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1	''Operation: Good Guys'' refers to an early 1990s BritCom which focuses on a crack team of people from the police sent to bring down [=McCarthy=] the Teflon Don. Unfortunately, they prove to be anything but competent: D. S. Raymond Ash has no life outside of being D.I. Beach's second-in-command, Garry Barwick, their Deep Undercover Agent, "Strings" and "Bones", their Drugs Squad member, new recruit Mark Kemp, Vice Squad member Kim Finch (alias Boo-Boo).
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13	* ArcVillain: "Smiler" [=McCarthy=] serves as the villain for Series 1.
14	* AsHimself: A lot of people play as themselves in the series, finding themselves at the mercy of the police officers. This includes David Seaman (beat up under the belief that he was part of a intricate plan involving "Smiler" [=McCarthy=]).
15	* MinorityPoliceOfficer: Garry Barwick, the group's Deep Undercover Agent, is Black.
16	* {{Mockumentary}}: An early pre-''Series/TheOfficeUK'' example focusing on the day-to-day lives of a group of incompetent police officers.
17	* {{Nepotism}}: Mark Kemp is implied to have only become part of the group because he's the Commissioner's nephew, not helped by the fact that he's very incompetent.
18	* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: "Strings" and "Bones".
19	* OperationTitle: "Operation Good Guys" refers to the police's attempts to bring down [=McCarthy=] the Teflon Don by bringing together people from all the parts of the force.
20	* PoliceAreUseless: The whole point of the series is to show how incompetent the police can be at times, starting when they run over a woman by mistake.
21	* PunkInTheTruck: In the second episode, an idea put forward has one of the members of the team hide in a car trunk so that they could have extra eyes on a drug trade. Unfortunately, breathing holes are neglected, leading to the member beginning to complain about not being able to breathe over the radio and ruining said drug trade when the dealers realize that they're dealing with members of the police force..
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35	''Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkened Skies'' is an ongoing rom hack. It starts off just like the original game, although the player is locked into a Vulpix and Murkrow. As the game goes on, however, it goes off the rails...
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37	You can find the rom hack here.
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42	* AdaptationalBadass: Unlike in the original, [[spoiler: Drowzee has a partner in a Bronzor, and they are actually successful in running off with Azurill]].
43	* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: Murkrow begins exhibiting the Dimensional Scream a chapter earlier than in canon, first getting it when touching Spoink's pearl, although it isn't a complete version.
44	* AllJustADream: Chapter 4 starts with the hero and their partner waking up in a mysterious place. It isn't until the end of the chapter however that it's revealed that it's just a hallucination of Murkrow's after having been knocked out at Mt. Bristle.
45	* ButThouMust: You don't have much choice in your partner or hero - no matter what you pick in the PlayerPersonalityQuiz, the player will give you a Murkrow as your choice, and the only option you can pick during the partner selection screen is Vulpix.
46	* ForcedTransformation: Whilst like in the original games, Murkrow is a human turned Pokemon, they are even more particularly outspoken about how much they hate the fact that they transformed into a Murkrow in particular.
47	* {{Foreshadowing}}: Vulpix and Murkrow initially head off to Mt. Bristle not because of Drowzee, but to apprehend a Bronzor criminal. It's forgotten once they learn from Marill that Drowzee and Azurill have vanished, but it becomes important when, after Drowzee is knocked out, Bronzor shows up to knock them both out.
48	* ItWasAGift: Unlike in the originals, Vulpix's Relic Fragment was gifted to her by a friend.
49	* MagpiesAsPotent: Fittingly for a Pokemon based on a crow, Murkrow is viewed with some suspicion by the others for the possibility that they might bring misfortune. Chapter 4 is even called "Two for Sorrow" and has Murkrow come across the infamous poem [[spoiler: whilst hallucinating]].
50	* PlayerPersonalityQuiz: Like in the originals, you are given a quiz at the beginning. Unlike in the original, however, no matter what you pick, you are forced into a Murkrow as the hero and a Vulpix as the partner.
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58	''Perfect World'' is a Creator/BBC sitcom starring Paul Kaye which aired from 2000 to 2001. It features a man named Bob Slay (Kaye), a man who is the personification of UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist. He is obnoxious, lazy, and ammoral, but this somehow does not stop him from having a fancy office, being well-regarded by his Manager, or having an attractive girlfriend.
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60	Part of the supporting cast includes Vaughan, Bob's hard-working friend who is really behind all the achievements which Bob claims that he has achieved, Maggie, who can be just as shallow as Bob, but lacks his nastiness, and his sex-crazed PointyHairedBoss.
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62	At the end of Series 1, Bob breaks up with his girlfriend, the model Lauren, leaving him free to pursue other conquests (albeit unsuccessfully).
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67	* AffectionateNickname: Lauren usually calls Bob "Bobby" to show that she's his girlfriend.
68	* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Vaughan's parents are this to him, thanks to the fact that they're nudists.
69	* AsideComment: Bob will occasionally turn towards the audience and make a remark to them regarding his situation.
