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==A-E==
* [[Abusive Parents]]: Most infamously in "[http://www.fmh-child.org/Lisa.html Lisa]," but a running theme.
* [[Abusive Parents]]: Most infamously in "[http://www.fmh-child.org/Lisa.html Lisa]," but a running theme.
* [[Activist Fundamentalist Antics]]: In [[The Verse]] of Chick Tracts, a [[The Fundamentalist|real Christian]] would never resort to this kind of behavior. However, preachers of ''other'' faiths easily fall into this trope, [[Straw Loser|thus proving the Christians to be superior]].
* [[Activist Fundamentalist Antics]]: In [[The Verse]] of Chick Tracts, a [[The Fundamentalist|real Christian]] would never resort to this kind of behavior. However, preachers of ''other'' faiths easily fall into this trope, [[Straw Loser|thus proving the Christians to be superior]].
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* [[Culture Blind]]: It's hard to believe that the adults who grew up in the United States and are the target of his [[Easy Evangelism]] have never even heard of Jesus or basic Christian beliefs. In one tract, an American Christian lectures a Muslim on the "history" of Islam.
* [[Culture Blind]]: It's hard to believe that the adults who grew up in the United States and are the target of his [[Easy Evangelism]] have never even heard of Jesus or basic Christian beliefs. In one tract, an American Christian lectures a Muslim on the "history" of Islam.
* [[Curiosity Causes Conversion]]: Once anyone hears of Jesus.
* [[Curiosity Causes Conversion]]: Once anyone hears of Jesus.
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* [[Deadly Change-of-Heart]]: Some people, like Charles Bishop in "[http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0022/0022_01.asp The Assignment]" and Bruce in "[http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/5019/5019_01.asp Fallen]"<ref> which actually tells Jesus' parable of the Prodigal Son</ref> die while considering conversion (and procrastinating), and go to Hell as a result.
* [[Deal with the Devil]]: Occurs in [http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0078/0078_01.asp "The Contract"] and [http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0034/0034_01.asp "Angels?"] among others.
* [[Deal with the Devil]]: Occurs in [http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0078/0078_01.asp "The Contract"] and [http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0034/0034_01.asp "Angels?"] among others.
* [[Death by Childbirth]]: Li'l Susy's mother.
* [[Death by Childbirth]]: Li'l Susy's mother.
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* [[Evil Laugh]]: '''''HAW HAW HAW'''''
* [[Evil Laugh]]: '''''HAW HAW HAW'''''
* [[Evilutionary Biologist]]: All of them.
* [[Evilutionary Biologist]]: All of them.
* [[Expospeak]]: Quite a bit of it. Arguably justified, since after all these are unashamedly [[Author Tract|Author Tracts]].
* [[Expospeak]]: Quite a bit of it. Arguably justified, since after all these are unashamedly [[Author Tract]]s.

==F-J==
* [[Face Death with Dignity]]: The saved Christians die with more dignity than those who end up going to Hell.
* [[Face Death with Dignity]]: The saved Christians die with more dignity than those who end up going to Hell.
* [[Face Heel Turn]]: Occasionally, Christians fall from grace, like three of the four brothers in "[http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1026/1026_01.asp Four Angels?]", Harry (only briefly mentioned) in "The Poor Revolutionist", and Paul in "The Last Generation".
* [[Face Heel Turn]]: Occasionally, Christians fall from grace, like three of the four brothers in "[http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1026/1026_01.asp Four Angels?]", Harry (only briefly mentioned) in "The Poor Revolutionist", and Paul in "The Last Generation".
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* [[Hearing Voices]]: In "[http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1020/1020_01.asp Kidnapped!]"
* [[Hearing Voices]]: In "[http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1020/1020_01.asp Kidnapped!]"
* [[Heel Faith Turn]]: Constantly.
* [[Heel Faith Turn]]: Constantly.
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* [[Deadly Change-of-Heart]]: Some people, like Charles Bishop in "[http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0022/0022_01.asp The Assignment]" and Bruce in "[http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/5019/5019_01.asp Fallen]"<ref> which actually tells Jesus' parable of the Prodigal Son</ref> die while considering conversion (and procrastinating), and go to Hell as a result.
* [[Hell of a Heaven]]: If your loved ones don't convert you'll be in Heaven all alone so convert everyone you know today!
* [[Hell of a Heaven]]: If your loved ones don't convert you'll be in Heaven all alone so convert everyone you know today!
* [[A Hell of a Time]]: According to "[http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0052/0052_01.asp No Fear?]", millions of people have been told that Hell will be a wild, endless party.
* [[A Hell of a Time]]: According to "[http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0052/0052_01.asp No Fear?]", millions of people have been told that Hell will be a wild, endless party.
