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{{quote|'''Trinity:''' You wanna make a deal? How about this? [[Mexican Standoff|You give me Neo or we all die, right here, right now]].
'''Persephone:''' She'll do it. If she has to, she'll kill everyone here. She's in love.
'''The Merovingian:''' [[Lampshade Hanging|It is remarkable how similar the pattern of love is to the pattern of]] ''[[Lampshade Hanging|insanity]]''.
|''[[The Matrix]] Revolutions''}}
Being in love can cause a person to behave strangely or irrationally, a tendency which is often exaggerated in television and film. Usually played for laughs in [[Sitcom|SitComs]] and anime, it can be used as a motivation for villainous (or at least uncharacteristic) behavior in more serious stories. However, it can also result in behaviors that are presented as being noble, though unusual.
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For people who hold this as their viewpoint about love, see [[Silly Rabbit, Romance Is for Kids]]. Of course, [[Love Makes You Evil|things could be worse...]]or ''[[Love Redeems|better.]]'' Compare [[:Category:Yandere|Yandere]]. For the [[Romantic False Lead]] going crazy to make the relationship easier for the official couple, see [[Derailing Love Interests]].
{{examples}}
▲== Anime & Manga ==
* ''[[School Days]]''... for the love of GOD, do these two girls go axe-crazy over this guy-to the point that they'd happily murder each other in broad daylight, with witnesses, just to be rid of the competition.
* Dr. Tōfū in ''[[Ranma ½]]'' would begin acting bizarrely whenever Kasumi Tendō is around, or even simply ''mentioned.'' This makes him very dangerous as he'll often be in the middle of treating a patient, and once bent Ranma's neck at a ninety degree angle.
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* ''[[Crazy Stupid Love]]''
* Esther in ''[[Orphan]]''.
* Anakin Skywalker in the [[Star Wars|''Star Wars''
== Literature ==
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* Chris Keller in ''[[Oz]]'' for Beecher. And Ryan for Dr. Nathan. Also overlaps with [[Love Makes You Evil]].
* Shane Walsh in ''[[The Walking Dead (TV series)|The Walking Dead]]''.
== Theater ==▼
* Polonius is initially convinced that [[Hamlet]]'s recent wacky behavior is caused by his love for Ophelia. His attempt to set up a sting operation to prove his theory ends with an apparently-deranged Hamlet ranting that he'd never loved Ophelia, and that she'd best go be a nun [[Get Thee to a Nunnery|(or a whore, depending on your interpretation)]]. So much for that idea.▼
* In ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream]]'', Helena is aware that her passion for Demetrius is wacked out even before she betrays Hermia and Lysander to him.▼
{{quote|''And as he errs, doting on Hermia's eyes,▼
So I, admiring of his qualities:▼
Things base and vile, folding no quantity,▼
Love can transpose to form and dignity:▼
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind;▼
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind:▼
Nor hath Love's mind of any judgement taste;▼
Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste:▼
And therefore is Love said to be a child,▼
Because in choice he is so oft beguiled.'' }}▼
* ''Othello'' insists that his flaw is that he "loved not wisely, but too well." Of course, being a [[Horrible Judge of Character]] doesn't help either.▼
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== Pro Wrestling ==
* Many of [[Randy Savage]]'s angles that involve Miss Elizabeth invoke this trope.
▲== Theater ==
▲* Polonius is initially convinced that [[Hamlet]]'s recent wacky behavior is caused by his love for Ophelia. His attempt to set up a sting operation to prove his theory ends with an apparently-deranged Hamlet ranting that he'd never loved Ophelia, and that she'd best go be a nun [[Get Thee to a Nunnery|(or a whore, depending on your interpretation)]]. So much for that idea.
▲* In ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream]]'', Helena is aware that her passion for Demetrius is wacked out even before she betrays Hermia and Lysander to him.
▲{{quote|''And as he errs, doting on Hermia's eyes,
▲''So I, admiring of his qualities:
▲''Things base and vile, folding no quantity,
▲''Love can transpose to form and dignity:
▲''Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind;
▲''And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind:
▲''Nor hath Love's mind of any judgement taste;
▲''Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste:
▲''And therefore is Love said to be a child,
▲''Because in choice he is so oft beguiled.'' }}
▲* ''Othello'' insists that his flaw is that he "loved not wisely, but too well." Of course, being a [[Horrible Judge of Character]] doesn't help either.
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