Beta Couple - TV Tropes. Rachel: You were our Fred and Ethel Mertz! Katie: Funny, I thought you were our Fred and Ethel Mertz. Often they are friends or confidants of one or both of them, it's not uncommon for The Hero and his wingman to simultaneously try to hook up with the heroine and her maid of honor. Hit a Poor Communication Kills? The Beta Couple had that, but worked it out. The Beta Couple had that, and here's how they got through it. In addition to all of that, if there is sexual tension that the Official Couple is oblivious about, the Beta Couple is all the more aware of it and will try to help them embrace it. That said, the Beta Couple is usually a source of comedy, and as such have more freedom to be unconventional and kinky and less problem (or at least conflict) prone than the alpha couple. Musicals traditionally assign the Alpha Couple better singing voices than the Beta Couple, who get more opportunities to dance (especially if they're the juvenile type) and/or crack jokes. See also Hooked Up Afterwards. Totally not related to Beta Test Baddie, but sometimes related to Pair the Spares or Romantic False Lead. Compare Alone Among the Couples, another foil to the main character's romantic life. Voyeur and Aiko are probably a more . Their down- to- earth approach to love and marriage and their frequent bickering is a nice contrast to the romantic idealism of the Alpha Couple, Moritaka Mashiro and Miho Azuki. The contrast between the two couples is not lost on any of the people involved, as Mashiro wonders if he and Azuki should be more like Takagi and Miyoshi (who have gotten married despite confessing their feelings later than Mashiro and Azuki), before resolving to keep his promise. However, the beta couple's fate is even more tragic than the alpha's, setting up vitally important plot points. In Blue Comet SPT Layzner, David Rutherford and Simone Reflane eventually become this (and a Battle Couple) towards Eiji Asuka and Anna Stephanie. It's also an interesting example since Simone started as the Veronica in a Betty and Veronica triangle with Anna and Eiji, but David's Anguished Declaration of Loveand a three- years Time Skip eventually began to change things quite a bit.. Reader x Niall Horan (A 1D Fanfic). Pattyrose is a fanfiction author that has written 16 stories for Twilight, and Pride and Prejudice. Urusei Yatsura: Ataru Moroboshi sums up his relationship with Lum when Mendo confronts him about how the oni princess would be much better off without him: 'I hate being bound to Lum. Madame.alexandra is a fanfiction author that has written 314 stories for X-Men: The Movie, Pirates of the Caribbean, Harry Potter, Smallville, NCIS, Law and Order: SVU, A song of Ice and Fire, Hunger Games, and Star Wars. Yamazaki and Chiharu from Cardcaptor Sakura.. Touya and Yukito are similar, in that they're much more low- key and self- assured than Sakura and Syaoran. They might not be sure about how the other feels yet, but they're both pretty sure where they stand, and there's no real drama in their story. The mangaka enjoyed writing about them enough to eventually give them their own spin- off series, The Tyrant Falls in Love. The Beta Couple is present in the backdrop of many Romantic Comedies and Dramas with The Hero of the story looking at wooing their Love Interest, to provide a Foil to his/her efforts you will see one of their closest friends. The typical beta couple is the couple involving the most important people after the couple involving the protagonist. But here, the protagonist is a Celibate Hero, so Suzaku and Euphemia were the only couple displayed in some openings. Namely Holland x Talho, Ray x Charles, Sakuya x Norb. Dominic x Anemone is probably the most popular. Subverted by Dominic x Anemone. They face loads of troubles in their relationship throughout the series (mostly for Dominic, who spends almost the entire anime trying to get Anemone to notice him), and thus their relationship is more of a parallel to the main pair than a mere Beta Couple. The same may also be said for Holland x Talho. A true Beta Couple from the series would be Moondoggie x Gidget or, as suggested above, Norb x Sakuya. Of course, they're only slightly less dysfunctional than Louise and Saito. Tommy is already Banten's wingman, and Poe takes Natsuki under her wing (And her slippers, yeouch!) to try and save her relationship. Being longtime friends who know each other very well, they have an easier time than Ririchiyo and Soushi, who have a hard time even acting as a normal couple since Soushi thinks of himself as Ririchiyo's servant. This becomes even more obvious in the second part of the series, where the cast gets killed off and reincarnated several years later and both Ririchiyo/Soushi and Karuta/Watanuki have to rebuild their relationships from the ground up due to past life amnesia issues. While the things with the new Ririchiyo and Soushi don't turn out well, the relationship between the new Karuta and Watanuki goes just fine, their only issue is that now she is six years older than him. Miroku and Sango from Inu. Yasha are a slightly more mature couple who contrast with their companions Kagome and Inuyasha. Note that Erio and Caro fall for each other very fast. One reason is because they are still kids. They have their complications, mostly on Setsuna's part, but they still have it easier than Negi and his massive Unwanted Harem. At the end of the manga, while there is No Romantic Resolution for Negi, the