Guardians of the Galaxy (2020): Gamora gives this as the reason she went with Peter Quill rather than Richard Rider.He's convinced she's his version of Lois and wants only to save her. The Flashpoint Superman, Subject-One, does the same thing with the pre-Flashpoint Lois Lane.He's settled on the pre-Flashpoint Mera in Convergence: Justice League.
Because the Flashpoint Mera died before Convergence began, Flashpoint Aquaman is looking at her counterparts to find a suitable replacement. In his Joker's Asylum issue, he has a meltdown simply on noticing his current obsession has a name badge saying "Catheryn", because what kind of not-Alice name is that? Batman villain Jervis Tetch, the Mad Hatter, is sometimes portrayed as fixating on women (or, if the writer is prepared to go there, girls) who look like the title character of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, convincing himself they're "his" Alice, and then kidnapping and mind-controlling them. I love her.īatgirl: You don't even know her, Kai. Most definitely can be Truth in Television. See Post-Support Regret for the platonic version of this trope, though the two can overlap if the one who loved the shadow was an Only Friend who supported them and ignored all their wrongdoings, only to be proven wrong. Not to be confused with Fighting a Shadow. I cannot give you what you seek."Īccordingly, compare and contrast with All Love Is Unrequited. The trope name refers to Éowyn's unrequited love for Aragorn from the Lord of the Rings trilogy, from the line "It is but a shadow and a thought that you love. If a character is Really 700 Years Old, this can keep the writers from having to deal with a Mayfly≭ecember Romance. 
Like Death of the Hypotenuse and Ron the Death Eater, this trope serves as a subtrope of Die for Our Ship in fanfic, to clear the way for the author's preferred ship. A sub-trope of Broken Pedestal, which is often what awaits anyone on the path of this trope.
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