Line #141 Main/DefectingForLove


1	%%%
2	%%
3	%% This page has been alphabetized. Please add new examples in the correct order. Thanks!
4	%%
5	%%%
6	%% Image removed per Image Pickin' thread: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=1328045392041360300
7	%% Please start a new IP thread if you'd like to suggest an image.
8	%%
9
10	->''"You miscalculated. I love Zuko more than I fear you."''
11	-->-- '''Mai''', ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheBoilingRockPart2 The Boiling Rock, Part 2]]"
12
13	This character begins the story on the side of the villain but ends it on the hero's side. Why? [[LoveRedeems Love.]]
14
15	Maybe she and the hero are both [[Series/StarTrekVoyager stuck on a spaceship at the other end of the galaxy]] and she discovers his kindness and her newfound feelings for him. Or maybe she finds out that she's been lied to by the villain all her life and has been working for the very people she thought she was fighting against while the hero has been honest with her and is the one she wants to be with. Somehow, she falls for him and decides to defect to his side.
16
17	This character will most likely never be ''truly'' evil, only misguided or manipulated. Since they are essentially [[PunchclockVillain an ordinary citizen]] of TheEmpire, they sometimes also serve to humanize their average citizen. While almost AlwaysFemale, males can just as easily fulfill the same role.
18
19	Most of the time, unlike the MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter, this character is the primary female lead, quite capable of taking care of herself, and her CharacterDevelopment is a major part of the story. It's a good thing, too — she tends to have a [[DarkAndTroubledPast few sources of angst in her past]] that require a lot of dealing with before she and her man can ride off into the sunset together.
20
21	If she ''doesn't'' switch sides, it's DatingCatwoman. While a HighHeelFaceTurn may be done for a number of reasons, ''this'' trope's defining trait is love. Compare and contrast SexFaceTurn, which is the "falling in lust" version (which may overlap with this trope if the characters click both physically and emotionally).
22
23	----
24	!!Examples:
25	[[foldercontrol]]
26
27	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
28	* ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'':
29	** Hilde Schbeiker from ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing'' deserts OZ and ends up living with Duo Maxwell. [[spoiler: According to the Frozen Teardrop novels, however, they didn't last too long.]]
30	* [[spoiler:Shiori aka Luna aka the fake Asuna]] from ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' who makes a HeelFaceTurn after falling for Negi. In a subversion, she ''still'' loves and cares for her boss, Fate Averruncus. [[spoiler:Ironically, Fate ''does'' pull a HeelFaceTurn with a side dish of GoodIsNotNice. ''And'' has pretty much all but stated that [[HoYay he's in love]] [[EvenTheGuysWantHim with Negi too]], thus Fate would likely be the UrExample in the series.]]
31	* Boa Hancock in ''Manga/OnePiece'' doesn't outright defect since it would actually compromise her ability to help Luffy, among other issues, but she does begin assisting him despite her position and does everything she can to help after he first wins her respect and then love. That being said, she's still a terrible person: Even as she's being all blushy and lovestruck while telling him to call her by her given name, she kicks a puppy and a baby seal out of her way.
32	** In Dressrosa, [[spoiler:Baby 5 defects due to her engagement to Sai]].
33	** At least two of Big Mom's daughters (that we know of) did this in the past, since she's prone to [[ArrangedMarriage marrying them off]] to secure alliances. This ends up backfiring on Big Mom in a [[{{Pun}} big way]] since she's [[AbusiveParents abusive]] to her children while their new spouses are not. Charlotte Praline, wife of the Sun Pirates' Aladine, and Charlotte Chiffon, wife of the Fire Tank Pirates' Capone Bege, are the two known past examples, while it also happens to [[spoiler: Charlotte Pudding]] during the story. [[spoiler: While she doesn't end up married to Sanji, she does genuinely fall in love with him once he compliments her ThirdEye, something her mom has only ever insulted her about. This despite the fact that up until then, she was [[InLoveWithTheMark ready to kill him and his family after the wedding]], as per her mother's plan.]]
34	* ''Anime/RomeoXJuliet'': Romeo does this for Juliet. Since Lord Montague is the dictator of Neo Verona and Juliet has been on the run after the Capulets were wiped out...
