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* AdventuresInComaland: Is stuck in a romantic comedy while she's in a medically induced coma for 18 hours in real life.
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* GainaxEnding: Back in the real world, after putting her life back on track, Natalie realizes she is in a romantic comedy and goes into a musical number joined by everyone else from the film in the streets of New York. Plus, Donnie is now acting like his alternate universe self.
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* FiveFiveFive: When Natalie scatters Blake's flower petals on the floor, each with a telephone-number digit written on it, they naturally form a number that has this.

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* ClicheStorm: Deliberately invoked and PlayedForLaughs. Nat lampshades every single romcom trope in the book in a three hour rant early on and every single one of them occurs in the romcom she finds herself in. Even the soundtrack reflects this.

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* ClicheStorm: Deliberately invoked and PlayedForLaughs. Nat lampshades every single romcom trope in the book in a three hour three-minute rant early on and every single one of them occurs in the romcom she finds herself in. Even the soundtrack reflects this.



* DancePartyEnding: “All I need is a cheesy musical number.”

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* DancePartyEnding: “All "All I need is a cheesy musical number."



** “A Thousand Miles” playing
** “Beguiling”

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** “A [[Music/VanessaCarlton "A Thousand Miles” Miles"]] playing
** “Beguiling”"Beguiling"



** Natalie's outfit is a copy of Creator/JuliaRoberts'\ one in ''Film/PrettyWoman''.

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** Natalie's outfit is a copy of Creator/JuliaRoberts'\ Creator/JuliaRoberts' one in ''Film/PrettyWoman''.



* SoundEffectBleep: What happens every time Natalie tries to swear due to the PG-13 rating.

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* SoundEffectBleep: What happens every time Natalie tries to swear in the rom-com world due to the its PG-13 rating.



* SpontaneousChoreography: Twice. Lampshaded during the karaoke scene, but played straight at the end of the movie.

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* SpontaneousChoreography: Twice. Lampshaded during the karaoke scene, but [[DancePartyEnding played straight at the end end]] of the movie.
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** Natalie's outfit is a copy of Creator/JuliaRoberts's one in ''Film/PrettyWoman''.

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** Natalie's outfit is a copy of Creator/JuliaRoberts's Creator/JuliaRoberts'\ one in ''Film/PrettyWoman''.
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* WrongGuyFirst: [[spoiler:Blake turns out to be a jerk who doesn't truly love Natalie, but Josh does.]]

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* WrongGuyFirst: [[spoiler:Blake [[spoiler: Coma Blake turns out to be a jerk who doesn't truly love Natalie, but Josh does.]]
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-->'''Natalie:''' My life’s become a mother[[SoundEffectBleep beep]] romantic comedy! '''AND IT’S PG-13!!!'''

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-->'''Natalie:''' My life’s become a mother[[SoundEffectBleep beep]] romantic comedy! '''AND IT’S [[SoundEffectBleep BEEPING]] PG-13!!!'''
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* MomentKiller: Two people have a Meet Cute in the park and Natalie obliviously plows her way between them on her way to work, disrupting the moment. Averted since they're since continuing their conversation in the background.


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* RealityEnsues: A subtle sign Natalie is in a RomCom is when she rips out her IV and it's like it was merely taped on. When she wakes up in reality and tries the same thing she winds up with a spurting hole in her arm.

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* ACappella: When a waitress accidentally knocks the cord out on the karaoke machine, Natalie is forced to sing this way.



* ACappella: When a waitress accidentally knocks the cord out on the karaoke machine, Natalie is forced to sing this way.
* {{Adorkable}}: Natalie and Josh. Naturally, they’re best friends.

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* ACappella: When a waitress accidentally knocks the cord out on the karaoke machine, ActorAllusion: [[Film/PitchPerfect Fat Amy and Bumper have their own movie!]] Not only that, but they still sing and dance together. This makes Josh's comment that he's "never seen" Natalie is forced to sing this way.
before is hilarious, considering how in two movies, it heavily involves the two actors singing to each other.
* {{Adorkable}}: {{Adorkable}}:
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Natalie and Josh. Naturally, they’re they're best friends.