70	* FakeTwinGambit: "Tarquin" is about Bob making up a fake twin named Tarquin when he criticizes his job in front of a woman intending to review his work, which becomes problematic when he is asked to bring his "brother" to a business meeting
71	* GotTheWholeWorldInMyHand: The opening credits of the show depict Bob playing around with a model of the Earth and spinning it on one of his pinkies, emphasizing how the world is his oyster.
72	* KarmaHoudini: Despite his annoying behavior, the worst thing which happens to Bob is that his girlfriend breaks up with him in "Love".
73	* LousyLoversAreLosers: In "Tarquin", Bob has sex with a woman whilst passing himself off as his fake twin brother. When he asks how good the brother was in bed on a scale of 1 to 10, he is told that he rates either a 2 or a 3. Fitting, seeing as he's immoral and lazy.
74	* LovableSexManiac: Bob's boss is obsessed with sex, even pissing off Bob's possible mother-in-law just because he is too flirtatious with her, but this is used to play up his eccentricity and is PlayedForLaughs.
75	* MeetTheInLaws: The plot of "Parents" is about Bob being introduced to the parents of his girlfriend Lauren. At first, Bob proves to be embarrassing, which actually pleases Lauren as she's tired of her boyfriends sucking up to them. However, Bob discovers from Maggie that they are very rich, convincing him to try to get back in their graces.
76	* ParentalAbandonment: Bob was abandoned by his parents when he was a baby at Sainsbury's, providing a FreudianExcuse for why he is a git.
77	* PointyHairedBoss: Bob's boss is a sex-crazed eccentric who fails to realize just how much of a git that Bob is.
78	* RidiculousProcastinator: Bob is so lazy he'll leave his work until the very day he needs to hand it in, and even then, he'll struggle to work on it, as seen in "Deadline". By the time he manages to start working on it, he is called up early, although the meeting is postponed.
79	* StealingTheCredit: "Charity" shows that Bob is perfectly willing to take credit for work done dominantly by another person, such as Vaughan.
80	* UncomfortableElevatorMoment: Bob has one in "Deadline" when he gets into an elevator packed to the brim with other business people, where he loudly announces that someone has farted before annoying the rest of them.
81	* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Bob is immoral, lazy, and obnoxious. He is also our main protagonist.
82	* WoundedGazelleGambit: In "Tarquin", Bob is forced to bring his twin brother to him on a dinner. Problem is that the twin was made up, so he attempts to cover for the missing twin by faking a severe car accident, which turns into several leg injuries when Vaughn goes overboard. He is annoyed with this, but is able to use this as an excuse to cover up the fact that he was cheating on his girlfriend, as well as convincing Lauren to drop the vegetarian diet she was forcing him on.
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105	* AlliterativeName: ''B''elinda '''B'''raithwaite
106	* HouseHusband: A rare early example with David, who largely confines himself to doing menial tasks at home whilst his wife is the breadwinner through her job at a bank.
107	* JustTheIntroductionToTheOpposites: In this case, it's the man who does the housework rather than the woman, who has a job as a bank manager. Whilst more normal in the modern day, at the time of this sitcom's airing, this was a fairly atypical inversion.
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133	!!Tropes in A Little Night Music:
134	* DrivenToSuicide: The fic starts when Angela, feeling like she is ignored by everyone, decides to kill herself, leading to her being reincarnated as an Eevee.
135	* AbusiveParents: Angela's parents spend their disability money getting drunk, ignore her, emotionally blackmail her into not becoming a trainer, and tell her to her face that she's a mistake, which is one of the reasons why she chooses to kill herself. Angela even recounts an incident where they dumped her into the water and left her to swim back to the shore of Petalberg, even though Angela couldn't swim.
136	* AngstySurvivingTwin: In Chapter 15, Michael reveals that he had a twin brother called Antony, but he died a mere few minutes after his birth. He admits that he still feels sad when he talks about him and wonders what might have been.
137	* BaldOfEvil: Donny is a teenager who have shaved his head bald. He's also an insane asshole who treats Angela poorly and forces another woman to look like Angela. His final moments even have him try to kill Michael allegedly for taking Angela away from him.
138	* TheCynic: Angela doesn't have a bright outlook on life thanks to her upbringing. Rush even points out that her attitude is quite different from most Eevee, which is how he figures out that she used to be human.
139	* DarkAndTroubledPast: Rush the Mudkip was bullied by a Marshtomp in his clan, kidnapped by abusive humans, and kicked out by his own clan after he managed to return to them for leading the humans, who murdered most of the clan, to them.
140	* DarkerAndEdgier: Compared to the ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' franchise, featuring subjects as dark as suicide, parental abuse, and death.
141	* DisneyVillainDeath: After trying to kill Michael, Donny's death comes about as a result of falling off of a balcony, although it that didin't do him in, the fact that Michael had slashed him across the throat would have.
142	* ForcedTransformation: Angela is forcefully reincarnated as an Eevee after killing herself. For a long time after, she rather hates her new body, finding it weak and useless. The fact that she can't communicate with humans (although she still smells like one) and has poorer ngiht vision doesn't help.
