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On the Rebound

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On the Rebound	comment	After going through a bad breakup, a character very quickly jumps into a new relationship. Often they're not emotionally prepared for the new relationship but go into one because they're hurting. The rebound lover is thus usually a Romantic False Lead. Oftentimes they are a Suspiciously Similar Substitute or a Replacement Goldfish. There are two common ways that characters deal with being in a rebound relationship. Either they are actively pursuing their Love Interest during a vulnerable time, or they are actively trying not to pursue the interest out of fear of being the rebound. The latter is often used to maintain UST when there is no other reason to keep the two from getting together. Note that this does NOT cover instances where a person leaves their significant other for someone new. They have to break up, then leap into the new relationship. Additionally, it's not just "the relationship after a big breakup." The emotional vulnerability is a large part of the trope. Sister trope to Comforting the Widow, which is about entering a relationship after a loved one dies. Often a large overlap with Sex for Solace. See also Rebound Best Friend for the platonic version.
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On the Rebound / int_136e43a2	comment	On Zoey101 Zoey begins dating Chase's Suspiciously Similar Substitute James more or less right after she and Chase have to put their Relationship Upgrade on hold because of distance. The finale dealt with the fact she was never in love with James, and that Chase was always her first choice.
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On the Rebound / int_18d42585	comment	In Sparkling Shimmer, Twilight worries that this might be the only reason she's attracted to Sunset. Despite this, she agrees to a few test dates after Sunset confesses.
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On the Rebound / int_24e41891	comment	Dexter: Lila is explicitly referred to as a rebound for Dexter after Rita dumps Dexter (ironically, because Rita falsely believed Dexter had slept with Lila). Lumen is a Replacement Goldfish for Rita after she dies, being a blonde Broken Bird herself.
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On the Rebound / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: After Edna breaks up with Skinner, she then hooks up with Comic Book Guy on the Rebound. Lampshaded by Marge:
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On the Rebound / int_26ef42e7	comment	Kevin & Kell has a surprisingly literal example (lampshaded in the punchline). George Fennec's girlfriend, Zerdra Zenith, decides to break up with him, having gotten over her disdain for her fellow fennec foxes. Since George had been seeing her while disguised as a rabbit, he takes the opportunity to reveal himself as a fennec fox, ignoring Danielle Kindle (who's posing as his daughter)'s warnings. Zerdra punches George so hard he lands in Danielle's arms. Before long, George and Danielle get into a relationship.
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On the Rebound / int_27831967	comment	Parks and Recreation: After breaking up with Mark, Ann kisses Andy in a moment of vulnerability and later discusses starting a relationship with Chris Traeger, but she doesn't want to rebound.
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On the Rebound / int_2f7e7b92	comment	An unreleased song by Melanie Martinez sometimes called "Blue Knees" or "Bandaid" is about this, wherein she warns her rebound lover not to get too close to her because she's just using them to make herself feel better.
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On the Rebound / int_33860f9f	comment	Scott Pilgrim has a triple threat: After the devastating break-up with Envy, Scott briefly gets with Knives at the first chance, before becoming obsessed with Ramona (at least he didn't take advantage of her). While a year has passed since the break-up, Scott is still hurting so much that a phone call from Envy left him near-comatose. After being dumped by Scott, Knives throws herself at Young Neil, on the basis that he kind of looks like Scott. They don't last. It doesn't help that she's also going for Young Neil on the grounds that since he's around Scott a lot, so this lets her continue to hang around him; her not-quite-thing with Stephen Stills works the same way. Once the whole truth about the break-up between Scott and Envy comes out, it becomes clear that Envy's relationship with Todd was this. She's still hurting out of the break-up and finding out Todd had been cheating on her with their band's drummer, had punched a hole in the moon for Ramona before doing the same for her and calling it a unique act, and was cheating on his Vegan diet, among other things when she throws herself at Gideon, and doesn't find closure until after Gideon's death.
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On the Rebound / int_354d43de	comment	Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers: Kristine Kochanski is on the rebound from her boyfriend of two years when she meets Lister. They rapidly end up in a wild relationship, but it doesn't last — her ex dumps the "brunette in Catering" he left her for, and she quickly goes back to him, leaving Lister heartbroken.
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On the Rebound / int_36be4c66	comment	Mars (1996): The Casanova cum Ladykiller in Love Rei attempts to do this after he breaks up with Kira after he struggles to come to terms with her trauma-induced behavior. But it's ultimately subverted because he finds out that since he's in love, his body doesn't respond to other women anymore and he and Kira patch things up soon after.
