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* ParrotExposition: When Val is revealed to have cataracts, every character who witnesses this repeats the word "cataracts" [[{{Narm}} over and over again]]. [[HarryHillsTVBurp Harry Hill]] had a lot of fun with this scene.
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* ParrotExposition: When Val is revealed to have cataracts, every character who witnesses this repeats the word "cataracts" [[{{Narm}} over and over again]]. [[HarryHillsTVBurp [[Series/HarryHillsTVBurp Harry Hill]] had a lot of fun with this scene.
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** Handsome newcomer Ryan Hawley has had his shirt off many times since joining.. A well placed mirror in one of his scenes also showed him clad in nothing but black briefs. A hopeful bid for Sexiest Male at the 2015 British Soap Awards, perhaps?
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** Handsome newcomer Ryan Hawley has had his shirt off many times since joining.. A well placed mirror in one of his scenes also showed him clad in nothing but black briefs. A hopeful bid for Sexiest Male at the 2015 British Soap Awards, perhaps?
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* PermaStubble: Many of the male characters are either stubbly or have full beards; it's more-likely in the younger-looking attractive characters/actors that are more likely to be nominated as Sexist Male in the ''British Soap Awards''.
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* PermaStubble: Many of the younger male characters are either stubbly or have full beards; it's more-likely in the younger-looking attractive characters/actors that are more likely beards to be nominated as Sexist Male in the ''British Soap Awards''.appeal to a younger audience.
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* BookEnds: Jack Sugden returned to the village for his father's funeral in the first episode, taking a walk around the farm to see the farm. His biological son Robert returned for Jack's funeral, taking the same walk around the farm that Jack does and even gets interrupted by someone in the same manner that Jack was.
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* BookEnds: Jack Sugden returned to the village for his father's funeral in the first episode, which aired in 1972, taking a walk around the farm to see the farm. His biological son Robert returned for Jack's funeral, funeral in 2009, taking the same walk around the farm that Jack does and even gets interrupted by someone in the same manner that Jack was.
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* ParrotExposition: When Val is revealed to have cataracts, every character who witnesses this repeats the word "cataracts" [[{{Narm}} over and over again. again]]. [[HarryHillsTVBurp Harry Hill]] had a lot of fun with this scene.scene.
* PermaStubble: Many of the male characters are either stubbly or have full beards; it's more-likely in the younger-looking attractive characters/actors that are more likely to be nominated as Sexist Male in the ''British Soap Awards''.
** PermaShave: Sam Dingle, Paddy and Robert Sugden. Sam probably has this to contrast his dim-wittedness with the rest of the cast and Robert is probably clean-shaven to imply difference to the other locals or to appear mysterious.
* PermaStubble: Many of the male characters are either stubbly or have full beards; it's more-likely in the younger-looking attractive characters/actors that are more likely to be nominated as Sexist Male in the ''British Soap Awards''.
** PermaShave: Sam Dingle, Paddy and Robert Sugden. Sam probably has this to contrast his dim-wittedness with the rest of the cast and Robert is probably clean-shaven to imply difference to the other locals or to appear mysterious.
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* GroinAttack: Cain Dingle is often the recipent of this from women he has wronged.
* HandsomeLech: Carl King
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* GroinAttack: Cain Dingle is often the recipent recipient of this from women he has wronged.
* HandsomeLech: CarlKingKing.
* HelloNurse: Fairly frequently in hospital scenes, in fact ''the extras are considered more attractive than the main actors'' (well, at least in the medical situations) but then again, this soap '''does not''' have any regular medico characters, so to speak, not as far as we know. Digital Spy, the [[GreatBigBookOfEverything Internet soaps directory]] does not mention this.
* HandsomeLech: Carl
* HelloNurse: Fairly frequently in hospital scenes, in fact ''the extras are considered more attractive than the main actors'' (well, at least in the medical situations) but then again, this soap '''does not''' have any regular medico characters, so to speak, not as far as we know. Digital Spy, the [[GreatBigBookOfEverything Internet soaps directory]] does not mention this.