143	* HellholePrison: Isole Prison is described as a nasty place -situated in the middle of nowhere, with only three people ever managing to escape from it (and it ended with their bloated bodies in the middle of the sea), the prisoners are shut up in cement cells and tied up with shackles. It's such a hellhole that even the guards suffer for it, with high suicide rates amongst them.
144	* INeverSaidItWasPoison: Angela meets Enfer the Growlithe, who quickly realises that she used to be a human. She sobs to Angela about her suicide, a fact that Angela notes she never told her about.
145	* NotAllowedToGrowUp: PlayedWith, as Rush is rather old for a Mudkip, but he has no desire to evolve into a Marshtomp after a traumatic incident with his previous pack.
146	* ReincarnatedAsANonHumanoid: It's actually fairly common in this fic for humans to reincarnate as Pokemon upon dying.
147	** After her death by suicide, the human Angela is reincarnated as the non-human Eevee. This naturally leads to LanguageBarrier issues.
148	** Enfer the Growlithe used to be a woman named Anna Kendle, who was killed by her husband for spending over his determined limit on a Growlithe figure.
149	* ScarsAreForever: Rush has a distinct scar on his tail which makes it look forked. Chapter 20 explains why - he was captured by abusive humans, with a scar being applied to his tail with a nail because they considered him weak. It wasn't the only burn-related injury he got during that period, but it was the only one which didn't heal.
150	* SluggishSloths: Louis3 is a Slakoth who prefers sitting and drooling and is rather brain-dead. Well, until she is given pot, at which point she subverts the trope by being rather hyperactive.
151	* StumblingInTheNewForm: Angela has difficulty walking around in the quadruped form of an Eevee, not helped by the fact that she became a baby version of it. It ends up taking her five days for her to get used to it.
152	* TakeOurWordForIt: Tagger did something involving ColdBloodedTorture on Angela's mother, but Angela refused to divulge the details, fearful that it would give the readers nightmares. On a similar note, she also refuses to say in any detail the state of her mother's body at the end, only that it was in worse shape than her father's.
153	* TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour: According to Enfer, Louis began smoking at the age of 10 and was drinking and taking drugs by his teen years.
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160	''Special Episode 0: In a Dark Past'' is a ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeonExplorers'' ROM Hack released in 2022. Set in the style of the official special episodes, it details how Grovyle and Dusknoir first met as a Treecko and Duskull respectively. Starting out as a relationship of friendliness, things soon change when Darkrai wants someone easily manipulable to maintain his desired future of darkness.
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164	* AxCrazy: Rampardos is rather crazy and will casually kill anyone, such as the Omastar brothers and Kabutops if need be. It's enough that even Darkrai is impressed with how evil he is.
165	* {{Backstory}}: This fic covers the story of how Dusknoir and Grovyle first met, how Dusknoir came to work for Primal Dialga, and how he and Grovyle turned on each other.
166	* BeeAfraid: Cherrim encounters a group of seemingly friendly Combee. In truth, they are only putting on a facade so that their Queen can attack and kill her, a danger that Espeon recognizes and saves Cherrim from.
167	* DarkerAndEdgier: Even compared to the Dark Future scenes in the original, this one ups the ante, adding Pokemon deaths and cannibalism to the mix.
168	* DeathIsGray: A Pokemon's sprite going monochrome is used to indicate that they've died in this hack, such as with Espeon's partners, Kabutops, and the Omastar brothers.
169	* DelicateAndSickly: Thanks to being attacked by Rhyperior, Minun is first introduced in a coma, with Espeon unsure whether he will survive or not and Plusle worried sick for him. Thankfully, he eventually wakes up.
170	* TheDragon: As this is before Dusknoir became Dialga's henchmen, here's it's shown to be a Rampardos. However, said Rampardos' insanity and desire for power means that Darkrai, the real mind behind Dialga, is looking for a replacement.
171	* HopelessBossFight: The fight against Vespiquen and her Combees is not intended to be defeated due to how strong Vespiquen is - if you do beat them, there will be an Author's note expressing surprise that the player defeated them and that they do intend to put in an alternative reward scene for the final release of the game.
172	* PeoplePuppets: It's revealed that the Primal Dialga of the future is being controlled by Darkrai, although not without difficulty. This lasts until Rampardos attacks Dialga, at which point, Darkrai leaves Dialga's essence at Temporal Tower and hides the body elsewhere.
173	* ProtagonistJourneyToVillain: This ROM hack covers how Dusknoir went from a helpful Duskull who is eventually convinced to change the future for the better to the Dusknoir who actively tries to maintain the present future. Whilst the HeelFaceTurn is yet to happen, there are already several hints of what is to come, such as Espeon's vision of his future villainous self.
174	* TheStarscream: Rampardos constantly schemes to get power from his boss Primal Dialga, to the point of actively using Head Smash on the Legendary to get it for himself. It's part of the reason why Darkrai, who is really in control of Primal Dialga at this point, wants a new middleman.
175	* TragicMonster: In the future, Rhyperior of Team Raiders has undergone such a SanitySlippage so severe that he has been reduced to mindlessly attacking anyone who stands in his way and can only speak in PokemonSpeak. After being defeated, he briefly recalls his former partners before fainting, with Duskull feeling sorry for him.
