Basic Trope: A character who starts off as a prominent character ends up becoming a Satellite Love Interest.
- Straight: In the movie The Adventures of Bob, Bob's Love Interest Alice is an important character, and they end up getting married at the end of the movie. In the sequel The Adventures of Bob 2, Alice becomes a much less prominent character and her only notable characterization is being Bob's wife.
- Exaggerated: Alice was an extremely important character to the plot of The Adventures of Bob. However, in The Adventures of Bob 2, she's completely absent aside from Bob occasionally mentioning his wife.
- Downplayed: Alice is still seen as an important character in her own right, but a lot of her characterization is dropped in favor of simply being mentioned as Bob's wife.
- Justified: The plot of The Adventures of Bob 2 is much more suited to Bob's skills than Alice's.
- Inverted: Alice was originally a Satellite Love Interest to Bob, but she gradually becomes a more interesting and divergent character in her own right.
- Subverted: ???
- Double Subverted: ???
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted:
- Bob does not get a Love Interest.
- Alice remains an important character or Satellite Character throughout.
- Alice and Bob are both Demoted to Extra, instead of just one of them.
- Enforced:
- The actress who plays Alice cannot show up for filming as often, so they reduce her part in the sequel.
- The Adventures of Bob 2 focuses on a storyline that Alice is not as important to.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "Alice was one of the main characters in The Adventures of Bob, how come she's just classified as Bob's wife in the sequel?"
- Deconstructed: Alice becomes this way because Bob is abusive, wearing down her sense of self and manipulating her into having no life or identity outside of him.
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