Love Makes You Evil: Difference between revisions

* Misa Amane from ''[[Death Note]]''. She loves Light Yagami because he is Kira, and then she loves Kira because she feels she's in debt to him for killing the burglar [[Parental Abandonment|who murdered her parents]] when Misa was young. And because she loves Light... Misa ''becomes the Second Kira''.

* Stefan Levin from ''[[Captain Tsubasa]]'' was a normal and talented Swedish soccer player until his beloved fiancée, Karen, died in a car accident. Before [[Tear Jerker|she perished in his arms]], Karen begged him to do his best and become the top player in the world... Little did Karen know that the emotionally devastated Levin would become an [[Emotionless Girl|emotionless boy]] in pursuit of technical perfection, [[Game-Breaking Injury|injuring his rivals]] [[Knight Templar|if it was needed to fulfill his vow]]. Poor Müller and Akai, indeed.

** [[You Can't Fight Fate|Naturally]], {{spoiler|she makes reality retroactively notice her death as payment to help to stop him}}.

* Wendy from the ''[[Read or Die]] the TV'', who sheds her clumsy demeanor to becomes a cold advisor all out of admiration for Joker.

** as quoted by Tobi or {{spoiler|Uchiha Madara or someone else}}:

{{quote|"When a man learns to love, he must bear the risk of hatred."}}

* In ''Seton Dobutsuki Risu no Banner'', most of the villainous, bowtie-wearing Spitzohr's dirty doings revolve around attempting to steal away Sue, whom he loves. (This includes getting the hero doped out of his mind on shrooms in one episode.)

* In ''[[Spiral]]'', Kanone wants to kill all of the Blade Children... because they're basically cursed abominations not meant to exist blablabla, yes, but also because "all of the Blade Children" includes his best friends (and himself) and he really thinks it's for their own good, just so they don't suffer more than necessary, don't fall into despair like he has, don't lose their selves (a ''very'' real Threat), etc. This leads to many [[Villainous BSOD|breakdowns]] of the "Why don't you understand me ?!" kind.

* An oddly literal example from ''[[Princess Tutu]]'': {{spoiler|the fragment of Mytho's heart that contains Love gets soaked in Raven's blood, so that it turns him evil when it's returned to him.}} Also, in a more traditional example, {{spoiler|Kraehe's motivation turns out to be her [[I Just Want to Be Loved|desperate desire for his love]].}}

* Rune of ''[[Karakuridouji Ultimo]]'' nearly rapes Yamato when his feelings for him go unreturned. As well as the other evil things he does out of love for Yamato.

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* At some point in time during ''The Ballad of Halo Jones'', Toby the robot guard dog brutally murders his owners in secret. When Halo listens to his old memory tapes and hears her friends dying, she asks herself why he did it. Whereupon he promptly appears in the room and says "Love, Halo. I did it all for love." Toby's owners had left him to Halo in her will and the apparently the robot dog's love for Halo was powerful enough to override any programming he might have along the lines of "Hey, robot dog, don't kill your owners." Cos Halo is just that sexy, obviously. Anyway, Halo pretends to be pleased that he loves her that much, but Toby can tell from her heartbeat that she's hell terrified, so he attempts to kill her. And fails, of course.

* {{spoiler|Jean Loring}}'s ultimate motivation in ''[[Identity Crisis]]''. The "so we can be together" quote in the trope description is even repeated, almost verbatim, at [[The Reveal]].

 

== [[Fan Works]] ==

* In ''[[Til the Sun Grows Cold|Til the Sun Grows Cold and the Stars Grow Old]]'', a fanfic of ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]: [[Twilight Princess]]'', this is the reason behind Zant's conquest of both the Light and Twilight realms - {{spoiler|he proposed marriage to Midna and was rejected}}.

* In ''[[The Official Fanfiction University of Middle-Earth]]'', all of the Legolas fangirls are willing to stab each other.

