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* EmbarrassingNickname: Novalee is dubbed "the Walmart Mommy" by the media after they catch wind of her giving birth in a Walmart. Fortunately, the incident (and epithet) have been dropped by the time Americus is four.
* HumanInterestStory: news of Novalee having been a homeless teen who gave birth in a Walmart becomes a viral news-story in-universe.
* MediaScrum: While Novalee is in the hospital recovering from labor and delivery, the hallway outside the hospital room is crowded with journalists wanting to meet the "Walmart Mom".
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* {{Paparazzi}}: While Novalee is in the hospital recovering from labor and delivery, the hallway outside the hospital room is crowded with journalists.
* PaedoHunt: Willy Jack is arrested for picking up a 14-year-old hitchhiker. Based on the reactions of the other inmates, [[PariahPrisoner: they probably know what he did]].
* PaedoHunt: Willy Jack is arrested for picking up a 14-year-old hitchhiker. Based on the reactions of the other inmates, [[PariahPrisoner: they probably know what he did]].
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* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler: Willy Jack loses both legs]].
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* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler: Willy Jack loses both legs]].legs after being run over by a train]].
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* CameraFiend: Novalee eventually makes a career out of her photography skills.
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* DoNotTouchTheFunnelCloud: Averted. The tornado is nowhere near the storm cellar that Novalee, Lexie, and Americus are sheltering in, but Novalee ''still'' gets nearly blown away by the wind.
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* IllGirl: Forney's sister is the nominal librarian in town, but she's bedridden and cared for by her brother. [[spoiler: she eventually dies, and Forney decides to leave]].
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** Novalee, Americus, and Lexie when [[spoiler: Sister Husband doesn't make it to the tornado shelter, and Novalee is nearly blown away when she goes out to find her]].
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* {{Paparazzi}}: While Novalee is in the hospital recovering from labor and delivery, the hallway outside the hospital room is crowded with journalists.
* PaedoHunt: Willy Jack is arrested for picking up a 14-year-old hitchhiker. Based on the reactions of the other inmates, [[PariahPrisoner: they probably know what he did]].
** Lexie walked in on her second-to-last boyfriend abusing (and implicitly molesting) one of her children. Unfortunately for her, [[KarmaHoudini he disappears, and since he was using a pseudonym, he never gets arrested]].
* PaedoHunt: Willy Jack is arrested for picking up a 14-year-old hitchhiker. Based on the reactions of the other inmates, [[PariahPrisoner: they probably know what he did]].
** Lexie walked in on her second-to-last boyfriend abusing (and implicitly molesting) one of her children. Unfortunately for her, [[KarmaHoudini he disappears, and since he was using a pseudonym, he never gets arrested]].
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* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Forney has no problem with breaking and entering a Walmart if there's a pregnant homeless teenager squatting inside, going into labor and in need of help delivering the baby.
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** Forney's sister being taken out of the library [[spoiler: in a body bag]].
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* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler: Willy Jack loses both legs]].
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-->Novalee: "Feel that thump-thump-thump? That's [[TitleDrop where the heart is]]."
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-->Novalee: "Feel that thump-thump-thump? That's little bomp-bomp-bomp? It's [[TitleDrop where the heart is]]."
** Willy Jack when he's told that the hitchhiker he's driving with [[Totally18 is only 14 years old]]. He's then promptly arrested.
** Novalee has one when she's woken up in the middle of the night by contractions, and then when her water breaks when she gets up.
** Novalee has one when she's woken up in the middle of the night by contractions, and then when her water breaks when she gets up.
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** There is one notable incidence of Novalee panicking when the number 5 is not brought up- when the tornado sirens go off.
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** There is one notable incidence of Novalee panicking when the number 5 is not brought up- and Sister Husband when the tornado sirens go off.off.
** [[spoiler: Willy Jack when he's drunk, on the ground, and about to be hit by a train]].
** [[spoiler: Willy Jack when he's drunk, on the ground, and about to be hit by a train]].
* RagsToRiches: Novalee goes from a homeless pregnant teen squatting in a WalMart to an accomplished photographer, respectable community member, and loving wife.
