Tropescilloscope: Beta Couple

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

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