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• Truth And Lies
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All about the things that characters say. (Note: Dialogue can refer to any number of people speaking; "dia-" means "through". Two people speaking would be "duologue".)

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Tropes:

• Accidental Public Confession
• Action Figure Speech
• After Action Patch Up
• After Action, Villain Analysis
• Ahem
• All-Cheering All the Time
• Analogy Backfire
• And Then I Said
• And The Rest
• Angrish
• Another Story For Another Time
• Announcer Chatter
• Answering Echo
• Anything But That!
• Apologizes a Lot
• Appeal to Obscurity
• Applied Mathematics
• Aren't You Forgetting Someone?
• Argument Of Contradictions
• Armor-Piercing Question
• Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
• Ask a Stupid Question...
• As The Good Book Says
• Astonishingly Appropriate Interruption
• Atomic F-Bomb
• Audience Murmurs
• Author Catchphrase
• Backhanded Apology
• Bad News in a Good Way
• Bad Omen Anecdote
• Bait-and-Switch Comment
• Bathroom Stall of Overheard Insults
• Battle Cry
• Battle Interrupting Shout
• Beam Me Up, Scotty!
• Bearer of Bad News
• The Bechdel Test
• Bilingual Backfire
• Bilingual Dialogue
• Blah Blah Blah
• Blatant Lies
• Blunt Metaphors Trauma
• Bold Inflation
• Bond One-Liner
• Borrowed Catchphrase
• Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick
• Breaking Bad News Gently
• Break Them By Talking
• Bring Them Around
• Broken Record
• But I Digress
• Calling Shotgun
• Calling Your Bathroom Breaks
• Can't Argue with Elves
• Casual Danger Dialog
• Catchphrase Interruptus
• Catch Phrase
• The Catch Phrase Catches On
• Censorship by Spelling
• Chain of Corrections
• Change the Uncomfortable Subject
• Chew Out Fake Out
• Cliché Storm
• Closed Door Rapport
• Cluster F-Bomb
• Code Emergency
• Code Word Coitus
• Collective Groan
• Comic Role Play
• Confusing Multiple Negatives
• Conjunction Interruption
• Constantly Curious
• Conversational Troping
• Converse with the Unconscious
• *Cough* Snark *Cough*
• Could Say It But
• Covert Distress Code
• Critical Psychoanalysis Failure
• Cryptically Unhelpful Answer
• Cryptic Conversation
• Cue Card Pause
• Cultural Posturing
• Curse Cut Short
• Cypher Language
• Damned by Faint Praise
• Dare to Be Badass
• Department of Redundancy Department
• Derailed For Details
• Derailed Train of Thought
• Description Cut
• Description Porn
• Dialogue Reversal
• Dialogue Tree
• Digging Yourself Deeper
• Disappointed In You
• Dismissing A Compliment
• Disorganized Outline Speech
• Dispense with the Pleasantries
• Disregard That Statement
• Does That Sound Like Fun to You?
• Do I Really Sound Like That?
• Do Not Taunt Cthulhu
• Double Edged Answer
• Double Meaning
• Double Speak
• Dramatic Deadpan
• Dramatic Ellipsis
• Dramatic Pause
• Dramatic Stutter
• Dropping The Bombshell
• Duck Season, Rabbit Season
• Dude, Not Ironic
• Dumbass Has a Point
• Earpiece Conversation
• Easily Overheard Conversation
• Either World Domination or Something about Bananas
• Emergency Presidential Address
• Enemy Chatter
• Escalating Punchline
• Especially Zoidberg
• Euphemism Buster
• Everyone Gets Their Turn
• Evil Sounds Deep
• Exactly What I Meant To Say
• Exposition
• Exposition Cut
• Facial Dialogue
• Famed in Story
• Famous Last Words
• Fauxdian Slip
• Featureless Plane of Disembodied Dialogue
• Finish Dialogue In Unison
• Finishing Each Other's Sentences
• First Name Ultimatum
• Flippant Forgiveness
• Freudian Threat
• Friendly Address Privileges
• From The Latin Intro Ducere
• Full Name Ultimatum
• Fun with Homophones
• Gag Echo
• Gagging on Your Words
• Geeky Turn-On
• Gender Neutral Writing
• Gentleman Snarker
• Get It Over With
• Gibbering Genius
• Give Me a Reason
• Good Night Sweet Prince
• Grilling The Newbie
• Hammy Herald
• Hannibal Has a Point
• Hannibal Lecture
• Head Bob
• Hesitation Equals Dishonesty
• Hey, That's My Line!
