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9	* Captain America becomes this for his girlfriend Peggy in ''Series/AgentCarter''. Thought to have perished in the ocean, a major plot point of the first season has Peggy becoming a double agent to help his friend Howard Stark. Peggy even confesses that she did this just to get a second chance at keeping him safe.
10	* Daniel's death is what prompts Sidney Bristow to become a double agent and kicks the plot in motion in ''Series/{{Alias}}''.
11	* Many of Captain Santiago's errors in judgment in ''Series/AltaMar'' come from his grief over his late wife.
12	* Dylan Hunt's fiancée in ''Series/{{Andromeda}}'', after he ends up trapped at the event horizon of a black hole for [[TimeDilation 300 years]]. He later tries to use TimeTravel to take her with him but is told that only one person can be transported. He later finds out that she has lived a long and happy life and meets her descendants on Tarazed.
13	* ''Franchise/{{Arrowverse}}'':
14	** ''Series/{{Arrow}}'':
15	*** The death of Rebecca Merlyn [[PlotTriggeringDeath is the ultimate cause of the events of the series]]. Malcolm Merlyn was never able to move on from her death, and in the process, he joined the League of Assassins, alienated his son, and devised the Undertaking to destroy the Glades in a misguided attempt to avenge her death. Robert Queen, who opposed the plan, had his boat sabotaged, causing his son Oliver Queen to wash up on the island of Lian Yu and remain stranded there for five years, allowing him to learn and hone the skills that would make him the titular "Arrow" and oppose Malcolm.
16	*** Shado's death and Oliver's role in it along with the Mirakuru driving him insane is what caused Slade Wilson to become an insane psychopath hell-bent on destroying Oliver Queen's life.
17	*** Oliver himself has had several. Along with the aforementioned Shado, he's lost Sara (twice), and Taiana. But the one that completely and utterly crushes him is Laurel, his {{Childhood Friend\|s}}, his FirstLove, his LivingEmotionalCrutch during his five years away from home, and quite possibly the love of his life. Not only that, she was the woman his best friend Tommy loved and died for, and the immense amount of grief, regret, and failure he feels that stems from all this are what causes Oliver to regress on his ThouShaltNotKill rule that he adopted in the wake of ''Tommy's'' death. In Season Five, it is made very clear that Laurel's death was the one death closest to pushing him over the edge above all others, and that he can't take much more tragedy before he breaks completely like Malcolm and Slade did. In the ''[[Series/Invasion2016 Invasion!]]'' crossover, it's even shown that Oliver's dream is to marry Laurel.
18	*** In Season 6, Quentin theorizes that the reason why Earth-2 Laurel keeps becoming TheDragon of older men is that she lost her father (Quentin's Earth-2 counterpart) when she was a girl, so she was desperately searching for some sort of fatherly love. It's also stated that while her father's death made a dent on her emotional state, the death of Earth-2 Oliver was the breaking point for her turn to villainy. Quite fitting, since her Earth-1 counterpart's death also caused Oliver to briefly regress to his old ways. Unlike him, however, she remains single by the end of the series.
19	** ''Series/TheFlash2014'':
20	*** In Season 2, Iris West still mourns her deceased fiancé Eddie Thawne a year after his death in the Season 1 finale. She only moves on after Barry uses TimeTravel to film a video of Eddie telling her to find happiness again.
21	*** Similarly, Caitlin Snow is deeply affected by the death of her husband Ronnie Raymond in the Season 1 finale, especially since it was not the first time he died (in her eyes). However, because of that, she has an easier time than Iris moving on from her love's death. Unfortunately, her relationship with the guy she tried to move on with did not end well either, [[EvilAllAlong though for entirely different reasons]].
22	*** In Season 3, Barry's messing with the timeline alters the future so he and Iris never get married -- he later finds out that this is because Season 3 BigBad Savitar ''kills'' her. When Barry travels to the future in "The Once and Future Flash" to avert this tragedy, he finds out that his future self did ''not'' react well to Iris' death. He became a recluse, hidden away in S.T.A.R. Labs and continuously mourning the death of the love of his life. And he wasn't the ''only'' Barry Allen to break. Savitar is a time remnant of Future Barry who was rejected by the rest of Team Flash. Already on the brink thanks to losing Iris, this rejection caused him to go insane and try to become a god so he could no longer feel emotional pain, eventually resulting in him being driven so mad that he was willing to recreate the greatest tragedy of his life if it meant he could still exist.
