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* [[Adaptation Distillation]]
* [[Amoral Attorney]]: {{spoiler|Near the end of the movie, it is revealed that Charles got a lot of his money from defending rich criminals.}}
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: When the Baliff announces Madea and Helen's case:
{{quote| '''Baliff''':... Criminal trespassing, Reckless endangerment, Criminal possession of a handgun, Assault with a deadly weapon, Suspended license, Expired registration, Reckless driving, and a broken taillight.}}
* [[Bald of Evil]]: Charles.
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** But of course, {{spoiler|that doesn't stop Helen from handing Charles signed divorce papers and leaving to find her own [[Happily Ever After|happy ending]].}}
* [[Heroic Comedic Sociopath]]: Madea, so much.
* [[Hey ItsIt's That Guy]]!: Steve Harris, most notably from ''[[The Practice]]'', Judge Mablean Ephriam, the former judge of ''Divorce Court'', and famed black actress Cecily Tyson.
** [[Hey ItsIt's That Voice]]: Gary Sturgis, who plays a drug dealer, is known for voicing Ebon from ''[[Static Shock]]''.
* [[Huge Guy, Tiny Girl]]: Brian and Debra. Then again, Tyler Perry is this with everyone being 6'4'' and all.
* [[I Need to Go Iron My Dog]]: When Brian introduces Helen and Orlando, not realizing they'd already met, which leads to the following exchange.
{{quote| '''Orlando''': Hey, I was just trying to help you out the other night.<br />
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{{quote| '''Brenda:''' I know Tae Kwan Doe<br />
'''Madea:''' And i know whoop yo ass! }}
* [[Interrupted Suicide]] - Sort of. {{spoiler|After he's crippled, Charles, when thrown into a bathtub while being on the receiving end of yet ''another'' [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]] by Helen, attempts to drown himself in shame. Helen, however, [[Revenge|had other plans for him.]]}}
* [[ItsIt's All About Me]]
* [[Jerk With a Heart of Gold]]: You'll hurt yourself trying to decide how much "gold" is in Madea's heart.
* [[Laser -Guided Karma]]: The second half of the movie is pretty much every rotten thing Charles has done coming back to bite him in the ass. {{spoiler|His dealings with criminal clients leads to him getting paralyzed, his mistress Brenda leaves him to die and takes both his money and their kids without telling him, and when he has the nerve to still treat Helen like trash even after she tries to help him, Helen finally decides to get even. She delivers a massive [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]] about how being married to him was no picnic on her end but she at least tried to make it work, whereas he stopped caring. The stress he gave Helen caused her, among other things, two miscarriages.}}
* [[Law of Inverse Fertility]]: Helen ''wanted'' children with Charles, but had two miscarriages. Meanwhile, he had two kids with his mistress.
* [[The Mistress]]: She also had two kids for Charles and had no qualms about cleaning him out financially, letting him die in surgery rather then live as a cripple, and leaving him {{spoiler|after he was shot and paralyzed. She also took the kids with her.}}
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* [[Take That]]: A rather amusing one against Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown. See [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]] above.
* [[Team Mom]] / [[Team Dad]]: It's up to you to decide which one Madea counts as.
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: Dealt out a number of times by Helen {{spoiler|to a crippled Charles, while she's taking revenge on him.}}
* [[Title Drop]]: Later in the movie when Helen writes an entry in her diary:
{{quote| '''Helen''':September 19th. Dear '''Diary''', as I sit here thinking about picking up the pieces of what used to be my life, I realized something. Every room in this house holds a painful memory for me. Even though he's suffering, something somewhere in me wants him to suffer more. A few months and a divorce can take you through just as many emotions as 18 years in a marriage. And I'm starting to feel all of them at once. But the one that is clear is rage. Signed, '''a Mad Black Woman'''.}}
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