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* [[Domestic Abuse]]: Frank Bennett beats Ruth Jameson.
* [[Door Step Baby]]: Of a sort. A woman dares not come home with a child because her husband has been in prison for years. Sipsie, who has always wanted a child, races down to the train station to get it. She names the baby George.
* [[Everything's Worse
* [[Finally Found the Body]]: Frank Bennet's truck is found in the river. {{spoiler|Years later, as the garden by the cafe is being dug up, so is his skull.}}
* [[Food Fight]]: The director left bowls of weapons on each side of the room for Idgie an Ruth to use in the scene, and told them to improvise. The insanity and laughter going on is real. He also said it was [[Freud Was Right|supposed to be a metaphor for a sex scene.]]
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* [[Happily Adopted]]: Big George, adopted son of Sipsie.
* [[Has Two Mommies]]: Buddy "Stump" has Ruth and Idgie.
* [[Hooker
* {{spoiler|[[I Am a Humanitarian]]: After Sipsie kills Bennet, she and the others at the Whistle Stop Cafe take a page from Sweeney Todd and serve him to the investigator looking for Bennet in order to hide the body}}.
* [[Human Resources]]: {{spoiler|Frank Bennett gets cut into steaks and served in the diner}}
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* [[Lethal Chef]]: Subverted--Sipsie's a [[Supreme Chef]] {{spoiler|but what she did to Frank with a [[Frying Pan of Doom]] was very literally lethal}}.
* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: The novel. It's fairly easy to keep track of them, however.
* [[Never Mess
* [[Noble Bigot
* [[One-Woman Wail]]: A slow gospel version is sung throughout some scenes.
* [[Pass Fail]]: One of the novel's sub-plots is about a black character who is able to pass as white, only to cause trouble to a passing relative who recognized her without realizing she was trying to do so.
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* [[Railroad Tracks of Doom]]: Two instances of this trope happen in the story. In the second incident, the victim did ''not'' walk away in one piece. In the first, the victim didn't walk away at all.
* [[The Red Stapler]]: The author of the book found an old abandoned ghost town, and decided to write the book to make up a story behind the place. Then the movie came and they filmed it in the same ghost town, and ended up cleaning the place up a little. The film and book brought so much attention to it, that they opened up the actual whistle stop cafe there.
* [[Right for
* [[Scrapbook Story]]: The novel tells various characters' stories through traditional narrators, newspaper clippings and the local Whistlestop newspaper ''The Weems Weakly.'' The end of the book evens has recipes from the titular resturant.
* [[Straw Feminist]]: Various purposefully comical stereotypes show up in Evelyn's time, and after getting caught up in the story, Evelyn herself becomes an aggressive female-empowerment activist for a while before calming down. And she is awesome.
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