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Some tropes seem to be an expression of an underlying law of fiction. This category attempts to collect these fundamental elements. If some of these entries seem a bit tongue-in-cheek to you ... well, you should probably just get used to that feeling. And yes, sometimes there are two or more that are directly contradictory. We don't write them. We just catalog them.
If you're looking for an index for tropes about actual laws, try The Courtroom Index, Crime and Punishment Tropes, and/or Cops and Detectives. |
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| | All Myths Are True |
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| | Anthropic Principle |
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| | Arkham's Razor |
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| | Artistic License |
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| | Attractive Bent-Gender |
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| | Attractiveness Discrimination |
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| | Ban on Politics |
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| | Beauty Equals Goodness |
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| | Beauty Is Bad |
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| | Bellisario's Maxim |
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| | Centipede's Dilemma |
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| | Chandler's Law |
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| | Chekhov M.I.A. |
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| | Chekhov's Armoury |
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| | Chekhov's Army |
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| | Chekhov's Boomerang |
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| | Chekhov's Classroom |
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| | Chekhov's Exhibit |
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| | Chekhov's Gag |
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| | Chekhov's Gift |
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| | Chekhov's Gun |
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| | Chekhov's Gunman |
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| | Chekhov's Skill |
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| | Chekhov's Volcano |
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| | Chunky Salsa Rule |
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| | Clarke's Law for Girls' Toys |
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| | Clarke's Third Law |
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| | Competence Zone |
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| | Conservation of Competence |
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| | Contractual Boss Immunity |
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| | Contractual Immortality |
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| | Convenient Questing |
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| | Conveniently Empty Building |
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| | Cool of Rule |
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| | Cute Is Evil |
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| | Cuteness Proximity |
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| | Cybernetics Eat Your Soul |
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| | Death Equals Redemption |
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| | Departure Means Death |
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| | Direct Line to the Author |
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| | Dumbwaiter Ride |
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| | Easily-Overheard Conversation |
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| | Easy Come, Easy Go |
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| | Emotional Torque |
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| | EmotionsVersusStoicism |
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| | Ermine Cape Effect |
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| | Every Car Is a Pinto |
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| | Evil Makes You Ugly |
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| | Faction Calculus |
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| | Failure Is the Only Option |
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| | Finagle's Law |
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| | First Girl Wins |
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| | First Law of Gender Bending |
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| | First Law of Metafictional Thermodynamics |
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| | First Law of Resurrection |
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| | First Law of Tragicomedies |
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| | Fixed Relative Strength |
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| | Fleeting Demographic Rule |
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| | Forum Speak |
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| | Gender Incompetence |
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| | Godwin's Law |
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| | Godwin's Law of Time Travel |
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| | Godzilla Threshold |
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| | Gravity Is a Harsh Mistress |
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| | Hanlon's Razor |
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| | Heroes Act, Villains Hinder |
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| | Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act |
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| | Immortal Life Is Cheap |
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| | Immortal Procreation Clause |
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| | Immortality Hurts |
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| | Improbable Infant Survival |
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| | Incendiary Exponent |
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| | Inevitable Waterfall |
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| | Inevitably Broken Rule |
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| | Inverse Law of Complexity to Power |
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| | Inverse Law of Sharpness and Accuracy |
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| | Inverse Law of Utility and Lethality |
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| | Kryptonite Is Everywhere |
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| | Kuleshov Effect |
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| | Last Confession Wins |
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| | Last Girl Wins |
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| | Last Interviewee Wins |
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| | Law of Cartographical Elegance |
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| | Law of Conservation of Normality |
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| | Law of Disproportionate Response |
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| | Law of Inverse Fertility |
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| | Law of Inverse Paternity |
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| | Law of Inverse Recoil |
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| | Law of 100 |
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| | Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics |
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| | Like Reality, Unless Noted |
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| | Linear Warriors, Quadratic Wizards |
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| | Literary Agent Hypothesis |
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| | Locard's Theory |
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| | Lord British Postulate |
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| | MST3K Mantra |
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| | Madonna-Whore Complex |
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| | Magic A Is Magic A |
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| | Magnum Opus Dissonance |
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| | Million to One Chance |
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| | Moff’s Law |
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| | Monster Delay |
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| | Murphy's Bullet |
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| | Murphy's Law |
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| | Never a Self-Made Woman |
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| | Never the Obvious Suspect |
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| | No Tech but High Tech |
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| | No Transhumanism Allowed |
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| | Nobody Poops |
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| | Nominal Importance |
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| | Observation on Originality |