35	* In ''Anime/SpaceRunawayIdeon'', [[TheCutie kind-hearted Karala Ajiba]] came from the Buff Clan, and fell in love with [[TeamDad human soldier Bes Jordan]] whilst both their races investigated a site containing a powerful mecha. A war was triggered by a simple case of fear and she decided to remain with the humans. And typically in Tomino's anime, [[spoiler: Karala and Bes didn't have a happy ending and she was shot in the face [[CainAndAbel by her vengeful sister Harulu]], a while after revealing she was pregnant; as for Bes, he ended up bleeding to death in the commanding shuttle's bridge during the [[MindScrew seriously trippy]] GrandFinale.]]
36	* Milia Fallyna in ''Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross'' (and ''Anime/{{Robotech}}''), who went as far as to get herself shrunk down to human size to hunt down the human pilot who dueled her, and ended up marrying him after a knife fight. In TheMovie ''Anime/MacrossDoYouRememberLove'', things go a little differently; he gets trapped on her ship when it leaves while they're still in their first battle, but things still turn out all right: he later shows up having been ''macronized'' to match her, and they're fighting side by side, happy as can be.
37	* ''Manga/{{X 1999}}'' has [[GentleGiant Shiyu Kusanagi]] starting off as working for the antagonistic Dragons of Earth but eventually switches sides out of love for [[GenkiGirl Yuzuriha Nekoi]] and even ''lives'' to enjoy his newfound happiness.
38	* ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'': Carly, after becoming a [[PsychoRangers Dark Signer]], inverts and invokes this by trying to convert Jack into becoming a Dark Signer by beating him in a duel. Jack actually considers it, but ultimately would rather have the duel end in a tie so the Dark Signers could be stopped, and so they could be TogetherInDeath.
39	[[/folder]]
40
41	[[folder:Comic Books]]
42	* ''Franchise/TheDCU'':
43	** A male version happens in ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' where an agent for the H.I.V.E. starts out as a HoneyTrap for Starfire, but eventually did this.
44	** AmazonianBeauty Big Barda of the ''ComicBook/NewGods'' was one of [[BigBad Darkseid]]'s loyal commanders, but defected with Mr. Miracle and eventually joined the Justice League alongside him.
45	* Happens with relative frequency among the [[SupermanSubstitute Viltrumites]] in ''ComicBook/{{Invincible}}''. Their SocialDarwinist philosophy considered social bonds a weakness, despite the psychological need for it still being present, making the Viltrumites mentally unbalanced as they try to reconcile the [[ANaziByAnyOtherName quasi-Nazi ideology]] they've all been indoctrinated into since birth with their [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds repressed desire for emotion and family]]. Only a few are actually evil, and the rest quickly revert to forming normal emotional bonds when no longer under constant pressure to conform to social purity. [[BewareTheSuperman Omni-Man]] himself basically had a nervous breakdown when torn between his obsession with his duty and the love for his human family, nearly [[OffingTheOffspring murdering his own son]] whom he trained to be his successor before [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone realizing what he was doing]]. [[AmazonianBeauty Anissa]] [[spoiler:[[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raped Mark to produce a pureblooded Viltrumite child]] but]] later fell in love with a human man and devoted her life to protecting the Earth as a result.
46	* ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'':
47	** ''ComicBook/PlanetHulk'': Caiera, the [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk]]'s eventual love interest, was just misled. She believed her boss really was meant to be the savior of their world (specifically from the Spikes) and that thus UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans. When she found out that [[spoiler:he had been in control of the Spikes all along, using them to instill fear and enforce obedience, there was no more utopia left to justify and she changed sides to the new Messiah figure with some integrity.]]
48	** Frenzy, a mercenary and former member of Apocalypse's Masters of Evil, combined this with serious {{Brainwashing}} after the ''ComicBook/AgeOfX'' storyline -- in the warped alternate reality, she was Cyclops' lover; after the world was reset, he no longer had any feelings for her -- but she chose to keep her memories of what had been, and aspire to become somebody he ''could'' love.
