Cleaning Up Romantic Loose Ends: Difference between revisions

== Webcomics ==

* ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' avoids making a mess of this pretty nicely, with romantic loose ends cleaned up pretty much right after they appear early on (Nanase dumps Elliot, and Justin doesn't have a chance because he's a gay guy with a crush on a straight guy), but in ways that leave open potential for character development later on. (In one strip, Justin looks at Elliot's girlfriend Sarah and thinks, [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy|"How dare you be someone I can't dislike?"]])

** Nanase's part in this gets a very interesting solution: {{spoiler|Justin suspected Nanase was a lesbian, and Nanase finds out he's right when Elliot's [[Cloning Blues|extremely-similar female copy]], Ellen, is brought into play.}}

* ''[[Megatokyo]]'''s Yutaka Kobayashi seems to serve little purpose other than a potential love interest for Yuki, whose crush on Piro has negative zero chance of resulting in anything.

* ''[[Fans]]'' had a unique resolution to the Rikk/Alisin/Rumy triangle, after Rumy's attempts at [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]] didn't take: {{spoiler|[[Tenchi Solution|consensual polyamory]]. Lucky Rikk.}}

* ''[[Tales of the Questor]]'' had a different take on it when it is revealed that Quentyn's close friend, Kestrel, has a romantic interest in him, but decides not to reveal it. Since the strongest moment of temptation to do so is on the night before he left on his grand quest and de facto probable permanent exile outside the Raccoonan lands, she felt that it was too cruel to give him yet another thing to sacrifice and keeps the true depth of her feelings to herself. However, it doesn't end too badly since Quentyn, although unaware of Kestrel's feelings, insists that she join him for a dance at the harvest festival and they both have one last merry time together under the circumstances.

 

== Video Games ==