Cleaning Up Romantic Loose Ends/Playing With

Basic Trope: After two characters hook up, the other interested parties announce reasons to stop pursuing them.
 * Straight: Bob and Charlie both pine for Alice. When Alice chooses Bob, Charlie reveals he wasn't that into her.
 * Exaggerated: And Dave just wants Alice to be happy, Edgar starts dating Betty - who liked Bob, Frank dies, and so on.
 * Downplayed: ???
 * Justified: Charlie reveals that he was already chasing two other girls anyway.
 * Inverted: Bob and Alice break up, and all the interested suitors announce their intent to date Alice.
 * Subverted: Bob and Alice hook up, and Charlie reveals that he wasn't that into her - but he was lying.
 * Double Subverted: ...Turns out he's just acting that way to make Bob nervous.
 * Parodied: ???
 * Zig Zagged: Charlie reveals he wasn't really into Alice, but he reveals he was lying when he said that. He was actually into Bob.
 * Averted: ???
 * Enforced: ???
 * Lampshaded: ???
 * Invoked: ???
 * Exploited: ???
 * Defied: ???
 * Discussed: ???
 * Conversed: ???

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