Tropescilloscope: Beta Couple

A secondary Official Couple that serves as a companion to the "main" couple. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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More Tropes Badass Bookworm Bury Your Gays Pet the Dog Kick the Dog Artistic License – Military Even Evil Has Standards Genre Savvy Casting Gag Brainless Beauty Have a Gay Old Time World of Ham Television Movie Index Your Head A-Splode Rich Bitch Our Vampires Are Different Corrupt Corporate Executive In the Back The Sociopath Getting Crap Past the Radar Action Genre Offscreen Moment of Awesome Adaptational Attractiveness Australian Movies Heel–Face Turn Beauty Is Never Tarnished Creepy Child Sassy Black Woman No-Holds-Barred Beatdown An Aesop Four-Temperament Ensemble Breaking the Fourth Wall Unreliable Narrator Adult Fear Age Lift Flipping the Bird Vitriolic Best Buds Beta Couple Romantic Comedy Missing Mom The Dreaded Manic Pixie Dream Girl Did Not Get the Girl Meet Cute Would Hurt a Child Overly Long Gag Big Applesauce Comically Missing the Point Dirty Cop Sacrificial Lion Ascended Extra The Power of Love Storming the Castle Evil Brit Costume Porn Contrived Coincidence Be Careful What You Wish For Black Comedy Rape La Résistance Faking the Dead Light Is Not Good Bar Brawl The X of Y Cool Old Lady Meaningful Background Event Dual Wielding Beware the Nice Ones Shut Up, Hannibal! Silent Movie Brutal Honesty Flashback Action Girl Rasputinian Death Mythology Gag Sanity Slippage Faux Affably Evil Fiery Redhead May–December Romance Ripped from the Headlines Real Life Writes the Plot Real Life Guns Akimbo Peek-a-Boo Corpse Artistic License – Physics Fun with Acronyms Action Survivor Super Strength The Great Depression For the Evulz Celebrity Paradox Scare Chord Rule of Cool Deconstruction Framing Device Italian Films Artistic License – History Artistic License – Geography Properly Paranoid Toplessness from the Back Lock and Load Montage The Stoner Canon Foreigner Conspicuous CG Based on a True Story Authority Equals Asskicking O.O.C. Is Serious Business Manly Tears Stealth Hi/Bye Product Placement Put on a Bus Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Dark Reprise Superhero Vacation Films Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Took a Level in Badass Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Brother–Sister Incest Married to the Job Pragmatic Villainy The Dog Bites Back Only One Name Evil Plan Intergenerational Friendship Novelization Exact Words He Who Fights Monsters Adaptational Badass Good Is Not Nice Gilligan Cut The Big Guy Death Seeker Retirony Military and Warfare Films Canadian Movies Face Death with Dignity Car Fu Police Brutality Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Hair-Trigger Temper Rape as Drama Shown Their Work Bullying a Dragon Man on Fire Needs Wiki Magic Love The Cavalry Black Best Friend Malevolent Masked Men I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Mr. Exposition Alas, Poor Villain Self-Deprecation Dark Action Girl Imagine Spot Together in Death Cool Car Ghost Fiction Double-Meaning Title Captain Obvious Darkest Hour Video Credits Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Dark and Troubled Past Serious Business Due to the Dead Implacable Man Sequel Escalation French Films Bolivian Army Ending Anti-Hero Downer Ending Drill Sergeant Nasty Epic Movie Adapted Out More Dakka Eye Scream Book-Ends Instant Death Bullet The Dragon Cowboy Cop Groin Attack Kids Are Cruel Dramatic Gun Cock Only in It for the Money Bland-Name Product Cain and Abel Fate Worse than Death Not Even Bothering with the Accent What the Hell, Hero? "The Reason You Suck" Speech Air-Vent Passageway Hypocritical Humor The Smurfette Principle Daddy's Girl Disappeared Dad Off-into-the-Distance Ending Kill 'em All Hong Kong Films Facial Horror This Is Gonna Suck Tempting Fate Bowdlerise Shoot the Shaggy Dog Disney Villain Death Reality Is Unrealistic Improbable Weapon User Posthumous Character Even Evil Has Loved Ones Department of Redundancy Department Foil Depraved Bisexual Deliberately Monochrome Fire-Forged Friends Honor Before Reason The '50s Back from the Dead Immune to Bullets Awesome, but Impractical Pre-Mortem One-Liner Early-Bird Cameo An Arm and a Leg Shirtless Scene Ironic Echo Fanservice Extra Made of Explodium Serial Killer Up to Eleven Throwing Your Sword Always Works The Chick Beard of Evil The Vamp Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Laughing Mad The '70s Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Pragmatic Adaptation In Name