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* HelloNurse: Fairly frequently in hospital scenes, in fact ''the extras are considered more attractive than the main actors'' (well, at least in the medical situations, but then again, this soap '''does not''' have any regular medico characters, so to speak, not as far as we know. Digital Spy, the [[GreatBigBookOfEverything Internet soaps directory]] does not mention this.
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* DrivenToSuicide: DrivenToSuicide:
** Jackson Walsh via assistedsuicide suicide.
** Donna Windsor throws herself from the top of a multi-story car park after being diagnosed with terminal cancer.
** Jackson Walsh via assisted
** Donna Windsor throws herself from the top of a multi-story car park after being diagnosed with terminal cancer.
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* MistakenForCheating: Katie Sugden thought her ex-husband-turned-brother-in-law Robert was cheating on his fiancee with Alicia Gallagher. He wasn't. [[spoilers: He was, however, cheating with someone else.]]
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* MistakenForCheating: Katie Sugden thought her ex-husband-turned-brother-in-law Robert was cheating on his fiancee with Alicia Gallagher. He wasn't. [[spoilers: [[spoiler: He was, however, cheating with someone else.]]
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* MistakenForCheating: Katie Sugden thought her ex-husband-turned-brother-in-law Robert was cheating on his fiancee with Alicia Gallagher. He wasn't. [[spoilers: He was, however, cheating with someone else.]]
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* MyLocal: The Woolpack.
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* GeographicFlexibility: Applies a little bit to the village itself, but more pertinently to the nearby town of Hotton, which is as big or small and contains as many or as few bars/shops/attractions as are currently necessary for the plot.
** Not quite, given that Hotton is a supposed [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed copy of Haughton, South Yorkshire]].
** Location scenes based in Hotton are usually filmed in the town of Otley, close to the TV studios in Leeds where the show is filmed. Until the late 1990s, an actual village, Esholt, was used for exterior scenes of the village, until a purpose-built set was built on the grounds of a stately home close to Leeds.
** Not quite, given that Hotton is a supposed [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed copy of Haughton, South Yorkshire]].
** Location scenes based in Hotton are usually filmed in the town of Otley, close to the TV studios in Leeds where the show is filmed. Until the late 1990s, an actual village, Esholt, was used for exterior scenes of the village, until a purpose-built set was built on the grounds of a stately home close to Leeds.
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* GeographicFlexibility: Applies a little bit to the village itself, but more pertinently to the nearby town of Hotton, which is as big or small and contains as many or as few bars/shops/attractions as are currently necessary for the plot.
** Not quite, given that Hotton is a supposed [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed copy of Haughton, South Yorkshire]].
** Location scenes based in Hotton are usually filmed in the town of Otley, close to the TV studios in Leeds where the show is filmed. Until the late 1990s, an actual village, Esholt, was used for exterior scenes of the village, until a purpose-built set was built on the grounds of a stately home close to Leeds.
** Not quite, given that Hotton is a supposed [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed copy of Haughton, South Yorkshire]].
** Location scenes based in Hotton are usually filmed in the town of Otley, close to the TV studios in Leeds where the show is filmed. Until the late 1990s, an actual village, Esholt, was used for exterior scenes of the village, until a purpose-built set was built on the grounds of a stately home close to Leeds.
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* EverybodyHasLotsOfSex: It's a soap opera. Someone is sleeping with someone new every week.
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* TheUnintelligible: Moira Barton (well, her accent is).
* UnrelatedBrothers: Andy and Robert Sugden
* WouldHitAGirl: Andy Sugden, Cain Dingle
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* WouldHitAGirl: Andy Sugden, Cain
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* FatAndSkinny: Paddy and Marlon, to a certain extent.
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** Handsome newcomer Ryan Hawley's Hawley has had his shirt off more than the usual character.many times since joining.. A well placed mirror in one of his scenes also showed him clad in nothing but black briefs. A hopeful bid for Sexiest Male at the 2015 British Soap Awards, perhaps?
