1 | '''Basic Trope''': A character meets an old friend, or old flame, and realizes that they no longer feels anything for this person. |
2 | * '''Straight''': |
3 | ** Esmeralda meets up with Georgiana, whom she had known in school. Within a minute, she realizes that they no longer have anything in common. |
4 | ** Leopold returns from making his fortune in the city, and realizes that Mariana, his old love, is a silly, ill-educated, self-centered brat. |
5 | * '''Exaggerated''': |
6 | ** Hubert is always fascinated after the first date, and then disillusioned the second. |
7 | ** Ferdinard attends his high school reunion and realizes that all of his classmates, including the girls he dated, are silly, stupid, nasty, or otherwise unpleasant -- some through having grown worse through the years, some because he had not noticed that start of these traits in school. |
8 | * '''Downplayed''': Meeting an old flame is not as instantly thrilling as Horatio thought, though they get to know each other again. |
9 | * '''Justified''': |
10 | ** CharacterDevelopment in the interim. |
11 | ** There's a reason they parted ways in the first place, and whatever it is, it hasn't stopped being an issue... In fact, it's more of one now than ever. |
12 | * '''Inverted''': NewOldFlame |
13 | * '''Subverted''': Leopold thinks Mariana silly and shallow, and slowly realizes that he was expecting her to act like the women of the ViceCity, whereas she is simply natural and not exhibitionist. |
14 | * '''Double Subverted''': However, her natural state is silly and shallow. |
15 | * '''Parodied''': Bernardo is always disappointed when meeting someone again -- five minutes after they are introduced, even. |
16 | * '''Zig Zagged''': ??? |
17 | * '''Averted''': Sebastian never meets an old friend or an old love. |
18 | * '''Enforced''': "We can't introduce a new character permanently, so we need some way to make this old friend no longer a friend." |
19 | * '''Lampshaded''': "Are you ''sure'' you're my old friend? You've changed a lot." |
20 | * '''Invoked''': Elisabetta, sick of how her husband Archibald pines after his lost love Veronica during their ArrangedMarriage, arranges for him to meet Veronica again. |
21 | * '''Exploited''': ??? |
22 | * '''Defied''': Leopold insists on marrying Mariana and taking her with him when he goes to make his fortune, to prevent their growing apart. |
23 | * '''Discussed''': ??? |
24 | * '''Conversed''': ??? |
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28 | %% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion: |
29 | %% |
30 | %%* '''Implied''': ??? |
31 | %%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ??? |
32 | %%* '''Deconstructed''': ??? |
33 | %%* '''Reconstructed''': ??? |
34 | %%* '''Played For Laughs''': ??? |
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