Basic Trope: A Love Triangle being resolved by involving the offspring of the former Love Interest.
- Straight: Alice is involved in a Love Triangle with Bob and Charles, and ends up choosing Bob. Eighteen years later, Alice and Bob's daughter Danielle starts dating and eventually marries Charles.
- Exaggerated:
- Charles doesn't even bother with the Jailbait Wait.
- Charles eventually marries Alice and Bob's granddaughter, Emily.
- Downplayed: Charles marries Alice and Bob's adoptive daughter Danielle, who was already fifteen when they became her guardians.
- Justified: Charles is attracted to Danielle as a result of her being a member of Generation Xerox.
- Inverted:
- Charles marries Alice's mother.
- Charles winds up with his intended, Alice.
- Subverted:
- Charles remained good friends with Alice, but cares for her daughter as a brother would.
- Danielle flatly turns Charles down.
- Double Subverted: Wife Husbandry
- Parodied: ???
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted:
- Charles does not marry or date Alice's daughter.
- Alice lives Happily Ever After with Charles, and has not seen Bob since the Love Triangle got resolved.
- Enforced: Tying Up Romantic Loose Ends in a way that everyone gets a happy ending.
- Lampshaded: Charles comes to visit Alice and Bob at the hospital after Danielle is born, and promises to marry her someday.
- Invoked: Charles once dated Alice, but she left him for Bob. Years later, while out walking Tropey the Wonder Dog, Charles sees Alice's teenage daughter and notes how much she looks like her mother.
- Exploited: Alice and Bob offer to let Charles date Danielle if he does them a favor.
- Defied: Charles thinks that's skeevy, and starts seeking women closer to his age.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed:
- Danielle wonders if Charles actually loves her, or just views her as a Consolation Prize because he couldn't be with her mother.
- Charles only pursues a relationship with Danielle to get back her parents because he knows it would make them uncomfortable.
- Reconstructed:
- Charles had no idea that Danielle was Alice's daughter until after he fell in love with her. His feelings are entirely genuine.
- Charles falls in love with Danielle for who she is and lets go of his bitterness toward her parents.
- Played For Laughs: Upon meeting Alice and Bob's daughter Danielle, Charles jokes that maybe he'll have better luck this time.
- Played For Drama:
- Pædo Hunt
- Alice and Bob do not approve of the relationship, even if Danielle is of legal age.
- Played For Horror: Charles is a Stalker with a Crush who feels entitled to have Danielle because her mother broke his heart.
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