In Love with the Mark: Difference between revisions

* Rolo in ''[[Code Geass]]'' develops a strong, genuine affection for Lelouch Lamperouge while [[Becoming the Mask|posing as his younger brother to monitor him]] and saves his ass ({{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice|which kills him]]}}).

* Ironically played with in ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]''. [[Career Killer|Assassin]] Kenshin and Tomoe fall in love with each other. However, {{spoiler|the mark is Kenshin, not Tomoe, who is a spy for Kenshin's [[Genre Savvy]] enemies, who intended to invoke this trope on purpose in order to use her as a hostage and lure Kenshin into a trap.}}

* One episode of ''[[Noir (anime)|Noir]]'' has Kirika befriending a target. {{spoiler|She kills him anyway}}.

* ''[[El Cazador de la Bruja]]'' has an episode where Nadie and Elis meet a husband and wife running a restaurant. Turns out that the husband was originally hired to kill the woman, but fell in love with and married her instead.

 

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* Visas Marr in ''[[Knights of the Old Republic (video game)|Knights of the Old Republic]] 2'' joins your party after failing to assassinate you. She is a possible love interest for a male character (though the Handmaiden becomes inordinately jealous).

* Played with in ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'': Thane fell in love with the woman that blocked his shot on the Mark. According to Thane she didn't even know his target, and this had a profound affect on him, eventually tracking her down and marrying her.

** And from Blazing Sword (7), we've got Jaffar and Nino. A catch here is that they're both assassins in the organization now run by the [[Big Bad]]—and are sent to assassinate the Prince of Bern, Zephiel (a hit put out by the Prince's [[Kick the Dog|Fox-kicking]] Bastard of a Father). However, the organization can't exactly get away with killing someone that important... so [[Evil Matriarch|So]][[Complete Monster|nia]] order [[Defrosting Ice Queen|the up-to-that-point completely heartless]] [[Tyke Bomb|Jaffar]] to kill ''her own daughter'' [[Token Mini-Moe|Nino]] as a second target, apparently unaware that [[Florence Nightingale Effect|Nino had actually saved Jaffar's life in the recent past]]. Needless to say, that didn't go over well in more ways than 1. Ultimately, this leads to a double [[Heel Face Turn]] and if they get an A-Support, they'll end up married (Although, [[Doomed by Canon|neither lives much longer after the game, sadly]].)

* The backstory of Kasuga from ''[[Sengoku Basara]]'' reveals that she fell in [[Love At First Sight]] with Uesugi Kenshin, the man she was supposed to assassinate and promptly underwent a [[Heel Face Turn]] for, and has been serving as his bodyguard ever since.

 

== Web Comics ==

 

 

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