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** "I'm sorry, but [[TakeThat I cannot understand this concept you call]] ''[[ShipperOnDeck 'platonic love']]''".
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** "I'm sorry, but [[TakeThat I cannot understand this concept you call]] ''[[ShipperOnDeck 'platonic love']]''".love']]''. Aren't you two supposed to be married by now?"
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* '''Exaggerated''': [[EvilCannotComprehendGood Xythax's]] [[YourHeadASplode head explodes]] [[EvilCannotComprehendGood at the mere mention of]] [[NiceToTheWaitress thanking the barista]], let alone [[StrawNihilist caring about anyone, even one's self]].
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* '''Exaggerated''': [[EvilCannotComprehendGood Xythax's]] [[YourHeadASplode head explodes]] [[EvilCannotComprehendGood at the mere mention of]] [[NiceToTheWaitress [[HowTheyTreatTheHelp thanking the barista]], let alone [[StrawNihilist caring about anyone, even one's self]].
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** Xythax [[ProudScholarRace and her species]] is TheSpock to an [[TinMan extreme]], having forsaken all emotion ([[EspeciallyZoidberg especially love]]) for cold, hard logic, [[IDidWhatIHadToDo because]] [[LoveIsAWeakness it]] [[LoveMakesYouDumb was]] [[LoveMakesYouEvil a]] [[TheNeedsOfTheMany decideratum]].
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** Xythax [[ProudScholarRace and her their species]] is TheSpock to an [[TinMan extreme]], having forsaken all emotion ([[EspeciallyZoidberg especially love]]) for cold, hard logic, [[IDidWhatIHadToDo because]] [[LoveIsAWeakness it]] [[LoveMakesYouDumb was]] [[LoveMakesYouEvil a]] [[TheNeedsOfTheMany decideratum]].
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** When questioned about her familiarity with the emotion, Xythax responds:
---> ''"I know what love is, yet I don't understand it no more [[EnragedByIdiocy than I understand]] [[LoveMakesYouDumb idiocy]], and anyone who does [[HumansAreMorons is probably a moron]].
---> ''"I know what love is, yet I don't understand it no more [[EnragedByIdiocy than I understand]] [[LoveMakesYouDumb idiocy]], and anyone who does [[HumansAreMorons is probably a moron]].
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** When questioned about her their familiarity with the emotion, Xythax responds:
---> ''"I know what love is, yet I don't understand it no more [[EnragedByIdiocy than I understand]] [[LoveMakesYouDumb idiocy]], and anyone who does [[HumansAreMorons is probably a moron]]."''
---> ''"I know what love is, yet I don't understand it no more [[EnragedByIdiocy than I understand]] [[LoveMakesYouDumb idiocy]], and anyone who does [[HumansAreMorons is probably a moron]]."''
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** "''Don't hurt me, no more!''" seems that Xythax was just singing along to Music/{{Haddaway}}.
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** Xythax was asking about the word, not the concept. There's a limit to what [[LearnedEnglishFromWatchingTelevision TV can teach you about English]].
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'''Basic Trope''': [[MostWritersAreHuman Our]] concept of 'love' mystifies an alien or robot individual.
* '''Straight''': [[TheMcCoy Bob]] goes on and on about his infatuation with [[LoveInterest Alice]], an expression of 'love', a ephemeral, insignificant desire which [[TheStoic Xythax]] cannot grasp.
* '''Exaggerated''': [[EvilCannotComprehendGood Xythax's]] [[YourHeadASplode head explodes]] [[EvilCannotComprehendGood at the mere mention of]] [[NiceToTheWaitress thanking the barista]], let alone [[StrawNihilist caring about anyone, even one's self]].
* '''Downplayed''': Xythax certainly understands ''platonic love", but loving another person for reasons beyond fraternity and kinship is foreign to them.
