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{{trope}}
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{{quote|'''[[Girl Next Door|Carly]]:''' ''I thought we talked about this. We can be buds, but you gotta get over this crush thing.''
'''[[Dogged Nice Guy|Freddie]]:''' ''I am over it! Seriously! I'm in love with you, you just want to be friends, and I'm totally cool living with that constant pain!''
|''[[iCarly]]'', "i[[Pilot]]"}}
[[Ship Tease|Teasing]] at a [[Unresolved Sexual Tension|romantic relationship]] between two platonic friends. The central driving force of many whole series, or an undercurrent to a main plot. The force with which the two deny any feelings is always inversely proportional to the truth.
▲{{quote|'''[[Girl Next Door|Carly]]:''' ''I thought we talked about this. We can be buds, but you gotta get over this crush thing.''<br />
▲'''[[Dogged Nice Guy|Freddie]]:''' ''I am over it! Seriously! I'm in love with you, you just want to be friends, and I'm totally cool living with that constant pain!''|''[[I Carly]]'', "i[[Pilot]]"}}
▲[[Ship Tease|Teasing]] at a [[Unresolved Sexual Tension|romantic relationship]] between two platonic friends. The central driving force of many whole series, or an undercurrent to a main plot. The force with which the two deny any feelings is always inversely proportional to the truth. [[Just Friends]] is in essence, a relationship, a potential relationship or teased relationship between people who are simply [[Just Friends]], in a normal, and regular manner. When a character uses the line "We're [[Just Friends]]" but no-one seems to believe them, this is likely to be the trope involved.
Alice's characterisations often include: [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]], [[First Girl Wins]], [[Single Woman Seeks Good Man]]. Often suffers from [[Oblivious to Love]].
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Bob's characterisations often include: [[Unlucky Childhood Friend]], [[Ridiculously Average Guy]], [[Dogged Nice Guy]], a [[Celibate Hero]], a [[Knight in Shining Armor]] for his friend-girl.
A tease used commonly in [[
The [[Relationship Upgrade]] is used as a major plot point for a season [[Cliff Hanger]] or [[Grand Finale|series finale]]. An easy way to generate tension.
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See also:
* [[Official Couple]]:
* [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]]: Rarely used by a
* [[Better
* [[Like Brother and Sister]]: The characters literally think of each other as siblings despite lacking a blood relationship.
* [[Friends
* [[Aw, Look -- They Really Do Love Each Other]], [[Will They or Won't They?]], [[Single Woman Seeks Good Man]], [[She Is Not My Girlfriend]], [[Everyone Can See It]], [[Last
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: Which is often given this type of relationship in slash [[Fan Fiction]].
* [[Platonic Life Partners]]: When a man and a woman are the equivalent of [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]. They tend to be the closest relationship either of them has with anyone, but there is no sexual or romantic component to their relationship. In short, they really ''are'' just friends.
* [[Stupid Sexy Friend]]: Even when they agree they ''should'' just be friends, one (or each) can't get rid of his/her sexual thoughts about the other.
* [[Last Het Romance]]: In the event Alice or Bob discover they're gay once they start dating, they usually end up
It is also the title of a 2005 comedy film based pretty much entirely on the trope. It is now located at ''[[Just Friends (
'''This is a [[Love Tropes]] and entries may spoil the [[Ending Tropes|endings]] of relationships and works as a whole. You have been warned.'''
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== Anime & Manga ==
* In the first episode of the anime [[D.N.Angel]], Daisuki is looking forward to finally confessing his feelings to his longtime crush Risa. Only for just right before he can say anything, she thanks Daisuke for being such a good '''friend''' to her, heavily emphasizing the word friend. The look on Daisuke's face made it look like it would of hurt less if he was just kicked between the legs.
* ''[[Helios Eclipse]]'': Helios and Mineko.
* ''[[
* ''[[Kaichou wa Maid
* ''[[Sugar Sugar Rune]]'': Chocolat and her male school friend, Mimura.
* ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'': Yuusuke actively denies that his relationship with Keiko is nothing more than friendship. However, it's assumed by everyone that the two are dating (including the mentioned pair,
** That's at the end of the series, when she already did for the very good reason that he's planning to leave for three years and fight demons in another dimension while she goes to high school. She winds up waiting for him, though.
