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- Babylon 5
- Burial in Space
- Character Development
- Eternal Love
- Facial Dialogue
- Left for Dead
- Mistress and Servant Boy
- No-Paper Future
- Perp Sweating
- Royal Inbreeding
- Self-Immolation
- Sitting Duck
- The Social Darwinist
- Something That Begins with "Boring"
- Standard Human Spaceship
- A Tragedy of Impulsiveness
- Translation: "Yes"
- Warts and All
- The Big Bang Theory
- Aloof Ally
- Ambiguous Disorder
- Author Vocabulary Calendar
- Blanket Fort
- Can't Hold His Liquor
- Defcon Five
- Henpecked Husband
- Impossible Pickle Jar
- It's What I Do
- Like an Old Married Couple
- Lysistrata Gambit
- Moonburn
- Morally Ambiguous Doctorate
- Naked People Are Funny
- Nerd Nanny
- Not Even Bothering with an Excuse
- Not the Fall That Kills You
- Platonic Declaration of Love
- Sarcasm-Blind
- She Is Not My Girlfriend
- This Is My Chair
- Wimp Fight
- Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Avengers, Assemble!
- Butt-Monkey
- Can't Get Away with Nuthin'
- Casual Kink
- Character Check
- Conveniently Timed Attack from Behind
- Daytime Drama Queen
- Dramatic Necklace Removal
- Ear Ache
- Evil Only Has to Win Once
- Eyes Are Mental
- Failed Attempt at Drama
- Family of Choice
- Fan Myopia
- Flechette Storm
- Fool for Love
- Go Through Me
- Heal It with Booze
- Holy Burns Evil
- Hormone-Addled Teenager
- Horrifying the Horror
- Immortals Fear Death
- In the End, You Are on Your Own
- Invincible Villain
- Invulnerable Horses
- Lesbian Vampire
- Mix-and-Match Man
- The Music Meister
- Must Be Invited
- My Grandson Myself
- Mysterious Watcher
- Nerds Love Tough Schoolwork
- Never Say Goodbye
- Non-Action Guy
- Not Now, We're Too Busy Crying over You
- Oblivious Mockery
- Out of the Inferno
- Parodies for Dummies
- Pet-Peeve Trope
- Piano Drop
- Post-Modern Magik
- Power Dyes Your Hair
- Put on a Bus
- Red-Headed Stepchild
- Revival Loophole
- Sealed with a Kiss
- Shoot the Dog
- Skip of Innocence
- Smells Sexy
- Space Whale Aesop
- Suicide by Sunlight
- Super Loser
- These Tropes Love to Brag
- This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!
- Violently Protective Girlfriend
- The Virus
- Wants A Prizefor Basic Decency
- Weirdness Censor
- What Were You Thinking?
- Who Wants to Live Forever?
- Wooden Stake
- Burn Notice
- And Some Other Stuff
- Bait-and-Switch Accusation
- Betrayal by Inaction
- Black Site
- Bluff the Eavesdropper
- Booby Trap
- Bully Hunter
- Car Meets House
- The Can Kicked Him
- Clipboard of Authority
- The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes
- The Conspiracy
- Control Freak
- Cry into Chest
- Dead Animal Warning
- Dirty Business
- Double Agent
- Dress-Coded for Your Convenience
- Electric Torture
- Fast-Roping
- Faux Yay
- Gory Discretion Shot
- Hairpin Lockpick
- Hero Stole My Bike
- Hidden Supplies
- Hired Guns
- Home Field Advantage
- Honor Among Thieves
- Hostage Situation
- I Lied
- Instant Emergency Response
- Investigator Impersonation
- Knowledge Broker
- No Backwards Compatibility in the Future
- Out-Gambitted
- Paranoia Gambit
- Put Down Your Gun and Step Away
- Reminiscing About Your Victims
- Safecracking
- Screw the Money, I Have Rules!
- Shoot Your Mate
- So Much for Stealth
- The Stakeout
- Torture Is Ineffective
- Trojan Prisoner
- Try and Follow
- Under the Truck
- We Win... Because You Didn't
- You Just Told Me
- Community
- Action Mom
- Affectionate Gesture to the Head
- Apathetic Teacher
- Awkward Father-Son Bonding Activity
- Bottle Episode
- Camping a Crapper
- Cast Incest
- Da Chief
- Cue the Billiard Shot
- Documentary
- Female Feline, Male Mutt
- Fourth-Wall Observer
- The Friends Who Never Hang
- Happier Home Movie
- Have You Told Anyone Else?