49	* She didn't realize it at the time, but Julie-Su of ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'' ended up doing this, chasing after Knuckles and attempting to capture him after he first defeated the Dark Legion, but hung around him ever since
50	[[/folder]]
51
52	[[folder:Comic Strips]]
53	* Princess Aura in ''ComicStrip/FlashGordon'' is a combination of this, a MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter and a FemmeFatale. She is physically attracted to Flash and betrays her father to keep him alive, but she doesn't end up with him and is paired up with TheLancer of Flash's group, Prince Barin of Arboria, who has been in love with Aura for quite a while already.
54	[[/folder]]
55
56	[[folder:Fan Works]]
57	* ''Fanfic/ColdReception'': {{Inverted\|Trope}} in the case of Wally. The TND has a policy that only two operatives per sector generation are allowed to become teen operatives, while the others are honorably decommissioned. With Abby having claimed one of Sector V's slots, Nigel in space, and Hoagie out of the running, Kuki and Wally were left with only one position left. When Kuki became the next Soopreme Leader, said spot went to her, so Wally defected before his thirteenth birthday, becoming a "free agent" so that he wouldn't be forced to forget about her.
58	* In the ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' fanfic ''Fanfic/TheGirlFromMistral'' Cinder leaves Salem's side to be with [[spoiler:Pyrrha, eventually defecting to Beacon Academy]].
59	* ''Fanfic/GuyverNaruto'' features an example of someone joining the ''antagonists'' when [[spoiler:Aoi from Team Four]] defects to Ame for this reason, complete with a DeceasedFallGuyGambit.
60	* In ''Fanfic/ItGetsWorse'', Amy leaves New Wave and joins the New York Wards after falling in love with [[spoiler:Fletchette]].
61	* {{Discussed\|Trope}} in ''Fanfic/TheMorrigan''. When [[spoiler:Felsi Rollo]] defects from the Spacian side of the war to join the Earthian freedom fighters the Dawn of Fold, everyone, including her best friend, initially assumes it's because her romantic partner is an Earthian. When asked, [[spoiler:Felsi]] vehemently denies this, as she joined DOF because she truly believes in their cause, and fights for them because she thinks it's the right thing to do. Flashbacks show that she was actually set on joining the Dawn of Fold long before her girlfriend, and only waited as long as she did because said girlfriend hadn't made up her mind yet.
62	* In the ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' fanfic ''Fanfic/SonOfTheSannin'', it's revealed that Mei Terumi's mother originally hailed from Iwagakure, but she met and fell in love with a man from Kirigakure, causing her to defect from her home village so they could be together.
63	* ''Fanfic/WhirlpoolsAmongTheEddies'': After her team is eliminated from the Chuunin Exams, Karin convinces Orochimaru to let her stay in Konoha in order to lure Naruto into his clutches. However, she wound up falling InLoveWithTheMark and ultimately defects, unable to go through with the plan.
64	* In the ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' fanfic ''Fanfic/WolfSpider'', Bitch leaves the Undersiders to be with [[spoiler:Arachne]].
65	[[/folder]]
66
67	[[folder:Films — Live-Action]]
68	* Happens many times in the ''Franchise/JamesBond'' film series. It was {{Lampshaded}} in ''Film/{{Thunderball}}'' by Fiona Volpe, who didn't do it.
69	* ''Film/MrAndMrsSmith2005'': The title characters are assassins from rival agencies, but [[spoiler:they both ditch their respective agencies after said agencies assign them to kill each other.]]
70	* ''Film/TaraBulba'' has Andriy (Tony Curtis) betray his fellow Cossacks out of love for the Polish princess Natalie.
71	* Selene in ''Film/Underworld2003'' is [[FurAgainstFang a vampire who hunts werewolves]] until she falls in love with a werewolf/vampire hybrid and starts to question whether what she has been told by the elder vampires was ever true (like who started the war, why, and who killed her mortal family). Though technically, her defection had more to do the truth than Michael.
72	** Before her there was Sonja, and it ended very badly for her.
73	* Sorsha in ''Film/{{Willow}}'' betrays her Evil Queen mother and joins the heroes out of love for Madmartigan.
