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{{trope}}
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{{quote|''"In the place of a Dark Lord you would have a Queen! Not dark but beautiful and terrible as the Morn! Treacherous as the Seas! Stronger than the foundations of the Earth! All shall love me and despair!"'' |'''Galadriel''', ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' }}
Love is something best given freely, not demanded; it's something that has to be earned and worked at to keep alive, not a [[All Take and No Give|one sided]] [[Entitled Bastard|entitlement]]. However the [[Title Drop|Love Hungry]] character didn't get the memo. They are so insecure, greedy and/or [[Desperately Craves Affection|starved of affection]] they don't care: they want absolute, unconditional and perpetual love and feel that the ends justify the means. They won't settle for being merely loved by others, but in having their love enslaved to always do so. Even a [[Nice Guy|genuinely]] [[The Cutie|kind]] [[Friend to All Living Things|person]] may become Love Hungry by being [[Break the Cutie|broken by fear]] of losing their love, [[Not Good with Rejection|anger at rejection]], [[Green-Eyed Monster|jealousy for another's love]], or a [[It's All About Me|narcissistic desire to be the most loved.]]
This character may try to gain love through [[Relationship Sabotage|sabotaging other's relationships]], [[Malicious Slander|deception]], [[Manipulative Bastard|manipulation]], [[Villain with Good Publicity|propaganda]] or even ''[[Murder the Hypotenuse|murder]]''. If they lack this finesse or get ''really'' desperate, they may kidnap the person(s) that they want to love them and try to create [[Stockholm Syndrome]]. Of course, this [[Tragic Dream]] usually gets the opposite result, with the target becoming angry or fearful and rejecting the Love Hungry. The presence of magic and powers usually means that [[Love Is in the Air]], [[Charm Person]] and [[Glamour
This plot usually has [[An Aesop]] about not forcing others to love you, and many characters who try this regret doing so before long and return wiser to the [[Status Quo Is God]]. If they don't, it usually means they'll do a [[Face Heel Turn]] before long.
Compare the [[Yandere]], who is violent about keeping their lover. Compare [[All Take and No Give]], where the taker tries to force someone into loving and serving them. See also [[Love Makes You Crazy]]. Relate to [[Happiness Is Mandatory]] and [[Getting Smilies Painted on Your Soul]], where happy emotions are forced on others.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]]
* In the backstory material for ''[[Code Geass]]'',
== [[Film]]
* In ''[[The Rescuers (Disney film)|The Rescuers]]'', [[Babysitter From Hell]] Madame Medusa [[
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Snoops: Yeah? How do you do that?
Madame Medusa: (angrily) You FORCE them to like you, idiot! }}
== [[Literature]] ==
* Rare, heroic example - The Child-Goddess Aphrael from [[David Eddings]]' ''[[Elenium|Sparhawk]]'' setting. Rather than 'romantic' love, she aims for 'parental' affection, but it's no less binding, and she's perfectly ruthless about it, going so far as to be incarnated as Sparhawk's biological daughter, just so she'd have a stronger hold over him.
** The ''[[Belgariad]]'' provides a darker example. The [[Big Bad]] [[God of Evil]], Torak, is driven by the need to be loved, by which he forces his people to make [[Human Sacrifice]] to appease him. At the climax of the series, he attempts to use his godly will to force Polgara to become his willing bride, and her ability to refuse him is what causes him to be defeated. Afterward, it's revealed that the other gods and his mother the Universe ''did'' love him, but he couldn't recognize it because he was so essentially narcissistic and self-centered that to him love meant obedience and abasement.
* In ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', this is what would become of Galadriel if she had succumbed to the Ring and claimed it for her own. The current page quote is Galadriel's way of telling Frodo this.
== [[Music]] ==
* ''Empress'' by [[Gamma Ray]] is [[Mind Screw|somehow]] close ("All shall feel the fiery Love").
== [[Tabletop
* One of the vignettes in ''[[Demon: The Fallen]]'' has a recently released demon in possession of a human woman (it's closer to a [[Mental Fusion]]). She's tempted by an [[Eldritch Abomination]] with enough power to get everything she wants, and part of that included mentally enslaving her already loving husband to never stop loving her. Like Galadriel, she realizes the vision is ultimately hurtful and refuses.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* On one episode of ''[[Fairly Oddparents]]'' due to [[Be Careful What You Wish For|Timmy's Wish]], he and Trixie are the only two male and female left on the planet, and although Timmy initially enjoys being with his [[Love Interest]] due to [[Attention Whore|Trixie's attention demanding personality]], she wants Timmy to show her the attention that normally lots and lots of people would give to her, eventually exploding into full-on [[Yandere]] mode.
* In the ''[[My Little Pony:
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[[Category:Love Tropes]]
[[Category:Characterization Tropes]]
[[Category:Character Flaw Index]]
[[Category:Unrequited Love Tropes]]
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