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Tropes

• Actually I Am Him
• All Is Well That Ends Well
• Appeal To Obscurity
• Arc Fatigue
• Because I'm Jonesy
• Beginner's Luck
• The Big Board
• Bindle Stick
• The Blind Leading The Blind
• Call Back
• Character Development
• Closer Than They Appear
• Comforting Comforter
• Crazy Enough To Work
• Cry For The Devil
• Cultural Cross Reference
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• Disappearing Box
• Dude, Where's My Reward?
• Emotional Torque
• Everybody Remembers The Stripper
• Exposition Party
• Face On A Milk Carton
• Face Palm
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• Film The Hand
• Five Five Five
• Floating Advice Reminder
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• Group Hug
• Hollywood Driving
• Hope Sprouts Eternal
• Hypocrisy Nod
• In The Hood
• Just Whistle
• Lethal Diagnosis
• Lie Detector
• Loophole Abuse
• The Man Who Knew Too Little
• Naked Sally
• Never Accepted In His Hometown
• No Sense Of Direction
• The Only One
• Open Heart Dentistry
• Our Founder
• Perfect Health
• Plot Armor
• The Protagonist
• Pull A Rabbit Out Of My Hat
• Ring Ring CRUNCH
• Rule Of Empathy
• Saw A Woman In Half
• Screw Politeness, I'm A Senior!
• See No Evil Hear No Evil
• Sick And Wrong
• Someday This Will Come In Handy
• Spear Carrier
• Take Our Word For It
• There's No Place Like Home
• Thief Bag
• Trouble Follows You Home
• TV Telephone Etiquette
• Unpopular Popular Character
• Unreliable Narrator
• Up To Eleven
• Victory Is Boring
• Wastebasket Ball
• We Are Everywhere
• Weather Dissonance
• We Win Because You Didn't
• You Can't Go Home Again