74	[[/folder]]
75
76	[[folder:Literature]]
77	* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'': Many dark, dangerous, beautiful, and deadly women have caught Harry's attention, but only one has fallen for him that she would betray her purpose and her creator. [[spoiler:Lash, the shadow of the Fallen Angel Lasciel, had one purpose in her existence: To get Harry to fully accept and choose to let the true Lasciel inside of him for the purpose of corrupting him further. The problem is, Harry is one stubborn bastard and while he was tempted by the power this shadow of a demoness possessing him granted him, it was just that: Temptation. He was never going to commit to the evil bandwagon and Choose Lasciel. He endures the possession for years and eventually notes to the Shadow that his human mind is malleable and capable of turning evil, but as she is living in that same space, she suffers from the same problem: she is malleable too. And after living in him for so many years, she has grown distinct and is no longer an exact copy of the original. By giving her a nickname, Harry inadvertently gave her part of his soul, changing her at her core. This culminated to the point when he was being attacked by a powerful mental attack and Lash pleaded with him to take up the Coin and save himself, but he refused. For the first time, Lash then spoke, "She doesn't deserve you." She turned against her duty to get Harry to take up the Coin and took the burden of the powerful attack, allowing him a chance to move while she endured the pain. However, the burden was too great and it destroyed her. She sacrificed her whole existence out of love for this one human]].
78	* In Creator/AletheaKontis' ''Literature/{{Enchanted}}'', Rumbold comes to himself after losing his memories as a frog, and remembers the enmity between the royal family and Sunday's. He sets out to win her anyway.
79	* The ''Literature/FirebirdTrilogy'' features a straight and a peculiar example of this trope. The straight example is the titular Firebird Angelo, who defects from Netia to the Federacy largely due to loving and being loved by Breenen Caldwell. [[spoiler: Terza Shirak is the second example of this trope, with the peculiar variant that it was not romantic but maternal love that drove her--she had fallen in love with her unborn daughter and could not bear having that daughter aborted or raised on the villainous world of Three Zed.]]
80	* In ''Literature/OnFairyStories'', Creator/JRRTolkien discusses this trope in the context of Norse myth -- Frey, who married a giant's daughter -- and the English legend of the marriage of Ingeld and Freawaru, and points out that even though they are named for the god, it does not prove their love is mythological, since human lovers who found enmity between their families were the real source of the Frey myth.
81	* In a GenderInverted version, ''Literature/SixOfCrows'' has Matthias abandoning the elite Grisha-hunting army of drüskelle because he's in love with Nina, a Grisha.
82	* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
83	** In ''Literature/DarkDisciple'', Asajj Ventress began a relationship with Jedi Master Quinlan Vos and joined him in his mission to kill [[RuleOfTwo her former master Count Dooku]]. After he's captured by Dooku, Vos [[TheParagonAlwaysRebels falls to the]] DarkSide and becomes a DoubleAgent [[BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil after months of torture]], but her HeroicSacrifice to save him motivates him to return to the Light.
84	** ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'':
85	*** ZigZagged by Vestara Khai, who was a Sith apprentice who ended up falling for Luke and Mara's son Ben, before killing her own ArchnemesisDad to protect him and attempting to [[HeelFaceTurn turn to the Light]]. Circumstances prevented her from switching over entirely, leaving her with a serious case of HeelFaceRevolvingDoor that eventually saw her being promoted to Sith Lord while still trying to find a way to reunite with Ben. Due to the fact that he had descendants it can be assumed she was eventually successful, but due to the ContinuityReboot after ''Literature/StarWarsCrucible'' we may never know for sure.
86	[[/folder]]
87
88	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
89	* ''Series/{{Andor}}'': Lieutenant Gorn fell in love with a local Aldhani woman who later died. It's not clear how she died but this motivated him to turn on the Empire, acting as the Rebellion's inside man at the base he was stationed at.
90	* Caprica-Boomer, later named Athena of ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica\|2003}}'', initially sets out to seduce Helo in order to create a cylon-human hybrid child by getting him to fall in love with her. She eventually makes the decision to betray the Cylons and joins the human fleet.
91	* ''Series/DoctorWho'' has [[spoiler:River Song, raised by the villains and brainwashed to kill the Doctor, becoming a hero after falling in love with the very man she was supposed to kill.]]
