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* In Season 3 of ''Series/ThirteenReasonsWhy'', Winston and Monty randomly meet at a party, are attracted to each other, and hook up. Then when Winston tries to chat with him afterwards, he gets the ever-loving crap beaten out of him, with Monty's excuse being he thought people would realize he was gay and he doesn't want to be outed...which is still not a good reason to beat someone up. In spite of this and the fact he barely knows him ''and'' that he becomes aware he's been arrested for sexual assault, Winston still falls head-over-heels for [[spoiler: Monty]], to the point he's willing to transfer schools to investigate Bryce's murder and prove Monty was set up for it. Season 4 even eventually acknowledges this to some extent, indicating that Winston loved [[LovingAShadow the idea]] of Monty more than anything (especially seeing as the real Monty is a ''horrible'' person).

** Chief and Cally. After a TimeSkip of one year, they go from being friends and co-workers to married. The last time they were seen interacting was when Chief smashed Cally's face in after she woke him from a suicidal dream. This one at least had some hints prior to the time skip, as Cally was clearly seen crushing on the Chief on several occasions prior to the beatdown.

** Rosa's relationship with Holt's nephew Marcus in the second season often comes off like this. The relationship is supposedly one of the most significant that Rosa's ever had and she is apparently deeply attached to him. However, the fact that Marcus was hardly ever around, when he was he didn't really seem that interesting or appear to have many distinguishing characteristics, and the fact that Rosa, by nature TheStoic, didn't really show a lot of emotion in general, made it easy for viewers to wonder exactly what the big deal was supposed to be.

** Buffy and Riley had no hope right from the start. Granted, the writers ''tried'', but they tried so badly to make Riley [[ReplacementScrappy "not Angel"]] that they forgot to give him any interesting character traits of his own -- or any that would make him even the slightest bit compatible with Buffy. Beyond that, there wasn't much build-up and the actors ''really'' lacked chemistry, leaving the impression that they liked each other because the script said so. The timing of this relationship didn't help much -- shortly after Buffy's dramatic and defining relationship with Angel ends and Angel leaves Sunnydale, the writers tried introducing Buffy into a brand new romantic relationship with a brand new character (Riley) without giving much recovery time for the end of the Buffy/Angel relationship, which had been a primary storyline of Seasons 1-3.
** For Willow/Kennedy in Season 7, the writers didn't even try at all. Literally the only reason they start a relationship was that Kennedy was also a lesbian, and Kennedy seemed determined to not have any likable traits whatsoever. It was a huge letdown after Willow and Tara's relationship, which out of the whole show had the most build-up and most development. It may have even been ''worse'' in the "too soon" department than Riley had been, as Willow had abruptly [[spoiler: lost Tara to a freak accident]] at the end of the previous season and was still mourning. Intentionally or not, the circumstances really made the relationship ring closer to a [[OnTheRebound rebound]] than anything else.

* ''Franchise/{{Degrassi}}'' abuses this to an infuriating degree. Probably the worst example is in the movie ''Degrassi Takes Manhattan''. Fan-favorite couple, Jane and Spinner, end up splitting up. And who does Spinner turn to? Not any of his many exes (all of whom he's turned to comfort before) or even some random one-shot hook-up character. The [[WhatDidIDoLastNight morning after drunken festivities]] with his pals, he awakes to find himself ''[[AccidentalMarriage married]]'' to Emma, who spoke to him a grand total of ''one time'' before the movie, and that one time was her telling him off at the very, very beginning of the show when Spinner bullied Innocent!Manny. Instead of getting the marriage annulled, they say "What the hell?" and see if the romance roulette will actually work.

** Martha Jones and Mickey Smith, two characters who before "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E13JourneysEnd Journey's End]]" had never even met, and had only been onscreen together in the scene where ''everybody from the new series ever'' flies the TARDIS, are shown in their "happy ending" vignette in "The End of Time"[[note]] a story about a year later in-universe, assuming that time travel isn't involved[[/note]] as a married couple, freelancers, and fighting a Sontaran. This is despite the fact that Martha had been shown to be engaged in a previous appearance (though her fiancé never showed up). It ends up looking like a bad case of PairTheSpares, and an even worse case of the TokenMinorityCouple-or, in the best-case scenario, the writer just flat-out forgetting about things.

** In their early days, River and the Doctor fell into this trope for some fans due to the main gimmick of their relationship being that [[HaveWeMetYet they meet in the wrong order and therefore one tends to gain affection as the other loses it]]. Post-"[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E13TheWeddingOfRiverSong The Wedding of River Song]]" they were on the same wavelength, alleviating this aspect of their relationship. However, in the 2015 ChristmasEpisode "[[Recap/DoctorWho2015CSTheHusbandsOfRiverSong The Husbands of River Song]]", it's revealed that River Song still had doubts that the Doctor truly loved her, not thinking it was in his nature; the story also did a {{Retcon}} of the Eleven-era short "Last Night" ([[spoiler: Eleven didn't take her to the Singing Towers after all]]). Twelve doesn't hide his attraction to her, and the ending of this story reveals [[spoiler: Twelve was with River at the Singing Towers, and the "night" they spent there lasted twenty-four years, effectively making him her "true" husband]].

