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So. You're adapting this great book for the screen. It's got action, comedy, drama, rom...what, it ''doesn't'' have romance? Well, that won't do; we can't [[Strictly Formula|break the formula]]. Looks like it's time for a previously platonic character to be [[Promoted to Love Interest]].
This trope is a specific kind of [[Adaptation Decay]]. The idea is that in order to appeal to a broad audience, we need romantic subplots. An original and successful work (usually not film, because that's where [[Executive Meddling|executives have a field day]]) survived all on its own without a crappy romance subplot shoehorned in. However, [[Viewers
This sort of thing [[Shipping|happens to everyone]] all the time in [[Fanfic|fanfiction]], for [[Most Fanfic Writers Are Girls|some]] [[Author Appeal|reason]].
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See also [[Hotter and Sexier]]. Compare [[Relationship Compression]], where the romance is present in the original but significantly altered due to the different constraints of the new medium.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
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* [[Adaptation Decay|The film version]] of ''[[Queen of the Damned]]'' made the main subplot a romance between the two main characters who, in the book, do not speak.
** One of the many things altered from the book is the identity of Jesse's maker. In the book, it's her "Aunt" Maharet (a distant ancestor-turned-vampire). In the movie, it's Lestat. This was obviously meant to reinforce the bond between the characters, which was never there in the book.
* ''[[Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows]] Part Two'' creates a new ship that wasn't in the original: {{spoiler|[[Cloudcuckoolander|Luna]] and [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass|Neville]].}} This may be J.K. Rowling [[Sure Why Not|throwing the fans a bone]], since [[Word of God|she originally said]] it wouldn't happen ({{spoiler|saying that Luna's weirdness was too far outside Neville's comfort zone}}), but later on admitted that she could see where fans were coming from.
* Averted in the film ''[[Shooter]]'' which is based on the Stephen Hunter novel ''Point of Impact''. In the book Bob Lee Swagger becomes romantically involved with the widow of his old war buddy. In the movie the two become friends and allies, but they do not fall in love with each other.
* The 2009 film of ''[[Land of the Lost (Film)|Land of the Lost]]'' has a truly bizarre version of this. Rick Marshall has a romantic relationship with Holly, who was his prepubescent daughter in the original TV show. The movie makes them unrelated and ages her up, obviously, but one wonders why they even bothered to call her "Holly" at that point.
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** Well Watson shipped Violet Hunter, so it does make more sense, but I guess everyone loves someone who beats Sherlock Holmes.
* Most adaptations of ''[[Dracula (Literature)|Dracula]]'' make Mina Murray Harker (or her equivalent, as sometimes her role and that of Lucy Westenra are flipped or combined) into the title character's love interest, a trend that's often attributed to ''[[Bram Stokers Dracula (Film)|Bram Stokers Dracula]]'' (the film), which made Mina the reincarnation of Vlad Tepes' bride Elisabeta. However, a similar incident occurred in the 1970 TV version, where ''Lucy'' looked like Dracula's lost love, and even the 1950s Hammer Horror version referred to Dracula in the posters as "the terrifying lover who died- yet ''lived''!" In the book, there was indeed a vague indication that Dracula intended for her to become his queen, but Mina regarded this as [[A Fate Worse Than Death]], complete with all the rape associations that went along with this.
** Inverted in ''[[The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen]]'', in which Mina isn't paired off with Dracula- but she ''still'' left her canonical [[Love Interest]], Jonathan Harker, after he rejected her for being "ruined"... so that [[Alan Moore]] could then put her in a [[May
*** Which was doubly inverted in the movie, where Mina's husband is dead and she has no affair with Quatermaine. Sawyer flirts with her a bit and she did have an affair with Dorian Grey in the past, but it's implied that her years of living as a vampire have left her unable to really love anyone.
* [[Disgaea Hour of Darkness (Video Game)/Characters|Flonne and Etna]] from ''[[Disgaea Hour of Darkness]]'' in the [[Disgaea]] [[Disgaea Novels|novels]]. In the game the nature of their feelings for [[Disgaea Hour of Darkness (Video Game)/Characters|Laharl]] is very debatable, in the [[Disgaea Novels|novels]] they both got a crystal clear crush on him.
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Bionicle]]'' usually follows the [[No Hugging, No Kissing]] rule to the extreme, but in the second and third movies, Matau noticeably flirts with Nokama quite a bit and there are some pretty noticeable hints that Nokama herself is into Vakama. The third movie also involves an [[Unholy Matrimony]] plot with the villains. (Other ''Bionicle'' media does include this stuff, but pretty much only to keep consistent with the movies. In the case of the [[Unholy Matrimony]], [[Word of God]] writes off "marriage" as strictly political in this 'verse.)
** Also in the first movie, there are some incredibly obvious hints that Hahli and Jaller like each other, though this was back before the hugging/kissing rule was really brought in.
** And now that the story takes place in a world where there's no such thing as [[No Hugging, No Kissing]], one of the female characters (well, the only one to ever get a spotlight, anyway) will show feelings toward the main hero, Mata Nui. [[Word of God]] says these feeling which could barely even be called love will only get referenced in one short scene in a novel, and their so-far friendly relationship won't go any deeper, since the storyline is still intended for a younger male audience (who, according to them, are still afraid of cooties), and since Mata Nui is an outcast from the no-romance world ({{spoiler|and he also has to get his old [[Humongous Mecha]] body back sometime}}).
* Happened to Spider-Woman in the ''[[Iron Man (Animation)|Iron Man]]'' cartoon. Considering the [[Merchandise
** Spider-Woman's daughter was in the cartoon as well. Her feelings about her mom's relationship with Stark were not shown (except in one episode where they have a fake wedding for some reason, and she's not happy).
*** Let's face it, the first season was just a mess. The second season makes the relationship much more realistic and has more characterization, though the second season is still not special compared to many 90's cartoon series.
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