Tropescilloscope: Love Triangle

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

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