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Tropes that are used in all media and are not restricted to a single category (such as Video Game Tropes).

And no, this page has nothing to do with Universal Studios or their parks.

Oh, and hello to all you xkcd readers.

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Tropes

• Actually, I Am Him
• All Is Well That Ends Well
• Appeal to Obscurity
• Because I'm Jonesy
• Beginner's Luck
• The Big Board
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• Elves Versus Dwarves
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• Everybody Remembers the Stripper
• Every Proper Lady Should Curtsy
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• Face on a Milk Carton
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• Film the Hand
• 555
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• Geographic Flexibility
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• The Graph Shows The Trend
• Group Hug
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• Hero
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• Hope Springs Eternal
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• Hospitality for Heroes
• Hypocrisy Nod
• The Illegible
• In the Hood
• Jumping Out of a Cake
• Just Whistle
• Lethal Diagnosis
• Lie Detector
• Loophole Abuse
• Long Hair Is Feminine
• Never Accepted In His Hometown
• No Sense of Direction
• Off The Chart
• The Only One
• Our Founder
• Perfect Health
• Photo Booth Montage
• Plot Armor
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• Ring Ring CRUNCH
• Rule of Empathy
• See No Evil, Hear No Evil
• Serial Escalation
• Sick and Wrong
• Someday This Will Come In Handy
• Spear Carrier
• Stop Motion Lighting
• Take Our Word for It
• That Satisfying Crunch
• There's No Place Like Home
• Thief Bag
• Time Marches On
• Trail of Bread Crumbs
• Trilogy
• Trouble Follows You Home
• TV Telephone Etiquette
• Twisted Echo Cut
• Unpopular Popular Character
• Unreliable Expositor
• Unreliable Narrator
• Up to Eleven
• Victory Is Boring
• Wastebasket Ball
• Weather Dissonance
• We Win Because You Didn't
• The World Ends Tomorrow
• Wrong Turn at Albuquerque
• You Can't Go Home Again

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