Basic Trope: When faced with multiple love interests, the focus of their affection rejects them all.
- Staight: Alice is involved in a love triangle with Bob and Charles. In the end, she rejects them both.
- Exaggerated: The whole plot of the story is a Love Dodecahedron, which ends with everyone saying, "Screw it, never mind."
- Downplayed: Alice flirts with both Bob and Charles a little bit, and there is No Romantic Resolution. Word of God says none of them wound up together.
- Justified: Alice takes the fact that she can't choose to be evidence that neither of them is really a good match.
- Inverted: Bob and Charles, fed up with Alice's wishy-washiness, both lose interest in her.
- Subverted: Her best friend advises Alice to dump them all, and she agrees, but she then can't go through with it.
- Double Subverted: …until her best friend really pressured her to, at which point Alice does actually dump them both.
- Parodied: Alice is in a competition to dump as many guys at once as possible.
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted: Alice accepts Bob. Or Charlie. Or there’s no romantic arc at all.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: "There’s my fate somewhere close at hand! By the end of the year, I swear I’ll find out if it’s Bob or Charlie!"
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
Back to Dump Them All
