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Some tropes are so pervasive that they're like [[All Planets Are Earthlike|air]], normally difficult to notice. Then one day, it suddenly hits you: of course, [[The Epic]]! Or [[Bank Robbery]], or [[Magic Carpet]], or what have you. Oddly, nothing comes up on a site search, so you take it to [[:Category:Trope Workshop|the Trope Workshop]] in puzzled disbelief.

But we ''must'' have this, you say. It's so obvious! Surely it's here ''somewhere''. I really can't believe that we don't have this yet. Come on, people! It's the '''[[True Meaning of Christmas]]'''! It's one of [[The Oldest Ones in the Book]], and it's all over the place.

[[Title Drop|How ''Did'' We Miss This One]]!?

The answer's pretty ironic: usually, it was missed ''because'' it was so bleeding obvious, [[Omnipresent Tropes|common]], and/or basic. So nobody thought an entry was needed, or everybody figured it was already here. Or everyone just [[Failed a Spot Check]]. (Or, in rare cases, because [[People Sit on Chairs]], and thus not actually a trope.)

'''Important Note:''' This kind of thing happens in real life all the time, many of the most earth-shattering philosophical ideas of all time are now known as "common sense", mathematically even more so: someone had to actually design the standard punctuation system of mathematical processes. ''"I think therefore I am?"'' Not before Descartes, ya didn't.

See also [[Do We Have This One?]]

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