Line #4 PlayingWith/LoveTriangle


1	'''Basic Trope''': Two characters are in love with the same person, who has to choose between them.
2	* '''Straight''': Bob is torn between two potential love interests, Alice and Charlotte.
3	* '''Exaggerated''':
4	** Bob gets a lot of ShipTease with Alice and Charlotte. [[LoveDodecahedron But Danny is also interested in Charlotte, and Ethan has taken a liking to Alice...]]
5	** Bob and Danny are both torn between Alice and Charlotte, forming a "love square".
6	** Bob loves ''every woman'' (or, even better, ''every person'') ''in town''.
7	* '''Downplayed''':
8	** AliceAndBob are the OfficialCouple, but [[FanPreferredCouple most fanfics pair Bob with Charlotte anyway]].
9	** AliceAndBob are the OfficialCouple, but Charlotte is still in love with Bob.
10	* '''Justified''': Bob has always been a bit on the indecisive side, and Alice and Charlotte [[BettyAndVeronica both have wildly different traits he likes in a girl]].
11	* '''Inverted''': Alice and Charlotte both hate Bob, who has to choose [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou who gets to be his]] ArchEnemy.
12	* '''Subverted''':
13	** Alice finds out Bob and Charlotte aren't romantically interested in each other at all.
14	** [[DeathOfTHeHypotenuse Charlotte dies.]]
15	** ThirdOptionLoveInterest.
16	** Bob decides to MarryThemAll.
17	** Bob and Alice are in a relationship but they started having problems, Bob is suspicious of how close Alice and Charlie are and fears that she will dump him for Charlie or they will break up over an affair. After an argument, Bob goes for a drink and ends up having an affair in a moment of drunken vulnerability. Alice finds out (either by catching him in the act or by a guilty Bob telling her) and she angrily reveals that she and Charlie were only friends. They break up because of [[SelfFulfillingProphecy Bob's affair and paranoia]].
18	* '''Double Subverted''':
19	** But then it turns out the reason Charlotte's always hanging out with Bob is [[LesYay so she can get closer to Alice]].
20	** Alice reveals that she is also in love with Danny.
21	** Bob breaks up with his ThirdOptionLoveInterest and is in a LoveTriangle once again.
22	* '''Parodied''':
23	** Each of the three [[EveryoneIsBi is attracted to the other two]] and {{Wangst}}s ludicrously over it. When someone suggests a threesome, each invariably responds "That's just silly." So they each [[ThirdOptionLoveInterest take a third option.]]
24	** Bob is a polygamist.
25	** The love triangle also involves actual triangles.
26	* '''Zig Zagged''': Alice and Bob are happily together. Suddenly, [[OldFriend Amber]] comes back to town and reminds him of [[ThePromise their promise]] to get together when their older. Bob also realizes how SheIsAllGrownUp and decides to give her another chance, kicking Alice to the curb and crushing their relationship.
27	* '''Averted''':
28	** Bob only gets ShipTease with one of the girls throughout the series.
29	** Bob is a CelibateHero, Asexual, or Gay.
30	* '''Enforced''': "We can't have Alice and Bob get together too easily, we need some drama. How about another girl who likes Bob?"
31	* '''Lampshaded''': Alice: "Things were going so well with Bob. I was sure he was interested in me. So I guess I should have expected some new girl to appear out of nowhere and capture his attention..."
32	* '''Invoked''': Bob likes having two women after him, so he [[ManipulativeBastard leads both of them on]].
33	* '''Exploited''': Danielle sees that Bob is indecisive, and becomes his ThirdOptionLoveInterest.
34	* '''Defied''':
35	** Bob decides he [[CelibateHero doesn't have time for love]].
36	** Charlotte [[MurderTheHypotenuse snaps and murders Alice]], or vice versa.
37	** [[OneTrueThreesome Bob chooses to have a relationship with both Alice and Charlotte.]]
38	** Alice balks at the idea of competing with Charlotte and leaves early in the story.
39	* '''Discussed''': Bob: "You'd expect a hero like myself to be in a LoveTriangle, right? Well, I'm lucky enough to only love Alice."
40	* '''Conversed''': "Is Bob ever gonna make his mind up? Alice/Charlotte [[ShipToShipCombat is obviously the correct choice!]]"
41	* '''Implied''': Bob is shown flirting with both Alice and Charlotte, but never with the other female characters.
42	* '''Deconstructed''':
43	** Once they realize how fickle and indecisive Bob is, Alice and Charlotte both lose interest in him.
44	** The girls' quest for Bob's heart makes it look like they're treating ''him'' as the prize for their happiness. Bob essentially tells them both DidYouThinkICantFeel and stops pursuing them both.
45	** Alice and Charlotte [[MurderTheHypotenuse kill each other]] in a MurderSuicide, and Bob is DrivenToSuicide over this.
46	** [[VisualNovel/SchoolDays Bob strings both of them along, impregnates Charlotte, and sleeps around with every other girl he comes across, too. Eventually Charlotte kills Bob in rage, leading Alice to kill Charlotte and escape with Bob’s head in a]] [[MemeticMutation nice boat]].
47	* '''Reconstructed''':
48	** Bob finds two new love interests who don't care that he's indecisive.
49	** Alice balks at the idea of competing with Charlotte and leaves, but Bob realizes later that this was an indicator that she was actually the love interest worth keeping and tries to make up with her.
50	* '''Played For Laughs''': Bob and Alice are HappilyMarried, but that doesn't stop Charlotte from pining for him.
51	* '''Played For Drama''':
52	** The LoveTriangle is completely dramatic, with no jokes made of it, as in the average SoapOpera.
53	** Or Bob, who is entangled in a LoveTriangle between his two friends, is fed up with the constant LoverTugOfWar and cockfights, and because he does not want to lose their friendship he lies and tells them he is interested in someone else instead.
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55	[[LoveTriangle See, I met this other Troper, but I still like you as well!]]

Context PlayingWith / LoveTriangle