History Main / RoaringRampageOfRomance

This is none of these situations. This is when Alice and Bob stay, most of the time, level headed and genuinely try their best to be together, and notwithstanding their success or failure, the CollateralDamage is at least 147 deaths, the destruction of three cities, and maybe even the EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. Even if it can involve some irrationality (after all, LoveMakesYouCrazy or sometimes evil), it's not the characters' flaws, but the circumstances that force the couple to go to extreme length to be together. Or, even worse, they didn't even realize what they were doing, and the couple's stubborn insistence on being together results in [[NiceJobBreakingItHero an unintended ripple effect of death and destruction]]. In short, this trope is not about characterization, it is about the effects of a relationship on the story and the setting.

Can involve LoveMakesYouEvil or LoveMakesYouCrazy. This is an inversion of DestructoNookie where the rampage part involves only the couple, and usually does not leave the bedroom.

This is a trope about how romance can be really, really destructive. That's just what happens when you place the huge power of love into the hands of someone in love. They become irrational, and mad with power. Expect at least one case of MurderTheHypotenuse, especially if there is a {{Yandere}} involved.

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* ''Series/{{Haven}}:'' Nathan and Audrey. In the mythology of the show, the Troubles are genetic supernatural curses that besiege the town of Haven, Maine for a few years every 27 years. They stop when a mysterious, otherworldly woman arrives who is immune to them; she helps out for awhile and then pulls a HeroicSacrifice, which ends them for another 27 years. This has worked for the last 500 years. Except this time, when Audrey finds out ''she'' is this woman and she and Nathan fall for each other. Nathan is unwilling to let her sacrifice herself, disrupts her HeroicSacrifice, and unwittingly kicks off ''the apocalypse''. Seasons 4 and 5 see the town turn on the pair of them, because everything Nathan and Audrey do to prevent Audrey's death just make things worse. By the time season 5 rolls around, people are dying ''daily'' from the Troubles, and people have had enough--Nathan gets put on trial for his failure to serve in his capacity as the police because of his feelings for Audrey, and barely manages to avoid being executed via vigilante justice.

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-->--"Come Make My Day", ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic''

* The second half of ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'' has this as a major element when Amalgam starts drastically stepping up their efforts to capture [[MacGuffinSuperPerson Kaname]]. Kaname is horrified enough by the collateral damage that she actually surrenders, hoping she can at least stall the plans she's critical for from within. Sousuke, on the other hand, doesn't hesitate to go on the warpath to return his LivingEmotionalCrutch home; and while Kaname does briefly try to dissuade him and cope without her, she realizes mid-ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies speech that neither she nor Sousuke can tolerate their separation anymore and that they have no obligation to shoulder the blame for an obscenely powerful terrorist organization that has every reason to just leave her the hell alone. Thus, she commands Sousuke to do whatever he needs to in order to rip Amalgam a new one and get her back home, an order he accepts with a very rare smile.

* In ''ComicBook/TheSandman'', Morpheus and Nada make love once. Her home city is reduced to glass shards. It's suggested that had they remained together, the entire world would have been destroyed.

* In ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1'' Bowser and Mario both love Princess Peach. Bowser kidnaps PP, and Mario saves her. Between them, they cause the deaths of countless koopas, goombas, and other minions that did nothing wrong.

* Bella and Edward of ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' start a war and cause all sorts of chaos and mayhem, including hurting each other, in their quest to be together.

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* This is one of the themes of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''.
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->'''Kaname:''' Come and save me, no matter the casualties. No matter how many die--hundreds, ten thousands, even if a hundred million die--I don’t care. Come and get me! Use everything that you have. Mobilize that lack of common sense and annoying technical skill of a soldier. Take down all opponents, no matter who, and embrace me! You can do this, right!?

* ''Manga/FutureDiary'': By the end of the series, [[spoiler:we learn that [[{{Yandere}} Yuno]] and [[KidWithTheLeash Yukiteru]] were once this in another world. When Yuno won the right to succeed [[MeaningfulName Deus Ex Machina]] in the first world, her first act as the new God was to attempt to resurrect Yukiteru. Needless to say, it did not go well. Everything we know of her in the series is the Yuno who has already long since crossed the MoralEventHorizon by abandoning the first world and creating a second where she could replay her day with Yukiteru. It is heavily implied though that they fit this trope very well in the first world, before the events of the series and the original Yukiteru's death.]]