* ''Series/TheExpanse'' has a one-sided example, though due to the strange context it’s arguably subverted. At the start of the series, private detective Joe Miller is assigned a case to track down Julie Mao, a wealthy heiress and political activist who’s gone missing. Since Miller is a cynical CorruptCop and resents privilege, he initially sees it as little more than a monetary gig and cares nothing for the subject. However, over the course of the investigation, he grows to admire her character and heroism and becomes infatuated with her. Tragically, she's killed by the [[EldritchAbomination Protomolecule]] shortly before he finds her. Then things get weird. Due to how the Protomolecule works, Julie’s unconscious mind is absorbed into it and becomes the core of its rapidly growing HiveMind. Miller manages to reach her at the core, waking her up and calming her by showing her compassion and companionship. The two [[NowOrNeverKiss then kiss right before Julie uses her moment of lucidity to smash the Protomocule hive into Venus]]. The entire latter interaction between the two lasts five minutes. Needless to say, while developed on Miller's side, it's a bit sudden on Julie's.
* ''Series/FamilyMatters'' had Steve being in love with Laura from the beginning, despite how she had never given him any hopes that he would win her heart and was even mean to him during the first couple of seasons. And it was clear that she preferred the JerkJock type, which was the polar opposite of Steve's nerdy personality. And for a couple of seasons, when Steve had a serious relationship with Myra and he had become friends with Laura, Steve's crush on Laura was almost forgotten about. But then came the 9th and last season, when it seems like the writers suddenly decided that Steve and Laura just ''had to'' end up together, despite how they both were in serious relationships with other people...

** One that carries some UnfortunateImplications: Sam was originally created to be a love interest for Kurt, but was changed to be straight when Ryan Murphy apparently noticed chemistry between him and Quinn so strong that it just couldn't be denied (and which many fans have been quick to point out doesn't seem to come across onscreen). To his credit, he did also create another character as a love interest for Kurt afterwards.

* Popular ''Series/HomeAndAway'' pairing Aden and Belle was considered random by a number of fans. Having never interacted prior to the 2008 season, they started working together and established a relationship based purely on insults, which half the audience interpreted as "secretly wanting to rip each other's clothes off" and the other half interpreted as "genuinely not liking each other" until one episode when she insults him, he looks like he's going to cry and her [[AuthorAvatar best friend]] declares that he likes her. A few weeks later, when the closest they've come to a meaningful conversation is her sitting silent while he chats to his surrogate father, he drunkenly climbs through her bedroom window and gets into bed with her, which apparently means they're now a couple.

** Alfie has this with Piper, which makes sense because Piper was only on the show for three episodes. It's downplayed, in that he had originally believed she was Patricia, her twin, who he knew for years, and they had a few scenes together that showed them growing closer, which makes their short-lived relationship more believable.

* ''Series/ICarly'' does this with Sam and Freddie for their brief hook up in Season 4. [[ShipToShipCombat Regardless of whether]] you are a [[PortmanteauCoupleName Seddie or Creddie]] shipper, and while Sam and Freddie's fighting could be ([[ShippingGoggles and definitely was by their shippers]]) interpreted as BelligerentSexualTension, the actual hook up comes off like this. Rather than a convincing SlapSlapKiss, as most BST couples get, all the audience gets is Freddie using his very strange mood app ([[DeusExMachina which receives no explanation]]) to read Sam's mood, which reveals it as "in love", which Freddie thinks applies to Brad, and when he confronts Sam about it, she suddenly kisses him.

** Arthur/Guinevere, one that has led to something of a BrokenBase among the fandom. Neither Arthur nor Guinevere interacted very much in Season 1, although the scenes that they ''did'' share had a strong emotional punch to them (Arthur comforts Gwen after her father's death, Gwen tends Arthur on his sick-bed, etc), but come the second episode of Season 2, Arthur stays at Gwen's house for a short period of time and impulsively kisses her when the time comes to leave. From this point, there are several rather overwrought declarations ("I care about her more than anyone!" and "Anyone who spends five minutes with you can see how you feel about each other!") that don't feel particularly earned, as well as violins, slow-motion, and dramatic back-lighting whenever they're together (and at least one TrueLovesKiss). Things improved a bit in the third season when Arthur/Gwen were given more of a chance to flirt and ''have actual conversations''.

** In the final episodes of the show, after spending most of her time trying to sort out her feelings about Worf, Ezri suddenly declares she had a dream about Julian Bashir, and she and Worf decide this means she experiences true love for him... despite not finding many reasons for her feelings besides that he's attractive. There are some scenes of them being awkward around another, but overall not much build-up before he also decides he loves her "passionately" and they get together. It's a coupling that might have worked if it were framed as more casual, as the characters are in a war and likely happy to be alive, but the "true love" framing left a lot of fans baffled, and feeling like Ezri was a "prize" for Bashir's earlier attraction to Jadzia Dax (after the show spent a season making it clear that Ezri was a different person). It left such a bad taste that even the beta canon writers couldn't wait to break them up, not to mention reams of fanfiction.

