Romantic interest (theater)
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The romantic 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. Even the submarine warfare book Run Silent, Run Deep has a romantic interest shared between the two primary protagonists.
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.
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[edit] 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.
- Haydee is Edmond Dantés' final love interest in The Count of Monte Cristo.
- Juliet is Romeo's love interest in Romeo and Juliet.
- Lucie Manette is Charles Darnay's love interest in A Tale of Two Cities.
- Mercedes is Edmond Dantés' first love interest in The Count of Monte Cristo.
- Ophelia is Hamlet's love interest in Hamlet.
[edit] Video game romantic interests
- Either Aerith Gainsborough or Tifa Lockhart is Cloud Strife's love interest.
- Rinoa Heartilly is Squall Leonhart'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 Zelda is Link's love interest.
- 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.
- Kairi is Sora's love interest.
- Either Colette Brunel or Sheena Fujibayashi is Lloyd's love interest.
- Tidus is Yuna's love interest
- Kilik is Chai Xianghua's love interest
- Keira is Jak's love interest.
- Carmelita Fox is Sly Cooper's love interest.
- Jan Ors is Kyle Katarn's love interest.
- Claire Redfield is Steve Burnside love interest.
[edit] References
"The Wedding Date" Movie Review "depends on just how ready you are to accept her as the romantic interest".
