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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-Karting
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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* ''[[The Taming of the Shrew]]'' is entirely about this trope. By extension, ''[[Kiss Me Kate]]'' and ''[[Ten Things I Hate About You]]''.
* 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.
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* 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 [[Why Can't I Hate You?]] seems to be "Because he already hates himself enough for both."
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