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Tropes:

• A Birthday, Not A Break
• Abusive Parents
• Achey Scars
• Achilles Heel
• Ain't Too Proud to Beg
• All Up To You
• Always Murder
• Always Save the Girl
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  • Arc Number
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• As Long As There Is One Man
• A Tragedy of Impulsiveness
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    • Little No
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• Billy Needs An Organ
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• Blaxploitation
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• Breaking Out the Boss
• Broken Pedestal
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• Captive Date
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• Chain of People
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• Comes Great Responsibility
• Coming of Age Story
• The Commies Made Me Do It
• CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable
• Crazy Jealous Guy
• Creepy Physical
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• Cut Himself Shaving
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• Daylight Horror
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• Destructive Romance
• Domestic Abuse
  • Domestic Abuser
• Don't Look Back
• Down To The Last Play
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• Dramatically Missing The Point
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• Drop What You Are Doing
• Estranged Soap Family
• Everybody Lives
• Evil Is Cool
• Extremely Short Timespan
• False Friend
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• Gaslighting
• GASP!
• Give Him A Normal Life
• A Glass in the Hand
• G-Rated Drug
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• Good Doc Bad Doc
• Grave Marking Scene
• Grew A Spine
• Gut Punch
• Healthcare Motivation
• He's Back
• Heroic BSOD
• Hey, Let's Put On A Show!
• Hollywood Heart Attack
• Hope Springs Eternal
• I Can Change My Beloved
• Ignorance Is Bliss
• Ignored Epiphany
• I Will Wait For You
• Indian Summer
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• Initiation Ceremony
• The Inspector Is Coming
• Instant Drama Just Add Tracheotomy
• Instant Sedation
• Ironic Birthday
• It Never Gets Any Easier
• Justified Criminal
• Kirk Summation
• Knight of Cerebus
• Last-Second Chance
• Leave Your Quest Test
• Libation for the Dead
• Life Will Kill You
• Limited Advancement Opportunities
• Linked List Clue Methodology
• Literal Cliffhanger
• Lonely Piano Piece
• Loved I Not Honor More
• Lying In The Dirt Together
• MacGyvering
• Magical Defibrillator
• Mama Didn't Raise No Criminal
• Marital Rape License
• Masquerade Ball
• Meaningful Background Event
• Meaningful Funeral
• Melodrama
• Milking the Giant Cow
• Moral Dilemma
• Mob War
• Montage Out
• Must Let Them Get Away
• Mysterious Parent
• Near Rape Experience
• Notable Non-Sequitur
• Not In My Backyard
• Off the Table
• Only Law Firm In Town
• Only The Leads Get a Happy Ending
• Operation Game of Doom
• Orphanage of Fear
• Ostentatious Secret
• Parental Favoritism
• Penultimate Outburst
• Phony Newscast
• Pick On Someone Your Own Size
• Pinch Me
• Please, I Will Do Anything!
• Plethora Of Mistakes
• Police Brutality
• Politically Correct History
• Present Day Present Time
• Promotion To Parent
• Psychic Dreams for Everyone
• Punch A Wall
• Rape as Drama
• Real Time
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech
• Rebuilt Pedestal
• Remembered Too Late
• Rewind, Replay, Repeat
• Rooftop Confrontation
• Rule of Drama
• Runaway Train
• Sarcastic Clapping
• Shot to the Heart
• Shower of Angst
• Smoking Gun Control
• Soapland Christmas
• Soap Opera Disease
• Soaperizing
• Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome
• The Stool Pigeon
• Stranger in a Familiar Land
• Strike Me Down
• Sugary Malice
• Take Back Your Gift
• Take My Hand
• Talking the Monster to Death
• Tears of Fear
• Teen Drama
• Teens Are Monsters
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork
• Televisually Transmitted Disease
• These Hands Have Killed
• Things Get Real
• Third Act Misunderstanding
• This Is My Side
• Timmy in a Well
• Toilet Seat Divorce
• Too Good For This Sinful Earth
• The Tragic Rose
• Trauma Swing
• Troubled Fetal Position
• Unable To Cry
• Unconfessed Unemployment
• Underestimating Badassery
• Waking Up Elsewhere
• Warts And All
• We Can Rule Together
• We Do Not Know Each Other
• We Used To Be Friends
• Where Did We Go Wrong?
• Why Did You Make Me Hit You?
• Witness Protection
• The Woobie
• Wounded Gazelle Gambit
  • Police Brutality Gambit
• Wounded Gazelle Warcry
• You Didn't Ask
• Your Secret's Safe With Me, Superman
• You Should Have Died Instead