* ''Series/StepByStep'' had Dana Foster and Rich, who was her stepbrother's dimwitted friend. After spending two seasons barely able to stand being in the same room as each other, they suddenly started dating in Season 6... and still acted like they could barely stand to be in the same room as each other. In some episodes, it really bordered on Informed Relationship.
* In ''Series/Supergirl2015,'' several relationships in Season 2 occur almost instantaneously or with very little buildup, such as Winn/Lyra, J'onn/M'gann, and Kara/Mon-El. This can be justified in Winn's case due to how much of a SociallyAwkwardHero he is, but Kara, despite being angry at Mon-El, suddenly decides to forgive him and fall in love, even though his CharacterDevelopment has been spotty at best. The writers even acknowledged that they put them together to give Kara someone to fix. There was quite a bit of TheyChangedItNowItSucks response, especially since Kara had spent all of Season 1 building up to a relationship with James Olsen, which had been overall better received, but is dumped quickly so that she can fall for Mon-El, and seemingly for no good reason. James himself goes OutOfFocus for much of the rest of the season, making it even worse. The writers then shunted him into a short-lived relationship with Lena Luthor, who he had little prior interaction with and very little in common with. Viewers reacted very negatively, with many of them perceiving a decided lack of chemistry between the two actors,and James was PutOnABus not long afterward. Then the writers tried it one more time with William, a new colleague of Kara's at [=CatCo=] who turned viewers off by [[DoggedNiceGuy pushing Kara to go out with him]] repeatedly.

** Sam/Eileen in the 15th season. They had a flirtatious friendship in Seasons 11 and 12 before she was killed by the BMOL and Sam successfully resurrects her, not knowing that Chuck manipulated circumstances so he could do so. What ensues is a fledgling, mostly offscreen romance where they share one onscreen kiss, go one one date, and grapple with the discovery that Chuck had engineered the whole thing to plant Eileen as an unwitting spy. In the meantime, Dean goes full ShipperOnDeck for the first time since Season 1, Chuck implies Sam would become suicidally reckless if Eileen got killed again, and Eileen suffers BadassDecay and turns solely into a DesignatedLoveInterest for Sam, complete with more feminine clothing and makeup than she used to wear and a picture of Sam as her cell phone background. The thing is, apart from the fact that Sam and Eileen seem to barely spend a week together over the course of the season, Sam -- while clearly caring about her and enjoying her company -- never seems particularly interested in her in a romantic or sexual way, and seems mostly confused or uncomfortable when Eileen or other people bring it up, making it seem like Eileen (and everyone else) are far more invested in the potential romance than he is.

** The show [[PlayedForLaughs played this for laughs]] with Jackie and Hyde's hookup in Season 5. The two initially don't like each other at all, and it was only through their common friends that they're even in the same vicinity. They become better friends in Season 2 after he shows her how to deal with Laurie stealing Kelso from her. In Season 3, she becomes attracted to him and develops a clingy infatuation with him, which he's annoyed by, but he eventually caves and takes her out on a date. The two share a kiss, but Jackie says it didn't do anything for her and finally realizes Hyde isn't the guy for her. At this point, they seem to have effectively [[ShipSinking been sunk]], and it's not brought up again until the Season 5 premiere when the others leave the room, and the two suddenly start making out and continue to do so. In the next episode, a flashback reveals they were watching TV and complaining about how bored they were when they look at each other for a few seconds and spontaneously started making out. Yet, their relationship comes off as much more believable because they give off a ton of chemistry together and by the fact that they initially spend a lot of time lampshading how strange it is.

* Joe & Helen from ''Series/{{Wings}}'' despite it being the main pairing. After being childhood friends, they decide to date throughout season 2, until Helen leaves to go to New York to improve her cello skills, despite a declaration of love. After she comes back, Joe already got a new girlfriend, taking her leaving as the relationship being over. For the next few seasons, they show no indication of liking each other, with Helen even mocking their former relationship. Then come the end of Season 7, they sleep together after she gets engaged to a RomanticFalseLead and suddenly Joe wants to marry her cause reasons. [[note]] It doesn't help that, unlike most [[RomanticFalseLead Romantic False Leads]] Davis Lynch was depicted very positively, being a young millionaire whose only real flaw was blowing off dates for his business meetings, and even then, he would make it up to her. [[/note]] It's telling that when Brian makes a video to celebrate their love later in the season, the only clips of their post-season 2 relationships are taken from bad dates they had with other people.

** Logan and Quinn are an example that proves this trope [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools does not make a couple bad]]. The two have little interaction for the first 3 and a half seasons, and the interaction they do have isn't friendly, and that does ''not'' mean BelligerentSexualTension. It just means unfriendly. Then midway through the final season, her boyfriend, Mark, leaves her for another girl. While she's sulking, Logan happens to be riding by and sees her looking sad and comes to talk to her. While she initially resists his attempts to cheer her up and even asks why he's doing so, he showers her with compliments and then puts [[MegaNekko her glasses back on her]] and says, "There's Quinn." before they share their FirstKiss. Then in the episodes after this, they are all over each other; making out very frequently, being intimate, slow dancing. However, these two are actually very good together, give off a great OppositesAttract vibe, and have a lot of chemistry to the point where a viewer might wonder why the writers didn't start building them up earlier. Quinn and Logan both {{lampshade|Hanging}} how weird it is that they are together, and admit that they are embarrassed to be dating and hide it from the other characters, and when they tell Michael about their relationship, he thinks they're joking.

