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{{trope}}
[[File:mario1 736.jpg|link=Super Mario Bros.|frame|Yeah, that's about how it works.]]▼
{{quote|'''Howard''': Wrong thing to say?
'''Batman''': Is it ever the right thing?
|''[[Batman Beyond]]''}}
▲[[File:mario1 736.jpg|link=Super Mario Bros.|frame|Yeah, that's about how it works.]]
A standard breakup line, commonly used in [[Real Life]]. One member of a couple suggests to the other that their romantic attachment end and they stay [[Better as Friends]]. This is usually taken badly ([[Unlucky Childhood Friend]], "friend zone", etc.). The speaker may or may not actually wish to be friends, or indeed ever have contact with their ex again, but wants to spare the other's feelings in any case.
See [[Just Friends]] for a type of [[Romance Arc]] that the '''Let's Just Be Friends''' line can be used to [[Ship Sinking|end]].
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== Film ==
* ''[[Starship Troopers (film)|Starship Troopers]]''. "Ain't it great how they want to be your friend right after they rip your guts out?"
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* [[Older Than Print]]: This actually occurs in [[Geoffrey Chaucer]]'s ''Troilus and Criseyde'' (Criseyde's Dear John letter, after she has dumped him for Diomede).
* In ''[[Anne of Green Gables]]'', This is basically the line Anne Shirley hands her childhood friend Gilbert Blythe when he asks her to marry him. Twice. {{spoiler|[[Victorious Childhood Friend|She comes around eventually]]}}.
* Subverted with Leslie Slote and Natalie in ''[[The Winds of War and War and Remembrance|The Winds of War/War and Remembrance
== [[Live Action Television]] ==
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