

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. In some versions of " Beauty and the Beast", Beauty is haunted by dreams of a handsome prince who begs her to find him, and this is why she rejects the beast's advances.This was a spoof of the sexist assumption that girls should be seduced by charismatic personas but ultimately settle for the dull "real guy" who they ignore: Lois Pain rejects Clark Bent after he reveals that he and Superduperman are the same person. MAD: Deconstructed in Harvey Kurtzman's Superduperman! parody.

At that point, he not only finds out the "someone else" Norma was in love with was his Blue Dudes alter ego, but his previous love, Wendy, was as well. He's so crushed that he eventually quits the Blue Dudes in the middle of the next game they attend. She rejects him as she's in love with someone else.
