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Fidelity Test

175 statements
31 feature instances
21 referencing feature instances

Fidelity Test	type	FeatureClass
Fidelity Test	label	Fidelity Test
Fidelity Test	page	fidelitytest
Fidelity Test	comment	Alice and Bob are married, engaged, or otherwise attached. Alice gets it into her head to somehow 'test' whether Bob is faithful to her. Sometimes, she believes he is, but makes a wager with someone who insists that he isn't, or that no one else ever is. Alternately, she's just suspicious for no good reason. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })Then Alice's agent, or the person with whom Alice made the wager, or Alice herself in disguise, goes and attempts to seduce Bob. In almost all cases, Bob will prove to be true to Alice. Often she doesn't realize it, though; either her agent lies to her, or, in a twist as old as the trope, he sees through her disguise or otherwise becomes privy to her plan, and plays along to teach her a lesson. A Sub-Trope of Secret Test of Character.
Fidelity Test	fetched	2018-10-12T06:43:07Z
Fidelity Test	parsed	2020-06-25T17:25:51Z
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Fidelity Test	processingComment	Dropped link to SubvertedTrope: Not an Item - CAT
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Fidelity Test	isPartOf	DBTropes
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Fidelity Test / int_107cf596	comment	Queen of the South features a non-romantic example, as Camila arranges to have Teresa captured and threatened by fake federal agents to see if she'll name Camila as her boss. Teresa is smart enough to know that she shouldn't snitch on her boss, and thus passes the test.
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Fidelity Test / int_1338fbdc	type	Fidelity Test
Fidelity Test / int_1338fbdc	comment	In Così Fan Tutte, Ferrando and Guglielmo make a bet with Don Alfonso and he concocts the Zany Scheme in which they attempt to seduce their girlfriends disguised as Albanians.
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Così Fan Tutte (Theatre)	hasFeature	Fidelity Test / int_1338fbdc
Fidelity Test / int_20098ea4	type	Fidelity Test
Fidelity Test / int_20098ea4	comment	In the BBC sitcom Coupling, there's a business devoted to at least one half of this—setting up fake dates to test the fidelity of committed men. Sally claims that she has no idea of what they were supposed to do if the man stayed faithful.
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Coupling	hasFeature	Fidelity Test / int_20098ea4
Fidelity Test / int_21f4105d	type	Fidelity Test
Fidelity Test / int_21f4105d	comment	In Kissing a Fool, committment-phobic Chicago sportscaster Max Abbit (David Schwimmer) thinks he's finally found the girl of his dreams in cerebral book editor Samantha (Mili Avital), after Max's best friend, novelist Jay (Jason Lee), fixes them up. But Max, haunted by doubts about his fiancee's fidelity, enlists Jay to test her loyalty by trying to seduce her.
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Fidelity Test / int_22b5dea1	type	Fidelity Test
Fidelity Test / int_22b5dea1	comment	Most daytime talk shows (like Maury) will use this one on men suspected of cheating. The man will be put in the waiting room with a decoy who pretends to be another guest and comes onto the man, to see how he reacts. 99 times out of 100, the man will go for it, which gives the perfect opportunity for his girlfriend/wife (or the host) to throw it in his face when he says "I would never cheat on you!" The real comedy gold comes when the man attempts to defend himself, though most of the time they simply get mad about being set up.
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Fidelity Test / int_359666b7	comment	Late in the game of Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals, the party arrives at a town with a dungeon tower that houses the Mirror of Truth, a famous mirror in the area that couples go to confirm each other's fidelity. The mirror reflects the image of the faithful lover while it fails to reflect the image of a cheater. Iris, secretly a conflicted antagonist of the Big Bad's group, tests/prods the hero Maxim and his wife Selan to venture to the Mirror of Truth after implying that the couple's trust in each other is weak (and the rest of the party accidently alluding the possibility that Maxim might had a fling with Iris didn't help) thus causing the latter to demand to test their faithfulness in the mirror. Ultimately, just prior to entering the mirror room Maxim wins Selan over again saying he would would trust each others' faithfulness even if the mirror indicated otherwise. Soon after they enter the room, a swarm of monsters come to attack the party, pushing them deeper into the room with their backs facing the mirror. The mirror reflects both their backsides as the battle commences, but the mirror is destroyed in the process of the fight so they never actually determine what the mirror says about them.
