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== Anime & Manga ==
* In [[Itazura na Kiss]] {{spoiler|[[Tall, Dark and Snarky|Naoki Irie]] finally comes to terms with his true feelings for [[Plucky Girl|Kotoko Aihara]] after he hears that her longtime friend [[The Idiot From Osaka|Kinnosuke]] [[Hopeless Suitor|proposed to her]]. He confronts her and tells her that [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|he doesn't want her loving anyone else]]. The pair share their first honest kiss and get their [[Relationship Upgrade]]. }} It only gets better from there.
* Tomari in ''[[Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl]]'' admits her feelings for Hazumu only after she catches her kissing with another girl, Yasuna.
* ''[[Ranma ½]]'': Multiple times, both ways, between Ranma and Akane, Ranma and Ukyo, and Ranma and Shampoo.
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* ''[[Inuyasha]]'': Happens in both directions between Inu-Yasha and Kagome, with Koga as Kagome's [[Romantic False Lead]] and Kikyo as Inuyasha's [[Psycho Ex-Girlfriend]] [[Resurrected Romance|back from the dead]].
* ''[[Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple]]'': Miu constantly denies that she has any interest until Kensei Ma's daughter Renka shows interest.
* Tomoe from ''[[Kamisama Kiss]]'' is a regular ass to the heroine Nanami 95% of the time but should another man so much as even talk to her watch out.
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* ''[[The Princess Bride (novel)|The Princess Bride]]'': The attraction that sparks off the jealousy is one-sided, but Buttercup first realizes that she's in love with Westley when the Countess Rugen starts ogling him.
* J.R. Ward's [[Black Dagger Brotherhood]] series uses this trope in ''Lover Awakened.'' {{spoiler|Zsadist is forced to realize he's bonded with Bella when his brother-in-arms Vishous provokes him. Basically, Vishous acts like he's going to go after her, at which point Z tackles him in a jealous rage, and Vishous explains to Z that he's invoking this trope ''while being strangled.''}}
* At the start of the [[Dragonlance]] Chronicles, [[The Hero|Tanis Half-Elven]] dumps his childhood sweetheart, [[Rebellious Princess|the elven princess Laurana]] and tells her he is in love with another woman, [[Dark Action Girl|Kitiara]]. It is only after [[Good Shepherd|Elistan]] starts sniffing around Laurana that Tanis realizes he does still have feelings for the elf maid.
* Amelia in ''Vanity Fair''.
* In ''[[The Hunger Games|Mockingjay]]'', Gale reveals that he didn't realize he loved Katniss until another guy flirted with her.
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* In the series ''Eva & Adam'', about middle-schoolers in love in Stockholm, Eva only realises she likes the new boy Adam when her best friend seems to say she may be interested in Adam.
* ''[[NCIS]]'': In the oft teased Tony and Ziva relationship, the two will usually deny any romantic feelings for eachother but will frequently show jealousy when the other person is in a relationship, i.e. when Ziva was with Micheal, Ray etc. or when Tony became involved with E.J. and Jeanne.
* In ''[[Suits]]'', Rachel kisses Mike after finding out he has started a relationship with Jenny.
* In ''[[Raising the Bar]]'', Bobbi gets jealous when Jerry is attracted to a professor he has brought in as an expert witness. He calls her out, and she finally wisens and acts on her feelings for him after [[Will They or Won't They?|pushing him away a few times.]]
* In ''[[Leverage]]'', Paker shows pretty much no interest in Hardison, in fact most of the time she is rarely focused on anything rather then her next theft. That is until Hardison shows an attraction to a client who is also a hacker, to which she starts to show clear jealousy towards this relationship.
* Played straight and then averted in ''[[That '70s Show]]''. Hyde realizes he has feelings for {{spoiler|Jackie, who has been pursuing him and trying to make him jealous. They then go on a date and realize there's not actually any chemistry between them. (...Then later they hook up out of boredom and become a couple for a time, until Hyde runs off to Vegas and drunkenly marries a stripper.)}}
* Caroline has one in the 3rd season premiere of ''[[The Vampire Diaries]]'' after seeing Tyler with a date during Elena's birthday party. Being what she is, she {{spoiler|mind controls the girl to go away and makes her feelings for Tyler pretty clear. Cue [[Relationship Upgrade]].}}
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* Avril Lavigne's "Sk8er Boi" is a song about a girl who is in denial about her love for a boy she knows until he's already been claimed by another. Unusually for arcs invoking the trope, she doesn't get him in the end. Here the rival is the song's point-of-view character, possibly the artist herself -- more normally we follow the fate of the girl having the epiphany.
* Toby Keith's "How Do You Like Me Now?" is about a guitarist/songwriter gloating through the radio at the girl who rejected him in high school and went on to marry some rich guy who never has time for his family.
* "Judy's Turn to Cry" by Lesley Gore (the sequel to "It's My Party (And I'll Cry if I Want To)") has the singer get Johnny back this way.
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