Tropescilloscope: Beta Couple

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

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