Tropescilloscope: Beta Couple

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

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