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* TheWoobie: We all, chances are, know someone like this, and we can be woobies ourselves.
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* TheWoobie: We all, chances are, know someone like this, and we Anybody can be woobies ourselves.a woobie in his or her lifetime. This may be why some people would say that everyone will need therapy.
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* WouldHitAGirl: Something that people can do when other options would be in vain, as girls are not immune to being {{Jerkass}}es.
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* WouldHitAGirl: Something that people can do when other options would be in vain, especially as girls are not immune to being {{Jerkass}}es.a way of self defense.
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* VitriolicBestBuds: A lot of friendships can involve in playful insults, bickering, and just plain fighting each other.
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* VitriolicBestBuds: A lot of friendships apparent friendships, or at least instances of people remaining on generally good terms, can involve in playful insults, bickering, and just plain fighting each other.
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* WeakButSkilled: Many people, especially because many things don't require extreme physical perfection or strength.
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* WeakButSkilled: Many people, especially because Mileage may vary as to the definition(s) thereof, but many things don't require anywhere near extreme physical perfection 'perfection' or strength.
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* WeAllDieSomeday: By current medical standards and at this level of reality. Everyone will one day have to recognize that none of us will live forever.
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* WeAllDieSomeday: By It's not so much that it goes by current medical standards and at this level of reality. Everyone reality, or by whoever will one day have to 'have to' recognize that none of us will live forever.why they probably shouldn't take time for granted - but by the trope itself, in how people say this phrase in some way.
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* TheWoobie: We all know someone like this, and we can be woobies ourselves.
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* TheWoobie: We all all, chances are, know someone like this, and we can be woobies ourselves.
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* XenomorphXerox: The closest thing RealLife has to a [[Franchise/{{Alien}} Xenomorph]] analog is a parasitic wasp. A parasitic wasp's life cycle entirely revolves around stinging other invertebrates, paralyzing them, laying eggs inside their bodies, and having its young eat their way out of the paralyzed invertebrates. Once the parasitic wasp's young grow up, they begin the hellish life cycle anew.
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* XenomorphXerox: The closest thing RealLife has to a [[Franchise/{{Alien}} Xenomorph]] analog is a parasitic wasp. A parasitic wasp's life cycle entirely revolves around stinging other invertebrates, paralyzing them, laying eggs inside their bodies, and having its young eat their way out of the paralyzed invertebrates. Once the parasitic wasp's young grow up, they begin the hellish life cycle anew. In terms of ''appearance'', scorpions may lack the elongated head, but some species have a dark exoskeleton to go with their barbed tails.
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* WillNotTellALie: Very uncommon, but definitely real. This was ostensibly true in ancient Persia, since it was a religious edict of Zoroastrianism. They throw around the word "truth" like Americans do with "freedom".
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* WillNotTellALie: Very uncommon, but definitely real. This was ostensibly true in ancient Persia, AncientPersia, since it was a religious edict of Zoroastrianism. They throw around the word "truth" like Americans do with "freedom".
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* XenomorphXerox: The closest thing RealLife has to a [[Franchise/{{Alien}} Xenomorph]] analog is a parasitic wasp. A parasitic wasp's life cycle entirely revolves around stinging other invertebrates, paralyzing them, laying eggs inside their bodies, and having its young eat their way out of the paralyzed invertebrates. Once the parasitic wasp's young grow up, they begin the hellish life cycle anew.
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* XenomorphXerox: The closest thing RealLife has to a [[Franchise/{{Alien}} Xenomorph]] analog is a parasitic wasp. A parasitic wasp's life cycle entirely revolves around stinging other invertebrates, paralyzing them, laying eggs inside their bodies, and having its young eat their way out of the paralyzed invertebrates. Once the parasitic wasp's young grow up, they begin the hellish life cycle anew.
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* ZergRush: Many species of ants attack their prey by swarming and crawling over them in massive numbers to overwhelm them in a very short period of time.
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* WouldHitAGirl: Something that people can do when other options would be in vain, as girls are not immune to being {{Jerkass}}es.
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* VirginShaming: Anyone who is a virgin past college-age (especially if they're male) has likely experienced this at some point.
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* VirginShaming: Anyone in the West who is a virgin past college-age (especially if they're male) has likely experienced this at some point.
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* WartsAndAll: How most real-life heroic people are, because they are indeed human. However, there are many people who are idolized by society as heroes that were in fact horrible human beings in real life -- such as Mother Teresa and Mahatma Gandhi. [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment If you want to find out more about that, look it up yourself.]]
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* WartsAndAll: How most real-life heroic people are, because they are indeed human. However, there are many people who are idolized by society as heroes that were in fact horrible human beings in real life -- such as Mother Teresa and Mahatma Gandhi. [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment If you want to find out more about that, look it up yourself.]]
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* WartsAndAll: How most real-life heroic people are, because they are indeed human.
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* WartsAndAll: How most real-life heroic people are, because they are indeed human. However, there are many people who are idolized by society as heroes that were in fact horrible human beings in real life -- such as Mother Teresa and Mahatma Gandhi. [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment If you want to find out more about that, look it up yourself.]]
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* YouCanPanicNow: Locked-In Syndrome. [[strike:Global Warming]] Climate change. Nuclear war. Leprosy. Jack the Ripper. ''The goblin's gonna getcha if you don't... watch... OUT!''
