Tropescilloscope: Your Cheating Heart

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

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