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)

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