Love Makes You Evil: Difference between revisions

Frequently the motivation for the sympathetic [[Fallen Hero]] to fall. The belief that, had he been a little less lenient, a little less forgiving, that special someone who was [[Stuffed in A Fridge]] [[It's All My Fault|might still be alive.]] Leading into [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] territory.

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*** Another more explicit example happens with {{spoiler|Suzaku Kururugi. When he first appeared, he was a [[Knight in Shining Armor]] who later falls in love with princess Euphemia, but when she dies he pretty much ventures into [[Anti-Villain]] territory.}}

**** In R2. {{spoiler|An episode after Lelouch and Shirley officially become boyfriend-girlfriend, she gets killed by Rolo. Lelouch then goes on a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]] against the Geass cult (which involved him slaughtering a lot of noncombatants) that sets off a series of events that leads to Zero's identity being exposed and him being betrayed/abandoned by the Black Knights.}}

**** And not to be outdone, {{spoiler|Rolo's master V.V, who kills his sister-in-law Marianne out of jealousy and psychotic devotion to his beloved brother Charles}}

**** If we go to parental love, then {{spoiler|Charles and Marianne}} fit in to a T. [[Unholy Matrimony|They not only were as much in love with each other as persons like them could be]], but they {{spoiler|were willing to bring up [[The End of the World as We Know It]] ''and'' horribly traumatize Lelouch and Nunnally, if this allowed them to create a world where (according to them) their children would be happy.}}

* One of Patrick Zala's main motivations in ''[[Gundam Seed]]'' was {{spoiler|to avenge the death of his wife Lenore, killed by Naturals during the Bloody Valentine Incident}}.

* Subverted(ish?) in ''[[Ask Dr. Rin]]''. Tokiwa appears to be obsessed with becoming Meirin's boyfriend, but {{spoiler|he's possessed, and the demon has more sinister motives}}. However, he seems to have feelings for her even afterward, and the series never made clear exactly how {{spoiler|he got possessed}} in the first place, so it's at least possible, if not likely, that the two are connected.

* In the GSC Arc of the ''[[Pokémon Special]]'' manga, the Mask of Ice, {{spoiler|later revealed to be Pryce, the Ice-type Gym Leader of Mahogany Town}}. His motivation behind resurrecting Team Rocket was {{spoiler|out of love for his Lapras. He wanted to capture Celebi for turning back time so his Lapras could return to its parents. Even at the cost of the world freezing over from turning back time.}}

* This is {{spoiler|Ren Sohma's}} [[Freudian Excuse]] in ''[[Fruits Basket]]''. {{spoiler|She was the maid who took care of the former leader of the Sohmas, [[Ill Girl|Ill Boy]] Akira, and the only one able to reach for him. But when Ren married him, got pregnant and started fearing that he'd love her less once their child was born... Ooooh, boy.}}

* In ''[[The War of the Flowers]]'', {{spoiler|Eamon Dowd}}'s [[Face Heel Turn]] begins with his love for a fairy.

* In Juliet Marillier's ''[[The Sevenwaters Trilogy|Son of the Shadows]]'', the heroine's rejection of a suitor makes him more and more evil, culminating in several attempts to [[Murder the Hypotenuse|kill her lover]], among other things.

* K.J Parker's ''[[The Scavenger Trilogy|Scavenger Trilogy]]'': Several characters cause great harm under the influence. {{spoiler|Ciartan's obsession with Xipho leads him to kill her unborn child. His love of Xipho and his schoolmates leads to his pivotal betrayal of Tazenticus. Lysalis seems hollowed out by it, and is capable of doing anything in its name, as would her father.}}

* This could be a subtitle of ''[[Wuthering Heights (novel)|Wuthering Heights]]'', although it would tie with [[Love Makes You Crazy]]. This obsessive, unhealthy love and infatuation between Catherine Earnshaw-Linton and Heathcliff contrasts with the later romance between [[Dead Guy, Junior|Catherine Linton]] and Hareton Earnshaw.

