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1	'''Basic Trope''': Doing one relatively simple action would resolve the conflict [[TheMillstone and therefore make it pointless for the story to keep going]].
2	* '''Straight''': AliceAndBob are living in [[AwfulWeddedLife a loveless, unhappy sitcom marriage.]] [[HenpeckedHusband Bob]] finally gets up the nerve to tell [[{{Tsundere}} Alice]] that he wants a divorce. AliceAndBob get divorced, and all the fighting stops, thus ending the season.
3	* '''Exaggerated''': Alice and Bob get divorced, and the series is literally over; [[LeftHanging there's no telling]] what becomes of AliceAndBob (good, bad, or in-between) after the divorce.
4	* '''Downplayed''': Alice and Bob are constantly having problems with each other being secretive. After both start opening up the marriage becomes happier.
5	* '''Justified''':
6	** The entire series focuses on those two characters, with the rocky marriage as their primary conflict; ending the marriage basically ends the plot.
7	** RealLifeWritesThePlot: The actor that plays Bob wants to move onto a new series, so the divorce serves as a GrandFinale to ''AwfulWeddedLife''.
8	** The series is set and/or airing [[ValuesDissonance during a time]] when divorce was scandalous (possibly too scandalous for TV) and/or difficult to obtain, so divorce really ''isn't'' as much of an option for AliceAndBob as the audience (especially a modern, Western audience) might be led to believe.
9	** Bob and/or Alice are would rather stay married than spend their money on a divorce or don't have enough money for a divorce.
10	* '''Inverted''':
11	** AliceAndBob divorce, but the divorce makes the arguing ''worse'', as they quibble and quarrel over things like [[DivorceAssetsConflict assets and debts, child support, alimony]], etc.
12	** AliceAndBob [[YoYoPlotPoint keep divorcing or breaking up and getting back together]].
13	* '''Subverted''':
14	** Alice and Bob get divorced, which opens up any number of new plotlines (such as AliceAndBob reentering the dating scene, GuessWhoImMarrying, DivorceAssetsConflict, just to name a few.)
15	** Alice and Bob TakeAThirdOption, such as going through couples' therapy or a trial separation.
16	* '''Double Subverted''':
17	** But then Alice and Bob [[DivorceIsTemporary get back together]], and they're [[StatusQuoIsGod back to their old problems again]]. They get back together ''the same episode'' as the divorce.
18	** The series makes it clear that although they're attending couples' therapy, it isn't working and a trial separation led only to a GreenEyedEpiphany. AliceAndBob are still anything ''but'' HappilyMarried, and they should have just gotten a divorce.
19	* '''Parodied''':
20	** Alice and Bob divorce. Cue Bob lying alone in bed, asking, "Now what?" and hearing only crickets in response.
21	** After the divorce, Bob's friends throw a "reverse bachelor party" in Hawaii in an attempt to lift his spirits...which (among other things), involves Bob [[JumpingTheShark water-skiing over a shark]].
22	* '''Zig-Zagged''': YoYoPlotPoint
23	* '''Averted''':
24	** Alice and Bob's rocky marriage is only one of many PlotThreads in the series.
25	** Alice and Bob are HappilyMarried.
26	* '''Enforced''': "Let's create a DomCom centered around an unhappily married couple!"
27	* '''Lampshaded''': "We can't get a divorce! That would ruin everything!"
28	* '''Invoked''':
29	** Alice and Bob don't love each other anymore, but have developed [[DestructiveRomance a creepy co-dependency]] on each other, and hesitate to get a divorce for just that reason.
30	** Alice and Bob really can't afford to get a divorce right now, or are waiting for the real-estate market to improve so they can sell the house.
31	* '''Exploited''': ???
32	* '''Defied''': Alice and Bob decide that they are going to look at the divorce as a new beginning, not an ending, and take advantage of the opportunity, even though it means stepping out of their comfort zones.
33	* '''Discussed''': "If Alice and Bob are so miserable, why don't they just divorce?"
34	* '''Conversed''': "Well, for a series focused solely on Alice and Bob and playing their AwfulWeddedLife for every laugh it's worth, it would kill the premise, and there's no guarantee a ReTool would be more compelling for the audience."
35	* '''Played For Laughs''': SitCom
36	* '''Deconstructed''': Even [[SimpleSolutionWontWork the alleged "simple solution" brings its fair share of excessively nasty complications]] and all Alice and Bob got from taking it is [[SadisticChoice jump off one train wreck straight into another]].
37	* '''Reconstructed''': [[WorthIt It's a start.]]
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41	%% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion:
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43	%%* '''Implied''': ???
44	%%* '''Deconstructed''': ???
45	%%* '''Reconstructed''': ???
46	%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???

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