Basic Trope: A high school couple gets married.
- Straight: Alice and Bob were a couple in high school, and a few years later, they get married.
- Exaggerated: Every high school couple gets married.
- Downplayed: Alice and Bob started their relationship in high school, and it continued for a long time.
- Justified: Truth in Television
- Inverted:
- Alice and Bob were enemies in high school, but they get married as adults.
- Alice and Bob were a couple in high school, but they become enemies as adults.
- Subverted: Alice and Bob are teased to get married after high school, but the relationship doesn't work out.
- Double Subverted: They get back together and get married.
- Parodied:
- The couple are Sickeningly Sweethearts infected with parodies of YA romance clichés.
- Only high school couples get married; no two people who got together before or after then will.
- Zig-Zagged: Alice and Bob are on and off again after high school.
- Averted:
- Alice and Bob break up after high school.
- Alice and Bob were never a couple.
- Enforced:
- The writers think this is sweet.
- It's a revival set a few years later, and the writers don't want to write a new character or break up the Official Couple.
- Lampshaded: "Wow, who'd've thought Alice and Bob would have stayed together after high school?"
- Invoked: Alice starts seeking a future husband and/or Bob starts seeking a future wife in high school.
- Exploited: Because they're still just kids, Bob and Alice can be manipulated into doing embarrassing and/or dangerous things, supposedly to impress the other.
- Defied: Alice and/or Bob don't think it will work out, and they break up after graduating.
- Discussed: "I think it's really cute that Alice and Bob got together after high school. What if we did that too? Maybe after college?"
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: In their thirties, Alice and Bob say they met "about two decades ago", but don't elaborate.
- Deconstructed: People change and mature after high school, and don't always want what they used to want. So, Alice and Bob's marriage falls apart.
- Reconstructed: Alice and Bob matured together. Their relationship changes a lot but they stay a happy couple.
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