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'''Basic Trope''': A character marries the sibling of their {{unrequited|LoveLastsForever}} LoveInterest.
* '''Straight''':
** Bob falls in love with Alice, but Alice does not reciprocate. Bob eventually marries Alice's sister, Carol.
** David falls in love at first sight with Eglantine at a ball, and tries to woo her. Eglantine, who thinks her beauty means she can marry a man who's even wealthier and of higher noble birth, barely manages to be polite and shows herself to be greedy and frivolous, but her sister Faith is polite and gracious and welcoming to their home, and after some months, David asks Faith to marry him.
** George is twelve years old, and finds the also twelve year old Helen to be giggly and annoying, but has a PrecociousCrush on her elegant and composed twenty-year-old sister, Ida. Eight years later, George has to go on a trip for months. When he returns, he sees a woman he first takes for Ida and only then realizes is Helen, grown up. He finds her as elegant and composed as her sister at the same age, and they marry.
** Julie finds Kirk, her sister Laura's fiance, attractive as soon as they are introduced. Shortly thereafter, Kirk introduces his brother Michael to the family, and Julie finds him attractive as well. Shortly after the wedding, they become engaged.
** Princess Alixandra and Prince Baudouin, through wheeling and dealing (with the eager assistance of Baudouin's gangling younger brother Prince Carolus, AnnoyingYoungerSibling though he is), forge a peace treaty between their nations and fall madly in love. Then Baudouin is assassinated to prevent the treaty. Out of honor and duty, Alixandra and Carolus marry so that it will still be carried out.
** Everyone loves Otto's tales of heroism, especially Natalie, who finds herself falling in love with him, and wondering how Piers, so drab and ordinary and reluctant to even engage in the common duels, could be his brother. When an ogre threatens her family, Natalie comes for help. Only [[TheSoCalledCoward Piers]] is willing to accompany her back; when they encounter Otto on the way, [[MilesGloriosus he's full of excuses]], but Piers kills the ogre. Natalie marries him instead.

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'''Basic Trope''': A character marries the sibling of their {{unrequited|LoveLastsForever}} unrequited LoveInterest.
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'''Straight''': Bob falls in love with Alice, but Alice does not reciprocate. Bob eventually marries Alice's sister, Carol.
** David falls in love at first sight with Eglantine at a ball, and tries to woo her. Eglantine, who thinks her beauty means she can marry a man who's even wealthier and of higher noble birth, barely manages to be polite and shows herself to be greedy and frivolous, but her sister Faith is polite and gracious and welcoming to their home, and after some months, David asks Faith to marry him.
** George is twelve years old, and finds the also twelve year old Helen to be giggly and annoying, but has a PrecociousCrush on her elegant and composed twenty-year-old sister, Ida. Eight years later, George has to go on a trip for months. When he returns, he sees a woman he first takes for Ida and only then realizes is Helen, grown up. He finds her as elegant and composed as her sister at the same age, and they marry.
** Julie finds Kirk, her sister Laura's fiance, attractive as soon as they are introduced. Shortly thereafter, Kirk introduces his brother Michael to the family, and Julie finds him attractive as well. Shortly after the wedding, they become engaged.
** Princess Alixandra and Prince Baudouin, through wheeling and dealing (with the eager assistance of Baudouin's gangling younger brother Prince Carolus, AnnoyingYoungerSibling though he is), forge a peace treaty between their nations and fall madly in love. Then Baudouin is assassinated to prevent the treaty. Out of honor and duty, Alixandra and Carolus marry so that it will still be carried out.
** Everyone loves Otto's tales of heroism, especially Natalie, who finds herself falling in love with him, and wondering how Piers, so drab and ordinary and reluctant to even engage in the common duels, could be his brother. When an ogre threatens her family, Natalie comes for help. Only [[TheSoCalledCoward Piers]] is willing to accompany her back; when they encounter Otto on the way, [[MilesGloriosus he's full of excuses]], but Piers kills the ogre. Natalie marries him instead.
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** Great-Aunt Marjorie left her estate to her grand-niece Marjorie when she marries; until then the income keeps her family in luxurious life. Her sisters Nora, Odile, and Petronilla therefore take care to seduce any wooer away from Marjorie -- but never marry them, because they have yet to offer a better life than they can on Marjorie's money.

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** Great-Aunt Marjorie left her estate to her grand-niece Marjorie when she marries; until then the income keeps her family in luxurious life. Her sisters Nora, Odile, and Petronilla therefore Petronilla, therefore, take care to seduce any wooer away from Marjorie -- but never marry them, because they have yet to offer a better life than they can on Marjorie's money.



* '''Parodied''': Jack attempts to woo every daughter, stepdaughter, fosterdaughter, or cousin of an large family, finally succeeding with the last.

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* '''Parodied''': Jack attempts to woo every daughter, stepdaughter, fosterdaughter, foster daughter, or cousin of an a large family, finally succeeding with the last.
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** [[OnlyChildSyndrome None of the characters have any siblings]], period.