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191	''Faith In The Future'' is a sitcom by [[Creator/{{ITV}} LWT]] which aired from 1995 to 1998. A SequelSeries to the earlier ''Second Thoughts'', it focuses on Faith (Lynda Bellingham), now having split from Bill for good, enjoying life as a single woman. However, her plans are ruined when Hannah (Julia Sawalha) returns home intending to live with her mother again. This, plus issues such as menopause and lover issues, ensures that Faith is going to have a chaotic time in front of her.
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193	Also part of the cast is Paul (Jeff Rawle), Faith's off-and-on boyfriend, and Jools (Charlie Creed-Miles in Series 1, Creator/SimonPegg in Series 2), a DoggedNiceGuy who only has eyes for Hannah. Series 3 introduces a new character in Zoe (Susannah Wise), Faith's long-lost daughter whom she gave up for adoption.
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198	* DemotedToExtra: Joe from ''Second Thoughts'' goes from a regular character to a OneShotCharacter here.
199	* SequelNonEntity: Neither Bill nor Liza from ''Second Thoughts'' make any appearances in this series despite their previous relevance.
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204	''The Upper Hand'' is a ForeignRemake of ''Series/WhosTheBoss' which aired on Creator/ITV from 1990 to 1996. As in the original series, it focuses on a widower, this time called Charlie Burrows (Joe [=McGann=]), who moves from a deprived area in London to Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire to provide a better life for his daughter Joanna (Kellie Bright). He takes a job as housekeeper for Caroline Wheatley (Diana Weston) and quickly becomes a father figure for her son Tom (William Puttock). Also part of the cast is the man-eater Laura West (Honor Blackman).
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206	Much like the original, much time was focused on the WillTheyOrWontThey relationship between Charlie and Caroline, although unlike the original, this got a more concrete resolution, with both getting married and being depicted in the final series as husband and wife.
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209	* AdaptationalJobChange: In ''Who's the Boss'', Anthony was a baseballer, being a former second baseman with the St. Louis Cardinals. Here, his counterpart Charlie was a footballer for a First Division club.
210	* AdaptationalRelationshipOverhaul: In the original, Anthony and Angela's relationship eventually ended with them admitting love but nevertheless ended on an ambiguous note with neither marrying each other. Here, their counterparts Charlie and Caroline actually do end up marrying, and we get a showcase of them as husband and wife in the final series.
211	* AnimalLover: Tom is a massive fan of reptiles and is first seen keeping a pet snake called Sydney.
212	* CampingEpisode: "Dinner for Two" is this for Tom, Joanna, and Laura, focusing on a camping trip to Virginia Water.
213	* ChristmasEpisode: "Requiem" is set on Christmas and takes a sadder approach to the usual idea, featuring Charlie's struggle to move on from the death of his father.
214	* TheCityVsTheCountry: Charlie moves from the city of London to the more countryside area of Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire to provide a better life for his daughter. The juxtaposition is immediately obvious - whilst London is depicted as a warzone filled with drunks and skinheads, Henley-on-Thames is shown to be much more peaceful.
215	* DisappearedDad: Tom's father is absent from his life, spending his time far away on expeditions. Whilst said father does eventually return, he struggles to cope with settling down, and he ends up divorcing from Caroline and largely vanishing from Tom's life.
216	* JustTheIntroductionToTheOpposites: It's Charlie who is the housekeeper of the household and Caroline who can't cook and is the breadwinner. Naturally, there is some comedy made out of the inverted gender reversal roles, with Caroline needing to be warmed up to the idea of a man doing stereotypical women's work.
217	* MarryTheNanny: Charlie is intially hired as the housekeeper for Caroline. They soon fall into a WillTheyOrWontThey relationship and by the end of Series 6, they end up marrying.
218	* MissingMum: Joanna's mother died around a young age, leaving her without a suitable female role model.
219	* MythologyGag: One Series 5 episode is named for the show that this one is a ForeignRemake of, ''Series/WhosTheBoss''.
220	* ParentalSubstitute: As in the original, Charlie ends up becoming a substitute father to Tom and Caroline a substitute mother to Joanna. After their marriage at the end of Series 6, they become stepfather and stepmother respectively.
221	* ReallyGetsAround: Laura, a man-eating SilverVixen who dates a string of men throughout the series. The series in fact starts partially because Laura finds Charlie sexy, driving her to convince Caroline to keep him on as housekeeper.
222	* RemakeCameo: Katherine Helmond, who played Mona in ''Series/WhosTheBoss'', appears in the episode "Tunnel of Love" as Madame Alexandra.
223	* TheRunaway: In "Caroline's First Fight", where Joanna runs back to her old home in London with an enamored Tom in tow.
224	* ShowerOfAwkward: The major drama of "Briefless Encounter", where Charlie ends up stumbling across Caroline naked whilst she's using the bath.
225	* SleepingWithTheBoss: Caroline appears to be in a romantic relationship with her boss Simon in the first episode, with both sharing passionate kisses. It's soon revealed that Caroline thinks her chance of becoming a creative director hinges on spending a weekend away with Simon, with Charlie managing to convince her that she can get the job on her own merit.