** Attempted by Willy Jack, but he makes several short-sighted decisions while trying to make it big (including abandoning his girlfriend, picking up a 14-year-old hitchhiker, and committing plagiarism) before [[spoiler: losing his legs to a train]].
** Attempted by Willy Jack, but he makes several short-sighted decisions while trying to make it big (including abandoning his girlfriend, picking up a 14-year-old hitchhiker, and committing plagiarism) before [[spoiler: losing his legs to a train]].
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Willy Jack dumping Novalee at the beginning of the film. He attempts it again after being informed the girl he's riding with is [[Totally18 only 14 years old]], but is arrested.
* TeenPregnancy: In the book, Novalee is explicitly 17 years old when she is pregnant. Natalie Portman was only 19 when the movie was released, so this is presumably the case in the movie as well.
* Totally18: Averted with the hitchhiker that Willy Jack picks up after dumping Novalee- he's arrested after being informed that she's 14.
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* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Americus is a remarkably well-adjusted and loving child, flourishing thanks to the attention and love given to her by her mother and all the people she knows.
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* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Americus is a remarkably well-adjusted and loving child, flourishing thanks to the attention and love given to her by her mother and all the people she knows.knows.
* WorkOffTheDebt: Novalee ends up being hired by the very same Walmart that she was squatting in while pregnant (presumably to pay off the debts that she had recorded).
* WorkOffTheDebt: Novalee ends up being hired by the very same Walmart that she was squatting in while pregnant (presumably to pay off the debts that she had recorded).
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* FeelingTheBabyKick: Played with- Novalee puts Willy Jack's hand on her bump so he can feel her baby's ''heartbeat''.
-->Novalee: "Feel that thump-thump-thump? That's [[TitleDrop where the heart is]]."
-->Novalee: "Feel that thump-thump-thump? That's [[TitleDrop where the heart is]]."
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* TitleDrop: When Novalee and Willie Jack are riding in the car at the beginning of the movie, Novalee brings Willie Jack's hand to her bump, and says that the place he feels the thump-thump-thump is where the heart is.
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* TitleDrop: When Novalee and Willie Willy Jack are riding in the car at the beginning of the movie, Novalee brings Willie Willy Jack's hand to her bump, and says that the place he feels the thump-thump-thump is where the heart is.
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** When the receipt for the flip-flops comes back as $5.55, Novalee panics and runs out to the parking lot, only to find an empty parking space where Willie Jack's car was.
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** When the receipt for the flip-flops comes back as $5.55, Novalee panics and runs out to the parking lot, only to find an empty parking space where Willie Willy Jack's car was.
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** The pair of flip-flops costs $5.55- so Novalee panicks and runs out to the parking lot.
** As Novalee comes home with a Christmas tree, Lexie mentions off-hand that Americus is five months old. Novalee promptly panics and rushes home to find her daughter missing.
** There is one notable incidence of Novalee panicking when the number 5 is not brought up- when the tornado sirens go off.
** The pair of flip-flops costs $5.55- so Novalee panicks and runs out to the parking lot.
** As Novalee comes home with a Christmas tree, Lexie mentions off-hand that Americus is five months old. Novalee promptly panics and rushes home to find her daughter missing.
** There is one notable incidence of Novalee panicking when the number 5 is not brought up- when the tornado sirens go off.
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* TitleDropTitleDrop: When Novalee and Willie Jack are riding in the car at the beginning of the movie, Novalee brings Willie Jack's hand to her bump, and says that the place he feels the thump-thump-thump is where the heart is.
* TrailerParkTornadoMagnet: Downplayed in that it's just ''one'' trailer seen endangered by a tornado, but [[spoiler: that tornado kills Brother and Sister Husband]].
* TrailerParkTornadoMagnet: Downplayed in that it's just ''one'' trailer seen endangered by a tornado, but [[spoiler: that tornado kills Brother and Sister Husband]].
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** When the receipt for the flip-flops comes back as $5.55, Novalee panics and runs out to the parking lot, only to find an empty parking space where Willie Jack's car was.
** Immediately after the tornado plows through town, Novalee is seen writing [[spoiler: Sister Husband and Brother Husband's deaths]].
