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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