Basic Trope: Someone believes love is an undesirable weakness.
- Straight: Bob firmly believes love is a weakness.
- Exaggerated: Bob believes Virtue Is Weakness.
- Downplayed: Bob finds love to be somewhat of a hindrance.
- Justified: Bob knows love can make people do crazy, stupid, and or evil things.
- Inverted: Bob believes love is a strength.
- Subverted: Bob seems to disparage love, but only does so to keep his loved ones safe.
- Double Subverted: Bob soon decides that keeping his relationships on the down-low is too stressful and dumps them.
- Parodied: Anti-Hero Bob is comically hateful towards anything that could be perceived as even remotely affectionate.
- Zig-Zagged: Bob believes that love may be a weakness sometimes, but can also be a strength.
- Averted: Love is never discussed as a weakness.
- Enforced: The author was made to push the idea that love is a weakness in the workplace.
- Lampshaded: "Why do these guys treat love like the plague?"
- Invoked: Bob wants people to believe that love is a weakness to make them stronger.
- Exploited: Bob, knowing that the villain believes love to be a weakness, does not attempt to use The Power of Love to defeat them.
- Defied: "The Power of Love is a great strength! Who keeps telling you it's a weakness?"
- Discussed: "Plenty of people view love as a weakness, so trying to win them over through love may be pointless."
- Conversed: "Wow, the hateful villain thinks love makes you weak. What a surprise."
- Deconstructed: Because Bob believes that love is a weakness it causes him to shut off anyone who tries to help him, and as a result no one wants to deal with him.
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