Tropescilloscope: Romantic False Lead

A loves B. But C comes in and also loves B. Tension mounts. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Ambiguous Ending Playing Gertrude The Chick Accidental Murder Fat Bastard Better to Die than Be Killed Genre Savvy The Casanova Babies Ever After Drowning My Sorrows Line-of-Sight Name Improvised Weapon Ripped from the Headlines Hero Antagonist Token Minority Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Taking You with Me Reality Ensues Despair Event Horizon Defrosting Ice Queen Hollywood Law Loads and Loads of Characters It Will Never Catch On Guns Akimbo The Place The Dog Bites Back The Stinger Moment Killer Decoy Protagonist What You Are in the Dark Jitter Cam The Stoner Meaningful Name Dark Action Girl Smug Snake Bad Boss All Men Are Perverts Mistaken for Gay Artistic License – Biology Offscreen Teleportation Camera Abuse Shoot the Shaggy Dog Destination Defenestration How We Got Here Major Injury Underreaction Running Gag Together in Death Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Girl-on-Girl Is Hot The End... Or Is It? Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Break the Cutie Crapsack World "Where Are They Now?" 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Artistic License – Law Manly Tears Distracted by the Sexy Evil Brit Grievous Bottley Harm Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Christmas Movies Index Spiritual Successor Beware the Nice Ones Call-Back Dark and Troubled Past Jump Scare The Brute Fatal Flaw Informed Ability Artistic License – Geography Aluminum Christmas Trees Bullying a Dragon Implacable Man Foregone Conclusion Video Credits Punch-Clock Villain Double-Meaning Title Eye Scream Cool Guns Pet the Dog Fantasy Films Anti-Villain Closed Circle Break the Haughty Fire-Forged Friends Military and Warfare Films Dark Reprise Vitriolic Best Buds Disguised in Drag Creator Cameo Those Wacky Nazis Fate Worse than Death Stock Footage Unresolved Sexual Tension Hell Is That Noise Match Cut Vampire Fiction Male Gaze The Voiceless Real Life N-Word Privileges Black Comedy Word of God Redshirt Army All Girls Want Bad Boys Evil vs. Evil Historical-Domain Character Blackmail Final Girl Funny Foreigner Random Events Plot In the Back Deconstruction Dark Is Not Evil No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Curse Cut Short Pay Evil unto Evil NO INDOOR VOICE Really Gets Around Corrupt Corporate Executive Those Two Bad Guys Depraved Bisexual Dogged Nice Guy Character Development Evil Is Hammy Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Hope Spot Anguished Declaration of Love Corpsing Italian Films Exact Words Parental Neglect Awesome, but Impractical Tempting Fate Not So Different Make It Look Like an Accident You Have Failed Me Mama Bear Our Zombies Are Different Covers Always Lie The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Mexican Standoff Epic Movie The Cavalry Not So Above It All Chiaroscuro Spanner in the Works Bloody Hilarious A Father to His Men Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Hypocrite Air-Vent Passageway Psycho for Hire Jerk Jock No Ending Aside Glance Romantic Comedy Martial Arts Movie Alliterative Name Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds O.O.C. 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Russian Films Soft Glass Badass in a Nice Suit Well-Intentioned Extremist The Oner Wretched Hive Race Against the Clock All for Nothing Married to the Job Names to Run Away from Really Fast Jerkass Has a Point Fun with Acronyms Actually Pretty Funny Let's Get Dangerous! Race Lift Chase Scene Took a Level in Badass Silent Movie Cold-Blooded Torture Wounded Gazelle Gambit Accidental Misnaming Age Lift Public Domain Feature Films Heroes Want Redheads Department of Redundancy Department Would Hit a Girl Knight Templar Not So Stoic Breaking the Fourth Wall Neck Snap Blood Knight Only One Name Authority Equals Asskicking Shower Scene Bound and Gagged Taking the Bullet Chekhov's Skill He Who Fights Monsters Suspiciously Similar Substitute Captain Ersatz The Musical Bury Your Gays As Long as It Sounds Foreign Meaningful Background Event Cruel and Unusual Death Roger Ebert: Great Movies List The Chessmaster Based on a True Story The Bad Guy Wins One Steve Limit Dissonant Serenity Loophole Abuse Storming the