History Main / OnTheRebound

* In ''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'', after being dumped by Scott, Knives throws herself at Young Neil, on the basis that [[ReplacementGoldfish he kind of looks like Scott]]. They don't last. (It doesn't help that she's also going for Young Neil on the grounds that since he's around Scott a lot this lets her continue to hang around him; her not-quite-thing with Stephen Stills works the same way.)

* Implied with Griffith from Manga/Berserk [[HoYay towards Guts]]. He was distraught after Guts left the Band of the Hawks, so distraught he immediately sought out Princess Charlotte for sex in a desperate attempt to make himself feel better and regain control of the situation. It didn’t work, if anything it made everything worse for him. Made even more of an example in the movie where he is shown thinking of Guts the entire time he is having sex with Charlotte.

* Implied with Griffith from Manga/Berserk [[HoYay towards Guts]]. He was distraught after Guts left the Band of the Hawks, so distraught he immediately sought out Princess Charlotte for sex in a desperate attempt to make himself feel better and regain control of the situation. It didn’t work, if anything it made [[ItGotWorse everything worse for him]].

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* After breaking up with Isaac Clarke before the events of VideoGame/DeadSpace3, Ellie has taken taken up with Captain Robert Norton of the ([[TheRemnant remaining]]) EarthGov military because unlike the traumatized Isaac Norton still wants to fight theMarkers and save humanity. [[spoiler: At first he does, anyway, later changing to protecting Ellie at the cost of his people and trying to MurderTheHypotenuse, possibly under the Marker's influence but still]]. Norton is such a JerkAss, though, and his interactions with Ellie so emotionally lopsided that it's less WhatDoesSheSeeInHim and more like he's Any Port In Storm due to her breakup with Isaac; at one point Norton sincerely tells her that he loves her and Ellie's response is basically, "Oh, I'm aware of that" without any off the charm and affection that Han Solo used in Film/TheEmpireStirkesBack. [[spoiler: When Isaac has to kill Norton in self-defense, Ellie is naturally upset but rants mainly that Norton still believed in their cause as opposed to Isaac instead of, y'know, berating him for killing someone she loved.]]

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* In the movie ''Film/{{Swingers}}'', Mike is assured by a friend that his ex's current relationship won't last because it's a rebound relationship. But her relationship with Mike was also a rebound.
* In ''Film/DrinkingBuddies'', after [[spoiler: Kate gets dumped by Chris]], she hooks up with a coworker that she doesn't even like that much. When a friend calls her out on it, she says she doesn't love him or anything, and just acted.