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Fidelity Test / int_3736edbb	type	Fidelity Test
Fidelity Test / int_3736edbb	comment	In Die Fledermaus, Gabriel von Eisenstein goes off to a party after telling his wife Rosalinde he's going to be somewhere else. A mutual acquaintance tips off Rosalinde, who goes to the party in disguise to see how he behaves — and he, not recognising her, immediately attempts to seduce her with a trinket he's successfully used in the past on other women. She gets out of the situation with her dignity intact and with the trinket, which she later shows her husband to let him know she knows he's been misbehaving.
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Fidelity Test / int_3c38c613	type	Fidelity Test
Fidelity Test / int_3c38c613	comment	In The Merchant of Venice, Portia and her servant test the fidelity of their newly-acquired husbands by demanding their wedding rings after saving the life of their friend, Antonio (it's complicated—there's drag involved). The men do fail the test, and the wives lord it over them for the rest of the play.
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Fidelity Test / int_413aa2f7	type	Fidelity Test
Fidelity Test / int_413aa2f7	comment	The novel Don Quixote has several smaller novels inside of itself, one of this "The Impertinent Curious", a married man decides to put to test his wife's loyalty through his friend, all goes well until his friend happens to fall in love with his wife and runs off with her after performing a perfectly executed theater making the man believe his wife is faithful. The man eventually commits suicide when he finds out that he was the responsible all along.
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Fidelity Test / int_526f1b45	type	Fidelity Test
Fidelity Test / int_526f1b45	comment	In Cymbeline by William Shakespeare, Posthumus makes a wager with Iachimo that his wife Imogen will be true to him. Iachimo fails to seduce her, but claims otherwise.
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Cymbeline (Theatre)	hasFeature	Fidelity Test / int_526f1b45
Fidelity Test / int_5562da6a	type	Fidelity Test
Fidelity Test / int_5562da6a	comment	In an episode of 3rd Rock from the Sun, August put tape over her nose and pretended it had been bitten off in order to test if Tommy would stay with her even without her looks.
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Fidelity Test / int_57e3ab58	type	Fidelity Test
Fidelity Test / int_57e3ab58	comment	The Dick Van Dyke Show has an episode where Rob wants to know how Laura would react to another man's advances. He calls her on the telephone using a fake accent, and is dismayed that she begins to flirt back. It should be noted that Laura knows right away that it's Rob on the phone.
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Fidelity Test / int_5fb63a56	type	Fidelity Test
Fidelity Test / int_5fb63a56	comment	Video Game Confessions has an unintentional example when Link comes into the bar and starts hitting on Sheik...who is actually Zelda in disguise. It doesn't end well for Link.
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Fidelity Test / int_60f02ddb	type	Fidelity Test
Fidelity Test / int_60f02ddb	comment	In the American Dad! episode "Choosy Wives Choose Smith", Francine's hunky ex-boyfriend visits Langley Falls and Stan, feeling inadequate, is convinced by Roger to test whether she still carried a torch for him. So he and Roger fly out to a CIA vacation spot in the Pacific, making it look like they were lost at sea...only for them to get stranded for real when a tsunami strikes the island. When they finally make it home, Francine reveals that she knew it was a test all along (thanks to Stan's Incredibly Obvious Bug) and was stringing her ex along just to mess with Stannote He does confess, but explains about the tsunami and how it meant he didn't see any of the camera footage. The ex angrily storms off after declaring that Stan and Francine are perfect for each other because they're both assholes.
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Fidelity Test / int_66fd198d	type	Fidelity Test
Fidelity Test / int_66fd198d	comment	In the remake of The Thomas Crown Affair (1999), Thomas deliberately makes it appear as though he's having a relationship on the side in order to try to find out if Catherine is just after the painting or not.
