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Tropes and elements that are used in almost all media and are not restricted to a single category (such asVideo Game Tropes).

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Tropes:

• Actually, I Am Him
• All Is Well That Ends Well
• Appeal to Obscurity
• Awesome, but Impractical
• Beginner's Luck
• Best Known for the Fanservice
• The Big Board
• Bindle Stick
• Black Dot Pupils
• The Blind Leading the Blind
• Bonus Material
• Boring, but Practical
• Call-Back
• Cardiovascular Love
• Chekhov's Gun
• Closed Circle
• Closer than They Appear
• Comforting Comforter
• Confronting Your Imposter
• Crazy Enough to Work
• Cuckoo Clock Gag
• Cultural Cross-Reference
• Delayed Explosion
• Delivery Not Desired
• Difficult, but Awesome
• Disqualification-Induced Victory
• Dude, Where's My Reward?
• Elves Versus Dwarves
• Emotional Torque
• Every Proper Lady Should Curtsy
• Explicit Content
• Face on a Milk Carton
• The Face
• Face Palm
• Fantasy Gun Control
• Fictional Counterpart
• Film the Hand
• Floating Advice Reminder
• Geographic Flexibility
• Genre-Busting
• Genre Killer
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff
• Goal in Life
• The Good Guys Always Win
• The Graph Shows the Trend
• Group Hug
• Grows on Trees
• Happy Ending
• Harmful to Touch
• Headdesk
• The Hero
• Heroic Rematch
• Hope Springs Eternal
• Hope Sprouts Eternal
• Hospitality for Heroes
• Hypocrisy Nod
• Hypocrite
• The Illegible
• Improvised Weapon
• In the Back
• In the Hood
• Jumping Out of a Cake
• Just Here for Godzilla
• Just Whistle
• The Leader
• Led by the Outsider
• Lethal Diagnosis
• Lie Detector
• Loophole Abuse
• Long Hair Is Feminine
• Mama Bear
• Missing Backblast
• Mission Creep
• Monumentally Important Founder
• Mysterious Note
• Never Accepted in His Hometown
• Nobody Poops
• No Sense of Direction
• Official Couple
• Off the Chart
• The Only One
• Papa Wolf
• Perfect Health
• Plot Armor
• Plot Parallel
• Portal Statue Pairs
• The Power of Friendship
• Punchline
• The Reveal
• Ring-Ring-CRUNCH!
• Rule of Empathy
• Schmuck Bait
• Secret Test of Character
• Serial Escalation
• Sick and Wrong
• Someday This Will Come in Handy
• Spear Carrier
• Starting a New Life
• Stop Motion Lighting
• Take Our Word for It
• That Satisfying "Crunch!"
• There's No Place Like Home
• Thief Bag
• Time Marches On
• Trail of Bread Crumbs
• Trash Talk
• Trend Killer
• Trilogy
• Trope Trigger
• Trouble Follows You Home
• TV Telephone Etiquette
• Twisted Echo Cut
• Unpopular Popular Character
• Unreliable Expositor
• Unreliable Narrator
• Ur-Example
• Victory Is Boring
• Weather Dissonance
• We Win, Because You Didn't
• Wrong Turn at Albuquerque
• You Can't Go Home Again