Tropescilloscope: Romantic False Lead

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

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