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* Sakura in ''[[Naruto]]'' cemented her reputation among fandom as a [[The Load|mostly-useless]] character when she missed {{spoiler|two easy attempts to kill Sasuke}} because of her perpetually [[All Love Is Unrequited|one-sided]] feelings for him, and then afterwards admits that she can't do anything to save or stop him after all.
* Dr. Tofu from ''[[Ranma ½]]'' is arguable, since one of his traits from the start was the inability to function properly around Kasumi. Swiftly becomes a moot point, once he's [[Put on a Bus|replaced]] as the show's source of arcane knowledge by Cologne.
** Ryoga Hibiki does some pretty dumb things because of love as well. His unrequited desire for Akane's heart is his biggest emotional target, and he tends to go crazy when he thinks there's some sign she truly does love him back. At one point, he even considered staying in the [[Kimodameshi|Cursed Tunnel of Lost Love]] because Akane was frightened by the ghosts and kept clinging to him for protection and
* Aono Tsukune from ''[[Rosario + Vampire]]'' {{spoiler|before his power up}}. He doesn't come off as dumb at first, but common sense and obvious logic are trumped whenever Outer Moka is in trouble. We’re talking to the extent he would take on the equivalent of a M1 Abrams Tank with a slingshot. He [[Determinator|never gives up]] despite how bad the last time was.
* This is pretty much the entire plot of ''[[School Rumble]]''. And neither Kenji nor Tenma was particularly bright to start with, leading the series down some truly bizarre roads.
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* Invoked in ''[[The Belgariad]]'' when Ce'Nedra asks Garion what's wrong with his friend Lelldorin. Lelldorin comes from the Arendish culture, known for [[Honor Before Reason]], and Ce'Nedra comments that he's "so Arendish, he's practically incapacitated." Garion replies that Lelldorin is in love, and being in love makes some people's brains seem to leak out of their heads. [[Tsundere|Ce'Nedra]], who just recently realized ''she's'' in love with Garion, is ''NOT'' pleased.
* Lazarus Long, in ''[[Time Enough for Love]]'', has [[Time Travel|traveled back in time]] over two thousand years to visit his original family in 1917. What he doesn't count on is that, in doing so, he [[Parental Incest|falls in love with his mother]]. This causes him to enlist in [[World War One]] to win her approval, despite having no personal stake in the war, knowing the outcome, ''and'' not knowing the future from his own personal point of view. {{spoiler|He nearly dies as a result.}}
* In the story "The Warlock's Hairy Heart", seen in [[The Tales of Beedle the Bard]], a fairy tale book for [[Harry Potter|wizards and witches]], the warlock believes that
* In [[Gene Stratton Porter]]'s ''The Song of the Cardinal'', the young cardinal believes this even while envying the already mated birds.
{{quote|''As for the doves that were already brooding on the line fence beneath the maples, the Cardinal was torn between two opinions.
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== Live-Action TV ==
* Kate from ''[[Lost]]'' started out as one of the main characters in the ensemble, a fairly solid example of a [[Troubled but Cute]] girl. However, as the series entered its second season, she became increasingly obsessed with Jack. Her attempts to rescue/ingratiate herself with/impress or otherwise have contact with him have led to an ever-growing list of problems that are completely her
** This is taken to new lows in the season 5 finale, when {{spoiler|a group of Losties ends up in the past thanks to some pesky time-travel, and they have to decide whether or not to detonate a nuclear bomb, whose explosion might change the future and prevent everything they've gone through to happen. Jack finally admits that his main reason to do it is that he lost Kate's love. Juliet's reason is that she noticed Sawyer, her current love interest, ''looking at Kate in a certain way''. Kate and Sawyer go along with the plan.}} Sadly, Miles and Hurley reluctantly agree instead of pumping these [[Emo Teen|emo douchebags]] full of hot lead.
** That's because they have fairly good reasons. {{spoiler|Miles recognizes that the event going badly is responsible for his family splitting up and possibly resulting in his father dying. Hurley is doing it mainly because he is a good person and he recognizes that LOTS of people die because of the crash, and the events of the island also drove him outright insane.}}
* Ianto's love for his girlfriend in ''[[Torchwood]]'' leads him to hide are in the basement of a heavily armored and base filled with alien tech. She's a half-converted evil cyborg woman. He then proceeds to date the guy who kills her.
** And Tosh secretly bringing her secret alien girlfriend to work, despite her suspicious resemblance to a serial killer on the loose. And the questionable security movements made by Gwen and Jack for Rhys and John respectively.
* In ''[[Smallville]]'', this is a continually growing problem with Clark to the point that, in the first half of Season 8, he was finally starting to act a little bit like Superman until Lana returned at which point he lost about 7 years of character development. In fact, Lana is acting more like Superman than Clark is, but that's a whole other [[Canon Sue|set of]] [[God Mode Sue|issues . . .
* ''[[Pushing Daisies]]'' has this as a main element, in a subtle way... until "Water and Power", when the anvil is dropped on Emerson Cod's foot. The Narrator even points this out.
* Nobody, least of all the writer responsible, has any idea why Marian, in the 2006 BBC version of ''[[Robin Hood (TV series)|Robin Hood]]'' ran up to Guy of Gisbourne, an unhinged man who was obsessed with her, and began yelling: "I love Robin Hood! I'm going to marry Robin Hood!" Guy responded by {{spoiler|running her through with a whopping great sword}}. Nice one, Marian.
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== Video Games ==
* ''[[Baldur's Gate]]'' features Viconia, a [[Neutral Evil]] Drow Cleric on the run from her [[
** Be grateful, in the [[Pn P]] game, she should have lost ''all'' her clerical powers (which is why one [[Fanfic]]-writer decided that she was in fact a worshipper of Tymora in disguise (Tymora pretended to be Lloth in order to get through to her).
*** Viconia worships Shar, not Lloth. And gets the standard-issue "Evil" Holy Symbol... which is dedicated to Talos, the god of storms. Yeah, [[MST3K Mantra|let's not think too hard about this]] beyond [[Love Redeems]] = [[Lost Forever|Nice Item Goes Bye-Bye]].
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