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** Handsome newcomer Ryan Hawley's had his shirt off more than usual. A hopeful bid for Sexiest Male at the 2015 British Soap Awards, perhaps?
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* MrFanservice:
** Handsome newcomer Ryan Hawley's had his shirt off more than usual. A hopeful bid for Sexiest Male at the 2015 British Soap Awards, perhaps?
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* BookEnds: Jack Sugden returned to the village for his father's funeral, and his biological son Robert returned for Jack's.
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* BookEnds: Jack Sugden returned to the village for his father's funeral, and his funeral in the first episode, taking a walk around the farm to see the farm. His biological son Robert returned for Jack's.Jack's funeral, taking the same walk around the farm that Jack does and even gets interrupted by someone in the same manner that Jack was.
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** a notably bizarre story arc with a completely gratuitous homosexual angle that appeared to have been written by The Guardian, featuring a notably unconvincing rugby player, breathlessly encouraged by his mother (played by Pauline Quirke).
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* TheAtoner: After being partially responsable for causing the deaths of three people in an explosion, Jimmy King reformed his sleazy ways and became a nice guy.
* BadAssGrandpa: Zak Dingle has mellowed over the years, but was still capable of nearly beating his son to death.
* BookEnds: Jack Sugden returned to the village for his father's funeral, and his biolgical son Robert returned for Jack's.
* BadAssGrandpa: Zak Dingle has mellowed over the years, but was still capable of nearly beating his son to death.
* BookEnds: Jack Sugden returned to the village for his father's funeral, and his biolgical son Robert returned for Jack's.
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* BadAssGrandpa: Zak Dingle has mellowed over the years, but was still capable of nearly beating his son to death.
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* CoolOldGuy: Sandy Thomas
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** Alicia Gallagher played by the beautiful Natalie Anderson.
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* StageWhisper / SoundproofAir: Used all the time as characters discuss secrets barely an arms reach away from the person who shouldn't hear them - and doesn't.
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* HotDad: Cain Dingle, Carl King, Cameron Murray, John Barton, Nikhil Sharma, Andy Sugden
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''Emmerdale'' is a long-running British SoapOpera, set in the titular Yorkshire village.
From its creation in 1972 until 1989, it was known as ''Emmerdale Farm'', the series was generally based around the farm and rural life in the village, often centring around the village pub, The Woolpack.
Notably, almost every person who moves to the village (even the illegitimate ones) either joins or is joined by their family, and so joins in the near-constant feuding among the famillies in the village.
Seen as something of a television version of TheArchers, albeit set among bluff northern types rather than well-heeled country folk, the series received a dramatic ReTool during the early 1990s. Starting with the name change, more and more classic "soap opera" elements were introduced, but the series was still in the shadow of its more illustrious rivals ''CoronationStreet'' and ''EastEnders'' - until 1993, when writers had a plane crash onto the Woolpack, drawing in 18 million viewers.
The plane crash storyline proved so popular that Emmerdale in the last 15 years has become a rather dangerous place to live. In the 20 years before the crash, 21 characters had been killed off. Since the crash, the body count currently stands at 46 - seven of them in 2006 alone.
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!!This series provides examples of:
* TheAtoner: After being partially responsable for causing the deaths of three people in an explosion, Jimmy King reformed his sleazy ways and became a nice guy.
* BadAssGrandpa: Zak Dingle has mellowed over the years, but was still capable of nearly beating his son to death.
* BookEnds: Jack Sugden returned to the village for his father's funeral, and his biolgical son Robert returned for Jack's.
* BreakTheCutie: Carl King started off as the only member of the King family who had even a spark of good inside him. He has since killed a friend in an accident and killed his dad in a rage. Then the love of his life was then hit and killed by a lorry. Then he was shot by a solicitor he'd wronged. Then his elder brother Matthew tried to run him down but was killed himself. Then his wife lost their child. Then the next woman he was set to marry left him at the altar. By the time of his murder, Carl was almost unrecognisable from his early days.