** When the receipt for the flip-flops comes back as $5.55, Novalee panics and runs out to the parking lot, only to find an empty parking space where Willie Jack's car was.
** Immediately after the tornado plows through town, Novalee is seen writing [[spoiler: Sister Husband and Brother Husband's deaths]].
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** At Americus' fifth birthday party:
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** At Americus' Americus's fifth birthday party:
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*** All of Lexie's named kids (Brownie, Praline, Cherry and Baby Ruth) though it's hinted that they're actually nicknames
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*** All of Lexie's named kids (Brownie, Praline, Cherry Cherry, and Baby Ruth) Ruth), though it's hinted that they're actually nicknames
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* BookEnds: The book begins and ends with Novalee and Willy Jack taking a road trip, the beginning being them trying to make a home in Californa and the end [[spoiler:having Novalee taking Willy Jack back home to Tennessee since she's made herself a home in Oklahoma and he has no way to get back due to having no legs.]]
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* BookEnds: The book begins and ends with Novalee and Willy Jack taking a road trip, the beginning being them trying to make a home in Californa California and the end [[spoiler:having [[spoiler: having Novalee taking Willy Jack back home to Tennessee since she's made herself a home in Oklahoma and he has no way to get back due to having no legs.]]
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* DisappearedDad: Americus' father abandons her mother in the parking lot at Walmart before she is born. While he continues to appear in the movie as a subplot, he never meets his daughter.
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* DisappearedDad: Americus' Americus's father abandons her mother in the parking lot at Walmart before she is born. While he continues to appear in the movie as a subplot, he never meets his daughter.
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** Ernie the Exterminator coaches a kids baseball team and has adopted his stepchild from his deadbeat ex-wife.
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** Ernie the Exterminator coaches a kids kids' baseball team and has adopted his stepchild from his deadbeat ex-wife.
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** While discussing her latest boyfriend with Novalee, Lexie says “I just don’t think he’s my type.” Cut to them getting married.
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** While discussing her latest boyfriend with Novalee, Lexie says “I says, "I just don’t think he’s my type.” " Cut to them getting married.
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* GoodStepmother: Ernie is a gender flipped version not only for Lexie's kids but for his own stepdaughter who he gave up the car of his dreams for since his ex-wife loved the car more than she loved her daughter.
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* GoodStepmother: Ernie is a gender flipped gender-flipped version not only for Lexie's kids but for his own stepdaughter who for whom he gave up the car of his dreams for since his ex-wife loved the car more than she loved her daughter.
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* ImpliedRape: After Novalee picks up Lexie and her kids and brings them to her house, she sits down with Lexie to ask what had happened. [[spoiler: Lexie breaks down in tears, saying her new boyfriend Roger tried going after her kids while she wasn't home, but by pure luck, Lexie had come home early with her younger kids. Roger went after Praline first, but opted for Brownie instead after Praline threw up on him. She never says the word "rape", but it's heavily implied that Roger was sexually assaulting her child in her bedroom when she found them after coming home.]] It's so hard to not feel for Lexie and what had happened to her and her kids.
-->''How did he find me, Novalee? How do men like that find my kids? How'd he know he could do such a thing to us. He had to be looking. He was looking for women like me, who are alone with children and women who are stupid.''
-->''How did he find me, Novalee? How do men like that find my kids? How'd he know he could do such a thing to us. He had to be looking. He was looking for women like me, who are alone with children and women who are stupid.''
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* ImpliedRape: After Novalee picks up Lexie and her kids and brings them to her house, she sits down with Lexie to ask what had happened. [[spoiler: Lexie breaks down in tears, saying her new boyfriend Roger tried going after her kids while she wasn't home, but by pure luck, Lexie had come home early with her younger kids. Roger went after Praline first, first but opted for Brownie instead after Praline threw up on him. She never says the word "rape", but it's heavily implied that Roger was sexually assaulting her child in her bedroom when she found them after coming home.]] It's so hard to not feel for Lexie and what had happened to her and her kids.
-->''How did he find me, Novalee? How do men like that find my kids? How'd he know he could do such a thing tous. us? He had to be looking. He was looking for women like me, who are alone with children children, and women who are stupid.''