Only Fish out of Water Outrun the Fireball The Stoic Mighty Whitey Sole Survivor All Girls Want Bad Boys Bad "Bad Acting" Evil Counterpart Ominous Latin Chanting Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Big Eater Redshirt Army Eiffel Tower Effect The Ace Rule of Symbolism Dwindling Party Daylight Horror Room Full of Crazy Humiliation Conga Make It Look Like an Accident Stock Footage Unwitting Instigator of Doom Disproportionate Retribution As Long as It Sounds Foreign Ambiguously Gay Male Gaze Bring My Brown Pants Trailers Always Spoil Overprotective Dad Epic Fail Mexican Standoff Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Token Minority From Nobody to Nightmare Fat Bastard Adaptation Distillation Deliberate Values Dissonance Evil Sounds Deep Large Ham The Stinger Jitter Cam folderlabel The Ditz "Awesome McCool" Name Insult Backfire A Date with Rosie Palms Dramedy The Load Scenery Gorn Hoist by His Own Petard Accidental Murder Girl-on-Girl Is Hot The Atoner Broken Aesop Mundane Made Awesome Too Dumb to Live Every Car Is a Pinto Lighter and Softer Deadpan Snarker Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Line-of-Sight Name Card-Carrying Villain Camera Abuse Once More, with Clarity! Jerk with a Heart of Gold The Cameo Exactly What It Says on the Tin The Remake It's Personal Word of God Hollywood Law Visual Pun Scenery Porn Retired Badass Pretty in Mink Kick the Son of a Bitch Enemy Mine Developing Doomed Characters Foreshadowing Take That! Love at First Sight Crapsack World Rule of Three Non-Indicative Name An Axe to Grind Call-Back Alpha Bitch Closed Circle As Himself Dropped a Bridge on Him Nice Hat Gainax Ending Handicapped Badass Corpsing Red Oni, Blue Oni Bait-and-Switch Sadistic Choice War Is Hell Parental Neglect Heroes Want Redheads Psycho for Hire Title Drop Death Glare Say My Name Psychological Thriller Hero of Another Story Pyrrhic Victory Music Stories Dressing as the Enemy Calling the Old Man Out Red Right Hand Stealth Pun No-Sell Oh, Crap! There Is No Kill Like Overkill Mugging the Monster Cool Old Guy Taking the Bullet Hypocrite Race Lift You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Last-Name Basis Green-Eyed Monster A Father to His Men Get Out! Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Riddle for the Ages Fan Disservice Off with His Head! Punny Name All There in the Manual Mystery and Detective Films Artistic License – Law Fatal Family Photo Heterosexual Life-Partners No OSHA Compliance Henpecked Husband N-Word Privileges One-Man Army Pay Evil unto Evil Poor Communication Kills Blonde, Brunette, Redhead A God Am I Obfuscating Stupidity Logo Joke Nice Guy Naïve Newcomer I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Loophole Abuse Knight Templar Establishing Character Moment Made of Iron Demonic Possession Pimped-Out Dress Drowning My Sorrows Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Black and Gray Morality Film Noir Protagonist Title Politically Incorrect Villain Index of Film Westerns Roger Ebert: Great Movies List No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Badass Boast Stuff Blowing Up Suddenly SHOUTING! Match Cut Love Triangle Dirty Coward Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! The Ghost The Faceless Dies Wide Open Guile Hero He Knows Too Much Chekhov's Skill Gory Discretion Shot Antagonist Title Big-Bad Ensemble Unspoken Plan Guarantee Catch-Phrase Kubrick Stare Chiaroscuro Heroic BSoD Spared by the Adaptation Advertised Extra Whole Plot Reference Credits Gag What You Are in the Dark Rewatch Bonus Deus ex Machina Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Those Two Guys Insane Troll Logic The '90s Destination Defenestration Villain Opening Scene Alliterative Name Wretched Hive One Steve Limit Christmas Movies Index Defiant to the End Evil-Detecting Dog Cruel and Unusual Death Badass in a Nice Suit Amusing Injuries Kill It with Fire Character Development Adaptational Villainy The Lancer Famous Last Words Punch-Clock Villain Actually Pretty Funny As the Good Book Says... Interrupted Suicide She's Got Legs Tap on the Head Hate Sink Older Than They Look Brick Joke Obviously Evil Earn Your Happy Ending Unusual Euphemism Ax-Crazy Ungrateful Bastard Meaningful Name Bloodier and Gorier Arch-Enemy The Casanova The Oner Adaptation Dye-Job Creator Cameo Never My Fault Dying Moment of Awesome Bloody Hilarious Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Black Comedy All Men Are Perverts One-Word Title Adorkable Slashed Throat Fanservice Sexy Discretion Shot You Have Failed Me Black Dude Dies First