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The Obstructive Love Interest
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Usually female, this character's sole purpose in the story is to misunderstand, obstruct and otherwise torment the male hero, thus creating unnecessary complications of plot until the end, where she finally rewards the hero with her hand or...other body parts. This character trope is Older Than Print, dating back to the unreasonable lady-love of medieval romances. An especially irritating version is often seen in war movies or action films, whining about being "neglected" when her significant other is absorbed in vital, world-saving projects. Expect your hero to feel conflicted between her and his Band of Brothers. Your Obstructive Love Interest may undergo some Character Development and come to honor her honeybun's choice to put duty before love, even if she may not necessarily like it — in which case, she and he both exhibit Loved I Not Honor More. Not to be confused with the Romantic False Lead, the decoy Love Interest doomed to be kicked aside for the sake of the OTP. The Super-Trope for Wet Blanket Wife, who torments the hero only over supposedly wrong (but interesting) parts of his life. Please don't use this trope to pigeonhole love interests you don't like for one or another reason. |
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This is one of the two primary "romcom" foundations for Ranma ½, with the other being a clash of personality flaws. Whether intentionally or otherwise, Akane Tendo usually tends to make Ranma Saotome's life far more complicated than it needs to be. She constantly mistrusts his motivations, interferes with his schemes, or simply attacks him in a fit of rage and/or jealousy. She has thrown things at him when he's in the middle of a fight, once been about to apologize for hitting him for hugging Shampoo when under Mind Control only to instead break off the apology and hit him for it again, constantly takes the side of his rival Ryoga Hibiki, accused Ranma of being in league with Happosai, accused Ranma of being a Panty Thief and even a potential rapist, left herself open in the middle of a fight to focus on accusing Ranma of impropriety, and in general been as much of a torment to Ranma as his rivals. It's morbidly impressive that Ranma is still attracted to Akane despite the constant misunderstandings, bickering and violence. | |
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Shiori in Glass Mask, who is Hayami's fiancée. When she realizes that Hayami loves Maya, she shows her true colors and often causes events that make Maya come across as rude or mean out of jealousy. | |
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In Double Homework, Ms. Walsh doesn’t get an ending, and she can draw the protagonist away from a sexy time with Lauren. | |
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Male version: Pedro from Velvet spends two seasons driven by a combination of insecurity, jealousy, and an inability to tell Rita he loves her without five minutes of prologue about other women, causing heartache for both parties. | |
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Used with Lucy Lane in Supergirl - but this is to show her as a Romantic False Lead for James. She's constantly questioning what he's up to and misunderstanding a lot of his situations - when he's really helping Kara keep her secret identity as Supergirl. | |
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Multiple ones in Melody: The protagonist can pursue a romantic/sexual relationship with Xianne, but there is no ending with her. Zigzagged with Sophia. She can prevent the Perfect Ending by getting involved with the protagonist, but she also unlocks the possibility of a three-way relationship between him, Melody, and herself. Jade is the logical extreme. She basically exists to torpedo the protagonist's relationship with Melody when it seems to be a slam dunk. |
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Mary Jane is the whining variant in Spider-Man 2, with all her screentime devoted to Peter pining over her or her pining over Peter without much to add for herself (well, she actually did, but it ended up all on the cutting room floor of the movie.) | |
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The heroine of The Night Land goes to absurd lengths to put herself and her rescuer in mortal danger to make sure he pays proper attention to her. But really, she just wants to be whipped. | |
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Ghost of You: Lance repeatedly and unintentionally sabotages Keith's efforts to get together with him due to misinterpreting his actions and words, along with being generally Oblivious to Love. Keith eventually realizes that much of this is due to the failure of Lance's last relationship leaving him convinced that he's not even worthy of love. | |
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Daredevil (2015) and The Defenders (2017): Karen Page falls into this trope for her detractors, especially considering how annoyed she gets at Matt when he tells her he's taking up Daredeviling again, nevermind Karen has legitimate reasons to be concerned about what Matt does. This seemed especially jarring considering how much she had been supporting Frank Castle during Daredevil season 2. Foggy arguably falls into the male variant of this trope even though he's just Matt's best friend, as he's also got legitimate concerns about Matt's activities as much as Karen's does. Elektra provides a bit of this too, since the second half of season 2 is about Matt being fixated on helping her and Stick stop the Hand, at the expense of helping Karen and Foggy with the Castle trial. |
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Hetalia: Axis Powers: There are also two one-sided examples with Belarus and Russia and Belarus and Lithuania. Belarus stalks and terrifying her brother, certain she can get him to marry her, but her being his love interest is all in her head. Meanwhile, Lithuania sees Belarus as a love interest, while she's not interested but still breaks his fingers while on a date. Subverted with Hungary, who beat up her future husband Austria before she became his love interest. | |
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Julie in Ben 10: Ultimate Alien, which was frustrating since she wasn't like that in the previous show. | |
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Princess Zelda, in the animated The Legend of Zelda (1989), drove Link absolutely crazy with this sort of behavior. And the poor guy never DID get the kiss he was always hoping to win. | |
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Good Omens (2019): Throughout the series angel Aziraphale keeps rejecting demon Crowley's pleas to elope together, he even denies liking the demon or being friends. Aziraphale has got his reasons (he's very repressed etc.), but it clearly hurts Crowley a lot. At the end of season 2 Crowley gives him Anguished Declaration of Love and actually kisses the angel. Even though Aziraphale feels the same, he rejects Crowley yet again. |
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Chev's girlfriend in Crank isn't the sharpest tool in the shed and can't comprehend the gravity of the situation Chev is in. | |
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Jocelyn is this to William in A Knight's Tale. Among other things, she has him lose battles intentionally (since any knight ever smitten by her good looks has tried to dedicate his victory to her, she asks for William to demonstrate his love by going against his own nature and losing for her instead), then after he goes through with it long enough to be almost knocked out of that tournament, she asks that he win all the battles left just to prove his love. Though the latter could be viewed as letting him off now he'd proved his sincerity, so YMMV. | |
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Brooke in Magic Mike responds to most of Mike's flirting with Snark-to-Snark Combat and disapproval about his chosen lifestyle. Until the end where he announces he's quitting stripping. | |
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Skyler White in Breaking Bad devotes a lot of her screen time to questioning what Walt is up to when he's out secretly cooking and selling drugs. Uniquely they're already married at the start. Also unusual in that, as annoying as she is from an out-of-universe perspective, she's completely right to not trust Walt. | |
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In the original Spider-Woman series, Jerry Hunt had shades of this, constantly getting frustrated over Jessica Drew's inability to put his needs before her drive to fight crime, even when said crimes tended to involve him. One issue gave us a peek into his mind and showed that he would have much preferred if Jessica had been a damsel in distress who needed him to rescue her. | |
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