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'''Basic Trope''': A bigoted character has a crush on someone they're prejudiced against.
* '''Straight''': Bob is a racist bigot. Alice is part of a racial minority. Despite this, Bob has a crush on Alice.
* '''Exaggerated''': Alice is a part of multiple minority groups that Bob is bigoted against. Despite this, he falls in love with her.
* '''Downplayed''': Bob acts awkwardly around people of different races, but doesn't openly hate them.
* '''Justified''':
** Love isn't racist.
** Bob's racism [[BigotryException never really applied to Alice, even before he started to fall in love]].
** Bob didn't know Alice's race until after he fell in love.
* '''Inverted''': Alice has a crush on Bob, despite the fact that he's prejudiced against her.
* '''Subverted''':
** It turns out that Bob's crush on Alice is just an act, to make him look like less of a racist bigot than he actually is.
** Alice isn't really part of the racial minority everyone thinks she is.
** Though Bob is known by many to be racist, it turns out [[FormerBigot he changes his ways long ago]].
* '''Double Subverted''': Despite the crush initially being an act, [[BecomingTheMask Bob soon starts to fall in love for real]].
* '''Parodied''': ???
* '''Zig-Zagged''': As Bob struggles with his bigotry versus his feelings for Alice, Alice and Bob are [[RelationshipRevolvingDoor constantly breaking up and getting back together]].
* '''Averted''':
** Bob isn't racist.
** Bob and Alice don't fall in love.
* '''Enforced''': The writers want to use this relationship to show Bob's racism is wrong, and maybe later redeem him.
* '''Lampshaded''': When asked about it, Bob admits that he knows Alice's race, but still loves her regardless.
* '''Invoked''': Charlie arranges a date between Bob and Alice, believing that despite the racism issue, they'll actually get along great.
* '''Exploited''': Alice hopes to use Bob's crush on her [[LoveRedeems to try and teach him his racism is wrong and turn him into a better man]].
* '''Defied''': Bob refuses to accept his feelings for Alice because of his racism.
* '''Discussed''': Charlie talks with a friend about Bob's racism, joking suggesting he's secretly in love with someone of a different race.
* '''Conversed''': ???
* '''Implied''': Bob acts much friendlier and more affectionately around Alice than others of her race, though nobody comments on his true feelings.
* '''Deconstructed''': Bob's feelings for Alice makes him seriously start to question his racist views.
* '''Reconstructed''': Despite this, he ultimately doesn't change his ways, seeing Alice as an exception.
* '''Played for Drama''':
** Bob's family is every bit as bigoted as him, and would never accept his relationship with Alice. Despite this, [[ForbiddenLove they continue their relationship in secret]].
** Bob's racism is the result of a traumatic event in his past, and this past trauma gets in the way of his attempts to have a relationship with Alice.
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%% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion:
%% * '''Played for Laughs''': ???
%% * '''Played for Horror''': ???

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