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A love interest for the main character whose personality is rather vague and shallow. It doesn't matter what their life was like beforehand; their [[Satellite Character|entire personality revolves]] around the sole fact that they dig said main character, and the main character digs them. A staple of [[Harem Series]]. When part of a movie, it's usually because the plot revolves around a second love interest that is used to show how much better the [['''Shallow Love Interest]]''' is for the protagonist.

Oh, and of note. Please don't use this trope as an excuse to [[Complaining About Characters You Don't Like|bash characters whom you dislike for X/Y/Z motives]]. Being a love interest doesn't '''immediately''' equal to being shallow, and many accusations fit less in this trope and more in [[Die for Our Ship]] and [[Real Women Never Wear Dresses]].

{{examples|Examples}}

* Shino from the manga ''[[Ichiroh]]'' is a comedic example, as it's a gag series and can get away with it. She's never seen away from Nanako and almost all she does is lust over her. It doesn't help that she's also a mix of [[Clingy Jealous Girl]] and [[Stalker Withwith a Crush]] with a pinch of [[Psycho Lesbian]] at her worst.

* Outer Moka from ''[[Rosario to Vampire|Rosario + Vampire]]''. However, this is entirely justified, as she is an {{spoiler|artificial person created to protect the true Moka.}}

** Inverted, ''as Outer Moka is aware of this'', and she [[Shipper Onon Deck|even does her best]] to put aside her own feelings to pair up Tsukune and {{spoiler|Inner Moka}}, albeit this is far more explicitly done in the manga as opposed to the anime. And, to further the inversion (again, in the manga at least), the two of them have worked together to support each other in regards to Tsukune, while {{spoiler|Inner Moka's}} wishes and intents are kept the primary consideration.

* Chii in ''[[Chobits (Manga)|Chobits]]'' is literally this since she's a [[Robot Girl]] without an operating system and her entire personality starts from scratch. Later [[Flash Back|flashbacks]] to when she wasn't yet a [[Love Interest]] show that can be much deeper (and possibly would become like that again).

* ''[[Onidere (Manga)|Onidere]]'' is special because ''both protagonists'' could be defined as [[Shallow Love Interest]]. Literally no action, thought or monologue in the entire Manga is in no way not connected, even a little, to please and/or become more intimate with their loved one. Hell, the first true show of love in the manga is Saya nearly fainting because Tadashi praised her food while Tadashi ''fainted'' [[MasochistsMasochist's Meal|because a single spoon of said food can cause pain equally to a full session of torture]] and [[When She Smiles|he ended the entire meal to make Saya smile]].

* Nyu in ''[[Elfen Lied (Manga)|Elfen Lied]]''; like Chii, Nyu is a blank slate, picked up by Kouta from a beach. Possibly a subversion, in that {{spoiler|Nyu's attraction to Kouta is a reflection of her true personality Lucy, a borderline psychopathic mass murderer with real, complex, and disturbingly heartbreaking reasons for loving him.}}

* Ren in ''[[Dear SDearS]]'' -- a—a particularly extreme example, given the series enjoys the term ''[[Happiness in Slavery|slave]]''.

* Belldandy in the earlier OVA of ''[[Ah My Goddess (Manga)|Ah! My Goddess]]''. She comes off as a more [[Rounded Character]] in the original manga and its other adaptations, something [[Yamato Nadeshiko]] usually have difficulty doing.

* Himawari of [[XXX Holic×××HOLiC]] comes off like this for a good while. There's a [[Deconstruction|very]] good reason for this given later.

* Fatina from ''[[The Tower of Druaga (Animeanime)|The Tower of Druaga]]''. She spends the first 3/4ths of the first season as a character whose sole character traits were being a bitchy Neeba fangirl. This changes later on, where we get an episode where she and the main character are stranded together and bond a little, removing her from Neeba and giving viewers a bit more insight into her character. She never really goes back to being a complete Neeba fangirl after that. To add to things, {{spoiler|Neeba offers Fatina and Fatina alone an invitation to join him and Kaaya after they betray their groups. She turns down his offer and stands by Jil's side.}}

* In ''[[Honey Crush]]'' it never becomes very clear why the two other girls are so heavily in love with Madoka (one of them even continues to do so after her death, turning her into a ghostly [[Stalker Withwith a Crush]]). Sure, Madoka [[Generic Cuteness|might be pretty]], but her personality remains elusive throughout the series.