• Hey You
• Hit You So Hard, Your X Will Feel It
• Holding the Floor
• Hunger Hyperbole
• Hurricane of Aphorisms
• Hyperaffixation
• Hypothetical Fight Debate
• I Can't Believe I'm Saying This
• I Gave My Word
• Ignore the Disability
• Ignoring By Singing
• I Have Nothing to Say to That
• I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
• I'll Take Two Beers Too
• I'm a Doctor, Not a Placeholder
• I'm Thinking It Over!
• Implied Death Threat
• Inane Blabbering
• Inaction Sequence
• Inflationary Dialogue
• Info Dump
• Inner Monologue Conversation
• Instructional Dialogue
• Insult Friendly Fire
• Insult Misfire
• Intelligible Unintelligible
• In That Order
• Ironic Echo
• I Say What I Say
• Is The Answer To This Question Yes?
• I Take Offense to That Last One
• It Tastes Like Feet
• I Uh You Too
• I Would Say If I Could Say
• Join or Die
• Joke Exhaustion
• Just Between You and Me
• Just One Man
• Just Testing You
• Kiai
• Knows a Guy Who Knows a Guy
• Lame Comeback
• Lame Rhyme Dodge
• Large Ham Announcer
• Large Ham Radio
• Last-Second Word Swap
• Last Chance To Quit
• Last Request
• Layman's Terms
• Let Us Never Speak of This Again
• Let's Mock the Monsters
• Lies to Children
• Like a God to Me
• Listing the Forms of Degenerates
• Little Professor Dialog
• Loud Last Name
• Ludicrous Precision
• Lying to the Perp
• Ma'am Shock
• Mad Libs Catch Phrase
• Mad Libs Dialogue
• Madness Mantra
• Malicious Slander
• Mamet Speak
• Mangled Catch Phrase
• Mathematician's Answer
• Meaningful Echo
• Meaningful Look
• Meaningless Meaningful Words
• Melodramatic Pause
• Mirror Monologue
• Mistaken Confession
• Mister X and Mister Y
• Motive Misidentification
• Motive Rant
• Mouthful of Pi
• Multitasked Conversation
• Musicalis Interruptus
• My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
• The Name Is Bond, James Bond
• Narration Echo
• Never Say That Again
• Never Speak Ill of the Dead
• New Speak
• No Dialogue Episode
• No, Except Yes
• No Indoor Voice
• Noisy Shut Up
• No Means Yes
• No One Else Is That Dumb
• Non Answer
• Non Sequitur Distraction
• No, You Go First
• Noodle Incident
• Noodle Implements
• Not Actually The Ultimate Question
• Not in Front of the Kid
• Not so Dire
• Oblivious Guilt Slinging
• Oblivious Mockery
• Of Corset Hurts
• Oh God, with the Verbing!
• Oh, No... Not Again!
• On Three
• On The Next Episode Of Catch Phrase
• One Dialogue, Two Conversations
• One-Liner, Name... One-Liner
• One Scene, Two Monologues
• One Tract Mind
• Ordered Apology
• Or My Name Isn't...
