Disposable Fiancé: Difference between revisions

** And, on that note, ''[[You've Got Mail]]'', although in that movie they were merely Disposable Roommates Who Are In Long Term Relationships With The Leads. But that doesn't roll off the tongue nearly as easily, does it?

*** They also filled the roles of being perfectly compatible with the two mains as they perceived themselves and were perceived at the beginning of the film, as they both start to grow and are shaped by the events of the film, they realize they are only compatible with their starting partner on superficial levels but are perfect for each other on deeper levels (even if they are superficially disagreeable with each other). All in all, done better here than most other times, since the audience is perfectly aware that the disposable female is a horrible person and the disposable male leaves amicably as they both realize they aren't really in love with each other at about the same time.

* ''[[It Happened One Night]]'' In this one, the fiancé is actually the reason the leads meet as Peter the reporter, hoping to get a good story, follows heiress Ellie along on her trip to meet the guy her father is trying to get her away from. Of course, Ellie never really ''knew'' her original fiancé. He was simply the first man she ever got ''alone'' with and married him to stick it to her overprotective father. Once she spends her time with Peter and finds out what falling in love is actually like, she realizes there's no way she ever loved the first guy.

* ''[[Bringing Up Baby]]''

* ''[[His Girl Friday]]''

* ''[[The Awful Truth]]''

* ''[[The Graduate]]'': Probably Bland Perfection, to the extent that the audience even gets to know him in the few minutes of screen time he has. Outside pressure was also most likely a factor in Elaine's swift engagement and marriage. Of course, in that movie, she'd already married the guy by the time she ran out in the wedding dress.

* ''[[The Wedding Planner]]'', of the "lets call the whole thing off" variety. Worked horribly, as the only person you feel sorry for is the fiancé. The man gets romantically involved with another woman (who turns out to be the wedding planner his fiancé has hired) and then berates her for "misinterpreting" his philandering. He then ignores the whole thing and lets his fiancé plan their wedding blissfully unaware that he's falling in love with the planner (who only superficially thinks of ending the whole thing and never lets her client in on what her fiancé is really doing). Meanwhile, the planner is constantly leading on a childhood friend who is desperately in love with her to either serve to make the male lead jealous, or to boost herself up emotionally as she pines for the leading man. At the last second, the ''fiancé'' decides ''she'' doesn't want to get married, giving him the opportunity to run after the female lead. With his behavior, it's kind of hard to imagine how ''either'' woman wants him in the first place.

* ''[[Made Of Honor]]'': Bland Perfection

* Subverted in ''[[My Best Friend's Wedding]]'' where Julia Roberts' character is convinced that her love interest's fiancée is one of this type and does all in her power to break them up but {{spoiler|in the end decides he belongs with the other girl after all.}}

** [[It's All About Me|It still does]].

* ''[[Spaceballs]]'': As the name would suggest, Prince Valium is a case of Minor Flaws (so boring he puts ''himself'' to sleep). Plus it's an arranged marriage she was being forced into, so she doesn't come off as particularly cruel when she ditches him.