Tropescilloscope: Beta Couple

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

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