23	*** Season 4 opens six months after Barry gave himself as prisoner to the speed force, and Iris has taken his final words to heart. Unfortunately, she took them too well, as in "keep running" she cuts herself off emotionally from her friends, and fully jumps into running STAR Labs in his absence. At the same time she refuses to mourn his disappearance, and can't even bring herself to sleep in the bed she shared with Barry, sleeping on the couch instead.
24	* ''Series/BabylonFive'':
25	** John Sheridan believes his wife Anna to be dead, and clearly feels pain and guilt over her loss.
26	** Also Adira to Londo Mollari, when her murder (which he attributes mistakenly to Lord Refa) pushes him completely into the designs of Morden and the Shadows, and to a stunning [[BatmanGambit revenge plot]] against Refa. All of this was arguably pivotal to Londo's eventual fate in the story arc.
27	** Marcus for Susan, although she never admitted her feelings while he was alive.
28	** Carolyn ("Ship of Tears") to Bester--not quite dead, but no one as yet knew how to bring her out of her unusual less-than-alive state either. And supposedly this was the only person Bester was capable of actually loving, by his own words. His discovery that the Shadows reduced her to that state to prep her for fitting into a battlecrab's organic systems led him to some EnemyMine cooperation with Sheridan against the Shadows.
29	** And per [[ExpandedUniverse the book ''The Shadow Within'']], Morden agreed to serve the Shadows when they revealed to him that his wife and daughter, lost in a transport explosion a few years earlier, were actually trapped alive in a bubble of hyperspace and suffering in perpetual isolation. They offered to release them to a merciful death in exchange for his services. We also see here and in ''The Passing of the Techno-Mages'' trilogy that the necklace Morden wears in the show was a special gift from his wife, whom he still had feelings for.
30	** Isabelle to Galen. ''The Passing of the Techno-Mages'' trilogy reveals how Isabelle died and why Galen blames himself (he inadvertently told Elizar how to defeat Isabelle's shield).
31	** Although we only learn of it in the novel ''To Dream in the City of Sorrows'', Catherine Sakai is serving as this to Jeffrey Sinclair in his later appearances as head of the Rangers. She was one of the first Ranger recruits and fell into the time anomaly near Babylon 5 during a mission. Reuniting with her is one of the reasons he goes back a thousand years and becomes Valen, and the comic ''In Valen's Name'' confirms he was successful.
32	* ''Series/BetterCallSaul'' has Matt, Stacey's husband and Mike's son. His death turned Stacey into a paranoid BrokenBird which is why Mike went back to a life of crime to provide for her and his granddaughter. She attends a grief counseling group where that helps people dealing with their lost love.
33	* Anna Grant is this to Kerr Avon in ''Series/BlakesSeven''.
34	* ''Series/TheBoys2019'':
35	** Minutes into the first episode, Hughie's girlfriend Robin is accidentally killed by the careless A-Train. The resulting loss of innocence for Hughie, especially on experiencing Vought's attempts to cover up any wrongdoing, is what motivates him to try and bring the company down.
36	** Before the series started, Billy Butcher's wife Becca went missing and was presumed dead after being raped by Homelander. A CIA agent convinced Butcher that she was dead so he could focus on bringing Homelander down, and getting revenge for her murder is his motivation in the first season. [[spoiler: She's revealed to have survived but had to live in hiding from Homelander with the resulting ChildByRape]].
37	* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'':
38	** Jenny Calendar for Giles. After her death, she's frequently mentioned and seen in flashbacks and dream sequences. Though Giles has other relationships, he never really seems to get over Jenny's death. Also, at different points in the series, both Drusilla and the First Evil use Jenny's form to manipulate and torture Giles and other Buffy characters.
