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0 1Early Professional Wrestling
Index of Professional Wrestling personalities and promotions prior to 1970
0 19Bad Reason To Do Good
When someone does the right thing for the wrong reasons.
0 15Peer As Teacher (Launching May 1st)
A teacher is close to the same age or peer group as their student(s).
4 13Volume 29c Part 3
What seems like a large collection of information is only a small part of the whole thing.
1 17Mistaken For Fakery
A character has digital or undeniable evidence that an item or premise is real, but another character thinks it's fake and insists this is truth
1 7Aid Refusal
Help or attempt to help is met with or rejected out of fear, distrust, hatred or hostility.
1 33Credits Fakeout (adopted by supernintendo128)
Playing the credits before the story is actually over.
0 17Post-Mortem Possessions
A person dies and finds they still have their physical possessions with them in death.
0 1Total Order
Powers and magics that manipulate order
1 19Master And Minder
The boss has the power, but the underling has to steer the boss.
0 2"Dating Best Friend's Sibling" Drama
Romantic drama mined from the protagonist's love interest also being their sibling's friend (or friend's sibling).
0 8Fight Dancing
A character skilled in fighting/magic uses the physical movements of those other skills in place of dance skills.
0 12Space Is Introspective (split from Space Is Dreamy)
Space is associated with sentiment, hope, or existentialism.
0 19Underestimating Intelligence
A character's attempt to manipulate, outsmart, and/or trick or someone fails because they underestimated how smart someone was.
0 11Failure-Induced Transformation
Being defeated or failing in some way causes the loser to transform...
6 23Empowered by Negativity
Power sources related to negative emotions.
0 9Jinx Game
Two characters speak in unison, and one calls "Jinx" with consequences for the other
7 28Emotional Code Switching (formerly Native Language Shift) (adopted by jhonsogflint)
Character reverts to their native language when surprised, scared, excited or annoyed - Title crowner here: Link
0 9Logistical Opponent vs Psychological Opponent
When one person relies on the rules and tactics before them, another uses psychological tactics
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0 0Improvised Historical Footage
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