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* WouldntHurtAChild: Common in gangs and mafias. Even people like {{SerialKiller}}s and mass murderers often have rules against killing kids.
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* WouldHurtAChild: Yes, there are some teenagers and adults out there who are depraved enough to hurt or even kill innocent children, such as AbusiveParents.
* WouldntHurtAChild: Common in gangs and mafias. Even people like{{SerialKiller}}s {{Serial Killer}}s and mass murderers often have rules against killing kids.
* WouldntHurtAChild: Common in gangs and mafias. Even people like
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* WarCrimeSubvertsHeroism: Yes, many of those war crime scenes you see in movies ''actually happened'' (or were based on true events) and were most likely ''toned down'' for viewers.
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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Possible with hair dye.
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* VotOcksent: Many people think of their own accent as "unaccented", even though that's not a real thing, simply because it's the accent they're used to hearing.
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* WarComesHome: Every war in history has seen a conflict spread to at least somebody's native homeland and become more significant for certain people as a direct result.
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* WanderingCulture: Nomadic people and cultures really do exist.
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* VillainDecay: [[ForeverWar Long wars]] tend to do this to both sides involved: the more resources expended on the war(s) and battles within them, both human and otherwise, the less there are to spend next time, and then the next time.
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* WritingAboutYourCrime: Real criminals have written about their crimes in uncanny detail.
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* WereLiveRealization: In the age of visual media, people can make blunders and forget that the camera is rolling.
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* WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong: How about the ambitious person asking this question unironically is overconfident that their plans will succeed and didn't think to take precautions for anything that could go wrong?
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* WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong: How about the ambitious person asking this question unironically is overconfident that their plans will succeed and [[DidntThinkThisThrough didn't think to take precautions precautions]] for anything that could go wrong?
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* WouldntHurtAChild: Common in gangs and mafias.
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* WouldntHurtAChild: Common in gangs and mafias. Even people like {{SerialKiller}}s and mass murderers often have rules against killing kids.
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* WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong: How about the ambitious person asking this question seriously is overconfident that their plans will succeed and didn't bother to take precautions for anything that could go wrong?
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* WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong: How about the ambitious person asking this question seriously unironically is overconfident that their plans will succeed and didn't bother think to take precautions for anything that could go wrong?
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* WhammyBid: People make these in auctions. Sometimes, because they really, really want what's for sale and are willing to pay any price. Other times, it is done as a form of {{Troll}}ing, to ''ruin the auction,'' or being a ManipulativeBastard to drive down bids when the fake is found and everything is reset.
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* WhammyBid: People make these in auctions. Sometimes, because they really, really want what's for sale and are willing to pay any price. Other times, it is done as a form of {{Troll}}ing, to ''ruin the auction,'' or being a ManipulativeBastard to drive down bids when the fake is found and everything is reset.
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* WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong: How about that the ambitious person asking this question seriously is overconfident that their plans will succeed and didn't bother to take precautions for anything that could go wrong?
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* WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong: How about that the ambitious person asking this question seriously is overconfident that their plans will succeed and didn't bother to take precautions for anything that could go wrong?
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* WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong: How about that the ambitious person asking this question seriously is overconfident that their plans will succeed and didn't bother to take precautions for anything that could go wrong?
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* WhiteAndGreyMorality: According to a few psychological studies, most neurotypical children start out as this. The only reason we put up with jerkasses or break the rules is that we have significantly more to gain.
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* WhiteAndGreyMorality: According to a few psychological studies, most neurotypical children start out as this. The only reason we put up with jerkasses {{jerkass}}es or break the rules is that we have significantly more to gain.
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* WithFriendsLikeThese: Some people have false friends. Or at least there are friendships that are so dysfunctional that it's hard to consider them friends.
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* WithFriendsLikeThese: Some people have false friends.{{false friend}}s. Or at least there are friendships that are so dysfunctional that it's hard to consider them friends.
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* VegetarianForADay: Catholics, Anglicans, and Methodists are expected to abstain from meat on Fridays during Lent as a commemoration of Jesus' crucifixion on that day. Prior to the 1960s, it was every Friday. "Meatless Monday" is a variation in which a usually omnivorous person goes without meat every Monday (though it doesn't have to be specifically on a Monday) to cut down on their meat consumption. Even among those who genuinely attempt to switch to vegetarian/vegan diets, [[https://www.thecut.com/2014/12/84-percent-of-vegetarians-go-back-to-eating-meat.html the vast majority]] will eventually resume eating animal products, even if it's only semi-regularly.
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* VeryFalseAdvertising: Fast food advertising does this all the time, at any possible chance for it to do so. Vacation rental/time share ads are also infamous for it, as are some apartment rentals and similar. The "tourist trap" is infamous for it. "Before and after" ads for diet products or plastic surgery. Pharmaceutical and medical product ads that depict people healthier and more active than most would be by the time they use the product, anyway.
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* VeryFalseAdvertising: Fast food advertising does this all the time, at any possible chance for it to do so. Vacation rental/time share ads are also infamous for it, as are some apartment rentals and similar. The "tourist trap" is infamous for it. [[BeforeAndAfterPictures "Before and after" after"]] ads for diet products or plastic surgery. Pharmaceutical and medical product ads that depict people healthier and more active than most would be by the time they use the product, anyway.
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* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Plenty of people, including scientists and theologians, see the prospect of eternal life as less than pleasing.
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