Tropescilloscope: Beta Couple

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

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