Romantic False Lead: Difference between revisions

** Happened again with the adaptation of ''[[Mr Popper's Penguins]]'', in a very similar manner in fact.

* Bill Pullman's character in ''[[Sleepless in Seattle]]'' is a decent guy, but he has bad sinuses, so its apparently alright for Meg Ryan to dump him for [[Tom Hanks]]. She does, at least, feel very bad about it. When she says she's not worthy of him, he doesn't contradict her, even if he accepts the inevitable break-up in good grace.

* ''The Guardian'' had a false lead in the form of Brian, Lulu's fiancé. Atypically for this trope, Nick had the chance to seriously undermine his rival (he knew about Brian's infidelity) but didn't take it. He did try to persuade Lulu to choose him over Brian, but she went through with the marriage... and inevitably realized it had been a mistake.

* Averted in ''Out Cold'', in which the protagonist's love interest is engaged to a nice guy in a wheelchair. In the end, {{spoiler|the protagonist urges her to go with her fiancé, and she does.}}

* Melanie in ''Hereafter'' has all the hallmarks of the love interest who helps George to deal with his [[Cursed with Awesome|abilities]]. Instead, she's an example of why he can't have a normal relationship. Then he ends up meeting a woman who just might be able to understand him...

* In the first scene of ''[[Darby O'Gill and the Little People|Darby O Gill and The Little People]]'', we see Sheelah Sugrue telling Katie what a good man her son Pony is, but Katie ends up with Michael instead.

 

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