Line #39 Main/LoveIsACrapshoot


1	Romance and love can outrank magic, technology, or even a PhysicalGod, in influence on the progression of a story. But how it influences the story is a crapshoot.
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3	'''The Good:''' Love acts as a FixerSue or DeusExMachina, overcoming all.
4	* TheDulcineaEffect: Being in love instills a desire to protect.
5	* LoveAtFirstSight: Instantly loving a person.
6	* LoveRedeems: Love makes a character do a HeelFaceTurn.
7	* ThePowerOfFriendship: Love for your friends empowers.
8	* ThePowerOfLove: Feelings of love empowers.
9	* TrueLovesKiss: Romantic kiss that cures ills.
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11	'''The Bad:''' Love is an ArtifactOfDoom, corrupting even unambiguously good people who lack the willpower to sacrifice their relationships for their morals into a FaceHeelTurn. Murder mystery series seem to love this one.
12	* ClingyJealousGirl: Her love causes her to have unreasonable jealousy towards other girls who go near her guy.
13	* CrazyJealousGuy: His love causes him to go psycho whenever his girl is around other guys.
14	%%* Driven By A LoveInterest: Love makes you too focused around one person to the point of neglecting your own future.
15	* IfICantHaveYou: Unrequited love ignites violence against the one who refuses them.
16	* LoveMakesYouEvil: Being in love causes the character to throw away their morals.
17	* MurderTheHypotenuse: Killing off someone who stands in the way of your love.
18	* WomanScorned: Being dumped or rejected by her love causes her to snap and possibly kill.
19	* {{Yandere}}: Love causes a character to become insanely jealous and murderous towards those who seek to take their love away from them.
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21	'''The Ugly:''' Love is an ArtifactOfDeath, bringing doom and pain to all who encounter it.
22	* CartwrightCurse: Everyone TheHero loves is always fated to die.
23	* DestructiveRomance: Love relationship that causes one or both parties nothing but heartache and possibly even death.
24	* FatalAttractor: Repeatedly falling in love with immoral or mentally unwell people.
25	* LiteralManeater: She [[ImAHumanitarian eats you alive.]]
26	* LoveHurts: Falling in love will get your heart broken.
27	* LoveMakesYouCrazy: Falling in love costs you your sanity.
28	* LoveMartyr: Putting up with horrendous abuse for the sake of being with the one you love.
29	* OfficialCoupleOrdealSyndrome: Lovers have to deal with so much crap.
30	* OutWithABang: One or both of the lovers are killed during the act.
31	* RoaringRampageOfRomance: Perceived threats to one's relationship trigger violent overprotectiveness.
32	* SexSignalsDeath: Making love gets one or both of the lovers killed later on.
33	* SpurnedIntoSuicide: Not getting love returned leads to taking your own life.
34	* StarCrossedLovers: Lovers cannot be together and this causes them heartbreak.
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36	'''The Complicated:''' Love is an embodiment of the RuleOfDrama, making life unnecessarily complicated.
37	* AdrenalineMakeover: High action and tension makes a plain character into a LoveInterest.
38	* CockFight: Men fight each other for a woman's affections.
39	* LoveMakesYouDumb: Falling in love causes stupidity.
40	* LoveTriangle: Two people love the same person, leading to drama.
41	* LoveDodecahedron: More than two people are caught in romantic drama.
42	* StrangledByTheRedString: Characters fall in love but have no reason to.
43	* UnrequitedTragicMaiden: A woman loves a man that she just cannot seem to win, and gets a piteous fate for it.
44	* WillTheyOrWontThey: Who knows if these two will ever couple up.

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