39	** The spin-off series ''Series/{{Angel}}'' arguably has a slightly twisted version in its final season. The death of Fred soon after they got together sends Wes into an alcoholic, desperate spiral. And since Illyria takes Fred's form, he's forced to still be around her every day and be driven by that constant reminder of his grief, which culminates when Wesley asks her to turn into Fred as he's dying.
40	** Tara for Willow. Though Willow has relationships after her, most of them never quite reached the same level of seriousness and eventually ended. Even 10-15 years down the line, Tara's death remains a looming presence in her love life, to the point where Willow confesses to Andrew in the Season 10 comics that she still sometimes thinks about finding a way to bring her back.
41	* ''Series/Charmed1998'':
42	** The sisters' grandfather Allen was this to grandmother Penny. He was killed by a warlock and the death caused Penny to fly into a blind rage and become a cold demon hunter. She also became incredibly bitter towards men, getting engaged five more times and marrying three of them. While she doesn't mince words on the failings of her subsequent lovers, the worst thing she can say about Allen is that he was a hippie and very into being a pacifist.
43	** Season 2 reveals that the sisters' mother Patty had an affair with her whitelighter Sam ([[GenerationXerox just like Piper and Leo]]), and he's been haunted by her death - she died trying to vanquish a water demon, which Sam tried to stop her from doing. After helping the sisters vanquish the demon, he [[TogetherInDeath heads off to the afterlife with Patty]].
44	* ''Series/ColdCase'': In "[[Recap/ColdCaseS2E22BestFriends Best Friends]]" Rose mourned Billie all the years after losing her, even writing a poem about it. The ending implies they're TogetherInDeath at least.
45	* Invoked in ''Series/{{Community}}'', where Annie has Abed shoot a video of herself so that in the event of anything happening to her she can more effectively fulfill this trope for someone.
46	-->'''Annie:''' You know in movies where the hero's wife or girlfriend is dead or missing and so he sits in the dark and he watches her in a home movie.\
47	'''Abed:''' Or a hologram.\
48	'''Annie:''' Or hologram, and she's always beautiful and full of love almost to the point of being stupid? We're making footage of that for me in case I get kidnapped or murdered!
49	* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'':
50	** Claire Taylor, the late wife of Mac Taylor, [[DeathByOriginStory who died on 9/11.]] He not only still wears his wedding ring for going on four years, he still has insomnia so bad he won't go home to try to sleep in his empty apartment for even longer than that. He's still so hung up on her after five years that he accidentally calls his girlfriend by Claire's name... during an argument about him not telling his team that they're dating. When he finally gets serious about someone else, it's more than 10 years after Claire's death, it's the sister of a partner who'd been killed in the line of duty, AND in spite of her getting where he's coming from, it still takes him a while to fully open up to her.
51	** Jessica Angell, Flack's girlfriend, after she was KilledOffForReal. He hides the pain well for a while but eventually ends up drunk on a subway (having neither bathed nor paid his bills in a while) with a HeroicBSOD that leads to him getting a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown from some thugs who swipe his gun and threaten him with it. They probably would've shot him point blank if a previous C.I. of his hadn't happened along in the nick of time. Three years after her death, he's still bemoaning the fact that he'd never told her he loved her.
52	* David for Ellen in ''{{Series/Damages}}'' after season one.
53	* Rachel Berrisford is this to Alec on ''Series/DarkAngel''.
54	* ''Series/DarkHole'': Gender-flipped. Hwa-sun's husband Sung-bum is killed less than ten minutes into the first episode, and her hunt for his murderer leads her to Muji.
55	* ''Series/DarkMatter2015'': The showrunners must really like this trope, because of the seven main characters, One, Two and Three all turn out to have them. That's half the main cast. [[spoiler:One's wife Catherine was murdered and Two and Three both have DelicateAndSickly girlfriends - Dr Irena Shaw and Sarah, respectively - who were put in stasis. Sarah also dies, but survives as a VirtualGhost]]. PlayedWith in that they're all [[AmnesiacHero Amnesiac Heroes]] at the beginning of the series (hence the [[YouAreNumberSix numbers as names]]), so each of them only later discovers that they ''have'' a Lost Lenore in the first place. [[spoiler:And since Two and Three's original selves have been [[ThatManIsDead wiped]], they also serve as this to Dr Shaw and Sarah, in a way, when the latter two are out of stasis]].
