Tropescilloscope: Betty and Veronica

Two girls in a Love Triangle: one a sweet Girl Next Door and the other sensually exotic, or hot-tempered on the outside, but sweet on the inside. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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