** He stops protesting that after he comes back to life the first time, really, but it's a pretty strictly fighting manga, so they never discuss their relationship or interact much. It was established quite early on that neither has to even stop and think about dying for the other, though.
* ''[[The Girl Who Leapt Through Time]]'': This is how Makoto sees Chiaki and Kousuke {{spoiler|until she realizes her feelings for Chiaki.}}
* ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'': In Episode 21, Souga Kazukiyo the class rep has feelings for Kurakano, who have been good friends for most of their life. Souga doesn't want to cause problems or change things, and also has something of a [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]] moment when relating Kurakano's feelings for Haruhi.
** [[Running Gag|Bossanova or Vossanova or Kossonova or Casanova or whatever his name]] is, with Haruhi. Haruhi being [[Sweet
* [[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]: Kazuki Takahashi claims that this is what Joey/Jonouchi and Mai are. [[Relationship Writing Fumble|Yeah, sure.]]
* For most of ''[[Ranma
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'''Ryoga:''' Please don't try to comfort me!
'''Akane:''' But, Ryoga, it wasn't right! Because I actually... I like you, Ryoga!
'''Ryoga:''' You do? Really?
'''Akane:''' I really do, Ryoga. You're a good friend. Let's be friends forever! }}
** In the same vein, Ranma considers Akane a good friend.
*** Well, in the [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]] sense. Their closeness is a tool for providing more backbone for the [[Aw, Look -- They Really Do Love Each Other]] status their relationship has.
** In the manga, Akane says this when Ranma's mirror clone tells Akane that Ranma likes her.
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* ''[[
** The 2nd part has Kanae end up with this by default, due to [[Cannot Spit It Out]] by her to Takaki as well as {{spoiler|Takaki's ongoing feelings for Akari closing his heart to anyone but Akari.}}
* ''[[Detective Conan]]'': Heiji and Kazuha believe they are
* In ''[[Nodame Cantabile]]'', [[Dirty Old Man|Stresemann]] and [[Grandma, What Massive Hotness You Have!|the Academy's director]] decided to stay this, after the director received an illness that stopped her from playing the piano again when she was younger, though they had the potential to become lovers if the illness hadn't struck, as noted by Stresemann's assistant.
* ''[[Madlax]]'' Madlax and Vanessa. Vanessa and Elenore in earlier episodes.
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== Comics ==
* ''[[X-Force]]'': Cable and Domino have a long history, during which they've been everything from genuinely just friends to teammates to [[Friends
* ''[[Yoko Tsuno]]'': Yoko and Vic, after being
* The ''[[Static (
* An issue of the ''[[Gargoyles]]'' comics produced by SLG had Lexington ask a pair of gargoyles named Coco and Staghart if they're a mated pair. They both laughingly deny it, but assure him they're very good friends. This has been taken as a hint that Staghart might be "like a nine bob note" as they say in London. Many fans speculate that if the comic had shown more of Lexington's adventures in London, Staghart would've at least been his [[Closet Key]], perhaps someday a permanent mate.
* Played as a [[Running Gag]] in ''[[Quantum and Woody]]'', as Woody regularly informs everyone within earshot that he and Quantum are "not a couple."
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== Fan Fiction ==
* The unnamed protagonist of [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
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'''Narrator:''' A friend! }}
== Film -- Live Action ==
* ''[[Not Another Teen Movie]]'': The trope as a whole is mercilessly lampshaded. Ricky is madly in love with Janey, who completely ignores every word he says. She falls for Jake, the [[Jerk
* ''[[Just Friends (
* ''[[Kal Ho Naa Ho]]'': Rohit and Naina, until the Relationship Upgrade.
* ''[[13 Going
* ''[[Zack and Miri Make
* ''[[
* Very narrowly averted in ''Are We There Yet?'' when [[Ice Cube]]'s character is about to get stuck permanently in the "Friends Zone". he can practically hear the warning:
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* ''[[Clerks II]]'' has Dante trying to tell himself that Becky and him and this. So not.
* In ''On a Clear Day You Can See Forever'', Tad Pringle (played by [[Jack Nicholson]]) is utterly in love with Daisy Gamble (played by [[Barbra Streisand]]) and even declares outright that he'd be better for her than any of the men she's been seeing; unfortunately for him, she considers him her best friend, and only her best friend. The fact that he's ''technically'' also her step-brother (their parents married after both Tad and Daisy were adults) doesn't help his case much, despite his pointing out that "We're only related through marriage."
