Tropescilloscope: Love Triangle

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

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