Basic Trope: Any Love Interest of a character either dies or gets Put on a Bus.
- Straight: Ver Gen's latest love, Sally Uterland dies in a bus crash and joins the ranks of Alice, Carol, and everyone he's ever loved.
- Exaggerated:
- If Ver even admits he has any feelings for someone, they die.
- Downplayed: Some of Ver's love interests die, while the rest are severely injured.
- Many of Ver's relationships end poorly with dramatic breakups, but only one or two actually die.
- Justified:
- It's an actual curse put on him by a sadistic Big Bad who wants him to suffer. Ver wants to be rid of the curse.
- Ver himself is a Doom Magnet.
- Ver is immortal, so he would eventually outlive his love interests.
- Inverted:
- Ver dies every time someone loves him.
- Ver dies every time he falls in love with someone.
- Subverted:
- It seemed like they were dying, but Ver jumped to conclusions, didn't check autopsies, ran away, etc.
- Although she is not free from danger, Sally survives during her time together with Ver. They even got Happily Married.
- Double Subverted:
- His enemies made it seem like the women were okay to Mind Screw him.
- Just barely weeks or even days into their happy life as married couple, Sally eventually died in one way or another, which puts Ver back to square one.
- Parodied: Ver has tons of girls lined up in front of him outside of a church, where it is having a non-stop wedding and funeral combo.
- Zig Zagged: ...And is immediately confronted with the death of his new love interest.
- Averted: All love interests live throughout the show or come and go as in traditional dating.
- Enforced:
- The creator believes that the hero should stay single.
- The series is so episodic that Status Quo Is God.
- Lampshaded:
- "Why must everyone I love has to die?"
- It's Not You, It's My Enemies
- Invoked: The Big Bad curses Ver with this trope.
- Exploited: In return, Ver uses this curse to off the Dark Mistress.
- Defied: Ver avoids relationships altogether and resolutely remains a Celibate Hero who only has casual sex every once in a while, specifically because he knows what would happen if he had any significant other at all.
- Discussed: "Ver, you can't have a personal life with your line of work. Not unless you pick a lover who is just as much of a trained fighter as you are, else you will spend more time visiting churchyards than having sex."
- Conversed: "Why can't superheroes have a personal life?" "Several reasons but mostly because it gets in the way of the job and it gives your enemies too much leverage over you."
- Deconstructed: A bitter and hateful old man in his grey days, Ver finally confesses how the trope has made him weight the consequences and forgo human relationships.
- Reconstructed: Ver starts Dating Catwoman and, even though there is no 0% risk, he finally can enjoy having a slightly less lonely personal time.
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