-->''How did he find me, Novalee? How do men like that find my kids? How'd he know he could do such a thing to
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* KarmaHoudini: Novalee's mother, who abandoned her when she was five for an umpire, gets away with stealing all the money Novalee received from the well-wishers with no consequences. The same goes for [[spoiler:the man who molested Lexie's oldest children since he used a fake name.]]
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* KarmaHoudini: Novalee's mother, who abandoned her when she was five for an umpire, gets away with stealing all the money Novalee received from the well-wishers with no consequences. The same goes for [[spoiler:the [[spoiler: the man who molested Lexie's oldest children since he used a fake name.]]
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* TheMissionary: An essentially well-meaning Pentecostal Christian couple see Novalee & Americus' story on TV and travel to Oaklahoma to witness (preach) to Novalee. Sister, being a devout (and much less judgmental) Christian herself, not to mention knowing that Novalee is tired of the media attention, makes it clear she's already covered this.
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* TheMissionary: An essentially well-meaning Pentecostal Christian couple see Novalee Novalee's & Americus' Americus's story on TV and travel to Oaklahoma Oklahoma to witness (preach) to Novalee. Sister, being a devout (and much less judgmental) Christian herself, not to mention knowing that Novalee is tired of the media attention, makes it clear she's already covered this.
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* ImpliedRape: After Novalee picks up Lexie and her kids and brings them to her house, she sits down with Lexie to ask what had happened. [[spoiler: Lexie breaks down in tears, saying her new boyfriend Roger tried going after her kids while she wasn't home, but by pure luck, Lexie had come home early with her younger kids. Roger went after Praline first, but opted for Brownie instead after Praline threw up on him. She never says the word "rape", but it's heavily implied that Roger was sexually assaulting her child in her bedroom when she found them after coming home.]]
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* ImpliedRape: After Novalee picks up Lexie and her kids and brings them to her house, she sits down with Lexie to ask what had happened. [[spoiler: Lexie breaks down in tears, saying her new boyfriend Roger tried going after her kids while she wasn't home, but by pure luck, Lexie had come home early with her younger kids. Roger went after Praline first, but opted for Brownie instead after Praline threw up on him. She never says the word "rape", but it's heavily implied that Roger was sexually assaulting her child in her bedroom when she found them after coming home.]]]] It's so hard to not feel for Lexie and what had happened to her and her kids.
-->''How did he find me, Novalee? How do men like that find my kids? How'd he know he could do such a thing to us. He had to be looking. He was looking for women like me, who are alone with children and women who are stupid.''
-->''How did he find me, Novalee? How do men like that find my kids? How'd he know he could do such a thing to us. He had to be looking. He was looking for women like me, who are alone with children and women who are stupid.''
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* ImpliedRape: After Novalee picks up Lexie and her kids and brings them to her house, she sits down with Lexie to ask what had happened. [[spoiler: Lexie breaks down in tears, saying her new boyfriend Roger tried going after Praline first, but opted for Brownie instead after Praline threw up on him. She never says the word, but it's heavily implied that Roger was sexually assaulting her child in her bedroom when she found them.]]
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* ImpliedRape: After Novalee picks up Lexie and her kids and brings them to her house, she sits down with Lexie to ask what had happened. [[spoiler: Lexie breaks down in tears, saying her new boyfriend Roger tried going after her kids while she wasn't home, but by pure luck, Lexie had come home early with her younger kids. Roger went after Praline first, but opted for Brownie instead after Praline threw up on him. She never says the word, word "rape", but it's heavily implied that Roger was sexually assaulting her child in her bedroom when she found them.them after coming home.]]
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* ImpliedRape: After Novalee picks up Lexie and her kids and brings them to her house, she sits down with Lexie to ask what had happened. [[spoiler: Lexie breaks down in tears, saying her new boyfriend Roger tried going after Praline first, but opted for Brownie instead after Praline threw up on him. She never says the word, but it's heavily implied that Roger was sexually assaulting her child in her bedroom when she found them.]]
