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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.''<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!''|''[[
[[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.
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See also:
* [[Official Couple]]: [[Just Friends]] ships in works with the pair as two of a small cast of 3 or 4 characters will often have the only meaningful [[Ship Tease]] and relationship development, as writers are reluctant to involve what is often their only male or female character into a [[Love Triangle]] or make them look like a jerk for playing more than 1 of the other cast members against each other.
* [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]]: Rarely used by a [[Just Friends]] couple. When done it's often part of a [[Power Trio]] where the 3rd character is the calming influence, or the 3rd party is involved in their own more typical [[Just Friends]] relationship with the 'shared' partner of a [[Love Triangle]]. ''[[Harry Potter]]'' and ''[[
* [[Better as Friends]] or [[I Don't Want to Ruin Our Friendship]]: Used to [[Ship Sinking|sink]] one of these ships, or used as the starting state of the romantic pairing before they develop romantic feelings.
* [[Like Brother and Sister]]: The characters literally think of each other as siblings despite lacking a blood relationship.
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** [[Running Gag|Bossanova or Vossanova or Kossonova or Casanova or whatever his name]] is, with Haruhi. Haruhi being [[Sweet on Polly Oliver|a trap]] complicates things by causing them to project an image that brings flocks of [[Yaoi Fangirl|yaoi fangirls]] to them. Haruhi being utterly, completely [[Oblivious to Love]] doesn't help either.
* [[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]: Kazuki Takahashi claims that this is what Joey/Jonouchi and Mai are. [[Relationship Writing Fumble|Yeah, sure.]]
* For most of ''[[Ranma
{{quote| '''Akane:''' Are you worried about what I said? You're the one who forced me to say it! You made me say I hated you.<br />
'''Ryoga:''' Please don't try to comfort me!<br />
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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 [[Just Friends]] under the lame excuse of avoiding fraternization rules. Which probably wouldn't have applied to them since they are both officers.
* ''[[Lizzie McGuire]]'': Gordo developing feelings for Lizzie, as Lizzie remains oblivious. Eventually, the [[Alpha Bitch]] points out that Gordo isn't trying to show off because he thinks he's better than Lizzie, but that he's trying to impress Lizzie because he likes her.
** 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 [[Just Friends]] relationships in those shows: ''[[
*** In a way ''Lizzie McGuire'' is the [[Trope Codifier]] to the [[Just Friends]] relationship in post 2000 teen television, after [[Slap Slap Kiss]] Love/Hate type couples had dominated the 90's and the Ron/Hermione ship in ''[[Harry Potter]]'' had introduced it all over again.
* ''[[Life with Derek]]'': This trope is the actual title of an episode which is devoted entirely to playing straight, subverting, deconstructing, and generally having fun with the trope.
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