92	* In ''Series/{{Flash Gordon\|2007}}'', Baylin is this trope, although she's not quite so innocent (she's a bounty hunter) and she probably won't end up with Flash, either ([[FirstGirlWins Dale's got dibs]]).
93	* ''Series/GoodOmens2019'':
94	** [[OppositesAttract Angel Aziraphale and demon Crowley]] are supposed to be [[LoveAcrossBattlelines on the opposite sides]]. Instead, when the end of the world is nigh, they decide to [[spoiler:rebel against their former offices and avert the Apocalypse together]]. They do it for the love they feel for humanity and [[OneTrueLove for each other]].
95	** In season 2, [[spoiler:their bosses Gabriel and Beelzebub]] also [[CrackPairing fall in love]] and as a result rebel against Heaven and Hell and elope together.
96	* Juliet on ''Series/{{Lost}}''. She was never very committed to the Others, and defects from them pretty quickly after meeting Jack.
97	* In ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' [=S3 Ep14=] "Light Sleeper" a [[spoiler:North Korean spy who married a US Marine as part of her cell's infiltration of the US comes to love her husband and the daughter they had. She turns on her teammates and hunts them down so they cannot pull off the attack that is likely to come]].
98	* Implied [[spoiler:and later confirmed]] to be the reason [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Castiel]] chooses to rebel against Heaven in ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' to help avert the Apocalypse. Rather than making his decision based upon concern for humanity as a whole, he seems to have chosen to help the heroes mostly due to his respect and affection for Dean, who asked for his help.
99	-->'''Castiel:''' ''(to Dean)' I'm hunted. I rebelled. And I did it, all of it, for you.
100	** Also happens to Castiel's love interest Meg. She's a demon, he's an angel and she continuously sides with humans against her own kind because of her affection for Castiel. [[spoiler:Sadly, she dies in a HeroicSacrifice before she and Castiel can consummate their relationship.]]
101	* {{Deconstruct\|ion}}ed in a famous episode of ''Series/{{The Twilight Zone\|1959}}''. An unnamed man and woman of opposing armies -- implied to possibly be the only survivors of WorldWarThree -- find each other in the ruins of a small town. At first, they shoot at each other, but eventually loneliness sets in and they try with varying success to communicate, and by the end of the episode seem to have developed romantic feelings.
102	[[/folder]]
103
104	[[folder:Mythology & Religion]]
105	* In Myth/ClassicalMythology princess Ariadne of Crete betrayed her father, King Minos, when she fell in love with Theseus and helped him kill Minos’ pet monster – the Minotaur. Unfortunately for Ariadne Theseus turned out to be an UngratefulBastard and deserted her on Naxos on his way back to Athens.
106	* Also in Classical Mythology, the Danaides were the fifty daughters of Danaus, a ruler of Egypt. His brother Aegyptus had fifty sons. Aegyptus wanted his sons to marry his brother's daughters to preserve their family line, but Danaus didn't like this idea, and when pressed, pretended to agree to it, giving each of his daughters a knife and telling them to murder their husbands on their wedding night. One of them, however, Hypermnestra, refused, either because she fell in love with her betrothed or because he also objected and didn't force himself on her. As a result, upon her death, she was spared the punishment given to her sisters, who were doomed to carry water in sieves forever.
107	[[/folder]]
108
109	[[folder:Video Games]]
110	* Altaïr's wife, Maria Thorpe, was a Templar who defected to the Assassins following the events of [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedI the first]] ''[[Franchise/AssassinsCreed Assassin's Creed]]'' [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedI title]].
111	* ''VideoGame/FireEmblem'':
112	** [[NaiveEverygirl Amelia]] from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheSacredStones,'' although she's a minor character. She's a fresh recruit from the Grado Empire and one of the three characters that can make her pull a HeelFaceTurn is a cavalier who works for the Renais army, Franz, whom she can marry later via supports.
113	** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemGenealogyOfTheHolyWar'': The brothers [[ChivalrousPervert Johan]] and [[HotBlooded Johalva]] are both smitten with [[ActionGirl Larcei]] (or her {{Expy}} Radney), and if she manages to speak to one of them, she can recruit him into [[TheHero Seliph]]'s group. She cannot recruit ''both'', as the other will take it as rejection and fight against the group.
