Category:Love Is a Crapshoot

Romance and love can outrank magic, technology, or even a Physical God, in influence on the progression of a story. But how it influences the story is a crapshoot.

Comes in various flavours:

• The Good: Love acts as a Fixer Sue or Deus Ex Machina, overcoming all.
• The Bad: Love is an Artifact of Doom, corrupting even unambiguously good people who lack the willpower to sacrifice their relationships for their morals into a Face Heel Turn. Murder mystery series seem to love this one.
• The Ugly: Love is an Artifact of Death, bringing doom and pain to all who encounter it.
• The Complicated: Love is an embodiment of the Rule of Drama, making life unnecessarily complicated.