* Isabel told Donald Morton that she wants to be this in ''Mozart and the Whale''. Soon after Donald in his social clumsiness does something that provokes such trauma in Isabel that she attempts suicide. He asks her to marry him. When she has recovered from this she [[Single Woman Seeks Good Man|actually does marry Donald]].
* In ''[[Friends
* In the Finnish film ''Lights in the Dusk'' (''Laitakaupungin Valot''), the only person Koistinen can depend on is the local hot-dog stand owner Aila ("Grillija"), who clearly wants them to be more than just friends. Koistinen blows her off the first chance he can get a lady, but persists in returning to poor heartsick Grillija whenever he needs help.
== Literature ==
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* ''[[Everlost]]'': Nick and Allie.
* ''[[Harry Potter]]'' - Harry and Hermione were confirmed by [[Word of God]] to be [[Platonic Life Partners]]. The relationship was never intended to be seen romantically. Nevertheless, this ship is a cruise liner, with several of the film adaptation leaders at the helm.
* [[Girl, Fifteen, Charming but Insane]]: Jess and Fred.
* ''3001'', the final book in the [[The Space Odyssey Series]] has Frank Poole introduced to the future by Indra, one of the few historical experts in time he came from. After forming an extremely close friendship, they begin a relationship when he returns from a mission to Jupiter.
* [[The Dresden Files]]: Harry and Murphy.
** At the end of "Changes", the possibility at becoming more is hinted at rather strongly {{spoiler|until Harry's apparent death}}
* ''My Most Excellent Year'' by Steve Kluger plays with this. The protagonist, TC, spends most of the book in a mutually flirtatious not-quite-relationship with his classmate Alé. At one point, he tries suggesting that they just remain friends... as a gambit to trigger a [[Relationship Upgrade]]. It doesn't work.
* In the early books of the [[Anne of Green Gables]] series, Anne is constantly telling people that she and her childhood-enemy-turned-friend Gilbert Blythe, are just friends. She's not in love with him, does not harbor any type of feelings for him other than friendship, etc. etc. etc. Anne really does have feelings for him, she is just unaware of them. This question is never posed to Gilbert, since the entire town already knows he's madly in love with Anne.
* Tre and Allie of ''[[
* Lampshaded and averted in ''[[The War Against the Chtorr]]'' when the protagonist Jim McCarthy and his [[Colonel Badass]] girlfriend Liz Tirelli have a very loud breakup. When things quiet down, Liz half-heartedly suggests that maybe they could just be...whereupon Jim interrupts
== Live Action TV ==
* As written in the intro, this type of pairing often [[Ship Sinking|'loses']] to [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]] pairings. [[Nickelodeon
* ''[[
** Same show, different pairing: [[Shotacon|Paisley and Fletcher]]. Paisley likes him in a "Adorable kid" way. Neither is returning the feelings.
* ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'': Leonard and Penny. They eventually got a [[Relationship Upgrade]] that lasted almost a full season before they broke up.
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** And it got a lot more complicated with the end of season 6 and Brennan becoming pregnant with Booth's baby.
*** And they're together.
* ''[[Boston Legal]]'': Jerry and Katie became friends when they shared an office/cases together. Jerry develops feelings for Katie, which ends in a [[Last
* ''[[Caroline in The City]]'': Richard had been hiding his feelings for Caroline through the run of the show.
* ''[[Coupling]]'': Sally and Patrick are friends, but develop feelings for each other.
* ''[[Chuck]]'': Chuck and Sarah have feelings that they're hiding from each other, while simultaneously faking a relationship for the outside world.
** {{spoiler|Not anymore.}}
* ''[[
* ''[[
* The ''[[
** A DVD exclusive scene set after "Flesh & Stone" has the Doctor describing his previous companions this way. Unfortunately Amy tricks him into making the TARDIS computer display their images, and notes how many are young sexually-attractive females.
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** And in "The Impossible Astronaut"
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'''River:''' Don't worry, I'm [[The Immodest Orgasm|quite the screamer]]. Now ''there's'' a spoiler for you.
'''Canton:''' OK what's going on here?
'''Doctor:''' Errr nothing...she's just a friend.