* '''Justified''':
** Xythax is a robot whom, without their MoralityChip, cannot feel or fathom human emotions like 'love'.
** Xythax [[ProudScholarRace and her species]] is TheSpock to an [[TinMan extreme]], having forsaken all emotion ([[EspeciallyZoidberg especially love]]) for cold, hard logic, [[IDidWhatIHadToDo because]] [[LoveIsAWeakness it]] [[LoveMakesYouDumb was]] [[LoveMakesYouEvil a]] [[TheNeedsOfTheMany decideratum]].
** The [[CrapsackWorld universe]] has [[BreakTheCutie broken]] [[TheWoobie Xythax]] by [[CartwrightCurse taking away everyone they have ever loved and ever will love]], and [[StrawNihilist they]] [[SafetyInIndifference decided that they were better off]] [[CelibateHero rejecting the idea all together]], to the point where [[ObliviousToLove they have forgotten what love is altogether]].
** BlueAndOrangeMorality
** EvilCannotComprehendGood
* '''Inverted''': Bob cannot understand what [[InscrutableAliens Xythax]] is yabbering on about [[InhumanEmotion 'skrubburfossles']].
* '''Subverted''':
** Xythax was [[ObfuscatingStupidity feigning ignorance]] so that they can glean information first-hand regarding human courtship behaviors.
** Or, [[{{Narcissist}} Xythax]] knows what love is perfectly well, it's just that they only truly understand the value of [[ItsAllAboutMe self-obsessive love]].
** When questioned about her familiarity with the emotion, Xythax responds:
---> ''"I know what love is, yet I don't understand it no more [[EnragedByIdiocy than I understand]] [[LoveMakesYouDumb idiocy]], and anyone who does [[HumansAreMorons is probably a moron]].
* '''Double Subverted''': Turns out Xythax had completely misconstrued the ramifications of love, and that the real deal is a lot different then their own conceptions.
* '''Parodied''':
** "[[{{WesternAnimation.Futurama}} What is this thing you call 'wuv'?]]"
** "I'm sorry, but [[TakeThat I cannot understand this concept you call]] ''[[ShipperOnDeck 'platonic love']]''".
* '''Zig-Zagged''': Xythax says they do not understand love. But this [[ILied just a lie]], and they were only feigning stupidity. But then they had completely misunderstood the concept of love. But this doesn't apply to others of their kind, but then most of their kind fails to understand love, only for it to turn out that they ''do'' understand love and they thought than human love was called 'happiness' and that 'love' was the [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm incomprehensible]] attachment between a mother and her EldritchAbomination [[ScreamingPlaneBaby child]].
* '''Averted''': Xythax understands love perfectly well.
* '''Enforced''': Well, their ''has'' to be interpersonal drama, yes?
* '''Lampshaded''': "Ah, yes, and if I'm not mistaken ThisIsThePartWhere Bob lectures beautiful [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe green-skinned alien space babes]] how to feel love."
* '''Invoked''': Xythax has been [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwashed]] or, should they be a robot, had their MoralityChip removed, to [[TheDarkSideWillMakeYouForget erase any connections between them and their loved ones]] so that [[TragicMonster they have no qualms in attacking and/or otherwise betraying them.]]
* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': Xythax devotes a significant portion of their time to studying human social customs to dispel any possibility of asking what love is all about.
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???
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Can you explain to me [[WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove what this thing you call 'love' is]]?
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%% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion:
%% * '''Implied''': ???
%% * '''Deconstructed''': ???
%% * '''Reconstructed''': ???
%% * '''Played for Laughs''': ???
%% * '''Played for Drama''': ???
%% * '''Played for Horror''': ???
* '''Straight''': [[TheMcCoy Bob]] goes on and on about his infatuation with [[LoveInterest Alice]], an expression of 'love', a ephemeral, insignificant desire which [[TheStoic Xythax]] cannot grasp.
* '''Exaggerated''': [[EvilCannotComprehendGood Xythax's]] [[YourHeadASplode head explodes]] [[EvilCannotComprehendGood at the mere mention of]] [[NiceToTheWaitress thanking the barista]], let alone [[StrawNihilist caring about anyone, even one's self]].
