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* Who shot Phil Mitchell?

* The return of Dirty Den.

* Dirty Den [[Dropped a Bridge On Him|gets killed off again.]]

* Dirty Den [[Dropped a Bridge on Him|gets killed off again.]]

* The Secret Mitchell.

* Who Killed Archie Mitchell/Eastenders 25.

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* [[Accidental Murder]]: Two notable examples being the death of Saskia Duncan by Steve Owen using an ash tray to defend himself and more recently the death of Heather Trott by Ben Mitchell using a photo frame. Both examples also involved a cover up

* [[All Asians Are Alike]]: The Ferreiras (South Asian, but still).

* [[Alone ~~With~~ the Psycho]]: Stella and her treatment of Ben Mitchell. Also Mad May.

* [[Alone with the Psycho]]: Stella and her treatment of Ben Mitchell. Also Mad May.

** Ben also does it to Lousie.

* [[Away in A Manger]]: The 1990 Christmas Day episode.

* [[Away in a Manger]]: The 1990 Christmas Day episode.

* [[Back for ~~The~~ Dead]]: Owen.

* [[Back for the Dead]]: Owen.

* [[Badass Family]]: What the Mitchells believe themselves to be (with the exception of Billy).

** And Danielle and Ben.

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* [[Big Screwed-Up Family]]: The Mitchells.

** The Beale/Fowler clan, the Butchers, the Brannings, the Slaters, the Masoods. Every single family fits this trope.

* [[Bottle Episode]]: The famous two-hander episodes, and their variants - including four-handers and even a ''one-hander''; these are also usually [[Locked in A Room]].

* [[Bottle Episode]]: The famous two-hander episodes, and their variants - including four-handers and even a ''one-hander''; these are also usually [[Locked in a Room]].

* [[Bus Crash]]: Mark.

** Kathy and her death to bring in Ben Mitchell.

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* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Honey

* [[Crapsack World]]: Crappier than the crappiest crap that a crap did when it took a crap in a bush, in winter! Every week someone is either murdered, having an affair, in trouble with the law, in trouble with the tax man, hurting their children; you would go mad from depression. You wouldn't go near Walford with a ten foot barge pole, with crap on the end!

* [[Christmas Episode]]: [[Soapland Christmas]] at its most cruel, but it doesn't stop the characters from thinking it's going to work this year. "[[Tempting Fate|This'll be the best]] [[Failure Is the Only Option|Christmas]] [[The End of the World As We Know It|Walford's ever had]]!"

* [[Christmas Episode]]: [[Soapland Christmas]] at its most cruel, but it doesn't stop the characters from thinking it's going to work this year. "[[Tempting Fate|This'll be the best]] [[Failure Is the Only Option|Christmas]] [[The End of the World as We Know It|Walford's ever had]]!"

* [[Dawson Casting]]: The E20 Gang. Sam Attwater who plays Leon is 24.

* [[Death Is Cheap]] Dirty Den, or Grant Mitchell for who it is not so much cheap, as buy one, get one free...

* [[De Fictionalisation]]: The E20 postcode was fictional in 1985 when the show began, but was allocated in 2011 to a [[Olympic Games|certain development in Stratford]].

* [[Depending On the Writer]]: One of the factors some consider part of the show's more surreal evolution is the occasionally extreme swings in characterization. Perhaps some of the best examples are Phil Mitchell or Janine Butcher, who can switch between rough-edged but somewhat humanized [[Jerkass]] types or completely ruthless borderline psychopaths who will revert to any monsterous tactics for their own self gain.

* [[Depending on the Writer]]: One of the factors some consider part of the show's more surreal evolution is the occasionally extreme swings in characterization. Perhaps some of the best examples are Phil Mitchell or Janine Butcher, who can switch between rough-edged but somewhat humanized [[Jerkass]] types or completely ruthless borderline psychopaths who will revert to any monsterous tactics for their own self gain.

* [[Domestic Abuse]]: Several storylines have focused on this. The early 2000s saw a notable one between "Little Mo" Mitchell and her husband Trevor, which ended in spectacular fashion with Mo being sent to jail when she finally tried to defend herself by hitting Trevor over the head with an iron.

* [[Dramatic Irony]]: Ronnie unwittingly persuading her secret daughter Danielle to have an abortion when she was haunted by the lost of said daughter.

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* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Oh so very much ...

* [[Pay Evil Unto Evil]]: Stacey Slater

* [[Put On a Bus]]: Or more commonly, a black cab or a train.

* [[Put on a Bus]]: Or more commonly, a black cab or a train.

* [[Real Life Writes the Plot]]: Spencer was hastily written out after actor Chris Parker attempted suicide. Similarly, the actor playing Gavin Sharp was abruptly axed so Gavin's storyline was wrapped up with a throwaway line of dialogue.

** An exit storyline everytime an actress falls pregnant.