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* PutOnABus and TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler: Steven, whose actor got fired from the show and then occasionally brought back to explain his absence.]]


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* ReplacementGoldfish: [[spoiler: After the death of the first Cristal, a second Cristal is brought on to quickly get romantically involved with Blake.]]
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** Adam and Fallon get into a cat fight in "New Lady In Town" that is extremely typical cat fight behavior even if one of them is a guy.

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** Adam **[[spoiler: Adam]] and Fallon get into a cat fight in "New Lady In Town" that is extremely typical cat fight behavior even if one of them is a guy.

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** Fallon and her mother get into one in Episode 17 ("Enter Alexis"), when Fallon discovers that [[spoiler: her mother has been lying to them about where she has been- she's been living in Atlanta for months, and is flat broke- and that she and Steven have been in contact for a year without Fallon knowing]]. Fallon rips out her hair extensions, and they end up in the pool.



** Fallon and her mother get into one in Episode 17 ("Enter Alexis"), when Fallon discovers that [[spoiler: her mother has been lying to them about where she has been- she's been living in Atlanta for months, and is flat broke- and that she and Steven have been in contact for a year without Fallon knowing]]. Fallon rips out her hair extensions, and they end up in the pool.
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** Adam and Fallon get into a cat fight in "New Lady In Town" that is extremely typical cat fight behavior even if one of them is a guy.
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** Sam is out to find out who leaked a photo of Fallon and Liam kissing to TMZ. He goes through the various photos of the party, trying to see through the right suspects and figure out who was where before analyzing the angle from where the photo was taken. Anders dryly offers to simply call TMZ and ask who sold them the photo.
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* SurgicalImpersonation: A downplayed example in Season 3 when [[spoiler: Alexis has her face burned off in a fire. Adam arranges for her to get a new face...which is a dead ringer for Fallon. Amazingly, the vain Alexis only sees "me five years ago" and it takes the entire family reacting for her to realize how she looks like her own daughter. She later figures out that Adam did this himself as part of his twisted plan to make everyone think it was Alexis' own ego rather than Adam's plot.]]

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* SurgicalImpersonation: A downplayed example in Season 3 2 when [[spoiler: Alexis has her face burned off in a fire. Adam arranges for her to get a new face...which is a dead ringer for Fallon. Amazingly, the vain Alexis only sees "me five years ago" and it takes the entire family reacting for her to realize how she looks like her own daughter. She later figures out that Adam did this himself as part of his twisted plan to make everyone think it was Alexis' own ego rather than Adam's plot.]]
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* SurgicalImpersonation: A downplayed example in Season 3 when [[spoiler: Alexis has her face burned off in a fire. Adam arranges for her to get a new face...which is a dead ringer for Fallon. Amazingly, the vain Alexis only sees "me five years ago" and it takes the entire family reacting for her to realize how she looks like her own daughter. She later figures out that Adam did this himself as part of his twisted plan to make everyone think it was Alexis' own ego rather than Adam's plot.]]
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* {{Gaslighting}}: Since they first met, "George" has been secretly messing with Steven's life, causing Fallon and Sam to think "George" is just made up, and that Steven's going insane, despite Steven's assertions to the contrary.
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* ImaginaryFriend: A long-absent Steven is found in Paris talking of how his friend George has been pushing him into wild stuff like giving up his money and some crazy escapades. When George fails to show up at planned events, Fallon and Sam are convinced Steven is having a breakdown and made up George. Steven denies it but soon admits they may be right and checks himself into an institution. Only subverted as [[spoiler: the audience discovers that not only is "George" real but he's actually "Adam," who plotted to get Steven out of the way so he could move into his spot in the family.]]

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* ImaginaryFriend: A long-absent Steven is found in Paris talking of how his friend George has been pushing him into wild stuff like giving up his money and some crazy escapades. When George fails to show up at planned events, Fallon and Sam are convinced Steven is having a breakdown and made up George. Steven denies it but soon admits they may be right and checks himself into an institution. Only subverted as [[spoiler: the audience discovers that not only is "George" real but he's actually "Adam," Adam, who plotted to get Steven out of the way so he could move into his spot in the family.]]



** The audience sees Steven's boyfriend "George"...who's really [[spoiler: "Adam."]]

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** The audience sees Steven's boyfriend "George"...who's really [[spoiler: "Adam."]]
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** The audience sees Steven's boyfriend "George"...who's really [[spoiler: "Adam."]]
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* ImaginaryFriend: A long-absent Steven is found in Paris talking of how his friend George has been pushing him into wild stuff like giving up his money and some crazy escapades. When George fails to show up at planned events, Fallon and Sam are convinced Steven is having a breakdown and made up George. Steven denies it but soon admits they may be right and checks himself into an institution. Only subverted as [[spoiler: the audience discovers that not only is "George" real but he's actually "Adam," who plotted to get Steven out of the way so he could move into his spot in the family.]]
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--->'''Fallon:''' She's ''still'' up there [by the casket].
--->'''Blake:''' Doing ''what''?
--->'''Fallon:''' Shedding more tears than the crocodile killed to make her bag.
--->'''Cristal:''' (''presses her lips together, trying not to smile'')

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--->'''Fallon:''' -->'''Fallon:''' She's ''still'' up there [by the casket].
--->'''Blake:'''
casket].\\
'''Blake:'''
Doing ''what''?
--->'''Fallon:'''
''what''?\\
'''Fallon:'''
Shedding more tears than the crocodile killed to make her bag.
--->'''Cristal:'''
bag.\\
'''Cristal:'''
(''presses her lips together, trying not to smile'')
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* WhatAnIdiot: Alexis forces a gardner to mess with a DNA test by getting some "non-Carrington DNA". Naturally, she's in utter disbelief when this moron submits the DNA of a ''dog''.