* BritishAccents: Though only a few still speak with a [[OopNorth recognisable Yorkshire accent.]]
* BrotherSisterIncest: Almost played horribly true with unknowing half-siblings Ryan Lamb and Maisie Wylde, and even though the bullet was dodged on the incest [[spoiler:the revelation they almost had sex led Maisie to have a break down and to the murder of their father at the hands of Maisie's mother]].
* BumblingDad: Dan Spencer started as quite a nasty character (to show where his son got his evil side from) but has been diluted to this when he became a full time cast member.
* CoolCar: Cain's various black Beemers.
* CrazyJealousGuy:
** Chris Tate who upon discovering his wife had been cheating on him with his enemy - and her cousin - Cain Dingle went after Cain with a gun then decided Charity was the one he truly hated so he committed suicide and framed her for murder (having recently discovered he had months to live).
** Cain Dingle himself definitely fits this trope: after being rejected by Angie he stalked her and frightened off any man she got involved with until she was so desperate that she tried to framed him for a crime. He also attacks and/or threatens any man who shows interest in Charity.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Dan Spencer in Cameron's Woolpack hostage crisis. See Took a Level in Badass.
* DeadGuyJunior: Andy Sugden's children are named after Jack & Sarah Sugden, who took him in & raised him as their own.
* DemotedToExtra: Alan Turner, Pearl Ladderbanks, Betty Eagleton were once prominent characters, however due to their age and lighter workload, often go for weeks without making an appearance.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: In the episode which aired November 13th, 2012, Charity comments that Debbie looks "like a zombie from a zombie film."
* DirtyCop: Arsonist Detective Sergeant Nick Henshall.
* DomesticAbuse: Andy and Jo Sugden.
* DrivenToSuicide: Jackson via assisted suicide
* [[DroppedABridgeOnHim Dropped A Plane On Them]]: One of the most famous storylines.
* ElderAbuse: The verbal, psychological, financial, and physical abuse of Sandy by his son, the local vicar, Ashley was a whole story arc.
* FeudingFamilies: Dingles vs Tates, Dingles vs Kings, Dingles vs Sugdens, Sugdens vs Kings, Sugdens vs Sugdens
* GroinAttack: Cain Dingle is often the recipent of this from women he has wronged.
* HandsomeLech: Carl King
* HotDad: Cain Dingle, Carl King, Cameron Murray, John Barton, Nikhil Sharma, Andy Sugden
* KilledOffForReal: It's a realistic soap, so this is to be expected.
* KissingCousins: played VERY, VERY straight with the Dingles, to the point that there's at least one definite (though slightly averted in that they were Second cousins) case of progeny, Debbie, who is surprisingly a lot more stable than either of her parents, except for her own propensity for incest for nearly 2 years. this has been lampshaded by other characters repeatedly. the main offenders being: Charity/Cain, Charity/Marlon, Eli/Debbie, Eli/Chas, a brief one-sided Eli/Gennie, the list goes on. There was even a marriage for Butch/Mandy, although, despite some one-sided feelings from Butch, it was solely because the family's home was being sold and Mandy's boyfriend's mother had offered her money to marry someone else.
* GeographicFlexibility: Applies a little bit to the village itself, but more pertinently to the nearby town of Hotton, which is as big or small and contains as many or as few bars/shops/attractions as are currently necessary for the plot.
** Not quite, given that Hotton is a supposed [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed copy of Haughton, South Yorkshire]].
** Location scenes based in Hotton are usually filmed in the town of Otley, close to the TV studios in Leeds where the show is filmed. Until the late 1990s, an actual village, Esholt, was used for exterior scenes of the village, until a purpose-built set was built on the grounds of a stately home close to Leeds.
* HelloNurse: Fairly frequently in hospital scenes, in fact ''the extras are considered more attractive than the main actors'' (well, at least in the medical situations, but then again, this soap '''does not''' have any regular medico characters, so to speak, not as far as we know. Digital Spy, the [[GreatBigBookOfEverything Internet soaps directory]] does not mention this.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Marlon & Paddy.
