Basic Trope: A rather unattractive or otherwise unpleasant character is attracted to another character, and isn't afraid to show it. The object of their affections doesn't like it.
- Straight: Alice, an unpleasant and vulgar person, is in love with Bob, but he finds her repellent and runs away, only to have her chase him.
- Exaggerated: Alice, an Eldritch Abomination, is in love with Bob. Bob goes mad after seeing her, and tries to escape.
- Downplayed:
- Alice is not very unpleasant, but whenever she shows affection for Bob, Bob feels uncomfortable about it.
- Bob was not initially put off by Alice's advances, but declined for other reasons, yet her repeated refusals to accept no for an answer earned her Bob's ire, especially when she gets each time more aggressive and demanding of his attention.
- Alice is actually very pleasant, the problem is that she is not Bob's type, so Bob has no interest in her and sees it as annoying.
- Justified:
- Alice is a Dirty Old Woman who loves younger men like Bob, and Bob wants to go out with someone closer to his age.
- Alice regularly stalks Bob he finds this off-putting.
- Bob is Happily Married to someone else, yet Alice still pursues him.
- Bob is not interested in someone of Alice's gender.
- Alice is a minor who claims to "love older men", and Bob wants to go out with someone who is at least a legal adult.
- Alice is related to Bob and she doesn't see it as an issue, but he does.
- Alice bullies Bob as her way of showing affection.
- Inverted:
- Alice is unpleasant, yet when she tries to get a date with Bob, he finds her particular sort of unpleasantness appealing.
- Subverted:
- Alice is revealed to actually be willing to try self-improvement, making adjustments to her attitude, and behaviour, in order to have a chance with Bob.
- Double Subverted:
- Bob now really wants to date her, but she has come to realise how little she knew about Bob. Bob is now an Abhorrent Admirer for Alice.
- Parodied: Bob lustfully follows Alice because she has a nice rump and a Supermodel Strut, but his mood soon changes when Alice turns around and shows him affection.
- Zig-Zagged: Bob's and Alice's attraction are both inconsistent. Sometimes, they finds one another unpleasant, other times, they like each other.
- Averted: Bob doesn't show any displeasure in Alice. She wants him, and he is also at least open to the idea.
- Enforced: A new writer for "The Bob Show" tried to be innovative and wrote new love interest, Alice, into the show only for the show creators to demand that she be off-putting to Bob, so that they could keep writing plotlines about life as a single man.
- Lampshaded: "Alice stop it, you're being a nuisance! Can't you see Bob isn't interested?" "It doesn't matter. Nobody refuses to satisfy my vagina, not even Bob, period."
- Invoked:
- Alice decides to make herself unattractive in a way to prove to Bob that he likes women for their looks and not the heart.
- Alice doesn't like having Bob around, so she makes herself unattractive and starts persistently hitting on him without an ounce of subtlety as to her "interest" in him, knowing he won't be able to tolerate it for long.
- Exploited: Eve uses Alice in a scheme to create a False Dichotomy where Bob, believing he has to choose Eve or Alice, will choose Eve.
- Defied: Alice finds someone that actually likes her and moves on from Bob.
- Discussed: "But what if she's really, unbelievably, inhumanly ugly?"
- Conversed: "I'm so sick of Alice always fixating on some guy who she barely knows."
- Implied: Bob runs away or hides from view every time Alice is about to show up.
- Deconstructed: Alice becomes heartbroken when she gets the impression that Bob doesn't want to be with her due to her unpleasant appearance and unpleasant behavior.
- Reconstructed: Alice decides that the only thing to do is to try even harder to gain Bob's affections.
- Played For Laughs: Alice is often shown racing across the room shouting "Yoo-hoo!" when she sees him, as well as dragging him kicking and screaming into her room.
- Played For Drama:
- Alice is shown to be a somewhat sad person, but her personality is still abrasive enough that she's not really considered sympathetic. Conversely, while Bob flinches whenever she approaches him, he toys with her affections to curry favors from her.
- Bob murders Alice.
- Played For Horror:
- Alice is an Eldritch Abomination or Brown Note Being and does not knows or cares that is driving humanity crazy by existing and Bob in specific by spending too much time close to him, let alone being affectionate.
- Bob has a very good reason to find Alice abhorrent (whether he knows it or not): Alice is a Stalker with a Crush, and she does things that typical horror-media stalkers do, like killing anybody else who shows the slightest hint of attraction to Bob.
- Alice rapes Bob, and the audience sees it in all of its disturbing glory. And to make things worse, Alice from then on uses said rape as the foundation for her admiring of Bob, which gives Bob even more reason to be afraid of her.
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