Basic Trope: Two guys compete for a girl's affections, sometimes violently. * Straight: Marcus and Josh are both interested in Deidre and become antagonistic once both are aware of the other's intentions. * Exaggerated: * If I Can't Have You * Groups of men go at war over Deidre. * Justified: Deidre is the only attractive single female of the whole cast. * Inverted: Betty and Veronica * Subverted: * Deidre settles everything by saying that she isn't interested by either of them. * Marcus and Josh end up growing attracted to one another and go for the Gay Option. * Double Subverted * Not like that makes either of them stop... * Except that they both eventually realize they were Better As Rivals and go right back to what they originally wante