* CastingGag: This is the fourth film in which Rebel Wilson and Adam Devine play love interests.



* [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic Crowning Music Of Awesome]]: Natalie and Isabella fight for Josh’s affection amidst singing “I Wanna Dance With Somebody”, complete with over-the-top dancing rivaling a Bollywood production.
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* SickinglySweethearts: Natalie finds Josh and Isabella to be this.

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* SickinglySweethearts: SickeninglySweethearts: Natalie finds Josh and Isabella to be this.
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* ACapella: When a waitress accidentally knocks the cord out on the karaoke machine, Natalie is forced to sing this way.

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* ACapella: ACappella: When a waitress accidentally knocks the cord out on the karaoke machine, Natalie is forced to sing this way.
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* AccidentalHandHold: Josh and Natalie both grab for the same item, sparking in Natalie the realisation that she might have feelings for him.
* ACapella: When a waitress accidentally knocks the cord out on the karaoke machine, Natalie is forced to sing this way.


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* AnythingCanBeMusic: In “I Wanna Dance With Somebody”, all the regular sounds within the bar blend into the song.


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* TheBigDamnKiss: When Natalie and Blake kiss, [[HollywoodKiss rain falls down, the camera zooms out, and the music swells.]]
** Natalie’s kiss with Josh.


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* ClingyJealousGirl: Isabella is this over Josh and Natalie’s friendship.


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* CostumePorn: All the clothes transform into bright, stunning pieces.


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* CryIntoChest: Natalie freaks out that she’s going crazy, and while Josh hugs her to calm her down, she gets teary.


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* DancePartyEnding: “All I need is a cheesy musical number.”


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* OfficeRomance: Ultimately, Natalie and Josh end up in this.


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* RaceForYourLove: Of course. And [[MundaneMadeAwesome it’s in slow motion!]]


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* SceneryPorn: The rom-com world is filled with bright colours, and flowers in every place.


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* SickinglySweethearts: Natalie finds Josh and Isabella to be this.

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Natalie's life has become a romantic comedy. And she hates every minute of it.



** Whitney

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** WhitneyWhitney, in the normal world, is a dork for romantic comedies. She's also good friends with Natalie.



* BetaCouple: Josh and Isabella become a couple, but are on the background in comparison to Natalie and Blake.

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* BetaCouple: Josh and Isabella become a couple, but are on the background in comparison to Natalie and Blake. [[spoiler:Josh and Isabella's wedding becomes the climax of the film.]]



* CampGay: Donnie in the romcom universe, played up due to the mocking nature of the film. [[spoiler:Normally, he's more of a StraightGay.]]



* {{Deconstruction}}: Breaks down the cliches prevalent in rom-coms.

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* {{Deconstruction}}: Breaks down the cliches clichés prevalent in rom-coms.



* FreudianExcuse: The movie frames Natalie's hatred of romcoms to have started when her mother told her that it would never happen to girls like her.



* ICantBelieveAGuyLikeYouWouldNoticeMe: Played with. Natalie complains that a guy like Blake would never notice her. However, she also apparently can't imagine ''any'' guy noticing her. [[spoiler: She's wrong about that part, in both worlds.]]

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* ICantBelieveAGuyLikeYouWouldNoticeMe: Played with. Natalie complains that a guy like Blake would never notice her. However, she also apparently can't imagine ''any'' guy noticing her. [[spoiler: She's [[spoiler:She's wrong about that part, in both worlds.]]



* JustFriends: Natalie and Josh.
* JustJokingJustification: Played with. When Natalie realizes that she's in love with Josh, but both of them are with other partners, she comments that "maybe we should switch". Everyone clearly expects that to be a joke, but she just stares with a completely straight face, and eventually everyone else starts nervously laughing.
* LampshadeHanging: Natalie is aware that she's stuck in a PG-13 rom-com and comments on the ridiculousness of it all.