* [[Hellevator]]: Apparently operated by [[Joseph Stalin]], wearing a [[Hazmat Suit]].
* [[Hellevator]]: Apparently operated by [[Joseph Stalin]], wearing a [[Hazmat Suit]].
* [[Hell Seeker]]: Some tracts feature [[Straw Loser]] characters who believe that [[A Hell of a Time|hell is cool]]. They are, of course, soon taught the error of their ways.
* [[Hell Seeker]]: Some tracts feature [[Straw Loser]] characters who believe that [[A Hell of a Time|hell is cool]]. They are, of course, soon taught the error of their ways.
* [[Heteronormative Crusader]]: Several tracts are about homosexuals being possessed by demons or generically evil. Sometimes fetish clothes and BDSM tools are used to show just how evil the gays are. Heterosexual BDSM and sodomy has not yet gotten any mention. One of the strongest examples is the tract called [http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1070/1070_01.asp Uninvited]: The tract feature [[Heteronormative Crusader|a nurse who harasses dying AIDS-patients for their "crime" of being gay]]. Of course, [[Soulsaving Crusader|her actions are fully justified within the verse of the tract]], since this is an [[Anvilicious|anviliciously]] bigoted [[Author Tract]]. The real kick? It turns out that all the homosexuals became homosexuals because they were sexually molested as children. More to the point, when a child gets sexually molested, she automatically becomes unclean, possessed by a demon of defilement. The trope [[Defiled Forever]] is played straight for everyone who isn't both [[The Fundamentalist]] ''and'' a Christian. Averted for all characters who are (or become) [[Holier Than Thou]]: [http://www.cafepress.co.uk/thegamer.17703956 Jesus Saves, everybody else takes 5d6 points of damage].
* [[Heteronormative Crusader]]: Several tracts are about homosexuals being possessed by demons or generically evil. Sometimes fetish clothes and BDSM tools are used to show just how evil the gays are. Heterosexual BDSM and sodomy has not yet gotten any mention. One of the strongest examples is the tract called [http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1070/1070_01.asp Uninvited]: The tract feature [[Heteronormative Crusader|a nurse who harasses dying AIDS-patients for their "crime" of being gay]]. Of course, [[Soulsaving Crusader|her actions are fully justified within the verse of the tract]], since this is an [[Anvilicious]]ly bigoted [[Author Tract]]. The real kick? It turns out that all the homosexuals became homosexuals because they were sexually molested as children. More to the point, when a child gets sexually molested, she automatically becomes unclean, possessed by a demon of defilement. The trope [[Defiled Forever]] is played straight for everyone who isn't both [[The Fundamentalist]] ''and'' a Christian. Averted for all characters who are (or become) [[Holier Than Thou]]: [http://www.cafepress.co.uk/thegamer.17703956 Jesus Saves, everybody else takes 5d6 points of damage].
* [[Hollywood Satanism]]
* [[Hollywood Satanism]]
* [[If I Were a Rich Man]]: In "[http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0048/0048_01.asp Titanic]", Chester and his wife stay in a first class room on the aforementioned ship. He then goes off to rub shoulders with all the wealthy passengers and says that in a few months, they'll "be rolling in money." [[Fridge Logic|This is odd, considering that they're in a first class suite]] and in today's dollars, they cost either $83,000 or $3000 (depending on if they went with a parlor suite or a berth). Therefore, by some standards, he was ''already'' rolling in money. Of course, he may have been saving his pennies for this expensive trip [[Fridge Brilliance|because it was his opportunity]] to get ''really'' rich really fast.
* [[If I Were a Rich Man]]: In "[http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0048/0048_01.asp Titanic]", Chester and his wife stay in a first class room on the aforementioned ship. He then goes off to rub shoulders with all the wealthy passengers and says that in a few months, they'll "be rolling in money." [[Fridge Logic|This is odd, considering that they're in a first class suite]] and in today's dollars, they cost either $83,000 or $3000 (depending on if they went with a parlor suite or a berth). Therefore, by some standards, he was ''already'' rolling in money. Of course, he may have been saving his pennies for this expensive trip [[Fridge Brilliance|because it was his opportunity]] to get ''really'' rich really fast.
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* [[Insane Troll Logic]]: For starters, believing in evolution probably will turn you into an atheistic, xenophobic, borderline-sociopathic [[Jerkass]]. Thankfully, [[Easy Evangelism]] can save you.
* [[Insane Troll Logic]]: For starters, believing in evolution probably will turn you into an atheistic, xenophobic, borderline-sociopathic [[Jerkass]]. Thankfully, [[Easy Evangelism]] can save you.
* [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope]]: Harry in [http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1033/1033_01.asp "Fairy Tales,"] mentioned above, who goes straight from disbelieving in Santa Claus to becoming a mass murderer.
