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• Applied Phlebotinum
• Ball Index
• Beginning Tropes
• Characters as Device
• Chase Scene
• Continuity Tropes
• Contrived Stupidity Tropes
• Cut to the Index
• Death Trap
• Distraction Tropes
• Dream Tropes
• Ending Tropes
• Episodes
• Escape Tropes
• Fight Scene
• Flashbacks and Chronology
• Gambit Index
• Index All Along
• Ironic Index
• Luke, I Am Your Index
• MacGuffin
• Montages
• Movie Twist List
• Plot Twist
• Room Shuffle
• Scenes
• Short Con
• Sleep And Wakefulness Tropes
• Stock Puzzle
• Stock Superpowers
• The Tale
• Twist Ending
• That Which Must Not Be Indexed
• You Hate What You Are

Tropes:

• Accidental Bid
• Always Need What You Gave Up
• Bags of Letters
• Barn Raising
• Bathroom Stall Graffiti
• Big Blackout
• Big Ego, Hidden Depths
• Bothering by the Book
• Broken Glass Penalty
• Bump Into Confrontation
• Caught On Tape
• Chance Activation
• Chariot Race
• Cheating With The Milkman
• Conveniently Seated
• Crack Defeat
• Crowd Panic
• Cryptic Background Reference
• Crystal Ball Scheduling
• Cutting The Electronic Leash
• Dark Horse Victory
• Dead End Job
• Decoy Getaway
• Defusing the Tyke Bomb
• Dismantled MacGuffin
• Diving Save
• Documentary Episode
• Do Not Go Gentle
• Don't Ask, Just Run
• Don't Celebrate Just Yet
• Don't Split Us Up
• Doomed Hometown
• Door Jam
• Doorstop Baby
• Double Date
• Drama Bomb
• Dramatic Curtain Toss
• Dramatic Dislocation
• Dramatic Irony
• Dream Land
• Dream Within a Dream
• Dream Sequence
• Driving Question
• Driving Test Smashers
• Dug In Deeper
• Dungeon Bypass
• Drunk on the Dark Side
• Dueling Hackers
• Dying Like Animals
• Dysfunction Junction
• Earth All Along
• Earth-Shattering Kaboom
• Easily Forgiven
• Eat The Dog
• Eat The Evidence
• Egg MacGuffin
• Either-Or Prophecy
• Electrified Bathtub
• Elves Versus Dwarves
• Emergency Presidential Address
• Empathic Weapon
• Empty Cop Threat
• Endangered Soufflé
• End of Episode Silliness
• Enforced Cold War
• Engagement Challenge
• Engineered Public Confession
• Epic Fail
• Epiphanic Prison
• The Eternal Churchill
• Et Tu, Brute?
• Even the Dog Is Ashamed
• Everybody's Dead, Dave
• Everyone Knows Morse
• The Evils of Free Will
• Evil Phone
• Evil Plan
• Exact Eavesdropping
• Exact Words
• Expansion Pack World
• Expendable Clone
• Explaining The Soap
• Explosive Leash
• Explosion Propulsion
• Exposition of Immortality
• Extremely Short Timespan
• Eye Remember
• Failed a Spot Check
• Failure Is the Only Option
• Fainting Seer
• Fake Defector
• Fake Static
• Fallen On Hard Times Job
• Fall of the House of Cards
• Fancy Dinner
• Fascists' Bed Time
• Faustian Rebellion
• Faux Death
• Fauxlosophic Narration
• Fauxshadow
• Feet of Clay
• Fence Painting
• Fiction Isn't Fair
• Field Promotion
• Fighting For Survival
• Fisher King
• Final Exam Finale
• Five Second Foreshadowing
• Fling a Light Into the Future
• Flying Dutchman
• Food Chains
• Follow The White Rabbit
• A Fool for a Client
• Forbidden Fruit
• Forced Prize Fight
• Foreigner For A Day
• Foreshadowing
• The Four Loves
• Framed Clue
• Frameup
• Framing the Guilty Party
• Framed For Heroism
• Frantic Object Concealment
• Freak Out
• Freaky Friday Flip
• Friend or Idol Decision
• Friends All Along
• Frequently Broken Unbreakable Vow
• Frothy Mugs of Water
• Fur Against Fang
• Future Badass
• Gambit Pileup
• Gambit Roulette
• Genocide Dilemma
• Geodesic Cast
• George Jetson Job Security
• George Washington Slept Here
• Generic Graffiti
• "Get Out of Jail Free" Card
• Getting Hot in Here
• Give Me a Sign
• Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death
• Go Among Mad People
• Go Back To The Source
• A God Am I
• Godzilla Threshold
• Going In Circles
• Going to See the Elephant
• Going Postal
• Golden Moment
• Golden Snitch
• Gossip Evolution
• Got Volunteered
• Grail In The Garbage
• Green Rooming
• Guess Who I'm Marrying?
