Replacement Love Interest: Difference between revisions

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{{quote|''How I missed her, how I missed her

 

In an action movie, the hero's True Love has [[Stuffed in The Fridge|died in the hands of the villain]], with just enough time for a few parting words that will [[It's Personal|give him the strength]] to defeat the [[Big Bad]]. In a comedy, the love interest simply dumped the protagonist and married the [[Romantic False Lead]]. In a [[Trapped in Another World]] adventure, it's time for the hero to return to Our World, and the love interest tearfully says she can't leave her world and go home with him. Any which way, the protagonist is left heartbroken and crestfallen because he [[Did Not Get the Girl|didn't get her]].

 

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== [[Anime]] & [[Manga]] ==

* Played with in a chapter of [[Ouran High School Host Club]], with a new character ( {{spoiler|Kanoya}}) being referred to by the Club Members (except Haruhi and Tamaki) as the "Ideal Haruhi" because in addition to bearing an uncanny resemblance to Haruhi, she lined up almost perfectly with [[Yamato Nadeshiko|Tamaki's daydreamed version of her.]] {{spoiler|Subverted in that Tamaki apparently never viewed this "Ideal Haruhi" as a love interest, despite her crush on him. Poor Kanoya.}}

* ''[[Hayate the Combat Butler]]'': While there's no mutual romance thus far, a lot of the [[Ship Tease]] during the latter half of the Athena arc pointed out (explicitly and implicitly) just how many similarities Nagi shared with Hayate's first love, Athena. One bit of cover art even featured the both of them put side by side, and they're both referred to in-story as golden-haired girls who saved him from despair by taking him on as a [[Battle Butler]]. Said arc culminated in absolutely brutal [[Ship Tease]] that threw shippers in a frenzy.

{{quote|'''Hayate's thoughts:''' ''[http://www.mangareader.net/203-49227-15/hayate-the-combat-butler/chapter-265.html Will it happen again? Will another] [http://www.mangareader.net/203-49227-16/hayate-the-combat-butler/chapter-265.html day come where I can tell someone I truly love them once more?] ''}}

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* In their pre-[[The Avengers (Comic Book)|Avengers]] stories, this trope was in effect for Hank Pym ([[Ant-Man]]/Giant Man) and Janet van Dyne ([[The Wasp]]). Though she had a massive crush on him, she was both underaged at the time, and bore a disturbing (to him) resemblance to his recently-murdered wife. They eventually ended up hooking up anyway, and the resemblance issue was never mentioned again until after their divorce.

* In ''[[X-Men]],'' Scott falls for Madelyn shortly after Jean's death. They look so similar that he actually believes [[Doppelganger Replacement Love Interest|she's Jean's reincarnation]], though he eventually accepts them as different people. [[Played With]] when Jean [[Death Is Cheap|comes back from the dead]] and Scott abandons Madelyn, who is his wife by this point. And then it's revealed that Madelyn is [[Cloning Blues|actually a clone]].

 

== [[Film]] ==

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

** Cooksey was probably never asked in the first place. That whole show seemed determined to prove that ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'' never existed.