226	* StayInTheKitchen: Inverted in the case of Charlie, who is told by Caroline that she was expecting a female to take up the housekeeping duties and that she wouldn't be willing to accept a man. Thankfully, Caroline soon warms up to the idea.
227	* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: Joanna starts out as a rather tomboyish girl, but gradually shows a more girlish nature, nurtured by her ParentalSubstitute (and eventual stepmother) Caroline.
228	* VariationsOnAThemeSong: "Wheels" sees the normal InstrumentalThemeTune replaced with "You to Me Are Everything" by The Real Thing.
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237	* CelestialBureaucracy: Nigel introduces himself as being the representative for death in the UK South East Mortality Division (specifically its Regional Sub Manager). There's also the reference of a Head Office, which Nigel hasn't bothered to memo yet regarding his idea of resurrecting Ed.
238	* DontFearTheReaper: Nigel is a genuinely nice guy in spite of being a Grim Reaper, having an interest in ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' and reviving Ed from the dead.
239	* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Ed becomes a form of RevenantZombie thanks to Nigel freezing him at the moment of his death. He can't go near flames (or more than 6 feet underground), scavengers are a risk, and most of his bodily functions, including being able to taste things, are gone, but he doesn't have to age either.
240	* PunnyName: Ed Stone, a play on "headstone". Also counts as a MeaningfulName, considering his death and resurrection.
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256	In 2012, a sequel to the movie was released, called ''A Turtle's Tale 2: Sammy's Escape from Paradise''. This was followed up by a TV series, ''Sammy & Co'', which ran for two series from 2015 to 2017.
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260	* ActionGirl: Vera, who is able to stand down, punch away, and chase off a shark without any bother whatsoever.
261	* BabiesEverAfter: A variation in that the movie ends with Sammy, Shelley, and Ray becoming grandparents.
262	* BioluminescenceIsCool : One scene features Sammy and Ray going up to a glowing jellyfish in the dark. Whilst Ray sees it as food, trying to eat it, Sammy is fascinated by the jellyfish.
263	* BlownUpwardByABlowhole: One scene features Sammy and Ray on top of a whale. When Sammy unknowingly pushs Ray down on top of the blowhole, they are quickly ejected into the air by a blast of water.
264	* BreakingTheFourthWall: Sammy directly speaks to the audience when telling his story.
265	* CaptainOblivious: Sammy and Ray don't find out for a while just how dangerous the ocean really can be, with one scene showing a marine animal about to eat them before being chased away by a shark, with neither turtles even realising what happened. The fact that they spent their early years on a raft help matters.
266	* DistressedDude: Both Sammy and Ray end up captured in fishing nets. Sammy tries to escape only to get caught between the boat and a box,
267	* FeatheredFiend: A seagull plucks Sammy out of his birthing nest with the intent to eat him, only letting go when Sammy spits on its face. Shelley faces a similar fate, only being freed after Sammy's spit causes the seagull holding him to collide with the one holding her.
268	* FriendlyPlayfulDolphin: After being thrown off a human fishing boat, Sammy is woken up by a dolphin, who helpfully gets him back up to the surface.
269	* GreenAesop: Most of the challenges that the turtles face are man-made in nature, including oil spills, netting, and contamination of the ocean with rubbish.
270	* NewAgeRetroHippie: Sammy ends up being captured by several hippies and kept as a pet by them with the intention of breeding them, to the point that they release Vera because she and Sammy don't end up sharing the same aura which would apparently allow them to mate. The hippieness is largely conveyed through clothing, use of the peace symbol, and a strong connection with nature. Sammy is eventually returned to the ocean when the hippies are arrested by the police.
271	* NightmareSequence: Sammy has a nightmare on the first night of his life, featuring Shelley being attacked by a seagull just as she was encouraging him to move.
272	* PanFromTheSkyBeginning: The movie begins with a shot of the sky before panning down to the beach where an Adult Sammy provides the story.
273	* PuppyLove: Sammy gains feelings for Shelley ''minutes'' after he hatches from his egg. They're strong enough that even decades into his life, long after he saw Shelley vanish from his life in his infancy, he still holds feelings for her.
274	* ThreateningShark: Sammy rediscovers Shelley when she is being chased by a shark. Thankfully, Vera is able to chase off the shark.
275	* WalkingTheEarth: Sammy for the most part simply travels the World's oceans, firstly on a raft before swimming on his own.
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308	A SoundToScreenAdaptation of the [[Creator/TheBBC BBC Radio 4]] radio series of the same name (which ran between 1988 and 1992), the series would receive a SequelSeries in 1995 called ''Faith in the Future'', running for three series until 1998 and focusing on Faith's life after leaving Bill for good.
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313	* AmiableExes: Bill still gets on well with Liza despite them being divorced, to the point that they're eventually implied to have partaken in SexWithTheEx. Surprising, considering Liza's manipulative, {{Jerkass}} personality.
314	* AttentionWhore: Liza is obsessed with making herself the centre of attention.
315	* {{Cliffhanger}}: The series ends with Liza giving birth to a baby who look remarkably like Bill, heavily suggesting that Bill is going back on his relationship to Faith.