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* WhatAnIdiot: Alexis forces a gardner gardener to mess with a DNA test by getting some "non-Carrington DNA". Naturally, she's in utter disbelief when this moron submits the DNA of a ''dog''.
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* WhatAnIdiot: Alexis forces a gardner to mess with a DNA test by getting some "non-Carrington DNA". Naturally, she's in utter disbelief when this moron submits the DNA of a ''dog''.
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* MundaneSolution: Fallon follows Liam to a ski resort in a wild plot to win back Liam from his new girlfriend. She lays out a wild plan to the other women complete with a map and pointer as she explains her frankly insanely complex plan to "spend alone time with Liam" by following him on his skiing lesson. When Kirby points out how crazy this is, Fallon snaps "can you do better?" Kirby instantly gets on the phone to the front desk, pretends to be Liam's girlfriend and gets the clerk to give up their planned itinerary so Fallon knows exactly where they'll be and how to time getting Liam alone.
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** Kirby also has a couple, showing that she knew about [[spoiler: Alexis and Anders' affair]].


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* FrameUp: It's revealed that the fire Kirby started that got her kicked to Australia [[spoiler: was actually started by Alexis, to have an excuse to banish Kirby because she knew about Alexis and Anders' affair.]]
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** In season 2, Jeff and Culhane attempt to manipulate Ada into making a confession, only for them to discover that the henchmen they believed to have turned against her was actually still loyal to her, and erased their evidence.
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* WhamLine: Anders in 2X3: [[spoiler: "Fallon isn't my child...Steven is."]]
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* LukeIAmYourFather: It's revealed in "The Butler Did It" that [[spoiler: Steven is actually Anders' son, the product of an affair he had with Alexis.]]
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* FakePregnancy: Subverted. When Melissa is pregnant by Steven, Alexis is convinced she's faking the whole thing. She and Sam break into Melissa's house to find padded bellies and lots of wine. They storm into a lamaze class with Alexis tearing open Melissa's shirt...and seeing a pregnant belly. She explains the paddings are to try out dresses for a party when she's more pregnant in a few months and the wine is for a party.
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** Blake seems to suffer this in season two. Not only does he cut the family out of his will but he makes it clear he's going to spend his life spending every cent he can and whatever is left will ''literally'' be buried with him.
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* AshesToCrashes: In Episode 23, Alexis accidentally backs her wheelchair into the table holding the urn containing [[spoiler:Cristal]]'s ashes, knocking it to the floor and smashing it.
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''Un''like the original series, the setting is UsefulNotes/Atlanta rather than Denver.

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''Un''like the original series, the setting is UsefulNotes/Atlanta UsefulNotes/{{Atlanta}} rather than Denver.
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--->'''Alexis:''' And you, my dear, need to be ''smothered''. [{{Beat ''beat''}}] With ''love''. For the first time in your life, I am going to make you care about other people. And I am going to prove to you just how loved you are. Even if it kills you, Fallon. Because I am your damn mother.

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--->'''Alexis:''' And you, my dear, need to be ''smothered''. [{{Beat ''beat''}}] ''([[{{Beat}} beat]])'' With ''love''. For the first time in your life, I am going to make you care about other people. And I am going to prove to you just how loved you are. Even if it kills you, Fallon. Because I am your damn mother.
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''Un''like the original series, the setting is Atlanta rather than Denver.

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''Un''like the original series, the setting is Atlanta UsefulNotes/Atlanta rather than Denver.



** Cristal and Sam are South American, but their counterparts in the original series were white.

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** Cristal and Sam are South Latin American, but their counterparts in the original series were white.
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* SinsofTheFather: Fallon deconstructs this when Jeff rants about [[spoiler: how her family has ruined his, [[ArmorPiercingQuestion simply asking him what the hell did she do.]]]]

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* SinsofTheFather: SinsOfOurFathers: Fallon deconstructs this when Jeff rants about [[spoiler: how her family has ruined his, [[ArmorPiercingQuestion simply asking him what the hell did she do.]]]]
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* TheSinsofTheFather: Fallon deconstructs this when Jeff rants about [[spoiler: how her family has ruined his, [[ArmorPiercingQuestion simply asking him what the hell did she do.]]]]

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* TheSinsofTheFather: SinsofTheFather: Fallon deconstructs this when Jeff rants about [[spoiler: how her family has ruined his, [[ArmorPiercingQuestion simply asking him what the hell did she do.]]]]
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* TheSinsofTheFather: Fallon deconstructs this when Jeff rants about [[spoiler: how her family has ruined his, [[ArmorPiercingQuestion simply asking him what the hell did she do.]]]]

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