I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Difference between revisions

* In the ''[[Gungrave]]'' anime Brandon Heat left his sweetheart Maria so she and Big Daddy can be together. Some subversion occurred because he never thought that Big Daddy could ever hurt her.

* ''[[Toradora!]]'' is basically this trope turned [[Up to Eleven]] and repeated three times.

** Love potion stuff is scary.

** Ranma does this in the manga after Akane slaps him in order to protect Shinnosuke from him in a fight. At that point, he's completely convinced she's in love with Shinnosuke, so he tells her goodbye and leaves, thinking that he'll never see her again. In the manga, this is milked for all the angst it's worth; whereas in the anime, a lot less focus and time are spent on this trope.

** Played both straight AND subverted by Arnold J. Rimmer as he realizes that Nirvana Crane has willingly surrendered her existence on the hologram ship so that he may get a position in her place. He immediately turns in his resignation to return to the Red Dwarf, stating that "we won't be apart, we just won't be together" and in doing so quoting exactly a romantic movie he saw at the start of the episode. He instantly realizes this and adds "I can't ''believe'' I just said that!"

** Averted by Lister, who pursues his dream girl Kochanski through a time hole after finding a picture of himself marrying her. When he finds her hotel room and he sees another man's shoes, he realizes that the groom in the photo is not himself, but the other guy. As he abandons the idea of getting together with her (and bemoaning the yuppie type of man she probably married), she opens the door and invites him to meet her new husband, who turns out to be himself from several years in the future.

* An interesting subversion occurs on ''[[In Plain Sight]]'' with one of the witness couples. They were a very unhappy but very devout Catholic couple when they see a priest murdered. Because of their faith they cannot get divorced, even though it is quite obvious they hate each other at this point. {{spoiler|1=To make a long story short she has found someone else that she likes and they both know this, but she wouldn't dare cheat. He ends up faking his death so that she can move on. She is not his beloved, but she is his wife and he admires her very much, and in order for her to be happy she can't be tied to him. So he fakes his own death and gets WitSec to help him get relocated again. At the end the man she really loves is comforting her as he sneaks out the back.}}

* On ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]]'', Sam Anders does this, but Kara ultimately sticks with him.

* [[King's Quest IV]]: Despite being head over heels infatuated with Rosella, and with his {{spoiler|kidnapper}} promising the [[Standard Hero Reward]] of marrying them, Edgar says it with a single red rose under the door of her prison - the key's attached. {{spoiler|[[Earn Your Happy Ending|It works out for them in the end]].}}

* In ''[[Persona 3]] [[Updated Rerelease|Portable]]'', if you're playing as a girl you have the option to start a romantic relationship with [[Stoic Woobie|Shinjiro Aragaki]]. He knows he's going to die soon in one of 3 different ways, so even though he loves the protagonist, he knows that starting a relationship would cause her nothing but pain, so he does his best to deter her for her own sake. With enough persistance you can get him to overcome this (ending in an implied [[Optional Sexual Encounter]]), but even when you talk to him after that he still tries to keep telling you that you're better off with somebody else.

* Implied to be the reason {{spoiler|1=GLaDOS}} sends Chell away at the end of [[Portal 2]]; hints in the tone and contents of the ending songs indicate she {{spoiler|lied about deleting Caroline}} to drive Chell out of the Aperture Science Testing Facility because she knew {{spoiler|the machine would drive her into an amoral testing frenzy again}}, and wanted Chell out of her reach before she lost control.

 

* Torg has had a crush on Zoe for most of ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'', but he never tells her how he feels, and at one point even resolves never to speak to her again, because he's worried that Oasis (a [[Yandere|crazy jealous]], immortal assassin) will kill Zoe for getting between her and Torg. Currently, Torg is actively searching for a way to permanently stop Oasis, in part so that he and Zoe can finally be together.

* In ''[[One Over Zero|1/0]]'' {{spoiler|Ghanny}} helps Terra {{spoiler|break her self-imposed fourth wall and come out of the closet to confess her love for Zadok}} as talked about [http://www.undefined.net/1/0/?strip=685 here]

* In ''[[General Protection Fault]]'', {{spoiler|Nega-Ki}} is shown developing some feelings for Nick, having been repulsed by Nega-Nick's cruelty, and after {{spoiler|charging him to distract him and [[Redemption Equals Death|getting mortally wounded]] in the process}}, tells her counterpart to love him and promise her they will be happy together. Trudy also has this mindset for Nick, combined with being [[The Atoner]], in the To Thine Own Self arc.

* In ''[[Order of the Stick]],'' [[Half-Human Hybrid|Therkla]] confesses her love for [[Spoony Bard|Elan]], who's already dating [[Chaotic Good|Haley]], though she's been missing for months and may well be dead. Therkla says that if Elan will be with her now, she'll willingly step aside if Haley ever comes back into the picture. [[First Girl Wins|Elan still declines]], however.