** Add to this the number of protagonists [[Unwitting Pawn|who inadvertently contribute to Dracula's return]] due to the [[Stuffed Into the Fridge|death]] or [[Damsel in Distress|capture]] of their [[Disposable Woman|romantic interests]], and one gets the distinct impression that the entire series could have been avoided if everyone could just get over these things.

* It's implied in Clock Tower 3 that his incestuous obsession for his daughter (and later his granddaughter) was what originally turned Lord Burroughs into the [[Big Bad]] of the game.

* In the Playstation game ''[[Valkyrie Profile]]'', Lezard Valeth kidnaps his old teacher's husband, [[The Virus|turns him into a hideous monster]], gets the monster to kill said teacher, [[Powered by a Forsaken Child|murders multiple elves to make a homunculus]] that appears to be around ten years old, and tricks one of his old classmates into killing themselves by becoming a [[Human Popsicle]], so that he can force the main character to incarnate into flesh and marry him. When that doesn't work, should you earn the [[Multiple Endings|best ending]], {{spoiler|he deliberately kills himself to turn into a spirit being like those the main character leads about, allies himself with a vampire, kills the main character's older sister, and ensures Odin has no chance of surviving [[The End of the World as We Know It]]}}. To top it all off, he [[Karma Houdini|gets away with it all]], even though he doesn't succeed. His lack of success is the only thing keeping this editor from copying this entry and placing it right in the entry for [[Magnificent Bastard]].

** And that's just in the first game. In the sequel, he {{spoiler|goes back in time, captures the soul of the first game's protagonist's sister, uses it to capture the soul of the king of the gods, and steals a [[Cosmic Keystone]] to create a new world, all to get the attention of the goddess he's obsessed with. Although this time he doesn't get away with it.}}

* In ''[[Professor Layton and the Unwound Future]]'', it's revealed that the reason Don Paolo hates Layton so much is over a woman at their college, though Layton was rather oblivious to the his feelings about the subject at the time. {{spoiler|Specifically, Claire and Layton were a happy couple, and Paolo [[Green-Eyed Monster|couldn't stand to see her with him]].}} One of that game's antagonists was also driven by his feelings for the same woman, though his hatred is not so much at Layton as {{spoiler|the one responsible for her death.}}

* One of the main themes of ''[[Rule of Rose]]'' could be said to be "love screws you up, and makes you treat others horribly". {{spoiler|Most notably Gregory going crazy over the death of his son Joshua, and becoming the serial kidnapper and killer known as the Stray Dog, as well as Wendy whose innocent children's love with Jennifer is the sweetest thing ever, up until she thinks that Jennifer loves her dog more than her, and has him killed, and that's just the start.}}

* In ''[[BlazBlue]]'', {{spoiler|[[Clingy Jealous Girl|Tsubaki]] [[Light Is Not Good|Yayoi]] is tricked by [[Big Bad|Haz]][[Complete Monster|ama]] to believe that her old school friend [[Moe|No]][[Canon Sue|el]] stole away her chance to be with her [[Love Interest]] [[Tall, Dark and Snarky|Jin]] [[Good-Looking Privates|Kisa]][[An Ice Person|ragi]]. She ends up performing a [[Face Heel Turn]] and attempting to [[Murder the Hypotenuse|kill Noel]].}}

* 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]] ==

*** Even though Oasis herself came up with the idea, it's not at all clear she actually changes personalities between incarnations, as opposed to just as a reaction to different events and circumstances as part of her instability.

** There was also the "Love Potion" arc, where the titular [[Love Potion]] brings out the most violent and destructive side of love in everyone it's used on.

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' has Vlad Masters/Plasmius who tries to [[Murder the Hypotenuse|murder his once best friend to obtain the woman he loves]], not to mention try and constantly [[Mind Rape]] Danny into being his surrogate son, later going as far as making a [[Cloning Blues|perfect clone]] of him.

** The ultimate irony is that in an alternate timeline, Vlad ends up marrying Maddie, but it's not a happy one due to the fact that he's a total control freak. What's more, Maddie ''still'' prefers Jack.

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