History PlayingWith / DatingCatwoman

'''Basic Trope''': A hero and a villain have a romantic relationship.

* '''Reconstructed''': Bob and Alice realize that they can’t change each other and that just because they’re on the opposite side of the law that doesn’t mean they can’t have a healthy relationship. Bob finds that his relationship with Alice makes him question and tone down the KnightTemplar morality his crime-fighting is based on. Alice, similarly, chooses to [[JustLikeRobinHood steal from more deserving targets]]. hey both worry that the other may change their mind someday, but both decides not to let it bother them.

* '''Implied''': Alice, usually being impersonal when fighting heroes, inexplicably goes into a flying rage when Carol claims to be dating Bob.
* '''Deconstructed''': Their conflicting moralities lead to a very unsuccessful relationship, and they end up fighting again but this time all the more vicious. Bob finds that his relationship with Alice makes him question the KnightTemplar morality his crime-fighting is based on. He tries to get her locked away, but she escapes, feeling horribly betrayed and vowing revenge.
* '''Reconstructed''': Bob rationalizes that really, Alice is JustLikeRobinHood, and anyway it'd be useful to have a friend in the criminal community, and he can't catch ''all'' the theives in the city, and goddammit why shouldn't he have some fun for once? Alice worries that he may change his mind someday, but decides not to let it bother her.

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

* '''Straight''': AliceAndBob are nemesises and sometimes lovers.

** Bob starts dating Alice, but only after Alice has a HeelFaceTurn.

* '''Straight''': Alice and Bob are nemesises and sometimes lovers.

* '''Parodied''': ???

* '''Lampshaded''': ???

* '''Straight''': Super Stan and Calamity Caitlin flirt with each other in their encounters.
* '''Exaggerated''': Super Stan and Calamity Caitlin are married, have three kids, and still are on opposite sides of good and evil.

** FoeRomanceSubtext - there's {{UST}} between Stan and Caitlin, but no more than that.
** Stan and Caitlin aren't actually heroes or villains; instead they work for rival companies.

** Super Stan is trying to lead Calamity Caitlin back to good.
** Caitlin is a PunchClockVillain[=/=]HeroAntagonist who keeps her job and her personality separate. She got attracted to Stan's personality after a few battles.
** Caitlin is an AntiHero[=/=]AntiVillain. Just because she's chaotic doesn't mean she's evil.
** Stan is a GreatDetective and Caitlin a DiabolicalMastermind; each of them considers their ArchEnemy to be the only person in the human race worth looking at twice.

* '''Gender Inverted''': Super Stella and Destructor Dylan have a romantic relationship.
* '''Inverted''': Stan and Caitlin are both good, and [[TeethClenchedTeamwork always team up to fight evil together, despite personally despising each other]].
* '''Subverted''': [[TheMole Calamity Caitlin is just pretending to like Super Stan to betray him]].

* '''Parodied''': Super Stan becomes a hero to look for a wife.

* '''Averted''': Super Stan and Calamity Caitlin are just adversaries and have no romantic attraction.
* '''Enforced''': Super Stan has no romantic relationships and the network wants him to have one, and rather than writing in a new character they write in new subtext.
* '''Lampshaded''': Super Stan's sidekick Daring Derek asks if Stan is going to ask out Calamity Caitlin in her first appearance.

** [[BigBad Evil Elliot]] hires sexy women in {{Spy Catsuit}}s to do all his dirty work, knowing Super Stan's [[TheCasanova Casanova]] tendencies.
** Evil Elliot tries to convince Super Stan to marry [[DaddysLittleVillain his daughter]] Calamity Caitlin, so that Stan can [[WeCanRuleTogether inherit his crime empire]].

** Caitlin, cornered by the hero, acts on their subliminal attraction to worm her way out of trouble.
** Stan uses Caitlin's attraction to him in order to capture her.
* '''Defied''': [[KnightTemplar Super Stan]] refuses to listen to his heart and will not forgive Calamity Caitlin of her crimes.
* '''Discussed''': "If I know my hero[=/=]villain relationships, Caitlin, all that rage is just pent-up lust for me".
* '''Conversed''': "Caitlin tried to boil Stan alive in acid again this week? She's so hot for that guy".
* '''Implied''': Calamity Caitlin, usually being impersonal when fighting heroes, inexplicably goes into a flying rage when Aquatic Alice claims to be dating Super Stan.
* '''Deconstructed''': Their conflicting moralities lead to a very unsuccessful relationship, and they end up fighting again but this time all the more vicious. Stan finds that his relationship with Caitlin makes him question the KnightTemplar morality his crime-fighting is based on. He tries to get her locked away, but she escapes, feeling horribly betrayed and vowing revenge.
* '''Reconstructed''': Stan rationalizes that really, Caitlin is JustLikeRobinHood, and anyway it'd be useful to have a friend in the criminal community, and he can't catch ''all'' the theives in the city, and goddammit why shouldn't he have some fun for once? Caitlin worries that he may change his mind someday, but decides not to let it bother her.

* '''Played For Drama''': Stan and Caitlin have to deal with the emotional turmoil of having their feelings and their morals come into conflict once Stan has Caitlin cornered after Caitlin apparently crosses one line too many by killing someone - where's the point where Stan can't look at himself in the mirror and say he hasn't abandoned his code of justice for love?

* '''Gender-Inverted''': Stan's the [[VillainProtagonist evil one]] in the relationship, Caitlin's the [[HeroAntagonist heroic one]].

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

** Caitlin is a PunchClockVillain / HeroAntagonist who keeps her job and her personality separate. She got attracted to Stan's personality after a few battles.
** Caitlin is an AntiHero / AntiVillain. Just because she's chaotic doesn't mean she's evil.

** BlueAndOrangeMorality

* '''Gender-Inverted''': Stan's the [[VillainProtagonist evil one]] in the relationship, Caitlin's the [[HeroAntagonist heroic one.]]
* '''Subverted''': [[TheMole Calamity Caitlin is just pretending to like Super Stan to betray him.]]
* '''Double Subverted''': [[BecomingTheMask But she cannot go through with it.]] As soon as things [[SexFaceTurn get a bit intimate, she switches sides]].

* '''Zig Zagged''': WillTheyOrWontThey The couple's relationship hopscotches between FoeRomanceSubtext, DatingCatwoman, {{Arch Enem|y}}ies, FoeRomanceSubtext, {{Worthy Opponent}}s, DefeatMeansFriendship, FriendlyEnemies, FoeRomanceSubtext...

* '''Discussed''': "If I know my hero/villain relationships, Caitlin, all that rage is just pent-up lust for me".

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* '''Inverted''': Stan and Caitlin are both good, and always team up to fight evil together. Personally, though, they despise each other.

** [[BigBad Evil Elliot]] hires sexy women in {{Spy Catsuit}}s to do all his dirty work, knowing the Super Stan's TheCasanova tendencies.