** The show [[PlayedForLaughs played this for laughs]] with Jackie and Hyde's hookup in Season 5. The two initially don't like each other at all, and it was only through their common friends that they're even in the same vicinity. They become better friends in Season 2 after he shows her how to deal with Laurie stealing Kelso from her. In Season 3, she becomes attracted to him and develops a clingy infatuation with him, which he's annoyed by, but he eventually caves and takes her out on a date. The two share a kiss, but Jackie says it didn't do anything for her and finally realizes Hyde isn't the guy for her. At this point, they seem to have effectively [[ShipSinking been sunk]], and it's not brought up again until the Season 5 premiere when the others leave the room, and the two suddenly start making out and continue to do so. In the next episode, a flashback reveals they were watching TV and complaining about how bored they were when they look at each other for a few seconds and spontaneously started making out. Yet, their relationship comes off as much more believable due because they give off a ton of chemistry together and by the fact that they initially spend a lot of time lampshading how strange it is.

* ''Series/OneTreeHill'':
** Brooke and Lucas fall into this even ''twice'' during the first three seasons. The show makes a point that the characters have never really interacted prior to Lucas joining the Ravens, with their relationship being one-sided as Brooke falls for him over the course of a six week long relationship that largely takes place off-screen and with half of the on-screen relationship spent with Lucas either cheating on Brooke with Peyton or in a coma, while the story makes it clear that Lucas is in love with Peyton and Brooke is just s rebound. After the truth comes out about Lucas cheating on Brooke, she's openly hostile towards him for the remainder of the first season (to the point she pretends to be pregnant to take revenge on him for his betrayal) while he basically ignores her and then they barely interact over the course of the first half of the second season (which is even set right after season 1 with no time jump between the season 1 finale and the season 2 premiere). Despite all this, Brooke seems to still be interested in him even though she openly admits in several occasions that she knows how unhealthy her feelings for him and their relationship were while Lucas suddenly decides that he's truly interested in her out of nowhere in the second half of the season.
** Jake and Peyton. The characters didn't interact for the first half of season one, before they started to become closer after Jake publicly revealed he was a father. Throughout the second half of the season, Jake and Peyton's relationship comes off as platonic, before they suddenly share a brief kiss before he leaves Tree Hill to protect his daughter - and the entire time Peyton and Jake's relationship was developing, she was still in a WillTheyOrWontThey situation with Lucas, who was the one she was canonically in love with. When they get together the following season with basically no build up and making Peyton suddenly being in love with Jake out of nowhere, the show even acts as if they had been an epic romance in the waiting, but their history didn't lend itself to that at all.
** Lucas and Lindsey. They become a couple at some point in the 4 year time skip between seasons 4 and 5 after Lucas' break-up with Peyton, but at no point in the season are viewers told how or when their relationship moved from professional to romantic. Consequently, the fandom never really bought into the relationship.
** {{Averted}} with Lucas and Peyton. The two are speciously seen as this only by Brucas and Jeyton shippers, who claim that Peyton's late season 3 revelation that she was still in love with Lucas was purely because the writers wanted to split Brooke and Lucas after their actors broke up in real life and because Jake's actor wasn't going to be available anymore (even though no one involved in the production ever confirmed all this and WordOfGod itself repeatedly stated that it was ''always'' meant to be Lucas and Peyton). In reality, when one rewatches the third season with the knowledge of Peyton's feelings in mind, it becomes beyond obvious how subtle a lot of the build-up to TheReveal actually was.

** Brooke and Lucas fall into this even ''twice'' during the first three seasons. The show makes a point that the characters have never really interacted prior to Lucas joining the Ravens, with their relationship being one-sided as Brooke falls for him over the course of a six week long relationship that largely takes place off-screen and with half of the on-screen relationship spent with Lucas either cheating on Brooke with Peyton or in a coma, while the story makes it clear that Lucas is in love with Peyton and Brooke is just s rebound. After the truth comes out about Lucas cheating on Brooke, she's openly hostile towards him for the remainder of the first season (to the point she pretends to be pregnant to take revenge on him for his betrayal) while he basically ignores her and then they barely interact over the course of the first half of the second season (which is even set right after season 1 with no time jump between the season 1 finale and the season 2 premiere). Despite all this, Brooke seems to still be interested in him even though she openly admits in several occasions that she knows how unhealthy her feelings for him and their relationship were while Lucas suddenly decides that he's truly interested in her out of nowhere in the second half of the season. And all this mess was even pointless since it was made just to put them back together in season 3 and then break them up again for good at the beginning of season 4, both realizing that they were never meant to be, when it came time for the writers to make the story definitely get back on track and finally put the OfficialCouple Leyton together for real.
** Jake and Peyton. The characters didn't interact for the first half of season one, before they started to become closer after Jake publicly revealed he was a father. Throughout the second half of the season, Jake and Peyton's relationship comes off as platonic, before they suddenly share a brief kiss before he leaves Tree Hill to protect his daughter - and the entire time Peyton and Jake's relationship was developing, she was still in a WillTheyOrWontThey situation with Lucas, who was the one she was canonically in love with. When they get together the following season with basically no build up and making Peyton suddenly being in love with Jake out of nowhere, the show even acts as if they had been an epic romance in the waiting, but their history didn't lend itself to that at all. And all this mess was even pointless since the story gets back on track in season 3 and Peyton realizes she really never loved Jake and that he was never more than a replacement for Lucas.

