History PlayingWith / BoyfriendBluff

* '''Justified''': Bob has met Dracone before and knows that Dracone may be an unwanted flirt, but still has some personal standards -- specifically, that Dracone is repulsed by cheating and thus only flirts with single women. Therefore this strategy would have worked better than Alice simply telling him to back off.

* '''Double Subverted''': They become AmicableExes later, and Bob still pretends to be Alice's boyfriend to scare off guys she doesn't want hanging around.

* '''ZigZagged''': Dracone is pestering Alice when Bob, her best friend since the show's beginning, walks up and tells him to stop messing with his girlfriend, which turns out to be true as they've become involved offscreen. The relationship shifts from platonic to romantic and back again multiple times, with Bob and Alice pulling or not pulling this bluff.
* '''Averted''': No romantic interaction appears in the story.

* '''Defied''': Alice hints that she wants Bob to pull this off to defuse the situation, but Bob just shouts, "Hey! Just 'cause she's single doesn't mean she'll take ''anyone''!" and punches Dracone.

-->'''Alice''': Bob and I aren't together, but sometimes he's put on a show to scare off pushy guys.

* '''Defied''': Alice hints that she wants Bob to pull this off to defuse the situation, but Bob just shouts "Hey! Just 'cause she's single doesn't mean she'll take ''anyone''!" and punches Dracone.

-->'''Alice''': Hey, Bob? Thanks for saving me from those creeps that one time. Kinda wish you could've used a less embarrassing nickname, though...

-->Hey, troper... How'd you like to go on a date to the [[BoyfriendBluff main page]]?
-->Beat it, buster. I was here first.

'''Basic Trope''': One character saves another from harassment by pretending to be his/her girlfriend/boyfriend.

* '''Parodied''': Bob attempts to pull this off... But Alice is [[UnluckyChildhoodFriend so unattracted to him]] that she would honestly prefer Dracone and tells him as much. (She still rejects them both, though.)

* '''Downplayed''': Dracone is pestering Alice, so Bob walks up to her, calls her "[[AffectionateNickname Freckles]]" and mentions a movie they'd talked about seeing together, leaving Dracone to draw his own conclusions.

* '''Exaggerated''': Alice has so many stalkers that Bob has to pretend to be her boyfriend almost constantly.

* '''Justified''': ???

* '''Subverted''': Dracone is pestering Alice to take a moonlight stroll with him, and Bob, who's been her best friend from the beginning of the show, walks up to him and tells him to quit messing with his girlfriend...But it turns out Bob and Alice ''have'' become romantically involved {{offscreen|Romance}}.

* '''Parodied''': ???
* '''ZigZagged''': Dracone is pestering Alice when Bob, her best friend since show's beginning, walks up and tells him to stop messing with his girlfriend, which turns out to be true as they've become involved offscreen. The relationship shifts from platonic to romantic and back again multiple times, with Bob and Alice pulling or not pulling this bluff.

* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': ???

* '''Implied''': ???

* '''Subverted''': Dracone is pestering Alice to take a moonlight stroll with him, and Bob, who's been her best friend from the beginning of the show, walks up to him and tells him to quit messing with his girlfriend...But it turns out Bob and Alice ''have'' become romantically involved offscreen.

* '''Downplayed''': ???

* '''Inverted''': Dracone is pestering Alice to take a moonlight stroll, so Bob pretends to attack them to scare Dracone away.
* '''Subverted''': ???
* '''Double Subverted''': ???

* '''ZigZagged''': ???

* '''Invoked''': Alice sees Bob and calls him "sweetie", hoping that he'll get the idea to pretend they're involved to deter Dracone.

-->Hey, trooper... How'd you like to go on a date to the [[BoyfriendBluff main page]]?