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* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' has one between [=McManus=] and S-464, but it turns out to be subverted. The two of them get into an argument over S-464 having "pee pee" on his belt, and while everyone ''else'' who hears this exchange takes that as being an example of this, Dr. Mrs. The Monarch realizes [=McManus=] is referring to the ''letter'' P and that S-464 [[TheMole is a spy]]. They reconcile (but later fall out again) after the Guild forces S-464 into becoming a ReverseMole.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' has one between [=McManus=] and S-464, but it turns out to be subverted. The two of them get into an argument over S-464 having "pee pee" on his belt, and while everyone ''else'' who hears this exchange takes that as being an example of this, Dr. Mrs. The Monarch realizes [=McManus=] is referring to the ''letter'' P and that S-464 is TheMole.

Compare: DerailingLoveInterests, GirlOfTheWeek. See also ToiletSeatDivorce and SecondActBreakup.

* Franchise/ArchieComics has a one-shot where Jughead meets a girl he has practically everything in common with. They break up because [[SeriousBusiness she doesn't like hamburgers]].

Then one day I found out she actually owned a copy of Film/JoeDirt on DVD."''

* ''ComicStrip/{{Luann}}'': Bernice dumped her boyfriend Zane because he failed to immediately notice her new glasses. Keep in mind that Bernice was a ClingyJealousGirl who proposed marriage to him while she was still in high school, and also accused him of cheating on her with [[PerkyGoth Crystal]] just because she kept bringing her little brother to visit him (Crystal's brother was in a wheelchair like Zane, and Zane was bonding with the boy), so Zane might have dodged a bullet there.

* ''Anime/OsomatsuSan'': Desperate to get married [[ChristmasCake in her prime]], Totoko ends up falling in with an ArabOilSheikh and enjoys the luxury. The Sheikh ends up being repulsed by her fishy smell, leading her to ''kick him out of his own palace'' and hightail it back to Akatsuka Ward.
* [[spoiler:Osaragi]] from ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'' broke up with her boyfriend [[spoiler:Kazeno]] after only a few weeks of dating because he found his constant working out to be gross. [[spoiler:[[RewatchBonus In hindsight]], this was probably just a cover, as it's likely that she only started dating him in the first place [[RemovingTheRival so he wouldn't be a potential obstacle in Ishigami asking out Tsubame]].]]

* In ''Discworld/{{Thud}}'' Nobby Nobbs manages to convince [[MyNaymeIs Tawneee]], an exotic dancer, to go out with him despite the fact he is required to carry a piece of paper to prove he is human. The girl is described as being so ridiculously beautiful that a bar was destroyed just because she gave one guy a look, but by the end of the book, he considers breaking up with her because she can't cook. However, it turns out she only went out with him because ''he's the only guy who ever asked her''; seeing as he has zero chance with other women he might as well try, but the fact that she has a body goddesses would kill for means every man she ever met thought she was was out of their league and didn't even try. As a result she's terrifyingly sheltered. Make what you will of the fact that Nobby is remarkably comfortable with being DisguisedInDrag for a considerable portion of ''Discworld/{{Jingo}}'', to the point of coming off as AmbiguouslyGay, or at least more certain of his gender identity than previously suspected.

* In ''Film/ShallowHal'', Hal's friend Mauricio breaks up with a gorgeous woman far out of his league because her second toe is longer than her big toe. [[spoiler:At least, he claims that - but later, it's revealed that he avoids closer relationships because he has a vestigial tail that embarrasses him.]] It's so upsetting that he turns her down when she invites him to a [[Music/TheBeatles Beatles]] reunion -- an event so exclusive that only 70 people are allowed to attend. (And which included George Harrison [[FunnyAneurysmMoment less than a year before he died]].)

* One episode of ''LiveActionTV/{{Becker}}'' deals with [[BlindBlackGuy Jake]] going on a date with a blind girl. The date seems to be going badly as Jake has apprehensions about being in a relationship with another blind person, but is talked out of ending the date just in time for the girl to find out that he's black and abruptly end the date herself.

* ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'' has a girl breaking up with a boy for being unable to grow a beard and having one ear pierced.

* In an episode of ''Series/{{Belle}}'' had it to where the main character was dating a nice guy who was wealthy and successful but then found out he was an atheist (without showing the usual HollywoodAtheist quirks and even enjoyed going to Church with her as he enjoyed the music) and dumped him. However the episode even acts as if this was a big deal, even flat-out stating he is worse than a killer and a drug dealer because "they can be saved and he can't" and that dumping him was the right decision. The episode summary even referred to this as a flaw. As you can guess, [[http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2013/02/25/on-black-sitcom-atheist-character-is-undateable/ atheists were not amused]].

* ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] this when Turk and Eliot stage an intervention for J.D. because of his tendency to do this (specifically, because of a problem he has with how his current girlfriend reacts to his jokes). [[spoiler: He manages to overlook her saying "that's so funny" instead of actually laughing, then realizes that her hopes/plans for the future aren't quite compatible with his, [[ShaggyDogStory so they split because of that]].]] Curiously, this was a CompressedVice example, as it had earlier been established that J.D. finds it ''impossible'' to break up with girlfriends no matter the reason.

* In ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'', Drake dumps his girlfriends over an annoying laugh and [[NoGuyWantsAnAmazon toughness]]. The laugh probably wouldn't have been so bad if she didn't laugh at ''[[DarthWiki/MostAnnoyingSound every single little thing]],'' which is closer to Drake's actual grievance.

* In ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'', Drake dumps his girlfriends over an annoying laugh and [[NoGuyWantsAnAmazon toughness]]. The laugh probably wouldn't have been so bad if she didn't laugh at ''[[MostAnnoyingSound every single little thing]],'' which is closer to Drake's actual grievance.

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* Alex, the spineless protagonist of Stephen Bond's InteractiveFiction story ''Rameses'', goes on a double date with a girl named Claire. Toward the end, [[spoiler: he meets her by the quay and is about to kiss her but gets distracted by a mole on her face. It's enough for him to ruin the moment until, it's implied, he regrets it for quite a while after.]]

* Caitlin Cooke, one of the main six on ''WesternAnimation/{{Sixteen}}'', has a new boyfriend/love interest in almost every episode, but has a habit of dumping guys for incredibly shallow reasons (though she also fears that a guy might dump ''her'' for her own minor flaws). To name a few instances of when Caitlin has dumped guys for shallow reasons:
** In one episode, she forced Jen to sit through two double dates with a gross (but ultimately nice) guy named Carl while Caitlin went out with Carl's (considerably hotter) best friend, Billy. After Caitlin ditched Jen to have some alone time with Billy, Jen ultimately tells Carl that while he's a NiceGuy and all, they just don't have enough common to make a compatible couple, which Carl seems to understand. To get back at Caitlin for what she put Jen (and Carl) through, the duo ends up splurging all of Caitlin's money by going to the mall's arcade and amusement park--the next day, Jen returns Caitlin's wallet, but discover Caitlin has now dumped Carl's friend, Billy, simply because he had a bunch of pimples all over his back. Furious to learn that all the sacrifices Caitlin forced to her make were all for nothing, Jen reveals what she and Carl did, and Caitlin's shocked to discover her now lighter-than-usual wallet.
** Early in the series, Caitlin dated a guy named Talon, one of the few boyfriends of Caitlin to last beyond more than one episode, only for Caitlin to ultimately dump simply because she considers him to be a bad kisser (as Caitlin describes it, "[Talon kisses] like a golden retriever!"). And this was after Caitlin was worried that Talon was going to break up with her due to him acquiring enough injuries to "almost put him in the hospital," as Jen points out to her (Caitlin explained to her and Nikki that she tends to get really klutzy around guys that she has a crush on, which was apparently the reason behind all the injuries that Talon was getting throughout the episode Caitlin broke up with him in).

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* Subverted by stand-up comic Adam Ferrara when talking about getting a wedding ring proportional to his girlfriend's hand. He did marry her, but while checking her hands for the ring, he was thinking thusly:
-->'''Adam Ferrara:''' Oh, my God... I'm marrying Dan Marino... Look at those mitts... Is the left one bigger?... What is she, a fiddler crab?... When I bought the ring I was so mad, I almost proposed by throwing it at her and saying, "Put this on your flipper, you harbor seal."
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* Interestingly enough, some of the flaw examples might be valid. A couple where one is a morning person and another likes to sleep in, means that with different body clocks the couple might not end up spending much time together, or one never has much energy when they are. Ditto the open/closed window; if the issue is street noise, then one could be a light sleeper constantly being woken up - thus getting much less sleep and therefore grumpy. If the issue is temperature, one person constantly being hot and/or the other being cold could have the same effect.

** In one episode, she forced Jen to sit through two double dates with a gross (but ultimately nice) guy named Carl while Caitlin went out with Carl's (considerably hotter) best friend, Billy. After Caitlin ditched Jen to have some alone time with Billy, Jen ultimately tells Carl that while he's a NiceGuy and all, they just don't have enough common to make a compatible couple, which Carl seems to understand. To get back at Caitlin for what she put Jen (and Carl) through, the duo ends up splurging all of Caitlin's money by going to the mall's arcade and amusement park--the next day, Jen returns Caitlin's wallet, but discover Caitlin has now Carl's friend, Billy, simply because he had a bunch of pimples all over his back. Furious to learn that all the sacrifices Caitlin forced to her make were all for nothing, Jen reveals what she and Carl did, and Caitlin's shocked to discover her now lighter-than-usual wallet.