History Main / LoveMakesYouEvil

* A bit subverted with ''[[WesternAnimation/TotalDramaIsland Total Drama World Tour]]''. After [[spoiler:Gwen gets a crush on Duncan and kisses him,]] her entire team thinks she's evil, and even [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXxww1canGA sing about her!]]

** Even Spike could fit this trope somewhat. While he was first evil, he slowly fell in love with Buffy and more or less turned good by fighting at her side. When Buffy and him began a purely-sexual relationship, Spike did not stop bothering Buffy to make her to upgrade their relationship. She constantly refused and, when she finally put a stop to it, he turned back into his evil and [[spoiler: tried to rape her to show her that she really loved him!]] Her cutting remark ("Ask me again why I could never love you!") prompts him to switch backt back to the good side after, but it took defeating demons in Africa to get his soul back and earn a chance at a real HeelFaceTurn based on something other than getting in Buffy's pants.

** The Legacy of the Force novels also have Jacen going dark for similar reasons. In one novel he [[GenreSavvy flat-out admits]] he's doing exactly what his grandfather did, but [[SelectiveObliviousness he's confident he can do it right]]. The irony being, he unites the galaxy in the end, so he wins after all.
** [[OldMaster Jolee Bindo]] from ''KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' puts it best:
-->''"Love doesn't lead to the dark side. Passion can lead to rage and fear, and can be controlled, but passion is not the same thing as love. Controlling your passions while being in love, that's what they should teach you to beware, but love itself will save you, not condemn you."''

* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' makes quite a heavy use of this, for a comedy series. Shampoo wants Ranma to return her love, so she tries to use {{Love Potion}}s on him and has no qualms about contemplating MurderTheHypotenuse, though she only actually attacks her rivals if she's convinced she can do so without hurting her reputation. Ukyo Kuonji can be just as bad as Shampoo in the manga, but still keeps some trace of this in the anime. Mousse is the most common offender of attempted MurderTheHypotenuse due to his unrequited love for Shampoo. Ryoga Hibiki abuses his curse to take advantage of Akane Tendo's naivety due to his obsessive crush on her, at least once tried to use a LovePotion on her, once [[LoveMakesYouDumb contemplated living together with her in a haunted cave forever]] so she would always want to cling to him for protection, and once tried to murder his rival for her hand -- while his direct motivation was to make Ranma Saotome stop hitting on him (having accidentally got him with the aforementioned LovePotion), he openly recognized that killing Ranma would leave him with Akane by default.

* [[MyImmortal "When]] [[HarryPotter Voldemint]] [[MyImmortal was in Hogwarts before he became powerful he gut his hearth borken. Now do you fink he would still become Volxemort if he was in love?"]]

* Used straight in ''HarryPotter''...sort of. JKRowling has said that she thinks of Dumbledore's youthful flirtation with world conquest and Muggle subjugation as the result of his blinding, infatuated love for Dark-Wizard-in-the-making [[spoiler: Gellert Grindelwald]]. Of course, this doesn't acknowledge that the Dumbledore we saw in ''Deathly Hallows'' was exactly the kind of Machiavellian bastard with a thing for controlling people who would be drawn to that kind of ideology himself. (And if that weren't enough, [[CynicismCatalyst he's got a tragic backstory involving Muggles attacking his sister for being a witch, an act which effectively destroyed his family and left him understandably bitter]].) Dumbledore himself acknowledges his character flaws, which is why he's never sought Ministry offices (the reason for which is something that Harry never quite understands).

** And, it's possible for ''you'', the player, to become this. Your main goal in the game is to get to your "daughter" Eleanor. If, along the way, you choose to make the evil choices, it's all to save her.

** A mentor/teacher's love for their pupils ([[spoiler: a school teacher kills two of her co-workers after they murder one of their students when she finds out they're involved in money frauds]])

An especially unpleasant extent of how LoveHurts and [[LoveMakesYouCrazy Makes You Crazy]]. Might start with, or end in, DestructiveRomance. Since this is both a Love Trope and a Betrayal Trope, '''there will be spoilers'''. See {{Yandere}} for a version of LoveMakesYouEvil that is mixed with, or camouflaged by, {{Moe}} tropes. Contrast EvilVirtues, where a villain has love as a good trait.

* ''VisualNovel/HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi'' gives us a case of psychosis and mass murder over a ''bad'' case of one-sided LoveAtFirstSight. And psychosis and murder over brotherly love. ''Twice''. Essentially, LoveMakesYouEvil ''and'' [[LoveMakesYouCrazy crazy]]. This is played straight with [[spoiler:Shion]], but subverted with [[spoiler:Tomitake]], who is horrified at [[spoiler:Takano]]'s plans.

* Imhotep in ''Film/TheMummyTrilogy''. He spends most of the two movies he's in trying to bring Anck-Su-Namun back. And, you know, raining down the ten plagues of Egypt and sucking the life out of anyone who stands in his way. He's a combination of LoveMakesYouEvil and CursedWithAwesome, with some BadPowersBadPeople thrown in for good measure (that is, even if you weren't so evil to begin with, becoming able to rain down the ten plagues of Egypt is a sure sign of villainy). In a rather brutal twist, it turns out that all of Imhotep's actions were in vain. He finds out in the last moments of his life that Anck-Su-Namun doesn't love him as much as she loves her own life, and she certainly doesn't love him as much as Eve loves Rick.