* ''[[Kämpfer (Light Novel)|Kämpfer]]'''s Natsuru Senou is the rare case of a [[Shallow Love Interest]] who is ''the main character''. He is primarily defined by his rather shallow crush on Kaede. When someone asks him in episode 8 why he likes Kaede so much, he first refers to her beauty and elegance. When it's brought up that most of the girls he knows are also beautiful and elegant, all he can do is shrug his shoulders and say that you "don't need a reason to love someone". Seriously, the guy has no personality outside of his crush and his frustration with his new [[Gender Bender]] status. On the other hand, {{spoiler|Kaede herself has some [[Hidden Depths]]...}}

** In an example of a shallow love interest falling in love with ''another'' shallow love interest, Kaede herself doesn't have any personality other than being a [[Nice Guy|nice girl]], pretty, having a weird obsession with [[Creepy Doll|Creepy Dolls]]s, and {{spoiler|being a lesbian}}. Natsuru is head over heels in love with her anyway. {{spoiler|Turns out that there is a very good reason for all this.}}

* Miharu from ''[[Girls Bravo (Manga)|Girls Bravo]]''.

* A lesser-known example [[Adaptation Displacement|outside of Japan]] is Millina the treasure hunter from the second half of the ''[[Slayers]]'' novel series. While it's [[Subverted Trope|subverted]] in that she does not romantically like her pursuer, the [[Hot -Blooded]] Luke, she pretty much serves as his [[Morality Chain]], {{spoiler|a given, considering that Luke has a fragment of the verse's [[Big Bad]] inside of him.}} The finale of the novel series is triggered by {{spoiler|Luke going [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|crazy]] over her being assassinated}}. Like [[Jerk Withwith a Heart of Gold|Zelgadiss]] before her, she's a [[Deadpan Snarker]] and a [[Magic Knight]]...with no given reason. Of course, Luke himself isn't much better.

* ''[[School Days (Visual Novel)|School Days]]'': In the anime the two main female love interests get reduced to only being known for their obsession with Makoto. [[Deconstructed Trope|And that is the point, actually]]: the series shows the psychological strain ''and'' the extremes that being completely centered on a single person can bring... specially when said person is a [[Jerkass]] who uses both of them ''and'' others for his own pleasure.

* Tsunetsuki Matoi from ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou Sensei-sensei]]'' [[Crosses the Line Twice]] with this. Literally, her whole personality is about stalking her love interest (hence [[Punny Name|her name]]). What would she be like if she didn't meet the protagonist? Stalking other guys that catch her interest.

* Shizuki from ''[[Bludgeoning Angel Dokurochan (Light Novel)Dokuro-chan|Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro Chan]]''. [[Justified Trope]], sorta: ''every'' character in that show is a parody/deconstruction of some character archetype. Sakura: [[The Chew Toy]] / [[Ordinary High School Student]] parody, with an [[Embarrassing First Name|embarrassing]] [[Gender Blender Name|feminine name]] to boot. Dokuro: [[Magical Girlfriend]] parody, [[Tsundere]] deconstruction. Zakuro: Parody of [[Younger Than They Look]] and her [[Eyepatch of Power]], which is never even mentioned, let alone explained. Etc., etc.,

* In ''[[Telepathy Shoujo Ran (Anime)|Telepathy Shoujo Ran]]'', [[Romantic Two -Girl Friendship|Ran has much more chemistry with Midori]] than with her boyfriend Rui.

* Something similar happens in ''[[Kamichu!]]'', where Yurie is much closer to Matsuri than her supposed love interest Kenji.

** Yuno is supposed to be a [[Deconstructed Trope|deconstruction]] of the trope. Her entire world revolves around Yukiteru, and if anyone threatens to take him away from her, she [[Freak -Out|flips her shit]] and equates it to her entire future being taken away. {{spoiler|This is with good reason. Before meeting Yukiteru, Yuno had just killed her parents, who were sitting dead in her house for three weeks. She had absolutely no hope for her own future, and was moved when Yukiteru's hope for the future was for his family to get along.}} So when Yukiteru jokingly accepted her offer to become his bride, she was thrilled {{spoiler|since she finally had a reason to keep living her life.}} So her life very literally depends on having Yukiteru there for emotional support. He ''is'' her future.