• Hannibal Lecture
• Happier Home Movie
• Harmful to Minors
• Haunted Headquarters
• Heat Wave
• Heart Trauma
• Heel Realization
• Hell On Earth
• Here We Go Again
• Heroic Vow
• Hidden in Plain Sight
• High Turnover Rate
• History Repeats
• Holding Out for a Hero
• Holding The Floor
• Homage
• Hope Springs Eternal
• Hostage for MacGuffin
• Hostage Situation
• Hostile Weather
• Hourglass Plot
• How Did We Get Back Home?
• How Much Did You Hear?
• Human Ladder
• Human Resources
• Human Shield
• Humble Pie
• Humiliation Conga
• I Am He as You Are He
• I Am One Of Those Too
• I Do Not Like Green Eggs and Ham
• Ignored Vital News Reports
• I Hate You, Vampire Dad
• I Have Your Wife
• I Just Want To Be Badass
• I Just Want to Be Normal
• I Just Want to Be Special
• "I Know What We Can Do" Cut
• I Never
• Internalized Categorism
• Intrepid Fictioneer
• Invisible Subtle Difference
• I Owe You My Life
• The Ishmael
• I See Them Too
• Identical Grandson
• If I Can Only Move
• If You Won't, I Will
• Impossible Task
• I'm a Humanitarian
• Inadvertent Entrance Cue
• Innocent Inaccurate
• Innocent Innuendo
• Instant Expert
• Insulted Awake
• Internal Homage
• Intercontinuity Crossover
• Interrogation By Vandalism
• Interrogating the Dead
• Interrupted Suicide
• Intimidating Revenue Service
• Invisible to Adults
• Invisible to Normals
• Ironic Inversion
• Irrevocable Message
• Is This Thing Still On?
• It Must Be Mine
• It's All Junk
• It's The Journey That Counts
• It's Probably Nothing
• It Was a Gift
• It Was With You All Along
• I Was Having Such a Nice Dream
• I Will Find You
• Jacob Marley Warning
• Jail Bake
• Jeopardy! Intelligence Test
• Joker Jury
• Jury Of The Damned
• Keep The Reward
• Kent Brockman News
• The Key Is Behind the Lock
• Kicked Upstairs
• Kidnapped By An Ally
• Knife Throwing Act
• Knights and Knaves
• Lamaze Class
• Leaf Boat
• Leaning on the Fourth Wall
• Least Is First
• Leave Him to Me
• Leave the Camera Running
• Leonine Contract
• Leno Device
• Lethally Expensive
• A Light in the Distance
• Limited Destination Time
• List of Transgressions
• The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday
• Living a Double Life
• Living on Borrowed Time
• Living With The Villain
• Locked in a Freezer
• Locked in a Room
• Locked Out of the Fight
• Locking MacGyver in the Store Cupboard
• Look Ma, No Plane!
• Loser Gets The Girl
• Loser Has Your Back
• Lowered Monster Difficulty
• Luke, I Am Your Father
• Luke, You Are My Father
• Lured Into A Trap
• MacGuffin
• MacGuffin Delivery Service
• MacGuffin Location
• Made Of Temptation
• Magical Girl Queenliness Test
• Magical Guide
• Magic Hat
• Magnetic Plot Device
• The Main Characters Do Everything
• Major Injury Underreaction
• Make a Wish
• Manufacturing Victims
• Marketeers Vs Engineers
• Mating Dance
• Matryoshka Object
• Meaningful Echo
• Medal of Dishonor
• Melodramatic Pause
• Memento MacGuffin
• Mercy Lead
• Message in a Bottle
• A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read
• Mind Rape
• Mind Screwdriver
• Mind Screw The Audience
• Mineral MacGuffin
• Minor Flaw, Major Breakup
• Miracle Rally
• Miranda Rights
• Misfit Mobilization Moment
• Mistaken for Badass
• Mistaken Identity
• Mister Sandman Sequence
• Mistimed Revival
• Mood Whiplash
• Morton's Fork
• Moses in the Bullrushes
• Mundane Solution
• Mushroom Samba
• Must Have Nicotine
• Mutilation Interrogation
• The Mutiny
• My Fist Forgives You
• My Greatest Failure
• My Greatest Second Chance
• Mysterious Employer
• Mythology Gag
• Narrator All Along
• Naughty Birdwatching
• Near Death Clairvoyance
• Near Death Experience
• Necessary Fail
• Needle in a Stack of Needles
• Never Split the Party
• Newspaper Dating
• Niche Network
• No Fourth Wall
• No MacGuffin, No Winner (aka Detente Comrade, Eaten The MacGuffin)
• Non-Sequitur
• Noodle Incident
• No Party Like A Donner Party
• Notable Non-Sequitur
• Not A Date
• Not Afraid of You Anymore
• Not As You Know Them
• Not Cheating Unless You Get Caught
• Not Helping Your Case
• Not Important To This Episode Camp
• Not In Front of the Parrot
• Not In My Contract
• Not My Driver
• Not My Lucky Day
• The Not Secret
• Not What It Looks Like
• Not What I Signed On For
• Obfuscating Stupidity
• Oblivious Adoption
• Oblivious Guilt Slinging
• Offered The Crown
• Offhand Backhand
• Offing the Offspring
• Off To Boarding School
• Oh Cisco
• Ominous Multiple Screens
• One Degree of Separation
• One Judge to Rule Them All
• One Side Of The Story
• One Way Trip
• Only Cool People Matter
• Only The Knowledgable May Pass
• Only Smart People May Pass
• Only The Worthy May Pass
• Orphan's Ordeal
• Orphan's Plot Trinket
• Orphean Rescue
• Or Was It a Dream?
