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1	Tropes commonly used among TheAbridgedSeries. While other media use these tropes, abridged series often have specific forms, due to the community nature of the sites these series appear on.
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3	!!Tropes:
4	[[index]]
5	* '''TheAbridgedSeries''' (main topic)
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7	!!!The vital tropes. You ''need'' the first two, ''and'' one of the latter two, to count as a true abridged series.
8	* AffectionateParody
9	* EditingWorks
10	* GagDub
11	* GagSub
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13	!!!Other common tropes:
14	* ActingForTwo: Most series have several characters voiced by the same voice actor because they tend to be made by only a handful of people.
15	* AdaptationDistillation: While exaggerating or parodying the characters and tropes in the original series, the plot can become much more simplified.
16	* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: for those who didn't get CharacterExaggeration.
17	* AscendedExtra: By editing a small part into other scenes.
18	* BreakingTheFourthWall: Practically as important as the Vital Three. Characters are not only aware that they are in a work of fiction, but who produces them, that they're also in an abridged series, who produces the abridged series, and of other abridged series.
19	* ButtMonkey: Most abridged series will have several of these. If they were a ButtMonkey in the original series, then expect things to get much worse for them.
20	* CharacterCatchphrase: Nearly every major character will end up getting one.
21	* CharacterExaggeration: for those who didn't get AlternativeCharacterInterpretation.
22	* ClusterFBomb: In some abridged series, all of the swearing is left uncensored.
23	* ComedicSociopathy
24	* ContractualGenreBlindness: Often characters will acknowledge that what they're doing is stupid, but it's in character for them to do so.
25	* DeadpanSnarker: When the characters are being GenreSavvy or in-character for characters who already were snarkers in the source material.
26	* DefiedTrope
27	* DiscussedTrope
28	* FourthWallMailSlot: The comment specials.
29	* FridgeLogic
30	* HoYay: Particularly with series abridging shows with a CastFullOfPrettyBoys or ImprobablyFemaleCast.
31	* {{Homage}}
32	* HongKongDub: This applied for the early days of Abridged shows, since editing quality wasn't up to date, meaning some lip flaps were off. This still applies for live action abridged series, though.
33	* JustAStupidAccent: Since most series only have one or two voice actors, they sometimes use silly accents for the minor characters.
34	* LampshadeHanging: The whole point of some AbridgedSeries.
35	* LarynxDissonance: Some series have one to two voice actors and even the ones with more [[MostWritersAreMale rarely have any female cast members]]. Nowadays there are plenty of abridged series where female characters are voiced by actual girls.
36	* {{Macekre}}: If the English dub of the original series was poor quality, expect it to be the butt of many jokes.
37	* ManOfAThousandVoices: Almost a requirement, even if a series has many voice actors.
38	* MediumAwareness: To varying degrees.
39	* MemeticBadass
40	* MemeticLoser
41	* MemeticMolester
42	* MemeticMutation: Either repeating memes or making their own.
43	* MemeticPersonalityChange
44	* MemeticPsychopath
45	* MemeticTroll
46	* NonIndicativeName: Many of them aren't any shorter than the original.[[note]]The non-netspeak meaning of "abridge" is "shorten".[[/note]]
47	* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: For when the original series (or, in some cases, the English dub) said something so ridiculous or so strange, that the abridger just can't top it.
48	* OffModel: If the artists or animators messed up, expect it to be mocked. Mercilessly.
49	* OhGodWithTheVerbing
50	* PostModernism
51	* ReferenceOverdosed
52	* RunningGag: Some gags are even shared among series.
53	* {{Sampling}}
54	* ShoutOut
55	* SoundEffectBleep: Some series add quite a lot of swearing, and bleep it out either to meet Youtube's standards of decency, for comedy's sake, or both. Some use creative bleeps and some don't use them at all.
56	* TheStinger: Has reached the point where many abridgers throw out two stingers instead of one.
57	* TakeThat
58	* TheyCopiedItSoItSucks: Usually joking about every time something in a show is unoriginal. Plus many Abridgers eventually throw in a joke attacking ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'' {{fan boy}}s for claiming that all Abridged series steal their jokes from ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries''. Creator/LittleKuriboh jokingly supports this claim.
59	* VulgarHumor: In some series.
60	* WhoWritesThisCrap: Often in the form of verbatim repeating bad dialog from dubs, otherwise mocking the abriger's talent or their [[ScheduleSlip release schedule]].
61	* WrongGenreSavvy: You will frequently find at least one character who thinks they're in a different kind of show.
62	[[/index]]

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