316	* FootsiesUnderTheTable: In "Night Moves", Faith gives Bill a footsie under the table. Bill doesn't take it well, intitally believing a rat to have gotten up his leg.
317	* TheFriendsWhoNeverHang: Liza and Faith are main members of the cast, yet it takes until the GrandFinale for a meeting to occur with each other.
318	* JustFriends: Bill claims this to be the case regarding his and Faith's relationship to Grace in the first episode, annoying Faith as she thought their relationship was more romantic than that.
319	* ManipulativeBitch: Liza, who is constantly trying to manipulate Bill's emotions to convince him to leave Faith.
320	* MistakenForRelative: Not believing that Bill could have produced teenager children at such a fast rate, Grace briefly believes Hannah to be Bill's sister in "Found and Lost", causing Bill to have to correct her, as he's an only child, and confirm that they're actually Faith's children.
321	* ObsessiveSportsFan: Joe is so obsessed with football that it extends to the women he eventually falls in love with.
322	* OppositesAttract: The major drawing factor of the series - whilst Bill has no children and pets, Faith has two children and a dog. Additionally, Faith works as a freelance illustrator, whilst Joe is an art editor.
323	* ParentWithNewParamour: The major issue regarding Faith in her relationship to Bill is the fact that she has two children in Joe and Hannah. For the most part, they're used to it, although Hannah is wary of Faith going back into a relationship and wants her to live the single life.
324	* RevealShot: In "She Who Hesitates", Faith gets a phone call from Bill. The camera is close to Bill's face as he explains to her that he's in Paris at the moment, and to get on the next plane. When Faith does agree to him, Bill begins to panic and the camera shifts angle to reveal that he's still in his office in the UK.
325	* RichBitch: Liza is a rich, glamorous woman with expensive tastes. She also constantly puts down and manipulates the others around her and is a big AttentionWhore.
326	* RightThroughTheWall: Discussed as an issue in "She Who Hesitates" when Faith points out to Joe that the walls in his house are thing enough that sounds can be heard through it.
327	* SexWithTheEx: The final episode heavily implies that Bill and his ex-wife Liza had sex together, as Liza gives birth to a child who looks a lot like Bill.
328	* SiblingRivalry: Joe and Hannah, a pair of siblings who constantly snipe at each other.
329	* StaircaseTumble: In "Night Moves", Bill, in an attempt to leave the house in the middle of the night, ends up tripping on a dog bone and falling down the stairs. On the bright side, he is unharmed.
330	* WillTheyOrWontThey: The relationship between Bill and Faith is hindered by a variety of factors, including Bill's ex-wife and Faith's children and dog. Ultimately falls on "They Won't", with Bill being heavily implied to have left Faith by the time of the SequelSeries to get back together with his wife.
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341	"No Place Like Home" is a BBC1 sitcom which aired from 1983 to 1987.
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343	Now that Nigel, the youngest of their four children, has gone off to university, Arthur and Beryl Crabtree are looking forward to a quiet life. This does not last long however as all of the children drift back into their house.
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345	!!Examples:
346	* AnimalLover: Vera both loves and cares for sick animals, to the point of keeping what Arthur describes as a "menagerie" at her home.
347	* AwfulWeddedLife: It's not hard to imagine why Lorraine wants to go back home, considering the fact that her husband Raymond is the sort of man who accidentally cuts her finger at the wedding reception, locks himself in the bathroom, and says something implied to be unpleasant to her.
348	* BasementDweller: The show focuses on the adult children of Arthur and Beryl moving back into their parents, although their reasons vary: Nigel returns because he doesn't believe himself ready to do veterinary science yet (that, and he had gotten engaged to Fiona and had previously wanted a year to think over things), Lorraine comes back after a row with her husband, Tracey comes back after breaking up with her boyfriend, and Paul reappears after he is fired from his job as a car room salesman
349	* DatingWhatDaddyHates:
350	** Arthur never approved of Tracey's boyfriend due to the fact that he had a job at the library. Despite his claims that his disapproval comes from an old-school sensibility, Vera claims that he's just peeved that it's because the library didn't open until after he had bought the book. Of course, the fact that Tracey decided to move in with the boyfriend before getting married was not a positive in Arthur's eyes.
351	** Nigel explains to Arthur that he can't hold celebrations for his girlfriend's birthday at her house because her father has an allergy... to him.
352	* {{Housewife}}: Beryl has been a simple housewife since marrying Arthur, not having the qualifications to progress far in a career. "Just the Job" features her children trying to get her a job, but all the positions they find end up falling through for one reason or another.
353	* NosyNeighbour: Vera is Arthur and Beryl's next-door neighbour. She's also constantly showing up at the couple's house for a variety of reasons.
354	* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: In the wake of all his children deciding to move back in, Arthur decides to try to walk out the door and leave home. He doesn't get very far.
355	* SecondEpisodeIntroduction: Lorraine and Raymond are mentioned in the first episode, but don't make any on-screen appearances until the second episode.
356	* StayInTheKitchen: Arthur does not want Beryl to take a job. Whilst his reasoning includes the stresses of a shop job, her lack of office qualifications, and his worry about what a rejection would do to her, everyone accuses him of wanting her only for himself and calls him chauvinist. At the very least, he does have a change of heart and tries helping out by looking into a potential job as a receptionist for her.