** It gets even more interesting in that Yuno ''recognizes'' this fact and basically gives a [["The Reason You Suck" Speech|The Reason We Suck Speech]] about how it was "pretend love" and she would have been fine with ''anyone'' as long as she could emotionally depend on him. Fortunately, it turns out that maybe their love isn't that meaningless after all.

** It's more like that as the focus shifted more toward action, there was less room for the [[Non -Action Guy]]. Despite the emphasis it gets among fans (and despite its roots as a [[Spin -Off]] of a [[Dating Sim]]), romance isn't a focus of the ''[[Lyrical Nanoha]]'' franchise. Other than a few side characters (a category that Yuuno falls into), it doesn't go further than [[Ship Tease]].

* Miho Azuki of ''[[Bakuman｡ (Manga)|Bakuman｡]]'', whose only goal apart from becoming a voice actress is getting together with Moritaka Mashiro, and even then, those two goals are intertwined because of her promise to only marry Mashiro when they both achieve their dreams.

* Koutarou Azumamiya of ''[[Hayate the Combat Butler (Manga)|Hayate the Combat Butler]]'' used to be this for Hinagiku originally, and the anime even added a few episodes of this to him, but since the second year started, he's actually gotten some character of his own.

* There are two of note in the ''[[DragonballDragon Ball]]'' franchise, both of them intentional examples. First is Marron, Krillin's first girlfriend in Z (and practically a [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|clone of Bulma]]) that appeared during the [[Filler Arc|Garlic Jr. Saga]], only for her to dump poor Krillin in the only stand-alone episode in the series. Then in GT, Goten was seen on a date with Pares, a girl that got perplexed by ice cream... on a cone.

* [[Death Note (Manga)|Misa Amane]] is a deliberate example, [[Mad Love|devoted completely to Light to the point of psychopathy]] (as he avenged her parents' murders, filling the void in her left by their deaths), and it generally ''helps'' make up her personality rather than detract from it. Kiyomi Takada, on the other hand, doesn't have any personality even ''after'' meeting Light, never mind before, {{spoiler|and she pays ''dearly'' for it in the end.}}.

* Sadie in ''[[Starman (Comic Bookcomics)|Starman]]'' has no character outside of her relationship with Jack and worry about her brother.

* Taken to its logical extreme in [[Don Bluth]]'s ''[[Anastasia]]''. Bartok the Bat [[Heel Face Turn|abandons Rasputin]] near the end, and is rewarded with a [[Pink Girl, Blue Boy|pink]] bat who flies in and kisses him. She has no name, no dialogue, and apparently only exists to demonstrate, as [[The Nostalgia Chick]] put it, that "[[Redemption Equals Sex|Do the right thing; karma will get you laid]]."

* Irina, the Greek princess in ''[[Asterix]] at the Olympic Games'', whose entire personality is pretty much 'I love poetry, I love Lovesix, I don't want to marry Brutus'. The person chasing after her, Lovesix, is pretty shallow as well.

* Bo Peep from ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]]''. Sure, she's sweet and has a bit of a naughty side, but both those traits are used in order to demonstrate her affection for Woody (grabbing him around the neck with her shepherdess's crook, for example). She never really interacts with any other toy on-screen and she exists mainly as a sympathetic ear to Woody. {{spoiler|Bo Peep's lack of development -- and the popularity of the other female characters, Jessie the Cowgirl and the tour guide Barbie doll from the second Toy Story movie, and the logistics of having Bo Peep actually be involved in the action of the third movie (given that she wasn't actually a toy at all, but a china figurine) -- were the reason why she didn't appear in the third movie}}

** ''[[Sleeping Beauty (Disney film)|Sleeping Beauty]]''. Both the Prince and Princess are shallow non-characters. Phillip ''does'' try to get out of the mold, but fails as the fairies still end up as the more interesting ones.

** Both [[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney film)|Snow White]] and her Prince ([[No Name Given|who doesn't even get a name]]) apparently pine for each other before they even meet. The movie was really short they didn't have much time to develop either of them, and [[What Could Have Been|there was originally a planned subplot]] where he was captured by the witch and had to escape from her dungeon, but it was one of many things that they had to cut.