114	** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemNewMysteryOfTheEmblem'': Katarina, who starts out as the SixthRangerTraitor to the 7th Platoon in the prologue can be eventually turned back if [[PlayerCharacter the Avatar]] (for whom she's clearly developed feelings) talks to her three times.
115	* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'' Dorian, a minor NPC living in Kakariko Village, confesses to have been a former [[spoiler:member of the Sheikah Clan's EvilCounterpart the Yiga Clan. However, he tells Link that he turned his back on them after falling in love with his [[TheLostLenore late wife]]. The story is quite tragic, as the Yiga caught wind of his betrayal and murdered said wife in cold blood, then turned around and threatened to do the same with his two daughters unless [[TheMole he cooperated with them]]]].
116	* [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] in ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic's'' expansions if the player character flirts with or starts a romance with the Republic agent Theron Shan or the Sith Lord Lana Beniko as a member of the opposite faction. In fact, the very first flirt option for Imperial players to Theron is [[WeCanRuleTogether strait-up offering for him to join the Empire.]] [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] as both end up joining the PC's side regardless. [[spoiler:One could also interpret the PC themselves defecting as this, should they choose that option.]]
117	* Tear of ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheAbyss'' fits the trope somewhat, although she and Luke are forced to work together starting quite early in the game, despite the fact that Tear works for the rival kingdom, the Malkuth Empire, and the Order Of Lorelei, the game's CorruptChurch. It's also played with [[spoiler:via a Gender Flip: ''Luke'' is the one who has been working for the villain, as his CoolTeacher is the BigBad]].
118	[[/folder]]
119
120	[[folder:Webcomics]]
121	* Gilgamesh Wulfenbach to Agatha in ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' is a male example, although so far he has yet to [[CallingTheOldManOut "Deny [his] father and refuse [his] name"]] -- which might be just as well since we're still [[AntiVillain not entirely sure]] Baron Wulfenbach is ''wrong.''
122	** Also Tarvek for Agatha -- or at the very least, he's altered his [[MagnificentBastard plans]] to include her ruling at his side rather than using a fake Heterodyne, or killing her like some of his rival conspirators want to do. It was [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor touch and go for a while]], though, since his plans apparently change depending on who he's talking to at the time.
123	** [[MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter Lucrezia Mongfish]] ''apparently'' renounced her family's traditional EvilGenius ways and defected for love after Bill Heterodyne asked her to marry him, even going so far as to drug her other love interest and send him away to ''"avoid temptation"''. [[spoiler:It really didn't work. She ended up becoming [[BigBad the Other]] and terrorising the continent until her disappearance, and her subsequent partial return hasn't improved matters.]]
124	* Fuschia the Devil Girl from ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'' fell in love with shy bookworm Criminy after trying and failing to corrupt him, and ultimately left Hell to be with him, risking the wrath of Satan (and her own friend Baby Blue) in the process.
125	* [[spoiler:The demons Lakritz and Sahne]] in ''Webcomic/SlightlyDamned'' who where originally on a mission to [[spoiler:capture angels to [[HumanSacrifice sacrifice]] to bring [[LegionsOfHell more of their kind]] to medius but they met the angel Kinako and her son Tirol and started a {{polyamor\|y}}ous family with them]]. Unfortunately when they are discovered by the other [[spoiler:demons while trying to sneak them out of the city, Kinako is captured and Lakritz is left mortally wounded]].
126	* Nikolai Velenova, from the roleplays of ''Webcomic/WhiteDarkLife'', is another male example who [[BecomingTheMask falls in love with Leila Belnades]], the girl he handed over to the Slavic Circle. However, due to being ([[YouHaveFailedMe quite]] [[BadBoss properly]]) [[TheMobBossIsScarier scared shitless of his boss]], [[SinisterMinister Father Zharnev]], he didn't fully recognize his feelings until ''after'' he'd gone through with the betrayal (and Leila [[EtTuBrute found out about it]] and [[WasItAllALie pretty much snapped]]). It took a ''lot'' of effort on his part to get her to take him back.
