Tropescilloscope: Your Cheating Heart

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

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