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The romantic interest (also called love interest or merely
romantic love interest) is a stock character, an object of
purely strong, deep and genuine romantic admiration and
attraction for the main character(s), or hero/heroine e/s. It is
also the plot element, the romantic subplot, thus introduced.
This person is often a female acquaintance of the protagonist,
as in the case of Jane in Tarzan but can be a male, as in the
case of Disney's Pocahontas; a man and woman who deeply and
truly love and care about each other that are working on
opposite sides and are thus supposed to be "enemies." The
primary characters and romantic interests may be the two main
characters, as in the case of Mr. & Mrs. Smith.   "Love
interest" is a more distant term than "the hero's dearly
beloved" or "sweetheart", often used earlier for such
characters. (The replacement of "hero" with "protagonist" or
"main charac