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On the Rebound / int_3defe34c	comment	Discussed and Played With in Dread String of Fate: After learning that Marinette is literally being strangled by the Red String of Fate that connects her to Adrien, Luka decides to help her Screw Destiny by helping her through the process of letting go of her crush. When Marinette starts falling for him, he's completely caught off guard and worries whether he's somehow taking advantage of her or has somehow caused the string to transfer from Adrien to himself. Sass reassures him that Fate isn't involved, and Marinette is choosing him completely of her own free will.
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On the Rebound / int_48dee380	comment	In Drinking Buddies, after Kate gets dumped by Chris, she hooks up with a coworker that she doesn't even like that much. When a friend calls her out on it, she says she doesn't love him or anything, and just acted.
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On the Rebound / int_4e45b093	comment	The Big Bang Theory: Leonard's attempt at a "serious" relationship with Leslie was this, after his first time attempting to date Penny went south. At one point he and Penny run into each other across and the hall with their new romantic partners. They swoop their respective into a passionate kiss and try not to stop until the other does (which goes on for at least a few minutes) in an effort to show just how "fine" they're doing without each other. After Leonard and Penny tried dating the second time Penny gets together with Zach. She admits that while he's a nice guy, he's dumb as a sack of hammers and the only reason she bothered to give him the time of day was so she wouldn't be lonely and to take her mind off of Leonard.
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On the Rebound / int_584365d4	comment	Melody takes place right after the protagonist's breakup with Bethany. Because of this, he is hesitant, if not outright insecure, in his relationships with any of the girls. If the protagonist opts for relationships with Melody and/or Isabella, he would also be a rebound for them (they both had breakups right before the beginning of the story). Isabella lampshades this at the beginning of her romantic path, and opts for a one-night stand... which turns into something more if the protagonist wants it.
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On the Rebound / int_588eaabd	comment	Mr. Right has Martha meeting Francis immediately after breaking up with her creep of a boyfriend. The title actually comes from a sarcastic remark from her roommate about how quickly she falls for him.
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On the Rebound / int_5892c322	comment	In the movie Swingers, Mike is assured by a friend that his ex's current relationship won't last because it's a rebound relationship. But her relationship with Mike was also a rebound.
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On the Rebound / int_61f0e7bb	comment	In Lantern's Day, In Canary's Night: Felicity comes to the conclusion that any relationship Oliver has with another woman who isn't Laurel is this. Whether she's right or not is debatable, but at the very least her own relationship with Oliver was this, as one of the reasons Oliver even dated Felicity is because he thought he ruined whatever chances he had with Laurel.
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On the Rebound / int_641203c1	comment	Schitt's Creek: After Ted is dumped by Alexis in the first season, he takes up with Heather, a slightly older but attractive woman who owns a goat farm. After Alexis and Ted break up for good, she dates Artie, a man old enough to be her father but is still trying to be hip. This annoys Johnny a lot.
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On the Rebound / int_6ada53b1	comment	NUMB3RS: Don with Liz after he and Robin break up, implied to be less than a week in between. The speed combined with the fact that he doesn't tell anyone about the breakup causes a lot of the people closest to him to believe it's something else entirely. After Robin and Don have gotten back together, Liz assures her she was just the rebound and Don was always stuck on Robin.
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On the Rebound / int_6c9193a1	comment	In The Venture Brothers, after being dumped by The Monarch, Dr. Girlfriend then goes to Phantom Limb and begins dating him. She never seems to actually care for him that much, and comes across as distant to the audience.
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On the Rebound / int_701f0ece	comment	Implied with Griffith from Berserk towards Guts. He was distraught after Guts defeated him and left the Band of the Hawks, so distraught he immediately sought out Princess Charlotte for sex in a desperate attempt to make himself feel better and regain control of the situation. It didnâ€™t work, and if anything it made everything worse for him, because the King (who has his own little issues regarding his daughter) would find out and have him put to the torture before declaring everyone he led outlaw. Made even more of an example in the movie where he is shown thinking of Guts the entire time he is having sex with Charlotte.
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On the Rebound / int_70fe65c4	comment	Rui Tachibana from Domestic Girlfriend: She basically gets a shot at her love with Natsuo only after he & Hina Tachibana separate due to their teacher x student relationship being exposed. After Hina leaves home, Rui becomes Natsuo's crutch while also living together with him and every now & then initiating some physical contact despite him still hoping to get back together with Hina one day, which was also being his driving force for becoming an accomplished writer. Despite that, once he sees Hina again on Izu Oshima island, it's still her that he pursues while leaving a crying & pleading Rui behind. It's only after Hina completely rejects his feelings(as a lie to protect his future), leaving Natsuo emotionally hurt, his resolve crushed, that Rui eventually gets to start a relationship with him. Of course, Hina eventually returns...
