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{{trope}}
{{quote|''How I missed her, how I missed her
''How I missed my Clementine.
''[[Settle for Sibling|But I kissed her little sister]]
''I forgot my Clementine.''|'''My Darling Clementine'''}}
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.}}
* ''[[Fushigi Yuugi]]''.
* ''[[
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* Believing her half-brother and fiance<ref>That's how the Juraians roll.</ref> Yosho had died many centuries earlier, Princess Ayeka of ''[[Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki]]'' eventually transfers her affections to Yosho's descendant Tenchi. {{spoiler|(And does so so thoroughly that when she learns that Tenchi's aged grandfather is actually Yosho she has no interest in transferring them ''back''.)}}
== [[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]].
* [[Affirmative Action Legacy|Miles Morales]]'s girlfriend has betrayed him and sold him out to Hydra! Does this mean he's finally going to suffer the life setbacks that being ''[[Spider-Man]]'' attracts for [[Creator's Pet|everyone but him]]? Nope! By the end of the arc he's got a new girlfriend and Hydra just stops caring that much about him.
== [[Film]] ==
* Happened in ''[[
** Happens rather more often than is healthy for Bond, actually.
** Perhaps the most egregious example is the replacement of Aki with Kissy (whose name isn't even mentioned in the film) in ''[[
*** Then again, one might argue that these women are not as much love interests as one night stand material to James Bond, which makes it less mind boggling and explains why they're always gone in the next film.
* ''[[Mirror Mask]]'': Helena hooks up with Valentine's human counterpart at the end. Although Helena and Valentine himself didn't flirt, not counting her telling her mother that [[He Is Not My Boyfriend]].
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* Also happened in ''Chaplin''.
* Implied to happen in ''[[The 500 Days Of Summer]]''. After the main character is unable to make a romantic relationship work with a woman named Summer, he happens across an interesting woman named Autumn and starts talking to her.
* Also happens in ''[[Night
* Happens in the 2000 remake of ''[[Bedazzled]]'', starring Brendan Fraser and Elizabeth Hurley. In the end Elliot (Frasier) [[I Just Want My Beloved to Be Happy|wishes his beloved just to be happy]], and is gently dumped by her when she mentions she already has a boyfriend. Going home, he meets his new neighbor, which happens to be the same actress with different hair. He even [[Lampshade Hanging|hangs a lampshade on this]] by asking her if she has a sister.
* In the animated movie ''Starchaser: The Legend of Orin'' the original love interest {{spoiler|is strangled in front of the hero}} but no worries, in his adventures he'll soon find a princess on another planet to fall instantly in love with, voiced by the same actress.
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* Near the end of Steven King's Dark Tower, Susannah, travels through one of Patrick's doors to an alternate version of New York where she meets an Eddie and Jake Toren, a different Eddie and Jake from the ones she knew, from a little further out on the beam from the keystone world, but close enough for her.
* This is essentially the premise of ''[[The Vampire Diaries]]'', when Stefan sees a girl who looks exactly like the vampire who turned him and his brother, presumed dead for 150 years, and decides he has to get to know her. Since this happens at the ''start'' of the series, things don't go so smoothly as in most examples.
* In ''[[The Children of
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* The fourth series finale of ''[[
* When the [[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]] came back from time travel, Adam was forced to say goodbye to his love interest Marissa. At the end of the episode, he bumps into a girl played by the same actress and is implied to be her descendant. Two odd things about this example: they were coming back from a California that was colonized by England; Marissa was a highly uncommon name in the 1700s. Though when the English are in charge of California, all bets are off.
** A more mundane version happens later in ''[[Power Rangers
** They weren't that similar. Kim was a brunette american gymnast, Kat was a blonde australian diver.
* In the pilot of ''[[Harsh Realm]]'', Hobbes meets the virtual double of his fiance Sophie.
* In the pilot of ''[[Time Trax]]'', no wonder he falls in love with
* Probably part of the reason that [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Riley Finn]] is so disliked by the fandom is because he practically had the words 'Buffy's new love interest!' flashing in bold neon lettering over his head in his first appearance.
