-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, realisation 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 related having a sibling-like bond
- I can't stand this person but I would die for them
- enemies to friends, also its subtype of enemies to friends to lovers
- weird friendships
- opposites attract
- the cute/sweet/harmless seeming character actually being salty as fuck when pushed too far

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