cannot be together and this causes them heartbreak. |
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36 | '''The Complicated:''' Love is an embodiment of the RuleOfDrama, making life unnecessarily complicated. |
37 | * AdrenalineMakeover: High action and tension makes a plain character into a LoveInterest. |
38 | * CockFight: Men fight each other for a woman's affections. |
39 | * LoveMakesYouDumb: Falling in love causes stupidity. |
40 | * LoveTriangle: Two people love the same person, leading to drama. |
41 | * LoveDodecahedron: More than two people are caught in romantic drama. |
42 | * StrangledByTheRedString: Characters fall in love but have no reason to. |
43 | * UnrequitedTragicMaiden: A woman loves a man that she just cannot seem to win, and gets a piteous fate for it. |
44 | * WillTheyOrWontThey: Who knows if these two will ever couple up. |
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