357	* UnusualPetsForUnusualPeople: In fitting with her {{Cloudcuckoolander}} personality, Vera has some very odd animals she keeps, such as piranhas and parrots.
358	* VacationEpisode: In "Home and Away", Arthur, stressed by his children, goes on a holiday with Trevor. They don't make it very far due to Arthur's car breaking down and they end up in the hospital when, whilst hitching a ride on the back of a truck, Trevor notices that someone has nicked his car's wheels and bangs at the driver to stop... in the middle of a ton of
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367	[[folder: Just this once]]
368	* AlternateTimelines: As a side effect of the manner he was saved, Ianto becomes capable of seeing timelines, something which remains even after time is stabilised.
369	* AndNowIMustGo: At the end of the fic, Grey decides to head off into the universe, wanting to save as many victims from the 456 as possible.
370	* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove:
371	** When Tosh thinks that she is dying of her stomach wound, she tells Owen that she loves him and kisses him. Thankfully, Owen manages to save her.
372	** Jack finally manages to tell Ianto that he loves him as Ianto is recovering in hospital from the 456.
373	* AscendedExtra: Grey goes from being essentially a one-shot villain with cameo appearances in three other episodes to a full member of the team.
374	* CompleteImmortality: As per canon, Jack is immortal, and the Doctor remains insistent that there is nothing that can fix his immortality. However, unlike in canon, Ianto manages to have this timeline looped up with Jack's, giving him a very similar form of immortality (albeit with him suffering from breathing issues at the start of every six months). Unlike Jack's, it is possible for Ianto's immortality to be reversed by finding another Rift and using it to unloop the timelines, although such phenomena are extremely rare (for reference, the DistantFinale shows that they manage to find only 8 rifts in 5000 years) and Ianto deliberately chooses to not take the opportunities.
375	* DistantEpilogue: The final chapter takes place 5000 years after the events of the fic.
376	* EternalLove: The DistantFinale shows that, even 5000 years into their marriage, Ianto and Jack remain in love with each other.
377	* FlashSideways: As time begins to destabilize, Ianto begins viewing glimpses of other timelines and eventually becomes able to slip into them, most notably the canon universe where he died. He retains this ability after he and Jack manage to stabilize time, although it is somewhat harder for him to do so now.
378	* InSpiteOfANail: In spite of the changes made, the 456 still attack Earth, Ianto dies trying to stop them with Jack, and it is heavily implied that Jack would have still left Torchwood (if not Earth) over his grief, although Tosh manages to reverse Ianto's death and its consequences.
379	* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: How the expanded team dealt with ''Series/TorchwoodMiracleDay'' is largely skipped over, although Ianto was apparently able to put his [=MoreSight=] to good use and Gwen still got to blow up stuff.
380	* PointOfDivergence: The fic diverts from canon when Ianto suggests to Tosh during the events of “Exit Wounds” to try to contact the Doctor.
381	* RelatedInTheAdaptation: The 456 are revealed to be the ancestors of the horrific alien species which took Grey, a relation never mentioned in canon.
382	* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: When Tosh learns of Ianto's death by virus to the 456, she manages to convince John Hart to take them back in time to Ianto's death, retrieve him, and cure him of the virus with a vaccine alongside the rest of the victims of Thames House.
383	* SparedByTheAdaptation: As the name of the fanfic suggests, a lot of characters who die in the series either avoid their death and have it reversed.
384	** The Doctor shows up just as Owen is about to experience his canonical (second) death from a massive nuclear meltdown and saves him with the Tardis.
385	** Owen manages to get to Tosh as she is dying from the gunshot wound that killed her in canon and gets her the needed medical attention to allow her to survive.
386	** PlayedWith in the case of Grey, whose final fate is left unconfirmed in canon, but who most likely died in cryo-storage after the Hub blew up in ''Series/TorchwoodChildrenOfEarth''. Here, the Doctor manages to heal him enough mentally that he doesn’t need to go into cryo-storage and he survives the events of the fanfic.
387	** Ianto's mother is dead by the events of ''Series/TorchwoodChildrenOfEarth'', with the audio "Broken" suggesting that she died of cancer. Here, Ianto is given nanogenes by Jack which allows him to cure her of her cancer, allowing her to continue living.
388	** During the Dalek Invasion of Earth, Tosh redirects the origin point for the Subwave Network to an abandoned hut, ensuring that the Daleks are not able to trace it back to Harriet Jones and exterminate her as in canon. To confirm her survival, she later shows up several years into the future at Ianto and Jack's wedding.
389	** As in canon, Ianto intially still dies of a virus by the 456, but Tosh manages to go back in time with the help of John Hart and the rest of the team and save him, with Owen also using the opportunity to save everyone else in Thames House where they didn't in canon. For bonus points, whilst the others are implied to have eventually died by the events of later fics, Ianto is eventually rendered immortal.
390	** The 456 are defeated without the need to use Stephen as a transmitter, allowing him to survive where he didn’t in canon.
