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Trope Finder is the place for finding tropes.
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Trope Launch Pad is the place for proposing new tropes.
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Trope Idea Sounding Board
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Scope of Psychosexual Horror
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Trope about luck-based cats?
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PracticalTaunt feels like it's two (or possibly three) tropes merged into one.
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Vehicular Combat
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Let's Meet the Meat - several tropes in a trenchcoat?
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An idea I have for a new Trope that I want feedback for : "Source of the Uncanny Valley"
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Fun hating sadist
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Doomed Hometown
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Self-Censored Release is actually two separate tropes.
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Are there any Toy examples of "Seinfeld" Is Unfunny?
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GeorgeLucasAlteredVersion vs ContinuityReboot - TabletopGame scope?
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Prequels, Interquels, and Distant Prologues
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Personal Take: Face of an angel, mind of a demon
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Adding a note to Actor Plays Their Own Relative addressing actors playing distant ancestors
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Cats Are Mean is a mess
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Is there a trope for someone appearing on two different late-night talk shows on the same night?
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Briefer Than They Think is full of audience reactions about parts of a story being briefer than fans think.
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Mega Neko Confusion
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What exactly is The Chosen One
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The Worf Effect Via Transitive Property
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How important is height for the Aloof Dark Haired Girl trope?
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Christianity Is Catholic and Eagleland Osmosis
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Branches of Plant People
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Is Video Game Geography two totally unrelated tropes fused together?
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Whale Eggs, Pregnant Reptiles, and liminal beings
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Trope on species-coordinated combat
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So about the whole "Quietly Cancelled" page
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