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* MamaBear: [[spoiler: When Lexie found Roger sexually assaulting her children, she said she "flew at him" in rage, with every attempt at killing him to defend them or die trying.]]
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* AdultFear: Lexie comes home early from work to find [[spoiler: her current boyfriend molesting two of her children]].
** Novalee also comes home one day to find out that her [[AbsurdPhobia five-month-old]] daughter has been kidnapped by some random nutcase from Mississippi.
** Novalee also comes home one day to find out that her [[AbsurdPhobia five-month-old]] daughter has been kidnapped by some random nutcase from Mississippi.
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* AbsurdPhobia: Novalee believes that the number 5 is cursedcursed. In the book, it's actually the number 7 that she feels is cursed but the number likely changed due to time constraints in the film.
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*** All of Lexie's named kids (Brownie, Praline, Cherry and Baby Ruth)Ruth) though it's hinted that they're actually nicknames
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: A tragic case for the Whitecottons who lost their daughter Glory when she drowned at three. They never had any children since but take in Novalee and Americus like a surrogate daughter and granddaughter. The first time that Certain holds Americus, she looks almost like she never wants to let go of her.
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* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: Lexie names all her kids after snack food. Novalee, advised by Moses to give her baby a MeaningfulName, takes it a bit too far and names her daughter Americus Nation. Granted, it's not like most of the other characters have normal names anyway. [[LampshadedTrope Lampshaded]] by a coworker who, when asked which child called, suggested it might have been "Twinkie" or "Pez".
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* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: Lexie names all her kids after snack food. Novalee, advised by Moses to give her baby a MeaningfulName, takes it a bit too far and names her daughter Americus Nation. Granted, it's not like most of the other characters have normal names anyway. [[LampshadedTrope Lampshaded]] by a coworker who, when asked which child called, suggested it might have been "Twinkie" or "Pez"."Pez".
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Americus is a remarkably well-adjusted and loving child, flourishing thanks to the attention and love given to her by her mother and all the people she knows.
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Americus is a remarkably well-adjusted and loving child, flourishing thanks to the attention and love given to her by her mother and all the people she knows.
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* BookEnds: The book begins and ends with Novalee and Willy Jack taking a road trip, the beginning being them trying to make a home in Californa and the end [[spoiler:having Novalee taking Willy Jack back home to Tennessee since she's made herself a home in Oklahoma and he has no way to get back due to having no legs.]]
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* IntergenerationalFriendship: Novalee's friendships with Sister Husband and the Whitecottons who are old enough to be her parents. Americus even refers to Sister as Grandma Sister and Moses and Certain as Pepaw and Memaw respectively.
* KarmaHoudini: Novalee's mother, who abandoned her when she was five for an umpire, gets away with stealing all the money Novalee received from the well-wishers with no consequences. The same goes for [[spoiler:the man who molested Lexie's oldest children since he used a fake name.]]
* KarmaHoudini: Novalee's mother, who abandoned her when she was five for an umpire, gets away with stealing all the money Novalee received from the well-wishers with no consequences. The same goes for [[spoiler:the man who molested Lexie's oldest children since he used a fake name.]]
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* GoodStepmother: Ernie is a gender flipped version not only for Lexie's kids but for his own stepdaughter who he gave up the car of his dreams for since his ex-wife loved the car more than she loved her daughter.
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* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: Lexie names all her kids after snack food. Novalee, advised by Moses to give her baby a MeaningfulName, takes it a bit too far and names her daughter Americus Nation. Granted, it's not like most of the other characters have normal names anyway.
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* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: Lexie names all her kids after snack food. Novalee, advised by Moses to give her baby a MeaningfulName, takes it a bit too far and names her daughter Americus Nation. Granted, it's not like most of the other characters have normal names anyway. [[LampshadedTrope Lampshaded]] by a coworker who, when asked which child called, suggested it might have been "Twinkie" or "Pez".
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** Lexie was attracted to bad boys who would all end up getting her pregnant and running off on her. She would eventually marry {{Adorkable}} Ernie the Exterminator who despite looking frumpy and plain has a heart of gold.