* LampshadeHanging: The villagers have noted to themselves that the village isn't as peaceful as it should be.
* LovableRogue: Eli Dingle when he wasn't being seriously nasty.
* MyLocal: The Woolpack.
* MsFanservice:
** A few times with [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwL6rcR_7yQ Roxanne Pallett]].
** Maisie Wylde, no less.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Are you seriously going to threaten ''Cain'' Dingle? Yes, it's a recurring theme to use Biblical names in Emmerdale.
* OnlySaneMan: Marlon is this to the rest of the Dingles.
* OopNorth
* OverprotectiveDad: Cain Dingle is a rather dark example of this. His protectiveness of his daughter has led to him to threaten and beat several men and even on one occasion hit her.
* ParrotExposition: When Val is revealed to have cataracts, every character who witnesses this repeats the word "cataracts" over and over again. [[HarryHillsTVBurp Harry Hill]] had a lot of fun with this scene.
* PleaseSelectNewCityName: The village of Beckindale was renamed to Emmerdale in 1994: in story this was to honour the residents of Emmerdale Farm killed in the plane crash; in the real world it was to avoid viewer confusion as the focus had broadened from the farm to the village.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Jack Sugden was hastily written out after actor Clive Hornby became ill, and the character was later killed off following Hornby's death.
** If you're a streetlighting geek, like on [[http://www.ukastle.co.uk this site]], then look out for the various types of streetlight - it's a way to tell the current state of affairs for councils on location filming.
* ReTool: From 2003 onwards.
* SerialKiller: Cameron Murray has (as of August 2013) killed three villagers (Carl by hitting him with a brick, Gennie by suffocation and Alex's murder was unseen) and admitted murdering another man in Jersey.
* SoaplandChristmas: The murder of Tom King on his wedding day (on Christmas Day) in 2006 is probably the most famous one.
* StageWhisper / SoundproofAir: Used all the time as characters discuss secrets barely an arms reach away from the person who shouldn't hear them - and doesn't.
* StraightGay: Aaron and Jackson; to a lesser extent, former characters Jason and Joe.
* SmugSnake: Nathan Wylde's entire character was built around this.
* TemporarilyAVillain: Andy Sugden during his domestic abuse storyline. He's back to normal now, after the writers explained it all as depression.
* TookALevelInBadass: Dan when he tries to sneak up on Cameron with a chair in the Woolpack hostage crisis. Unfortanutely Debbie alerts him to it.
* TheUnintelligible: Moira Barton (well, her accent is).
* TooSoon: The plane crash drew criticism and a reprimand from the {{Media Watchdog}}s for its parallels with the Lockerbie disaster.
* UnrelatedBrothers: Andy and Robert Sugden
* WouldHitAGirl: Andy Sugden, Cain Dingle
* YoungestChildWins: Inverted with the King family - After their 2004 introduction, they've gradually all been killed off with the exception of Jimmy, the eldest child. The only other members of the King bloodline still alive are Jimmy & Carl's children, and [[PutOnABus half-sister Scarlett]].
From its creation in 1972 until 1989, it was known as ''Emmerdale Farm'', the series was generally based around the farm and rural life in the village, often centring around the village pub, The Woolpack.
Notably, almost every person who moves to the village (even the illegitimate ones) either joins or is joined by their family, and so joins in the near-constant feuding among the famillies in the village.
Seen as something of a television version of TheArchers, albeit set among bluff northern types rather than well-heeled country folk, the series received a dramatic ReTool during the early 1990s. Starting with the name change, more and more classic "soap opera" elements were introduced, but the series was still in the shadow of its more illustrious rivals ''CoronationStreet'' and ''EastEnders'' - until 1993, when writers had a plane crash onto the Woolpack, drawing in 18 million viewers.
The plane crash storyline proved so popular that Emmerdale in the last 15 years has become a rather dangerous place to live. In the 20 years before the crash, 21 characters had been killed off. Since the crash, the body count currently stands at 46 - seven of them in 2006 alone.
