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* LampshadeHanging: When a writer acknowledges to the audience that a plot event is implausible or that they are using a trope. In the wiki, frequently used as a verb; e.g., "lampshading" or "lampshaded".

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* LampshadeHanging: When a writer acknowledges to the audience that a plot event is implausible or that they are using a trope. In the wiki, frequently used as a verb; e.g., "lampshading" or "lampshaded". This trope is so legendary, it was made into the TVTropes logo.
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* {{Catchphrase}}: A phrase constantly said by a character.

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* {{Catchphrase}}: CharacterCatchphrase: A phrase constantly said by a character.
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* AntiHero: A hero who uses [[CombatPragmatist decidedly unheroic tactics]] and/or [[GoodIsNotNice has a bad attitude.]]

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* AntiHero: A hero who uses [[CombatPragmatist decidedly unheroic tactics]] and/or [[GoodIsNotNice has a bad attitude.]]attitude]].



* BerserkButton: Something that sets off a seemingly normal person into [[UnstoppableRage rage and fury.]]

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* BerserkButton: Something that sets off a seemingly normal person into [[UnstoppableRage rage and fury.]]fury]].



* GoodIsNotNice: Heroes who are rude and unpleasant despite their noble and benevolent intentions.

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* GoodIsNotNice: Heroes [[HeroTropes Heroes]] who are rude and unpleasant despite their noble and benevolent intentions.
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** ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: When a character can ignore the rules in favor of following their conscience and doing the right thing. Usually part of the ChaoticGood element.

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** GoodIsNotSoft: An interesting inversion; heroes who are amicable to their peers and addressees, but acts downright vicious to evildoers out of protection or necessity.



* SmugSnake: A character who wants to be a MagnificentBastard but lacks magnificence.

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* SmugSnake: A character who wants to be thinks him/herself as a MagnificentBastard but lacks magnificence.
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''Purely {{subjective tropes}}, or entries that concern the wiki itself.''

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''Purely {{subjective tropes}}, {{YMMV}}, or entries that concern the wiki itself.''
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Also see PetPeeveTrope for when ubiquitous tropes are detested by many and ''SugarWiki/FavoriteTrope'' for when they're beloved by many instead.

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Also see PetPeeveTrope for when ubiquitous tropes are detested by many and ''SugarWiki/FavoriteTrope'' SugarWiki/FavoriteTrope for when they're beloved by many instead.
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Also see PetPeeveTrope for when ubiquitous tropes are detested by many and ''SugarWiki/FavoriteTrope'' for when they're beloved by many instead.
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* GoodIsNotNice: {{Heroes}} who are rude and unpleasant despite their noble and benevolent intentions.

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* GoodIsNotNice: {{Heroes}} Heroes who are rude and unpleasant despite their noble and benevolent intentions.
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''These''... are the ''[[red:Tropes of Legend]]!''']]

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''These''... are the ''[[red:Tropes of Legend]]!''']]
Legend]]!'']]
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* LoveTriangle: A relationship involving more than two people ([[LoveDodecahedron sometimes as many as it can]]). [[TriangRelations Can take many forms.]]

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* LoveTriangle: A relationship involving more than two people ([[LoveDodecahedron sometimes as many as it can]]). [[TriangRelations Can take many forms.]]

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* BlackComedy: Comedy based on serious topics, like [[DeathAsComedy murder]] or [[BlackComedyRape rape.]]

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* BlackComedy: Comedy based on serious topics, like [[DeathAsComedy murder]] or [[BlackComedyRape rape.]]rape]].


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* {{Bookends}}: When a story begins and ends under similar circumstances, with those events tied together somehow.

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The name was changed back per TRS


* BreakingPointSwearing: An unexpected use of swearing for emotional impact.


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* PrecisionFStrike: An unexpected use of swearing for emotional impact.
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Capitalization was fixed from Main.Takes A Level In Bad Ass to Main.Takes A Level In Badass. Null edit to update index.
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** FauxAffablyEvil: The [[SubvertedTrope subversion]] of AffablyEvil; a villain acts polite, but only to lure their addressees in their trap.
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Wrong word; sorry


* BreakingPointProfanity: An unexpected use of swearing for emotional impact.

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* BreakingPointProfanity: BreakingPointSwearing: An unexpected use of swearing for emotional impact.

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Renamed trope


* PrecisionFStrike: An unexpected use of swearing for emotional impact.


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* BreakingPointProfanity: An unexpected use of swearing for emotional impact.

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just to help clean wicks to The Chick; also adding two tropes that have more than 10k wicks, so they qualify


* AndIMustScream: Being entrapped in a literal or symbolic way that leads to intense suffering. Death would be preferrable, and [[WhoWantsToLiveForever sometimes it isn't an option]].



* FateWorseThanDeath: They would rather die than suffer like this.



