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Tropes that are used in all media and are not restricted to another category. Generally, if a trope can be placed in some other index, then it probably shouldn't be here.

And no, this page has nothing to do with Universal Studios.

Oh, and hello to all you xkcd fans, sudo make me a sandwich.

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Tropes

• Actually I Am Him
• All Is Well That Ends Well
• Appeal To Obscurity
• Because I'm Jonesy
• Beginner's Luck
• The Big Board
• Bindle Stick
• Bigger Is Better
• The Blind Leading The Blind
• Bonus Material
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• Chekhov's Gun
• Closer Than They Appear
• Comforting Comforter
• Crazy Enough To Work
• Cry For The Devil
• Cultural Cross Reference
• Delayed Explosion
• Dude, Where's My Reward?
• Elves Versus Dwarves
• Emotional Torque
• Everybody Remembers The Stripper
• Every Proper Lady Should Curtsy
• Exposition Diagram
• Exposition Party
• Face On A Milk Carton
• Face Palm
• Fictional Counterpart
• Film The Hand
• Five Five Five
• Floating Advice Reminder
• Geographic Flexibility
• Genre Busting
• Genre Launch
• The Good Guys Always Win
• Group Hug
• Grows On Trees
• Harmful To Touch
• Hero
• Heroic Rematch
• Hollywood Driving
• Hope Springs Eternal
• Hope Sprouts Eternal
• Hypocrisy Nod
• The Illegible
• In The Hood
• Jumping Out Of A Cake
• Just Whistle
• Lethal Diagnosis
• Lie Detector
• Loophole Abuse
• Long Hair Is Feminine
• Minimalism
• Never Accepted In His Hometown
• No Sense Of Direction
• Off The Chart
• The Only One
• Open Heart Dentistry
• Our Founder
• Perfect Health
• Photo Booth Montage
• Plot Armor
• Plot Parallel
• The Protagonist
• Ring Ring CRUNCH
• Rule Of Empathy
• See No Evil Hear No Evil
• Sick And Wrong
• Someday This Will Come In Handy
• Spear Carrier
• Sympathy For The Devil
• Take Our Word For It
• That Satisfying Crunch
• There's No Place Like Home
• Thief Bag
• Time Marches On
• Trail Of Bread Crumbs
• Trouble Follows You Home
• TV Telephone Etiquette
• Unpopular Popular Character
• Unreliable Expositor
• Unreliable Narrator
• Up To Eleven
• Victory Is Boring
• Wall Bang
• Wastebasket Ball
• We Are Everywhere
• Weather Dissonance
• We Win Because You Didn't
• Wrong Turn At Albuquerque
• You Can't Go Home Again

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