 

== [[Film]] ==

* It appears that this is [[The Dragon|Horvath]]'s true reason for betraying Merlin and siding with Morgana in her quest to destroy the world in ''[[The Sorcerer's Apprentice]]''. He just couldn't handle {{spoiler|Veronica choosing his best friend Balthazar over him}}.

* In ''[[The Last Circus]]'' it is Javier's love for Natalia that leads into his downfall and eventual descent into insanity.

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* The [[Tortall Universe]]'s Provost's Dog (Beka Cooper) series has {{spoiler|Tunstall}}, who [[Face Heel Turn|joined the dark side]] in a misguided attempt to secure a future for the woman he loved, {{spoiler|Sabine of Macayhill}}.

 

* Willow in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' season 6 goes [[Psycho Lesbian]] and tries to invoke [[The End of the World as We Know It]] {{spoiler|after Tara is murdered}}.

** There's even more to it than that. Willow goes [[Psycho Lesbian]], sure, but it's a personal vengeance thing, {{spoiler|until she absorbs Giles borrowed magic power}}, at which point she feels ''all the pain and suffering in the world'' and decides to put everyone out of their misery.

** The Mirror Spirit was a good guy until he fell in love with Regina, the Evil Queen.

** Regina herself became evil after the death of her lover, something for which she blamed Snow White.

 

== [[Music]] ==

* The Mountain Goats song 'Love Love Love' is sorta about this. It's off an album about the songwriter's stepfather abusing him as a child; his point was that his stepfather may have done terrible things to his kids, but he still loved them, and love can make you do terrible things.

{{quote|Love love is gonna lead you by the hand/Into a white and soundless place/Now we see things as in a mirror dimly/Then we shall see each other face to face}}

 

== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==

* During the late 80s, [[Randy Savage]] becomes the [[Rival Turned Evil]] because of [[Hulk Hogan]]'s alleged advances towards Miss Elizabeth.

 

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

* All the murders in ''[[Little Shop of Horrors]]'' are influenced primarily by Seymour's love for Audrey.

 

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* Denny and Capek, the first two antagonists of ''[[Shikkoku no Sharnoth]]''. The latter is necromantic, and the former has some twisted motivation about becoming king in order to win love.

* ''[[Hatoful Boyfriend]]'' has a route called "Bad Boys Love". Why is it called that? Most likely because it's about {{spoiler|the human protagonist being [[Killed Off for Real]], her main love interest being traumatized to hell and back, and the genocide of the entire human race being set up}} all because of {{spoiler|Doctor Shuu}}'s unrequited love for {{spoiler|Ryuuji Kawara}} that caused him to do his best to [[The Promise|fulfill his promise]] to said love to {{spoiler|fulfill any wish of his son}} [[Mad Scientist|in the best way he knew how]]. Of course, {{spoiler|Doctor Shuu wasn't the most stable of creatures to begin with, but it doesn't change the fact that ''none of this'' would have happened if he hadn't loved Ryuuji enough to take his promise to him so horribly seriously}}.

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* In ''Haru-Sari'', we have {{spoiler|Chi-Min, who could've healed [[Ill Girl|June]]'s Calphanika's, but because he wanted her to need him. Alberich may also count, he stated that'd he'd do anything for Phoenix. ANYTHING.}}

 

** And then the [[Bittersweet Ending]] reveals that, {{spoiler|after his weapon exploded and killed Penny,}} Doctor Horrible has become even ''more'' evil.

{{quote|''"And I won't feel...a thing..."''}}

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* On ''[[Young Justice (animation)|Young Justice]]'', {{spoiler|Aqualad}} turned evil at some point during the [[Time Skip]] between season one and season two because of the double whammy of {{spoiler|the girl he loved Tulla dying on a mission for the team and discovering that Aquaman hid his true parentage from him.}} He snapped and promptly {{spoiler|renounced the name "Aqualad" and joined his father Black Manta.}}

* In ''[[The Legend of Korra]]'', {{spoiler|Hiroshi Sato's}} reason for joining the Equalists was {{spoiler|the murder of his wife by a firebender.}}

 

== [[Real Life]] ==

 

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