The World Mocks Your Loss

You are in a relationship with the love of your life! You and said love are happy as can be and nothing can go wrong!

Then it does.

And you hate the world. Especially since the world seems to be mocking you for it. As you walk through the park, EVERYONE is paired up. You see couples on the benches, making out, couples on the lake, making out, couples under trees, making out, even the birds and frogs and PLANTS seem to be paired up with their life-long partner, and you're not. The world is mocking you.

If this is a musical, then this scene usually involved a very sad song. In a romantic comedy, the scene may go to extreme lengths to show the pair ups, and the scene will come after the Second Act Breakup and before the reconciliation.

This trope can be Played for Laughs or Played for Drama. Also, it doesn't have to be about romantic breakups - it can also be used when someone has died or gone missing, or some highly emotional object has been lost through no fault of their own. In these instances, expect the protagonist to mistake other people or objects for the one they lost.

Look for Lonely Piano Piece in visual examples.

Somewhat Truth in Television in that those who have recently lost something will tend to notice these things a LOT more than someone who hasn't suffered such a loss.

Compare Cold Turkeys Everywhere, wherein that trope is for people who willingly gave up something, and the world is tempting them constantly. Compare/Contrast Spontaneous Choreography. Contrast You Are Not Alone, but only in fiction. In Real Life, YOU ARE NOT ALONE.

Anime and Manga

 * In Neon Genesis Evangelion, Rei embodies this trope for Shinji due to her kind of being a clone of his mother ... sort of.

Comic Books

 * When the eponymous Groo the Wanderer thought his dog Rufferto was dead he kept seeing objects that reminded him of Rufferto's coloring.

Literature

 * In Lost In a Good Book, Thursday starts seeing infants everywhere en route to her physician's office; she fears she's lost her pregnancy when she realizes Landen has been eradicated.

Film

 * The "Scotty Doesn't Know" song in Euro Trip. The song was written to brag about how Scotty's girlfriend was cheating on him with the singer. They break the news to him by performing it at his graduation party, after which the song becomes a smash hit, Running Gag, and given the name of this film, a literal example of the world mocking his loss.
 * In Better Off Dead, Lane is constantly reminded of his ex, Beth, because every other guy in town (and Barney Rubble) wants to date her.

Video Games

 * In Final Fantasy VI, Celes is this trope embodied for Locke.
 * A large source of angst for Ragna the Bloodedge from Blaz Blue: he can't go far without coming across clones of his kidnapped and missing sister.
 * Played for Laughs in the DJMAX series, where realizing The World Mocks Their Losses is the Start of Darkness for the NB Rangers. A group of single, unlucky average joes transform into a Jerkass Super Sentai parody once they get fed up seeing other happy couples in the park and proceed to attempt to ruin them or just plain beat them up.

Western Animation
"Marge: Poor Ned. This is his first Jellyfish Festival alone.
 * In the Lion King: Simba's Pride, the scene after Kovu gets exiled is this, complete with song "Love Will Find a Way".
 * The Simpsons, after Ned lost his wife he sees couples dancing and having fun at the Jellyfish Festival.

Homer: I know. And it doesn't get any easier from here. There's the Tongue-Kissing Festival, Cinco de Ocho, the Hobo Oscars, days just made for lovers. Not widowers...lovers."


 * Parodied in the Futurama DVD Movie "The Beast with a Billion Backs"; right after Colleen and Fry break up, Fry sees increasingly comically unlikely coupling scenarios.

Real Life

 * People who have often lost someone dear to them, by death or otherwise, will often be reminded of it constantly, if nothing else because of a natural inclination towards nostalgia, and reading into things that remind them of that person. Talking to someone who just lost someone through death can lead to some especially strange metaphors. The truth is, of course, they're constantly thinking about their loss, so it's not that everything reminds them, it's that they insert the lost person into everything else: "My mother bought me this game," "My wife and I saw this movie together," which they may not remember every time they boot up that game or watch that movie. Even going into predictions like "My brother would've loved this song." becomes common for grievers.