Operation: Jealousy: Difference between revisions

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{{quote|'''Hermione''': ''"I've just escaped--I mean, I've just left Cormac under the mistletoe."''<br />

== Comic Books ==

* In the ''[[Insecticomics]]'', Thrust tries to talk Dreadmoon into dating someone else to make Starscream jealous. When Thrust suggests he be the Convenient Clancey, it becomes rather obvious that the [[Zany Scheme]] is at least half a plot to hook up with Dreadmoon himself.

 

 

== Fanfiction ==

 

 

== Film ==

* In the film version of ''[[Grease]]'', pretty much all the main-main characters do this. Sandy begins seeing Tom to provoke Danny, and dumps him as soon as Danny asks her to the big dance. Later, Kenickie brings Cha-Cha to the dance after a fight with Rizzo, while Rizzo brings the leader of the rival street gang in a counter-effort to provoke Kenickie. Cha-Cha, for her part, cuts into Danny and Sandy's dance, which causes Sandy to storm out--after Rizzo has already done so due to seeing Kenickie with Cha-Cha.

{{quote| '''Warren:''' Dude, you are so stupid. She's totally into you.<br />

'''Will:''' Not after tonight. I wouldn't be surprised if Layla or any of the other guys never talked to me again.<br />

 

== Literature ==

** She then attempts this strategy with another couple. It backfires because she didn't know that the guy was trapped by a promise not to marry anybody.

** She even used it herself. She has rejected Gilbert, who is now seeing Christine Stuart. She's not really in the mood to go to a party, and acts rather distant on the walk there, but the very minute she enters the room she starts pretending to be the most fascinating and wonderful girl present, drawing all attention (including Gilbert's) to herself.

*** Obviously, "Why didn't I think of that?" has one meaning directed to Harry ("It would prevent us from being embarrassed") and one directed to the reader ("Operation Jealousy would have worked even better").

** It's worth noting that Hermione was ''not'' doing this with Viktor. As far as Harry (and the readers) see, she actually liked Viktor, and he her. Which is probably why she got so angry when Ron accused her of "snogging the enemy." She was trying to move on from worrying over Ron, and he was being petty about it (out of his own jealousy).

* Tom and Becky do this in ''[[The Adventures of Tom Sawyer]],'' making it [[Older Than Radio]].

* Kitty tries this on Jack in [[Georgette Heyer]]'s ''Cotillion''. A subversion, in fact, since {{spoiler|it works, to a point, but by that point Kitty's in love with Freddy.}}

* ''[[Daisy Miller]]'': An [[Alternate Character Interpretation]] that Daisy was using Giovanelli all along to make Winterbourne jealous after she felt he let her down in Vevey, or that she decided to mess with Winterbourne's head when she saw how much her flirting with Giovanelli annoyed him, started such a heated [[Fan War]] that [[Word of God|Henry James]] had to write his friend and assure her that Daisy was never planning anything of the sort; she was too clueless in the politics of romance to plan such a thing. [[Shaggy Dog Story|Not that it matters, anyway...]]

* In ''[[The Sword of Truth]]'', Richard's former girlfriend didn't like their relationship developing too slowly. So, she let him catch her screwing his brother and '''invited him to join'''. Got a blank stare, and that was it.

 

 

** April tries to use Operation Jealousy AGAINST Andy too, by flirting with Jean-Ralphio, and later with her new boyfriend Eduardo. The first fails because Jean-Ralphio is a [[Casanova Wannabe|douche]], the second because Eduardo and Andy actually get along really well.

* In ''Seacht'', after Eithne slept with MÃ&shy;cheál, his girlfriend, Paddy, came to the show and shagged Pete, who was Eithne's boyfriend at the time. Drama ensued. Oh, and to make matters worse, Eithne and Paddy are sisters.

* On ''[[Gossip Girl]]'' Blair brings home a British lord from her vacation in Europe to make Chuck jealous. Later on Chuck and Vanessa team up to make Blair and Nate jealous.

* In ''[[Hannah Montana]]'', Miley attempts this on Jake to get him to break up with his girlfriend. It later turns out that the "girlfriend" was just Jake using [[Operation: Jealousy]] on Miley... and succeeding.

* Been done a couple of times on ''[[Glee]]'':

 

== Video Games ==

** Of course, if you're paying a fair amount of attention (and selecting the right conversation options), you can see this coming from fairly early on.

 

 

== Western Animation ==

* In ''[[Danny Phantom]]'', Kitty possesses [[Rich Bitch|Paulina]] and dates the main hero who has a crush on her, all in order to make her on/off boyfriend Johnny 13 jealous.

* ''[[Johnny Bravo]]'' was the victim of this twice in the first season. Once by a [[Talking Animal|antelope]].

* An episode of ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'' had Beezy using [[Butt Monkey|Samy]] as a pet in order to get his real pet Rocky away from Jimmy.

* Parodied twice on ''[[Family Guy]]''. The first time Stewie fell in love with a girl at day care and then held hands with another girl when he thought she was seeing someone else.

{{quote| '''Stewie''': Was it one? No, two. Yes. She's two weeks younger than you!}}

'''Brian''': How are you a hot date?<br />

'''Stewie''':Whoa! You're angry at her, not me. No wonder you're alone. }}

* Done twice in ''[[Hey Arnold]]''. One of these instances is when Helga attempts to rouse Arnold's jealousy by dating Stinky (she gets this idea by viewing an in-universe film that uses this very trope). The other instance is when Helga convinces Arnold to 'date' her in order to capture Lila's attention (who is dating Arnold's cousin, Arnie, at the time).

 

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