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{{quote|''"I love you, Tycho Brohe."''|'''Sydney''', from [[I Love You, Man|I Love You Man]] during his new best friend's wedding.<ref>to a woman</ref>}}

At the intersection of the [[Buddy Picture]] and the [[Romantic Comedy]] lies the ''bro''mantic comedy. In this case, however, both leads will be male and the relationship pursued will be strictly platonic, possibly diving headlong into [[Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?|"no homo"]] territory. Also unlike its romantic counterpart, a true Brom-Com is decidedly ''not'' a [[Chick Flick]].

Distinguishing between this trope and the buddy picture is a little more complicated, but a preliminary way to mark the difference is that a pure bromantic comedy would not center around, for example, unlikely allies coming together to overcome adversity. Rather, the plot of a Bro-Com is specifically driven by the relationship between the characters themselves, much like a regular [[Rom Com]]. Naturally, [[Happy Ending|if things work out well]], the story culminates in a (more or less) straightforward [[Heterosexual Life Partners|bromance]].

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* ''[[Evasive Inquiry Agency]]''
* ''[[Hot Fuzz]]'' fits the bill rather well.
* ''[[I Love You, Man]]'', which embraces and adapts countless [[Rom Com]] tropes.
* ''[[Love Actually]]'' is a [[Rom Com]] that has multiple couples, one of them is a bromantic couple.

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[[Category:Film Genres]]
[[Category:Bromantic Comedy]]