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[[File:gilligancutdonald_7697.jpg|link=Gilligan Cut|frame|[[Donald Duck]] demonstrates the [[Gilligan Cut]], courtesy of artist [[Don Rosa]].]]
We're now entering the section of tour going through the [[Tropes of Legend]]!
If you look off to your right, you can see one of the very first tropes added to the wiki, the [[Gilligan Cut]]. This trope is named after the many times that the Skipper on ''[[
While some tropes are a case of art imitating life, this is not always the case. That trope relies on the medium (television) to create the comedy -- real life doesn't cut from one scene to the next that fast. Well, not without ridiculous amounts of sedatives, and those aren't allowed on this ride. We definitely want to avoid sedatives, because we're coming up on [[Chekhov's Gun]].
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This describes a story element that is inconspicuously introduced now, but becomes extremely significant later. But that doesn't mean everything is important in a story; mysteries are full of [[Red Herring]]s.
Speaking of tropes that are the standard for the [[genre]], consider [[
A lot of our tropes have funny names, and the [[MacGuffin]] is no exception. This name was popularized by [[Alfred Hitchcock]], and describes an object that everyone in the story wants. Not that it actually matters what the object is -- it can be a [[Briefcase Full of Money]], and [[Artifact of Doom]], or a [[I'm Dying, Please Take My MacGuffin|mysterious gift from a dying man]].
Our site isn't all about traditional media, either. As we pass into our [[Video Games]] section, you can catch a glimpse of our [[Distressed Damsel]] tied to a post. (No, you don't have slay that dragon to rescue her, she's just an actress.) Often a princess in need of saving through some magical quest, she's almost always attractive, but is completely unable of saving herself.
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