Tropescilloscope: Beta Couple

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

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