• Out Giving Birth, Back in Two Minutes
• Out-of-Clothes Experience
• Overcome Their Differences
• Overly-Long Gag
• Padding
• Pandeism
• Parental Favoritism
• Party Scheduling Gambit
• Passed Over Promotion
• Passive Rescue
• Pater Familicide
• Pay Phone
• Penultimate Outburst
• People Jars
• Permission to Speak Freely
• Perpetual Poverty
• Perspective Magic
• Perspective Reversal
• Perverted Sniffing
• Phlebotinum Battery
• Phone Booth
• Pinocchio Syndrome
• Playing Both Sides
• Playing Nice For Now
• Playing Sick
• Plot Coupon
• Plot Detour
• Plot Device
• Plot-Driven Breakdown
• Plot Parallel
• Plot Sensitive Latch
• Plot Technology
• Plummet Perspective
• Poison And Cure Gambit
• Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo
• Police Are Useless
• Poor Communication Kills
• Portal Pool
• Porn Stash
• Possessive Paradise
• Posthumous Character
• Powder Keg Crowd
• Power Fantasy
• Practical Voice Over
• Premature Eulogy
• Press Ganged
• Pressure Point
• Priceless Paperweight
• Princess for a Day
• Promoted To Scapegoat
• Protocol Peril
• Pseudo Crisis
• Psychological Horror
• Puberty Superpower
• The Public Domain Channel
• Public Execution
• Punk in the Trunk
• The Purge
• Put Down Your Gun and Step Away
• Put Me In, Coach!
• Rage Against the Author
• Rage Against the Mentor
• Rash Equilibrium
• Read the Freaking Manual
• Reality Bleed
• Rear Window Witness
• Red Herring Twist
• Regular Caller
• Reincarnation
• Reincarnation Romance
• Relationship Reboot
• Relationship-Salvaging Disaster
• Religious Russian Roulette
• Remember When You Blew Up a Sun?
• Rescue Romance
• Resurrected Romance
• Retcon
• Restrained Revenge
• Revision
• Rewrite
• Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves
• Rhetorical Request Blunder
• Ribbon Cutting Ceremony
• Right Hand Versus Left Hand
• Right on the Tick
• Right Place, Right Time, Wrong Reason
• Ripped from the Headlines
• Ripped From The Phone Book
• Road Show
• Rock Bottom
• Romantic Resolutions
• Room Disservice
• Rules of Orphan Economics
• Sadistic Choice
• Sarcasm Failure
• Scheherezade Gambit
• Schmuck Banquet
• Science Is Bad
• Science Is Wrong
• School Play
• Screaming Birth
• Screw Destiny
• Scully Syndrome
• Scylla and Charybdis
• Sealed Evil in a Duel
• Second Hand Storytelling
• Second Place Is For Winners
• Second Prize
• Secret Identity
• Secret Legacy
• Secret Path
• Secret Test of Character
• Seeking Sanctuary
• Send Me Back
• Sequel Reset
• Serious Business
• Set a Mook to Kill a Mook
• Shamed By A Mob
• Shameful Strip
• Shaming The Mob
• Shapeshifting
• Sharing a Body
• Shell Game
• Shock Collar
• Short Cuts Make Long Delays
• Short Distance Phone Call
• Shower of Angst
• Show Within a Show
• Shut Up, Hannibal!
• Sidelong Glance Biopic
• Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!
• Silly Rabbit, Romance Is for Kids!