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* Occurs a few times in ''Series/HowIMetYourMother''.
** Gael, Robin's LatinLover whom she picked up on a trip to Argentina. The relationship explicitly happened because Robin was so torn up by her breakup with Ted that she needed something.
** In response to Gael, Ted rebounds with a HardDrinkingPartyGirl named Amy, which results in him getting a butterfly trampstamp.
** Several of Barney's plays to pick up women involve targeting vulnerable women who have just broken up.
** Ted actively didn't pursue a girl until some time had passed after her breakup so that he wouldn't be the rebound guy.
** Parodied in the episode "Rebound Bro" where, after "breaking up" with Ted, Barney latches onto a new bro, only to break up eventually.
* ''Series/{{Dexter}}''.
** Lila is explicitly referred to as a rebound for Dexter after Rita dumps Dexter (ironically, because Rita falsely believed Dexter had slept with Lila).
** Lumen is a ReplacementGoldfish for Rita after [[spoiler: she dies]], being a blonde BrokenBird herself.
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': After Angel leaves the show [[Series/{{Angel}} for LA]] Buffy falls for Parker, another student at her university, who promptly dumps her after a one night stand.
** When Buffy breaks up with her next boyfriend Riley Finn, Xander accuses her of treating him like the rebound guy from Angel, rather than a proper LoveInterest. The fact that Riley [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute looks a little like Angel]] and the fact that they had little to no chemistry makes you wonder if he has a point.
* Invoked and lampshaded in ''Series/TheOfficeUS''. After breaking up with Carol, Micheal hooks up with a young waitress from a Japanese restaurant and brings her to the Christmas party, only for her to leave an hour later. Jim explained to Michael that he was having a rebound and should not feel disappointed. Michael realizes that was what he was doing and even admits he [[IdenticalLookingAsians couldn't tell his date apart from the other Asian waitress]] that had attended the party.
* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'':
** Leonard's attempt at a "serious" relationship with Leslie was this, after his first time attempting to date Penny went south. At one point he and Penny run into each other across and the hall with their new romantic partners. They swoop their respective into a passionate kiss and try not to stop until the other does (which goes on for at least a few minutes) in an effort to show just how "fine" they're doing without each other.
** After Leonard and Penny tried dating the second time Penny gets together with Zach. She admits that while he's a nice guy, he's dumb as a sack of hammers and the only reason she bothered to give him the time of day was so she wouldn't be lonely and to take her mind off of Leonard.
* On ''Series/{{Zoey101}}'' Zoey begins dating Chase's SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute James more or less right after she and Chase have to put their RelationshipUpgrade on hold because of distance.The finale dealt with the fact she was never in love with James, and that Chase was always her first choice.
* In ''Series/NewGirl'', Jess tries to have a rebound fling, but she has issues with getting attached. After another relationship, she has a rebound backslide where she hooks up with an old exboyfriend.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'', after being dumped by The Monarch, Dr. Girlfriend then goes to [[NewOldFlame Phantom Limb]] and begins dating him. She never seems to actually care for him that much, and comes across as distant to the audience.
* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice''. Poor, poor La'gann was Miss Martian's "rebound guy" during her OffScreenBreakup with Superboy during the TimeSkip. He even gets called such on the series. [[spoiler: She eventually dumps La'gann because she realizes that he's just a rebound guy to her]].
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': After Edna breaks up with Skinner, she then hooks up with Comic Book Guy on the Rebound. Lampshaded by Marge:
-->'''Marge:''' You meet the worst people on the rebound.
* ''WesternAnimation/LegendOfKorra'': Mako gets back together with his ex-girlfriend [[OldFlame Asami]] after he breaks up with Korra. [[spoiler: It doesn't last.]]

* In ''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'', after being dumped by Scott, Knives throws herself at Young Neil, on the basis that [[ReplacementGoldfish he kind of looks like Scott]]. They don't last.

* In Creator/MichaelConnelly book ''TheLincolnLawyer'', the titular lawyer is a twice-divorced man and it's mentioned that his second marriage was the result of a rebound relationship. Somehow, he remains [[AmicableExes on friendly terms with both exes]].

** When Buffy breaks up with her next boyfriend Riley Finn, Xander accuses her of treating him like the rebound guy from Angel, rather than a proper LoveInterest.

->''"Do you know what rebound is? Trying to get over one love by bouncing into love with somebody else. It's fine, except the rebound is rarely the real thing. In fact, it's the bunk. There's the first bounce, the second, and ... well, look at me. You wind up like an old tennis ball.

-->-- Aunt Patsy, ''Film/TheAwfulTruth''

->''"Do you know what rebound is? Trying to get over one love by bouncing into love with somebody else. It's fine, except the rebound is rarely the real thing. In fact, it's the bunk. There's the first bounce, the second, and ... Well, look at me. You wind up like an old tennis ball.

-->''"Use your bean, Uncle Fred. You know what you do when your girl gives you the push. You dash off and propose to another girl, just to show her she isn't the only onion in the stew."'' \\
''Lord Ickenham nodded. It was many years since he had acted in the manner described, but he, too, had lived in Arcady.''
-->''"Ah, youth, youth!" he was saying to himself, and he shuddered a little as he recalled the fearful female down Greenwich Village way, all beads and bangles and matted hair, at whose sandalled feet he had laid his heart the second time Pongo's Aunt Jane had severed relations with him.''
--->'''"Service with a Smile"''', by '''P G Wodehouse'''

-->''"Some people call it the rebound, but I call it a yes."''
--->'''Tucker Folley''', ''DannyPhantom''

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': After Angel leaves the show [[Series/{{Angel}} for LA]] Buffy falls for Parker, a TA in her class who promptly dumps her after a one night stand.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'', after being dumped by The Monarch, Dr. Girlfriend then goes to [[NewOldFlame Phantom Limb]] and begins dating him.