Tropescilloscope: Love Triangle

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

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