- grumpy jerk and actual ray of sunshine are BFFs
- mutual unrequited pining
- character A falls fast and hard for character B
- character A slowly falls in love with character B over the course of several years, realization hits them that they’ve been in love with B for a long time hits them like a truck
- cool badass is actually a giant fucking nerd
- The Power of Friendship ™
- flat “what” reactions
- sweet adorable characters with horrible tragic pasts
- villains-turned-heroes becoming the Weird Uncle
- characters that aren’t actually related having a parent-child relationship
- characters that aren’t actually siblings having a sibling-like bond
- “I can’t stand this person but I would die for them”
Also including:
- Enemies to friends, and also its subtrope of enemies to friends to lovers
- Weird friendships
- ‘Opposites attract’
- The cute/sweet/harmless-seeming character actually being salty as fac when pushed too far