1: I am pretty sure this is a pre-existing name in the business for this trope. I at least heard it back in the 90s, so I don't think we should go renaming it. (I think it 's older then that, as I'm pretty sure it was used by producers to describe the Maureen O'Hara John Wayne
relationship in The Quiet Man
Nor is it used only to literally mean a scene with a slap, slap and then a kiss. It's often used in the form "Slap-Slap-Kiss
type relationship" to mean a hostile relationship that has romantic tension that is resolved with a kiss. (The kiss is usually literal). This is probably because Belligerent Sexual Tension
hasn't yet migrated beyond TV Tropes
2: What evidence of misuse? Nobody has actually shown misuse, everyone is just saying that they see it misused. From what I see looking over the examples there is some misuse, and a significant amount of example cruff.
Still that to me suggests we need an example clean up, not a merge or rename. Also consider that Slap-Slap-Kiss
is a much older trope than Belligerent Sexual Tension
and so might have accumulated examples before BST was launched.
edited 27th May '13 8:04:09 AM by Sackett