'''Basic Trope''': A character dumps a love interest over something minor.
* '''Straight''': Bob goes on a couple of dates with Alice when he learns her hands are rough and manlike. This is all the motivation he needs to dump her.
* '''Exaggerated''': Bob dumps Alice after one date because she has asymmetrical eyebrows.
* '''Downplayed''':
** Bob cites the flaw after the breakup occurred, using it as a reason he is happier to be apart from her.
** Bob doesn't dump her because of her minor flaw, but he keeps their relationship casual and has no interest in moving in with her, because of said flaw.
* '''Justified''':
** Bob is incredibly petty and shallow.
** The minor flaw is tied to a (perhaps) AbsurdPhobia Bob has.
* '''Inverted''':
** Bob dumps Alice because she spent the whole date swearing at him.
** [[FreakinessShame Bob falls in love with Alice because of those little imperfections in her]].
** Bob doesn't like Alice's bad habits, but dates her when he discovers they both like the same band.
** Bob doesn’t dump Alice over a major flaw.
* '''Subverted''':
** Bob eventually gets over Alice's minor flaw.
** Alice appears to break up with Bob over something equally as trivial, but he had a much larger flaw of which he was unaware, such as the fact that he's so shallow he'll automatically dump people for trivial reasons.
* '''Double Subverted''': Bob learns to get over Alice's flaw, but he has a minor flaw of his own and when Alice finds out, she dumps him immediately.
* '''Parodied''': Bob realizes Alice has a number of flaws, but treats the most minor one like it's the biggest deal breaker of them all.
* '''Zig Zagged''': Bob dumps a girl because she has a minor flaw, but then gets over the flaw. It turns out that she actually has a bunch of major problems he didn't notice because he was focusing on the minor flaw, but they work through them. However, she ends up dumping him over one of his minor flaws. Whew.
* '''Averted''': Bob doesn't dump her over the flaw.
* '''Enforced''':
** "We need to show that Bob is petty and shallow. How can we do that? ...He dumps her over her mannish hands? Brilliant!"
** The writers don't want Bob and Alice's breakup to happen over something that would make either of them come off as unsympathetic or out of character, so they settle for the breakup resulting from a minor flaw that either Bob or Alice can't control rather than a serious misdemeanor that any reasonable person would see as grounds to dump their significant other.
* '''Lampshaded''': "And the worst part? She had man hands!"
* '''Invoked''': Before he goes on the date, Bob says that he hopes she doesn't have rough hands.
* '''Exploited''': Alice uses Bob's obsession with minor flaws to hide her major ones, keeping their relationship stable by changing only the stuff he complains about.
* '''Defied''': Bob decides that he'll deal with the minor flaw and that he can love her anyway.
* '''Discussed''': "You're really going to dump me just because I fail to meet your inane standards of perfection? It's not like I'm a Neo-Nazi or a freak who kicks puppies, Bob!"
* '''Conversed''': "These characters need to stop being so picky about who they date. ''I'' wouldn't mind if it turned out ''my'' main squeeze liked bagpipe music or had a tattoo on their behind."
* '''Deconstructed''': Bob is never able to find happiness because he's so picky.
* '''Reconstructed''': Bob finds someone who loves him ''because'' he's so picky, having been so thorough in his screening process.
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