- I Am Spartacus
- Love Doodles
- Malt Shop
- Matrix Raining Code
- Medical Drama
- Meta Guy
- Power Walk
- RPG Episode
- Rule of Empathy
- Scantron Picture
- You Must Be Cold
- Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
- Bromantic Foil
- BSoD Song
- Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male
- The Eleven O'Clock Number
- Hot for Preacher
- "Gaining Confidence" Song
- Karaoke Bonding Scene
- Massive Multiplayer Ensemble Number
- Musical World Hypotheses
- Old Man Conversation Song
- Previously Overlooked Paramour
- Soccer-Hating Americans
- Spirit Advisor
- Stopped Caring
- Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
- Triang Relations
Doctor Who
- Classic series
- Accidental Proposal
- Apocalypse How.Class X-2
- Bigger on the Inside
- Chronoscope
- Come Alone
- Complexity Addiction
- Death by Transceiver
- Defector from Decadence
- Fang Thpeak (actor speaking about the show)
- Five Rounds Rapid
- Genocide Dilemma
- Hair-Trigger Explosive
- Helium Speech
- "Hey, You!" Haymaker
- Humans Are Survivors
- Immortal Immaturity
- Immune to Bullets
- Kirk Summation
- Little Green Man in a Can
- My Future Self and Me
- Not Himself (actor speaking about the show)
- The Nth Doctor
- Phony Psychic
- Plot-Driven Breakdown (blooper)
- Rummage Fail
- So What Do We Do Now?
- Theory Tunnelvision
- Trapped with Monster Plot
- Walk the Plank
- Revived series
- 20 Minutes into the Past
- Abandoned Area
- Absurdly Ineffective Barricade
- Aliens of London
- Alternate Landmark History
- Always Introduces Themselves
- Arc Words
- The Artifact
- Assimilation Plot
- Attack on One Is an Attack on All
- Bite of Affection
- Bodybag Trick
- Can't Move While Being Watched
- Casual Time Travel
- Changed My Jumper
- Character Tics
- Check and Mate
- Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like
- Contagious Heroism
- Creepy Changing Painting
- The Cretaceous Is Always Doomed
- Distracted by My Own Sexy
- Ditto Aliens
- Doesn't Like Guns
- Einstein Hair
- Empathic Weapon
- Epunymous Title
- Everybody Lives
- Fruit of the Loon
- Fun T-Shirt
- Have We Met Yet?
- Hidden Depths
- Hidden Weapons
- Human Aliens
- I Do Not Drink Wine
- Impossible Task Instantly Accomplished
- Internet Incorporated
- Is That What They're Calling It Now?
- Kid Amid the Chaos
- Kinky Cuffs
- Left Your Lifesaver Behind
- The Little Detecto
- Lovely Angels
- Make It Look Like an Accident
- The Master
- The Missus and the Ex
- Mistaken for Romance
- Mr. Smith
- Murder Makes You Crazy
- A Nazi by Any Other Name
- Nice Hat.Live-Action TV
- No Antagonist
- No Eye in Magic
- Not-So-Imaginary Friend
- Older Sidekick
- Ominous Walk
- Omniglot
- One Myth to Explain Them All
- Pajama-Clad Hero
- Percussive Pickpocket
- Phlebotinum Breakdown
- Plot Detour
- Purely Aesthetic Glasses
- Raise Him Right This Time
- Resurrective Immortality
- Revealing Hug
- Screams Like a Little Girl
- Sekaikei Genre
- Shrink Ray
- Social Media Before Reason
- Steampunk
- Stompy Mooks
- Suppressed Rage
- Technobabble
- Tele-Frag
- Terrible Ticking
- That Came Out Wrong
- Time Travel for Fun and Profit
- Timey-Wimey Ball
- Title Drop.Live-Action TV
- Translator Microbes
- Twisted Christmas
- Void Between the Worlds
- Wrong Time-Travel Savvy
- You Will Be Beethoven
- You Mean "Xmas"
- Zeerust Canon
- Expanded universe
- Other
- Ho Yay.Live-Action TV (fan review)
- Starfish Language (parodic Comic Relief special)
- Working Title (fan encyclopedia)
E-M
- Firefly
- Accidental Marriage
- The Ace
- And Then What?
- Arbitrary Skepticism
- Badass Preacher
- Betrayal Tropes
- Big Damn Heroes
- Chain Pain
- The Cutie
- Earned Stripes
- Emergency Cargo Dump
- Face–Heel Turn.Live-Action TV
- Faux Symbolism
- Human Shield
- I Call It "Vera"
- ...In That Order
- Kidnapped Doctor
- Knee-capping
- Lovable Rogue
- Opposing Combat Philosophies
- Psychic Powers
- Psycho for Hire
- Ready for Lovemaking
- Sarcastic Devotee
- Short-Distance Phone Call
- Shot to the Heart
- Space Cossacks
- This Is Something He's Got to Do Himself
- Thrown Out the Airlock
- True Companions
- Undercover as Lovers
- Used Future
- Wrench Wench
- Friends
- Ambiguous Criminal History
- But We Used a Condom
- Candlelit Bath
- Cat Fight
- Crappy Holidays
- Cuffs Off, Rub Wrists
- Daddy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You
- Do Wrong, Right
- Dog Got Sent to a Farm
- Excited Show Title!
