Magical Girlfriend/Playing With

Basic Trope: An Unlucky Everydude meets a Magical Girl, romance ensues.

• Straight: Mary is an angel that has come to earth to fight evil. She meets the lonely Tom and they strike up a burgeoning romance while he helps her kick ass and save the universe.
• Exaggerated: Mary is actually the god of the realm, but finds herself strangely attracted to Tom's quaint mortal charm.
• Downplayed: Tom is close friends with Mary. They never take the relationship further.
• Justified: Despite being Butt Monkey, Tom is really a Nice Guy. Being an angel, Mary value his kind heart greatly.
• Inverted: Mary is a Hot-Blooded Tsundere who meets Tom, a timid angel sent to earth to learn to fend for himself.
  • OR: Mary is a Shy and troubled girl who meets the angelic Tom, who falls in love with and protects her.
• Subverted: Mary befriends Tom and uses a relationship with him as a cover for her existence on earth, but doesn't care about him.
  • Alternatively, Mary turns out to be just a stage magician who wears an angel costume for her act.
• Double Subverted: ...Until she really does fall in love with him.
  • Alternatively, until Mary's grandmother reveals that she does, in fact, have angelic ancestry and activates her potential as "an engagement present."
• Parodied: Mary and Tom love one another, but their mutual misunderstanding always ends up causing wacky hijinks and physical violence.
• Deconstructed: Tom doggedly pursues a relationship with Mary who finally agrees. The strain of their vast differences and the constant danger of Mary's quest takes its toll and they finally break up.
• Reconstructed: ...Until they both learn to accept one another and work together, just in time to save the day.
• Zig Zagged: Mary falls from the sky and Tom is convinced she's an angel sent to him to help him deal with how little of a life he has. He takes her into his apartment and nurses her back to health; by the time she's better, it's become clear she is in fact no angel. However, by this time, they've grown on each other and so much wacky stuff has happened that they decide to stick with the facade - and one wacky adventure does turn Mary into an angel. But the thing is that angels lose their powers if they fall in love....
• Averted: Angels either don't exist or stay in heaven where they belong. Tom gets over his fantasy of the perfect girl and meets somebody nice.
• Enforced: When all you have is a geeky 12-24 year old male audience....
• Lampshaded: "What does she see in him?"
• Invoked: "I wish I could meet the perfect girl!" * POOF*
  • When a demon attack Mary in her human disguise, Tom try to help her despite visibly fear the demon and get injured in process. So Mary take care of him for a while.
• Defied: Mary likes Tom, but due to her angelic vows she can never be with him. She eventually leaves so he can get on with his life.
• Discussed: Their friends constantly gossip about the irregularities of their relationship.

Friend 1 - Mary and Tom are a couple?!"
Friend 2 - How would they even... you know...?

• Discussed: "So is this the part where we fall in love?" * SMITE*
• Conversed: "You know, Tom and Mary really remind me of that one anime with a magical girl who likes this normal guy..."

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