127	[[/folder]]
128
129	[[folder:Web Original]]
130	* In ''Literature/{{Worm}}'', the villain Madcap pulled this off in his backstory, becoming the hero [[spoiler:Assault]] because of his crush on (later developing into reciprocated love) the hero [[spoiler:Battery]].
131	** Later, a reversed example occurs, with [[spoiler:Flechette]] defecting to the [[spoiler:Undersiders]] because she was in love with [[spoiler:Parian]]. Although considering ''Worm'''s BlackAndGrayMorality and {{Villain Protagonist}}s, who the heroes and villains are is sort of dependent on viewpoint.
132	[[/folder]]
133
134	[[folder:Western Animation]]
135	* Rose on ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong''. Essentially, she was taken from her parents as a baby and raised by the Huntsclan for the sole purpose of slaying magical creatures. Then she meets Jake in human form and falls in love with him. Then she finds out Jake's a dragon. She quickly betrays [[BigBad the Huntsmaster]] and becomes TheMole.
136	* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': The "The Boiling Rock" two-parter sees this trope occur twofold. [[spoiler: When Mai's love interest Zuko has his life put in danger, she turns on Azula and the Fire Nation to help him. When Azula tries to kill her for this, Ty Lee defects as well out of sororal love for Mai]].
137	%%* Blackarachnia defected for love during the ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars''.
138	* ''WesternAnimation/COPSAnimatedSeries'' [[PlayingWithATrope played with this trope]], via the DatingCatwoman relationship between ClassyCatBurglar Nightshade and Mace the COP. Mace states openly that he'd be willing to marry Nightshade if she gave up crime. He even gives her an engagement ring! She's shown clearly considering it, but the series ends before we see her answer.
139	* Angel (Experiment 624) was working for Gantu and Hämsterviel in ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries'', using Lilo and Stitch to find reformed experiments, [[FaceHeelTurn turn them back to evil]] with her siren song, and bring them to Gantu to transport them over to Hämsterviel. While Lilo was rightfully suspicious of her, Stitch was easily enamored by the pink experiment and tried to get her attention with various romantic gestures when she was out looking for experiments. After trapping Stitch in Gantu's rocket to transport the experiments to Hämsterviel, and having Stitch's "cousins" ready to pummel a weakened Stitch, she regrets her actions and saves him by singing her song backwards. This reverts the experiments back to good and they bring the ship back down to Earth. However, Gantu captures her in a container before she has a chance to stay with Stitch, causing her to be absent for the remainder of ''The Series'' until she was rescued in the [[SeriesFinale last episode]].
140	* In the 2018 reboot of ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'', [[spoiler:Horde Prime's dialogue in "Destiny, Part 2" suggests that Hordak came within a hair's breadth of doing this out of love for Entrapta. While forcibly probing Hordak's mind, Horde Prime remarks that "There was even a time you wished I would not come for you, is that so?" while touching the opening in Hordak's armor for Entrapta's crystal.]]
141	* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsResistance'': [[spoiler:Captain Imanuel Doza]] had already been confirmed as a former Imperial before [[Recap/StarWarsResistanceS2E8RendezvousPoint "Rendezvous Point"]], but the episode makes it clear that he defected because of his future wife, Rebel pilot [[spoiler:Venisa]].
142	* Count on Jinmay from ''WesternAnimation/SuperRobotMonkeyTeamHyperforceGo'' to be under this. She was found by the Skeleton King as he erased her memories of being a robot and sent her to Shuggazoom. He, along with his agent Sakko, puts her under his control of turning her into a giant robot to wreck havoc in the city. That is until Chiro manages to free her from his control by remembering the pictures of their date. After Sakko's defeat, she is sided with him and his team since then.
143	* In ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'', Kid Flash and Jinx started in a DatingCatwoman situation, but she eventually reached this point. Of course, it also helped that he treated her respectfully while her teammates where lazy and whiny and her idol Madame Rouge treated her like garbage.
144	* ''WesternAnimation/TheTick'' had this between two sentient leftover Cold War super-weapons: [[spoiler:an American ''moustache'' and a Russian ''beard'']].
145	[[/folder]]

Context Main / DefectingForLove