Basic Trope: A villainess who has an unrequited crush for a hero.
- Straight: Carol, The Dark Queen, is in love with Amazing Bob.
- Exaggerated:
- Carol is Amazing Bob's Stalker with a Crush and even has a Stalker Shrine dedicated to Bob.
- Carol has already assaulted and molested Amazing Bob, so much indeed that Amazing Bob now always carries a tazer with him just in case she would try again.
- Downplayed:
- Carol has a mild crush on Bob and sometimes flirts with him, but is perfectly willingly to "throw him under the bus" for her own personal gain.
- Alternatively, Carol has a bit of a crush on Amazing Bob, but would much rather be with Emperor Evulz.
- Carol is a more of a Jerkass than a villainess who has a crush on Bob.
- Carol is a rival with a deep infatuation with Bob.
- Justified:
- Carol is a consumate sexual predator and an unrepentant nymphomaniac. Bob's physique and/or intelligence fills her to the brim with unutterable lust.
- They're enemies, so Carol sees "their" love as forbidden and thus more alluring.
- Bob's heroism reminds Carol of the little speck of her own humanity.
- Bob is an Anti-Hero and/or Carol is an Anti-Villain.
- Carol is a Knight Templar and thinks she and Bob are a good match.
- Carol spends most of her time around Complete Monsters. Bob, despite being her enemy, is also the first person in a long time to treat her like a person.
- Carol is a Well-Intentioned Extremist. She does admire Bob and believes they both share the same cause.
- Inverted:
- Amazing Bob has a crush on The Dark Queen. But she just doesn't feel the same way.
- Amazing Girl has an unrequited love for Emperor Evulz.
- Gender Inverted: Emperor Evulz has an unrequited crush on heroic Action Girl Alice.
- Subverted: The Dark Queen is really a Femme Fatale trying to seduce Amazing Bob for her own personal gain.
- Double Subverted: ...or so she says.
- Parodied:
- Carol became a villain specifically to get a date.
- Every villainess in the world wants Bob.
- Zig Zagged: Carol flip-flops between wanting Bob and wanting to kill him.
- Averted:
- The Dark Queen doesn't have a crush on Amazing Bob.
- Amazing Bob reciprocates the Dark Queen's romantic feelings.
- Enforced: The company execs see how popular Carol is with audiences, and pressure the writers to get her to defect to the good guys by way of this trope rather than unceremoniously sending her to jail like they initially planned.
- Lampshaded: "When did I say that I wanted to entice you, Amazing Bob? I said: 'You will be mine.' It was statement, not a request."
- Invoked:
- Carol becomes a villainess for the sole purpose of getting closer to Bob.
- Alternatively, Amazing Bob tries to get the Dark Queen to fall in love in order to exploit said love.
- Exploited:
- Bob seduces information out of The Dark Queen.
- Bob intentionally distracts her with his own sexiness.
- The other heroes try to invoke Love Redeems/Sex–Face Turn and get Bob to pretend to like Carol.
- Defied:
- Carol refuses to fall in love with Bob and may even try various methods to fall out of love.
- Carol, The Dark Queen, tries to get rid of Bob so she won't get distracted.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed:
- Carol turns good for Bob after realizing she was deriving more joy in being with him than actually being a villain.
- Carol realizes that she and Bob's differences are irreconcilable and that Bob will never love her because of her evil, so she gives up on trying to pursue him and commits to being his enemy.
- This trope makes Rape as Drama, In-Universe Double Standard Rape: Female on Male, and related tropes a genuine possibility, and Bob is all too aware of it. Is it any wonder Bob always carries a Cyanide Pill around?
- Carol's love for Bob is just an obsession and she projects onto Bob qualities he doesn't have.
- Reconstructed:
- While her love for Bob is genuine, Carol is still adamant of her Card-Carrying Villain ways and is trying to tempt him into a life of villainy by invoking Love Makes You Evil.
- Carol is Reformed, but Rejected.
- Carol is incapable of being in a healthy relationship after so long on the dark side, and her nasty breakup drives her back into evil.
- When Bob learns just why Carol is after him, he hatches a plan to take advantage of this to end her reign of terror by assassinating her, acting like a Distaff Counterpart to the Heroic Seductress, knowing fully well the consequences should the plan go sideways.
- Untwisted: Amazing Girl has a crush on Dark Bob, except Dark Bob isn't actually evil, and Amazing Girl's unwillingness to take no for an answer means she is really a villain.
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