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* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' of Creator/AAPessimal, the love story is the [[BlackGalOnWhiteGuy Drama mixed-race romance]] of Julian Smith-Rhodes and Ruth N'Kweze. Julian isn't just a white guy. He isn't quite the heir - but in the line of succession - to one of the richest and most influential men in [[UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica Rimwards Howondaland]]. She is a Princess in the Disc's analogue of [[DarkestAfrica Black Africa]]. Julian's country is stuck in UsefulNotes/.TheApartheidEra and what he's up to with Ruth is not only socially shocking, it's ''illegal''. Ruth's nation is in a perpetual Cold War with Rimwards Howondaland, one which occassionally gets hot. At least partly because of apartheid. As all this is happening in faraway Ankh-Morpork, people around them collude to keep their secret, and their families accept it as one of those things. The rules are different in the Big City. But sooner or later both need to return to their respective homelands.

* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' of Creator/AAPessimal, the love story is the [[BlackGuyOnWhiteGirl mixed-race romance]] of Julian Smith-Rhodes and Ruth N'Kweze. Julian isn't just a white guy. He isn't quite the heir - but in the line of succession - to one of the richest and most influential men in [[UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica Rimwards Howondaland]]. She is a Princess in the Disc's analogue of [[Darkest Africa Black Africa]]. Julian's country is stuck in TheApartheidEra and what he's up to with Ruth is not only socially shocking, it's illegal. Ruth's nation is in a perpetual Cold War with Rimwards Howondaland, one which occassionally gets hot. At least partly because of apartheid. As all this is happening in faraway Ankh-Morpork, people around them collude to keep their secret, and their families accept it as one of those things. The rules are different in the big city. But sooner or later both need to return to their respective homelands.

* Kat and Marco in ''[[Literature/HeirsOfAlexandria The Shadow of the Lion]]''. Their subplot includes several {{Shout Out}}s to RomeoAndJuliet.

* In Rossini's opera of ''Myth/WilliamTell'', during the Austrian oppression of the Swiss, Arnold Melchthal, son of a Swiss elder, is deeply in love with Hapsburg princess Mathilde, and torn between his love for her and for his country.

* Alana and Marko in ''ComicBook/{{Saga}}'' whose respective homes, the planet Landfall and its moon, Wreath are wrapped up in a prolonged and bloody war.

* Oichi and Nagamasa in some scenarios of ''VideoGame/SamuraiWarriors'', since Oichi's the younger sister of OdaNobunaga.

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* ''Theater/TheLightPrincess'': Althea, the eponymous Light Princess, and heir of her kingdom, and Digby, The Solemn Prince, heir of the rival kingdom. Bonus points for falling in love in the no-man's land between the two kingdoms ''immediately following a battle''.

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* Aral and Cordelia when they meet for the first time in ''[[Literature/VorkosiganSaga Shards of Honor]]''.

* In ''[[Literature/TheCenturyTrilogy Fall of Giants]]'', there are Walter von Ulrich and Lady Maud Fitzherbert, who are from Germany and Great Britain respectively. Since they are both of noble birth, their families would have no problem with their relationship - if it weren't for the fact that they happened to fall in love shortly before WorldWarOne.

-->"Through The Barricades", Music/SpandauBallet

* [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Sonja]] and [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Lucian]] in ''UnderworldRiseOfTheLycans''. The [[FurAgainstFang never-ending feud]] between vampires and werewolves becomes a full-out war because of their relationship.

* An Angel and a Demon in {{Preacher}}. At one point, the Angel is laying out the whole story in truly florid PurpleProse and Jesse interrupts: "What is this, your letter to Penthouse? You fucked her. She got pregnant. They caught you. I know this part." [[spoiler: It turns out they weren't actually in love - they were forced into it by [[GodIsEvil God Almighty]] specifically to create Genesis.]]

* Kat and Marco in [[HeirsOfAlexandria The Shadow of the Lion]]. Their subplot includes several {{Shout Out}}s to RomeoAndJuliet.
* Aral and Cordelia when they meet for the first time in [[Literature/VorkosiganSaga Shards of Honor]].
* [[spoiler: Gawyn and Egwene]] end up on opposite sides in [[spoiler: the schism in the White Tower]] in TheWheelOfTime.
* Susanna and Marc in [[Literature/SixteenThirtyTwo 1634: The Bavarian Crisis]]. Susanna was Catholic, and Marc a Calvinist, which was a pretty big deal during the 17th century, particularly during the UsefulNotes/ThirtyYearsWar.

* In ''[[Literature/BlackDaggerBrotherhood]] The Chosen Layla and the Leader of the Band of Bastards Xcor are in love and in opposing sides of a civil war. Layla is loyal to the legal monarchy and is expecting the child of one of the King Wrath's Elite warriors. Xcor is trying to overthrow the king. But for Layla's sake he is trying to find bloodless methods via loopholes and caveats in the old laws.

* In WhiteCollar Mozzie imagines that his mother and father were respectively Russian and American spies.
* In the WWII miniseries ''Island at War'' a British Channel Islander and a German airman fall secretly in love for little other reason than to evoke this trope. To make matters angstier, he might have dropped the bomb that killed her father.

* Oichi and Nagamasa in some scenarios of ''SamuraiWarriors'', since Oichi's the younger sister of OdaNobunaga.

* In ''Series/{{Noob}}'' this is the cas between Kary and Arthéon [[spoiler:for the time it lasts]], the two playing in enemy faction is a {{MMORPG}} that plenty of characters take as SeriousBusiness.

* Histrionix and Melodrama in ''{{Asterix}} and the Great Divide'', where the battle lines are literally a trench cut through the town.

* In ColdWar rock opera ''Theatre/{{Chess}}'', Florence, a Hungarian refugee whose father was captured and possibly killed by Soviet troops during the Budapest Revolution, falls in love with the Russian grandmaster who is representing the USSR in a InternationalShowdownByProxy chess match.

* Gawyn and Egwene end up on opposite sides in the schism in the White Tower in TheWheelOfTime.

* Histrionix and Melodrama in ''{{Asterix}} and the Great Divide''.

* In ''Series/{{Noob}}'' this is the cas between Kary and Arthéon [[spoiler:for the time it lasts]], the two playing in enemy faction is a {{MMORPG}} that planty of characers take as SeriousBusiness.

** And tragically, [[spoiler: she was poisoned by her master for her perceived betrayal and died in Elan's arms, and refused to be resurrected if she couldn't be with him]].

* This is one of the main themes of ''NorthAndSouthUS''. Pretty much everyone experience this kind of heartache as the nation is torn apart. The main storyline is of the love between the northern family Hazard and the southern family Main.

* ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'' is probably the TropeCodifier. Romeo and Julet children of the violently feuding Montague and Capulet families fall in love when Romeo crashes a Capulet party.