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!!This series provides examples of:
* TheAtoner: After being partially responsable for causing the deaths of three people in an explosion, Jimmy King reformed his sleazy ways and became a nice guy.
* BadAssGrandpa: Zak Dingle has mellowed over the years, but was still capable of nearly beating his son to death.
* BookEnds: Jack Sugden returned to the village for his father's funeral, and his biolgical son Robert returned for Jack's.
* BreakTheCutie: Carl King started off as the only member of the King family who had even a spark of good inside him. He has since killed a friend in an accident and killed his dad in a rage. Then the love of his life was then hit and killed by a lorry. Then he was shot by a solicitor he'd wronged. Then his elder brother Matthew tried to run him down but was killed himself. Then his wife lost their child. Then the next woman he was set to marry left him at the altar. By the time of his murder, Carl was almost unrecognisable from his early days.
* BritishAccents: Though only a few still speak with a [[OopNorth recognisable Yorkshire accent.]]
* BrotherSisterIncest: Almost played horribly true with unknowing half-siblings Ryan Lamb and Maisie Wylde, and even though the bullet was dodged on the incest [[spoiler:the revelation they almost had sex led Maisie to have a break down and to the murder of their father at the hands of Maisie's mother]].
* BumblingDad: Dan Spencer started as quite a nasty character (to show where his son got his evil side from) but has been diluted to this when he became a full time cast member.
* CoolCar: Cain's various black Beemers.
* CrazyJealousGuy:
** Chris Tate who upon discovering his wife had been cheating on him with his enemy - and her cousin - Cain Dingle went after Cain with a gun then decided Charity was the one he truly hated so he committed suicide and framed her for murder (having recently discovered he had months to live).
** Cain Dingle himself definitely fits this trope: after being rejected by Angie he stalked her and frightened off any man she got involved with until she was so desperate that she tried to framed him for a crime. He also attacks and/or threatens any man who shows interest in Charity.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Dan Spencer in Cameron's Woolpack hostage crisis. See Took a Level in Badass.
* DeadGuyJunior: Andy Sugden's children are named after Jack & Sarah Sugden, who took him in & raised him as their own.
* DemotedToExtra: Alan Turner, Pearl Ladderbanks, Betty Eagleton were once prominent characters, however due to their age and lighter workload, often go for weeks without making an appearance.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: In the episode which aired November 13th, 2012, Charity comments that Debbie looks "like a zombie from a zombie film."
* DirtyCop: Arsonist Detective Sergeant Nick Henshall.
* DomesticAbuse: Andy and Jo Sugden.
* DrivenToSuicide: Jackson via assisted suicide
* [[DroppedABridgeOnHim Dropped A Plane On Them]]: One of the most famous storylines.
* ElderAbuse: The verbal, psychological, financial, and physical abuse of Sandy by his son, the local vicar, Ashley was a whole story arc.
* FeudingFamilies: Dingles vs Tates, Dingles vs Kings, Dingles vs Sugdens, Sugdens vs Kings, Sugdens vs Sugdens
* GroinAttack: Cain Dingle is often the recipent of this from women he has wronged.
* HandsomeLech: Carl King
* HotDad: Cain Dingle, Carl King, Cameron Murray, John Barton, Nikhil Sharma, Andy Sugden
* KilledOffForReal: It's a realistic soap, so this is to be expected.
* KissingCousins: played VERY, VERY straight with the Dingles, to the point that there's at least one definite (though slightly averted in that they were Second cousins) case of progeny, Debbie, who is surprisingly a lot more stable than either of her parents, except for her own propensity for incest for nearly 2 years. this has been lampshaded by other characters repeatedly. the main offenders being: Charity/Cain, Charity/Marlon, Eli/Debbie, Eli/Chas, a brief one-sided Eli/Gennie, the list goes on. There was even a marriage for Butch/Mandy, although, despite some one-sided feelings from Butch, it was solely because the family's home was being sold and Mandy's boyfriend's mother had offered her money to marry someone else.