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On the Rebound / int_7e90688	comment	What Goes Around Comes Around (Miraculous Ladybug) makes this a point of contention between Marinette, Alya and Adrien. Alya firmly believes that the only reason Marinette started dating Luka is because she hadn't had any luck with Adrien. So when Marinette is revealed as Ladybug, both Alya and Adrien assume that she'll be more than happy to drop Luka like a hot potato and hook up with him instead. Suffice to say, Marinette isn't amused by how blithely they dismiss her feelings, and Juleka gives Alya an Indignant Slap for casually calling her brother a "runner-up prize".
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On the Rebound / int_82439e64	comment	Invoked and lampshaded in The Office (US). After breaking up with Carol, Micheal hooks up with a young waitress from a Japanese restaurant and brings her to the Christmas party, only for her to leave an hour later. Jim explained to Michael that he was having a rebound and should not feel disappointed. Michael realizes that was what he was doing and even admits he couldn't tell his date apart from the other Asian waitress that had attended the party.
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On the Rebound / int_846a0b73	comment	The One to Make It Stay: After deciding that Adrien simply isn't worth the heartache of her fruitless pursuit, Marinette ends up dating Luka instead. Interestingly, in this case her heart isn't truly broken until well after they start dating, when she's hit hard by the realization that Adrien was Chat Noir and that she'd been Loving a Shadow all along.
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On the Rebound / int_85eced19	comment	Love & Pies: On the first day of her high school ex Joe's full-time job at Amelia's cafÃ©, she struggles with her rekindled feelings for him because it has only been a week since she signed the divorce papers. She tells herself to focus on her work and try not to let romance distract her in the meantime and insists that she and Joe are in a Strictly Professional Relationship. She also worries about rushing into the relationship after nearly falling for Sam when he pretended to be his twin brother Joe.
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On the Rebound / int_887acd55	comment	In New Girl, Jess tries to have a rebound fling, but she has issues with getting attached. After another relationship, she has a rebound backslide where she hooks up with an old ex-boyfriend.
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On the Rebound / int_8ec667ec	comment	Parodied in Not Another Teen Movie. After Jake breaks up with Priscilla, his dad (who wants his son to emulate him in every way) approaches him with the "perfect rebound girl", which turns out to be his willing mother. No wonder Jake considers himself the Only Sane Man in the family.
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On the Rebound / int_8fa77cb6	comment	After finally realizing what a jerk Gendo is in Doing It Right This Time, Ritsuko swears off men and asks Maya if she wants to be her "torrid lesbian rebound fling". Maya immediately agrees and the following relationship actually works out pretty well. It helps that Maya convinced Ritsuko to make an effort in a genuine relationship rather than just make it a one-and-done thing.
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On the Rebound / int_9d7ec380	comment	In The Good Place, Janet is upset after Jason starts dating Tahani, she having subconsciously remained in love with him even after she and the four humans had their memories wiped hundreds of times. Eleanor suggests that to cope she find a rebound guy, though admits her options are pretty thin. So Janet creates a boyfriend for herself, Derek. At the end of the episode, Eleanor admits that she gave Janet bad advice and tells her the only way to get over genuine heartbreak is to allow herself a mourning period instead of taking the easy route and ignoring her feelings.
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On the Rebound / int_a810bb3b	comment	In The Awful Truth, the aunt tries to warn the freshly separated female lead about going down this path.
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On the Rebound / int_a8729c90	comment	The Fairly OddParents!: The episode "The Secret Origin of Denzel Crocker" shows this is how Timmy's parents got together. Timmy's mom and Dinkleburg were dating at first, only for Dinkleburg to dump her when he got government funding and apparently decided to trade up. Timmy's dad was there for her in that moment and a genuine relationship formed from that. It helps that it was shown that Timmy's dad genuinely had feelings for her before then.
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On the Rebound / int_b8c3cc30	comment	Young Justice. Poor, poor La'gann was Miss Martian's "rebound guy" during her Offscreen Breakup with Superboy during the Time Skip. He even gets called such on the series. She eventually dumps La'gann because she realizes that he's just a rebound guy to her.
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On the Rebound / int_bd310eaa	comment	In El Goonish Shive, Diane tries to take advantage of this trope (warning: link contains some spoilers) to enter a relationship with Elliot after she overhears his girlfriend at the time planning to break up with him. However, this plan ends up failing after, among other things, the breakup doesn't go quite the way Diane expected, resulting in our spoilered male character not actually being left in the expected emotionally vulnerable state.
