

However, she ends up falling in love with Batman as they work together.

Chase Meridian first has an obsession with Batman, and then falls in love with Bruce Wayne. The normal trope is subverted in that she knows who he really is and makes it clear that she knows she's just waiting for him to admit to it and stop the pointless denial "for her safety", seeing it as the last blockage of any real commitment between them. In Superman: Doomsday, Superman and Lois are actively dating and outright lovers, and he still hasn't revealed his secret identity to her.Megamind has this with Roxanne falling for the eponymous character impersonating Bernard.He actually decides after Grimsby's advice that he prefers the flesh-and-blood girl to a "dream girl" who might not even exist, but then Ursula shows up in disguise pretending to be his actual dream girl. In The Little Mermaid, Eric has vowed to marry the girl who rescued him but since the only thing he clearly remembers about her is her beautiful voice, he assumes that the mute girl he finds on the beach soon after can't possibly be her and is thus reluctant to kiss her even though he's clearly attracted to her from the start.Kind of counts double, in that regard: he wants to marry "the girl who saved him," but since he was blacked out, he just assumes that he washed up on shore and was found by the Princess, not that the Little Mermaid kept him from drowning in the first place. Who will suffer magical death if the Prince marries anybody but her, but is unable to tell him that. Then he meets the Princess, and it turns out she is the woman who found him! It's a Perfectly Arranged Marriage.except that the protagonist of this story is the Little Mermaid.

In The Little Mermaid, the Prince says that he won't marry the Princess to whom he's betrothed, because he already had Love at First Sight with the woman who found him after he nearly drowned.Recovered, the prince nevertheless refuses because he has promised himself elsewhere the heroine, delighted, reveals that she is that woman. In Andrew Lang's " The Enchanted Snake", link, the king promises the heroine she can marry the prince if only she saves him.It isn't until she leaves the castle and stops having the dreams that she realizes that she loves the beast, who of course turns into the prince from her dreams when she agrees to marry him.