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* JustFriends: Natalie and Josh.feels this way about Josh, at least initially.
* JustJokingJustification: Played with. When Natalie realizes that she's in love with Josh, but both of them are with other partners, she comments that "maybe we should switch". Everyone clearly expects that to be a joke, but she just stares with a completely straight face, and eventually everyone else starts nervously laughing.until Josh suggests that she's just joking.
* LampshadeHanging: Natalie is aware that she's stuck in a PG-13 rom-com and comments on the ridiculousness of every unrealistic aspect as it all.comes up.



** Josh namedrops this trope at the beginning, when Natalie interrupts two minor characters about to have one in the park.



* OldFashionedRowBoatDate: Natalie finds herself surrounded by this.
* OneHeadTaller: Blake and Natalie.

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* OldFashionedRowBoatDate: Natalie finds herself surrounded by this.The park is full of them when she and Josh goes for a walk there in the romcom world.
* OneHeadTaller: Blake and to Natalie.



** And it turns out that his real life counterpart is a StraightGay weed dealer, who proceeds to mock the entire CampGay stereotype when Natalie expresses surprise at his sexuality.

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** And it turns out that his real life counterpart is a StraightGay weed dealer, who proceeds to mock the entire CampGay stereotype with his partner when Natalie expresses surprise at his sexuality.



* PortmanteauCoupleName: Parodied InUniverse. One of the reasons Natalie thinks Josh and "Iz" should not get together is that the relationship would have to be called... [[UnfortunateName "Jiz."]]

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* PortmanteauCoupleName: Parodied InUniverse. One of the reasons Natalie thinks Josh and "Iz" should not get together is that the relationship would have to be called... called [[UnfortunateName "Jiz."]]



* RomComJob: Natalie is an architect, a role ordinarily reserved for a male lead. In the real world she's treated with little respect and works in a frumpy office setting that affords her only small, run-down apartment, but after hitting her head she finds herself in a modern, high-tech office, with her apartment not only roomy but full of expensive clothing.

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* RomComJob: Natalie is an architect, a role ordinarily reserved for a male lead. In the real world she's treated with little respect and works in a frumpy office setting that affords her only a small, run-down apartment, but after hitting her head she finds herself in a modern, high-tech office, with her apartment not only roomy but full of expensive clothing.



** Swear words being emitted by a sound

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** Swear words being emitted drowned out by a soundnoise



* ShirtlessScene: Blake, after spending the night with Natalie, walks out of the bathroom with only a towel wrapped around his waist.



* SpontaneousChoreography: Twice.

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* SpontaneousChoreography: Twice. Lampshaded during the karaoke scene, but played straight at the end of the movie.
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-->'''Natalie:''' My life’s become a mother[[SoundEffectBleep beep]] romantic comedy. '''AND IT’S PG-13!!!'''

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-->'''Natalie:''' My life’s become a mother[[SoundEffectBleep beep]] romantic comedy. comedy! '''AND IT’S PG-13!!!'''
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-->'''Natalie:''' My life’s become a mother[[SoundEffectBleep beep]] romantic comedy. ***AND IT’S PG-13!!!***

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-->'''Natalie:''' My life’s become a mother[[SoundEffectBleep beep]] romantic comedy. ***AND '''AND IT’S PG-13!!!***PG-13!!!'''
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* MeetCute: But of course.
** Blake and Natalie meet [[note]]technically for the second time, but it's the first time he notices her[[/note]] when she almost gets run over by his limo.
** Josh and Isabella meet when he notices her choking and does the Heimlich on her.
** Subverted with Natalie and Officer Hansom. He saves her from throwing herself in front of a train and it looks like this, but it turns out that he only did it so he can arrest her for entering the subway without paying for a ticket.
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* WakeupMakeup: A fact of life in the rom-com world, of course.
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* PortmanteauCoupleName: Parodied InUniverse. One of the reasons Natalie thinks Josh and "Iz" should not get together is that the relationship would have to be called... [[UnfortunateName "Jiz."]]
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* ICantBelieveAGuyLikeYouWouldNoticeMe: Played with. Natalie complains that a guy like Blake would never notice her. She's probably right about that (in the real world, at least). However, she also apparently can't imagine ''any'' guy noticing her, even a fairly normal and unglamourous one like Josh. [[spoiler: She's wrong about that part, in both worlds.]]