56	* Josette du Pres is this for Barnabas Collins on ''Series/DarkShadows''. Being a centuries-old vampire, he even attempts to [[ReplacementGoldfish turn his other love interests into her]].
57	* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
58	** It's implied that the Doctor might have at least one of these in his past, i.e. his unseen but logically existent first wife who would have been Susan's grandmother. In the ExpandedUniverse novel ''Cold Fusion'' she appears, named Patience.
59	** Rose Tyler becomes a non-dead version of this to the Tenth Doctor when she falls into an alternate dimension, to the extent that he completely alienates his next companion Martha as he spends the next series effectively moping over Rose.
60	** Clara Oswald becomes this to the Twelfth Doctor after she is killed by the Quantum Shade. First, he spends 4.5 ''billion'' years imprisoned and grieving her in a cruel variant of ''Film/GroundhogDay'', and then once he escapes that he attempts to rewrite time itself in order to prevent her death, nearly becoming a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds in the process. Ultimately, the only way for him to move on is to erase most of his memories of her.
61	** Grace, who dies by HeroicSacrifice in "The Woman Who Fell To Earth", is this for her husband Graham O'Brien, who chooses to travel with the Thirteenth Doctor mostly as a respite from his grief. His decisions throughout Series 11 are strongly affected by him constantly asking himself "What would Grace do?"
62	** Kane's lover Xana in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS24E4Dragonfire "Dragonfire"]], who either committed suicide rather than get captured or was killed escaping arrest (different sources give different stories, [[UnreliableNarrator each with likely reasons for lying]]).
63	* ''Series/DowntonAbbey'':
64	%% Lavinia Swire does not count. She had a larger role in the story alive than dead.
65	** Lady Sybil Branson née Crawley is deeply mourned by her husband.
66	** In Series 4, Matthew dies and is mourned by Lady Mary; a major arc that series is getting her out of the shell she's imposed on herself since his death. It's implied that even by the end of the series, she hasn't quite gotten over his loss, but is out of her shell.
67	* The death of William Boone's wife in the ''Series/EarthFinalConflict'' pilot serves to drive Boone into the role of a double agent, protecting Da'an while working for LaResistance. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that she was killed when he refused Da'an's initial offer by claiming that he wants to spend more time with his wife. While Da'an's role in Boone's wife's murder is unclear at first, Zo'or blatantly states in the Season 2 opener that Da'an was the one who ordered her death.
68	* ''Series/{{Elementary}}'';
69	** Sherlock Holmes essentially regards Irene Adler as this at the start of the series as she was killed by the serial killer "M" over a year ago, but [[spoiler:that is subverted when Sherlock learns that "Irene Adler" is actually an alias adopted by criminal mastermind Jamie Moriarty]].
70	** Medical examiner Eugene Hawes- a frequent contact for Sherlock and Joan at the morgue- had just worked up the courage to ask out fellow ME Nicole Slater moments before she was killed by a bomb that had been smuggled into the building. Hawes was left devastated by her death, and his proximity to the explosion, and turned to drugs to try and cope. Eventually Sherlock reached out and offered advice on how to get clean, although Hawes still took some time off work to cope before he could get back to normal.
71	* From ''Series/{{Farscape}}'', D'Argo's wife, Lo'laan. She's killed, he's framed for her murder and imprisoned. He spends much of the series trying to clear his name so he can return home and trying to find their son.
72	* ''Series/{{Forever\|2014}}'': Abigail. Henry was with her for forty years, and at the start of the series she's been gone for almost thirty. She appears in numerous flashbacks, and her ultimate fate is one of the ongoing mysteries of the series, becoming especially important in the last three episodes. [[spoiler: Learning how she died has a major impact on how Henry views Adam and how he handles their ultimate confrontation.]]
73	* John might qualify for Olivia in ''Series/{{Fringe}}''.