- Fascinating Eyebrow
- Fanservice Faux Fight
- "Fawlty Towers" Plot
- First World Problems
- Foreign Cuss Word
- Friendship Moment
- Gender Bender
- Graceful Ladies Like Purple
- Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal
- Happily Married
- Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?
- Incompatible Orientation
- Inherently Attractive Profession
- Jiggle Show
- LGBT Fanbase
- Lost the TV Remote
- Love Father, Love Son
- Mistaken for Index
- Mistaken for Pedophile
- My Sister Is Off-Limits!
- The Netherlands
- Of Course I'm Not a Virgin
- Old, New, Borrowed and Blue
- On Three
- Picked Flowers Are Dead
- Rebuke Tropes
- Recurring Character
- Right Through the Wall
- Soap Opera
- With a Foot on the Bus
- Game of Thrones
- Animal Eye Spy
- Asexuality
- Barbarian Longhair
- Bastard Angst
- Be All My Sins Remembered
- The Caretaker
- Depraved Dwarf
- Dragon-in-Chief
- Elemental Rivalry
- Endless Winter
- Eunuchs Are Evil
- Everyone Has Standards
- Faster Than They Look
- Five-Finger Fillet
- He Knows Too Much
- Heroic Bastard
- Inbred and Evil
- Insult Backfire
- Interrupted Intimacy
- Lady and Knight
- The Magic Goes Away
- Maternal Death? Blame the Child!
- Monster.A Song Of Ice And Fire
- Myopic Conqueror
- Nasty Party
- Not Like Other Girls
- Not-So-Harmless Villain
- The Oath-Breaker
- The Power of Hate
- Pretty Boy
- Sex–Face Turn
- The Social Expert
- Too Good for This Sinful Earth
- Trial by Combat
- Twincest
- How I Met Your Mother
- Awesome McCoolname
- Crowd Chant
- Differing Priorities Breakup
- Fallback Marriage Pact
- Glad-to-Be-Alive Sex
- The "I Love You" Stigma
- Impossibly Tacky Clothes
- Insult of Endearment
- The Jail Bait Wait
- Ladykiller in Love
- Meet Cute
- Neologizer
- Nested Story Reveal
- Platonic Co-Parenting
- Self-Imposed Challenge
- Sensei for Scoundrels
- Sex Equals Love
- Shooting Lessons From Your Parents
- True Love Is Boring
- Twice Shy
- Undisclosed Funds
- Wanted a Son Instead
Kamen Rider
- Kamen Rider Stronger
- Kamen Rider Gaim
- Kamen Rider Ghost
- Kamen Rider Ex-Aid
- Kamen Rider Build
- Kamen Rider Zi-O
- Marvel Cinematic Universe
- Mystery Science Theater 3000
- 0's and 1's
- All Up to You
- Angst? What Angst?
- Backup Twin
- Bamboo Technology
- Bizarro Universe
- Bloodless Carnage
- Chroma Key
- Down L.A. Drain
- Establishing Shot
- Eye Awaken
- Fashion-Victim Villain
- Flexing Those Non-Biceps
- Forklift Fu
- Hikikomori
- Jigsaw Puzzle Plot
- Jump Cut
- Leitmotif
- Living in a Furniture Store
- Low-Speed Chase
- Monochrome Casting
- The Mountains of Illinois
- MST3K Mantra
- The Other Darrin
- Really Dead Montage
- Scare Chord
- Shoot the Money
- Space Friction
- Special Effect Failure
- Spy Speak
- Standardized Space Views
- Stealth Pun
- Take Our Word for It
- We Will Use WikiWords in the Future
- Wondrous Ladies Room
- WTH, Costuming Department?
- Wunza Plot
N-Z
- Power Rangers
- Red Dwarf
- Alternative Character Interpretation
- Bring My Brown Pants
- Couldn't Find a Pen
- Deflector Shields
- Dinner and a Show
- Dramatic Space Drifting
- Easter Egg
- Escape Pod
- Everybody Did It
- Everybody's Dead, Dave
- Fictional Document
- Hangover Sensitivity
- Hates Their Parent
- I Am Not Shazam
- More Teeth than the Osmond Family
- Naughty Nurse Outfit
- Refugee from TV Land
- Ridiculous Future Sequelisation
- Silly Reason for War
- Stating the Simple Solution
- Time and Relative Dimensions in Space
- Time-Travel Tense Trouble
- Troubling Unchildlike Behavior
- Touch Telepathy
- Villainy Discretion Shot
- Wangst
- We Need a Distraction
- Scrubs
- Alone in a Crowd
- Calling Your Orgasms
- Evil Virtues
- Girl of the Week
- Hentai
- Imagine Spot
- Inner Monologue Conversation
- Insult to Rocks
- The Internet Is for Porn
- Lower-Deck Episode
- No Guy Wants to Be Chased
- Non Standard Prescription
- Person as Verb
- Saying Sound Effects Out Loud
- Seriously Scruffy
- Sex Changes Everything
- Sitcom Homage Episode
- Thinking Tic
- Urgent Medical Alert
- Seinfeld
- Bird-Poop Gag
- Car Cushion
- Dining in the Buff
- Distinction Without a Difference
- Girl-on-Girl Is Hot
- Girly Run
- Hero Insurance
- Incompetence, Inc.
