Tropescilloscope: Unresolved Sexual Tension

Two people are obviously attracted to each other, but don't get together (at least for a while). (read more at tvtropes.org)

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