74	* Helen Kimble of ''Series/TheFugitive''. The 2000 remake cranks this up to eleven by not only making Gerard a widower as well but making his late wife a literal example of this, seeing as she was ''named'' Lenore.
75	* In ''Series/FullHouse'', Danny Tanner is recently widowed after his wife Pam is killed in a car accident.
76	* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
77	** Robert Baratheon's rage and pain over the death of his betrothed Lyanna Stark still hasn't cooled after 17 years. The Season 6 finale implies that this was not really reciprocated since Lyanna was convinced that Robert would murder her son and she feared his wrath.
78	--->'''Robert''': You want to know the horrible truth? I can't even remember what she looked like. I only know she was the one thing I ever wanted... someone took her away from me, and seven kingdoms couldn't fill the hole she left behind.
79	** Although she is probably alive somewhere, Tyrion's first wife Tysha is still a deep source of grief for him, as Tyrion poignantly indicates whenever she comes up.
80	--> '''Tyrion:''' I ''was'' wed; or don't you remember?
81	** Tywin ''adored'' his wife Joanna. He holds her DeathByChildbirth against Tyrion, and the fact he has not remarried seems to indicate this trope.
82	** Loras and Brienne mourn Renly after his death, with Loras eventually moving on to form a doomed relationship with the male prostitute Olyvar, while Brienne remains devoted to Renly and avenges him.
83	* ''Series/GeneralHospital'''s Sonny Corinthos has two--his late wife Lily, killed by a car bomb meant for him, and Brenda, who for years was presumed dead in a separate incident, but he blamed himself anyway. In the two decades since Lily's death, he has sabotaged nearly every other relationship he's been in because he's afraid of the woman meeting Lily's fate, and he fell for Hannah Scott because of her eerie resemblance to both women.
84	* ''Series/GoodOmens2019'':
85	** In episode 4 of season one [[spoiler:[[OurAngelsAreDifferent Aziraphale]] is [[NotQuiteDead discorporated]]]], and his [[spoiler:bookshop]] is burnt down. In episode 5 [[spoiler:[[OurDemonsAreDifferent Crowley]]]] drives to [[spoiler:the bookshop]] and learns what happened, thinking that [[spoiler:Aziraphale is [[KilledOffForReal killed off for real]]]]. He is utterly heartbroken by it, crying and cursing both Heaven and Hell:
86	--> [[spoiler:'''Crowley:''']] SOMEBODY KILLED MY BEST FRIEND! BASTARDS! ALL OF YOU!
87	** Queen's ''Somebody to Love'' is playing, highlighting his [[spoiler:[[OneTrueLove True Love]], as we learn in season 2]] for his friend.
88	** Then he proceeds to abandon all his previous plans to run away to Alpha Centauri, goes to a nearby pub and [[DrowningMySorrows gets spectacularly drunk]].
89	** Even after he learns that [[spoiler:Aziraphale]] is [[NotQuiteDead Not Quite Dead]], [[spoiler:Crowley]] is still visibly shaken by the whole ordeal, it makes perfect sense, especially when in season 2 he is revealed to have been [[spoiler:in love with Aziraphale for more than [[OlderThanDirt 6000 years]]]].
90	* In ''Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys'' Hercules' whole reason for fighting for justice is because Hera killed his wife Deianara and their three kids.
91	* ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet'':
92	** Giardello still deeply loves his late wife, and her death is largely responsible for his feelings of loneliness and depression, which he struggles with throughout the series.
93	** A gender-flipped variant occurs with Russert's husband, who died a year prior to her introduction.
94	* In ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'', King Viserys is forced to make the SadisticChoice between watching both his beloved wife Aemma Arynn and his unborn son [[DeathByChildbirth die in childbirth]], or condemn her to a [[CruelAndUnusualDeath much crueller death]] by TraumaticCSection (performed without anaesthetic) in an attempt to at least save their son. He goes with the latter and ''never'' gets over Aemma's death, especially since baby Baelon [[AllForNothing only lives for a few hours after being cut from his mother's belly anyway]]. While he's forced to remarry for the sake of the realm, choosing the much-younger Alicent Hightower, he never really loves her because of his inability to let go of his grief over Aemma, ignoring the multiple children she gives him in favour of indulging his only surviving child with Aemma, his daughter Rhaenyra, eventually leading to disasterous results for his kingdom. When he begins to fall increasingly sick, he never seeks proper treatment for his worsening condition, with [[WordOfSaintPaul actor Paddy Considine]] claiming that it was his own self-inflicted penance for killing Aemma. His last words before [[DyingAlone passing away alone in his bed at night]] were [[TogetherInDeath "My love..."]]
