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* [[Has Two Mommies]]: Buddy "Stump" has Ruth and Idgie.
* [[Hooker with a Heart of Gold]]: Eva Bates, again very much so.
* {{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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* [[Imagine Spot]]: done multiple times with Evelyn Couch.
* [[Inspector Javert]]: Smoote's ''own daughter'' was raped by Bennet, but he still hunts for Frank's killer. He later becomes the judge at Idgie and Big George's murder trial. {{spoiler|[[Subverted Trope|by which time his daughter has died, and he dismisses the case despite knowing the evidence of innocence is fake]].}}
* [[Ironic Echo]]: There's a family joke told several times in the film about a flock of ducks landing in a small pond. The first time it's told by Buddy to Ruth right before he's killed. The last time it's told it's told is by Idgie to Ruth on Ruth's deathbed. [[Tear Jerker|Ruth wanted it to be the last thing she heard as she was dying.]]
* [[The Ladette]]: Idgie is rough and tomboyish and lives in the woods for a time.▼
* [[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.
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** The movie at least heavily implies that in Grady's particular part of the Klan, marching and using slurs is about ''all'' they do. They apparently have something of a reputation for being too nice to the local blacks (at least by a racist's standards).
* [[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.▼
▲* [[The Ladette]]: Idgie is rough and tomboyish and lives in the woods for a time.
* [[Parking Payback]]: Evelyn rear-ends six times a car that stole her parking spot.
▲* [[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.
* [[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.
* [[Right for the Wrong Reasons]]: Judge Smoote thinks that Idgie and her cook killed Frank Bennet {{spoiler|but dismisses the case anyways. Unbeknownst to him, the real killer is the cook's adoptive mother.}}
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