** The Prince in ''[[Cinderella (Disney film)|Cinderella]]'' was also ridiculously bland and didn't even have any lines. Disney appeared to have noticed this, and well made up for it in the third movie.

** Somewhat averted by [[Fun Personified|Prince]] [[Rebel Prince|Eric]] from ''[[The Little Mermaid (Disney)|The Little Mermaid]]'', though he still pales in comparison to the vitality of Ariel.

** Faline in the first ''[[Bambi (Disney)|Bambi]]'' movie doesn't really have a personality, especially when she grows up into a Doe. The midquel fleshes her out. Likewise neither Thumper's nor Flower's love interests have any personality, though they only appear very briefly.

** Vixie from ''[[The Fox and Thethe Hound (Disneyfilm)|The Fox and The Hound]]'' has barely any personality, due to being introduced around the time Tod was put in the nature reserve, and meeting and immediately triggering Tod's affections within two minutes of her first appearance. She is implied to have known Big Mama for some time from the sound of her introduction, but that's pretty much all we know about her besides the fact she and Tod love each other.

* Moira McTaggert in ''[[X -Men: First Class (Film)|X Men First Class]]''. She has absolutely nothing in common with her namesake from the [[X-Men|comic]] and her re-imagining as an American CIA agent tracking a conspiracy led by the primary villain seems to serve mainly as a reason to hook her up with Charles.

* Pretty much every so-called [[Ms. Fanservice|"Bond girl"]] in any of the [[James Bond (Filmfilm)|James Bond]] movies. While some effort is usually made to give them some kind of useful character trait, by and large their function in the movies is to be the [[Distressed Damsel in Distress]], and of course to sleep with James.

* Jennifer from [[The Eighties]] kid-hacker movie ''[[War GamesWarGames]]''.

* In ''[[Cherry 2000 (Film)|Cherry 2000]]'', the title character is a [[Robot Girl]] with a ''very'' limited AI (she probably wouldn't pass a Turing Test). The whole plot of the movie is the hero's trek to find a body to replace her lost one. She only appears for a few minutes of the movie, and is unceremoniously dumped to save the female tracker who the hero fell in love with during the journey.

* ''[[John Tucker Must Die]]'' is an example of the male lead (John Tucker) being the guy who shouldn't end up with the main character, so that the [[Shallow Love Interest]] can come in at the end.

* Padme Amidala of ''[[Star Wars]]'' becomes one of these in ''[[Revenge of the Sith]]'', much to the annoyance of those who preferred how she was in the previous movies. She did have a subplot revolving around the creation of the Rebel Alliance, but it was cut due to time constraints. Her daughter Leia thankfully avoids it.

* [[Justin Timberlake]]'s girlfriend in ''[[Edison (Film)|Edison]]'' exists only to remind everyone that he's a hip, sexy twenty-something {{spoiler|and get beaten to a bloody pulp by the corrupt cops he's investigating}}.

* Jocelyn in ''[[A Knights Tale|A Knight's Tale]]''. She's beautiful, rich, likes clothes, loves William...and that's it. All the poor girl gets to do is stand on the sidelines and then have either a love scene or a fighting scene with Will.

* Tina Carlyle in ''[[The Mask (Filmfilm)|The Mask]]''. To the point that they had to {{spoiler|reveal that the other half of the [[Betty and Veronica]] was [[The Mole]] for the [[Big Bad]]}} in order to find a good, non-sexual reason why Stanley should prefer her in the end.

* Katie Deauxma in the ''[[Kick-Ass (Filmfilm)|Kick-Ass]]'' movie, who is every bit Dave's dream girl to the core, even to the point of {{spoiler|immediately forgiving him for pretending to be gay and having sex with him right afterward, plus having sex just about anywhere--including on a dumpster.}} She is given an occupation and her interest in comics is touched upon, but her entire character ultimately centers around being Dave's perfect girlfriend. The most important role she plays aside from that is sending Dave after Razul, which leads to him meeting other important characters. Ironically, in the comics, {{spoiler|she ditches him when he tells her the truth and disappears from the comics entirely.}}

* In ''[[Tron Legacy (Film)|Tron: Legacy]]'', Olivia Wilde [[Doing It for Thethe Art|went out of her way]] to ensure that her character [[Action Girl|Quorra]] didn't get saddled with this. We see the beginnings of an attraction between the Sam and Quorra once they get to know each other a bit better on the Solar Sailer, which is probably a more natural true-to-life progression than this trope: they only recently met.