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Fidelity Test / int_72a9864b	comment	In the Ramayana, Sita has been kidnapped and held hostage by Ravana, though she refused his sexual advances. Rama has her walk over fire to purify her...and rather than burning her, the fire does not so much as singe her, proving that she was, in fact, faithful to him. (Some versions have the flames turning into flowers as she walks over them.)
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Fidelity Test / int_7460586f	type	Fidelity Test
Fidelity Test / int_7460586f	comment	One episode of Archer sees the men of the Figgis Agency hired to seduce the wife of a producer, not realizing that the women of the agency have been hired by the wife to seduce the producer.
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Archer	hasFeature	Fidelity Test / int_7460586f
Fidelity Test / int_7680545c	type	Fidelity Test
Fidelity Test / int_7680545c	comment	On The Nanny there is an episode where Fran pretends to be an old friend of Max's who looks exactly like her to see if he is falling for her instead. He sees through it (but only after he notices the price tag hanging out of the back of her dress).
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Fidelity Test / int_77e1dce4	type	Fidelity Test
Fidelity Test / int_77e1dce4	comment	Superman manages to do this accidentally to Lois Lane. After Clark and Lois have become a couple, but before he tells her that he's Superman, he forgets himself and asks Lois to dinner while still disguised as Superman, only for her to snap at him, reminding him that she's Clark's girlfriend.
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Fidelity Test / int_7dbde88b	type	Fidelity Test
Fidelity Test / int_7dbde88b	comment	In Drake & Josh, Josh is convinced that Drake's girlfriend is hitting on him, and sets up one of these with her and with Drake hiding and watching. She really had been hitting on him, but somehow knows Drake is watching and doesn't fall for the ploy.
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Fidelity Test / int_8197ebd8	type	Fidelity Test
Fidelity Test / int_8197ebd8	comment	Relatively early in General Protection Fault, Ki tries to pull one on Nick. Using an old IRC handle she'd previously used to flirt anonymously with him. It fails, with Nick revealing to the audience that he knew who "Pookle" is.
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Fidelity Test / int_8d81f086	type	Fidelity Test
Fidelity Test / int_8d81f086	comment	One Monk episode began with a woman who was doing this getting discovered, then getting into a fight with the man that ended with her death.
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Fidelity Test / int_9c608bbc	type	Fidelity Test
Fidelity Test / int_9c608bbc	comment	In an episode of Bewitched, when Darrin was on a business trip with an attractive secretary, Endora attempted to prove to Samantha that her husband was planning to have an affair by granting him Three Wishes without his knowledge. When circumstances resulted in his return flight being delayed by a freak snowstorm, Samantha reluctantly believed that he wished for the storm and was planning on leaving Darrin when he came back. After learning about Endora's scheme, he used the three wishes to force Endora to fess up and to stop meddling in his and Sam's life for a week, thus proving his fidelity and restoring Sam's trust.
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Fidelity Test / int_a183d57f	type	Fidelity Test
Fidelity Test / int_a183d57f	comment	In Futurama, Bender becomes convinced that his girlfriend Angeline is cheating on him with Flexo (who is almost identical to Bender, if only it weren't for the beard). Bender disguises himself as Flexo and proceeds to seduce Angeline by acting exactly like Bender (or at least not like Flexo). After resisting for a long time, she gives in (as Flexo appears to be nothing like she'd thought): Bender triumphantly reveals himself, taking this as proof that she was cheating on him:
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Fidelity Test / int_a66d973b	type	Fidelity Test
Fidelity Test / int_a66d973b	comment	In Tangled, Mother Gothel proposes that Rapunzel put Flynn to this by giving him the tiara that was the price of guiding her. Rapunzel chickens out, but later does it. Mother Gothel instantly puts her plan into action and makes it convincingly look like he failed it.
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Fidelity Test / int_ab42c63a	type	Fidelity Test
Fidelity Test / int_ab42c63a	comment	In one episode of Get Smart, Max impersonates his exact double, King Charles to seduce 99. She realizes it's him and plays along, to his horror - until a fake phone call "proves" that the real Max has been at Control headquarters all day, to her horror. Naturally, at some point the real King Charles also turns up, and Hilarity Ensues.
