Buddy Love

The genre in which transformation is found through someone else, BL can have many sub genres – Pet Love, Epic Love, Forbidden Love, Professional Love – but all of them share an “incomplete hero,” a “counterpart” who is the key to completion, and a “complication,” i.e., a misunderstanding, a personal or ethical viewpoint, an epic event or a disapproving society. BL examples: Gone with the Wind, The Black Stallion, Closer, The Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally, Lethal Weapon, The Blind Side, Brokeback Mountain, Titanic, Avatar, Before Sunrise, The Reader, Frozen