* In-universe in ''[[The Truman Show (Film)|The Truman Show]]''. Truman's wife Meryl doesn't really love him and is only acting the part of his love interest. At one point, he even asks her "Why did you marry me? You can't stand me." After she leaves the show, the studio was set to have Truman start a new relationship with a hot new co-worker.

* Casey in ''[[Chronicle]]'' is notable in that being a [[Shallow Love Interest]] was a cover for her actual role in the film; to provide another camera for the film's [[Found Footage Films|Found Footage]] style.

* Aldous Huxley's ''[[Brave New World (Literaturenovel)|Brave New World]]'' has an intentional example in Lenina.

** Ditto for Lucie in ''[[A Tale of Two Cities]]''. Dickens was at such a loss to develop her that her most memorable attribute is her ability to arrange furniture nicely.

* One of the most bizarre examples of this trope can be found in the concept of "imprinting" in ''[[Twilight (Literaturenovel)|Twilight]]'', in which males "recognize" the females that they are destined to fall in love with - which can occur as early as child-birth(In fact, Jacob imprinted on Bella's child BEFORE SHE WAS EVEN CONCEIVED). Many of these female imprintees are "shallow" by default considering they're ''infants or toddlers and thus have no fixed personalities at all''. Their lives revolve entirely around their future husbands considering the teenage boys appear to become their caregivers until they're of marriageable age, and whether the girls ''want'' to be in these relationships is treated as somewhat irrelevant in the text. They are future wives, nothing more.

** The most horrifying display of this was when Jacob came across his friend Quil (a teenage boy) on a date with Claire (a two year old) at the beach. Did the date involve long, meaningful discussions about their mutual interests and common goals? No, Quil just watched as Claire played in the sand.

** The [[Fan Fiction]], [[Luminosity (Fanfic)|Luminosity]] provides an interesting take on the subject: vampires "mate" by an irrevocable, indestructible, invariably mutual [[Love At First Sight]]: ALL vampire couples are this trope, and [[Sickeningly Sweethearts]] for the first ''decades'' after meeting each other. As for imprinting, it is revealed as not being a romantic relationship at all, and in fact not fitting any human or vampire mold whatsoever. While a romantic relationship ''may'' happen ''on top of it all'', it's basically a sort of [[Promotion to Parent]] / [[Bodyguard Crush]] / [[Dulcinea Effect]] unique hybrid. And wolves don't think of their child imprints romantically, and the [[Hikaru Genji Plan]] prospect is, to them, completely irrelevant: they just don't think about it. This proves that good writing can fix even the creepiest works...

* ''[[Harry Potter (Literaturenovel)|Harry Potter]]'' has Cho Chang, who shows ''why'' a relationship like this can't actually work in real life. After Harry finally dates her, he learns they have nothing in common, their interest in each other was based on her being physically attractive and their relationship falls apart. Cho's role in the books diminishes significantly after this, since she no longer interacts with the main characters (something she didn't do before Harry dated her either).

* In [[Aaron Allston]]'s ''[[Galatea in 2 -D]]'', Kevin had divorced because Donna was not this, and [[Art Initiates Life|painted Julia]] this way. In the end, after he killed Kevin, Roger paints Julia a new Kevin, who will treat her better -- itbetter—it wasn't after all her fault.

* Kate in the BBC's ''[[Robin Hood (TV series)|Robin Hood]]''. [[Distressed Damsel in Distress|She does nothing but wander into trouble so that Robin Hood can rescue her]], and serves no other purpose [[Replacement Love Interest|but to be his rebound girl]]. Or more accurately, the ''rebound'' of his rebound girl. As ''[[Television Without Pity]]'' puts it: "If she's only there to be Robin's love interest, what's the point of her now he's dead?"

