Tropescilloscope: Love Triangle

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

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