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Fidelity Test / int_bd7d03c7	type	Fidelity Test
Fidelity Test / int_bd7d03c7	comment	In the film Extract, Joel is frustrated that his wife Suzie never wants to have sex, plus he's certain that the new temp is hitting on him. His friend Dean suggests that he set one of these up so that if Suzie is untrue, he can go ahead and have an affair guilt-free. Joel at first refuses, but later gets stoned and hires Brad to seduce his wife as the new pool boy. When he sobers up and realizes what he did, he tries to get in touch with Brad, only to find that he came a day early and already seduced Suzie (and he proceeds to come back numerous times after that, not being quite clear on the concept).
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Fidelity Test / int_d7aab7c1	type	Fidelity Test
Fidelity Test / int_d7aab7c1	comment	In one Sailor Moon fanfic, Serena disguises herself as a hot supermodel and flirts with Darien, assuming he'll fend the false her off while proclaiming his love for the real her. It fails miserably, but only because Darien can tell it's her right away by looking at her eyes.
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Fidelity Test / int_da861da1	type	Fidelity Test
Fidelity Test / int_da861da1	comment	Veronica Mars: Veronica is hired by a neurotic girlfriend to test her boyfriend's commitment to her before he can propose, which involves setting up a "temptation scenario" that ends up starring Veronica herself. (We see Veronica has a regular subcontractor for this work, so it presumably comes up more often offscreen.)
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Fidelity Test / int_e8d13e52	comment	In Urusei Yatsura chapter 25, Lum went to Ataru's classroom disguised as a normal human. She didn't really intend it as a fidelity test (by this point, it's pretty obvious that Ataru would fail), but rather to see whether Mendō's suggestion that Ataru "prefers a girl as ordinary as himself" was true. However, she got upset at Ataru when he told Mendō that "Lum's yours [now]", so she (while in disguise) asked Ataru to promise to be faithful, and when he did, she dropped the disguise and told him "I will hold you to that!"
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Fidelity Test / int_ee848ba9	type	Fidelity Test
Fidelity Test / int_ee848ba9	comment	In one episode of Hetty Wainthropp Investigates, while Hetty was busy with a case, Robert and Geoffrey decided to handle another case on their own, in which a man hired them to perform a fidelity test on his girlfriend. However, since Robert was too old and Geoffrey was too young, they hired someone else to do it. She fell for it, and what's more, the man they hired became the mask. The client was angry at Robert and Geoffrey about this, so he refused to pay them.
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Fidelity Test	processingCategory2	Love Tropes
Fidelity Test	processingCategory2	Marriage Tropes
Fidelity Test	processingCategory2	Plots
Reading Rainbowverse (Blog) / int_d4408b5d	type	Fidelity Test
Book of Exodus / int_d4408b5d	type	Fidelity Test
Left Behind / int_d4408b5d	type	Fidelity Test
Arivne	seeAlso	Fidelity Test
FidelityTest	sameAs	Fidelity Test
Stromae (Music) / int_d4408b5d	type	Fidelity Test
Cheers / int_d4408b5d	type	Fidelity Test
Coupling / int_d4408b5d	type	Fidelity Test
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates / int_d4408b5d	type	Fidelity Test
Maury / int_d4408b5d	type	Fidelity Test
Neighbours / int_d4408b5d	type	Fidelity Test
Parks and Recreation / int_d4408b5d	type	Fidelity Test
Peaky Blinders / int_d4408b5d	type	Fidelity Test
Queen of the South / int_d4408b5d	type	Fidelity Test
The Dick Van Dyke Show / int_d4408b5d	type	Fidelity Test
Veronica Mars / int_d4408b5d	type	Fidelity Test
Cymbeline (Theatre) / int_d4408b5d	type	Fidelity Test
Chess Piece (Webcomic) / int_d4408b5d	type	Fidelity Test

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