Tropescilloscope: Love Triangle

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

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