- Inflation Negation
- Insignia Rip-Off Ritual
- It's Cuban
- The Jeeves
- Mistook the Dominant Lifeform
- My Eyes Are Leaking
- One of the Boys
- Pig Man
- Shiksa Goddess
- There Is Only One Bed
- Stargate-verse
- Stargate SG-1
- Archive Binge
- Big Creepy-Crawlies
- The Brigadier
- Combo Platter Powers
- The Face
- Failsafe Failure
- Food Interrogation
- I Should Write a Book About This
- Military Maverick
- Over-the-Top Secret
- Remember When You Blew Up a Sun?
- Sealed Evil in a Duel
- Simple, yet Awesome
- Spectacular Spinning
- Star Killing
- Story-Breaker Power
- Subspace or Hyperspace
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute
- Time Dilation
- Viewers Are Geniuses
- Your Days Are Numbered
- Stargate Atlantis
- Stargate SG-1
- Star Trek
- Star Trek: The Original Series
- Star Trek: The Next Generation
- The Assimilator
- Bald of Awesome
- The Bartender
- *Crack!* "Oh, My Back!"
- Flash In The Pan Fad
- Humanity on Trial
- Klingon Scientists Get No Respect
- Legacy Vessel Naming
- Machine Blood
- Matter Replicator
- No Sense of Humor
- Robosexual
- Screw Your Ultimatum!
- Seinfeldian Conversation
- Spinoff Sendoff
- State Sec
- Stroke the Beard
- Sufficiently Advanced Bamboo Technology
- Surprise Party
- Villain with Good Publicity
- Warm Milk Helps You Sleep
- The Worf Barrage
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
- Ascended Extra
- But You Were There, and You, and You
- Cincinnatus
- Consummate Liar
- Contrasting Sequel Main Character
- Desecrating the Dead
- Either/Or Prophecy
- Fake Defector
- I Am Not Him
- Keeping the Handicap
- Killing Intent
- MagnificentBastard.Star Trek
- Mary Suetopia
- Occupiers Out of Our Country
- Offered the Crown
- Promotion, Not Punishment
- Proud Merchant Race
- Psycho Lesbian
- Scoundrel Code
- Sink The Life Boats
- Slave Mooks
- Sleight of Tongue
- Space Cold War
- Suddenly Always Knew That
- There Are No Coincidences
- Villainous Demotivator
- Vision Quest
- We Will Not Use Stage Make-Up in the Future
- Worthless Yellow Rocks
- You Are in Command Now
- You See, I'm Dying
- Star Trek: Voyager
- Accidental Unfortunate Gesture
- Alien Hair
- Attack Pattern Alpha
- Beady-Eyed Loser
- Captain Space, Defender of Earth!
- Cool Chair
- Delusions of Doghood
- Duet Bonding
- Facial Markings
- Human Outside, Alien Inside
- The Immodest Orgasm
- Misdirected Outburst
- The Mole
- Must Have Caffeine
- Nicknaming the Enemy
- Overprotective Dad
- Post-Mortem Comeback
- Stewed Alive
- Team Mom
- Trash the Set
- Vengeful Vending Machine
- Yank the Dog's Chain
- You Need to Get Laid
- Star Trek: Enterprise
- Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle
- Supernatural
- All Therapists Are Muggles
- Big Blackout
- Brown Note Being
- Conspicuously Light Patch
- Continuity Creep
- Dagwood Sandwich
- Demon of Human Origin
- Do Not Taunt Cthulhu
- Don't Come A-Knockin'
- Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory
- God Is Neutral
- Hijacked by Jesus
- "Holy Shit!" Quotient
- Humans Are Flawed
- I Just Want to Be Loved
- Metallicar Syndrome
- Oh Crap, There Are Fanfics of Us!
- Our Angels Are Different
- Real World Episode
- Self-Surgery
- Slash Fic
- Son of an Ape
- Soul Power
- Third Wheel
- Villain Pedigree
- You Watch Too Much X
- The Women of Brewster Place