** Brooke and Lucas fall into this even ''twice'' during the first three seasons. The show makes a point that the characters have never really interacted prior to Lucas joining the Ravens, with their relationship being one-sided as Brooke falls for him over the course of a six week long relationship that largely takes place off-screen and with half of the on-screen relationship spent with Lucas either cheating on Brooke with Peyton or in a coma, while the story makes it clear that Lucas is in love with Peyton and Brooke is just s rebound. After the truth comes out about Lucas cheating on Brooke, she's openly hostile towards him for the remainder of the first season (to the point she pretends to be pregnant to take revenge on him for his betrayal) while he basically ignores her and then they barely interact over the course of the first half of the second season (which is even set right after season 1 with no time jump between the season 1 finale and the season 2 premiere). Despite all this, Brooke seems to still be interested in him even though she openly admits in several occasions that she knows how unhealthy her feelings for him and their relationship were while Lucas suddenly decides that he's truly interested in her out of nowhere in the second half of the season. And all this mess turned out to be even pointless since it was made just to put them back together in season 3 and then break them up again for good at the beginning of season 4, both realizing that they really had never been in love with each other, when it came time for the writers to make the story definitely get back on track and finally put the OfficialCouple Leyton together for real.

** Brooke and Lucas fall into this even ''twice'' during the first three seasons of the show. The show makes a point that the characters have never really interacted prior to Lucas joining the Ravens, with their relationship being one-sided as Brooke falls for him over the course of a six week long relationship that largely takes place off-screen and with half of the on-screen relationship spent with Lucas either cheating on Brooke with Peyton or in a coma, while the story makes it clear that Lucas is in love with Peyton and Brooke is just s rebound. After the truth comes out about Lucas cheating on Brooke, she's openly hostile towards him for the remainder of the first season (to the point she pretends to be pregnant to take revenge on him for his betrayal) while he basically ignores her and then they barely interact over the course of the first half of the second season (which is even set right after season 1 with no time jump between the season 1 finale and the season 2 premiere). Despite all this, Brooke seems to still be interested in him even though she openly admits in several occasions that she knows how unhealthy her feelings for him and their relationship were while Lucas suddenly decides that he's truly interested in her out of nowhere in the second half of the season. And all this mess turned out to be even pointless since it was made just to put them back together in season 3 and then break them up again for good at the beginning of season 4, both realizing that they really had never been in love with each other, when it came time for the writers to make the story definitely get back on track and finally put the OfficialCouple Leyton together for real.

** {{Averted}} with Lucas and Peyton. The two are seen as this only by Brucas and Jeyton shippers, who claim that Peyton's late season 3 revelation that she was still in love with Lucas was purely because the writers wanted to split Brooke and Lucas after their actors broke up in real life and because Jake's actor wasn't going to be available anymore (even though no one involved in the production ever confirmed all this and WordOfGod itself repeatedly stated that it was ''always'' meant to be Lucas and Peyton). When one rewatches the third season with the knowledge of Peyton's feelings in mind, it becomes beyond obvious how subtle a lot of the build-up to TheReveal actually was.

** {{Averted}} with Lucas and Peyton. The two are seen as this only by Brucas and Jeyton shippers, who claim that Peyton's late season 3 revelation that she was still in love with Lucas was purely because the writers wanted to split Brooke and Lucas after their actors broke up in real life and because Jake's actor wasn't going to be available anymore (even though no one involved in the production ever confirmed all this and WordOfGod itself repeatedly stated that it was ''always'' meant to be Lucas and Peyton). When one rewatches the third season with the knowledge of Peyton's feelings in mind, it becomes beyond obvious how subtle a lot of the build-up to TheReveal actually was. Besides, a lot of ShipTease between the two of them was made during the entire third season and their relationship was being built up even since the beginning of season 1, keeping them in a constant WillTheyOrWontThey situation for the rest of the time until they finally got together in season 4, so it's definitely not the case.

