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{{quote|''Look, what happened between us was important to me, and I thought it meant something to you too. But clearly Elsa means more to you than I do.''|'''Alejandra''', ''La Verdad Oculta''}}
Alice and Bob (though gender reversals are common here) have decided that they want to pretend to be a couple to [[Operation: Jealousy|make their exes jealous]], or pretend they're [[Happily Married]] to make sure [[Citizenship Marriage|Bob isn't deported]], or decide that sex doesn't need to have an emotional attachment and become [[Friends
It all goes along swimmingly, until Bob starts feeling something for Alice. It can start by finding out she and he are very compatible, or as a jealous [[Green-Eyed Epiphany]] when she goes off with a boyfriend or has sex with someone else. Eventually, their perfect arrangement starts to fall apart as the ground rules are broken, leading to a confrontation.
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* Occurs often in the manga/anime ''[[Peach Girl]]''.
* Flay and Kira in ''[[Gundam Seed]]''. Kira did like her, but when their relationship started she was ''definitely'' in [[Yandere]] mode, so she failed to realize that she did love him until it was too late. By the time she gets her emotional issues sorted out in that department, {{spoiler|Kira isn't around and she gets taken prisoner}} and it [[Unwitting Pawn|just goes downhill from there for her]].
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' has one of these, in an indirect and implicit way in episode 90, when Mai asks Jonouchi/Joey whether she was in the dream he had of all his friends after he's knocked out by a bolt of lightning caused by Odion {{spoiler|pretending to be Marik, summoning Ra by using a counterfeit card}} in episode 89, at which point Joey gets shy/flustered and lies to her. This could arguably be said to have {{spoiler|killed the chance of them developing a real relationship during the series, as it causes her to decide that she doesn't need friendship/bonds to win - which, after being defeated by Marik, even after regaining her memories, leaves her with nothing to keep her from descending into depression and going off on her own, eventually joining Doma.}}
** Note that in the manga, Jounouchi wasn't lying at all, {{spoiler|nor did Mai spiral into depression and despair afterwords.}}
* In ''[[Devilman]]'', {{spoiler|Ryo gets his memories back, remembering he is Satan}} betrays Akira and leaves him with an impression that their friendship was just a lie. not only it isn't true, {{spoiler|Ryo is in love with Akira}}.
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* As does ''Tangled:''
{{quote| '''Alan:''' [Crying] I loved you! Tell me I meant something to you!}}
* After having sex, the titular characters of ''[[Zack and Miri Make
** ...Isn't the entire ''point'' of a porno for the actors to screw each other?
** The walk outs were over assumed after porno "just for fun" sex. So they probably viewed it as "He/She doesn't care about me at all since he/she is screwing with the other actors off the job!" If memory serves, neither had sex with the other porn actors off camera.
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== Live Action TV ==
* Cordelia in ''[[
{{quote| '''Cordelia:''' Doyle! I thought our kiss meant something. And instead, he-he used that moment to pass [prophetic visions] on to me. Why couldn't it have been mono or herpes?}}
** Cordelia ([[Not Himself|or maybe not]]) was later on the other side of this equation with Connor.
* This is various played straight, averted, and subverted in layers on ''[[Chuck]]'' between the title character and his CIA handler Sarah, who pretends to be Chuck's girlfriend as a cover for most of the first two seasons. This trope contributes a central part of the drama of the show.
* Chase says this to Cameron in ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' and she immediately breaks up their "friends with benefits" relationship, claiming that she warned him not to fall in love with her. She did explicitly warn him and she does end up marrying him, at least for at time before {{spoiler|she couldn't forgive him for killing a patient on purpose, even if the patient ''was'' a terrible dictator. Or rather, she could not come to terms with his having accepted what he did (ie, would NOT undo it given the chance).}}
** Played beautifully straight in a later episode, leading up to them possibly getting back together. But then not (at least they got closure).
* Subtle version in [[Firefly]]: Mal and Inara dress up and pretend to be a couple to go stake out the villain of the week together at a theater. No big deal is made of this. Mal agrees to help a friend of Inara fight against the villain, one thing leads to another, [[Cry Cute|Inara]] [[Love Hurts|finds out]].
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