* An interesting subversion with Jo in the second season of ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]''. She made her first appearance as an [[Relationship Sue|obvious love interest]] for Dean, complete with an "adorably" feisty demeanor, a tragic backstory that mirrored the Winchesters', and - despite her tiny frame, lack of muscle tone, and dearth of any special powers - the ability to somehow best Dean in a physical altercation. However, by the time her subsequent appearances rolled around, the writers dramatically scaled back on her [[Mary Sue|Sue]] tenancies, having her pull an inconveniently timed "I'm coming with you" on the Winchesters, [[Too Dumb to Live|idiotically]] deciding to go alone into the lair of a [[Monster of the Week]] whose MO was known to be the gruesome slaughter of young, attractive blondes, and having to be rescued by Sam and Dean, both of whom found her presence a burden and were only too happy to hand her back to her mother as soon as possible. She pretty much disappeared from the season after that, making only one more appearance which existed mainly to establish that the idea of any romantic relationship between herself and Dean was ridiculous, and that he would never come close to caring for her as much as he cared for Sam. [[Word of God]] states that Jo was originally conceived as a love interest for Dean, and that she was phased out of the series due to negative fan reaction, which explains the rapid scrapping of her original characterization.

* Cindy Sanders was sort of an [[All Love Is Unrequited|unrequited]] one of these for Sam Weir on ''[[Freaks and Geeks]]''. Then they [[Give Geeks a Chance|actually started dating]], and she turned out to be something of a ~[[Bitch Inin Sheep's Clothing~]].

* ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'': West, Caitlin, Yaeko, Simone. Most of these examples are so egregious as to be almost [[James Bond|Bond]] girls (boys?) with how little we see of them if at all after the season they're introduced in. One of these lucky ladies is introduced and then [[Ret -Gone|retconned]] out of existence]] in show.

* ''[[The Secret World of Alex Mack]]'' has Scott, Alex's first crush. He doesn't really have any personality beyond sending [[Master of the Mixed Message|mixed signals]] to Alex, dating the [[Alpha Bitch]], and being a [[Big Man Onon Campus]]. {{spoiler|In fact, when Alex gets closer to him, she realizes that his actual personality isn't a very nice one, and she gets over her crush.}}

** Also Anya, who managed to turn "shallow" into an endearing quality.

* Blaine Anderson from [[Glee]]. He also never gets any real plots or scenes for himself; even the few that don't directly involve Kurt nevertheless end up being more about Kurt than Blaine. In this case, it seems like he's more an accidental [[Shallow Love Interest]], and the writers have caught on, since later on we find out his dad and him don't get along, and he ran from his old school because he was attacked. Let us hope he gets more character moments in season three.

* Subverted in one episode of [[Malcolm in Thethe Middle]]. Malcolm accuses his then-girlfriend of only dating him for the thrill of sneaking around. She retaliates by explaining why she genuinely likes him, citing reasons that actually make sense (e.g. he's funny, even when he's complaining.) Malcolm then figures out that he actually likes her as well, again citing reasons that [[Show, Don't Tell|she actually demonstrates]]. Double subverted two episodes later, when she dumps him for being self-centered.

** Aaron ended up getting more depth with later stories, though that ended up being negated when he was [[Put Onon a Bus]]. But he has nothing on the blandness of Quill, who is handsome and... Australian. And that's about it.

*** [[Intended Audience Reaction|It certainly seems like that]], but Christian is '''not''' Roxanne’s [[Satellite Character]]: He is a [[Naive Newcomer]] that came to Paris to be in the best regiment, he displays [[Samaritan Syndrome]] because he wants to save a friend’s life instead of being with his love, he is willing to go with the [[Deadly Prank]] because he really wants to be part of the cadets, he is the only one in the play who shows [[Character Development]] when [[Shipper Onon Deck|he convinces Cyrano to tell Roxane the truth]] [[Be Yourself|instead of lying]], and [[The Power of Friendship|he convinces Cyrano to face his greatest fear]]. All those things he did without Roxanne being involved. So why everyone thinks of him as a [[Shallow Love Interest]]? [[Ironic Echo|Because the audience expects a ShallowLoveInterest to be the RomanticFalseLead]]. Who is the true [[Shallow Love Interest]] of the play?

** Roxanne: [[Satellite Character|Without Christian and Cyrano]], Roxanne literally would have done nothing in the play.

* Sophie in ''[[Der Rosenkavalier (Theatre)|Der Rosenkavalier]]''.

* [[Persona]] 3 has Aigis, whose development leads her to ''become'' a [[Shallow Love Interest]] as part of her [[Become a Real Boy]] plot. Her role in FES expands on this, but her relationship with the protagonist is still the core of her character.

