Sleeps with Everyone but You/Playing With

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Sleeps with Everyone but You: A character Really Gets Around. But doesn't ever have sex with this one other character.

  • Straight: Alice has sex with many, many other people, but never has sex with Bob.
  • Exaggerated: Alice can't even contemplate having sexual relations with Bob.
  • Downplayed: Alice has kissed pretty much everyone, but is sickened by the idea of kissing Bob.
  • Justified: Bob is totally incompatible with Alice for some reason.
    • Bob has a Virgin Power. The universe is trying to retain this.
  • Inverted: Alice and Bob are in a monogamous relationship.
  • Subverted: Bob spends most of the story being the one guy Alice won't sleep with, but thanks to a surprise plot twist, they fall in love/have a fling.
  • Double Subverted: ...but maybe Alice decides she's better of as just friends with Bob anyway.
  • Parodied: Alice is contractually obligated to never sleep with Bob during the story.
  • Deconstructed: Alice sleeps with everyone except Bob, who genuinely cares for her, because she can't form lasting romantic relationships because of past trauma.
  • Reconstructed: Alice isn't looking for anything serious, so sleeping with Bob would actually end up hurting him more in the long run.
  • Zig Zagged: ???
  • Averted: Alice sleeps with everyone, including Bob.
    • Alice sleeps with nobody at all.
  • Enforced: "Bob would make a great Butt Monkey, wouldn't he?"
  • Lampshaded: "It's almost as though Bob is the Butt Monkey of a comedy show, since he's the only person Alice won't sleep with."
  • Invoked: ???.
  • Exploited: ???.
  • Defied: Alice keeps a list of everyone in town, and decides to go through them alphabetically.
  • Discussed:

"I don't get it. She's slept with Albert, Basil, Charlie, Daniel, Edward, Freddie, Gerard, Hank, Ishmael, Joshua, Karl, Leonardo, Mason, Nathan, Oscar, Paul, Quincy, Rose, Sam, Tim, Ulysses, Victor, Walt, Xavier, Yolan, Zach, and you, but she waon't sleep with me!"

"Has it ever occurred to you that she really doesn't like you?"

  • Conversed: "This isn't going to be one of those comedies where the village bicycles sleep with everyon but one person?"
  • Played For Laughs: Alice sleeps with literally everyone on the planet, but when Bob tries to put the moves on her, she says, "What kind of a whore do you think I am?!"
  • Played For Drama: Bob is hopeless in love with the one person who will never reciprocate his feelings.
  • Plotted A Good Waste: ???.

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