** Brooke and Lucas are both examples of Type-1 and Type-2 during the first three seasons of the show. The show makes a point that the characters have never really interacted prior to Lucas joining the Ravens, with their relationship being a one-sided Type-1 as Brooke falls for him over the course of a six week long relationship that largely takes place off-screen and with half of the on-screen relationship spent with Lucas either cheating on Brooke with Peyton or in a coma and the story making it clear that Lucas is in love with Peyton and Brooke is just s rebound. After the truth comes out about Lucas cheating on Brooke, she's openly hostile towards him for the remainder of the first season (to the point she pretends to be pregnant to take revenge on him for his betrayal) while he basically ignores her and then they barely interact over the course of the first half of the second season (which is even set right after season 1 with no time jump between the season 1 finale and the season 2 premiere). Despite all this, Brooke seems to still be interested in him even though she openly admits in several occasions that she knows how unhealthy her feelings for him and their relationship were while Lucas suddenly decides that he's truly interested in her out of nowhere in the second half of the season, making this a Type-2. And all this mess turned out to be even worse since it was made just to put them back together in season 3 and then break them up again for good at the beginning of season 4, both realizing that they really had never been in love with each other, when it came time for the writers to make the story definitely get back on track and finally put the OfficialCouple Leyton together for real.
** Jake and Peyton. The characters didn't interact for the first half of season one, before they started to become closer after Jake publicly revealed he was a father. Throughout the second half of the season, Jake and Peyton's relationship comes off as platonic, before they suddenly share a brief kiss before he leaves Tree Hill to protect his daughter - and the entire time Peyton and Jake's relationship was developing, she was still in a WillTheyOrWontThey with Lucas, who was the one she was canonically in love with. When they get together the following season with basically no build up and making Peyton suddenly being in love with Jake out of nowhere, the show even acts as if they had been an epic romance in the waiting, but their history didn't lend itself to that at all. And all this mess was even pointless since the story gets back on track in season 3 and Peyton realizes she really never loved Jake and that he was never more than a replacement for Lucas.
** Lucas and Lindsey are a Type-4, becoming a couple at some point in the 4 year time skip between seasons 4 and 5 after Lucas' break-up with Peyton. At no point in the season are viewers told how or when their relationship moved from professional to romantic, and subsquently the fandom never really bought into the relationship.

** Brooke and Lucas are both examples of Type-1 and Type-2 during the first three seasons of the show. The show makes a point that the characters have never really interacted prior to Lucas joining the Ravens, with their relationship being a one-sided Type-1 as Brooke falls for him over the course of a six week long relationship that largely takes place off-screen and with half of the on-screen relationship spent with Lucas either cheating on Brooke with Peyton or in a coma and the story making it clear that Lucas is in love with Peyton and Brooke is just s rebound. After the truth comes out about Lucas cheating on Brooke, she's openly hostile towards him for the remainder of the first season (to the point she pretends to be pregnant to take revenge on him for his betrayal) while he basically ignores her and then they barely interact over the course of the first half of the second season (which is even set right after season 1 with no time jump between the season 1 finale and the season 2 premiere). Despite all this, Brooke seems to still be interested in him even though she openly admits in several occasions that she knows how unhealthy her feelings for him and their relationship were while Lucas suddenly decides that he's truly interested in her out of nowhere in the second half of the season, making this a Type-2. And all this mess turned out to be even worse since it was made just to put them back together in season 3 and then break them up again for good at the beginning of season 4, both realizing that they really had never been in love with each other, when it came time for the writers to make the story definitely get back on track and finally put the Lucas and Peyton together for real.

** {{Averted}} with Lucas and Peyton. The two are seen as this only by Brucas and Jeyton shippers, who claim that Peyton's late season 3 revelation that she was still in love with Lucas was purely because the writers wanted to split Brooke and Lucas after their actors broke up in real life and because Jake's actor wasn't going to be available anymore (even though no one involved in the production ever confirmed all this and even WordOfGod repeatedly stated that it was always meant to be Lucas and Peyton). When one rewatches the third season with the knowledge of Peyton's feelings in mind, it becomes beyond obvious how subtle a lot of the build-up to TheReveal actually was. Besides, they made a lot of ShipTease between the two of them during the entire third season and their relationship was being built up even since the beginning of season 1 and then the two were kept in a constant WillTheyOrWontThey for the rest of the time until they finally got together in season 4, so it's definitely not the case.

** Brooke and Lucas are both examples of Type-1 and Type-2 during the first three seasons of the show. The show makes a point that the characters have never really interacted prior to Lucas joining the Ravens, with their relationship being a one-sided Type-1 as Brooke falls for him over the course of a six week long relationship that largely takes place off-screen and with half of the on-screen relationship spent with Lucas either cheating on Brooke with Peyton or in a coma and the story making it clear that Lucas doesn’t love Brooke, but he’s in love with Peyton. After the truth comes out about Lucas cheating on Brooke, she's openly hostile towards him for the remainder of the first season (to the point she pretends to be pregnant to take revenge on him for his betrayal) while he basically ignores her and then they barely interact over the course of the first half of the second season (which is even set right after season 1 with no time jump between the season 1 finale and the season 2 premiere). Despite all this, Brooke seems to still be interested in him even though she openly admits in several occasions that she knows how unhealthy her feelings for him and their relationship were while Lucas suddenly decides that he's truly interested in her out of nowhere in the second half of the season, making this a Type-2. And all this mess was made just to make them get back together and then make break them up again for good, both realizing that between them it had never been real love, when it came time for the writers to make the story definitely get back on track and finally put the OfficialCouple Leyton together for real.
** Jake and Peyton. The characters didn't interact for the first half of season one, before they started to become closer after Jake publicly revealed he was a father. Throughout the second half of the season, Jake and Peyton's relationship comes off as platonic, before they suddenly share a brief kiss before he leaves Tree Hill to protect his daughter - and the entire time Peyton and Jake's relationship was developing, she was still in a WillTheyOrWontThey with Lucas, who was the one she was truly in love with. When they get together the following season with basically no build up and making Peyton suddenly being in love with Jake out of nowhere, the show even acts as if they had been an epic romance in the waiting, but their history didn't lend itself to that at all. Then, the story gets back on track in season 3 and Peyton realizes she really never loved Jake and he was never more than a replacement for Lucas.