* Decus in ''[[Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World]]'' is pretty much motivated only by his love for Alice. Of course, {{spoiler|she did save his life}}, but it does come off as rather extreme nonetheless.

* [[Star Fox (Video Gameseries)|Fox and Krystal]], complete with cheesy [[Sexophone]] music and negligible character development.

* Li in ''[[Aquaria (Videovideo Gamegame)|Aquaria]]'' due to the fact that we only ever hear Naija talk, and in the past tense.

* ''[[DarwinsDarwin's Soldiers]]'' has Aydin Marcos. His only defining personality trait is the fact that he loves Aimee.

* Another male example: David of ''[[Totally Spies!]]'', who is [[The Ace|good-looking, a book smart genius, an artist, and an athlete]] -- something—something that appeals to each of the three spies (and sometimes the [[Alpha Bitch]] too!), making him a universal love interest who exists solely to provide [[Two Lines, No Waiting|romantic B-plots]].

* AndrAIa from ''[[Re BootReBoot]]'' has this problem, especially after she grows up &and loses the naive [[Fish Out of Water]] characteristics that made her so endearing at the beginning. To be fair, she was originally created to do nothing more than try to kill a guy in a submarine, so it's not like she would have needed much of a personality. Also, she's a bit of an [[Action Girl]], so it's not like she's totally useless.

* [[Space Jam (Film)|Lola Bunny]], because Bugs Bunny needs to be romantically infatuated.

** Not that it keeps her from being made of awesome ''in [[Kingdom Hearts II (Video Game)|Kingdom Hearts II]]''.

* Ruth MacDougal (the brunette sixth grader with braces whom Arnold had a crush on during the first season) on ''[[Hey Arnold!]]'' is an example, though Arnold stopped pursuing her on the Valentine's Day episode when Ruth talks and Arnold [[Deconstructed Trope|discovers]] that she's very shallow and boring.

* In ''[[All Grown Up!]]'', Rachel (Tommy's girlfriend) is this to a T. Not only doesn't she receive any character development, but she has no close connections with any of the Rats, nor is she seen with anyone else aside from Tommy. Compared to more popular fan pairings such as Tommy/Kimi and Tommy/Lil, Rachel generally contributes nothing to the series. In addition, their romance has had its share of complications. In the end, because of her family moving away, she generally breaks up with Tommy. But to make matters worse, when Rachel sees Tommy with another girl, she tells him that she never wants to see him again.

* On ''[[The Fairly Odd ParentsOddParents]]'', [[Alpha Bitch|Trixie Tang]] and in the opposite way, [[Ugly Cute|Tootie]]. Neither have much personality outside of either being liked by or having a crush on Timmy, barring some [[The Woobie|depressing backstory]] for Tootie, and some [[Hidden Depths]] revealed in one episode for Trixie.

* Julie from ''[[Ben 10: Alien Force (Animation)|Ben 10 Alien Force]]'' started out this way, but got better overtime.

* One-shot girly girl Dawn from ''[[Ka BlamKaBlam!]]'' who showed up in the episode "A Nut in Every Bite!". As soon as he saw her Henry fell in love with her. However, she was rather boring personality-wise, especially compared to the snarky tomboyish June, and other than finding him hilarious, she didn't return his affections. He forgets about his crush on her at the end once he realizes that [[Love Hurts|she wasn't worth it]].

* Queen Rapsheeba, Snap's love interest on ''[[Chalk ZoneChalkZone]]''.

* Don Prima of ''[[My Life Asas a Teenage Robot]]'' for Jenny.

** In fact, he only really exists to demonstrate ''Violet's'' character development. At the beginning of the film, she's too shy to even remain visible in his presence. At the end, she's able to talk with him and get a date while ''he's'' stammering nervously.

* Amanda Sefton from ''[[X-Men: Evolution]]''. She's two-dimensional, has little to no personality, and exists solely to be Nightcrawler's love interest.

* Angel from ''[[Lilo and& Stitch: The Series]]'' has no noticeable personality traits outside of being a girl version of Stitch and being his [[Brother -Sister Incest|love interest]]. Oh, there's also something to do with her singing being able to turn older Experiments evil and that's about it.

* [[LimyaaelsLimyaael's Fantasy Rants|Limyaael]] refers to both male and female versions until the title [http://limyaael.livejournal.com/377262.html "Designated Love Interest"]

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