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A troper who someday desires to catch them all. Get off her lawn.

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Among tropes she desires to "catch" for herself:

• Even the Guys Want Him (and the Distaff Counterpart)
• Character Witness
• The Chessmaster
• Cloudcuckoolander
• Cool Old Guy
• Little Miss Snarker
• Enigmatic Minion
• Even Evil Has Standards (used to increase tension for the FINAL final confrontation, as in the Sorting Algorithm of Evil)
• The Fair Folk
• False Flag Operation
• Fluffy the Terrible
• Functional Magic
• Hilarity Sues
• Honor Before Reason
• Hypercompetent Sidekick
• Implacable Man
• Insult Backfire
• Kill Me Now or Forever Stay Your Hand (female version)
• Martyr Without a Cause
• Minion Shipping
• Missing Floor
• Noble Demon
• No Man of Woman Born
• Obstructive Bureaucrat
• Planet Eris
• Sealed Evil in a Can

....And the ones she will enjoy subverting for kicks:

• Adventurer Archaeologist
• All Girls Want Bad Boys
• Beauty Is Never Tarnished
• Black and Gray Morality
• Chivalrous Pervert
• Emotionless Girl (or whatever)
• Girls Need Role Models
• Landmarking The Hidden Base
• Humans Are Special
• Martyr Without a Cause
• Million to One Chance (possibly also its sister trope Unspoken Plan Guarantee)
• No Hero to His Valet
• Nominal Importance
• No Sneak Attacks
• Somewhere A Paeleontologist Is Crying
• Vain Sorceress
• What Value Is A Non X
• Who Wants to Live Forever?

...And the ones that may swing either way:

• Convection Schmonvection
• Defeat Means Frienship
• Incendiary Exponent
• Fisher King
• Not so Fast, Bucko!
• Redemption Equals Death / Last-Second Chance
• The Woobie

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