Tropescilloscope: Your Cheating Heart

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

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