Cock Fight/Playing With
Basic Trope: Two guys compete for a girl's affections, sometimes violently.
- Straight: Marcus and Josh are both interested in Deidre and become antagonistic once both are aware of the other's intentions.
- Exaggerated:
- If I Can't Have You
- Groups of men go at war over Deidre.
- Justified: Deidre is the only attractive single female of the whole cast.
- Inverted: Betty and Veronica
- Subverted:
- Deidre settles everything by saying that she isn't interested by either of them.
- Marcus and Josh end up growing attracted to one another and go for the Gay Option.
- Double Subverted
- Not like that makes either of them stop...
- Except that they both eventually realize they were Better As Rivals and go right back to what they originally wanted.
- Parodied:
- The Cock Fight becomes literal.
- The Cock Fight becomes metaphorically literal.
- Deconstructed: The fight becomes so violent that Marcus eventually kills Josh, who was the one Deidre was pining for and she refuses to be with Marcus as a result.
- Reconstructed: ...wait, no, Josh was only knocked out, like he'd knocked out Marcus before. Still, the scare makes them agree to not fight as violently anymore, and to keep it to showing off.
- Zig Zagged: ??
- Averted: Deidre isn't pined for by anyone.
- Enforced: "Hey guys, we need to show that this girl's worth more than the others. Let's have the two most desirable dudes in the show fight over her!"
- Lampshaded: "Oh God... There they go again!"
- Invoked: ??
- Defied: "Fighting over a girl? What are we, high school boys?"
- Discussed: "Marcus and Josh are such idiots fighting over you like that, Deidre. When are you gonna sit them down and talk to them about it?"
- Conversed: "Hey, look at those guys, fighting over a chick! I wonder who'll win..."
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