''(Awkward pause)''
'''Rory:''' I think he's talking about the possible alien incursion. }}
* ''[[Eureka]]'': In the later seasons, Jack and Allison's has had their friendship as the core of their romantic interaction. {{spoiler|After being sent to and back from 1947, they get in a [[Love Triangle]], that is eventually resolved when they [[Discussed Trope|discuss being]]
* ''[[Gilmore Girls]]'': Marty towards Rory in the later college seasons. These seasons were characterised by a heap of [[Relationship Writing Fumble]], the pairing got sunk, he got written out in exchange for the rich, bad boy Logan, and he came back a season later as a huge [[Jerkass]].
* ''[[Gossip Girl]]'': Vanessa and Dan. A strange version where they both apparently had some feelings for each other when they were younger, but it became [[Platonic Life Partners]] until they had a drunken threesome with Dan's current girlfriend. That threesome revealed previously hidden (even to the audience) feelings for Dan towards Vanessa. They got together shortly afterward, but being a drama/soapy show, it hasn't been straightforward.
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* ''[[Hannah Montana]]'': Lily and Oliver. Quite a weird example as they'd been friends since pre-school, but their friendship had evolved into a [[Platonic Life Partners]] type deal, then something of a bickering [[Slap Slap Kiss]] thing, until it had a very sudden, off-screen [[Relationship Upgrade]] and turned into a [[The Masochism Tango|Masochism Tango]].
* ''[[The Hour]]'': Freddie and Bel. It is implied that Freddie had feelings for Bel when they first met, but she did not reciprocate and now they're just friends with [[UST]].
* ''[[
** In Season 4 this ship gets frozen, not given any closure and the focus of the romance on the show shifts to the [[Slap Slap Kiss]] styled Sam/Freddie pairing. But since that arc's over, this has yet to return...
* ''[[JAG]]'': Harm and Mac, get forced into [[UST]] through
* ''[[Lizzie
** Just as the series as a whole was something of a watershed and lead to multiple new shows that even if they were comedic, were also more serialized, dramatic and included developing romance arcs, it also paved the way for more
*** In a way ''Lizzie McGuire'' is the [[Trope Codifier]] to the
* ''[[Life
* ''[[Numb3rs]]'': Charlie and Amita had to remain
* ''[[Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide]]'': Ned and Moze. Complete with [[Last
* ''[[The Mighty Boosh]]'': According to [[Word of God]] (as if it wasn't already clear enough) this is what's going on with Howard and Vince. There's an obvious attraction between the two that's sometimes [[Lampshaded]], but the show is on Hiatus and they still aren't together
* ''[[My Name Is Earl]]'': Randy towards Catalina. Randy loved her, but she considered them Just Friends. They end up getting married for a green card. For some reason, they went through with the wedding night sex except that Catalina made herself completely undesirable. Randy got over her because of her actions. This led to a [[Unrequited Love Switcheroo]] that was never really followed up on.
* ''[[Pretty Little Liars]]'': Hanna and Lucas. Lucas the nerd (and not a [[Hollywood Nerd]] either), Hanna the homecoming queen.
* ''[[Reaper]]'': Andi wants to remain just friends with Sam, even when he wants more. Until she decides to be his girlfriend.
* ''[[Scrubs]]'': J.D. and Elliot went down this road for 7 seasons. They covered pretty much every variation of these tropes, the [[Will They or Won't They?]] getting [[Lampshaded]] on multiple occasions, becoming [[Friends
* ''[[Spaced]]'': Tim and Daisy became
* ''[[
* ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' had this with Carter and O'Neill, going so far as to have the characters admit that they do have feelings for each other, but never letting them get together ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_evV0kDWa5E well...])
* ''[[
** Kinda sucks for him considering the guy on other side of the triangle is pretty much his best friend on the ship (they have something of a [[Stargate Atlantis|Shep and McKay]] vibe at times). And the three of them got marooned together after missing the ship.
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** As of the season finale ''Incursion'', it's made perfectly clear that she isn't [[Oblivious to Love]] at all. She also drops some major friend zone bombs on Eli, and in a way tells him off for acting like her friendship is "second prize".
*** And poor Volker. It's like the scientists on the ship can't catch a break, with all the hot soldiers taking the chicks.
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* ''[[The X-Files]]'': Mulder and Scully are constantly trying to explain to people that they're [[Just Partners]]. Including two ghosts in a haunted house. And the series [[Big Bad]]. And random people off the street. [[Everyone Can See It|It never works]].
* ''[[Zoey 101]]'': Zoey and Chase.
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'''Ginny:''' What's up?
