Tropes:
Dramatic Indexes
- Abusive Parents
- Achey Scars
- Achilles' Heel
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg
- All Up to You
- Always Murder
- Always Save the Girl
- Ambiguous Situation
- Anorgasmia
- Arc Words
- As Long as There Is One Man
- A Tragedy of Impulsiveness
- Attempted Rape
- Batman Grabs a Gun
- Beggar With A Signboard
- Berserker Tears
- Best For Last
- Big Word Shout
- Billy Needs an Organ
- A Birthday, Not a Break
- Black Vikings
- Blunt "Yes"
- Blaxploitation
- Boarding School of Horrors
- Bond Breaker
- Breaking Out the Boss
- Broken Pedestal
- Caper Rationalization
- Captive Date
- Casualty in the Ring
- The Chain of Harm (usually as a subset of revenge, but it can also be used to show a down-on-their luck family being at the end of this chain)
- Chain of People
- Chains of Love
- The Chosen One
- Climactic Elevator Ride
- Comes Great Responsibility
- Coming-of-Age Story
- The Commies Made Me Do It
- CPR (Clean, Pretty, Reliable)
- Crazy Jealous Guy
- Creepy Physical
- Crowd Chant
- Curiosity Killed the Cast
- Cut Himself Shaving
- Cycle of Revenge
- Dangerous Terrain
- Date Rape Averted
- Daylight Horror
- Deadly Prank
- Destination Defenestration
- Destroy the Abusive Home
- Destroy the Evidence
- Destructive Romance
- Domestic Abuse
- Don't Look Back
- Down to the Last Play
- Drama Bomb
- Drama Queen
- Dramatically Missing the Point
- Dramatic Downstage Turn
- Dramatic Drop
- Dramatic Shattering
- Emergency Cargo Dump
- Estranged Soap Family
- Everybody Lives
- Extremely Short Timespan
- False Friend
- Family Disunion
- Feuding Families
- Finger Twitching Revival
- First Day from Hell
- Force Feeding
- Gaining the Will to Kill
- Gaslighting
- GASP!
- Give Him a Normal Life
- A Glass in the Hand
- G-Rated Drug
- Glory Days
- Golden Moment
- Good Doc Bad Doc
- Grave Marking Scene
- Grew a Spine
- Gut Punch
- Hanging by the Fingers
- Healthcare Motivation
- He's Back
- Heroic B.S.O.D.
- Hey, Let's Put on a Show
- Hollywood Heart Attack
- Hope Springs Eternal
- I Can Change My Beloved
- Ignorance Is Bliss
- Ignored Epiphany
- I Will Wait for You
- Indian Summer
- Informed Self Diagnosis
- Initiation Ceremony
- The Inspector Is Coming
- Instant Drama, Just Add Tracheotomy
- Instant Sedation
- Ironic Birthday
- It Gets Easier
- It Never Gets Any Easier
- Justified Criminal
- Kirk Summation
- Knight of Cerebus
- Last-Second Chance
- "Leave Your Quest" Test
- Libation for the Dead
- Life Will Kill You
- Limited Advancement Opportunities
- Linked List Clue Methodology
- Literal Cliffhanger
- Lonely Piano Piece
- Loved I Not Honor More
- Lying In The Dirt Together
- MacGyvering
- Magical Defibrillator
- Mama Didn't Raise No Criminal
- Marital Rape License
- Masquerade Ball
- Meaningful Background Event
- Meaningful Funeral
- Melodrama
- Milking the Giant Cow
- Moral Dilemma
- Mob War
- Montage Out
- Must Let Them Get Away
- Mysterious Parent
- Near-Rape Experience
- Notable Non Sequitur
- Not in My Backyard!
- Off the Table
- Only Law Firm in Town
- Only the Leads Get a Happy Ending
- Operation Game of Doom
- Orphanage of Fear
- Ostentatious Secret
- Parental Favoritism
- Penultimate Outburst
- Phony Newscast
- Pick on Someone Your Own Size
- Pinch Me
- Please, I Will Do Anything!
- Plethora of Mistakes
- Police Brutality
- Politically Correct History
- Present Day Present Time
- Promotion to Parent
- Psychic Dreams for Everyone
- Punch a Wall
- Pushover Parents
- Rape as Drama
- Real Time
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech
- Rebuilt Pedestal
- Remembered Too Late
- Rewind, Replay, Repeat
- Rooftop Confrontation
- Rule of Drama
- Runaway Train
- Sarcastic Clapping
- Shot to the Heart
- Shower of Angst
- Smoking Gun Control
- Soapland Christmas
- Soap Opera Disease
- Soaperizing
- Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome
- The Stool Pigeon
- Stranger in a Familiar Land
- Strike Me Down
- Sugary Malice
- Take Back Your Gift
- Take My Hand
- Talking the Monster to Death
- Tears of Fear
- Teen Drama
- Teens Are Monsters
- Teeth-Clenched Teamwork
- Televisually Transmitted Disease
- These Hands Have Killed
- Things Get Real
- Third-Act Misunderstanding
- This Is My Side
- Timmy in a Well
- Toilet Seat Divorce
- Too Good for This Sinful Earth
- The Tragic Rose
- Trauma Swing
- Troubled Fetal Position
- Unable to Cry
- Unconfessed Unemployment
- Underestimating Badassery
- Waking Up Elsewhere
- Warts and All
- We Can Rule Together
- We Do Not Know Each Other
- We Used to Be Friends
- Where Did We Go Wrong?
- Why Did You Make Me Hit You?
- Witness Protection
- The Woobie
- Wounded Gazelle Gambit
- Wounded Gazelle Warcry
- You Didn't Ask
- Your Secret's Safe With Me, Superman
- You Should Have Died Instead
