Tropescilloscope: Meet Cute

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

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An Aesop In Name Only Armor-Piercing Question Dull Surprise Fun with Acronyms Paper-Thin Disguise Karmic Death Spiritual Successor Guile Hero Suspiciously Similar Substitute Freeze-Frame Bonus Redemption Equals Death Frame-Up Anyone Can Die Naïve Newcomer Smug Snake Artistic License – Gun Safety Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Italian Films Random Events Plot Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Break the Cutie Only a Flesh Wound Artistic License – History Scenery Gorn Retired Badass Drives Like Crazy Dramatic Gun Cock Credits Gag Killed Mid-Sentence Put on a Bus For Want of a Nail Hypocrite Character Development Christmas Movies Index Fantasy Films Adaptational Badass Take That! Noodle Incident Self-Deprecation Big Eater Truth in Television You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! 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I'm a Humanitarian Cool Car Despair Event Horizon Time Skip Big Bad Duumvirate Documentary Aluminum Christmas Trees Evil-Detecting Dog Together in Death Serious Business Death by Sex True Companions Adorkable Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Refuge in Audacity Undying Loyalty Unusually Uninteresting Sight "Awesome McCool" Name Affectionate Parody He Knows Too Much Suspiciously Specific Denial I Did What I Had to Do Overly Long Gag Driven to Suicide Freudian Excuse Soft Glass Blood Knight Last-Name Basis Politically Incorrect Villain Take a Third Option Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds All There in the Manual Those Wacky Nazis Hate Sink Star-Crossed Lovers Brutal Honesty Sanity Slippage Darker and Edgier Villainous Breakdown Reality Ensues It Can Think Beard of Evil Aside Glance Red Right Hand Dutch Angle Nice Guy Did Not Get the Girl Comically Missing the Point Be Careful What You Wish For Almost Kiss Pay Evil unto Evil Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Corpsing Really Gets Around The Alleged Car Screw the Money, I Have Rules! 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