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* BlatantLies: The entire speech Robin gives to convince Doctor Hatch to let her and Nancy speak with Victor. Also Yuri's untimely "death" by polar bear.

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* BlatantLies: The entire speech Robin gives to convince Doctor Hatch to let her and Nancy speak with Victor. Also Yuri's untimely "death" by polar bear. bear, before he reveals himself to still be alive [[TheGadfly and only making up a story to mess with Joyce and Murray]].



* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Agent Harmon spends most of his assignment watching TV with his equally goofy partner. But when a raid of gunmen storm the house, he kills ''five'' of the better-armed intruders with no support and escapes with his charges intact.

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* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Agent Harmon spends most of his assignment watching TV with his equally goofy partner. But when a raid of gunmen storm the house, he kills ''five'' of the better-armed intruders with no support and escapes with his charges intact.intact, though he does take a bullet for his troubles.


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* HeyYouHaymaker: After pretending to have broken his hammer and requesting a guard to give him a new one, Hopper sneaks into the shack and lets out a whistle before bashing the guard's face in with said broken hammer.


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* HoldingTheFloor: Robin launches into a humongous rant towards Hatch, both to try and convince him to let them talk to Victor, and out of frustration that they're very close to getting to their lead but get denied by bureaucracy.


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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Erica ends up revealing to Jason that Lucas was a member of the Hellfire Club. She has no idea that this ends up putting her brother and his friends in danger, as she hardly knows anything about Jason beyond him being a popular jock.
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After Owens has Eleven transported to a retraining facility, an operative explains to Mike, Jonathan and Will that a GovernmentConspiracy puts El in danger. They hatch a plot to get back to Hawkins. Max finally explains to the others what's been happening with her, and it might mean her time is running out. The least of their worries--the basketball team on the prowl for Eddie--stops at the Sinclair home once they figure out they were tricked. Robin and Nancy pay a visit to a name from Hawkins's distant past.

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After Owens has Eleven transported to a retraining facility, an operative explains to Mike, Jonathan and Will that a GovernmentConspiracy puts El in danger. They hatch a plot to get back to Hawkins. Max finally explains to the others what's been happening with her, and it might mean her time is running out. The least of their worries--the basketball team on the prowl for Eddie--stops at the Sinclair home once they figure out they were tricked. Robin and Nancy pay a visit to a name from Hawkins's distant past. \n Meanwhile, Joyce's and Murray's trip to Alaska to free the imprisoned Hopper meets with an unexpected reversal.
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** Do not hide your mental problems from people around you. The only reason why Max manages to escape Vecna is that she told her friends what was happening to her, and they were there to help her through it. Chrissy and Fred told no one what was really happening, and therefore couldn't be saved.

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** Do not hide your mental problems from people around you. The only reason why Max manages to escape Vecna is that she told her friends what was happening to her, and they were there to help her through it. Chrissy and Fred told no one (except one overworked, out-of-her-depth school counselor) what was really happening, and therefore couldn't be saved. had no support system to save them.
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* DudeNotFunny: Steve crosses the line by threatening to punch Dustin so hard that his teeth will fall back out; he apologizes afterwards.
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the trope is not averted but dropped from the work. moving entry to Trivia section


* ShowSomeLeg: Averted - the original idea was that Nancy and Robin would dress more "maturely" for their visit to Pennhurst, which the costume designer accepted could mean "hotter". This was changed to the outfits that they actually wear.
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* ShowSomeLeg: Averted - the original idea was that Nancy and Robin would dress more "maturely" for their visit to Pennhurst, which the costume designer accepted could mean "hotter". This was changed to the outfits that they actually wear.
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Redundant since the music more allows Max to save herself than outright saving her


* ShownTheirWork: Although it's fictitious that music pulls Max out of danger, there's some psychological basis to the idea that music can reach a place in a catatonic patient's brain that other forms of stimuli might not.

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* ShownTheirWork: Although it's fictitious that music pulls Max out of danger, there's some There is indeed psychological basis to the idea that music can reach a place in a catatonic patient's brain that other forms of stimuli might not.
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* BustContrastDuo: Robin is far more hotheaded and impatient than Nancy when they're undercover. While they're both dressed in ridiculously conservative attire, their differing body types are highlighted when Robin complains about Nancy's ill-fitting bra.

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* BustContrastDuo: Robin is far more hotheaded and impatient than Nancy when they're undercover. While they're both dressed in ridiculously conservative attire, their differing body types are highlighted when Robin complains about Nancy's ill-fitting bra.[[note]]The famously thin 5'4" Natalia Dyer is a 30A, while 5'9" Maya Hawke is a 32B.[[/note]]
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* TheCameo: Creator/DacreMontgomery appears as Vecna's hallucination of Billy.
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* PowerFloats: Vecna makes Max levitate like his previous victims, resulting in an iconic image that was in fact used (with its context not stated) in the S4 trailers. When she gets out, she drops to the ground.
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Damsel Out Of Distress covers this as it implies that the damsel was first in distress


* DistressedDamsel: Max. She ends up pretty distressed.
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* DamselOutOfDistress: Max manages to get out of the tentacle tree by her own willpower and run to safety.


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* DistressedDamsel: Max. She ends up pretty distressed.


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** Also Max when she exits the trance.


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* {{Pun}}: In the episode description on Netflix. "Max is in grave danger". The most dangerous moment for her occurs at a grave.
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* DeliveryGuyInfiltration: The boys attempt to invert this by ordering a pizza in the hopes of using it as an escape method, as the driver will be their friend Argyle. Unfortunately, this backfires when the Army raids the house, as the agent answering the door drops his guard thinking it's the pizza delivery and gets shot. Then Argyle *does* show up, allowing for the originally planned escape.

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