History Main / BigotWithACrush

* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': Despite being prejudiced against Bajorans and once heading the occupation of their planet, Gul Dukat has slept with several Bajoran women including Major Kira's mother Kira Meru and Tora Naprem, the mother of his half-Bajoran daughter Tora Ziyal.

* ''Film/TheNightPorter'' was controversial in its day because of its subject matter: a Nazi SS officer and a Jewish concentration camp inmate [[AMatchMadeInStockholm become lovers during the war]], and when they run into each other years later, rekindle their BDSM relationship.

* In ''Literature/OctoberDaye'', Tybalt dislikes changelings (Hybrids of Fae and humans) [[spoiler:due to his beloved human wife having died in an attempt to give birth to there changeling son]]. It's why he he initially didn't like [[spoiler:Toby]] due to her being a changeling as well. Over time though he genuinely falls in love with her and even evntually lets go off his prejudice to be with her.

* In ''Film/SchindlersList'', Nazi commander Amon Goeth is not happy to realize that he has a VillainousCrush on his Jewish maid Helen, accusing her of manipulating him. When he realizes that the camp is going to be closed down and all the inmates shipped off to Auschwitz, he considers taking her out into the woods and shooting her in a MercyKill. Instead, Schindler convinces him to bargain her away in a card game, which Schindler wins.

** Downplayed when he convinced ComicBook/ScarletWitch (who happens to be Jewish, UsefulNotes/{{Romani}}, and a mutant) to participate in a short-lived VillainTeamUp. He is struck by her beauty and cradles her hair while she's unconscious, before reminding himself that she's still "subhuman".

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* Joseph Goebbels, staunch Nazi, had an affair with Czech actress Lida Barova, even though Slavic persons were thought by the Nazis to be ''untermenschen''. Hitler himself had to put a stop to it when his wife Magda complained to him and forbade them from seeing each other.

** Downplayed when he convinced ComicBook/ScarletWitch (who happens to be Jewish, gypsy, and a mutant) to participate in a short-lived VillainTeamUp. He is struck by her beauty and cradles her hair while she's unconscious, before reminding himself that she's still "subhuman".

* This is actually the situation in the darkest of ways with the BigBad Edwin Epps towards his slave Patsey in ''Film/TwelveYearsASlave''. Edwin is a deeply vicious racist and bigoted slave owner who becomes infatuated with and constantly rapes his high-breadwinning slave Patsey, but WordOfGod is that he actually does love Patsey but his mindset only allows him to express it in violent ways.

* In ''Literature/HunchbackOfNotreDame'', Frollo embodies this trope, along with SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny.

* In the early 2000s, DNA testing was done on tissue samples which were known to have come from Eva Braun (Mrs UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler). [[note]]A set of hairbrushes found in her private quarters at Berchtesgarten were looted by an American serviceman; the silver-backed hairbrushes were monogrammed with the initials EB and there was still blonde-brown hair in them. The American's girlfriend was uneasy about actually using them -- she considered this a semi-welcome and somewhat thoughtless gift -- and bagged them up, otherwise untouched, in her attic. When their significance was realised they were retrieved and the hair was DNA-tested.[[/note]]. What the DNA testing revealed was that the woman who was crazy enough to spend a significant amount of time with, and eventually to marry, ''Adolf Hitler,'' was not as pure-blooded Aryan as it seemed. Eva Braun had DNA down her matrilinear line that absolutely corresponded with Central European Jewish genotypes. Research into her family history suggests that she had just enough Jewish ancestors -- who in an earlier age "assimilated" perhaps a century or so before this became an issue in 1933 -- and who, to all intents and purposes, had become so thoroughly Germanised that their origins were forgotten. However, the Nazi Party had decreed that to class as completely German, any Party or SS member should be able to prove pure German ancestry for at least ten generations. Eva Braun, had this been known, would have classed at the very least as a ''mischlinger'' -- tainted by enough Jewish blood for a range of sanctions to apply -- or else as a full-blown Jewess...

* This is actually the situation in the darkest of ways with the BigBad Edwin Epps towards his slave Patsey in ''Film/TwelveYearsASlave''. Edwin is a deeply vicious racist and bigoted slave owner who becomes infatuated with and constantly rapes his high-breadwinning slave Patsy, but WordOfGod is that he actually does love Patsey but his mindset only allows him to express it in violent ways.

