Basic Trope: Someone nursed another back to health. Romance ensued.
- Straight: Alice tended to Bob's wound. Either Bob or Alice fell in love with the other.
- Exaggerated: Alice and Bob have never looked at each other before. Alice tended to Bob's cut finger, and before she's even finished they're rolling around naked on the floor.
- Downplayed:
- Alice tended to Bob's injuries for months. Eventually, they fell in love with each other.
- Alice and Bob already had feelings for each other. Nursing the wound was just the tipping point for them to become a couple since it brought out the best in Alice.
- Alice is not Bob's nurse, but he falls for her when he sees how caring she is towards the patient next to him.
- Justified:
- Alice is the only person Bob encountered who actually cared for him.
- Bob's injuries meant the two were around each other quite a lot and had time to become interested in each other.
- Inverted:
- Alice tended to Bob's wound. Bob hates her for making him feel weak.
- Alice and Bob are in a relationship, but when he falls ill he finds her unsympathetic and uncaring, and breaks up with her shortly afterwards.
- Subverted: Alice tended to Bob's wound. When Bob fell in love with Alice, she tells him that that happens a lot, and it doesn't mean anything.
- Double Subverted: But as time goes on Alice realizes she's in love with Bob, too.
- Parodied: Bob's wound worsened because Alice is actually a terrible nurse. He just couldn't bear to send her away.
- Zig Zagged: Alice and Bob have a Will They or Won't They? relationship, she worrying about her professional ethics and he wondering if he's really in love or just infatuated with a fantasy.
- Averted: Alice tended to Bob's wound. Bob was thankful, but did not show any signs of infatuation.
- Enforced: The Moral Guardians want Bob to settle down from his action- and sex-filled life.
- Lampshaded: "Guys fall in love with nurses all the time, dude."
- Invoked:
- Alice went into nursing for the romantic possibilities.
- Seeing how pretty and nice Alice is, Bob pretends to be sick/plays up an existing injury to encourage romance.
- Exploited: Alice knows Bob is interested in her, so starts caring for him in the hopes that the proximity and intimate environment will make something happen.
- Defied: "Do you know how many patients have fallen in love with me? Twenty-three. This morning."
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "That's the Florence Nightingale Effect. It happens in hospitals when nurses fall in love with their patients. Go to it, kid!"
- Implied: Bob is already married to Alice, who had always been working as a nurse. She once mentions how she met Bob in an accident where she tended to him.
- Played for Drama: Alice and Bob fall in love with each other, and have a very difficult time debating how to handle it, as medical ethics will not allow the two of them to be together.
- Deconstructed:
- Bob guilt-trips Alice into a relationship she does not really want by invoking his illness. Alice hates the relationship, and Bob can only be so satisfied by the Pity Sex.
- Alice is disciplined by the hospital's higher-ups for overstepping the boundaries of a proper therapeutic relationship.
- Reconstructed:
- Alice fell in love with Bob because the illness brought out sentimentality she found sweet, not because of pity and guilt. The two are able to have a healthy relationship.
- Alice sets her boundaries to avoid unprofessional conduct with Bob (possibly even switching patients.) But they agree to meet up after he's been out of the hospital for a couple months. Once the day arrives, they find that they still have affection for each other outside of the nurse-patient relationship.
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