Tropescilloscope: Love Triangle

In love, two's company; three's a crowd. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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