Tropescilloscope: Betty and Veronica

Two girls in a Love Triangle: one a sweet Girl Next Door and the other sensually exotic, or hot-tempered on the outside, but sweet on the inside. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Is a Crapshoot Sadistic Choice No Antagonist My Beloved Smother Not Using the "Z" Word Fourth Date Marriage Recycled IN SPACE! 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They Really Do Love Each Other Line-of-Sight Name Empathic Environment Knife Nut Freeze-Frame Bonus One-Man Army Dies Wide Open Animated Credits Opening Failed a Spot Check Serial Killer Department of Redundancy Department Car Fu Beta Couple Destination Defenestration The Mole Sci-Fi Horror Malevolent Masked Men Unwitting Instigator of Doom The Chick Easily Forgiven The Starscream Kick the Dog No Good Deed Goes Unpunished BFG One-Word Title Laser-Guided Karma Shown Their Work Blood from the Mouth More Dakka Narrator Maybe Ever After Daylight Horror Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Accidental Misnaming My God, What Have I Done? Fat Bastard Zombie Stories Shipper on Deck Corpsing Exactly What It Says on the Tin Crapsack World Mercy Kill What Happened to the Mouse? Funny Background Event What the Hell, Hero? Irony Big Fancy House Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Real Life Writes the Plot The Brute Scenery Gorn Hooker with a Heart of Gold Agony of the Feet Call-Forward Vomit Discretion Shot Stealth Pun Eagleland The Cavalry Author Appeal Wretched Hive Japanese Films Age Lift The Ditz Take That! 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Epilogue Due to the Dead Sports Stories Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? After the End Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Dark Is Not Evil Arch-Enemy Get Out! Bar Brawl Horror Comedy Names to Run Away from Really Fast Danny Peary Cult Movies List Fatal Family Photo Take a Third Option Composite Character Spell My Name with an "S"