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The original love freak. We'd say "accept no substitutes", but she'd disapprove of us not being accepting of people. "I'm sure even her brain is sunny, dood."
— Prinny Commentary on Flonne, Disgaea
"Everybody! Love! And! Peace!"
"This world is made of, LOVE AND PEACE!"
Often spouting dialogue about love and justice, this character is naive and lacks common sense; her determination is usually the only thing keeping her from being completely incompetent (even if she is potentially very powerful). She can also act a little hypocritical, being as sneaky or outright violent as the wickedness she supposedly fights.
How satirically this character is portrayed depends on the mood and personality of the lead, although writers design her to be somewhat sympathetic. Nonetheless, it is difficult for the other characters to really dislike her, because she is honestly nice and a loyal friend.
Somewhat like The Messiah, but not as charismatic or as effective, placing this character in a supporting role 99 percent of the time. May admire the Knight Templar at first and continue to do so if the Templar is not portrayed negatively.
See also The Pollyanna, Naive Everygirl, Stupid Good. Occasionally has problems if they're forced to be a Reluctant Warrior.
Not to be confused with the *other* type of love freak.
Examples
Anime and Manga
Literature
Theatre
- Hope from Urinetown, whose insistence on "following your heart" ends up squandering the water supply and killing most of the city of thirst; it's implied she ends up dead at the survivors' hands. Moral of the story: Don't put the Love Freak in charge.
Video Games
- The Trope Namer here is Angel Trainee Flonne from Disgaea, who is actually called a "Love Freak" in the game.
- Kim Kaphwan of the Fatal Fury series has made it his life's goal to eliminate evil and stand for justice and truth... as well as strong-arming criminals into his "reformatory" program of intensive training. Later on in the series, he seems to gain the ability to sense evil, as his eyes glow yellow whenever he meets up with an evil character. Indeed, fans often use Kim's "evil sense" as a way to determine whether or not a character is truly a villain. His son Jae Hoon also follows the suit, and sometimes label someone overconfident but not completely evil like Gato... EVIL!
- Tizoc/The Griffon is a Justice Freak who is not from the Kim family. Justified, because he is somewhat of an idol of children, and have to keep up the persona, and that becomes the embodiment of his personality. Like Kim, he also has a special intro against evil people.
- Comes up to the point of irritation in Tales Of Symphonia, often on the post-battle screen:
Genis: Dwarven Vow #7:
Colette: Justice and love will always win!
Lloyd: Ugh, I hate that saying!
Colette: Our weapons are love!
Genis: Justice! And...
Kratos: *sighs* Hope...
Colette: Victory comes from love and goodness!
Emil: Then there's no victory here...
Colette: That's easy! Just fall in love with Marta!
Marta: Colette, you're a genius!
- Alfina from Grandia III, as shown in this
 Penny Arcade strip.
- Aino Heart, the main character from the all-girls fighting game Arcana Heart is a literal Love Freak, up to the point that her Arcana is a love elemental. Hell, her ahoge is heart-shaped. Her win quotes all espouse the virtues of love over fighting, and since there are no guys around for her to use these on, this can lead to some...interesting interpretations.
- There are actually TWO examples of this in Sengoku Basara. First is the traditional Love Freak Zabii. And second is the Justice Freak in the same vein of Kim Kaphwan, Azai Nagamasa.
- In Samurai Warriors, conversely, Azai Nagamasa gets the Love Freak treatment (since his tragic relationship with Oichi is one of his defining traits in Japanese depictions), but shares the Honor Freak and Justice Freak roles with Naoe Kanetsugu. (Interestingly, her Story tweaks their tragic parting by having it come before a final, full-fledged battle, so instead of merely having an unwilling Oichi returned to her brother before the castle's fall as is the popular depiction, she starts the battle on Nobunaga's side and due to gameplay she lands the killing blow. In Mitsuhide's story mode, however, he surrenders and after a verbal barb by Nobunaga he kills himself with Mitsuhide's sword.)
- And of course, Koei's poster boy for Justice Freak is actually Ma Chao. He can't go two or three sentences without using the word 'justice'. The people from Wu mock him for it.
- Rasputin in World Heroes is a flamboyant old man with fruity poses, and sometimes very big hands or feet, but never stops spewing the virtues of love. He is most famous for his super Move Garden of Love where he... drags the enemy to the ground through a garden of flowers, with his face implanted on it, and there are some... suggestive things happening. All we can trust is those heart signs coming out of it. Squick.
- Sora from Kingdom Hearts is more of a "Friendship Freak", but his often cut-scene covering speeches about how nobody can defeat one, who's got friends, love and a strong heart could easily compete with that of your average Love Freak.
- To be fair, the Keyblade and general metaphysics of the game world seem to agree with him.
- And anyone who disagrees will probably get a skyscraper thrown into their face.
- Shyna Nera Shyna of Silhouette Mirage could count, as she's constantly spouting things about the importance of her mission and calling herself the "Messenger of Justice", when Her mission pretty much entails The End Of The World As We Know It.
- Cruelly subverted in .hack//G.U. in the form of Atoli. Her Love Freak attributes drive her to be close to an anti-PVP guild (where PVP is Serious Business in the game). She is so much of a Love Freak Haseo basically went nuts. What nobody knows is that this is motivated by her complete lack of self-esteem which pushes her to do "good" stuff to gain acceptance. To twist the knife further, her most trusted friend/mentor Sakaki is actually manipulating her, milking her trust in him and her powers of the Second Epitaph, Innis. Oh, and did I say she met him in a suicide website?
Web Comics
- Subversion: Grace from El Goonish Shive gives a Love Freaky speech, before it is revealed she was reading it from a book.
- Piffany from Nodwick.
Western Animation
- The Tick and most of his supporting cast are also incompetent and played for laughs.
- Optimus Prime started out like this in Transformers Animated with his 'we're all just cogs in the Autobot machine' speech. He got over it very, very quickly around the time they got attacked by Megatron.
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