Replacement Love Interest: Difference between revisions

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* ''[[Fushigi Yuugi]]''.

* ''[[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.

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* ''[[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.

'''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.