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[[Alice and Bob|Bob loves Alice]], his childhood sweetheart/girl he dated in [[High School]]/college classmate. Unfortunately, Alice is dating [[Romantic False Lead|André]], a suave, handsome, rich foreigner who has asked her to marry him and move far away from Bob. The audience roots for Bob, as he's both the underdog and the same nationality as they, the target audience. It is soon revealed that [[Everyone Looks Sexier If French|André]] [[Derailing Love Interests|is a jerk]], or at the very least isn't as good a match for Alice as Bob is, and Alice unceremoniously dumps him in favor of Bob.

 

 

A form of [[Creator Provincialism]] portrayed as a [[Love Triangle]]. Related to [[Betty and Veronica]]; which lover is which is quite obvious. A subtrope of [[Wrong Guy First]].

 

== [[Anime]] ==

* ''[[Sweet Home Alabama]]'' does it with States instead of Nations. Alabama vs. New York (which, granted, are about as different as different countries to some people).

* Inverted by ''[[Crocodile Dundee]]'', which ends with American Sue Charlton choosing the Australian main character over her stateside boyfriend.

* ''[[French Kiss]]'' has the audience initially rooting for American Meg Ryan to win back her Canadian fiancé from a French seductress. In an inversion however, as the film goes on the audience instead begin to root for her and French thief Kevin Kline to get together.

* ''[[The Rescuers]] Down Under'' has Jake as the foreigner, but he's not exactly evil, and Miss Bianca herself is Hungarian.

** Much earlier in the series, Ross vs. Páulo (Italian, I think) over Rachel. Páulo eventually tries it on with Phoebe and the whole gang turns against him, after several episodes of Ross looking mopey and bemoaning the situation to everyone else. He's understandably chirpier when Rachel dumps Páulo, but it kinda backfires when she tells him she's sworn off men for the foreseeable future.

* ''[[Desperate Housewives]]'' did this with the whole Ian/Susan/Mike triangle.

* Woody vs. Henri on ''[[Cheers]]''.

* Reversed, then played straight on ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'' when Robin dumps strait-laced Ted to go to Argentina, brings back an [[Romantic False Lead|Andre]], then gets annoyed and dumps him, but not to go back to Ted.

 

== [[Theatre]] ==

 

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