## TheChick: The one who rounds out and unifies the team. Usually the most feminine of the bunch, and oftentimes TheHeart and/or TheFace.

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## TheChick: TheHeart: The one who rounds out and unifies the team. Usually Tends to be a woman, [[TheSmurfettePrinciple and the only one of the team]], or the most feminine of the bunch, and oftentimes TheHeart and/or bunch. Often overlaps with TheFace.



** MoralEventHorizon: A deed so cruel, evil, and despicable that it irrevocably damns the character in the eyes of the audience.

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** MoralEventHorizon: A deed so cruel, evil, and despicable that it irrevocably damns the character in the eyes of the audience. Often happens to set up a CompleteMonster.
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TRS wick cleaningThey Fight Crime is no longer a trope


* TheyFightCrime: Got interesting characters? Need something for them to do? Something they can repeat endlessly?

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** {{Jerk With a Heart of Gold}}: An obnoxious fellow who's actually a NiceGuy underneath.

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** {{Jerk With a Heart of Gold}}: JerkWithAHeartOfGold: An obnoxious fellow who's actually a NiceGuy underneath.underneath.
*** JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: The subversion; an obnoxious fellow who's odious through and through.

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Vindicated By History has over 3000 wicks, All Just A Dream (mentioned in the discussion) over 6000, better include them


* AllJustADream: The previous scene(s) were a DreamSequence.



** FanonDiscontinuity: When something that is canon is, for some reason — usually for being bad, out of place, or stupid—ignored by a large portion of the fandom.

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** FanonDiscontinuity: When something that is canon is, for some reason — usually for being bad, out of place, or stupid—ignored stupid — ignored by a large portion of the fandom.


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* VindicatedByHistory: Something badly received or ignored upon release gets its due recognition years later.
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Wiki/ namespace clean up.


Here is a list of the most widely-known and oft-referenced [[{{Trope}} tropes]] we have on this entire site. If you’re new to Wiki/TVTropes, this list will provide a good basis for understanding our… erm… [[JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourVocabulary unique vocabulary]].

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Here is a list of the most widely-known and oft-referenced [[{{Trope}} tropes]] we have on this entire site. If you’re new to Wiki/TVTropes, Website/TVTropes, this list will provide a good basis for understanding our… erm… [[JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourVocabulary unique vocabulary]].



* {{Headscratchers/Headscratchers}}: The place in Wiki/TVTropes to go if you want to discuss plot elements that just bug you.

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* {{Headscratchers/Headscratchers}}: The place in Wiki/TVTropes Website/TVTropes to go if you want to discuss plot elements that just bug you.
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'''Note:''' TV Tropes is currently unable to play music from the web page. For optimum viewing experience, hum "[[Music/AlsoSprachZarathustra "[[StandardSnippet/AlsoSprachZarathustra Thus Spake Zarathustra]]" while reading below.[[labelnote:Alternatively]]Open [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLuW-GBaJ8k this]] in a new tab, if you’re too lazy to hum. Just be careful about the ad.[[/labelnote]]

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Up To Eleven is being dewicked.


* DisproportionateRetribution: When a character pulls a slight offense to another, and the other plots a revenge taken UpToEleven.

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* DisproportionateRetribution: When a character pulls a slight offense to another, and the other plots a revenge taken UpToEleven.up to eleven.



* UpToEleven: Reach the top, and go one step beyond. As in, "on a scale of 1 to 10."
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* BittersweetEnding: An ending that mixes happiness and sadness, such as victory at a high cost.

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* BittersweetEnding: An ending that mixes happiness and sadness, such as [[PyrrhicVictory victory at a high cost.cost]].
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* NiceHat: Highly impressive CraniumCoverings.

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* DownerEnding: No happy ending here — [[KillEmAll everyone dies]] or at least lives on unhappily.

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* DownerEnding: No happy ending here — [[KillEmAll [[EverybodyDiesEnding everyone dies]] or at least lives on unhappily.



* EverybodyDiesEnding: Just about every character dies at the end of the work, main cast or not.



* KillEmAll: Just about every character dies, main cast or not.
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It merely redirected back to Ho Yay.


** LesYay: Ho Yay which is specifically between two female characters
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* ActionGirl: Female {{action hero}}es are popular even if they are just the TokenGirl.

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* ActionGirl: Female {{action hero}}es are popular popular, even if they are just the TokenGirl.with TheSmurfettePrinciple.

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** HarsherInHindsight: A tragic event makes a serious story more difficult to digest.
** FunnyAneurysmMoment: A tragic event makes a funny story hard to laugh at.

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** HarsherInHindsight: A tragic event makes something in a serious story more difficult to digest.
** FunnyAneurysmMoment: A tragic event makes a funny story hard to laugh at.
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