* Jolee Bindo of ''KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'', four thousand years before the events of StarWars, knows that the Jedi of his time are shifting to the view that LoveMakesYouEvil, and having lived alone in the forest for twenty years thinking back, makes the case to the player that this isn't so.

** Even Spike could fit this trope somewhat. While he was first evil, he slowly fell in love with Buffy and more or less turned good by fighting at her side. When Buffy and him began a purely-sexual relationship, Spike did not stop bothering Buffy to make her to upgrade their relationship. She constantly refused and, when she finally put a stop to it, he turned back into his evil and [[spoiler:RapeIsLove tried to rape her to show her that she really loved him!]] Her cutting remark ("Ask me again why I could never love you!") prompts him to switch backt back to the good side after, but it took defeating demons in Africa to get his soul back and earn a chance at a real HeelFaceTurn based on something other than getting in Buffy's pants.

** Even Spike could fit this trope somewhat. While he was first evil, he slowly fell in love with Buffy and more or less turned good by fighting at her side. When Buffy and him began a purely-sexual relationship, Spike did not stop bothering Buffy to make her to upgrade their relationship. She constantly refused and, when she finally put a stop to it, he turned back into his evil and [[spoiler:[[RapeIsLove tried to rape her to show her that she really loved him!]]]] Her cutting remark ("Ask me again why I could never love you!") prompts him to switch backt back to the good side after, but it took defeating demons in Africa to get his soul back and earn a chance at a real HeelFaceTurn based on something other than getting in Buffy's pants.

** Even Spike could fit this trope somewhat. While he was first evil, he slowly fell in love with Buffy and more or less turned good by fighting at her side. When Buffy and him began a purely-sexual relationship, Spike did not stop bothering Buffy to make her to upgrade their relationship. She constantly refused and, when she finally put a stop to it, he turned back into his evil and [[spoiler:''[[RapeIsLove tried to rape her to show her that she really loved him!]]'']] Her cutting remark ("Ask me again why I could never love you!") prompts him to switch backt back to the good side after, but it took defeating demons in Africa to get his soul back and earn a chance at a real HeelFaceTurn based on something other than getting in Buffy's pants.

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* ShingekiNoKyojin takes place in a CrapsackWorld full of grey morality, so it's hard to say it's a ''negative'' thing, but Mikasa loves Eren, and there is ''no one and nothing'' she wouldn't kill to protect him, and the same goes for Armin (though he's not the type to fling himself facefirst into trouble like Eren is). Getting on Mikasa's bad side is about as good an idea as jumping off a cliff. [[spoiler: Annie finds that out the hard way.]]

* Eponine of Victor Hugo's 1862 novel ''Literature/LesMiserables'' provided a relatively mild example of this: in love with Marius, the quite literal boy next door, and aware that he was besotted with Cosette, Eponine disguised herself as a boy and lured Marius to the barricade, intending for them to die together. She eventually took a bullet intended for him and died giving him Cosette's letter, though [[OlderThanRadio to this day]] her motives are debated. Considering that Hugo's own daughter Adele became utterly obsessed with a soldier, running away, printing fake marriage announcements, and even trying to drag him to a hypnotist so that he'd marry her, she may have inspired some [[TruthInTelevision Truth in Literature]] on the part of her father.

* In the ''Fellowship of the White Star'' event "London Fires," [[spoiler:the arsons are caused by a woman who is in love with a heroic NPC who once saved her from a fire demon. She is setting various locations in London on fire in an attempt to meet him again and properly declare her love for him.]]
** Which seems to be based off an old Japanese Folklore, so it's OlderThanYouThink.

* Theatre/{{Medea}} murdered her brother and betrayed her people for her love of Jason. Then in the play he leaves her, and she goes a bit murderous then as well, though that's more about [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge revenge]].

* TruthInTelevision
** [[LoveRedeems And can be subverted]].

* In ''NoahsArc'', [[spoiler:Guy's love for Trey leads him to do progressively crazier things, including setting up a fire for him to put out to look like a hero, and [[WoundedGazelleGambit cutting himself]] and blaming it on Alex. The cross into evil though comes when Guy writes a fake suicide note from Alex, heavily implying that Guy planned to kill him to get him out of the way for good]].

* Eponine of Victor Hugo's 1862 novel ''Literature/LesMiserables'' provided a relatively mild example of this: in love with Marius, the quite literal boy next door, and aware that he was besotted with Cosette, Eponine disguised herself as a boy and lured Marius to the barricade, intending for them to die together. She eventually took a bullet intended for him and died giving him Cosette's letter, though [[OlderThanRadio to this day]] her motives are debated. Considering that Hugo's own daughter Adele became utterly obsessed with a soldier, running away, printing fake marriage announcements, and even trying to drag him to a hypnotist so that he'd marry her, she may have inspired some [[TruthinTelevision Truth in Literature]] on the part of her father.

* An oddly literal example from ''PrincessTutu'': [[spoiler:the fragment of Mytho's heart that contains Love gets soaked in Raven's blood, so that it turns him evil when it's returned to him.]] Also, in a more traditional example, [[spoiler: Kraehe's motivation turns out to be her [[IJustWantToBeLoved desperate desire for his love]].]]