* ZigzaggedTrope in ''ComicBook/RequiemVampireKnight''. Heinrich is a Nazi soldier during World War II who discovers that his girlfriend Rebecca is Jewish. This leaves him angry and conflicted at first as he still passionately loves her, but once they both ascend to the hellworld ''Resurection'' after their deaths on Earth, they rekindle their romance. Heinrich has also pretty much [[FormerBigot abandoned his Nazi beliefs]] after becoming a vampire, although his "friend" Otto (a former SS officer who killed Rebecca on Earth) most certainly hasn't and tries to kill both of them again for being "degenerates".

* ''WebComic/HomeStuck'': Equius Zahhak looks down on those lower on the hemospectrum. However, he has a massive crush on Aradia Megido, of the lowest blood color. He is found of both how she behaves ideally for her caste, yet is also suited to have indigo blood so he can feel more right loving her. Thus he puts indigo blood in the robot he built to house her soul.

* In ''Literature/HunchbackOfNotreDame,'' Frollo embodies this trope, along with SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny.

* ''Webcomic/Homestuck'': Equius Zahhak looks down on those lower on the hemospectrum. However, he has a massive crush on Aradia Megido, of the lowest blood color. He is found of both how she behaves ideally for her caste, yet is also suited to have indigo blood so he can feel more right loving her. Thus he puts indigo blood in the robot he built to house her soul.

* ''Webcomic:Homestuck'': Equius Zahhak looks down on those lower on the hemospectrum. However, he has a massive crush on Aradia Megido, of the lowest blood color. He is found of both how she behaves ideally for her caste, yet is also suited to have indigo blood so he can feel more right loving her. Thus he puts indigo blood in the robot he built to house her soul.

* In the early 2000s, DNA testing was done on tissue samples which were known to have come from Eva Braun (Mrs UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler). [[note]]A set of hairbrushes found in her private quarters at Berchtesgarten were looted by an American serviceman; the silver-backed hairbrushes were monogrammed with the initials EB and there was still blonde-brown hair in them. The American's girlfriend was uneasy about actually using them -- she considered this a semi-welcome and somewhat thoughtless gift -- and bagged them up, otherwise untouched, in her attic. When their significance was realised they were retrieved and the hair was DNA-tested.[[/note]]. What the DNA testing revealed was that the woman Adolf Hitler was crazy enough to spend a significant amount of time with, and eventually to marry, was not as pure-blooded Aryan as it seemed. Eva Braun had DNA down her matrilinear line that absolutely corresponded with Central European Jewish genotypes. Research into her family history suggests that she had just enough Jewish ancestors -- who in an earlier age "assimilated" perhaps a century or so before this became an issue in 1933 -- and who, to all intents and purposes, had become so thoroughly Germanised that their origins were forgotten. However, the Nazi Party had decreed that to class as completely German, any Party or SS member should be able to prove pure German ancestry for at least ten generations. Eva Braun, had this been known, would have classed at the very least as a ''mischlinger'' -- tainted by enough Jewish blood for a range of sanctions to apply -- or else as a full-blown Jewess...

* Played very darkly in ''Film/HotelRwanda''. The Hutu militia led by Georges Rutaganda plans of wiping out the country's Tutsi population, but not before keeping the women as [[SexSlave Sex Slaves]] for a while.

* In ''Film/SchindlersList'', Nazi commander Amon Goeth is not happy to realize that he has a VillainousCrush on his Jewish maid Helen, accusing her of manipulating him. When he realizes that the camp is going to be closed down and all the inmates shipped off to Auschwitz, he considers taking her out into the woods and shooting her a MercyKill. Instead, Schindler convinces him to bargain her away in a card game, which Schindler wins.

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* In the early 2000s, DNA testing was done on tissue samples which were known to have come from Eva Braun (Mrs UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler). [[note]]A set of hairbrushes found in her private quarters at Berchtesgarten were looted by an American serviceman; the silver-backed hairbrushes were monogrammed with the initials EB and there was still blonde-brown hair in them. The American's girlfriend was uneasy about actually using them - she considered this a semi-welcome and somewhat thoughtless gift - and bagged them up, otherwise untouched, in her attic. When their significance was realised they were retrieved and the hair was DNA-tested.[[/note]]. What the DNA testing revealed was that the woman Adolf Hitler was crazy enough to spend a significant amount of time with, and eventually to marry, was not as pure-blooded Aryan as it seemed. Eva Braun had DNA down her matrilinear line that absolutely corresponded with Central European Jewish genotypes. research into her family history suggests that she had just enough Jewish ancestors - who in an earlier age "assimilated" perhaps a century or so before this became an issue in 1933 - and who, to all intents and purposes, had become so thoroughly Germanised that their origins were forgotten. However, the Nazi Party had decreed that to class as completely German, any Party or SS member should be able to prove pure German ancestry for at least ten generations. Eva Braun, had this been known, would have classed at the very least as a ''mischlinger'' - tainted by enough Jewish blood for a range of sanctions to apply - or else as a full-blown Jewess...

