Tropescilloscope: Love Triangle

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

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