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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 ''[[Sgt Frog]]'', Tamama sees Angol Mois as a rival for Keroro's love and attention, but is frequently overwhelmed by her niceness. At one point in the dub, he thinks to himself regarding Mois "Stop making it so hard for me to hate you!"
** Mois also once turned Kululu into a shambling wreck by simply staring at him for an extended period. "I can't be mean to those eyes!"
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* Pretty much the whole set-up of ''[[Reba]]''. Barbara Jean is Brock's new wife but treats Reba, the ex, as a close personal friend which is what they eventually become.
* ''[[My Name Is Earl]]'': Earl is and always has been on friendly terms with Darnell (aka "Crab Man"), the man who cuckolded him and stole his wife.
* 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
* 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.}}
* ''[[The Taming of the Shrew]]'' is entirely about this trope. By extension, ''[[Kiss Me Kate]]'' and ''[[
* 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 ''[[
* 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.
* ''[[
* In [[The Hunger Games]] trilogy, Gale admits to Katniss that he has a hard time hating Peeta because Peeta's so likeable, despite being a competitor for Katniss's affections.
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* Also from ''[[Friends]]'', Monica and the woman who stole her identity. Monica became friends with her.
* A more disturbing example: ''[[Monster (
* Played with in interesting (and non-romantic) ways in ''The Things They Carried''. Tim, a soldier in the Vietnam War, is best friends with The Medic, Rat. Rat gets shot, and transferred out of [[The Squad]]. Soon after, Tim himself is shot, and nearly loses his leg because Rat's replacement forgot to treat him for shock. Tim is rather bitter about this. Tim learns that the new medic is actually a nice guy who was simply inexperienced and cracked under the pressure of combat. Tim comments that if he could only bring himself to hate the new medic, he could also forgive him.
* Both Physis and Jomy have this reaction to Keith Anyan in the last two episodes of ''[[Toward the Terra]]'', each separately commenting that even though Keith has been doing everything he can to exterminate their race, they can't bring themselves to hate him. In both cases the most probable answer to
* Real life example: American tennis player Andy Roddick on Roger Federer, the man who's denied him multiple slams, most painfully one at Wimbledon 2009: "I've said to him before, 'I'd love to hate you, but you're really nice.'"
* ''Bring Me the Head ofPrince Charming'' mixes this with an aversion of [[Evil Is One Big Happy Family]]
* In [[Squid Row]], Randi is surprised to find her non-romantic male friend's new girlfriend is really nice and she likes her.
* In ''[[Penny and Aggie]]'', Duane, noticing for the first time the emotional vulnerability of [[The Fundamentalist]] Charlotte (who had attempted to frame a fellow student for making a bomb threat, and had slandered a lesbian student as a rapist), thinks to himself, "What is wrong with me, that I can't hate you now?"
* In [[Atlas Shrugged]], Hank Rearden is completely prepared to hate Francisco D'Anconia for his perceived worthlessness. When they actually have a conversation, Rearden realizes that they share a LOT in common.
* In ''[[Tiger and Bunny]]'', all the superheroes are in competition with each other, so it would be normal for them to resent the current King of Heroes, Sky High. If only he weren't so polite, earnest, and enthusiastic all the time.
* In ''[[Airborn]]'', cabin boy Matt loses out on a promotion to newcomer Bruce, who is much less experienced but whose father owns their airship (and plenty of others). After actually meeting him, Matt admits to himself that it would have been easier if Bruce was a spoiled brat - finding out that he's actually a decent guy just makes it worse.
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