Gyrobot: I am going to add in a SlidingScaleOfRomanticRealismVsRomanticFantasy

SilentHunter: Can I propose TheSecondLawOfTropeExamples:

The more common a trope is, the higher the probability that a Joss Whedon show has subverted it.

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DarkSasami: I'm reverting the addition of "Rule Thirty-Four" just once, and uttering this plea for sanity to every Troper we have: Please, oh god please, don't let us go there.

FastEddie: What's the objection? It is certainly an established Rule.

{{Ununnilium}}: Yeah! Plus, it's the kind of thing that someone's going to hear in a random conversation and go and search Google for, thus leading them to the Wiki and causing TV Tropes to Ruin Their Life!

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Aoede: Laws and ''Formulae''. /end wishfulthinking