• Or So I Heard
• Overwhelming Exception
• Parenthetical Swearing
• Passive Aggressive Kombat
• Paused Interrupt
• Perfectly Cromulent Word
• Perplexing Plurals
• The Perry Mason Method
• Phrase Catcher
• Picked Flowers Are Dead
• Playing the Victim Card
• Plato Is a Moron
• Pokémon Speak
• Poor Communication Kills
• Porky Pig Pronunciation
• Precision F-Strike
• Preemptive “Shut Up”
• The Promise
• Purple Prose
• Quote Mine
• Quote Swear Unquote
• Quote-to-Quote Combat
• Quoting Myself
• Radio Voice
• Rage Against the Mentor
• Rapid Fire Interrupting
• Rapid-Fire Name Guessing
• A Rare Sentence
• Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud
• Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech
• Remember That You Trust Me
• Repeated Cue Tardy Response
• Rhetorical Question Blunder
• Rhymes on a Dime
• Rhyming List
• Rousing Speech
• Said Bookism
• Sarcastic Confession
• Saying Sound Effects Out Loud
• Saying Too Much
• Scheherezade Gambit
• Screw You, Elves!
• Screw Your Ultimatum
• Seamless Spontaneous Lie
• Seinfeldian Conversation
• Seven Minute Lull
• Shall I Repeat That?
• Shamed By A Mob
• Shaming The Mob
• Shaped Like Itself
• Share Phrase
• Shutting Up Now
• Shut Up, Kirk!
• "Shut Up" Kiss
• Signature Line
• Signing Off Catch Phrase
• Silence Is Golden
• Silent Conversation
• Sir Swears-a-Lot
• Smurfing
• Snark-to-Snark Combat
• Snub by Omission
• Something Only They Would Say
• Speak Ill of the Dead
• Speaking Like Totally Teen
• Speak In Unison
• Speaks In Shout Outs
• Speech Bubble Censoring
• Speech Centric Work
• Spy Speak
• Stage Whisper
• Start My Own
• Stealth Insult
• Stereo Fibbing
• Stock Quotes
• Stop Copying Me
• Stop Saying That
• Strange Syntax Speaker
• Stuttering Into Eloquence
• Subverted Catch Phrase
• Suddenly Shouting
• The Summation
• Surrogate Soliloquy
• Survival Mantra
• Suspiciously Specific Denial
• Suspiciously Specific Tense
• Sustained Misunderstanding
• Switch to English
• T-Word Euphemism
• Talk About the Weather
• Talking through Technique
• Talking in Your Dreams
• Talking to Plants
• Talking to the Dead
• Talking With Signs
• Talking Your Way Out
• Talks like a Simile
• Telegraph Gag STOP
• Tell Him I'm Not Speaking To Him
• Tell Me About My Father
• Terms of Endangerment
• Terse Talker
• Thank Your Prey
• That Came Out Wrong
• That Cloud Looks Like
• That Liar Lies
• That Makes Me Feel Angry
• That Mysterious Thing
• That Was Not A Dream
• That Was Objectionable
• Thinking Out Loud
• This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!
• Time Travel Tense Trouble
• Trial Balloon Question
• Trick Dialogue
• The Triple
• Trouble Entendre
• Trust Password
• Twisting the Words
• Twisted Echo Cut
• Two Chicks in a Kitchen
• Two Scenes, One Dialogue
• Unsportsmanlike Gloating
• Unusual Euphemism
• Verbal Backspace
• Voiceover Letter
• Walk In Chime In
• Wall of Blather
• Wasn't That Fun?
• Waxing Lyrical
• Weapons Grade Vocabulary
• Weird Aside
• Weirder Than Usual
• Welcome to Corneria
• Wham Line
• What's a Henway?
• What the Hell, Hero?
• Where Do You Think You Are?
• While You Were in Diapers
• Who's on First?
• Whoa Bundy
• Whoopi Epiphany Speech
• Who Will Bell the Cat?
• Who Would Be Stupid Enough
• Why Are We Whispering
• Witch with a Capital B
• Won't Take "Yes" for an Answer
• "World of Cardboard" Speech
• Yes/No Answer Interpretation
• Yiddish as a Second Language
• You Answered Your Own Question
• You Are Not Alone
• You Can Talk?
• You Can Turn Back
• You Exclamation
• You Have to Believe Me
• “You!” Squared

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