Tropescilloscope: Meet Cute

When two characters' romance begins completely incidentally. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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