• Sliding Scale Of Plot Versus Characters
• Slippery Soap
• Slobs Versus Snobs
• Slow Clap
• Slumber Party
• Slumber Party Ploy
• Small Town Rivalry
• Smart Ball
• Smite Me, O Mighty Smiter
• Sneaky Departure
• Snowball Lie
• Snowed In
• Somebody Set Up Us The Bomb
• Something Only They Would Say
• So Much For Stealth
• Sorkin Relationship Moment
• Sorry To Interrupt
• Sound Stone
• Speak Friend and Enter
• Speak of the Devil
• Speed Dating
• Stable Time Loop
• Staring Contest
• Status Quo Game Show
• Stay on the Path
• Staying With Friends
• Stepping Out For A Quick Cup Of Coffee
• Stolen Good, Returned Better
• Stolen MacGuffin Reveal
• Stopped Clock
• Stuff Blowing Up
• Stuffed Into A Locker
• Stuffed Into A Trashcan
• Suckiness Is Painful
• Sudden Videogame Moment
• Sugary Malice
• Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum
• Summoning Ritual
• Super Detailed Fight Narration
• Supernatural Aid
• Supernaturally Delicious and Nutritious
• Survivalist Stash
• Survived The Beginning
• Suspended Animation
• Suspiciously Specific Sermon
• Sweet Polly Oliver
• Switched at Birth
• Sympathetic P.O.V.
• Talking In Bed
• Take a Third Option
• Take Over the World
• Tap on the Head
• Team Rocket Wins
• Team Spirit
• Televised Torture
• Temporal Paradox
• Temporary Blindness
• Tempting Fate
• Ten Minutes in the Closet
• Tied Together Shoelace Trip
• There Is No Try
• These Questions Three
• The Laws Of Magic
• The Tape Knew You Would Say That
• The Thing That Would Not Leave
• They Would Cut You Up
• Things Get Real
• Think Happy Thoughts
• Thinks Like a Romance Novel
• This Is My Story
• This Is As Far As I Go
• This Is Something He's Got To Do Himself
• This Is Your Brain On Evil
• This Means War!
• Three Act Structure
• Thrown Down A Well
• Thwarted Escape
• Time Travel
• Tomato Surprise
• Tongue Tied
• Total Eclipse of the Plot
• To the Pain
• To Be Continued Right Now
• Tragic Mistake
• Trap Door
• Trap Door Fail
• Trap Is the Only Option
• Transformation Ray
• The Treachery of Images
• Treasure Map
• Troll Bridge
• Trust Password
• Twisted Echo Cut
• Two Girls and a Guy
• Two Guys and a Girl
• 2 + Torture = 5
• Two Scenes, One Dialogue
• Two Timer Date
• Unbalanced By Rival's Kid
• Un-Confession
• Unexpected Inheritance
• Unexpected Positive
• Unfamiliar Ceiling
• Unhand Them, Villain!
• Unperson
• Unsafe Haven
• Unseen Audience
• Unspoken Plan
• Unusually Uninteresting Name
• Using You All Along
• Victory Guided Amnesia
• Video Wills
• Villain Ball
• Villain Exit Stage Left
• Virus Misnomer
• Vision Quest
• Visions of Another Self
• Volleying Insults
• Wacky Wayside Tribe
• Waking Up At The Morgue
• Washington DC Invasion
• Watching Troy Burn
• We ARE Struggling Together
• We Are Team Cannon Fodder
• We Come in Peace — Shoot to Kill
• Wedding Day
• Welcome to the Big City
• We Need To Get Proof
• We Really Do Care
• We Should Get Another Tape
• What Year Is This?
• When the Clock Strikes Twelve
• "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue
• Where It All Began
• Who Needs Enemies?
• Who Will Bell the Cat?
• Why Isn't It Attacking?
• Wild Teen Party
• Will
• Windows Of The Soul
• With a Friend and a Stranger
• With Due Respect
• Witness Protection
• The World Is Always Doomed
• World of Silence
• The Worst Seat In The House
• Wrecked Weapon
• Write Back to the Future
• Writer's Block
• Writing Lines
• Written-In Absence
• Wrong Wire
• Xanatos Gambit
• Yellow Sash of Power
• You ALL Share My Story
• You Are Better than You Think You Are
• You Are Grounded
• You Are in Command Now
• You Are The New Trend
• You Can Keep Her
• You Can't Fight Fate
• You Can't Go Home Again
• You Can't Thwart Stage One
• You Don't Want to Catch This
• You Don't Want to Die a Virgin, Do You?
• You Killed My Father
• You Know Who Said That
• You Were Trying Too Hard
• You Will Be Beethoven
• You Would Make a Great Model