Tropescilloscope: Love Triangle

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

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