* GeographicFlexibility: Applies a little bit to the village itself, but more pertinently to the nearby town of Hotton, which is as big or small and contains as many or as few bars/shops/attractions as are currently necessary for the plot.
** Not quite, given that Hotton is a supposed [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed copy of Haughton, South Yorkshire]].
** Location scenes based in Hotton are usually filmed in the town of Otley, close to the TV studios in Leeds where the show is filmed. Until the late 1990s, an actual village, Esholt, was used for exterior scenes of the village, until a purpose-built set was built on the grounds of a stately home close to Leeds.
* HelloNurse: Fairly frequently in hospital scenes, in fact ''the extras are considered more attractive than the main actors'' (well, at least in the medical situations, but then again, this soap '''does not''' have any regular medico characters, so to speak, not as far as we know. Digital Spy, the [[GreatBigBookOfEverything Internet soaps directory]] does not mention this.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Marlon & Paddy.
* LampshadeHanging: The villagers have noted to themselves that the village isn't as peaceful as it should be.
* LovableRogue: Eli Dingle when he wasn't being seriously nasty.
* MyLocal: The Woolpack.
* MsFanservice:
** A few times with [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwL6rcR_7yQ Roxanne Pallett]].
** Maisie Wylde, no less.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Are you seriously going to threaten ''Cain'' Dingle? Yes, it's a recurring theme to use Biblical names in Emmerdale.
* OnlySaneMan: Marlon is this to the rest of the Dingles.
* OopNorth
* OverprotectiveDad: Cain Dingle is a rather dark example of this. His protectiveness of his daughter has led to him to threaten and beat several men and even on one occasion hit her.
* ParrotExposition: When Val is revealed to have cataracts, every character who witnesses this repeats the word "cataracts" over and over again. [[HarryHillsTVBurp Harry Hill]] had a lot of fun with this scene.
* PleaseSelectNewCityName: The village of Beckindale was renamed to Emmerdale in 1994: in story this was to honour the residents of Emmerdale Farm killed in the plane crash; in the real world it was to avoid viewer confusion as the focus had broadened from the farm to the village.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Jack Sugden was hastily written out after actor Clive Hornby became ill, and the character was later killed off following Hornby's death.
** If you're a streetlighting geek, like on [[http://www.ukastle.co.uk this site]], then look out for the various types of streetlight - it's a way to tell the current state of affairs for councils on location filming.
* ReTool: From 2003 onwards.
* SerialKiller: Cameron Murray has (as of August 2013) killed three villagers (Carl by hitting him with a brick, Gennie by suffocation and Alex's murder was unseen) and admitted murdering another man in Jersey.
* SoaplandChristmas: The murder of Tom King on his wedding day (on Christmas Day) in 2006 is probably the most famous one.
* StageWhisper / SoundproofAir: Used all the time as characters discuss secrets barely an arms reach away from the person who shouldn't hear them - and doesn't.
* StraightGay: Aaron and Jackson; to a lesser extent, former characters Jason and Joe.
* SmugSnake: Nathan Wylde's entire character was built around this.
* TemporarilyAVillain: Andy Sugden during his domestic abuse storyline. He's back to normal now, after the writers explained it all as depression.
* TookALevelInBadass: Dan when he tries to sneak up on Cameron with a chair in the Woolpack hostage crisis. Unfortanutely Debbie alerts him to it.
* TheUnintelligible: Moira Barton (well, her accent is).
* TooSoon: The plane crash drew criticism and a reprimand from the {{Media Watchdog}}s for its parallels with the Lockerbie disaster.
* UnrelatedBrothers: Andy and Robert Sugden
* WouldHitAGirl: Andy Sugden, Cain Dingle
* YoungestChildWins: Inverted with the King family - After their 2004 introduction, they've gradually all been killed off with the exception of Jimmy, the eldest child. The only other members of the King bloodline still alive are Jimmy & Carl's children, and [[PutOnABus half-sister Scarlett]].