95	* In ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'':
96	** Turns out that while Ted was searching for his true love, the Mother was having trouble letting go of her boyfriend Max, who died in 2005 at the beginning of the series.
97	** In the end, [[spoiler:[[DeadAllAlong The Mother became this]] for Ted after dying from an unspecified illness. [[TheEndingChangesEverything The entire point of the show]], talking to his kids about the events leading up to the meet, was his dealing with the grief and covertly asking their permission to date once more]].
98	* The fact that he couldn't save his wife from a car wreck is what spurs David Banner to gamma experiments in ''Series/TheIncredibleHulk1977''.
99	* ''Series/InFromTheCold'':
100	** It turns out Chauncey had to shoot his girlfriend, who was brainwashed and forced to engage in a terrorist attack. He's thus strongly motivated to destroy the group which is behind this.
101	** [[spoiler:Faina was with Anya, who ended up killing her as part of her mission. She was left distraught at doing so, and left the SVR as a result.]]
102	* In ''Series/KeyWest'', the major elements of Gumbo's backstory are based around the loss of his wife, Cee Cee, to a sudden and unexpected illness. In "The Great Beyond," Gumbo finally realizes that he has to move on with his life despite still being desperately in love with his dead wife. But that's okay, because Cee Cee still loves him, and understands.
103	* In a variation, a Season 9 episode of ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent'' reveals that Nichols has an old girlfriend, ironically named Lenore, that he still carries a torch for. While Lenore is technically not dead, her mental condition has deteriorated so much due to schizophrenia that Nichols indicates that he feels the Lenore he loved no longer exists.
104	* ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'': Celeborn is a sore point for Galadriel. He disappeared in the war against the Great Foe many centuries ago and was never seen since then. Galadriel is heartbroken by his fate and is convinced he must be dead after all this time.
105	* Series/{{Lost}}: Charlotte could be this for Faraday. He is smitten with her, and then she dies. Her death makes Faraday question his entire belief system about the ability to change the past, resulting in him deciding to detonate a hydrogen bomb over a pocket of electromagnetic energy, hoping it will change things. This ultimately leads to his own death, and also forms the major narrative of the finale as Jack attempts to continue his plans.
106	** The show also provides a whole lot more examples of "Lost" Lenores, including: Juliet to Sawyer, Charlie to Claire, Libby to Hurley, Nadia and Shannon to Sayid, Isabella to Richard, and presumably after the finale, Jack to Kate.
107	* ''Series/LostLoveInTimes'': Feng Xian Wu died before the series starts. Her husband Yuan Ming is still in love with her and becomes increasingly villainous after her death.
108	* Patrick's wife counts in ''Series/TheMentalist.'' Her murder by Red John is what fuels all his actions in the series after.
109	* ''Series/Merlin2008'':
110	** Queen Igraine, King Uther's wife and Arthur's mother. She's a PosthumousCharacter whose death is the result of a [[BalancingDeathsBooks spell that allowed her to conceive]], and who kick-started Uther's RoaringRampageOfRevenge against magical users, setting up the main conflict of the entire show (that Merlin has to keep his magical abilities a secret).
111	** Freya, Merlin's GirlOfTheWeek who dies in his arms and becomes the Lady of the Lake.
112	* ''Series/MonarchLegacyOfMonsters'': It's revealed that WellIntentionedExtremist Bill Randa lost his wife [[Characters/MonsterVerseMonarch Keiko]] to monsters a decade prior to the events of ''Film/KongSkullIsland'', and implies that it was part of the reason why his movie self lost the idealism that his much younger series self portrays [[spoiler:-- the cruel and tragic irony being that Keiko [[ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated wasn't really dead]], and she survived inside Axis Mundi's time dilation to the 21st century, but Bill never found out before his violent and untimely death in the movie]].
