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1	'''Basic Trope''': In a SoapOpera or other LongRunner series, one story arc begins part-way through another story arc.
2	* '''Straight''': In the hit soap ''Endless Drama'', a plotline unfolds about Alice CheatingWithTheMilkman and becoming pregnant by him. Halfway through that, Alice's husband Bob goes into a coma following a skydiving accident. Then Alice has a ConvenientMiscarriage, and breaks things off with the milkman, at which point Bob wakes up from his coma with amnesia...and begins falling for Clarissa [[FlorenceNightingaleEffect the nurse]]...
3	* '''Exaggerated''': ''Endless Drama'' is a KudzuPlot with ''multiple'' dangling plot threads.
4	* '''Downplayed''': TwoLinesNoWaiting.
5	* '''Justified''': It's a complicated story, and there's a lot going on.
6	* '''Inverted''': The plotline about Bob's coma doesn't begin until the plotlines about Alice's affair and illegitimate baby are resolved.
7	* '''Subverted''':
8	** YoYoPlotPoint.
9	** JustEatGilligan
10	** MeanwhileInTheFuture
11	** Everything ''not'' related to Bob's coma is revealed to be AllJustADream
12	* '''Double Subverted''':
13	** FourLinesAllWaiting
14	** SimultaneousArcs
15	** Except it really happened
16	* '''Parodied''': Alice watches a SoapWithinAShow, and is seen ExplainingTheSoap to all her friends.
17	* '''Zig Zagged''': Some plotlines resolve midway through others, some wait until another plotline is resolved.
18	* '''Averted''': The series has [[StatusQuoIsGod little or no continuity]] and runs on ComicBookTime.
19	* '''Enforced''':
20	** "We need to keep this LongRunner exciting, [[CashCowFranchise so we can make money off it for years to come."]]
21	** WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants
22	* '''Lampshaded''': "PreviouslyOn ''Endless Drama''..."
23	* '''Invoked''': Bob's coma begins just on the day that Alice finds out she's pregnant and that [[MamasBabyPapasMaybe the child might not be Bob's after all]].
24	* '''Exploited''': Bob goes into a coma, and Alice is seduced by Milton the milkman, and eventually winds up pregnant with his child. But, since Bob is comatose, [[{{Jerkass}} Alice]] decides to [[OopsIForgotIWasMarried start a new life with Milton]].
25	* '''Defied''': Alice breaks off the affair, has an abortion, and waits faithfully for Bob to wake up. Neither [[TheScrappy Milton]] nor his and Alice's love child are ever mentioned again.
26	* '''Discussed''': ???
27	* '''Conversed''': ???
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33	%%* '''Implied''': ???
34	%%* '''Deconstructed''': ???
35	%%* '''Reconstructed''': ???
36	%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
37	%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???

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