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6	->''"Seems so unfair when there's love everywhere but there's none for me"''
7	-->-- "Some Guys Have All the Luck", written by Jeff Fortgang, most known version sung by Music/RodStewart
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9	You are in a relationship with the love of your life! You and said love are happy as can be and nothing can go wrong!
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11	[[TemptingFate Then it does]].
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13	Now you hate the world. Especially since the world seems to be mocking you for it. As you walk through the park, ''everyone'' is paired up. You see couples on the benches, making out, couples on the lake, making out, couples under trees, [[RuleOfThree making out]], even the birds and frogs and ''plants'' seem to be paired up with their life-long partner, and you're not. The world is mocking you.
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15	If this is a musical, then this scene usually involves a very sad song. In a romantic comedy, the scene may go to extreme lengths to show the pair ups, and the scene will come after the SecondActBreakup and before the reconciliation.
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17	This trope can be PlayedForLaughs or [[PlayedForDrama drama]]. Also, it doesn't have to be about romantic breakups - it can also be used when someone has died or gone missing, or some highly emotional object has been lost through no fault of their own. In these instances, expect the protagonist to mistake other people or objects for the one they lost.
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19	Look for LonelyPianoPiece in visual examples. When YourTelevisionHatesYou, showing things that mock your loss is one of the ways it shows its hate. MockingMusic is the same idea but for songs on the radio.
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21	The romantic version is a subtrope of AloneAmongTheCouples.
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23	Somewhat TruthInTelevision in that those who have recently lost something will tend to notice these things a ''lot'' more than someone who hasn't suffered such a loss.
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25	Compare ColdTurkeysEverywhere, wherein that trope is for people who are trying not to think about something (usually because they willingly gave up something), and the world is tempting them constantly. Compare/Contrast SpontaneousChoreography. See also AloneAmongTheCouples and YourTelevisionHatesYou. Contrast YouAreNotAlone.
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27	!!Examples:
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31	[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
32	* ''Manga/MidoriDays'' does this to Seiji several times in both the anime and manga versions:
33	** In the first chapter of the manga, he becomes depressed after striking out with a local girl, only to find himself surrounded by lovey-dovey couples on his way to school... he doesn't take it well.
34	** And, in chapter 17, he ends up alone in a cafe full of happy couples.
35	** The anime version has him strike out with the same girl from the first example, after which, he goes to a movie theater to sulk. When he realizes he's the only one there without a date, he vents his frustration on the crowd and storms out.
36	* Sasuke Uchiha in ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' definitely has this post-time skip. After learning that [[spoiler:his brother, who he'd spent the majority of the manga on a vendetta against for murdering their entire family, was actually a martyr]], he snaps and swears to burn down Konoha, despite how [[spoiler:Itachi had given his life to protect it]]. All because he sees the village's ignorant happiness as mocking the AwfulTruth.
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39	[[folder:Comic Books]]
40	* ''ComicBook/GastonLagaffe'': A guy in the forest who just broke up with his girlfriend looks around to see only animals merrily frolicking in pairs, reflecting on how even ''they'' find happiness...then he sees Gaston's car bouncing along a badly-maintained road, and lightens up considerably, seeing as everything is joyous and energetic today.
41	* When the eponymous ''ComicBook/GrooTheWanderer'' thought his dog Rufferto was dead [[spoiler:and that Groo had eaten him]], he kept seeing objects that reminded him of Rufferto's coloring.
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44	[[folder:Fan Works]]
45	* ''Webcomic/ScarletLady'': In "Catalyst", Chloé is ''furious'' over how her {{Nominal Hero}}ine alter ego has [[BrokenPedestal fallen out of favor]] with the public, as well as how she lost [[spoiler:the Ladybug Earrings to Marigold]]. Unfortunately for her, it's Heroes' Day, so everyone's celebrating the ''other'' protectors of Paris. At one point, she breaks her [[YourTelevisionHatesYou TV]] and storms out onto her balcony just in time to spot a massive parade balloon of Marigold passing by.