Shout-Out Dutch Angle I Did What I Had to Do Hero Antagonist Empathic Environment Arranged Marriage Small Name, Big Ego Tranquil Fury My God, What Have I Done? Moment Killer Award-Bait Song Very Loosely Based on a True Story Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Big Fancy House Coming-of-Age Story Disney Death Obstructive Bureaucrat Fainting Historical In-Joke Truth in Television Auto Erotica Sports Stories Adaptation Expansion Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Funny Foreigner All for Nothing BFG Parental Abandonment Disguised in Drag Only Sane Man Soundtrack Dissonance Hell Is That Noise timeperiod Soft Glass Sinister Minister Training Montage Danny Peary Cult Movies List Villain with Good Publicity All There in the Script Hidden Depths Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique You Killed My Father British Films Bad Boss Jerkass Has a Point Cluster F-Bomb Cool Guns Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Redemption Equals Death Author Appeal Translation Convention Rated M for Manly Not So Different Playing Gertrude Leaning on the Fourth Wall Historical Hero Upgrade Broken Pedestal Demoted to Extra A.I. Is a Crapshoot Big Bad Duumvirate Mercy Kill Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Mind Screw Dramatic Irony Gratuitous English Grievous Bottley Harm Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Wounded Gazelle Gambit Show Within a Show Badass Normal Big Bad Men Are the Expendable Gender Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Bi the Way Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Aluminum Christmas Trees Works Set in World War II The Smart Guy Important Haircut Major Injury Underreaction It Can Think The '80s Body Horror Martial Arts Movie Five-Man Band Meaningful Echo No Ending Dogged Nice Guy Eldritch Abomination Annoying Younger Sibling As You Know Bond Villain Stupidity Rule of Funny Freeze-Frame Bonus Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Naked People Are Funny Crucified Hero Shot Recycled IN SPACE! Anachronic Order Dumb Blonde Mr. Fanservice Eureka Moment Heel Realization Spanner in the Works Big "NO!" Batman Gambit Darker and Edgier Smug Snake Fantasy Films Plot Hole Jump Scare Drugs Are Bad Villain Protagonist What Happened to the Mouse? Butt-Monkey Better to Die than Be Killed True Companions I'm a Humanitarian Foregone Conclusion Asshole Victim Funny Background Event Fantastic Racism Affably Evil The Musical Those Two Bad Guys German Films Bound and Gagged Combat Pragmatist Laser-Guided Karma '80s Hair Romantic False Lead My Beloved Smother Extreme Doormat Leitmotif Hollywood Darkness Wrong Genre Savvy Evil Is Hammy Composite Character Face–Heel Turn Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Parental Incest The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Roaring Rampage of Revenge 20 Minutes into the Future Catapult Nightmare Animated Credits Opening Almost Kiss The Hero Apocalypse How Author Avatar Mooks Red Herring Frame-Up Documentary Death by Sex Fingore The Chessmaster The Voiceless Nothing Is Scarier Japanese Films Freudian Excuse Twist Ending Homage Anguished Declaration of Love Anyone Can Die Madness Mantra The Mole Insistent Terminology It Will Never Catch On Leave the Camera Running Creative Closing Credits I Need a Freaking Drink Horror Comedy Slasher Smile Red Shirt Evil Laugh Psychopathic Manchild Pretty Little Headshots Does This Remind You of Anything? No Antagonist B-Movie Only Known by Their Nickname Dirty Old Man Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Ship Tease Horror Films Sci-Fi Horror Double Entendre Knife Nut Greater-Scope Villain For Want of a Nail The Film of the Book Death of a Child Ambiguous Disorder Becoming the Mask Not So Above It All Dull Surprise Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Dark Is Not Evil Animal Motifs Artistic License – Gun Safety It's All About Me Rousing Speech Bavarian Fire Drill No Celebrities Were Harmed Gorn Would Hit a Girl Stylistic Suck Boom, Headshot! Villain Ball Really Gets Around Taking You with Me Totally Radical Morality Pet Neck Lift Russian Films Abhorrent Admirer Reality Has No Subtitles Tagline Race Against the Clock The Starscream Bilingual Bonus Slap-Slap-Kiss Expy Villain Song Mood Whiplash Cassandra Truth How We Got Here Running Gag Dissonant Serenity Let's Get Dangerous! Irony Decoy Protagonist Adaptational Heroism Manchild "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Not Quite Dead Affectionate Parody Papa Wolf Not Using the "Z" Word The Hero Dies Names to Run Away from