History Series / Emmerdale

* BirthDeathJuxtaposition: Belle Dingle was born and Vic Windsor died on Christmas Day 1998. The scenes of Zak finding out he had a new daughter (with no-one having known Lisa was pregnant, including Lisa herself) were juxtaposed with the Vic's wife and daughters finding out he was dead.

* Birth/DeathJuxtaposition: Belle Dingle was born and Vic Windsor died on Christmas Day 1998. The scenes of Zak finding out he had a new daughter (with no-one having known Lisa was pregnant, including Lisa herself) were juxtaposed with the Vic's wife and daughters finding out he was dead.

* BloodSplatteredWeddingDress: Emma during the "No Return" storyline.

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 ''Series/CoronationStreet'' and ''Series/EastEnders'' - until 1993, when writers had a plane crash onto the Woolpack, drawing in 18 million viewers.

* 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.

* MistakenForCheating: Katie Sugden thought her ex-husband-turned-brother-in-law Robert was cheating on his fiancee with Alicia Gallagher. He wasn't. [[spoiler: He was, however, cheating with someone else.]]

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* SoaplandChristmas: The murder of Tom King on his wedding day (on Christmas Day) in 2006 is probably the most famous one.

** Gordon Livesy killed himself the first night of his jail sentence as a cowardly move.

* MamaBear: Chastity isn't exactly winning any Mother of the Year awards, but she's extremely protective of Aaron.

* BuryYourGays: Subverted. After driving off of a cliff and crashing into a lake, Aaron and Robert escape but Aaron is brought into hospital. After accepting a marriage proposal from Robert he passes out and drops his oxygen mask as his heart monitor begins to flatline. Robert is then shown at a funeral staring into space in shock, implying his death. However the scene soon cuts to Aaron taking his hand, showing he is [[Main/DisneyDeath still alive]].

* TangledFamilyTree: Oh boy. To take just one example: Bernice is married to Lawrence, who is Chrissie's father. Bernice's ex-boyfriend, and step-brother, is Andy, who is now involved with Chrissie. Chrissie is midway through divorcing Robert, who is Andy's brother. Robert is semi-involved with Aaron, who used to date Robert's sister Victoria. Andy has two children with Debbie, who is Aaron's cousin and Robert's ex-girlfriend. Victoria is married to Adam, who is Aaron's step-cousin through marriage - specifically his mother's marriage to Cain (Debbie's father). Debbie's mother, Charity, also has a child with Ross, Debbie's boyfriend and Adam's half-brother. And that's before you get into the actual incest of the Dingle family tree.

* BritishAccents: Though only a few still speak with a [[OopNorth recognisable Yorkshire accent.]]

* StraightGay: Aaron, Jackson and Robert; to a lesser extent, former characters Jason and Joe.

* TangledFamilyTree: Oh boy. To take just one example: Bernice is married to Lawrence, who is Chrissie's father. Bernice's ex-boyfriend, and step-brother, is Andy, who is now involved with Chrissie. Chrissie is midway through divorcing Robert, who is Andy's brother. Robert is semi-involved with Aaron, who used to date Robert's sister Victoria. Andy has two children with Debbie, who is Aaron's cousin and Robert's ex-girlfriend. And that's before you get into the actual incest of the Dingle family tree.

* TheOtherDarrin: Frequently used with the child characters; less frequently used with the adults (though Robert Sugden is one adult example)

* PlayingAgainstType: Pauline Quirke, best-known as a comedic actress from ''Birds of a Feather'', playing an extremely dramatic part as Jackson's mother during his exit storyline (which included him becoming quadraplegic following a car crash and eventually committing suicide)

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.

* HandsomeLech: Carl King.

* LovableRogue: Eli Dingle when he wasn't being seriously nasty.

* OnlySaneMan: Marlon is this to the rest of the Dingles.

* StraightGay: Aaron and Jackson; to a lesser extent, former characters Jason and Joe.

* ReTool: From 2003 onwards.