Romance Fails in Fiction Tag

💟 Hi guys! To kick of the month of February, also known as the month of Valentine, I’m doing this tag that are basically my choices of romance fails in any form of fiction 💟

Now, I don’t want to be the Scrooge at valentine that ruins all the lovey coupley feelings for others, but this tag is so fun that I’ve been saving it since I saw it last year on Andrea’s blog 😜 Without further ado, let’s get started!

R U L E S

• Please PINGBACK to Kate @ Melting Pots and Other Calamities.
• You can choose ten romance fails from ANY media you like: books, movies, anime, manga, T.V shows, or Webtoons. You can even mix them up if you want.
• You can choose funny fails or serious ones; for the serious ones, phrase it humorously. Remember, this is a fun tag! It’s not meant to be serious.
• Mention who’s who in the fails. (I.E, who fails and who is the recipient of the failure). If there isn’t recipient, per se, just state the couple (or non-couple).
• Optional: Rank the failures from least extreme to most extreme.
• 5 failures at LEAST.
• Tag as many people as you want, but at least one person.

T H E     C O U P L E S

01. Bruce Banner and Natasha Romanoff in Avengers: Age of Ultron

It’s so out of nowhere it’s comical????? From the awkward writing, development, directing and acting, none of the element in the movies actually work in favor for this couple. They work so well as friends, please don’t do that. Also, what about Betty Ross?? She’s canon. What happened to her???

02. Steve Rogers and Sharon Carter in Captain America: Civil War

This one has more time to develop as she has been there since The Winter Soldier fiasco, but not enough time from Peggy’s death 😒 So in this case, it’s more about timing than anything. Technically, yes, Steve hasn’t been with Peggy since 70+ years, but he does love her until her death. And while he’s allowed to live his super-life by dating, it felt really weird to kiss the supposed love of his life’s niece 😒 The writers should give more time for it to develop instead of putting Peggy in a casket to give way for the romance.

03. Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley in Harry Potter

At this point you guys already know that I’m on team Draco, but fresh out of my HP reread, a teeny tiny part of me accept that Draco was too cruel towards Hermione for the wound to be truly healed. However, Ron had been cruel towards Hermione throughout the series. His words always made her cry (the Troll in first year, the Crookshanks debacle in third year, the Yule Ball, the SPEW, dating Lavender, and leaving). He never really appreciated Hermione’s goals and ambitions, very impulsive and has been spoiled with Mrs. Weasley’s comfort his whole life AND still being an ungrateful twat, it truly annoys me. Not to mention whether he admits it or not, he’s also carry the wizarding prejudice. Not to the extent of the death eaters, but he looked down towards muggles and basically non-wizarding creatures throughout the series – and that’s with the nice and loving family he has 😒

04. Mal and Alina in The Grisha Trilogy

Mal has his chance for the first 17 (?) years of his life, but he never realized it. Once Alina gone and became the famed “Sun Summoner” though, he suddenly realized he’s in love with her- but he doesn’t want her to be Sun Summoner. That’s right folks, he realized he’s in love with Alina and constantly throw tantrum and instigate a fight everytime Alina uses her power or think about a future where she stays as Sun Summoner 😒

05. Warner, Juliette and Adam in Shatter Me

Aka the “love triangle of hell”, my hatred for this trio is documented well in this blog- and yes, I still read the books because the plot is interesting, regardless of the romance. The thing is neither Warner nor Adam are great guys. Adam don’t want Juliette to be greater than him, he always threw a tantrum everytime Juliette is seen more and always tried to shield her. Meanwhile, Warner manipulates her. He explained everything yes, but does the trauma of thinking you’re killing/harming a child can be erased that easily???

Give me Kenji anytime.

06. Anna and Cas in Anna Dressed in Blood

This book started out really well, with Supernatural vibe and similarities. Until Cas met Anna and he was so special because she didn’t feel murderous towards him. And he got intrigued with her, instead of killing her. And then they suddenly in luuurve!!!!!

@authors stop giving us unnecessary romance that ruin the story!!!!

07. Astrid and Michael in Crazy Rich Asians

I was initially sympathetic with Michael in the first book/movies. It must be hard being him, constantly looked down by Astrid’s family as well as people in general. It’s going to be hard to compete with that, and with society expectations and definition of men, it will eventually be a point of conflict at sometime in their marriage. The way he handled it was wrong, but I do understand his position. However in the second and third installments…. let’s just say I wish someone would smack him senseless and ruin everything he built for. That’s how much I hate Michael Teo at this point.

I    T A G

Kat @ Novels and Waffles // Sofii @ A Book A Thought // Nia @ Shades of Paper