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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Epilogue Captain Ersatz Only One Name Chekhov's Skill Would Hurt a Child Neck Snap BFG Token Minority Bilingual Bonus A God Am I Pimped-Out Dress Bond One-Liner Hollywood Law Manic Pixie Dream Girl Setting Update Scare Chord Brainless Beauty Wounded Gazelle Gambit Dirty Old Man Covers Always Lie Obviously Evil Badass in a Nice Suit The Lancer The Ghost Romantic False Lead Catch-Phrase Ominous Latin Chanting Names to Run Away from Really Fast Fourth Date Marriage Fainting Fantasy Films Stuff Blowing Up Country Matters Crazy-Prepared Sequel Escalation Vomit Indiscretion Shot Credits Gag Major Injury Underreaction Make It Look Like an Accident "The Reason You Suck" Speech Freeze-Frame Bonus Historical-Domain Character Meaningful Background Event Video Credits Film Noir Villain Ball Dissonant Serenity I'm a Humanitarian Exactly What It Says on the Tin You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! 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Race Against the Clock Funny Background Event The Ace Villainous Breakdown Kill It with Fire Narrator Bland-Name Product The Cavalry Missing Mom Posthumous Character Rule of Symbolism Too Dumb to Live All for Nothing The Starscream Totally Radical Costume Porn Ax-Crazy World of Ham Informed Ability Did Not Get the Girl No Antagonist Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Failed a Spot Check Say My Name Bittersweet Ending My Greatest Failure Author Avatar Alliterative Name Red Shirt Adaptational Attractiveness Match Cut Pet the Dog The Stoner Jump Scare Rated M for Manly Break the Haughty Badass Bookworm Military and Warfare Films Reality Ensues Wrong Genre Savvy Red Right Hand Gratuitous English Police Brutality Up to Eleven Mercy Kill Amoral Attorney Scary Black Man Final Girl Shout-Out Vomit Discretion Shot Groin Attack Unreliable Narrator Bloodless Carnage Not So Different Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Taking the Bullet Silent Movie The Mafia Villain Opening Scene The Dog Bites Back Rich Bitch Would Hit a Girl Adaptational Heroism Dirty Coward Kubrick Stare Big Applesauce Evil Plan Not Even Bothering with the Accent Superhero The Lost Lenore Loads and Loads of Characters Crucified Hero Shot Artistic License – History Greater-Scope Villain Anachronism Stew Children Are Innocent Drugs Are Bad Dramedy Death Seeker Hooker with a Heart of Gold Taking You with Me Scenery Gorn What You Are in the Dark Romantic Comedy Bowdlerise Heroes Want Redheads Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome A Date with Rosie Palms Monumental Damage Double Entendre Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique The Alcoholic An Arm and a Leg Our Zombies Are Different Tranquil Fury The Remake Friend to All Children Those Wacky Nazis Half the Man He Used to Be The Dragon As the Good Book Says... 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Alas, Poor Villain Offscreen Moment of Awesome Author Appeal Important Haircut My Beloved Smother The Musical Left the Background Music On Obfuscating Stupidity Adaptation Dye-Job Peek-a-Boo Corpse Manly Tears Freudian Excuse Properly Paranoid Hollywood Darkness Intergenerational Friendship Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Historical In-Joke NO INDOOR VOICE Epic Fail The Chick Butt-Monkey Take That! Grey and Gray Morality Smoking Is Cool Adaptation Distillation All There in the Manual Spiritual Successor Broken Bird The Smurfette Principle Cold-Blooded Torture Works Set in World War II And the Adventure Continues Not What It Looks Like Suddenly SHOUTING! Damsel in Distress Music Stories Knife Nut Book-Ends In Name Only Artistic License – Law Undying Loyalty Facial Horror Psychological Thriller Dramatic Irony Fire-Forged Friends Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene German Films Rape as Drama It Can Think Early Installment Weirdness Psychopathic Manchild The Load Call-Back Never Found the Body Unusually Uninteresting Sight Deus ex Machina This Is Gonna Suck Heel Realization Woman Scorned Downer Ending Slasher Smile The Oner Action Survivor Hypocritical Humor Suspiciously Specific Denial I Have Your Wife Abhorrent Admirer Dwindling Party Aww, Look! 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Or Is It? 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For! Emphasis! 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Only in It for the Money Brother–Sister Incest Product Placement Broken Aesop Hypocrite Closed Circle Toplessness from the Back Anti-Villain Last-Name Basis Tempting Fate Real Life Insistent Terminology Gold Digger Auto Erotica Every Car Is a Pinto Red Eyes, Take Warning Air-Vent Passageway Meet Cute Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Big Fancy House "Shaggy Dog" Story Curb-Stomp Battle Disney Death Funny Foreigner Killed Mid-Sentence Evil-Detecting Dog Black Comedy Science Fiction Films Meaningful Name Cloudcuckoolander Stealth Hi/Bye Eldritch Abomination Hair-Trigger Temper Fingore