* '''Downplayed''': Xythax certainly understands ''platonic love", but loving another person for reasons beyond fraternity and kinship is foreign to them.
* '''Justified''':
** Xythax is a robot whom, without their MoralityChip, cannot feel or fathom human emotions like 'love'.
** Xythax [[ProudScholarRace and her species]] is TheSpock to an [[TinMan extreme]], having forsaken all emotion ([[EspeciallyZoidberg especially love]]) for cold, hard logic, [[IDidWhatIHadToDo because]] [[LoveIsAWeakness it]] [[LoveMakesYouDumb was]] [[LoveMakesYouEvil a]] [[TheNeedsOfTheMany decideratum]].
** The [[CrapsackWorld universe]] has [[BreakTheCutie broken]] [[TheWoobie Xythax]] by [[CartwrightCurse taking away everyone they have ever loved and ever will love]], and [[StrawNihilist they]] [[SafetyInIndifference decided that they were better off]] [[CelibateHero rejecting the idea all together]], to the point where [[ObliviousToLove they have forgotten what love is altogether]].
** BlueAndOrangeMorality
** EvilCannotComprehendGood
* '''Inverted''': Bob cannot understand what [[InscrutableAliens Xythax]] is yabbering on about [[InhumanEmotion 'skrubburfossles']].
* '''Subverted''':
** Xythax was [[ObfuscatingStupidity feigning ignorance]] so that they can glean information first-hand regarding human courtship behaviors.
** Or, [[{{Narcissist}} Xythax]] knows what love is perfectly well, it's just that they only truly understand the value of [[ItsAllAboutMe self-obsessive love]].
** When questioned about her familiarity with the emotion, Xythax responds:
---> ''"I know what love is, yet I don't understand it no more [[EnragedByIdiocy than I understand]] [[LoveMakesYouDumb idiocy]], and anyone who does [[HumansAreMorons is probably a moron]].
* '''Double Subverted''': Turns out Xythax had completely misconstrued the ramifications of love, and that the real deal is a lot different then their own conceptions.
* '''Parodied''':
** "[[{{WesternAnimation.Futurama}} What is this thing you call 'wuv'?]]"
** "I'm sorry, but [[TakeThat I cannot understand this concept you call]] ''[[ShipperOnDeck 'platonic love']]''".
* '''Zig-Zagged''': Xythax says they do not understand love. But this [[ILied just a lie]], and they were only feigning stupidity. But then they had completely misunderstood the concept of love. But this doesn't apply to others of their kind, but then most of their kind fails to understand love, only for it to turn out that they ''do'' understand love and they thought than human love was called 'happiness' and that 'love' was the [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm incomprehensible]] attachment between a mother and her EldritchAbomination [[ScreamingPlaneBaby child]].
* '''Averted''': Xythax understands love perfectly well.
* '''Enforced''': Well, their ''has'' to be interpersonal drama, yes?
* '''Lampshaded''': "Ah, yes, and if I'm not mistaken ThisIsThePartWhere Bob lectures beautiful [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe green-skinned alien space babes]] how to feel love."
* '''Invoked''': Xythax has been [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwashed]] or, should they be a robot, had their MoralityChip removed, to [[TheDarkSideWillMakeYouForget erase any connections between them and their loved ones]] so that [[TragicMonster they have no qualms in attacking and/or otherwise betraying them.]]
* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': Xythax devotes a significant portion of their time to studying human social customs to dispel any possibility of asking what love is all about.
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???
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Can you explain to me [[WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove what this thing you call 'love' is]]?
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%% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion:
%% * '''Implied''': ???
%% * '''Deconstructed''': ???
%% * '''Reconstructed''': ???
%% * '''Played for Laughs''': ???
%% * '''Played for Drama''': ???
%% * '''Played for Horror''': ???