* [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope]]: Harry in [http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1033/1033_01.asp "Fairy Tales,"] mentioned above, who goes straight from disbelieving in Santa Claus to becoming a mass murderer.

==K-O==
* [[Karma Houdini]]: While neither abuser in "Lisa" is shown going to jail, the neighbor is an even better example. The [[Villain Protagonist]] father, at least, gets scared badly enough to contemplate suicide, not only because he might go to jail, but because everyone's going to know what he's done. The neighbor, who also helped make things even worse for him by blackmailing him, [[What Happened to the Mouse?|simply disappears at the end]] without explanation.
* [[Karma Houdini]]: While neither abuser in "Lisa" is shown going to jail, the neighbor is an even better example. The [[Villain Protagonist]] father, at least, gets scared badly enough to contemplate suicide, not only because he might go to jail, but because everyone's going to know what he's done. The neighbor, who also helped make things even worse for him by blackmailing him, [[What Happened to the Mouse?|simply disappears at the end]] without explanation.
* [[Laser-Guided Karma]]: Happens from time to time, such as when A.J. fires Dudley after he makes a $5 million contract with Japan (for ''flying first class''), the contract fails and he gets sued for it ([[Humiliation Conga|among other indignities]]).
* [[Laser-Guided Karma]]: Happens from time to time, such as when A.J. fires Dudley after he makes a $5 million contract with Japan (for ''flying first class''), the contract fails and he gets sued for it ([[Humiliation Conga|among other indignities]]).
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* [[Our Vampires Are Different]]: And named [[The Igor|Igor]], for some reason. They're born as vampires, and apparently they can survive all the way up to adolescence before the first time they get hungry.
* [[Our Vampires Are Different]]: And named [[The Igor|Igor]], for some reason. They're born as vampires, and apparently they can survive all the way up to adolescence before the first time they get hungry.
* [[Original Position Fallacy]]: One of the most common types of [[Straw Loser]] is the guy who isn't afraid of hell. One variant of this is that he believes that hell exists and that it is a horrible place for the damned, but also believes that he'll be one of Satan's demons reigning in hell. Of course, his fate invariably turns out to be much crueler.
* [[Original Position Fallacy]]: One of the most common types of [[Straw Loser]] is the guy who isn't afraid of hell. One variant of this is that he believes that hell exists and that it is a horrible place for the damned, but also believes that he'll be one of Satan's demons reigning in hell. Of course, his fate invariably turns out to be much crueler.

==P-T==
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Li'l Susy's mother died when she was born and her father died of a heart attack.
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Li'l Susy's mother died when she was born and her father died of a heart attack.
* [[Parental Incest]]: The tract "Lisa" where a father (Henry Walker), and his next door neighbor (Charlie), sexually abused his very young daughter, but [[Karma Houdini|he was forgiven because he accepted God and Jesus]]. Since pulled from publication, but copies are still online.
* [[Parental Incest]]: The tract "Lisa" where a father (Henry Walker), and his next door neighbor (Charlie), sexually abused his very young daughter, but [[Karma Houdini|he was forgiven because he accepted God and Jesus]]. Since pulled from publication, but copies are still online.
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* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: The main character in the original version of "The Poor Little Witch" leaves alone after getting saved despite knowing her life is in danger, and gets murdered.
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: The main character in the original version of "The Poor Little Witch" leaves alone after getting saved despite knowing her life is in danger, and gets murdered.
* [[Twist Ending]]: "[http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0003/0003_01.asp Somebody Goofed]" and "[http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1108/1108_01.asp Oops!]" which was illustrated for black people.
* [[Twist Ending]]: "[http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0003/0003_01.asp Somebody Goofed]" and "[http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1108/1108_01.asp Oops!]" which was illustrated for black people.

==U-Z==
* [[Undercover Cop Reveal]]: In "Trust me" and "Bad Bob," a buyer turns out to be an undercover narcotics cop, who arrests the respective main characters
* [[Undercover Cop Reveal]]: In "Trust me" and "Bad Bob," a buyer turns out to be an undercover narcotics cop, who arrests the respective main characters
* [[The Unfavourite]]: Jimmy in "Unloved", as his parents refuse to attend his high school graduation, constantly tell him he's inferior to his sister Nancy, criticize his choice of a wife, blame him for having rotten kids, berate him for losing his job, and disown him after he asks to borrow money.
* [[The Unfavourite]]: Jimmy in "Unloved", as his parents refuse to attend his high school graduation, constantly tell him he's inferior to his sister Nancy, criticize his choice of a wife, blame him for having rotten kids, berate him for losing his job, and disown him after he asks to borrow money.
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{{quote|''Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."'' --''[[The Bible|John 14:6]]''<br />
{{quote|''Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."'' --''[[The Bible|John 14:6]]''
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