Cartwright Curse/Playing With

Basic Trope: Any woman the hero falls in love with tends to die.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * Inverted: Ver dies every time someone loves him.
 * Subverted: It seemed like they were dying, but Ver jumped to conclusions, didn't check autopsies, ran away, etc.
 * Double Subverted: His enemies made it seem like the women were okay to Mind Screw him.
 * 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.
 * Deconstructed: Being known as a bitter, hateful old man, Ver finally confesses how the trope has made him weight the consequences and forgo human relationships.
 * Reconstructed: He is taught to love again and accept that death is a part of life and not his own fault.
 * 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.
 * Lampshaded: "Why does everything I love have to die?"
 * Invoked: The Big Bad curses Ver with this trope.
 * Exploited: In return, Ver uses this curse to off The Dark Chick.
 * Defied: However, The Big Bad removes the curse before that happened.
 * Discussed: ???
 * Conversed: ???

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