Love Triangle/Playing With
Basic Trope: Two characters are in love with the same person, who has to choose between them.
- Straight: Bob is torn between two potential love interests, Alice and Charlotte.
- Exaggerated: Bob gets a lot of Ship Tease with Alice and Charlotte. But Danny is also interested in Charlotte, and Ethan has taken a liking to Alice...
- Justified: Bob has always been a bit on the indecisive side, and Alice and Charlotte both have wildly different traits he likes in a girl.
- Inverted: Alice and Charlotte both hate Bob, who has to choose who gets to be his Arch Enemy.
- Subverted: Alice finds out Bob and Charlotte aren't romantically interested in each other at all.
- Double Subverted: But then it turns out the reason Charlotte's always hanging out with Bob is so she can get closer to Alice.
- Parodied: Each of the three is attracted to the other two and Wangsts ludicrously over it. When someone suggests a threesome, each invariably responds "That's just silly." So they each take a third option.
- Deconstructed: Once they realise how fickle and indecisive Bob is, Alice and Charlotte both lose interest in him.
- Alternately, Charlotte snaps and murders Alice.
- Reconstructed: Bob and Alice are Happily Married, but that doesn't stop Charlotte from pining for him.
- Zig Zagged: Alice and Bob are happily together. Suddenly, Amber comes back to town and reminds him of their promise to get together when their older. Bob also realizes how She's All Grown Up and decides to give her another chance, kicking Alice to the curb and crushing their relationship.
- Averted: Bob only gets Ship Tease with one of the girls throughout the series.
- Bob is a Celibate Hero.
- Enforced: "We can't have Alice and Bob get together too easily, we need some drama. How about another girl who likes Bob?"
- Lampshaded: Alice: "Things were going so well with Bob. I was sure he was interested in me. So I guess I should have expected some new girl to appear out of nowhere and capture his attention...
- Invoked: Bob likes having two women after him, so he leads both of them on.
- Defied: Bob decides he doesn't have time for love.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "Is Bob ever gonna make his mind up?"
See, I met this other Troper, but I still like you as well!