Basic Trope: One or more characters hate Valentine's Day.
- Straight: Bob hates Valentine's Day and wants nothing to do with it.
- Exaggerated:
- Everyone, even the couples, want Valentine's Day to be banned forever.
- Bob obsessively hates Valentine's Day so much he wants to destroy everything related to the holiday.
- Downplayed: Bob is mildly annoyed with Valentine's Day.
- Justified:
- Bob is Alone Among the Couples. Worse, people took this as an opportunity to mock him for not having a date for Valentine's Day.
- Bob, regardless of whether or not he's with someone, believes that Valentine's Day is a commercialized holiday, and believes there's no need for a specific day for couples to show their love for each other.
- Bob used to like Valentine's Day, until a girl he was previously dating cheated on him for another guy.
- Bob is averse to public displays of affection, and finds the idea of a day centred around such displays revolting.
- Bob is asexual and/or aromantic and therefore doesn't like the idea of a whole holiday being dedicated to love.
- Bob had an extremely bad experience in February 14 and thus Valentine's Day memorabilia has become a Trauma Button (doubly so if whatever or whoever traumatized him exploited the irony for additional Kick the Dog points).
- Inverted: Bob loves Valentine's Day!
- Subverted: Bob finds a girlfriend, Alice, and tries to make Valentine's plans with her.
- Double Subverted: Alice doesn't like Valentine's Day much either, much to Bob's relief, and together they go out of their way to ignore the holiday.
- Parodied: Every February 14th, Bob celebrates "Anti-Valentine's Day".
- Averted: Bob has no opinion about Valentine's Day.
- Enforced:
- The author hates Valentine's day, and represents this through their characters.
- The author feels that the Valentine's Day Episode needs an antagonist and makes the villain someone who hates Valentine's Day.
- Lampshaded:
- "Oh, look. Here comes Bob who's going to complain about how Valentine's Day sucks because he couldn't get any dates."
- "You just don't want to make the effort to be romantic. That's why you hate Valentine's Day."
- Invoked: Bob tries to weasel his way out of buying his girlfriend, Alice, a gift using commercialism as an excuse.
- Exploited: Charlie uses Bob's hatred of Valentine's day, and the lengths he will go to ignore it, to get him to do the chores.
- Defied:
- Bob's friends find him a date for Valentine's day just to keep him from complaining about the holiday.
- Bob ignores his hatred for the holiday for the sake of his friends (or if applicable, his girlfriend Alice).
- Deconstructed:
- Bob's hatred of Valentine's day and subsequent complaints irritate his friends, and they all avoid him on that date.
- Bob's refusal to acknowledge the holiday hurts his girlfriend, Alice's feelings.
- Reconstructed:
- Either the friends realize that they are being too harsh with Bob, or Bob tries to make amends.
- Alice makes an effort to understand Bob's disdain for the holiday, while Bob celebrates it for Alice's sake.
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