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* ICantBelieveAGuyLikeYouWouldNoticeMe: Played with. Natalie complains that a guy like Blake would never notice her. She's probably right about that (in the real world, at least). However, she also apparently can't imagine ''any'' guy noticing her, even a fairly normal and unglamourous one like Josh.her. [[spoiler: She's wrong about that part, in both worlds.]]
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* ICantBelieveAGuyLikeYouWouldNoticeMe: Played with. Natalie complains that a guy like Blake would never notice her. She's probably right about that (in the real world, at least). However, she also apparently can't imagine ''any'' guy noticing her, even a fairly normal and unglamourous one like Josh. [[spoiler: She's wrong about that part, in both worlds.]]
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* ExtremeDoormat: Natalie is an unusual example, since she's a tough-talking cynic who seems like she's not about to take any crap from anyone... but whenever someone pushes, she inevitably gives in. She gets better in the end, though.
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* DeconReconSwitch: The movie cheerfully mocks all the stupid aspects of rom-coms, but at the same time it ''is'' a rom-com, and has the same core message that Whitney ascribes to the genre at the start of the movie: that you, yes ''you'', can find true love and have a great life as long as you don't give up on yourself.


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* {{Hatedom}}: InUniverse, Natalie is a one-woman hatedom. As Whitney dryly points out, for someone who hates rom-coms she's certainly spent a lot of time thinking about them.
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* FlatCharacter: Parodied. Every character in the rom-com world other than Natalie and Josh are shallow caricatures that barely seem to exist outside of embodying some stereotype.
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* AllJustADream: Natalie was in an 18-hour coma, during which she imagined that she was in a rom-com.
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* HeldGaze: Isabella and Josh.


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** This then gets flipped, with Natalie and Isabella trying to win over Josh.


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* OneHeadTaller: Blake and Natalie.


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* UnresolvedSexualTension: Natalie and Josh throughout the film.
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* AlphaBitch: In the alternative universe, Whitney becomes this to Natalie.
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Natalie believes everyone to be this to her, due to her low self-esteem.


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* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Natalie, Isabella and Whitney, respectively.


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* ChekhovsLecture: Everything that Natalie hates about rom-coms, which she tells Whitney, happens.


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* DeadpanSnarker: Natalie and Donny.


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* GrandRomanticGesture: Subverted. It isn’t what Natalie or Josh do, but the fact that they’ve been there all along for each other.


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* RunningGag: Loads.
** Natalie consistently getting hit by something
** Swear words being emitted by a sound
** “A Thousand Miles” playing
** “Beguiling”
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** And it turns out that his real life counterpart is a StraightGay weed dealer, who proceeds to mock the entire CampGay stereotype when Natalie expresses surprise at his sexuality.
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* ClicheStorm: Deliberately invoked. Nat lampshades every single romcom trope in the book in a three hour rant early on and every single one of them occurs in the romcom she finds herself in.

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* ClicheStorm: Deliberately invoked.invoked and PlayedForLaughs. Nat lampshades every single romcom trope in the book in a three hour rant early on and every single one of them occurs in the romcom she finds herself in. Even the soundtrack reflects this.
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* ClicheStorm: Deliberately invoked. Nat lampshades every single romcom trope in the book in a three hour rant early on and every single one of them occurs in the romcom she finds herself in.
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''Isn'It Romantic'' is a 2019 RomanticComedy staring Creator/RebelWilson, Creator/AdamDevine, Creator/LiamHemsworth and Creator/PriyankaChopra.

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''Isn'It Romantic'' is a 2019 RomanticComedy staring Creator/RebelWilson, Creator/AdamDevine, Creator/LiamHemsworth Creator/LiamHemsworth, Creator/AdamDevine and Creator/PriyankaChopra.

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