History PlayingWith / AllLoveIsUnrequited

* '''Played for Horror''': One of the characters, after years of rejection after [[LoveHurts heartache after betrayal and you name it]], [[LovesMakesYouEvil gives up on love for other potential love interests]] in all its various forms and definitions to such a monstrously extreme degree, that everyone is just going to throw them under the bus romantically, the character who has drawn the short straw in terms of sex/romance ends up deciding to [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rape one of their former love interests that rejected them]], or worse.

* '''Parodied''': Alice → [[RoboShip Bob the Robot]] → [[CargoShip Christabel the Cube]] → [[BestialityIsDepraved Danny the Dog]] → Ethan, Alice's brother → [[BrotherSisterIncest Alice]]

* '''Reconstructed''': Those focused on unrequited relationships do not form families out of a sense of obligation, while the couples make families because they genuinely want to spend their lives together as best as they can. The net result is that while there are fewer people in the world, the new generations of children grow up in safer, happier homes.

** Danny realizes that he'll never have a chance with Alice as long as Bob exists and gradually grows to resent him. He then decides that [[MurderTheHypotenuse Bob has go to go]] and pays for it for it dearly when he finds out the hard way that Bob doesn't even like Alice, being more into Christabel instead who loves Danny. Danny breaks down upon realizing that Christabel had feelings for him and he never noticed.

* '''Reconstructed''': Those focused on unrequieted relationships do not form families out of a sense of obligation, while the couples make families because they genuinely want to spend their lives together as best as they can. The net result is that while there are fewer people in the world, the new generations of children grow up in safer, happier homes.

* Alice begins to develop limerence for Bob, who becomes more and more creeped out with Alice's constant desire for his love and her need to be with him all the time. It takes years for Alice to move on from Bob, if she ever moves on from him at all.
* Danny realizes that he'll never have a chance with Alice as long as Bob exists and gradually grows to resent him. He then decides that [[MurderTheHypotenuse Bob has go to go.]]

* '''Exaggerated''': Alice → Bob → Christabel → Danny → Ethan → Franklin → Gilda → Hannah → Imogen → Jasper → Kay → Luke → Macy → Norman → Owen → Phoebe → Queenie → Ross → Suzannah → Terrence → Ulla → Victor → Wendy → Xavier → Yvette → Zeke → Alice

* '''Justified''': ???

** Everyone ''hates'' people who don't hate them back

* '''Double Subverted''': ...for a little while. Before returning to Christabel, who doesn't like him.
* '''Parodied''': Alice → [[{{RoboShip}} Bob the Robot]] → [[CargoShip Christabel the Cube]] → [[BestialityIsDepraved Danny the Dog]] → Ethan, Alice's brother → [[BrotherSisterIncest Alice]]

* '''Averted''': Everyone likes people who like them back.
* '''Enforced''': RuleOfDrama

* '''Invoked''':
* '''Exploited''':

* '''Discussed''': "And Wendy is in love with -- gah! Can someone make a flowchart?"
* '''Conversed''':

** Alternatively, Alice's unrequited feelings for Bob cause her to not give as much attention to future boyfriends who do love her back because the possibility of a future with Bob is always tempting her.

%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
%%* '''Reconstructed''':
%%* '''Played For Drama''': ???

* '''Implied''': ???

* '''Straight''': Alice → Bob → Christabel → Danny

* '''Exaggerated''': Alice → Bob → Christabel → Danny → Ethan → Franklin → Gilda → Hannah → Imogen → Jasper → Kay → Luke → Macy → Norman → Owen → Phoebe → Queenie → Ross → Suzannah → Terrence → Ulla → Victor → Wendy → Xavier → Yvette → Alice

'''Basic Trope''': Anyone who has feelings for someone else does not have those feelings recpirocated.

%%* '''Deconstructed''':

* '''Downplayed''': Alice → Bob → Christabel

'''Basic Trope''':

* '''Parodied''':

* '''Straight''': Alice → Bob → Claire → Dan
* '''Exaggerated''': Alice → Bob → Claire → Dan → Emma → Fiona → Gina → Han → Izzy...
* '''Downplayed''': Alice → Bob → Claire

* '''Inverted''': Everyone likes people who like them back.

* '''Double Subverted''': ...for a little while. Before returning to Claire, who doesn't like him.

* '''Defied''': Alice goes on a date with someone who asks her out. She doesn't like him, but she's ''trying'' to like him, because she's tired of the unrequited thing.

* '''Discussed''':

* '''Deconstructed''':
* '''Reconstructed''':

%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???

* '''Straight''':
* '''Exaggerated''':
* '''Downplayed''':
* '''Justified''':
* '''Inverted''':
* '''Subverted''':
* '''Double Subverted''':

* '''Zig Zagged''':
* '''Averted''':
* '''Enforced''':
* '''Lampshaded''':

* '''Defied''':
* '''Implied''':