** Brooke and Lucas are both examples of Type-1 and Type-2 during the first three seasons of the show. The show makes a point that the characters have never really interacted prior to Lucas joining the Ravens, with their relationship being a one-sided Type-1 as Brooke falls for him over the course of a six week long relationship that largely takes place off-screen and with half of the on-screen relationship spent with Lucas either cheating on Brooke with Peyton or in a coma and the story making it clear that Lucas doesn’t love Brooke, but he’s in love with Peyton. After the truth comes out about Lucas cheating on Brooke, she's openly hostile towards him for the remainder of the first season (to the point she pretends to be pregnant to take revenge on him for his betrayal) while he basically ignores her and then they barely interact over the course of the first half of the second season (which is even set right after season 1 with no time jump between the season 1 finale and the season 2 premiere). Despite all this, Brooke seems to still be interested in him even though she openly admits in several occasions that she knows how unhealthy her feelings for him and their relationship were while Lucas suddenly decides that he's truly interested in her out of nowhere in the second half of the season, making this a Type-2. All this was made just to make them get back together and then break up again for good, both realizing that between them it has never been real love, when it finally came for the writers to put the OfficialCouple Leyton together for real.

** Brooke and Lucas are both examples of Type-1 and Type-2 during the first three seasons of the show. The show makes a point that the characters have never really interacted prior to Lucas joining the Ravens, with their relationship being a one-sided Type-1 as Brooke falls for him over the course of a six week long relationship that largely takes place off-screen and with half of the on-screen relationship spent with Lucas either cheating on Brooke with Peyton or in a coma and the story making it clear that Lucas doesn’t love Brooke, but he’s in love with Peyton. After the truth comes out about Lucas cheating on Brooke, she's openly hostile towards him for the remainder of the first season (to the point she pretends to be pregnant to take revenge on him for his betrayal) while he basically ignores her and then they barely interact over the course of the first half of the second season (which is even set right after season 1 with no time jump between the season 1 finale and the season 2 premiere). Despite all this, Brooke seems to still be interested in him even though she openly admits in several occasions that she knows how unhealthy her feelings for him and their relationship were while Lucas suddenly decides that he's in love with her out of nowhere in the second half of the season, making this a Type-2.
** Jake and Peyton. The characters didn't interact for the first half of season one, before they started to become closer after Jake publically revealed he was a father. Thoughout the second half of the season, Jake and Peyton's relationship comes off as platonic, before they suddenly share a brief kiss before he leaves Tree Hill to protect his daughter - and the entire time Peyton and Jake's relationship was developing, she was still in a WillTheyOrWontThey with Lucas, who was the one she was truly in love with. When they get together the following season with basically no build up and making Peyton suddenly being in love with Jake out of nowhere, the show even acts as if they had been an epic romance in the waiting, but their history didn't lend itself to that at all.

** {{Averted}} with Lucas and Peyton. The two are seen as this only by Brucas and Jeyton shippers, who claim that Peyton's late season 3 revelation that she was still in love with Lucas was purely because the writers wanted to split Brooke and Lucas after their actors broke up in real life and because Jake's actor wasn't going to be available anymore (things never confirmed by anyone involved in the production and even WordOfGod repeatedly stating that it was always meant to be Lucas and Peyton). When one rewatches several scenes in the third season with the knowledge of Peyton's feelings in mind, it becomes more apparent how subtle a lot of the build-up to TheReveal actually was. Besides, they made a lot of ShipTease between the two of them during the entire third season and their relationship was being built up even since the beginning of season 1 and then the two were kept in a constant WillTheyOrWontThey for the rest of the time until they finally got together in season 4, so it's definitely not the case.

** And what about Robin going from “my-true-love-[[DiedInYourArmsTonight died-in-my-arms]]-and-I-will-never-love-again” to “Wow, okay, Isabella’s hot, I’ll just go…romp in the bushes with her” thing in Season 3? Maybe there was some EvilIsSexy sexual tension, but romance? This makes Robin look like an unfaithful jerk after the huge balloon of suicidal angst that was the season opener. There was no explanation as to why Robin suddenly abandoned his angst over his true love for this woman who, incidentally, is the sister of his archnemesis and possibly trying to kill him.

