Storytelling tropes: romance and dating



All the tropes beneath are from the website tvtropes. I did not include all of them, just the ones I found interesting.

To read about romance genre, click HERE.


Star-Crossed Lovers: lovers who can't be together due to circumstances

Second Chance Romance - the pair with romantic history decides to give it another try

Altar Diplomacy: The main characters are arranged to be married for politics, whether they like it or not

Childhood Marriage Promise: Childhood Friends promise to get married when they grow up

"Dating Best Friend's Sibling" Drama: For better or for worse, the love interests are tied together by one of them being the best friend of the other's sibling

Rekindled Sparks: The long dead romance is brought back to life

Equalizing the Interspecies Romance: Lovers from different species are brought together when one of them is turned into another's species

Interspecies Romance: Romance between beings of different species

Eternal Love: Immortal lovers who have been together for eons

Foe Cooties: Wanting nothing to do with your Love Interest upon knowing they were once involved with your enemy

I Love You Because I Can't Control You: The Casanova falls in love with someone who rejects their advances

In Love with Love: Being more enamored by the idea of being in a relationship than actually loving someone

Lonely Together: Two lonely characters bond and fall in love

Love Will Lead You Back: Lovers leave each other, but one remains confident that their lover will come back to them

Loving a Shadow: Falling in love with the ideal of someone rather than the actual person

Monster/Slayer Romance: A romance between a Hunter of Monsters and the monster they're supposed to hunt

No Accounting for Taste: There is absolutely no reason for these two to be lovers

No Going Steady: Characters date each other without becoming an Official Couple.

Old Flame Fizzle: A character reunites with a previous lover, only to find that that person is no longer the person they remembered so fondly

Red String of Fate: Two characters are bound by fate to be together

Romance and Sexuality Separation: A character feels unable to love, and have sex with, another character

Strangled by the Red String: Characters fall in love out of nowhere

Time-Travel Romance: Romance between people from different time periods

Toxic lover Influence: Someone's lover influences them into becoming a worse person

Tsundere: They're secretly in love with you, but they have trouble admitting it and mask their feelings with a hostile attitude

Unrequited Love Lasts Forever: A character never stops loving their unrequited crush

Violently Protective Girlfriend: This girl will not let anyone harm her significant other

Your Universe or Mine?: Lovers from different worlds or countries must decide where they will go

Reincarnation Romance: The two characters were a couple in their past lives

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