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Basic Trope: Two characters work well together because they're diametric opposites.
- Straight: Bob and Alice are a couple who clash more often than not. However, they're also attracted to each other.
- Exaggerated: Bob and Alice seemingly have nothing in common, but they're madly in love with each other.
- Justified: Bob and Alice feel that they complement each other very well.
- Inverted: Bob and Alice have extremely similar tastes - but they hate each others' guts.
- Alternatively, Birds of a Feather.
- Subverted: Bob and Alice clash frequently - when someone suggests that they are secretly in love with each other, they laugh it off.
- Double Subverted: That's because they secretly are attracted to each other.
- Parodied: A dating service matches compatible couples based on how vitriolic their interaction is with each other.
- Deconstructed: Bob and Alice are initially attracted to each other because of their differences, and decide to get together because they think they complement each other. However, once in a committed relationship their disagreements start to wear on them, they begin to find each others' differing traits annoying or bothersome, and the relationship ultimately fails painfully.
- Reconstructed: Yet, when they both find themselves in new relationships (with people they rarely fight with), they find the lack of argument almost boring. They mutually agree on one thing; they can't live without each other.
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted: They're not that good of partners; or they have similar interests.
- Enforced: "What better way to help them get on than to give them completely different personalities?"
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: "Bob and Alice are always arguing, yet we're always seeing them together."
- Conversed: ???
Back to Opposites Attract. What's that? You say you hate that trope? Well, seems like we'll get on just fine.