** Brooke and Lucas are both examples of Type-1 and Type-2 during the first three seasons of the show. The show makes a point that the characters have never really interacted prior to Lucas joining the Ravens, with their relationship being a one-sided Type-1 as Brooke falls for him over the course of a six week long relationship that largely takes place off-screen and with half of the on-screen relationship spent with Lucas either cheating on Brooke with Peyton or in a coma and the story making it clear that Lucas doesn’t love Brooke, but he’s in love with Peyton. After the truth comes out about Lucas cheating on Brooke, she's openly hostile towards him for the remainder of the first season (to the point she pretends to be pregnant to take revenge on him for his betrayal) while he basically ignores her and then they barely interact over the course of the first half of the second season (which is even set right after season 1 with no time jump between the season 1 finale and the season 2 premiere). Despite all this, Brooke seems to still be interested in him even though she openly admits in several occasions that she knows her feelings for him and their relationship were unhealthy while Lucas suddenly decides that he's in love with her out of nowhere in the second half of the season, making this a Type-2.

** Jake and Peyton. The characters didn't interact for the first half of season one, before they started to become closer after Jake publically revealed he was a father. Thoughout the second half of the season, Jake and Peyton's relationship comes off as platonic, before they suddenly share a brief kiss before he leaves Tree Hill to protect his daughter - and the entire time Peyton and Jake's relationship was developing, she was still in a WillTheyOrWontThey with Lucas, whom was the one she really was canonically in love with. When they get together the following season with basically no build up and making Peyton suddenly being in love with Jake out of nowhere, the show even acts as if they had been an epic romance in the waiting, but their history didn't lend itself to that at all.

** Brooke and Lucas are both examples of Type-1 and Type-2 during the first three seasons of the show. The show makes a point that the characters have never really interacted prior to Lucas joining the Ravens, with their relationship being a one-sided Type-1 as Brooke falls for him over the course a six week long realtionship that largely takes place off-screen and with half of the on-screen relationship spent with Lucas either cheating on Brooke with Peyton or in a coma and the story making it clear that Lucas doesn’t love Brooke, but he’s in love with Peyton. After the truth comes out about Lucas cheating on Brooke, she's openly hostile towards him for the remainder of the first season and they barely interact over the course of the first half of the second season (which is even set right after season 1 with no time jump between the season 1 finale and the season 2 premiere). Despite all this, Lucas then suddenly decides that he's in love with her out of nowhere halfway through the season, making this a Type-2.

** Jake and Peyton. The characters didn't interact for the first half of season one, before they started to become closer after Jake publically revealed he was a father. Thoughout the second half of the season, Jake and Peyton's relationship comes off as platonic, before they suddenly kiss before he leaves Tree Hill to protect his daughter - and the entire time Peyton and Jake's relationship was developing, she was still in a WillTheyOrWontThey with Lucas. When they get together the following season, the show acts as if they had been an epic romance in the waiting, but their history really didn't lend itself to that.

** Brooke and Lucas are both examples of Type-1 and Type-2 during the first three seasons of the show. The show makes a point that the characters have never really interacted prior to Lucas joining the Ravens, with their relationship being a one-sided Type-1 as Brooke falls for him over the course a six week long realtionship that largely takes place off-screen and with half of the on-screen relationship spent with Lucas either cheating on Brooke with Peyton or in a coma. After the truth comes out about Lucas cheating on Brooke, she's openly hostile towards him for the remainder of the first season and they barely interact over the course of the first half of the second season before Lucas suddenly decides that he's in love with her out of nowhere halfway through the season, making this a Type-2.

** {{Averted}} with Lucas and Peyton. The two are seen as this only by Brucas and Jeyton shippers, who claim that Peyton's late season 3 revelation that she was still in love with Lucas was purely because the writers wanted to split Brooke and Lucas after their actors broke up in real life and because Jake's actor wasn't going to be available anymore. When one rewatches several scenes in the third season with the knowledge of Peyton's feelings in mind, it becomes more apparent how subtle a lot of the build-up to TheReveal actually was. Besides, they made a lot of ShipTease between the two of them during the entire third season and their relationship was being built up even since the beginning of season 1 and then the two were kept in a constant WillTheyOrWontThey for the rest of the time until they finally got together in season 4, so it's definitely not the case.

** {{Averted}} with Lucas and Peyton. The two are seen as this by Brucas and Jeyton shippers, who claim that Peyton's late season 3 revelation that she was still in love with Lucas was purely because the writers wanted to split Brooke and Lucas after their actors broke up in real life and because Jake's actor wasn't going to be available anymore. When one rewatches several scenes in the third season with the knowledge of Peyton's feelings in mind, it becomes more apparent how subtle a lot of the build-up to TheReveal actually was. Besides, they made a lot of ShipTease between the two of them during the entire third season and their relationship was being built up since the beginning of season 1 and then the two were kept in a constant WillTheyOrWontThey for the rest of the time until they finally got together in season 4, so it's definitely not the case.

** {{Averted}} with Lucas and Peyton. The two are seen as this by Brucas and Jeyton shippers, who claim that Peyton's late season 3 revelation that she was still in love with Lucas was purely because the writers wanted to split Brooke and Lucas after their actors broke up in real life and because Jake's actor wasn't going to be available anymore. When one rewatches several scenes in the third season with the knowledge of Peyton's feelings in mind, it becomes more apparent how subtle a lot of the build-up to The Reveal actually was. Besides, they made a lot of Ship Tease between the two of them during the entire third season and their relationship was being built up since the beginning of season 1 and then the two were kept in a constant Will They or Won't They? for the rest of the time until they finally got together in season 4, so it's definitely not the case.