Basic Trope: A bigoted character has a crush on someone they're prejudiced against.
- Straight: Bob is a racist bigot. Alice is part of a racial minority. Despite this, Bob has a crush on Alice.
- Exaggerated: Alice is a part of multiple minority groups that Bob is bigoted against. Despite this, he falls in love with her.
- Downplayed: Bob acts awkwardly around people of different races, but doesn't openly hate them.
- Justified:
- Love isn't racist.
- Bob's racism never really applied to Alice, even before he started to fall in love.
- Bob didn't know Alice's race until after he fell in love.
- Inverted: Alice has a crush on Bob, despite the fact that he's prejudiced against her.
- Subverted:
- It turns out that Bob's crush on Alice is just an act, to make him look like less of a racist bigot than he actually is.
- Alice isn't really part of the racial minority everyone thinks she is.
- Though Bob is known by many to be racist, it turns out he changes his ways long ago.
- Double Subverted: Despite the crush initially being an act, Bob soon starts to fall in love for real.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: As Bob struggles with his bigotry versus his feelings for Alice, Alice and Bob are constantly breaking up and getting back together.
- Averted:
- Bob isn't racist.
- Bob and Alice don't fall in love.
- Enforced: The writers want to use this relationship to show Bob's racism is wrong, and maybe later redeem him.
- Lampshaded: When asked about it, Bob admits that he knows Alice's race, but still loves her regardless.
- Invoked: Charlie arranges a date between Bob and Alice, believing that despite the racism issue, they'll actually get along great.
- Exploited: Alice hopes to use Bob's crush on her to try and teach him his racism is wrong and turn him into a better man.
- Defied: Bob refuses to accept his feelings for Alice because of his racism.
- Discussed: Charlie talks with a friend about Bob's racism, joking suggesting he's secretly in love with someone of a different race.
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: Bob acts much friendlier and more affectionately around Alice than others of her race, though nobody comments on his true feelings.
- Deconstructed: Bob's feelings for Alice makes him seriously start to question his racist views.
- Reconstructed: Despite this, he ultimately doesn't change his ways, seeing Alice as an exception.
- Played for Drama:
- Bob's family is every bit as bigoted as him, and would never accept his relationship with Alice. Despite this, they continue their relationship in secret.
- Bob's racism is the result of a traumatic event in his past, and this past trauma gets in the way of his attempts to have a relationship with Alice.
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