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“Most people have met someone like this.”
— From the (now cut) Real Life section of Extreme Doormat
These tropes are so commonly observed in our reality that listing many or all of the occurrences of any of them would make a trope page incredibly unwieldy, or else force the addition of overly general examples, and marginalize fictional examples that are the focus of this wiki. Tropes that are People Sit on Chairs in real life often belong here if they aren't stereotypes or narrative elements. Contrast Impossible in Real Life, which is the exact opposite.
- Accidental Murder
- Agony of the Feet
- The Alcoholic
- Alcoholic Parent
- Alliterative Name
- Almost Famous Name
- Amicable Exes
- Animals Fear Neutering
- Artistic License – Gun Safety
- Ascended Fanboy
- Ate His Gun
- Awesome Mc Coolname
- Badass Army
- Badass Beard
- Badass Mustache
- Bald of Awesome
- Balloon Belly
- Beware the Nice Ones
- Big Eater
- Bold Explorer
- Break the Cutie
- Broken Pedestal
- But for Me, It Was Tuesday
- But Not Too Black
- But Not Too Foreign
- Captain Obvious
- Celebrating the Heroes
- Cheated Death, Died Anyway
- Coattail-Riding Relative
- Common Knowledge
- Complaining About Things You Haven't Paid For
- Cool Car
- "Could Have Avoided This!" Plot
- Crack Is Cheaper
- Deadpan Snarker
- Didn't Think This Through
- Disney Villain Death
- Disrupting The Theater
- Driven to Suicide
- Due to the Dead
- Dump Months
- Embarrassing Damp Sheets
- Emergency Presidential Address
- Encyclopaedic Knowledge
- Everyone Has Standards
- Extreme Doormat
- Failures on Ice
- Fatal Flaw
- Fate Worse than Death - Unfortunately.
- Finger-Tenting
- First Friend
- Formerly Fat
- Formerly Fit
- Four-Star Badass
- Fur Bikini
- Gayngst-Induced Suicide
- General Failure
- General Ripper
- Genocide Survivor
- Happily Married
- #HashtagForLaughs
- Hell Is That Noise
- Heterosexual Life-Partners
- Hollywood New England
- Hollywood Tactics
- How the Mighty Have Fallen - Also attracted complaining
- Huge Schoolgirl
- Identical Stranger
- Impossibly Delicious Food
- Incompetence, Inc.
- Informed Judaism
- Irishman and a Jew
- I Was Quite a Looker
- Jar Potty
- Jumping the Shark
- Lazy Bum
- Life Will Kill You
- Likes Older Men
- Likes Older Women
- The Loonie
- Love It or Hate It
- Mail-Order Bride
- Marshmallow Hell
- Mass "Oh, Crap!"
- May–December Romance
- Missing Steps Plan
- Mistaken for Romance
- Mixed Ancestry
- Monument of Humiliation and Defeat
- Multi-Ethnic Name
- Munchkin
- Murder-Suicide
- Nice Jewish Boy
- Nightmare Fuel
- "No. Just... No" Reaction
- Occupiers Out of Our Country
- Oh, Crap!
- Older Than They Look
- Open Secret
- Outside Joke
- The Paranoiac
- Passed in Their Sleep
- Permanent Elected Official
- Pimped-Out Car
- Platonic Life-Partners
- Police State
- Popping Buttons
- Potty Emergency
- Potty Failure
- P.O.W. Camp
- Press Hat
- Pretty Boy
- Rage Quit
- The Real Man
- Relative Ridicule
- The Roleplayer
- Royals Who Actually Do Something
- Rule-Abiding Rebel
- Scandalgatenote
- Scary Shiny Glasses
- Screaming Plane Baby
- Serious Business
- Sharp-Dressed Man
- She Is Not My Girlfriend
- Shiksa Goddess
- Shirtless Scene
- Shocking Moments
- Silver Fox
- Spell My Name with an "S"
- Starfish Language
- Statuesque Stunner
- The Stoic
- "Stuck at the Airport" Plot
- Stupid Crooks
- Suffers Newbies Poorly
- Suicide by Sea
- Suicide Dare
- Surprisingly Sudden Death
- Sweater Girl
- Tear Jerker
- That One Player
- Tiny Schoolboy
- Ugly Cute
- Unique Items
- Unplanned Crossdressing
- Unstoppable Rage
- Unusual Euphemism
- War Hero
- We ARE Struggling Together
- You Must Be This Tall to Ride
- You're Just Jealous
- You're Not My Type