'''Lola:''' 'Blank' is in love with Zoey. Fill in the blank.
'''Ginny:''' ''(as though it were the most obvious answer in the world)'' Chase.
'''Lola:''' Thanks for playing. }}
* Depending on who you listen to, [[Law and Order Special Victims Unit|Benson and Stabler]] may count.
** Let the fun begin. They are portrayed as [[Platonic Life Partners]], but that subtlety is often lost, by the writers as much as by the fans. In the early and late seasons, when Elliot is married, it is upheld well, but there are some fairly [[Ship Tease]] moments in the middle, and it's understandable - they are, after all, very close. It doesn't help that Olivia often acts as if she were hopelessly in love with Elliot, which is obviously problematic and only adds to her [[Iron Woobie]] status, or that she has no family but him. On the whole, the fandom are split between thinking that they are an intense barrel of [[UST]] waiting to explode, or that they really ''are'' just friends, but of such an unusual sort that it is often mistaken for sexual tension. [[Your Mileage May Vary|Your Mileage Is Guaranteed To Vary]].
* [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Xander and Willow]] flirted with this, starting the show as [[Platonic Life Partners]]; however Willow was very much the [[Unlucky Childhood Friend]] who was secretly in love with Xander. Then they started developing feelings for each other [[Your Cheating Heart|while they were involved with other people]], before they finally decided they were [[Better
** Also, Buffy pulls this with Angel (and later {{spoiler|Spike}}) after their respective breakups. Nobody buys it.
** Spike sums up this trope most famously in "Lover's Walk", when referring to the Bangel relationship.
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* [[Inspector Lynley]] and [[The Not Love Interest|his partner]] Sergeant Havers are this. Really. Even though they've both called each other their reason to get up in the morning. And even though he turned up at her flat at midnight to tell her that he wasn't sure {{spoiler|he had ''ever really loved his wife''}}, something he'd never talked to ''anyone'' about before. Swear to God, [[Blatant Lies|they're just friends]]!
* [[Noah and Saskia]] have this going on big time. Saskia decides she's in love with Max (aka Noah), but Noah's getting hassled at school about his [[She Is Not My Girlfriend|internet girlfriend]], so to prove to himself he's not ''that'' much of a geek, he has a chat with Indy (aka Saskia) about how he's just figured out the point of the comic-in-progress, that is, that guys and girls can just be friends. Like they are. You know, 'buddies'. As the tie-in novel puts it: "what's about to happen is that two people who are friends are going to decide they're friends and that's kind of going to ruin their friendship".
* Barney and Robin's slow-building romantic relationship starts as this during season 3 of ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]''.
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'''Robin:''' Oh no! No! No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no! No! [[He Is Not My Boyfriend|Barney and I are not together.]]
'''Barney:''' Really? Sixteen 'no's? }}
* ''Mysterious Ways'' has a
** In one episode, the idea of "not being able to shake" your soul mate is posited. After Peggy and Miranda have called Declan's girlfriend's cell phone for the umpteenth time trying to reach him, said girlfriend says "Seems like you can't shake either one of them." That's about the strongest ship tease you get, though.
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== Radio ==
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Partly because I'm in love with another
But mainly because you get right up my nose'' }}
== Video Games ==
* ''[[Mass Effect]]'': The romances between Male Shepard and Tali, and the romance between a Female Shepard and Garrus are much like this, as they were not romance options in the first game. Tali herself says she wants to be "more than just friends", whilst the romance arc with Garrus is about overcoming his initial doubts, and hoping to make their strong friendship into something more.
** In ''[[Mass Effect 2|ME 2]]'', [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_9ZjTltAHE&feature=related there is] a turian male that the fandom has [[Fan Nickname|nicknamed]] the "[[Memetic Mutation|Friend-Zoned Turian]]". A quarian female (herself [[Fan Nickname|called]] "[[Valley Girl|Quarian Valley Girl]]") and the turian male are talking to one another at a bar. If you listen in to their conversations, the quarian is complaining about breaking up with her human boyfriend. It becomes clear over the series of conversations that the turian is clearly infatuated with her. At one point, he asks if she wants to watch a movie which "won awards for portraying turian and quarian relationships". The quarian is [[Oblivious to Love|completely oblivious to his advances]].
** In [[Mass Effect 3]] a female Shepard can hit on Joker, who declines, saying he never really thought of it. He then declines because of the 'chain of command' and because of his crush on EDI.
