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Love Overrides the Law
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In Real Life, breaking the law and being caught doing so would label you a criminal and if you are caught and arrested, force you to probably go to court depending on where you live. However, in Fictionland, either the law doesn't work like that, or no one cares because this character is in love. The character can safely bypass the law without being made to face it. Those enforcing the law might even completely forget their jobs and give them a helping hand! Delays be damned. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Compare with Well-Intentioned Extremist, For Happiness and Nepotism (I'm screwing the rules because I'm helping my relative/friend). Typically overlaps with Race for Your Love. Contrast Love Makes You Evil. See also Death by Woman Scorned. Examples: |
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In an episode of Castle there's a wealth of evidence pointing to a nurse as the murderer. He isn't but the evidence gathered related to a complicated plan to fake his falsely imprisoned girlfriend's death to get her out of prison. This works but the two are quickly arrested. At the end of the episode Castle and Beckett are not only going to somehow avoid him getting prosecuted for the prison-break (and the various crimes he committed to manage it) but are going to reopen his girlfriends case to get her out legally. Granted there were apparently a lot of mistakes made in her conviction but still... | |
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In the American version of Fever Pitch, Drew Barrymore's character runs across Fenway Park in the midst of the 2004 ALCS' Game 4 to prevent Jimmy Fallon's character Ben from signing away lifelong season tickets to his team. Although she is carted off at the end, field security allow a few moments for them. | |
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Miraculous Ladybug downplays it: Anarka Couffaine in "Captain Hardrock", who shows no concern about the damage caused by her speakers (likely adding up to thousands of euros considering how many cars were blown over), pays no respect to Roger when he tries to call her out on violating noise restrictions, and then gets herself into further trouble by revealing she has none of the relevant permits for her houseboat. She ultimately faces no consequences for this, with Roger even pointing out that the speakers are still over the legal limit but choosing to let it slide for no reason beyond "it's the music festival."note Credit to the YMMV page of said show | |
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Desert Nights: Diana participates in armed robbery; she is part of a gang pretending to be a safari expedition which instead robs a diamond mine. She also participates in kidnapping as she and the gang kidnap mine superintendent Steve and force him to guide them across the desert. But she falls in love with Steve on the way, so instead of spending a good long time in a South African prison, she's released into Steve's custody at the end. | |
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Brooklyn Nine-Nine: Defied for laughs in the first season episode "Unsolvable." Jake shows up to arrest a murderer, who tries to get out of it by claiming that he did it "for love". Jake's response is a succinct "Cool motive, still murder." In "Det. Dave Majors", Jake ironically tries to invoke this himself after breaking into a private bar. Cue Jake getting literally thrown out. |
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Not Always Right: Subverted in this story, where a guy thinks he shouldn't have to pay for the damage he and his girlfriend did to a hotel room due to this trope. | |
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The defendants in an episode of Law & Order, a high school couple, invoke the trope when accused of killing their newborn baby. The baby would have gotten in the way of their going to the prom. When charged, the girl actually says "But we're in love!" as a defense and can't understand why that doesn't excuse everything. | |
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In the climactic chase of Not Another Teen Movie, drivers let the Love Interest run through traffic, but do their utmost to stall the Romantic False Lead doing the same thing. For bonus points, they're yelling stuff like "Give up!" and "She doesn't love you!" at the latter. | |
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Monster Prom: One of the secret endings for Liam has the player parody this exact trope. "You tell Miranda not to worry. You've seen plenty of teen rom-coms. You know how this part goes:" |
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Parodied relentlessly in The Amazing World of Gumball: Rocky mentions he imagined meeting his love after racing to get to her before she leaves on a plane. After accidentally turning down the girl he saw at the mall, Gumball and Darwin convince him to make an extremely hasty search for her, during which they do a number of immoral or illegal things, like reading her medical records and stealing a car, to speed up the process (or for no reason at all), despite nothing indicating they were short for time at all. Everyone permits these things because they're being done "in the name of love"—except the girl being chased after, who thinks they're terrible and insane. | |
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In the second Yolki film, two characters cause a deputy's Mercedes to collide with a bath and block an entire street. One of them explains that his girlfriend is waiting for them (they were bringing the bath to her grandmother), and everyone involved (including the deputy) convinces the police to let them go scot-free. | |
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In the Warrior Cats book Long Shadows, Ashfur threatens to kill Squirrelflight's kits, and also reveals that he'd already attempted to kill her father, as revenge for her breaking up with him. Several books later, he shows up in the cats' heaven, StarClan, and when the POV character (one of his intended victims) questions this, it's handwaved by another character as "His only fault was to love too much". Especially egregious when compared to a later book, as Squirrelflight herself is nearly denied admittance to StarClan because of her "crime" of raising her sister's forbidden kits. A potential meta reason for him not being punished for his crimes is that one of the authors said she empathizes with him because she too has done crazy things for love. | |
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Subverted in the show Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. Rebecca Bunch is arrested for burning down her ex-boyfriends apartment. In court her mother argues that "she is just a girl in love, your honor. She can't be held responsible for her actions,", mirroring the lyrics from this season's opening number. Obviously this does not hold up in court. If anything, this entire season is driving home the idea that love is never an excuse to harm or punish others. | |
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Subverted in Gavin & Stacey when Gavin bursts through the guard barrier to get on to the platform at the railway station so he can propose to Stacey before her train pulls out. He thinks it will play out like a romantic movie, but instead he gets crash tackled by armed police who mistake him for a terrorist. Although Gavin is pinned to the ground, the police do pass the ring on to Stacey after first checking that the box contains only a ring. They then drag him down to the police station. | |
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