Tropescilloscope: Love Triangle

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

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