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| | Occam's Razor |
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| | Offscreen Inertia |
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| | Once Original, Now Common |
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| | Only One Plausible Suspect |
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| | Parody Displacement |
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| | Plot Tailored to the Party |
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| | Poe's Law |
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| | Popularity Polynomial |
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| | Post-Climax Confrontation |
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| | Probability Tropes |
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| | Rank Scales with Asskicking |
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| | Reality Is Unrealistic |
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| | Redemption Earns Life |
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| | Redemption Equals Affliction |
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| | Redemption Equals Death |
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| | Redemption Equals Sex |
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| | Refuge in Audacity |
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| | Rule 50 |
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| | Rule #1 |
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| | Rule of Animation Conservation |
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| | Rule of Cool |
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| | Rule of Cute |
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| | Rule of Drama |
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| | Rule of Empathy |
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| | Rule of Fun |
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| | Rule of Funny |
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| | Rule of Glamorous |
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| | Rule of Index |
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| | Rule of Perception |
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| | Rule of Personification Conservation |
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| | Rule of Pool |
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| | Rule of Romantic |
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| | Rule of Scary |
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| | Rule of Seven |
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| | Rule of Sexy |
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| | Rule of Symbolism |
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| | Rule of Three |
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| | Rule 63 |
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| | Rule 34 |
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| | Rule Zero |
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| | Rules of Orphan Economics |
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| | Rules of the Road |
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| | Sanderson's First Law |
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| | Schrödinger's Gun |
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| | Science Cannot Comprehend Phlebotinum |
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| | Science Is Bad |
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| | Second Law of Gender-Bending |
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| | Second Law of Metafictional Thermodynamics |
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| | Sensible Heroes, Skimpy Villains |
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| | Set Swords to "Stun" |
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| | Sex Signals Death |
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| | Sexy Villains, Chaste Heroes |
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| | Significant Birth Date |
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| | Significant Reference Date |
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| | Sliding Scale of Beauty |
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| | Sliding Scale of Continuity |
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| | Sliding Scale of Fourth Wall Hardness |
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| | Sliding Scale of Free Will vs. Fate |
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| | Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism |
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| | Sliding Scale of Parent-Shaming in Fiction |
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| | Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty |
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| | Sliding Scale of Silliness vs. Seriousness |
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| | Sliding Scale of Video Game World Size and Scale |
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| | Sliding Scale of Villain Threat |
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| | Sliding Scale of Visuals Versus Dialogue |
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| | Song Association |
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| | Sorting Algorithm of Evil |
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| | Sorting Algorithm of Face-Heel Turning |
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| | Sorting Algorithm of Mortality |
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| | Sorting Algorithm of Threatening Geography |
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| | Sorting Algorithm of Tropes |
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| | Sparse List of Rules |
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| | Streisand Effect |
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| | Stress-Relieving Gameplay |
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| | Sturgeon's Law |
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| | Sukhomlinov Effect |
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| | TV Never Lies |
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| | The Chris Carter Effect |
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| | The Dilbert Principle |
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| | The Firefly Effect |
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| | The Good Guys Always Win |
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| | The Law of Conservation of Detail |
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| | The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort |
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| | The Law of Fan Jackassery |
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| | The Law of Power Proportionate to Effort |
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| | The Laws of Magic |
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| | The Magazine Rule |
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| | The Magic Poker Equation |
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| | The Morality/Mortality Equation |
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| | The Peter Principle |
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| | The Rule of First Adopters |
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| | The Schlub Pub Seduction Deduction |
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| | The Smurfette Principle |
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| | The Theorem of Narrow Interests |
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| | The Tyson Zone |
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| | The Wiki Rule |
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| | The Worf Effect |
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| | Theiss Titillation Theory |
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| | Theory of Narrative Causality |
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| | Third Law of Gender-Bending |
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| | Three Month Rule |
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| | Too Many Cooks Spoil the Soup |
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| | Two Girls to a Team |
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| | Undead Tax Exemption |
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| | Underdogs Never Lose |
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| | Unspoken Plan Guarantee |
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| | Variable Terminal Velocity |
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| | Villains Act, Heroes React |
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| | What Measure Is a Non-Human? |
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| | Your Magic's No Good Here |
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| | Conservation of Ninjutsu |
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| | Law of Chromatic Superiority |
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| | Not the Fall That Kills You |
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| | The CSI Effect |
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