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** This is, to a degree, [[Truth in Television]] -- the roster of chess champions is not exactly a list of the emotionally balanced. See [[Crazy People Play Chess]].
* [[Europop]]: The [[Concept Album]] definitely falls into this trope, although it's been progressively toned down over years. [[Pragmatic Adaptation|There's only so much you can do with a thirty piece orchestra.]]
* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]]: The Arbiter. It makes sense that he doesn't have a name since he doesn't really care about everyone else's problems unless they're interrupting the game, making him pretty one-dimensional.
** In the Broadway version he was explicitly named Constantine Stannos, and was a Greek businessman. In Sweden he was a Frenchman named Jean Jacques Van Boren. The US Tour made him a Nigerian named Kobe Obe. But again -- none of these names has actually stuck. Also see [[No Name Given]] below.
* [[Evil Sounds Deep]]: Molokov
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* [[My Country Right or Wrong]]: Anatoly, in an unusual way.
* [[No Accounting for Taste]]: Florence and Freddie. [[Word of God]] confirmed this at the album stage, however by the time the production rolled round, the need for [[Adaptation Expansion]] means that Florence ''says'' she loves him. Also implied for Anatoly and Svetlana.
* [[No Name Given]]: Anatoly and Freddie are simply "The Russian" and "The American" in the original [[Concept Album]]. Also, The Arbiter only has a name in a few versions (Jean Jacques van Boren, Constantine Stannos, Kobe Obe), [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"|though nobody calls him that anyway]].
* [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]]: "Embassy Lament". The song is so dryly witty that it turns into [[Anti Villain Song]], if it was ever a [[Villain Song]] to begin with.
* [[Only Friend]]: Florence is Freddie's (or at least says she is -- given his behavior, it's not hard to believe), although by the end of the first act even she gets fed up and leaves him.
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* [[Triang Relations]]: Depends on the adaptation, but version 4 features in most of them in at least some manner. One possible combination has Svetlana as A, Anatoly as B, and Florence as C. Alternately it can work with Freddie as A, Florence as B, and Anatoly as C.
* [[Unwanted Spouse]]: Poor Svetlana.
* [[Very Loosely Based
** And then there's the [[Reality Subtext]].
* [[Villain Song]]: "The Soviet Machine," where Molokov relates to his compatriots exactly how dirty they will be playing in order to ensure Anatoly loses.
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