** I'll see your Riley Finn and raise you Kennedy.
* After Maid Marian is [[Killed Off for Real|killed off]] in the BBC's ''[[Robin Hood (TV series)|Robin Hood]]'', a village girl called [[The Scrappy|Kate]] is introduced as Robin's new love interest. As you might have guessed, the audience's reaction to replacing the legendary Marian with a random villager as Robin Hood's girlfriend [[Seasonal Rot|went down like a cup of cold sick]]. However, sometimes, a replacement character manages to bring something of their own to the table, become more than just the person who's in your face instead of the character who is "supposed" to be there, and become quite beloved on their own. ''Kate is most definitely not one of these cases,'' being a [[Scrappy]], a [[Damsel Scrappy]], and being [[The Wesley|talked up by everyone]] while showing [[Informed Ability|not a single positive trait]] we're (repeatedly) told she has, or a single positive trait ''period.''
* ''[[Heartbeat]]'' practically lived on this, with almost every village constable getting one. When PC Nick Rowan's wife Kate died, he was quickly introduced to Jo Weston, who became his second wife. When PC Mike Bradley's wife Jackie left the show, he was quickly linked to Tricia Summerbee (although the two characters did cross over for a bit). When PC Rob Walker's wife Helen was killed, he soon met Carol Cassidy, who stayed on the show long enough for Walker's successor PC Joe Mason to be ''her'' Replacement Love Interest.
* Chase in [[Zoey 101]] attempts to do this when Zoey leaves for England. But while the replacement ''looks'' like Zoey, she's not very pleasant in the personality department. And the fact that Chase is trying to replace Zoey with someone else kind of freaks out his friends.
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'''Chase''': I don't even see a resemblance.
'''Michael''': Everybody thinks they look alike!
'''Logan''': And that's the only reason you're hanging out with her! She's your little Zoey replacement, and that's a little bit sick. }}
* Niles' second wife Mel Karnofski in ''[[Frasier]]'' — a fussy, domineering, hysterically-inclined, nervous woman whose behavior (and the characters' reactions to it) made it clear that she was a saner, less abrasive version of Maris, Niles's [[Jerkass]] of a first wife, despite Maris being [[The Ghost]]. This is actually something that often occurs in real life with people who have recently gotten out of unhealthy relationships.
* This is what fans assumed John Doggett would be for Scully on [[The X-Files]] while Mulder was abducted. He wasn't, and the writers/creator were very explicit in saying that Doggett was ''not'' a love interest for Scully ''or'' a replacement for Mulder. It still didn't stop the fans from hating his guts.
** Ironically, they also wound up with a faction of Scully/Doggett shippers who were annoyed he ''wasn't'' a
* Sully on [[Bones]].
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'': In the ''[[Donkey Kong]]'' arcade game, Pauline was Mario's love interest and girlfriend. But in Super Mario Bros. Nintendo introduced Mario with a new love interest: Princess Peach. They don't look much alike, but they're similar enough (particularly in their early 8-bit graphics forms) that many people have assumed that Pauline is Peach.
* Lampshaded and then deconstructed in [[Silent Hill 2]]. When James meets Maria, he remarks on how similar she looks to his deceased wife, Mary. ( {{spoiler|After Maria is killed the Hospital by Pyramid Head, and then [[Unexplained Recovery|is mysteriously found alive in a prison cell under the town]], only to be killed again, it turns out that Maria only looks identical to Mary because the powers behind the town are using her as a method to remind/punish James for his murder of Mary several years earlier}})
* Haseo has this happen in [[.hack GU|.hack//GU]] when he meets Atoli, who is a literal [[Palette Swap]] of his old love interest Shino (perfectly [[Justified]]: this all happens in an MMO). However, Atoli is decidedly ''not'' Shino in terms of personality, something that disturbs Haseo greatly at first, though he later accepts her as her own person.
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Rudy Mookich from ''[[Pinky and The Brain|Pinky, Elmyra and the Brain]]'' is a [[The Simpsons (animation)|Nelson Muntz]] [[Expy]] who replaced [[Rich Bitch|Montana Max]] as [[Tiny Toon Adventures|Elmyra Duff]]'s love interest. Danny Cooksey (Monty's voice actor) must have refused to do the spin-off.
** Cooksey was probably never asked in the first place. That whole show seemed determined to prove that ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'' never existed.
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