Basic Trope: A man is shown with each arm around a woman.
- Straight: Bob walks into a club with his left arm around Alice and his right arm around Carol.
- Exaggerated:
- Bob is in the centre of a veritable chorus-line of beautiful women.
- Bob has a girl on each leg as well.
- Bob has each arm around a woman all the time, when he eats, sleeps, takes a shower, uses the toilet. It is actually impossible for them to lose.
- Bob is an alien with dozens of arms, each of which is wrapped around a woman.
- Downplayed: Bob enters with Alice and Carol, but they're just walking together, not touching.
- Justified:
- Bob is a professional escort, guiding VIP twins through a club.
- Alice and Carol are the escorts, hired by Bob in a desperate attempt at proving he's a ladies' man.
- It's a world where Polyamory is an accepted norm. Alice, Bob and Carol are a married triad out celebrating their anniversary.
- Bob is The Casanova and just has that effect on women.
- Inverted: Alice and Carol have their arms around Bob, possibly to drag him along.
- Gender Inverted:
- Alice walks into a club with her arms around Bob and Charles.
- Bob walks into a gay club with his arms around Charles and David.
- Alice walks into a club with her arms around Carol and Diana.
- Subverted:
- Bob walks in with his arms around two women… then one of them shrugs him off in disgust and the other elbows him in the gut. His waiting friend is in fits of laughter at his Casanova Wannabe bumbling.
- It was a case of Relative Error there was nothing romantic intended nor the desire for the appearance of such. One step-sister has balance issues and brittle bones, a combination that means extra support is always helpful and the other is blind and deaf in one ear.
- Bob walks in with his arms around two women; later, he finds out they're both men.
- Bob is actually in a steady relationship with Alice; Carol is a friend he's invited to meet his good friend Dave.
- Double Subverted:
- …but then two similar looking bimbos show up behind him and ask why he wandered off.
- …both have a crush on him however and are capable of getting around on their own — this is a convenient excuse on their parts.
- …Bob doesn't mind having a man on each arm as opposed to women, and so continues to walk with them.
- Parodied:
- Bob walks into a club with two 80-year-old women, one on each arm.
- Bob's hands have been sewn to two women, one for each hand.
- Bob's arms are literally two women, because he's a mutant.
- Bob walks into a club with two women, but they are Conjoined Twins.
- Zig Zagged:
- Bob walks into a club with Alice on one arm, and Charlie on the other.
- Bob may have Alice and Carol on his arms, but they both have a second man in the form of David and Frank.
- Averted: Bob, despite usually being seen with a different woman each night, only ever has one woman with him — he may be many things but he's not a cheat.
- Enforced: "Bob is a player. He needs to be shown with two women at a time."
- Lampshaded: "Two women at once? That Bob must sure be something."
- Invoked:
- Bob feels like everyone ignores him at parties, and decides this is the way to get noticed, so he persuades his platonic friends Alice and Carol to make him look good.
- Alice and Carol don't want to wait in line at a club, so they go to the head of the line where they find Bob, about go in. The girls offer to enter on his arms to make him look good, in exchange for them getting to the club now rather than waiting in line. All parties agree.
- Exploited: Bob is an undercover spy playing a Casanova Sex God, and Alice and Carol are fellow agents there to help sell the ruse.
- Defied: Bob doesn't want people to be too jealous of him, so he intentionally avoids having more than one woman at an arm and the other free.
- Discussed: "Here comes Bob. 50 quid says he walks through that door with his arms round two incredibly hot women."
- Conversed: "It may happen in real life, but just how obviously fake would that look if some stereotype gamer showed up with two hot women like that?"
- Deconstructed:
- The girls get jealous of each other, turning the whole thing into an embarrassing public argument that puts a serious hole in Bob's Casanova image.
- Bob, suspecting that women will want to be with him if they see him with two women, hires two women to let him walk them to a club. Upon arriving, all the women are repulsed by this behavior and Bob never gets a date again.
- Reconstructed:
- The girls are revealed to be Platonic Prostitutes Bob hires to keep up his Upper-Class Twit persona — his secret True Love knows all about it and enjoys the anonymity it allows her.
- all three have a working healthy relationship, and like to show affection for each other, even if society frowns on it.
- Played for Laughs:
- Bob can't even keep the names of the women on his arms straight.
- Lover Tug of War
- Played for Drama: Bob, Alice, and Carol are federal agents using this to infiltrate a mob boss's club, hoping they don't meet up with anyone they know.
- Played for Horror: Bob is a rapist, and Alice and Carol are his drugged up sex slaves.
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