epilogue states Konoka and Setsuna both married in the same year, it just doesn't say to each other (though it is implied). While Negi has to deal with a large Unwanted Harem that only keeps growing, his rival Kotaro only has a mildly dysfunctional relationship with his roommate Natsumi. As of the conclusion of the manga, in contrast with the couples mentioned above, Natsumi/Kotaro are set in stone, given that they are explicitly stated to have married in the epilogue. Akane Higurashi and Kazuya Kurauchi act as a Beta Couple to the Love Triangle in the Mai Hime manga. And also to an extent in the anime: the scene where both Akane and Mai use their CHILDS makes it clear they are very similar. Akane is then defeated by someone she thought was a friend (Miyu), resulting in Kazuya's demise. Same thing happens to Mai (she gets attacked by Shiho, with whom she was friends before Shiho found out she was a contender for Yuuichi's heart, then Shiho's child gets destroyed by a brainwashed Mikoto, killing Yuuichi). Several couples in Marmalade Boy, but specially Ginta Suoh and Arimi Suzuki (who had previously tried to break Yuu and Miki up, but found solace with each other when it failed) , as well as Meiko Akizuki and Namura- sensei. Rosalie and Bernard in Rose of Versailles, who are the only couple to survive at the end. Sailor Moon. Haruka/Sailor Uranus and Michiru/Sailor Neptune. Interestingly, they are probably more stable and certainly more mature than the Alpha Couple consisting of Usagi/Sailor Moon and Mamoru/Tuxedo Kamen. Ryota makes his affection for Ayako very clear and Ayako generally doesn't mind it (unless it interferes with basketball or gets him in trouble). Sakuragi even shows some distress when he notices Ryota's made more progress with Ayako then he has with Haruko. Princess Amelia of Slayers definitely has feelings for Zelgadis but, due to his quest to recover his human body and being the only serious guy of the group, for the most part he doesn't remark on it or doesn't care. However, she does make him blush a lot, and there are many hints that he cares for her quite deeply, especially in the second season. And the fact that we see that one of Amelia's wristbands is tied to Zel's canteen in the credits of the last episode of the third season. Tonari no Kashiwagi- san has Sayaka and Kazuki who often help Kotone and Yuuto along with their stumbling more- than- friends- but- not- quite- going- out relationship, both through direct advice and as a Double Date couple to keep the two from being too nervous, although mostly Yuuto, as Kotone is even more innocent than that. The main protagonists Sakura and Syaoran were actually the ones with the more simplified relationship as opposed to the ambiguously canon Beta Couple Fai and Kurogane, possibly attributed to the fact that Sakura and Syaoran were carry- overs from the already canon version of themselves in Cardcaptor Sakura, so there was no question that they'd get together. Whereas Fai and Kurogane were entirely new characters who got their Character Development over the course of Tsubasa. Even so, they still frequently acted as parental figures to Sakura and Syaoran, as well as parallels/foils to them in various official artwork and in- story plots and jokes, such as their Outo Country names: Big Dog (Kurogane), Little Dog (Syaoran), Big Cat (Fai) and Little Cat (Sakura). Considering that he's a medic and she's a mechanic onboard a Living Ship, their jobs allow them to be close at all times. Not that they ever do anything beyond compliments and awkward touches.. The secondary couple (Hijiri and Shiratori) is the one who shown the growth. There are another, less significant Beta Couple, like Reina's parents, and The Principal and his wife. While they have their own problems, Mike and Dusty's relationship spans the entirety of the series and serves as a contrast to the far more tumultuous relationships that the main character, Hunter Hastings and female lead Becky Fink, engage in separately. They remained together nearly the entirety of the story, however they are not the main focus of the story and Paulie and Douglas have been together much longer than them and way before the story took place. One of the beta couples is Daniel/Rayana, the Happily Married. God Emperors of Avalon that give much needed advice and counseling to the alpha couple. Later show up Misato/Kaji, Toji/Hikari.. Their relationship developed mainly in the chapters 6 and 7. In the past they faced similar troubles to Shinji and Asuka. At the end they chose to remain among normal human beings unlike Shinji and Asuka, who could not fit in human society anymore. Doing It Right This Time: Hikari and Touji. Shinji, Asuka and Rei run into them for first time when they were about to go out. It turns out that they had got together after Touji got maimed during the war and had been dating for a while before the world ended and they were sent back to the past, too. Dungeon Keeper Ami: The alpha couple is Ami and Jadeite, the beta is Cathy and Jered. However, there are other couples meantioned, most noteably for humor: Venna and Snyder, and Tserk and Cerasse. Rei/Kaworu and Hikari/Touji are the beta couples, often talking about Shinji and Asuka's troubles and even giving occasional advice. Thanks for respecting that.** I CANNOT provide pdf or any other type of copies to . I try to mix it up with some funny and happy times, but there WILL be angst. 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