Tropescilloscope: Your Cheating Heart

Adultery, or having an affair while in a relationship. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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