Romantic interest
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The romantic interest (also called love interest) is a stock character, an object of romantic admiration and attraction for the principal character(s), or heroes. It is also the plot element, the romantic subplot, thus introduced.
This person is often a female acquaintance of the protagonist, as in the case of Jane in Tarzan or a man, as in the case of Disney's Pocahontas. The primary characters and romantic interests may be the two main characters, as in the case of Brokeback Mountain.
This term is often used in movie reviews, less so in classic literature, though such characters are common. Nearly all of the Disney animated features have main characters, villains and romantic interests that even children can easily identify.
Many stories contain love interests in which the character, or the subplot, is immensely implausible.
Literary romantic interests
- Christine Daaé is Raoul de Changy's love interest in the Phantom of the Opera.
- Cosette is Marius Pontmercy's love interest in Les Misérables.
- Cho Chang, and more recently Ginny Weasley is Harry Potter's love interest in Harry Potter.
- Mercedes is Edmond Dantés' first love interest in The Count of Monte Cristo.
- Haydee is Edmond Dantés' final love interest in The Count of Monte Cristo.
- Elie is Haru Glory's love interest in Rave Master.
- Brianna is the love interest of Vampire Hunter G.
- Juliet is Romeo's love interest in Romeo and Juliet.
- Lucie Manette is Charles Darnay's love interest in A Tale of Two Cities.
- Ophelia is Hamlet's love interest in Hamlet.
- Mary Jane Watson (and formerly, Gwen Stacy) is the love interest of Peter Parker in Spider-Man.
- Robin Vince is Mark .A. Hester's love interest in the comic Huskie Heroes.
- Hermione Granger is Ron Weasley's love interest in Harry Potter.
- Remus Lupin is the love interest of Nymphadora Tonks in Harry Potter.
- Lily Potter was the love interest of Severus Snape in Harry Potter.
Video game romantic interests
- Either Aerith Gainsborough or Tifa Lockhart is Cloud Strife's love interest.
- Rinoa Heartilly is Squall Leonhart's love interest.
- Garnet is Zidane Tribal's love interest.
- Yuna is Tidus's love interest.
- Either Tawna or Pasadena O'Possum is Crash Bandicoot's love interest.
- Princess Peach is Mario's love interest.
- Princess Daisy is [arguably] Luigi's love interest
- Princess Monica is the love interest of Max in Dark Cloud 2.
- Princess Zelda is Link's love interest. (Even though Link has met a lot of girls, Zelda is the only one who has always been around.)
- Krystal is Fox McCloud's love interest.
- Sonic the Hedgehog is Amy Rose's love interest (the format is reversed because the relationship is rather one-sided!)
- Meryl Silverburgh is Solid Snake's love interest.
- Either Colette Brunel or Sheena Fujibayashi is Lloyd's love interest.
- Natalya is Cryptosporidium's love interest.
- Kilik is Chai Xianghua's love interest
- Keira is Jak's love interest.
- Carmelita Fox is Sly Cooper's love interest (when she isn't trying to arrest him.)
- Jan Ors is Kyle Katarn's love interest.
- Claire Redfield is Steve Burnside's love interest.
- Sasha (most noticeably) or Angela Cross would be the love interests of Ratchet.
- Alice Elliot is the love interest of Yuri Hyuga.
- Shazza is the love interest of Ty.
- Penelo is the love interest of Vaan
- Cloud Strife is the love interest of Tifa Lockhart
- Louise Cassidy-Williams is the love interest of Victor Vance in Grand Theft Auto:Vice City Stories.
- Ada Wong is the love interest of Leon S. Kennedy
- Tidus is the love interest of Yuna.
- Cloud Strife or Zack Fair is Aerith Gainsborough's love interest.
- Lucrecia Crescent and more recently Yuffie Kisaragi is Vincent Valentine's love interest.
- Denise Robinson is the love interest of Carl "CJ" Johnson
- Catalina was the love interest of Claude
- Toshiko Kasen may have been a love interest of Toni Cipriani
- Zidane Tribal is the love interest of Eiko
- Claude was a love interest of Catalina
- Vaan is the love interest of Penelo
- Leon S. Kennedy is the love interest of Ada Wong
- Kairi is Sora's love interest in the Kingdom Hearts series.
- Bakuryu the Mole is the love interest of Uriko the Half Beast.
- Kid is the love interest of Serge in Chrono Cross.
- Kurando Inugami is the love interest of Princess Anastasia Romanov in Shadow Hearts: Covenant.
- Shania is the love interest of Johnny Garland in Shadow Hearts: From The New World.
- Jenny the Bat is the love interest of Gado the Lion.
- Karin Koenig is the love interest of Nicolai Conrad in Shadow Hearts: Covenant.
- Alice the Rabbit is the love interest of Yugo the Wolf.
- Edna Capone is the love interest of Ricardo Gomez in Shadow Hearts: From The New World.
- Lady is the love interest of Killer in Shadow Hearts: From The New World.
- Rosa Farrell is the love interest of Cecil Harvey.
- Celes Chere is the love interest of Locke Cole.
- Terra Branford is the love interest of Edgar Roni Figaro.
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