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{{trope}}
The [[Green
Before the crisis, the character is perfectly fine being [[Just Friends]] or [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|totally platonic]] [[Slap Slap Kiss|bickering partners]] with another. But then, that other character gets romantically involved with an interloper, causing their [[Unresolved Sexual Tension|not-at-all]] love interest to [[Can't Live With Them Can't Live Without Them|suddenly feel the sting of their absence]]. Once they finally admit to themselves their feelings, the [[Romantic False Lead]]'s got hell to pay.
In some works, this is the cue for a [[Relationship Upgrade]]. In other works where [[Status Quo Is God]], the envious one will stubbornly refuse to come clean and revert back to her "friend" self once the romantic complication is out of the picture. It's a [[Aw, Look -- They Really Do Love Each Other|Aw Look She Really Does Love Him]] moment -- but a hidden one. This arc is especially common when the jealous one is a [[Tsundere]].
Sometimes this trope comes into play after a couple has broken up, with one side having convinced herself that she's over him, until seeing her ex with a vixen causes her to gnash her teeth.
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A [[Sub Trope]] of [[Love Epiphany]].
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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 One Half]]'': Multiple times, both ways, between Ranma and Akane, Ranma and Ukyo, and Ranma and Shampoo.
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== Comics ==
* Elizabeth of ''[[For Better or For Worse]]'' had this problem: one plot arc involved her breaking up by proxy with Anthony before the school dance, only to get insanely jealous when her friend felt sorry for him and opted to take him instead. Infamously, this plotline was later echoed and writ large when Anthony ''got married'' and Liz lamented that [[
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* ''[[Community (TV)|Community]]'': Although Brita constantly insists she has no feelings for Jeff, she ends coming to terms with her feelings when Slater attempts to renew her relationship with him.
** This is also [[Subverted Trope|subverted]] when Annie attempts to get [[Parody Sue|Rich]] to join their study group. Jeff is seemingly jealous because of his feelings for Annie, but it's later revealed that he was being apprehensive simply because he hates how perfect Rich is, and once to learn how to manipulate others with similar perfection.
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* Teased a few times with Josh and Donna on ''[[The West Wing]]'', but hammered home on Donna's part when Josh starts dating Amy Gardner.
* 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 (TV)|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 (TV)|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 (TV)|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 (TV)|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.)}}
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