And Now You Must Marry Me/Playing With
Basic Trope: The villain tries to force the hero or a benevolent character to marry them.
- Straight: Chazz kidnaps Alice to force her to be his bride.
- Exaggerated: Chazz seeks a harem to marry.
- Downplayed: Chazz does seek to marry Alice but doesn't try to force her.
- Marrying Alice isn't Chazz's only goal.
- Justified: The story is meant more for kids so marriage is a replacement for sex.
- Chazz genuinely does love Alice but is too insane to understand that forcing her into marriage is wrong.
- Chazz has something to gain from marrying Alice.
- Alice reminds Chazz of a loved one that died and drove him to madness.
- Inverted: Hero seeks to marry the villain.
- Subverted: Chazz forces a ring on Alice's hand only to reveal it's a bomb.
- Double Subverted: That'll explode unless Alice agrees to marry him.
- Parodied: Alice ends up being much stronger than Chazz and beats him up when he tries to force her to marry him.
- Zig Zagged: Sometimes Chazz wants to marry Alice or kill her depending on the episode.
- Averted: Chazz was just flirting with Alice.
- Enforced: "This story is for kids, so let's replace sex with marriage."
- Lampshaded: "When are you going to learn I will never marry you?"
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: Alice uses Chazz's feelings for her to gain information or distract him long enough for her allies to do their job.
- Defied: Chazz realizes that forcing Alice to marry him would make both their lives a living hell and backs off.
- Chazz regains his sanity and realizes Alice would be happier with Bob and leaves them alone.
- Discussed: "You can't force someone to marry you, that's not love."
- Conversed: "Even if he succeeds, what's to stop Alice from killing him in his sleep?"
- Deconstructed: Chazz figures out all his plans for world domination have been foiled because of his obsession with Alice and he would have been more successful if he gave up on her or saved making her his bride for the last.
- Reconstructed: Then he sees Alice sunbathing in a bikini and he focuses on her first once again.
- Played For Laughs: Chazz gets beaten up frequently by Alice's boyfriend Bob for trying to force Alice to marry him.
- Played For Drama: Chazz kidnaps Alice and discusses "plans" for their honeymoon.
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