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48	[[folder:Film -- Animation]]
49	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKingIISimbasPride'' has the scene after Kovu gets exiled. Kiara is constantly reminded that she is on her own now, complete with the song "Love Will Find a Way".
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52	[[folder:Film -- Live Action]]
53	* In ''Film/BetterOffDead'', Lane is constantly reminded of his ex, Beth, because every other guy in town (and [[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones Barney Rubble]]) wants to date her.
54	* ''Film/TheCrowd'': When a desperate John tries to get people outside to quiet down as his daughter is dying, the traffic cop at the corner tells him the world can't stop because his kid's sick. Later, a title card says that "The crowd laughs with you always...but it will cry with you for only a day." Following scenes show how the uncaring world moves on as John plunges into despair.
55	* The "Scotty Doesn't Know" song in ''Film/EuroTrip''. The song was written to brag about how Scotty's girlfriend was cheating on him with the singer. [[KickTheDog They break the news to him by performing it at his graduation party]], after which the song becomes a smash hit, RunningGag, and given the name of this film, a literal example of the world mocking his loss.
56	* After Pat gets fired from the post office in ''Film/ItsPat'', [[AmbiguousGender they]] get taunted by a little girl and her mother holding a briefcase, a magazine at a newsstand with a headline about unemployment, construction workers on break, firefighters and police officers greeting each other, and a pair of astronauts floating by.
57	* Used as a brief gag in the first ''Film/TheNakedGun''. At the start, Frank Drebin is still madly in love with a woman who abandoned him. He laments that everything he sees reminds him of her. Then he looks at [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything the paired domes]] of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Onofre_Nuclear_Generating_Station San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station]] and sighs dramatically.
58	* After Peewee's beloved bike is stolen in ''Film/PeeWeesBigAdventure'', everyone he sees as he walks around town is riding a bicycle.
59	* Parodied in ''Film/SuperheroMovie''. Rick breaks up with Jill, and his subsequent walk through town has literally everyone around him either making out or having sex, much to his chagrin.
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62	[[folder:Literature]]
63	* ''Literature/{{Confessions\|SaintAugustine}}'': The death of a childhood friend made Augustine unable to see anything but death. He describes any reminder of his friend as torture, including his father's house, his hometown, everything his friend had touched, and "everything that did not have him." Even light could do nothing but remind him of the darkness that his friend would be experiencing.
64	* In ''Literature/TheShipWho Sang'', SapientShip Helva loses [[MayflyDecemberFriendship her first crewmate, Jennan]] only three years after taking him on. Almost immediately she's pushed into transporting a passenger to an emergency situation. While inspecting her passenger's hands and wondering that she seems to be familiar with manual labor which is unusual in TheFuture, Helva suddenly thinks that ''Jennan'' had used his hands too and has to look away.
65	* ''Literature/ThursdayNext'': In ''Lost In a Good Book'', Thursday starts seeing infants everywhere en route to her physician's office; she fears she's lost her pregnancy when she realizes Landen has been eradicated.
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68	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
69	* In an episode of ''Series/LizzieMcguire'', all of the protagonists are single, but that doesn't stop them noticing that all of their classmates aren't.
70	-->'''Gordo:''' Everybody's paired up...it's like Noah's ark.
71	* Played for ''extremely'' cruel comedy on ''Series/MadMen''. In the first season's [[WhamEpisode finale]] it was revealed that Peggy had gotten pregnant out of wedlock [[spoiler:with a married co-worker's baby]]. During the interval, she's apparently been ''legally declared'' unfit to raise the child, who's been put up for adoption (TheFifties were [[SarcasmMode really a wonderful decade]] to be a woman). If you were to take a drink for every time babies, pregnancy, or abortion were mentioned in her presence over the following three episodes, you'd end up needing your stomach pumped.