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* ''ComicBook/{{Blacksad}}'': Inverted in Hans Karup's backstory. In the present, he runs a white supremacist organization responsible for lynching black animals, but [[UsedToBeASweetKid he was once an incredibly sweet man]] married to a black-furred woman. The Arctic Nation poisoned his mind, leading him to [[DomesticAbuse frequent abuse of his wife]] while they were still together until he dragged her out of their house in the middle of winter and left her for dead.

* In the early 2000's, DNA testing was done on tissue samples which were known to have come from Eva Braun (Mrs UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler). [[note]]A set of hairbrushes found in her private quarters at Berchtesgarten were looted by an American serviceman; the silver-backed hairbrushes were monogrammed with the initials EB and there was stillblonde-brown hair in them. The American's girlfriend was uneasy about actually using them - she considered this a semi-welcome and somewhat thoughtless gift - and bagged them up, otherwise untouched, in her attic. When their significance was realised they were retrieved and the hair was DNA-tested.[[/note]]. What the DNA testing revealed was that the woman Adolf Hitler was crazy enough to spend a significant amount of time with, and eventually to marry, was not as pure-blooded Aryan as it seemed. Eva Braun had DNA down her matrilinear line that absolutely corresponded with Central European Jewish genotypes. research into her family history suggests that she had just enough Jewish ancestors - who in an earlier age "assimilated" perhaps a century or so before this became an issue in 1933 - and who, to all intents and purposes, had become so thoroughly Germanised that their origins were forgotten. However, the Nazi Party had decreed that to class as completely German, any Party or SS member should be able to prove pure German ancestry for at least ten generations. Eva Braun, had this been known, would have classed at the very least as a ''mischlinger'' - tainted by enough Jewish blood for a range of sanctions to apply - or else as a full-blown Jewess...
* The late Strom Thurmond was a segregationist US senator who gave a record-breaking filibuster against civil rights legislation, and fathered a daughter with a black woman.

Maybe not. Despite all odds, whether it's the target's attitude, spirit, or just appearance, a character with this trope can't help but become fixated on them, often with disastrous results. Often leads to cognitive dissonance or {{Doublethink}} for the bigot trying to reconcile their beliefs with their romantic or sexual interest, or otherwise attempt to rationalize it by deeming the person an "obvious" [[BigotryException exception to the group that they despise]]. On the other hand, it could also lead to LoveRedeems with the character [[FormerBigot abondoning their old prejudices]], with some possible UnfortunateImplications. If the entire society is in on the discrimination, it may result in a ForbiddenLove relationship.

* In ''Literature/OctoberDaye'', Tybalt dislikes changelings (Hybrids of Fae and humans) [[spoiler:due to his beloved human wife having died in an attempt to give birth to there changeling son]]. Its why he he initially didn't like [[spoiler:Toby]] due to her being a changeling as well. Over time though he genuinely falls in love with her and even evntually lets go off his prejudice to be with her.

* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': Despite being prejudiced against Bajorans and once heading the occupation of their planet, Gul Dukat has slept with several Bajoran women.

* Famed novelist Creator/HPLovecraft was infamous for his racism, anti-semitism and anti-immigration opinions. He married Sonia Greene, a (culturally) Jewish immigrant, who would routinely call him out for his bigotry and hypocrisy. When she pointed out that he willfully married a Jewish immigrant, he responded by saying that she was "[[IfItsYouItsOkay one of the good ones]]."

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* This is actually the situation in the darkest of ways with the BigBad Edwin Epps towards his slave Patsey in ''Film/TwelveYearsASlave''. Edwin is a deeply vicious racist and bigoted African American slave owner who becomes infatuated with and constantly rapes his high-breadwinning slave Patsy, but WordOfGod is that he actually does love Patsey but his mindset only allows him to express it in violent ways.

So you have a villain of [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain the prejudiced variety]]. They have some kind of racism, whether [[FantasticRacism fantastica]]l or otherwise. They want privileges, they want segregation, and maybe even genocide. So it stands to reason they couldn't possibly have romantic or sexual desire for a member of the group they hate, right?

Adopted by Morgenthaler.
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