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Alice is in love with Bob. Unfortunately, she finds out that Carol is also in love with Bob, leading her to view Carol as an enemy. The catch? Carol is so damn nice to Alice that Alice feels guilty about disliking her. If Carol happens to be Bob's girlfriend, things can get even worse.
This can also apply to situations where someone simply has a non-romantic reason for hating someone, but said someone is too nice/charming to dislike. Can result in a [[Go
Compare [[Friendly Enemy]].
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* In the book ''[[Avalon High]]'', main protagonist Elaine can't bring herself to hate [[All Guys Want Cheerleaders|Jennifer]], even though she cheated on her boyfriend, who happens to be Elaine's crush and wanted the best for Will. Same with Will himself. He realized his best friend and girlfriend loved each other and couldn't blame either them. {{spoiler|It helps that the characters are actually the reincarnations of King Arthur, Guinevere and Lancelot.}}
* Obligatory ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Buffy]]'' example. In one episode, Riley returns to Sunnydale after his breakup with Buffy and reveals that he's married. Willow decides that since it would be petty for Buffy to hate his wife, she'll do it for her. In the end, neither girl can hate her, because she's so cool and they're so perfect together.
* In series 2 of ''[[Ashes to Ashes]]'' [[Ascended Extra|Jackie]] turns up at CID claiming to be [[The Baby Trap|pregnant with Gene's baby]] and Alex can only [[Green-Eyed Monster|look on in horror as he proposes to Jackie.]] However Alex and Jackie bond over the episode and besides, why on earth would Alex affected by it? I mean [[Green
* In ''[[Forgetting Sarah Marshall]]'', Peter tells Aldous that while he has many reasons to hate him, the main one being that he's the guy Sarah dumped him to be with, he can't deny that Aldous is a cool guy too. But then it's subverted a minute later when Aldous lets slip that [[Your Cheating Heart|he and Sarah had begun seeing each other a year before she and Peter actually broke up]], enraging Peter.
* [[Spellman Files]] has this go on with Maggie. Isabel (and her sister Rae to some extent) don't really want her to settle down with Henry, but both Spellmans can't help but like Maggie. {{spoiler|Luckily for them, Maggie breaks up with Henry and becomes their future sister-in-law instead.}}
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* In ''[[A Moment of Peace]]'', Ito feels this way toward Crux on first meeting. Crux is [[All Love Is Unrequited|the unrequited crush of his unrequited crush.]]
* Discussed in ''[[The Stormlight Archive (Literature)|The Stormlight Archive]]'', when Navani tells Dalinar that she really tried to hate his (now deceased) wife, but couldn't because she was too nice.
* On ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'', Heloise begins dating Peep to [[Operation: Jealousy|make Jimmy jealous]]. It works, but to her suprise Jimmy and Peep hit it off quite well on non-Heloise topics.
* On ''[[Sister Sister]],'' Lisa meets the woman who is apparently keeping Ray from getting together with her, and admits that she's conflicted about whether or not she should be angry at the woman or invite her into the house for a snack. It probably helps that the woman pulls a [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]]. (Made weirder because "the other woman" turned out to be {{spoiler|Ray's ''[[You Look Like You've Seen a Ghost|dead]]'' wife, whom he felt reluctant to move on from}}.
* In ''[[When Harry Met Sally]]'', this is Sally's response to Harry's [[Love Confession]] at the end.
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