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** [[OnlyChildSyndrome None of the characters have any siblings]], siblings, period.
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** Everyone loves Otto's tales of heroism, especially Natalie, who finds herself falling in love with him, and wondering how Piers, so drab and ordinary and reluctant to even engage in the common duels, could be his brother. When an ogre threatens her family, Natalie comes for help. Only [[SoCalledCoward Piers]] is willing to accompany her back; when they encounter Otto on the way, [[MilesGloriosus he's full of excuses]], but Piers kills the ogre. Natalie marries him instead.

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** Everyone loves Otto's tales of heroism, especially Natalie, who finds herself falling in love with him, and wondering how Piers, so drab and ordinary and reluctant to even engage in the common duels, could be his brother. When an ogre threatens her family, Natalie comes for help. Only [[SoCalledCoward [[TheSoCalledCoward Piers]] is willing to accompany her back; when they encounter Otto on the way, [[MilesGloriosus he's full of excuses]], but Piers kills the ogre. Natalie marries him instead.

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** Princess Alixandra and Prince Baudouin, through wheeling and dealing (with the eager assistance of Baudouin's gangling younger brother Prince Carolus), forge a peace treaty between their nations and fall madly in love. Then Baudouin is assassinated to prevent the treaty. Out of honor and duty, Alixandra and Carolus marry so that it will still be carried out.

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** Princess Alixandra and Prince Baudouin, through wheeling and dealing (with the eager assistance of Baudouin's gangling younger brother Prince Carolus), Carolus, AnnoyingYoungerSibling though he is), forge a peace treaty between their nations and fall madly in love. Then Baudouin is assassinated to prevent the treaty. Out of honor and duty, Alixandra and Carolus marry so that it will still be carried out.out.
** Everyone loves Otto's tales of heroism, especially Natalie, who finds herself falling in love with him, and wondering how Piers, so drab and ordinary and reluctant to even engage in the common duels, could be his brother. When an ogre threatens her family, Natalie comes for help. Only [[SoCalledCoward Piers]] is willing to accompany her back; when they encounter Otto on the way, [[MilesGloriosus he's full of excuses]], but Piers kills the ogre. Natalie marries him instead.
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** Princess Alixandra and Prince Baudouin, through wheeling and dealing (with the eager assistance of Baudouin's gangling younger brother Prince Carolus), forge a peace treaty between their nations and fall madly in love. Then Baudouin is assassinated to prevent the treaty. Out of honor and duty, Alixandra and Carolus marry so that it will still be carried out.
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* '''Parodied''': TwinThreesomeFantasy

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* '''Parodied''': TwinThreesomeFantasyJack attempts to woo every daughter, stepdaughter, fosterdaughter, or cousin of an large family, finally succeeding with the last.
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** Julie finds Kirk, her sister Laura's fiance, attractive as soon as they are introduced. Shortly thereafter, Kirk introduces his brother Michael to the family, and Julie finds him attractive as well. Shortly after the wedding, they become engaged.
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** Great-Aunt Marjorie left her estate to her grand-niece Marjorie when she marries; until then the income keeps her family in luxurious life. Her sisters Nora, Odile, and Petronilla therefore take care to seduce any wooer away from Marjorie -- but never marry them, because they have yet to offer a better life than they can on Marjorie's money.
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* John meets Katherine and finds her attractive, asking her to marry him. Then he meets her sister Lily. They rapidly fall in love, but engagements are serious commitments, and Katherine is oblivious to his being more in love with Lily than with her -- or doesn't care, she wants him.

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* ** John meets Katherine and finds her attractive, asking her to marry him. Then he meets her sister Lily. They rapidly fall in love, but engagements are serious commitments, and Katherine is oblivious to his being more in love with Lily than with her -- or doesn't care, she wants him.

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* '''Downplayed''': Alice and Carol are half-sisters.

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* '''Downplayed''': '''Downplayed''':
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Alice and Carol are half-sisters.cousins, and in a small society where everyone's connected to everyone else (however distantly) by marriage or blood.
** Prince David must marry, and so his parents arrange for him to meet Princess Eleanora and Princess Francine, of the neighboring kingdom. Briefly, he finds Francine more attractive, but soon settles on Eleanora.


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* John meets Katherine and finds her attractive, asking her to marry him. Then he meets her sister Lily. They rapidly fall in love, but engagements are serious commitments, and Katherine is oblivious to his being more in love with Lily than with her -- or doesn't care, she wants him.

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* '''Straight''': Bob falls in love with Alice, but Alice does not reciprocate. Bob eventually marries Alice's sister, Carol.

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* '''Straight''': Bob '''Straight''':
**Bob
falls in love with Alice, but Alice does not reciprocate. Bob eventually marries Alice's sister, Carol.Carol.
** David falls in love at first sight with Eglantine at a ball, and tries to woo her. Eglantine, who thinks her beauty means she can marry a man who's even wealthier and of higher noble birth, barely manages to be polite and shows herself to be greedy and frivolous, but her sister Faith is polite and gracious and welcoming to their home, and after some months, David asks Faith to marry him.
** George is twelve years old, and finds the also twelve year old Helen to be giggly and annoying, but has a PrecociousCrush on her elegant and composed twenty-year-old sister, Ida. Eight years later, George has to go on a trip for months. When he returns, he sees a woman he first takes for Ida and only then realizes is Helen, grown up. He finds her as elegant and composed as her sister at the same age, and they marry.