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74	[[folder:Video Games]]
75	* A large source of angst for [[JerkassWoobie Ragna the Bloodedge]] from ''VideoGame/{{Blazblue}}'': he can't go far without coming across clones of his kidnapped and missing sister.
76	* PlayedForLaughs in the ''VideoGame/{{DJ Max}}'' series, where realizing The World Mocks Their Losses is the StartOfDarkness for the [=NB=] Rangers. A group of single, unlucky average joes transform into a {{Jerkass}} ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' parody once they get fed up seeing other happy couples in the park and proceed to [[AntiLoveSong attempt to ruin them or just plain beat them up]].
77	* {{Inverted\|Trope}} in ''VideoGame/PokemonFalseRed'': All of Kanto is mourning Red's mysterious disapperance, and regard Fire as somebody who's mocking ''their'' loss by trying to go on his own Pokémon journey.
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80	[[folder:Western Animation]]
81	* More of the opposite happening in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/CatDog''. Catdog end up with a serious case of fleas after coming in contact with a rat on the beach and end up needing to wear a flea belt.[[note]]They could have taken a flea dip but Cat refused due to his fear of getting wet.[[/note]] While heading home, everyone's talking about how lame belts are and how they've gone out of style. Even on television, there are scenes of male runway models walking around with their pants down to show just how popular it is to not be seen wearing belts right now, which irritates Cat enough to keep blaming Dog for their predicament.
82	-->'''Cat''' You had to go near that beach rat!!!
83	* These are more "The World Mocks Your Discomfort", but in ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'':
84	** In "The Son Also Draws", Peter's bowels are acting up during a long road trip. Every billboard and sign remind him of it (examples include "Furniture Store: All stools must go!", "I Love My Shih-Tzu"; "Bob's House of Feces, Next Exit" [to which Peter responds "[[LampshadeHanging Oh come on, that one's not even real!]]"]).
85	** In one episode, Peter gets a prostate exam and thinks he was violated. He tries to watch TV. He sees ''Film/FreddyGotFingered'', changes the channel to ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'', showing E.T.'s [[HealingHands healing finger,]] then changes the channel to a Yellow Pages ad: "Let your fingers do the walking!" Peter then runs away and meets Chris wearing a foam finger, and the Evil Monkey who always points at people.
86	* [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' [=DVD=] Movie "The Beast with a Billion Backs"; right after Colleen and Fry break up, Fry sees increasingly [[CrackPairing comically unlikely coupling scenarios]].
87	* In ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'', after the group is in danger of losing their souls to Death over a bowling match, they repeatedly drive past ads for things like life insurance to remind them of their impending demise.
88	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
89	** After Ned loses his wife, he sees couples dancing and having fun at the [[FictionalHoliday Jellyfish Festival]].
90	--->'''Marge:''' Poor Ned. This is his first Jellyfish Festival alone.\
91	'''Homer:''' I know. And it doesn't get any easier from here. There's the Tongue-Kissing Festival, Cinco de Ocho, the Hobo Oscars, days just made for lovers. Not widowers...lovers.
92	** In the episode with Homer buying a handgun, he is dismayed when he learns that the registration process will take a few days. He spends those days moping on his lawn. A montage of tempting targets pass by during those days: a line of ducks, a Target truck, Patty and Selma (his hated sisters-in-law) on a bike...
93	* In ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'', at one point Bumblebee loses his T-cog and loses the ability to transform into vehicle mode. Cue a bunch of car ads and the like to essentially mock him for no longer having the movement speed he had in car form.
94	-->'''Raf:''' Speed isn't everything.\
95	''(Jack and Arcee return to base in a needlessly elaborate display of motorcycling)''\
96	'''Jack:''' Personal best, Arcee! You hit 120 easily!\
97	'''Bumblebee:''' ''([[TheSpeechless furious buzzing]])''
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