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* '''Downplayed''': Bob meets Alice on the way to the airport.

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* '''Downplayed''': '''Downplayed''':
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Bob meets Alice on the way to the airport.airport.
** Bob dashes out of his house, and across the front lawn, before Alice can board a cab and leave.
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* '''Justified''': ???
* '''Inverted''': Bob rushes the the airport to [[{{Jerkass}} break up with Alice before she leaves.]]

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* '''Justified''': ???
Bob really wants Alice back, as it's a matter of life or death.
* '''Inverted''': Bob rushes the towards the airport to [[{{Jerkass}} break up with Alice before she leaves.]]



* '''Parodied''': The TSA line has a special lane for "last-minute romantic gestures.}

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* '''Parodied''': The TSA line has a special lane for "last-minute romantic gestures.}gestures".



* '''Averted''': Bob never tries to

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* '''Averted''': Bob never tries to get Alice back, knowing he'll fail anyway.



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

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* '''Exploited''': ???Alice sets it all up, knowing that she too is heartbroken and resorts to a cliche to actually win Bob back.



* '''Deconstructed''': Bob races across the airport to win Alice's love...and is arrested by airport security.

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* '''Deconstructed''': Bob races across the airport to win Alice's love... and is arrested by airport security.
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* '''Inverted''': Bob rushes the the airport to {{Jerkass break up with Alice before she leaves.}}

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* '''Inverted''': Bob rushes the the airport to {{Jerkass [[{{Jerkass}} break up with Alice before she leaves.}}]]

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

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* '''Downplayed''': ???Bob meets Alice on the way to the airport.



* '''Inverted''': ???

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* '''Inverted''': ???Bob rushes the the airport to {{Jerkass break up with Alice before she leaves.}}



* '''Parodied''': ???

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* '''Parodied''': ???The TSA line has a special lane for "last-minute romantic gestures.}



* '''Reconstructed''': Bob manages to talk his way out of severe charges and Alice is impressed he was willing to get arrested for her.



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* '''Deconstructed''': Bob races across the airport to win Alice's love...and is arrested by airport security.
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'''Basic Trope''': A climactic dash to get the love interest back.
* '''Straight''': Alice and Bob have been dancing around each other the whole movie, but [[ThirdActMisunderstanding fall out]]. As Alice prepares to fly out to her other love interest Charlie, Bob runs to the airport to win her back.
* '''Exaggerated''': Bob flies halfway around the world just to tell Alice she's pretty.
* '''Downplayed''': ???
* '''Justified''': ???
* '''Inverted''': ???
* '''Subverted''':
** Bob begins to run to the airport, but then realizes Alice's flight won't be for five hours, so he has time to wait.
** Bob is seen running to get to Alice... because he's late picking her up from work, and the scene actually takes place after a time skip. They're now HappilyMarried.
* '''Double Subverted''':
** He falls asleep waiting and then has to run anyway.
** That was an ImagineSpot; Bob really is running to the airport.
* '''Parodied''': ???
* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
* '''Averted''': Bob never tries to
* '''Enforced''': The writer initially planned to have Alice and Bob talk it out, but the executives say this isn't dramatic enough and want to see Bob race to win her love.
* '''Lampshaded''': "You really had to run all this way, Bob?!"
* '''Invoked''': Bob knows Alice is a romcom fan and deliberately waits until the last minute to make a GrandRomanticGesture as she's about to leave.
* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': Bob doesn't want to wait until the last minute to get her back, and instead goes to her home well before she's supposed to leave to have a mature conversation.
* '''Discussed''': "Oh, wow, Bob, dashing to the airport to win Alice back? Straight out of a romantic comedy!"
* '''Conversed''': "Hey, you're watching ''Alice and Bob''. What part are you on?" "The part where he runs to win her love at the airport, like every other romcom."
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