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** Deconstructed in "Wishful Thinking". In this example a guy uses a magic coin he inherited to create a wishing well, so he can make the girl who he's been in love with since high school, but is oblivious to him, love him over anything else. At first he's happy with the new situation, but eventually gets disheartened from the fact that she literally has no personality other than pleasing and loving him, even killing others for him to maintain their "love".

* Mellie from ''[[Dollhouse]]'' starts out as this as she is just Paul's neighbor/girlfriend. Later it is revealed that {{spoiler|she is a doll and the whole Mellie personality was made just to be Paul's [[Love Interest]].}} Her real persona, Madeline, actually has much more going on in the story.

* 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 In Sheep's Clothing]].

* 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 in Sheep's Clothing]].

* Austin from ''[[Ugly Betty]]'' has no last name and is more of a plot device to get Justin to realize his sexuality than an actual character.

* [[Once an Episode]] on ''[[Seinfeld]]''.

* ''[[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.

* ''[[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 on 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.}}

* Kennedy from season 7 of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' appears to be interested in Willow for two reasons: she's cute, and she's willing to have sex with girls. At one point Willow asks her flat out what Kennedy knows about her, and Kennedy is barely able to come up with anything. But by the next episode, they're in a relationship.