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