Double Date Drugged Lipstick Dude, She's Like, in a Coma Dying Declaration of Love E Enemies To Lovers 'Started from the bottom now we here' Enemy Mine 'The enemy of my enemy is my friend' Escape Call Everyone Can See It F Fake-Out Make-Out 'They're coming this way, quick, kiss me so they won't suspect anything!' Fake First Kiss Fake Dating Ferris Wheel Date Moment Fighting Your Friend An example Fire-Forged Friends We didn't like/know each other, then we went through hell and now we're close First Girl Wins The first love interest introduced in the work is the character's endgame First Kiss Foe Romance Subtext In the work enemies have discussions/moments written as romantic ones would be, even though there is nothing romantic about the relationship in question Foot Popping Fourth Date Marriage We only just met - let's get married! A Friend in Need Standing by a friend through adversity Friendly Rivalry Friends with Benefits G 'Glad to Be Alive' Sex Go Through Me 'If you want them, you have to go through me/us' God Couple God-like characters get together Grand Romantic Gesture H Hair Contrast Duo An example Happily Married Get married, and are happy together Headbutting Heroes An example Held Gaze Heroes Want Redheads Both James and Harry Potter, with Lily Evans and Ginny Weasley, respectively Heterosexual Life Partners We're not in love, but we put each other before anyone/anything else.

Did You Just Romance Cthulhu? Divine Date Dating a god or godlike being Divorce is Temporary Don't You Dare Pity Me! Doppelganger Dating Character is dating someone who looks a lot like another character. Childhood Marriage Promise We're kids and they ask me to marry them and I promise that I will when we grow up Chocolate of Romance Citizenship Marriage Closet Key Maggie Sawyer was this for Alex Danvers Coitus Ensues Come Back to Bed, Honey Common Law Marriage They're 'married', just not legally Concert Kiss Conflicting Loyalty Choosing one over the other Covered in Kisses D Dating Catwoman A character is in a relationship with an antagonist/former antagonist Dating What Daddy Hates Declaration of Protection When the hero's first priority at all times is the protection of 1 person Derailing Love Interests When a character suddenly becomes OOC in order for writers to break up their (potential) relationship, so their SO can be paired with someone else/someone else can seem like the only option in comparison, 'without backlash' Devoted to You One character is completely devoted to the other. Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder Accidental Hug Accidental Kiss Agents Dating All Amazons Want Hercules All Girls Want Bad Boys All Guys Want Cheerleaders Almost Kiss Amazon Chaser Amicable Exes Anguished Declaration of Love Anywhere but Their Lips Aroused By Their Voice Arranged Marriage Awkward Kiss B Babies Ever After Bad Date Battle Couple Badasses who fight together, stay together Beach Kiss Beast and Beauty Because Destiny Says So Choosing to believe something 'fated' is the inevitable truth Beleaguered Childhood Friend You help out an old friend who turns out to be guilty/not who they were Belligerent Sexual Tension They fight so much a possible romance is kept at bay Beta Couple Secondary couple to the primary couple of a story Better as Friends A couple decides their relationship is better off being platonic Big Bad Friend Your good friend turns out to be the Big Bad, but doesn't want to harm you The Big Damn Kiss Epic kissing scene Birds of a Feather Similar people in a relationship Blind and the Beast Blind Date Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl C Cannot Spit It Out Can't tell you how I really feel Chastity Couple Together, but not physically intimate Childhood Friend Romance We grew up together, but then we get older and we fall in love. Which are not featured here nor allowed on this wikiĪ Aborted Declaration of Love A planned declaration which the character ultimately decides against, in the work. NOTE! The links mainly send you to the trope central, All The Tropes.Īlso there do exist strictly subjective tropes, To add a trope to a ship page, enter into the ship infobox section called tropes.

This is a guide to tropes related to relationships, mostly romantic, that can be added to the ship pages. Other tropes can be part of what makes storytelling so satisfying. Some tropes are archaic, misogynist, heteronormative patterns of storytelling that we can keep track of to criticise and help eradicate. Tropes are re-occurring patterns in storytelling that are so typical they are known tools to creators and reviewers alike.

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