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On the Rebound / int_c489a759	comment	Digimon Adventure 02: 2 days after Tai learns it's Matt that Sora's interested in, Tai's hitting on a blonde French girl in Paris.
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On the Rebound / int_db96ded4	comment	The Legend of Korra: Mako gets back together with his ex-girlfriend Asami after he breaks up with Korra. It doesn't last.
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On the Rebound / int_e293455a	comment	Buffy the Vampire Slayer: After Angel leaves the show for LA Buffy falls for Parker, another student at her university, who promptly dumps her after a one night stand. When Buffy breaks up with her next boyfriend Riley Finn, Xander accuses her of treating him like the rebound guy from Angel, rather than a proper Love Interest. The fact that Riley looks a little like Angel and the fact that they had little to no chemistry makes you wonder if he has a point. After Drusilla leaves Spike after season 2 and he fails to get her affections back in season 3, he returns in season 4 with Harmony on his arm as a new girlfriend. He's pretty clearly not over Dru, as Harmony mentions several times that he endlessly gripes about how she left him for a moss demon. He also pretty openly despises Harmony aside from the uh... services she happily provides. After Buffy likewise dumps him in season 6, he comes to Xander and Anya's wedding with some random goth girl who is so much a rebound relationship that she isn't even named. Even he's perfectly honest about the fact that it was nothing more than Operation: Jealousy.
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On the Rebound / int_f0a86c12	comment	Occurs a few times in How I Met Your Mother. "Wait For It" has both Robin and Ted doing this after their break-up. Gael, Robin's Latin Lover whom she picked up on a trip to Argentina. The relationship explicitly happened because Robin was so torn up by her breakup with Ted that she needed something. In response to Gael, Barney first tries to hook up Ted with some "super flexible" acrobats from Montreal, then later with a Hard-Drinking Party Girl named Amy, which results in him getting a butterfly tramp stamp. Several of Barney's plays to pick up women involves targeting vulnerable women who have just broken up. Ted actively didn't pursue a girl until some time had passed after her breakup so that he wouldn't be the rebound guy. Parodied in the episode "Rebound Bro" where, after "breaking up" with Ted, Barney latches onto a new bro, only to break up eventually.
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On the Rebound / int_f186f924	comment	Horizon Zero Dawn: After the death of his girlfriend Ersa, Sun-King Avad will flirt with Aloy a little, who has more than a passing resemblance to Ersa in temperament. Later, Avad apologizes for being too forward, and they move on.
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On the Rebound / int_f38b71c4	comment	After breaking up with Isaac Clarke before the events of Dead Space 3, Ellie has taken up with Captain Robert Norton of the (remaining) military because unlike the traumatized Isaac Norton still wants to fight the Markers and save humanity. At first he does, anyway, later changing to protecting Ellie at the cost of his people's lives and trying to Murder the Hypotenuse, possibly under the Marker's influence but still. Norton is such a Jerkass, though, and his interactions with Ellie so emotionally lopsided that it's less What Does She See in Him? and more like he's Any Port In Storm due to her breakup with Isaac; at one point Norton sincerely tells Ellie that he loves her and Ellie's response is basically, "Oh, I'm aware of that" without any off the charm and affection that Han Solo used in The Empire Strikes Back. When Isaac has to kill Norton in self-defense, Ellie is naturally upset but rants mainly that Norton still believed in their cause as opposed to Isaac instead of, y'know, berating him for killing someone she loved.
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On the Rebound / int_f6c05e8e	comment	Friends: In "The One with Five Steaks and an Eggplant", Chandler gets a call from a woman who thinks his number is from her ex, with whom she wants to hook-up with. Chandler takes advantage of this by pretending he's said ex and arranging for a date, and when she's inevitably stood up, Chandler will "swoop in" and woo her while she's on the rebound. Ross finds the entire thing very questionable and admonishes Chandler about it, but he goes through with it anyway and succeeds in hooking up with her... only to get his comeuppance when she calls "Bob" again only to tell him how awful Chandler was in bed. In "The One with Ross's New Girlfriend", Rachel tries to meet Ross at the terminal after he returns from his trip to China but is dismayed to discover he has brought home a new girlfriend. Her response is to seek out her own ex-boyfriend Paolo and impulsively have a one-night stand with him. Granted, Ross and Rachel hadn't yet formally gotten together before this point, but... When Joey moves out of his apartment in "The One Where Eddie Moves In", Chandler very quickly gets a new roommate, Eddie. Rachel comments that it will never last and Eddie is just a "rebound roommate".
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