113	* Trudy in ''Series/{{Monk}}''.
114	* Agent Gibbs in ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' never has truly gotten over the murder of his first wife and the daughter the two had.
115	* ''Series/{{Nikita}}'':
116	** Nikita's deceased fiancé, a civilian man named Daniel who was killed by Division after their romance was discovered. Daniel's murder was what led Nikita to go rogue and attempt to take down Division.
117	** Owen has his own example in Emily.
118	** Michael's wife and daughter are also killed with a similar effect. Realizing [[spoiler: that it happened on the order of Division leads to his HeelFaceTurn]].
119	* ''{{Series/Numb3rs}}'': Margaret Eppes, who died of cancer before the start of the series, is this to Alan Eppes. He is shown to be struggling with moving on from her loss. However, he is later shown to be dating a caterer in season two and is dating Charlie's boss, Millie Finch, in season three.
120	* ''Series/OnceUponATime'' loves to use this trope for its villains:
121	** Daniel, Regina's true love, becomes this after he is murdered by her own mother. This leads Regina down her [[StartOfDarkness path to darkness]], seeking to take revenge for Daniel's death.
122	** Belle is also this for Rumplestilskin, who carries this on to his Mr. Gold persona. Subverted in that it turns out Belle isn't really dead and is eventually reunited with him.
123	** Captain Hook also has one in the form of Rumplestiltskin's wife, Milah. But he has a HeelFaceTurn and Emma Swan becomes his SecondLove.
124	** Subverted with MerlinAndNimue. We're told that the original Dark One murdered Merlin's lover Nimue. It turns out Nimue ''is'' the original Dark One.
125	** ''Series/OnceUponATimeInWonderland'': Cyrus is this to Alice, and Anastasia is this to the Knave. [[spoiler:It turns out that Anastasia also feels the same about the Knave.]]
126	* Moray's wife in ''Series/TheParadise''. "It's forbidden to talk about her death".
127	* ''Series/PersonOfInterest'':
128	** Jessica is this for Reese.
129	** Finch seems to be this with respect to his fiancée Grace--he's still alive, but because he faked his death (Or rather, made certain that nobody realized that he survived an assassination attempt aimed at the friend he was standing next to at the time), she doesn't know this.
130	* ''Series/RedDwarf'': Kristine is one for Lister. She dies in the first episode, and for years after, she continues to consume his thoughts in one way or another.
131	* GenderInvertedTrope in ''Series/{{Rejseholdet}}'', where Ingrid's long-term boyfriend, Søren, dies from a brain hemorrhage in the sixth episode. His death continues to have lingering effects on Ingrid's private life throughout the series.
132	* ''Series/TheRiseOfPhoenixes'': Ya Le, for Zhan Bi. She died eighteen years before the series starts but he's still in love with her. [[spoiler: It turns out she isn't dead after all; her husband had her imprisoned in the palace and pretended she was dead... but by the time this is revealed Zhan Bi is dead.]]
133	* In Season Three of the BBC series ''Series/RobinHood'' Robin Hood may have got another love interest in the form of [[CreatorsPet Kate]] but the final scene of the final episode affirmed Maid Marian's status as The One True Love.
134	* ''Series/TheRookie2018'' episode "The Reckoning" has DEA agent Xavier Lind join John Nolan and Celina Juarez in tracking down the drug dealer who killed his partner a decade ago after tagged money used in a sting operation turns up in circulation. In the course of the investigation, Celina realises that Lind and his old partner were lovers, with Lind confirming her guess and explaining that the two kept their real feelings secret as it obviously wasn't acceptable to have a gay relationship back then.