Really Fast Animal Title Index Agony of the Feet And I Must Scream Film Series Suspiciously Similar Substitute Woman Scorned Yandere Chewing the Scenery Spiteful Spit Spiritual Successor The End... Or Is It? And the Adventure Continues Friend to All Children Victoria's Secret Compartment The Reveal Chase Scene Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Unusually Uninteresting Sight Despair Event Horizon Science Fiction Films Slasher Movie Manipulative Bastard Intrepid Reporter Precision F-Strike Scary Black Man Amoral Attorney Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Public Domain Feature Films Bond One-Liner Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Crazy-Prepared Your Cheating Heart Gender Flip Idiot Ball Sealed Evil in a Can Didn't Think This Through Genre Throwback The Alcoholic Improvised Weapon Babies Ever After Expository Hairstyle Change Anti-Villain Heroic Sacrifice Anachronism Stew Retcon Femme Fatale Easily Forgiven Paper-Thin Disguise Actor Allusion The Alleged Car Not So Stoic Mama Bear Determinator The Lost Lenore Motor Mouth Never Found the Body Abusive Parents Cat Scare Domestic Abuse Well-Intentioned Extremist Adaptation Name Change Fake Shemp Unresolved Sexual Tension You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Cool Shades Setting Update Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Male Frontal Nudity Grey and Gray Morality Random Events Plot Mistaken for Gay Police are Useless Extremely Short Timespan Badass Longcoat Central Theme The Un-Reveal Neck Snap Time Skip Parental Substitute Diabolus ex Machina Ms. Fanservice Loads and Loads of Characters "Shaggy Dog" Story Distracted by the Sexy Villainous Breakdown Bald of Evil Suspiciously Specific Denial The Place Those Wacky Nazis Vomit Indiscretion Shot Attempted Rape Death by Irony Action Prologue Fatal Flaw Everyone Has Standards Camp Gay Maybe Ever After Aside Glance Blood Knight Take a Third Option Early Installment Weirdness Broken Bird Narrator Blatant Lies Eyepatch of Power MacGuffin Defrosting Ice Queen Evil vs. Evil Final Girl A Minor Kidroduction All Just a Dream Sir Swears-a-Lot Stalker with a Crush Country Matters She Cleans Up Nicely Ambiguous Ending Bottomless Magazines Cold-Blooded Torture Film Noir Index Plucky Comic Relief Belligerent Sexual Tension Break the Haughty Wham Line The Bully Children Are Innocent My Greatest Failure Cloudcuckoolander Drives Like Crazy Re-Cut Happily Married Blood from the Mouth The Quiet One Historical Villain Upgrade Thriller Worthy Opponent From Bad to Worse Took a Level in Jerkass Ass Shove Bittersweet Ending Jerkass Killed Mid-Sentence Spell My Name with an "S" Smoking Is Cool Death by Adaptation Does Not Like Shoes Bunny-Ears Lawyer Improbable Aiming Skills Call-Forward Vomit Discretion Shot Gone Horribly Right Same Language Dub "Well Done, Son!" Guy Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Big Brother Instinct In Medias Res Silence Is Golden Vampire Fiction Refuge in Audacity Crazy Jealous Guy Driven to Suicide Cat Fight Skewed Priorities Reasonable Authority Figure After the End Shipper on Deck Humans Are Bastards Half the Man He Used to Be Failed a Spot Check Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Stepford Smiler Market-Based Title Noodle Incident Captain Ersatz Never Trust a Trailer Accidental Misnaming Genre Shift Deal with the Devil Zombie Stories Reality Ensues Curse Cut Short The Mafia Evil Is Petty Left the Background Music On And Starring Wham Shot Here We Go Again! Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Undying Loyalty Determinator aka: The Determinator Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Historical-Domain Character The Bad Guy Wins Chekhov's Gun Bloodless Carnage Blackmail Star-Crossed Lovers Not What It Looks Like Jerk Jock NO INDOOR VOICE Hooker with a Heart of Gold Adults Are Useless Break the Cutie Informed Ability Reckless Gun Usage Curb-Stomp Battle Betty and Veronica Shell-Shocked Veteran Red Eyes, Take Warning I Have Your Wife Eagleland No Name Given Berserk Button Straight Gay Fourth Date Marriage Big Damn Heroes Chekhov's Gunman Wicked Cultured Bare Your Midriff Artistic License – Biology Damsel in Distress Hope Spot Woman in White Shower Scene Biopic Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Only a Flesh Wound Karma Houdini Continuity Nod Gold Digger Mad Scientist Revenge Lampshade Hanging Sequel Hook The '60s Badass Grandpa Offscreen Teleportation Monumental Damage The Brute Karmic Death Armor-Piercing Question Our Zombies Are Different Covers Always Lie Arc Words