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* [[Asshole Victim]]: {{spoiler|Rick}}
* [[Angry Mob Song]]: "Another Dead Cow," "Christian Charity (Reprise)," parts of "Comfort and Joy," "Find/Kill the Bat Boy," and "I Imagine You're Upset."
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* [[Belief Makes You Stupid]]: Every townsperson in the show. Highlighted in "Christian Charity."
* [[Big Yes]]: Shelly when her father {{spoiler|asks if she had sex with Bat Boy}}.
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* [[Exiled to the Couch]]: Dr. Parker, forever.
* [[Final Love Duet]]: "Inside Your Heart", sung by the Bat Boy and Shelly.
** Subverted with Parker and Meredith's duet in "I Imagine You're Upset"; Meredith is forgiving Parker for what he's done and telling him that they can renew their love and start over, while Parker is {{spoiler|basically telling Meredith his rationale for killing the Bat Boy}}.
* [[Fond Memories That Could Have Been]]: "Three Bedroom House" and to some extent "Home For You".
* [[Gave Up Too Soon]]: The institute man arrives to take the Bat Boy moments after {{spoiler|[[Kill'Em All|everyone dies]]}}
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* [[I Just Want to Be Normal]]: A large part of Bat Boy's character conflict, especially shown in "Let Me Walk Among You" and his part of "Comfort and Joy". To be fair, he has the whole [[Vegetarian Vampire]] struggle without [[Cursed with Awesome|any of the traditional vampire powers]]. {{spoiler|He does not win this conflict.}}
* [[Instant Expert]]: Bat Boy goes from crouching savage to cultured dandy with a high school equivalency diploma in eight weeks. The scene is also an [[Affectionate Parody]] of [[My Fair Lady]].
* [[Intercourse with You]]: "Children, Children" is made of this trope.
* [[Interspecies Romance]]: {{spoiler|The Bat Boy and Shelley}}, as well as the other participants in the interspecies orgy during "Children, Children".
* [[Imagine the Audience Naked]]: Durring "Three Bedroom House".
* [[I'm Not Hungry]]: Bat Boy will not eat the chicken or stew Meredith prepares for him.
* [[I Want My Mommy]]: Meredith after she gets {{spoiler|raped by bats}} and Ruthie after she gets bitten.
* [["I Want" Song]]: "Let Me Walk Among You", sung by the Bat Boy when he wants the townspeople to accept him. Also, most of the solos in "Comfort and Joy."
* [[Last Words]]: {{spoiler|Bat Boy}} to Shelly.
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* [[Poor Communication Kills]]: Meredith and Dr. Parker don't reveal {{spoiler|that Meredith is Edgar's biological mother}} until the climax of the story. Their motivations for keeping this secret are more sympathetic than most examples of the trope, but if that information had been revealed earlier, the ending Meredith fantasizes about in "Three Bedroom House" [[What Could Have Been|could have actually happened.]]
* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]: Faith healer Billy Hightower is actually one of the play's most levelheaded characters.
* [[Second Law of Metafictional Thermodynamics]]:
* {{spoiler|[[Serial Killer]]}}: Dr. Parker
* [[Shadow Discretion Shot]]: The "Revelations" scene is often performed behind a screen as a shadow play.
* [[Sniff Sniff Nom]]: Bat Boy attemps to eat chicken, stew, a couch, and a book.
** There's also the Sheriff, who tries to protect Bat Boy, wants to avoid giving him in to an institute, and keeps telling the townsfolk not to shoot him.
* [[Thank Your Prey]]: "Apology to a Cow"
* {{spoiler|[[The Hero Dies]]}}: Bat Boy
* [[The Song Before the Storm]]: "Comfort and Joy".
** Inverted at the end of the song when {{spoiler|Ruthie Taylor is murdered}}.
* [[Training Montage]]: "Show You a Thing or Two" functions as this.
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