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Doesn't overlap with [[The Masquerade Will Kill Your Dating Life]] because your significant other has to be in on any masquerade in cases of this trope. May overlap with [[Its Not You Its My Enemies]] but not necessarily. If the hero leaves his love interest to protect her, it's [[Its Not You Its My Enemies]]; if the hero could recite Lovelace's poem in context, it's this trope (too).
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
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== Video Games ==
* Keldorn in ''[[
* Kilik from the ''[[Soul Series (Video Game)|Soul Series]]'', to a degree. {{spoiler|Confirmed when we learn that one of Xianghua's two children, Xiba, is not just his succesor -- but his son. But they didn't last.}}
* Haohmaru from ''[[Samurai Shodown (Video Game)|Samurai Shodown]]''. He cares for his girlfriend Oshizu, but both of them know what [[Blood Knight|fighting is his priority.]]
* Several of the participants in the ''[[Street Fighter (Franchise)|Street Fighter]]'' tournament are either married or have girlfriends, and they're more or less able to balance their private lives and their love of fighting. Guile has his wife Jane (or Julia) and their daughter Amy (or Chris), his brother-in-law Ken has Eliza and their little son Mel, Hakan has a [[Huge Guy, Tiny Girl|cute and petite wife]] and ''seven'' little girls [[Doting Parent|whom he adores]], Guy has his fiancèe Rena ([[Brother Chuck|though she hasn't been seen for a while already]]), Dhalsim has Sari and their son Datta, Rufus has his girlfriend Candy, etc..
** Averted with Ryu. He knows that [[What Happened to The Mouse?|Gouken's daughter]] likes him a lot and it's hinted that [[Hero Worshipper|Sakura]] may have a full-blown crush on him... but he feels that he can't return the first's love due to his love for fighting, and doesn't seem to be even aware of the second's (possible) feelings.
* Sora of ''[[Kingdom Hearts (Franchise)|Kingdom Hearts]]''. Kairi is more precious to him than his own life, but three times he has been compelled by the call to leave her.
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== Western Animation ==
* ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'' actually [[Gender Flip|Gender Flips]] the male version of this trope in the episode "Superfriends," when the girls' [[Part
{{quote| '''Bubbles:''' Hey, Robyn, we're sorry...<br />
'''Buttercup:''' ... we left you behind all the time.<br />
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'''Mai:''' Thanks, Zuko, [[Sarcasm Mode|that makes me feel all better]].<br />
'''Zuko:''' ''Mai,'' I never wanted to hurt you, but I have to do this to save my country. }}
* This shows up in, of all places, the 1960s cartoon ''[[Underdog (Animation)|Underdog]]'' in the episode "The Witch of Pickyune," when Underdog meets a witch who will only wake his love interest from an eternal sleep if he helps her [[Take Over the World]]. Proving himself to be smarter than [[Star Wars|Anakin Skywalker]], he flat out refuses (before accidentally saving the girl anyway with a [[True
* Bruce Wayne expresses his contempt for this trope in ''[[Batman Mask of the Phantasm]]'' when he decides he can either marry Andrea Beaumont or become Batman but not both, refusing to go out on his nighttime vigilante missions if there's someone worriedly waiting for him to come home.
* Number 1 abides by this philosophy on ''[[Codename Kids Next Door]]'', but his girlfriend Lizzie eventually has enough and breaks up with him in "Operation G.I.R.L.F.R.I.E.N.D."
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