Basic Trope: Cleaning Up Romantic Loose Ends during the last episode.
- Straight: Bob and Alice, having been through a lot in their battle against Emperor Evulz, finally confess how they feel about each other close to halfway through the end of the final episode, right before they fight Evulz. After the fight against Evulz, they kiss to celebrate, and the credits roll.
- Exaggerated: Bob and Alice confess how they feel about each other. Then the credits roll.
- Downplayed:
- Bob and Alice are basically an Official Couple at this point, but haven't made it official. They make it official right before the final battle against Evulz.
- The possible romantic attraction between Bob and Alice is first hinted at in the final episode.
- Justified: The focus of the series was on the story; romance took a backseat.
- Inverted: The series starts with Bob and Alice hooking up within the first minute of the show.
- Subverted:
- Bob and Alice hook up during what looks like the last minute, only for the show to get a second season/sequel.
- Bob and Alice hook up while there's still a fair number of episodes left in the series.
- Double Subverted:
- The second season/sequel focuses on a completely different cast of characters, and Bob and Alice don't reappear until near the very end.
- The show switches focus to a new set of characters after the hookup, or circumstances prevent the story from showing them develop as a couple.
- Parodied: Bob and Alice have shown little to no romantic interest in each other throughout the whole series, and have shown more romantic interest in Candace and John, respectively. Less than a minute before the end of the last episode, they confess to each other.
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted:
- Bob and Alice don't hook up.
- Bob and Alice hook up near the resolution of the main conflict, but the series has a few epilogue episodes after the final conflict is resolved.
- Bob and Alice hook up various episodes before the resolution of the main conflict.
- Defied: In the middle of the series, Bob, who knows he is in a fictional story that plans to play this straight, decides to act on his feelings, and Alice reveals that she feels the same. The rest of the series shows their relationship growing as the story continues.
- Enforced:
- One of the biggest draws of the show, if not the entire draw, is the "Will They or Won't They?" aspect of Bob and Alice's relationship. So while the writer wants to hook them up early, Executive Meddling forces him to draw out the hookup as long as possible.
- The writer wants to draw in shipping views, but has no idea how to actually write a convincing romantic relationship and so wants to avert Shipping Bed Death.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: In the very last scene of the series, Alice blushes and says to Bob that she has to tell him something, but the credits roll before we can see what it is.
- Deconstructed: Because all they know about romance is from romance stories that play this straight, Alice and Bob have no idea how to actually be in a romantic relationship.
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