* Averted by [[Crusader Kings]]. The game assumes that any two characters of the opposite sex who are friends are actually lovers.
* This apparently cheeses off a [[Mad Scientist]] in the intro to ''[[Sam and Max Hit The Road]]'':
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* [[Resident Evil|Jill Valentine and Chris Redfield.]]
* In the backstory of ''[[
* In ''[[
** Rena also explicitly says this about [[Childhood Friend Romance|childhood friend Dias]], and says that she actually thinks of him as [[Like Brother and Sister|her big brother.]] But it's still possible for them to [[Relationship Upgrade|end up together in the ending]].
== Web Comics ==
* ''[[Questionable Content]]'': Faye and Marten danced around this for [[Wham! Episode|exactly 499 strips]].
** Marigold and Angus. They get drunk. She puts his hands on her boobs. He shoots her down.
** Elliot towards Padma.
** During the [[In Space]] arc Marten's relationship with Hannelore is seen this way by Hannelore's father and Lt Potter. Marten responds to Potter's remark about them being together with the exact words ''We're
* This appears to be at the heart of Jack and Sam's relationship in ''[[The Space Between]]''.
* ''[[VG Cats]]'': This trope [[Applied Mathematics|plus]] the ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'' {{spoiler|"Friendship" [[Finishing Move]]}} equals [http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=295 funny!]
* ''[[Keychain of Creation]]'': [[The Hero|Misho]] and [[The Lancer|Marena]] are pretty much stuck in the [[Friend Zone]], though neither wants to be. Marena wants to be [[Friends
** Actually, Marena wasn't Misho's First Age Lunar mate. They just happened to know each other back then.
* [[Bittersweet Candy Bowl]]... Oh ''dear'', BCB! They've jumped from point 1 to 3 recently, and that's only the central pairing.
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* ''[[Code Lyoko]]'': Yumi and Ulrich. From the first episode of season 4, "We're friends, that's all..." comes close to be their [[Catch Phrase]].
* ''[[Danny Phantom]]'': Danny and Sam. [[Everyone Can See It]] from roughly episode 11, but nothing becomes concrete until the final episode.
* ''[[Kim Possible]]'': Kim and Ron. Quite an unusual example, as their relationship is only really explored in Season 3, although they are hints and [[Ship Tease]] taking place in earlier seasons. They get a [[Last
** [[Relationship Upgrade]] as a [[Grand Finale]] is ridiculed by ''[[Kim Possible]]'' and her platonic pal Ron in the show's third season, in a bit of [[Lampshade Hanging]] that foreshadows the end to the then series-capping TV movie. The two watch a weepy teen drama called ''[[Soap Within a Show|Agony County]]'':
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'''Kim:''' Like that's ever gonna happen! It would end the series. }}
* In ''[[Justice League]]'', [[Batman]] insists that he and [[Wonder Woman]] are just friends. No one really buys it, including Wonder Woman herself, since she wants a [[Relationship Upgrade]].
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*** Of course, nothing is seen or heard of Wonder Woman in the entire Batman Beyond series.
* Speaking of ''[[Batman Beyond]]'', Howard has the nerve to say this to a super-strong gynoid girlfriend he bought when said gynoid has been actively trying to kill people for most of the episode. It does not end well. Terry even lampshades it:
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'''Batman:''' Is it EVER the right thing to say?! }}
** Terry and Max are poster children for this trope. They're best friends, she's his only confidant (other than Bruce), they spend more time together than Terry and his ''actual'' girlfriend, they're both pretty attractive...and there is never any indication that either of them wants anything but friendship.
* [[The Nightmare Before Christmas]]: There's indications of this with Jack and Sally before their [[Relationship Upgrade]].
* After kissing in ''[[Total Drama Island]]'', LeShawna basically cancels her relationship with Harold, saying their just friends. Harold still pines for her though, {{spoiler|The feelings are mutual}}.
* ''[[
* ''[[The Simpsons]]'': Towards the end of "Lisa's Date with Density", after finding out that he lied to her, Lisa and Nelson eventually broke up and simply became friends. The friendship is sustained later in the end of "Loan-a-Lisa" in which Lisa and Nelson skate with each other.
* This is how [[
* In an episode of ''[[
* [[Futurama]] with Fry and Leela. It's implied they will eventually end up together.
* In the ''[[
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