Castle Suspiciously Specific Denial Your Cheating Heart Death of a Child Throwing Your Sword Always Works Japanese Films She's Got Legs Big-Bad Ensemble Serial Killer Dirty Cop Tagline Easily Forgiven The '90s Adaptational Villainy Market-Based Title Catapult Nightmare Product Placement Missing Mom Card-Carrying Villain Artistic License – Physics Defiant to the End Vomit Discretion Shot Unspoken Plan Guarantee Older Than They Look Deadpan Snarker What Happened to the Mouse? Narrator And Starring Empathic Environment Kids Are Cruel Big Brother Instinct Ironic Echo May–December Romance Disney Villain Death Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Trailers Always Spoil Badass Normal Mooks Twist Ending As You Know Advertised Extra Mad Scientist Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? In Name Only The Mafia Big Fancy House Last-Name Basis Only in It for the Money Beard of Evil Fanservice Face Death with Dignity Badass Grandpa Re-Cut Fourth Date Marriage Armor-Piercing Question Sexy Discretion Shot Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Historical Hero Upgrade Mighty Whitey Slasher Movie Red Herring Eldritch Abomination Stealth Hi/Bye Early-Bird Cameo Kubrick Stare Riddle for the Ages Sealed Evil in a Can Bi the Way Becoming the Mask Death Glare The '60s Romantic False Lead Action Genre Light Is Not Good Small Name, Big Ego Humiliation Conga Obstructive Bureaucrat Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience No Name Given Not What It Looks Like Canon Foreigner All Just a Dream Annoying Younger Sibling Wrong Genre Savvy Intergenerational Friendship The '80s Shirtless Scene Overprotective Dad The Sociopath Fainting Curb-Stomp Battle The Lost Lenore Costume Porn Even Evil Has Loved Ones La Résistance Gainax Ending Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Butt-Monkey Arch-Enemy Back from the Dead Self-Deprecation Alpha Bitch Deliberately Monochrome Badass Boast Drives Like Crazy Henpecked Husband Cool Car Improbable Aiming Skills Blood from the Mouth Affectionate Parody Framing Device Downer Ending Instant Death Bullet Author Appeal Shipper on Deck She Cleans Up Nicely Lampshade Hanging The Hero Dies Morality Pet Ascended Extra Genre Throwback Never Found the Body Time Skip Spiteful Spit Extremely Short Timespan Crazy Jealous Guy Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Never Trust a Trailer Eagleland Action Prologue Show Within a Show Gone Horribly Right Drill Sergeant Nasty He Knows Too Much Up to Eleven Reality Has No Subtitles Foreshadowing Five-Man Band Leitmotif Dwindling Party Immune to Bullets Novelization Disproportionate Retribution War Is Hell Batman Gambit Expository Hairstyle Change Dirty Old Man Sacrificial Lion Dramatic Irony Male Frontal Nudity Sequel Hook The Hero Bond One-Liner Bottomless Magazines Adult Fear The Lancer Big "NO!" Ms. Fanservice Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Berserk Button Mr. Exposition Fish out of Water Scenery Porn Pretty in Mink Not Even Bothering with the Accent Calling the Old Man Out The Ghost The Smurfette Principle Hooker with a Heart of Gold Red Shirt Deliberate Values Dissonance Only Sane Man Adaptational Badass Stuff Blowing Up Only Known by Their Nickname Action Girl German Films Same Language Dub Beta Couple Shell-Shocked Veteran Kick the Son of a Bitch Precision F-Strike Naïve Newcomer Driven to Suicide Green-Eyed Monster Evil Laugh timeperiod Deal with the Devil As Himself Artistic License – History Dramedy Arranged Marriage Does Not Like Shoes Retcon Wicked Cultured Flipping the Bird Politically Incorrect Villain Conspicuous CG Determinator aka: The Determinator Chekhov's Gun Gender Flip Jerkass Bait-and-Switch Evil Is Petty Dies Wide Open Slap-Slap-Kiss Say My Name Insane Troll Logic Affably Evil Heel–Face Turn Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Daddy's Girl Darkest Hour Papa Wolf Does This Remind You of Anything? Refuge in Audacity Establishing Character Moment Cool Old Lady Crucified Hero Shot Rewatch Bonus Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Bald of Evil Dutch Angle Large Ham Animated Credits Opening Rape as Drama folderlabel Paper-Thin Disguise Scare Chord Off with His Head! After the End The X of Y Needs Wiki Magic Love Deus ex Machina An Axe to Grind Broken Aesop Gold Digger Unusual Euphemism