* '''Inverted''': After AliceAndBob break up, Bob [[QuestForSex makes an effort to find]] a woman who is [[BettyAndVeronica as different from Alice as possible]].
* '''Subverted''': Alice breaks up with her LoveInterest.
* '''Double Subverted''': ...and starts dating Bob's brother, Dale.

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* '''Inverted''': After '''Inverted''':
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AliceAndBob break up, Bob [[QuestForSex makes an effort to find]] a woman who is [[BettyAndVeronica as different from Alice as possible]].
** Georgiana, twelve years old, has a PrecociousCrush on Hendrik, twenty years old, and an older sister Irene, also twenty. One day she hears Hendrik professing his love for Irene, and immediately helps him court her.
* '''Subverted''': Alice breaks up '''Subverted''':
** Don fell in love
with Ellen. When she rejects him, he courts and wins her LoveInterest.
sister Flora -- and jilts her for revenge.
* '''Double Subverted''': ...Subverted''':
** But Flora had been in on it, knowing that Ellen would hate the disgrace it brought on the family. Afterwards, Don
and starts dating Bob's brother, Dale.Flora elope.

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** Alice, Brittany, and Carol are SameSexTriplets. Bob, Brittany, and Carol are a SiblingTriangle.

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** Alice, Brittany, and Carol are SameSexTriplets. Bob, Brittany, and Carol are become a SiblingTriangle.SiblingTriangle after Alice dumps Bob.



* '''Discussed''': ???

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* '''Discussed''': ???"Sorry, Carol. My heart still belongs to Alice, and you're too different from her."



* '''Implied''': AliceAndBob break up, and Bob is later shown dating another woman who resembles Alice.



* '''Played For Laughs''': Bob frequently slips up and calls Carol Alice, but she doesn't notice or doesn't seem to mind.

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* '''Played For Laughs''': Bob frequently slips up and calls Carol Alice, "Alice", but she doesn't notice or doesn't seem to mind.mind.
* '''Played For Drama''': Carol dies three months after her first date with Bob, and by then, Alice and Ed are married.



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* '''Enforced''': ???

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* '''Enforced''': ???"We need a HappyEnding for every character. Let's [[RetCon reveal that Alice has a sister]], and pair her up with Bob while Alice stays with Ed."

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* '''Played For Laughs''': Bob frequently slips up and calls Carol Alice, but she doesn't notice or doesn't seem to mind.


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* '''Played For Laughs''': Bob frequently slips up and calls Carol Alice, but she doesn't notice or doesn't seem to mind.

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* '''Played For Laughs''': Bob frequently slips up and calls Carol Alice, but she doesn't notice or doesn't seem to mind.
* '''Deconstructed''': It's made abundantly clear that Bob only married Carol because of the fact that she was Alice's sister. As a result, he's completely unable to handle things when she turns out to be completely different.
* '''Reconstructed''': But he's eventually able to look past that and love her for her.



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* '''Justified''': Carol [[FamilyResemblance closely resembles]] Alice, at least to Bob.

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* '''Justified''': Carol [[FamilyResemblance [[UncannyFamilyResemblance closely resembles]] Alice, at least to Bob.
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'''Basic Trope''': A character marries the sibling of their {{unrequited|LoveLastsForever}} LoveInterest.
* '''Straight''': Bob falls in love with Alice, but Alice does not reciprocate. Bob eventually marries Alice's sister, Carol.
* '''Exaggerated''':
** Alice, Brittany, and Carol are SameSexTriplets. Bob, Brittany, and Carol are a SiblingTriangle.
** A LoveDodecahedron involves several pairs of siblings.
** ''Every'' case of unrequited love in the work is resolved this way.
* '''Downplayed''': Alice and Carol are half-sisters.
* '''Justified''': Carol [[FamilyResemblance closely resembles]] Alice, at least to Bob.
* '''Inverted''': After AliceAndBob break up, Bob [[QuestForSex makes an effort to find]] a woman who is [[BettyAndVeronica as different from Alice as possible]].
* '''Subverted''': Alice breaks up with her LoveInterest.
* '''Double Subverted''': ...and starts dating Bob's brother, Dale.
* '''Parodied''': TwinThreesomeFantasy
* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
* '''Averted''':
** Bob never shows feelings for Carol.
** None of the characters have any siblings of the same sex.
** [[OnlyChildSyndrome None of the characters have any siblings]], period.
* '''Enforced''': ???
* '''Lampshaded''': "So I didn't get Alice. Big deal. Her sister Carol is just as pretty."
* '''Invoked''': Carol asks Bob out.
* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': Bob believes it's wrong to get with Carol because he was previously attracted to her sister.
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': "Why is Bob so happy with Carol? She's nothing like Alice!"
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%%* '''Untwisted''': ???

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