tragic love theme

Love that has come to a tragic impasse, for example because the object of the feeling has died prematurely.

24 total · 4 choice · 16 major · 4 minor

StoryLevelMotivation
blackmirror7x05 choice The epic love story between Philip and Carol ended tragically with an enormous misunderstanding. She had left him a letter but he never read it and therefore thought she walked away never to see him again, whereas she had, in fact, pronounced her love for him and beseeched him to come and meet her.
tftc1989e5x13 choice Johnny and Lucy were young and in love. But their love ended in tragedy: Johnny reluctantly execution style murdered Lucy to save his own skin.
tng4x07 choice Worf, K'Ehleyr :: Worf and K'Ehleyr
tng7x18 choice Troi, Worf :: Troi and Worf
ahp1x34 major Dana lost his beloved Laura in a hit-and-run accident.
ahp6x14 major Dane and Lisa fell passionately in love, but things tended in a tragic direction when her grandfather refused to let her move away with Dane to Seattle. If that weren't enough, the story concluded with Dane discovering that Lisa had been turned into a clockwork automaton.
futurama4x12 major Leela realized she loved Fry only after she thought Fry had died for her.
movie: A Farewell to Arms (1932) major Catherine Barkley was shipped off from the Italian front after getting pregnant then she gave birth to still born baby and ultimately died in Frederic's arms
movie: City Lights (1931) major Tramp and flower girl's love appeared to be impossible as she would eventually come to know him for the penniless bum that he was.
movie: La strada (1954) major In the end we understand that Gelsomina and Zampanò had both come to feel some sort of love for each other, but that it lead them to their respective ruin.