Friends with Benefits/Playing With

• Basic Trope: A couple that is sexually involved with one another, but not an Official Couple.
• Played Straight: Alice and Bob have sex, and are good friends with one another, but not boyfriend and girlfriend.
• Exaggerated: Alice and Bob do nothing else together except have sex.
• Inverted:
  • Alice and Bob are an Official Couple but don't have sex.
  • Alice and Bob are Like Brother and Sister
• Justified:
  • Alice and/or Bob are involved with other people
  • Alice and Bob want sex, but not necessarily to be tied down.
  • Alice and Bob are going for a Relationship Upgrade. (YMMV as to whether they're going about it the right way or not.)
  • Alice and Bob in the mood, and trust each other.
• Subverted: Alice and Bob are attracted to one another, but the attraction is where it stops.
• Double Subverted: Until they have a little too much to drink at a party and end up in bed together.
• Deconstructed: It can lead to all sorts of awkwardness, especially if one is falling in love with the other, who isn't interested.
• Reconstructed: Everyone is on the same page, and does not have any unrealistic expectations as to where this is (or may be) going. And who knows? It might become a real relationship with time anyway.
• Parodied: Alice and Bob have had sex with all their friends.
• Lampshaded:
• Averted:
  • Alice and Bob do not have sex.
  • Alice and Bob are an Official Couple
• Enforced: They're teasing the shippers.
• Invoked: Alice, unhappy in her relationship with Charles, is comforted (and ultimately seduced) by her friend Bob.
• Exploited: Bob and Alice stay friends with each other for the sex.
• Defied: Alice and Bob agree not to let raging hormones lead them to risk ruining their friendship
• Played For Laughs: What Did I Do Last Night?
• Played For Drama: Almost always is.

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