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** Lexie was attracted to bad boys who would all end up getting her pregnant and running off on her. She would eventually marry {{Adorkable}} dorky Ernie the Exterminator who despite looking frumpy and plain has a heart of gold.
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* RunningGag: Sister Husband and Mr. Sprock are devout Christians who are in love with each other, but don't want to get married. This leads to several instances of them praying for forgiveness after they've had sex, usually the kitchen table.
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* RunningGag: Sister Husband and Mr. Sprock are devout Christians who are in love with each other, but don't want to get married. This leads to several instances of them praying for forgiveness after they've had sex, usually on the kitchen table.
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* BrickJoke: Sister at one point leads a prayer asking God to forgive her and Mr. Sprock for committing "fornication" on the kitchen table. After Sister's will reveals she left everything to Novalee, Mr. Sprock asks for the table, saying it holds a lot of memories.
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-->'''Religious Man:''' Ma'am, we've come here today to give the Word of God to the Wal-Mart baby, and to her young unmarried mother.
-->'''Religious Woman:''' We drove all the way up from Midnight, Mississippi.
-->'''Sister Husband:''' Well, you folks could have saved yourselves a trip, because the Word of God has been in this house for a very long time. (''*shuts door in their faces*'')
-->'''Religious Man:''' Ma'am, we've come here today to give the Word of God to the Wal-Mart baby, and to her young unmarried mother.
-->'''Religious Woman:''' We drove all the way up from Midnight, Mississippi.
-->'''Sister Husband:''' Well, you folks could have saved yourselves a trip, because the Word of God has been in this house for a very long time. (''*shuts door in their faces*'')
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* JerkassWoobie: Willy Jack abandons Novalee and their unborn daughter at a random Walmart, but he is then framed for the crime of the hitchhiking girl he picked up, beaten in jail, played in bars for years trying to make it as a singer, lost his agent, became an alcoholic, and lost his legs to a train.
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* BornDuringAStorm: Novalee goes into labor alone in the Walmart she has been living in during a thunderstorm. The setting of the birth emphasizes her dire life situation. Good thing Forney arrives to assist with the birth.
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* KickTheDog: Willy Jack abandoning Novalee at Walmart in an unknown town.
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* JerkassWoobie: Willy Jack abandons Novalee and their unborn daughter at a random Walmart, but he is then framed for the crime of the hitchhiking girl he picked up, beaten in jail, played in bars for years trying to make it as a singer, lost his agent, became an alcoholic, and lost his legs to a train.
* KickTheDog: Willy Jack abandoning Novalee at Walmart in an unknown town. In a double whammy, pretty much everything that happens to him after that is '''him '''getting a KickTheDog moment.
* KickTheDog: Willy Jack abandoning Novalee at Walmart in an unknown town. In a double whammy, pretty much everything that happens to him after that is '''him '''getting a KickTheDog moment.
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* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Ernie's last name is never given, and everyone just calls him "Ernie the Exterminator".
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** Novalee meets a cute mechanic at Murray's Garage and the music swells like a typical "country-style meet-cute". Cut to her telling Lexie she might be pregnant.
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** Novalee meets a cute mechanic at Murray's Garage and the music swells like a typical "country-style meet-cute".country-style MeetCute. Cut to her telling Lexie she might be pregnant.
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* AerithAndBob: A non-fantasy example, but a wild mix. It is rural Oklahoma, after all.
** Aeriths:
*** Novalee Nation
*** Americus Nation
*** Forney Hull
*** Mr. Sprock
*** Moses Whitecotton
*** Willy Jack Pickens (aka Billy Shadow)
*** All of Lexie's named kids (Brownie, Praline, Cherry and Baby Ruth)
**Bobs:
*** Lexie Coop
*** Thelma "Sister" Husband
*** Ruth Meyers
** Aeriths:
*** Novalee Nation
*** Americus Nation
*** Forney Hull
*** Mr. Sprock
*** Moses Whitecotton
*** Willy Jack Pickens (aka Billy Shadow)
*** All of Lexie's named kids (Brownie, Praline, Cherry and Baby Ruth)
**Bobs:
*** Lexie Coop
*** Thelma "Sister" Husband
*** Ruth Meyers