391	** Although the details are not elaborated on, Ianto is able to save Esther from her canon death during the event of ''Series/TorchwoodMiracleDay''.
392	* UndeathIsCheap: The Doctor manages to restore Owen to a full state of being alive using the nano genes from “The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances”.
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395	[[''And the stars are on your side'']]
396	* FlashForwardFic: This fic takes place over a thousand years after the series.
397	* IChooseToStay: Ianto is given the opportunity to have his immortality reversed, but chooses not to, not liking the idea of leaving Jack alone. As "Just this once" shows, this conviction remains for at least four thousand years after.
398	* InterspeciesAdoption: Immortal humans Jack and Ianto have in the past adopted a Pegasinian and a Phaethidae child.
399	* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Jack and Ianto start the fic having very recently lost their adopted daughter Seren at the age of 108. This is not the only child that they had lost, especially since they're both immortal - mention is made of them adopting a Phaethidae son called Kessel who they had to watch die before the age of 30 in human years.
400	* TraumaCongaLine: Ianto and Jack have been experiencing a rather bad few decades at the start of the fic - amongst others thing, Ianto was both kidnapped by the Oort Cloud Syndicate and has had to deal with an arson attack on the east wing of the Torchwood Archive's server bank on Earth, and the duo have not only had to blow up a comet containing Cybermen, but have ended up fighting in the Polaris War, experiencing a few unpleasant deaths in the process. They've only barely been out of that when they get the news that one of their children has died.
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404	* TheFogOfAges: After several thousand years, Jack and Ianto are finding it progressively difficult to remember their past, to the point that Jack struggles to remember a major fight from a year back. Thankfully, they figure out a solution to this issue.
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409	* DistressedDude: Jack is attacked by the Vashta Nerada and has to be saved by Ianto.
410	* LightEmUp: Ianto saves Jack by using Claudia to turn himself into a living lightbulb, thereby chasing away the Vashta Nerada.
411	* SeriousBusiness: Before the Library was closed, it and Ianto were involved in a serious and petty rivalry, apparently over such topics such as old Earth preservation.
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414	''Crystal Monsters'' is a MonsSeries game released by Creator/{{Gameloft}} which was released for DSiWare in 2010. Prior to this, it got a Japanese exclusive release in 2008 for mobile devices.
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419	* ArbitaryHeadcountLimit: The Player character has a team limit of three monsters. They can keep more in storage, but even there, it's a limit of twenty monsters.
420	* CaptureBalls: Essence Cores are small structures that capture the titular monsters. There are a variety of different cores oriented to each monster type, with different appearances for each one.
421	* CreatureBreedingMechanic: Mating is a way of creating powerful monsters by breeding two monsters together. Although the mated monsters disappear, what is left behind is a newborn monster of either one of the species who has been mated or an entirely different one with better capabilities than its parents and a skill inherited by one of them by random.
422	* DamselInDistress: Jade is captured by members of the Pure-Faction under the belief that she's attacking the town of Cactus with the Fire-type Final Monster and must be rescued by the player.
423	* DefendCommand: It is possible for a monster to defend themselves and cut damage from an attack by pressing in the displayed direction on the control pad.
424	* DreamIntro: The game starts with the main character getting a StarterMon and coming into contact with a vicious Rock-type monster who immediately destroys their monster. It is only then that they wake up in class, laughing off the idea that them, who isn't Neo Seeds, could have a Monster.
425	* EscapeBattleTechnique: It is possible to run away from battle using the "Run" technique, although it has a chance of failing. A more surefire way is to purchase Smoke Balls and use them in battle, which are so effective that they can be used to skip boss battles.
426	* EvolutionPowerUp: Evolution stones can be used on a monster to make them stronger once they reach a certain level. When they evolve, they receive a better rank, have improved capabilities, can learn a new skill, and undergo a PaletteSwap.
427	* InvisibleToNormals: Only a small amount of the population, known as the Neo-Seeds, can actually see the monsters. The player is surprised when they manage to not only see one, but tame it, as they were a Pure-Breed and the mutation required to see a monster occurs at birth. That said, there are ways around this, with X-Cams used to allow Pure-Breeds to watch Monster tournaments.
428	* {{Miniboss}}: The Final Monsters are enemies tougher than the normal monster which the player character has to fight throughout the game.
429	* PaletteSwap: When a Monster evolves, they simply just change colour.
430	* SaveSpot: Energy Spots are crystal-like structures that both heals the player and allows them to save.
431	* {{Sidequest}}: In this game, sidequests are offered through the Breeders' Office, with their completion leading to a variety of rewards. They take the form of tasks such as capturing a certain amount of monsters, finding a specific amount of items, beating a boss or using the X-Cam to take images of monsters.
432	* StarterMon: At the beginning of the game, you are offered a choice between the Grass-type Flowerpower, Fire-type Kiticon, and Water-type Tadpolaris. They can't be obtained anywhere else, but they can be bred.
433	* TournamentArc: Only on in the game, the player character is signed up for the 15th Junior Monster Tournament in Timber City in place of an injured Winston. They make it to the final round before the tournament is interrupted by the appearance of a Final Monster running rampant.

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