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** On {{Angel}}, Cordelia ends up with a similar problem, combined with mystical pregnancies.

* Train from ''BlackCat'' doesn't seem to be able to attract very normal love interests. It would be rather interesting to know if he would still choose to be a CelibateHero and appear to be [[{{Asexuality}} asexual]] if a halfway decent and semi-normal woman would come into his life. His (possibly) blooming feelings for Saya (the most normal of his love interests) is cut very short by... a certain very jealous person. Rinslet is a very manipulative thief who constantly takes advantage of him and tricks him into doing things for her. Kyoko is too much of a borderline {{Yandere}} who is overly aggressive and a StalkerWithACrush. And that's not even mentioning Creed, who is the most [[StalkerWithACrush insane and obsessive pervert]] when it comes to Train...

* Sam Winchester from ''{{Supernatural}}''. His girlfriend was killed, he had to kill Madison, Ruby was a demon and evil, he couldn't stay with Sarah because he wanted to find his dad and the demon who killed his girlfriend...

'''Tom Paris:''' ''No, no. Actually, I was gonna congratulate you. I mean, she's not a Borg, she's not a hologram, and she's not dead. Looks like you might have finally found yourself the perfect woman.''

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* [[{{Garfield}} Jon]] before he started going steady with Liz was like this with pretty much ANY girl he dated.
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* Bingo Little of ''JeevesAndWooster'' is always in love with girls of low social station, although arguably, it's less that he has poor taste in women than that they have poor taste in [[UpperClassTwit choosing him]].
** Many of Bingo's inamoratae are unaware of his affections. Bingo's main problem is that he is [[SerialRomeo in love with]] ''[[SerialRomeo falling in love]]''. Even if it gets to the point of starting a relationship, Bingo's fickle heart (or whatever organ is involved) will lock onto another target. And every time it is "The One".

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* Ah, the poor characters on ''{{NCIS}}''. Somebody's new girl/boy friend turning out to be evil happens just about once a season, to the point that GenreSavvy fans instantly suspect anyone's new love interest. There was an undercover Mossad agent, identity thief, serial killers (yes, two!), daughter of an international arms dealer, and a ''freaking South Korean assassin.'' McGee ends up having the aforemention assassin try to kill him, and she ends up shot and dying in his arms, prompting him to mumble, "I swear I'm joining a monastary." Tony has sexual tension with (probably over) half the feamle killers on the show. Abby ex-boyfriend stalked her and intended to kill and a make it look like a suicide. Even ''Ducky'' got in on the action by dating a serial killer. It makes Gibbs look kinda normal, though he's gone out with a few (yes, literal) killers over the course of the show.

* Ah, the poor characters on ''{{NCIS}}''. Somebody's new girl/boy friend turning out to be evil happens just about once a season, to the point that GenreSavvy fans instantly suspect anyone's new love interest. There was an undercover Mossad agent, identity thief, serial killers (yes, two!), daughter of an international arms dealer, and a ''freaking South Korean assassin.'' McGee ends up having the aforemention assassin try to kill him, and she ends up shot and dying in his arms, prompting him to mumble, "I swear I'm joining a monastary." Tony has sexual tension with (probably over) half the feamle killers on the show. Abby ex-boyfriend stalked her and intended to kill and a make it look like a suicide. Even DUcky got in on the action by dating a serial killer. It makes Gibbs look kinda normal, though he's gone out with a few (yes, literal) killers over the course of the show.

** Nico Minoru of ''{{Runaways}}''. [[spoiler: Her first boyfriend turned out to be TheMole and [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy she ended things with her second boyfriend because he fell for another girl.]] She also made out with a vampire at one point.]]

Some people are just unlucky in love. Others seem to have done something to personally piss Cupid off and are spending the rest of their lives paying for it. The FatalAttractor is a character whose LoveInterests always end up having some sort of critically serious flaw, be it personality, [[ManHands physicality]] or just a [[SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum maniacal urge to destroy the universe]], which ultimately precludes any kind of long-term relationship.

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** ComicBook/{{Batman}}'s track record is not quite as disastrous as {{Daredevil}}'s, but does include those who dumped him because they thought he was a [[RichIdiotWithNoDayJob worthless playboy]] (Julie Madison, Linda Page), those obsessed with proving Bruce Wayne was Batman (Vicki Vale), those who left him because they couldn't cope with his double life (Silver St Cloud), those marked for death because of his double identity (Sascha Bordeaux) or actually murdered because of it (Vesper Fairchild), those driven insane (Sondra Kinsolving), and the outright criminal ({{Catwoman}}, Talia, Jezebel Jett).

** Buffy doesn't fare much better. Her three boyfriends (counting Spike, but not her one-night stand)were, respectively, a Ensouled Vampire, a Super-Soldier and an Unensouled Vampire.

** The first OVA gives us BrokenBird Lilly [=McGuire=] [[spoiler:who is practically a slave to the BigBad, Geese Howard, and in fact was partly responsible for an incident in which Geese killed Terry's father. Regardless, the two fall for each other, and just as Lilly has made her HighHeelFaceTurn and agreed to leave Geese to be with Terry, Geese [[KiAttacks Reppuukens]] her through a window to her death. His [[FailureKnight failure]] to protect Lilly haunts Terry for the remainder of the trilogy.]]
** In TheMovie, Terry meets PluckyGirl Suila Gaudemus [[spoiler:who as luck would have it, is the [[MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter Crazed madman Laocorn Gaudemus' little sister]]. Terry spends the movie trying to keep himself from getting too close to Sulia because of what happened to [[ILetGwenStacyDie Lilly]], but just as he's coming to terms with his feelings, Laocorn becomes [[AGodAmI a godlike being]], and Sulia makes a HeroicSacrifice that allows Terry to beat him.]]

* Montblanc gets a PrankDate ''FinalFantasyTacticsAdvance'' '''and''' ''FinalFantasyTacticsA2''.

See also: DatingCatwoman, FatalAttraction, ThePaolo.

* Sam Winchester from ''{{Supernatural}}''. His girlfriend was killed, he had to kill Madison, Ruby was a demon and evil, he couldn't stay with Sarah because he wanted to find his dad and the demon who killed his girlfriend...

* Sam Winchester from Supernatural. His girlfriend was killed, he had to kill Madison, Ruby was a demon and evil, he couldn't stay with Sarah because he wanted to find his dad and the demon who killed his girlfriend...

* Hadji from ''TheRealAdventuresOfJonnyQuest''. his two main love interests over the run of the show were:

** The daughter of his adoptive father's terrorist arch-enemy.

* In ''SomethingPositive'', Davan's girlfriends usually turn out to have something very wrong with them. The sole exception left him (with his blessing) because her dream job required her to move.