1 | '''Basic Trope''': Doing one relatively simple action would resolve the conflict [[TheMillstone and therefore make it pointless for the story to keep going]]. |
2 | * '''Straight''': AliceAndBob are living in [[AwfulWeddedLife a loveless, unhappy sitcom marriage.]] [[HenpeckedHusband Bob]] finally gets up the nerve to tell [[{{Tsundere}} Alice]] that he wants a divorce. AliceAndBob get divorced, and all the fighting stops, thus ending the season. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': Alice and Bob get divorced, and the series is literally over; [[LeftHanging there's no telling]] what becomes of AliceAndBob (good, bad, or in-between) after the divorce. |
4 | * '''Downplayed''': Alice and Bob are constantly having problems with each other being secretive. After both start opening up the marriage becomes happier. |
5 | * '''Justified''': |
6 | ** The entire series focuses on those two characters, with the rocky marriage as their primary conflict; ending the marriage basically ends the plot. |
7 | ** RealLifeWritesThePlot: The actor that plays Bob wants to move onto a new series, so the divorce serves as a GrandFinale to ''AwfulWeddedLife''. |
8 | ** The series is set and/or airing [[ValuesDissonance during a time]] when divorce was scandalous (possibly too scandalous for TV) and/or difficult to obtain, so divorce really ''isn't'' as much of an option for AliceAndBob as the audience (especially a modern, Western audience) might be led to believe. |
9 | ** Bob and/or Alice are would rather stay married than spend their money on a divorce or don't have enough money for a divorce. |
10 | * '''Inverted''': |
11 | ** AliceAndBob divorce, but the divorce makes the arguing ''worse'', as they quibble and quarrel over things like [[DivorceAssetsConflict assets and debts, child support, alimony]], etc. |
12 | ** AliceAndBob [[YoYoPlotPoint keep divorcing or breaking up and getting back together]]. |
13 | * '''Subverted''': |
14 | ** Alice and Bob get divorced, which opens up any number of new plotlines (such as AliceAndBob reentering the dating scene, GuessWhoImMarrying, DivorceAssetsConflict, just to name a few.) |
15 | ** Alice and Bob TakeAThirdOption, such as going through couples' therapy or a trial separation. |
16 | * '''Double Subverted''': |
17 | ** But then Alice and Bob [[DivorceIsTemporary get back together]], and they're [[StatusQuoIsGod back to their old problems again]]. They get back together ''the same episode'' as the divorce. |
18 | ** The series makes it clear that although they're attending couples' therapy, it isn't working and a trial separation led only to a GreenEyedEpiphany. AliceAndBob are still anything ''but'' HappilyMarried, and they should have just gotten a divorce. |
19 | * '''Parodied''': |
20 | ** Alice and Bob divorce. Cue Bob lying alone in bed, asking, "Now what?" and hearing only crickets in response. |
21 | ** After the divorce, Bob's friends throw a "reverse bachelor party" in Hawaii in an attempt to lift his spirits...which (among other things), involves Bob [[JumpingTheShark water-skiing over a shark]]. |
22 | * '''Zig-Zagged''': YoYoPlotPoint |
23 | * '''Averted''': |
24 | ** Alice and Bob's rocky marriage is only one of many PlotThreads in the series. |
25 | ** Alice and Bob are HappilyMarried. |
26 | * '''Enforced''': "Let's create a DomCom centered around an unhappily married couple!" |
27 | * '''Lampshaded''': "We can't get a divorce! That would ruin everything!" |
28 | * '''Invoked''': |
29 | ** Alice and Bob don't love each other anymore, but have developed [[DestructiveRomance a creepy co-dependency]] on each other, and hesitate to get a divorce for just that reason. |
30 | ** Alice and Bob really can't afford to get a divorce right now, or are waiting for the real-estate market to improve so they can sell the house. |
31 | * '''Exploited''': ??? |
32 | * '''Defied''': Alice and Bob decide that they are going to look at the divorce as a new beginning, not an ending, and take advantage of the opportunity, even though it means stepping out of their comfort zones. |
33 | * '''Discussed''': "If Alice and Bob are so miserable, why don't they just divorce?" |
34 | * '''Conversed''': "Well, for a series focused solely on Alice and Bob and playing their AwfulWeddedLife for every laugh it's worth, it would kill the premise, and there's no guarantee a ReTool would be more compelling for the audience." |
35 | * '''Played For Laughs''': SitCom |
36 | * '''Deconstructed''': Even [[SimpleSolutionWontWork the alleged "simple solution" brings its fair share of excessively nasty complications]] and all Alice and Bob got from taking it is [[SadisticChoice jump off one train wreck straight into another]]. |
37 | * '''Reconstructed''': [[WorthIt It's a start.]] |
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41 | %% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion: |
42 | %% |
43 | %%* '''Implied''': ??? |
44 | %%* '''Deconstructed''': ??? |
45 | %%* '''Reconstructed''': ??? |
46 | %%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ??? |
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