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Some tropes can't be deconstructed well for precisely this reason. If the trope plays out realistically, you can't add a Reality Ensues style twist. So this means that the troper who added the tag was almost certainly too in love with the source material and thought some tropes are bad when played straight.

I'm confused about the difference between playing In Love with Love straight with deconstructing it. It sounds like the two are one and the same, particularly with the example given in Western Animation about Vlad Plasmius: The basic trope is that a character wants a romantic relationship just for the sake of one while the deconstruction is that Vlad wants Maddie as a wife rather than actually being in love with Maddie herself. Those two sound very much alike to me, and are hard to distinguish. Could someone please enlighten me? Thank you in advance for your time and for whatever help you can provide.