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** An episode of the show, however, has this trope go somewhat better for another spy/assassin, who upon being ordered to kill her husband of three years (who she originally married as [[Becoming the Mask|part of a long con]]), instead plans to fake both their deaths. (Then the husband hires Chance to protect him from her, not knowing anything about said plan.)
* {{spoiler|River Song}} from [[Steven Moffat]]'s run of ''[[Doctor Who]]'': {{spoiler|she fell in love with the Doctor, despite having been kidnapped as an infant, raised and trained specifically to destroy him. In their first meeting from her perspective, she came very close to killing him permanently, but ended up sacrificing her remaining regenerations to save him. In the end, her "owners" resort to just grabbing her and sticking her in an automated suit. And she ''still'' finds a way to not shoot him}}.
* On ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', Spike, who shows up in Sunnydale to kill Buffy, ends up falling in love with her.
* On ''[[Leverage]]'', during "The Lonely Heats Job" a con artist falls in love with her rich husband and ends up disapearing to try to protect him, kicking off the episode.
* On ''[[Castle]]'', a con artist is murdered because he falls in love with his rich fiance and his partner in the con kills him to try to earn the money.
* In a ''[[CSI]]'' episode, the victim's wife and secretary are revealed to have been planning on poisoning him for years in order to split his fortune (they previously did this to the secretary's rich husband). Unfortunately for the secretary, the wife actually ended up falling in love with him. The secreatary still killed him, though, and both get off scot-free. The wife doesn't seem too broken up about his death, however.
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* 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.
* A rather twisted version of this trope appears in ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'', in which Sniper Wolf is known for becoming so obsessed with her targets that she falls in love with them... right before she kills them anyway.
* In ''[[Sacred]]'', two of the PCs, the Dark Elf assassin and Wood Elf ranger, are lovers. The Dark Elf was supposed to murder the Wood Elf as a rite of passage, but his love for her turns him into a [[Defector From Decadence]].
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[[Category:Heel Face Index]]▼
[[Category:In Love with the Mark]]
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