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