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