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* [[No Ending]]: {{spoiler|At the end of the movie, Will finally gets together with April. Or maybe not. It's definitely implied that they reconcile as friends, but beyond that, it's left ambiguous.}}
* [[Official Couple]]: Soundly averted.
* [[Reality Ensues]]: While the movie teases at the possibilities, no, you cannot reconcile a relationship with a huge betrayal most of the time:
** Emily cheated on Will with his best friend. While it seems {{spoiler|they are able to patch things up a few years later, they realized they were incompatible and divorced.}}
** Summer ends her relationship with Will by going scorched earth on his boss, publishing a scandalous news article that gets him fired. While she does try to rekindle things with him while pregnant with another man's child, they realize {{spoiler|Will can't forgive her for her betrayal. So she sets him up with one of her exes, which is revealed to be Emily}}.
* [[The Reveal]]: Eventually, the viewer finds out which of the three women Will married.
* [[Romantic Comedy]]: Though it subverts or deconstructs most of the typical tropes.
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* [[Truth in Television]]: The movie received much praise for its realistic portrayal of modern relationships.
* [[Tying Up Romantic Loose Ends]]: Either subverted or averted entirely, depending on the character.
* [[Unreliable Narrator]]: Invoked by Will. He tells Maya that she has to guess which of the three women is her mom, and Maya names the first two: Emily and Summer. {{spoiler|Maya realizes that her father is still in love with April because she's the only woman who wasn't renamed.}}
* [[UST]]: Mostly between Will and April, the only one of the three with whom Will doesn't have a romantic relationship at some point.
* [[Wide-Eyed Idealist]]: Will is at first, about both love and politics.
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