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