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Before the crisis, the character is perfectly fine being [[Just Friends]] or [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|totally platonic]] [[Slap Slap Kiss|bickering partners]] with another. But then, that other character gets romantically involved with an interloper, causing their [[Unresolved Sexual Tension|not-at-all]] love interest to [[Can't Live with Them Can't Live Without Them|suddenly feel the sting of their absence]]. Once they finally admit to themselves their feelings, the [[Romantic False Lead]]'s got hell to pay.
In some works, this is the cue for a [[Relationship Upgrade]]. In other works where [[Status Quo Is God]], the envious one will stubbornly refuse to come clean and revert back to her "friend" self once the romantic complication is out of the picture. It's a [[Aw, Look -- They Really Do Love Each Other|Aw Look She Really Does Love Him]]
Sometimes this trope comes into play after a couple has broken up, with one side having convinced herself that she's over him, until seeing her ex with a vixen causes her to gnash her teeth.
If one partner ''isn't'' in denial and deliberately stages such an incident to make the other jealous and admit her feelings, he's pulling an [[Operation: Jealousy]]. Sometimes overlaps with [[Unrequited Love Switcheroo]]
A [[Sub-Trope]] of [[Love Epiphany]].
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* Tomari in ''[[Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl]]'' admits her feelings for Hazumu only after she catches her kissing with another girl, Yasuna.
* ''[[Ranma ½]]'': Multiple times, both ways, between Ranma and Akane, Ranma and Ukyo, and Ranma and Shampoo.
* In ''[[Samurai Pizza Cats]]'', Polly constantly denied her feelings for Speedy, insisting they were "[[Just Friends]]"
* In the anime version of ''[[Angelic Layer]]'', Tamayo treats Kotaro only as a close friend until he develops obvious feelings for protagonist Misaki.
* In the ''[[Lovely Complex]]'' manga and anime, [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|Otani]] has never been able to see Risa as anything other than a [[Just Friends|friend]]...until she's suddenly swooning over Maity-sensei.
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== Music ==
* Paramore's "Misery Business" is an extended musical [[Take That]] to the former girlfriend in this situation. Including calling her a whore. Given that, according to Hayley Williams, it's based on events from her own life, it's a possible twofer...
* Avril Lavigne's "Sk8er Boi" is a song about a girl who is in denial about her love for a boy she knows until he's already been claimed by another. Unusually for arcs invoking the trope, she doesn't get him in the end. Here the rival is the song's point-of-view character, possibly the artist
* Toby Keith's "How Do You Like Me Now?" is about a guitarist/songwriter gloating through the radio at the girl who rejected him in high school and went on to marry some rich guy who never has time for his family.
* "Judy's Turn to Cry" by Lesley Gore (the sequel to "It's My Party (And I'll Cry if I Want To)") has the singer get Johnny back this way.
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== Video Games ==
* ''[[Super Robot Wars]]'' games plays with this trope and [[Mazinger Z|Kouji Kabuto]]. Kouji in ''[[Mazinger Z]]'' has [[Love Interest]] in the form of Sayaka. Kouji also appears in ''[[UFO Robo Grendizer]]'', where he has another [[Love Interest]], Maria Grace. Both of them are [[Tsundere
* ''[[Valkyria Chronicles]]'' plays with this trope when dealing with Welkin and Alicia. Welkin's mannerisms and (for the lack of a better word) obsession with nature put Alicia off in the early going, but as the game progresses, she begins to appreciate how Welkin's knowledge gets them out of rough situations. The anime, however, jacks it up to eleven.
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