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So, [[The Hero]] and [[The Lancer]] are in [[Triang Relations|a love triangle]] with the [[White Magician Girl]] or the [[Action Girl]]. They both love her, and they each know that the other loves her, but she doesn't know how either of them feel. They [[Cannot Spit It Out]] to their [[Love Interest]] that she is a love interest. Since it would take too long for either one to [[Figure It Out Yourself|work this triangle out on his own]], they decide to talk with each other first.

 

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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* ''[[Maison Ikkoku]]'': Godai and Mitaka are intending to fight each other, but due to various complications they end up just getting drunk together.

== [[Film]] ==

* This happens in ''[[Hellboy II]]'', between HB and Abe Sapien. Don't ask me how a psychic fish-man and the Beast of The Apocalypse gets drunk on ''light'' beer, but they do. Afterward, {{spoiler|they sing a duet of 'Can't Smile Without You'.}} [[Crowning Moment of Funny]].

 

== [[Literature]] ==

 

* Done in the first season of ''[[Roswell]]'' with Kyle getting Max drunk while Liz is on a blind date with someone else. Since Max is an alien hybrid who reacts rather strongly to booze much [[Hilarity Ensues]]

* Done in an episode of ''[[Frasier]]''. Too bad the brothers didn't say the name of their loved ones. If they had, they'd have known it wasn't the same person.

* A one-sided and thus really awkward version happens in ''[[The West Wing]]'' episode "Commencement." Amy, Josh's on-again-off-again love interest, and Donna, his assistant and long-time [[Will They or Won't They?]], are working late together. Donna has had one beer; Amy has had three or four. Early in the episode Amy said something to Josh that bothered him and she doesn't know why, but Donna does, and they've been skulking around the issue all day. Amy finally brings it up. Donna says, "You have to get Josh," and explains at length. Amy says, "You said 'you have to get Josh'?" Donna, now in the other room: "I didn't mean to say that you don't... get him." Amy: "Are you in love with Josh?" Donna: "...." Massive Attack: ''Love you love you love you love you...''

* Used to the point of being a [[Running Gag]] in ''[[Chinese Paladin]] 3''. At first, the use of the trope is genuinely tragic ([[The Hero]] moping over his [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]] decision), but then becomes funnier when a pair of lovers in the midst of a [[Masochism Tango]] are competitively drinking each other under the table. By the end of the series, when a former antagonist struggling with [[What Is This Thing You Call Love?]] comes up, the hero merely hands him a bottle and sends him off.

 

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[[Category:Love Tropes]]

[[Category:Sadness Tropes]]

[[Category:Drowning Our Romantic Sorrows]]