135	* ''Series/SpartacusBloodAndSand'':
136	** Sura in season one is almost the most classic example of this trope in a TV series since Shelly Webster in ''Series/TheCrowStairwayToHeaven''. Even before the titular hero knows for sure she's actually dead she appears in flashbacks and dream sequences, and after she [[DiedInYourArmsTonight dies in his arms]]. Spartacus does get another love interest, [[ReplacementGoldfish Mira]] but (1) she bears more than a passing resemblance to Sura, and (2) it takes him a long time to reciprocate her interest. They spend a lot of Season 2 dancing around Spartacus' ongoing love and grief for his murdered wife, and after they finally do get properly together, Mira is killed too! WordOfGod has it that Spartacus probably will never be able to love again.
137	** Melitta is this both for her husband Oenemaeus and his friend Gannicus, who had been forced to have sex with her for a Roman noble's amusement (and ended up falling for her). The fact that she died while about to have sex with Gannicus complicated matters even further.
138	** Quintus becomes this for his wife Lucretia by ''Vengeance''. Their ludus was massacred at the end of the first season and he died, while Lucretia survived. That and the death of her unborn child turns her into TheOphelia.
139	%%* Fiona Carter in ''Series/{{Spooks}}''.
140	* ''Franchise/StarTrek'':
141	** ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': Tasha Yar for Data. He keeps a hologram of her in his quarters, which becomes a plot point, and becomes friends with her sister and is hurt when she betrays him. Also, he makes an enemy of her [[ItMakesSenseInContext alternate timeline half-Romulan daughter]], whose appearances serve to remind him of Tasha.
142	** ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'':
143	*** Without Jennifer Sisko, the entire series wouldn't have unfolded the way it did. It led to Sisko accepting the post in the first place, him becoming the Emissary, him becoming so bound to Bajor, and his final fate at the end of the show.
144	*** A partially successful example occurs with Tora Ziyal. It succeeded via her father's storyline. He had never been entirely sane and broke completely over the death. He ended up as the BigBad, trying to bring about a Bajoran apocalypse. She was also supposed to be this trope for Garak as his driving inspiration for every future action he took against the Dominion. However, because the show refused to openly admit the impact of her death on Kira and Garak because it wanted to redeem her murderer, the fans only learned this fact through WordOfGod rather than the show itself.
145	* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' has several:
146	** Mary for all the Winchesters. She's the motivation for much of the first two series and Zachariah tortures her soul ( or an artificial copy of her) because he knows it will upset Sam and Dean.
147	** Jessica is Sam's Lost Lenore. She appears as a hallucination and in his dreams. Lucifer wears her form the first time he talks to Sam, so that he'll be more convincing ( and possibly for the sake of [[HoYay fanservice]] ).
148	** Lucifer also tries a similar trick with his first vessel Nick, who had lost his wife in a violent crime.
149	** And Bobby has his wife, whose death he has never quite gotten over. It's the motivation for everything he's done and if Bobby is getting an episode in the spotlight, chances are fifty-fifty that his wife will appear at some point. ''Supernatural'' loves this trope.
150	* Inverted in a ''Series/ThatMitchellAndWebbLook'' sketch involving a parody of the film ''Film/{{Rebecca\|1940}}''. The eponymous Rebecca arrives at her new husband's house only to find out he is obsessed with preserving everything in the house for his ''second'' wife.
151	* ''Series/{{Timeless}}'': Logan's wife, who died in something he believes to be his fault. Emma resembles her, to the point that he pulls tries to her out from under the ''Hindenburg'', despite knowing she was one of the victims of the explosion.
152	* ''Series/{{Trigonometry}}'': Lori tells Moira that her girlfriend died in the previous year and so she's not ready to enter another relationship yet.
153	* ''Series/TruthSeekers'': Emily for Gus.
154	* Lori in ''Series/TheWalkingDead2010'' via DeathByChildbirth.
155	* Another male example -- in ''Series/Warehouse13'', Myka's former partner/lover Sam died on an assignment with her, and her belief that she could/should have saved him drives many of her actions in the series.
156	* Kate for Neal in season 2 of ''Series/WhiteCollar''.
157	* Male example -- and doubly unique and interesting as he is the Lost Lenore to another male character -- Brandon from Season One of ''Series/TheWire'', whose death continued to have ramifications through subsequent seasons.

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