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* [[Delivery Stork]]
* [[Devil in Plain Sight]]: Mayor Augustus Maywho.
* [[Enfant Terrible]]: The grinch when he was a kid.
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: While the Grinch is not above destroying public property and anything Christmas related, he at least avoids running women pushing children on the stroller. Even if the end result ends with his little car exploding.
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* [[Excited Show Title!]]: Averted. Unlike the original book and the animated short, this version leaves the exclamation point out of the title.
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: The Mayor against the Grinch.
* [[Flashback (trope)|Flashback]]
* [[Freudian Excuse]]: The Grinch is given one that previous versions lacked.
* [[Funbag Airbag]]: "Hello, Martha." Coupled with [[Crash Into Hello]].
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* [[G-Rated Sex]]: The "baby Whos from the sky" method of reproduction.
* [[Gadgeteer Genius]]: The Grinch.
* [[Genius Bruiser]]: The Grinch.▼
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]
** The flashback to the baby Grinch being delivered appears to take place at a [[wikipedia:Sex party#Key party|key party]].
** "...He looks just like your boss."
▲* [[Genius Bruiser]]: The Grinch.
* [[Grim Up North]]: The Grinch lives "just north of Whoville", and his lair is pretty icy (although that may just be because it's winter.)
* [[Hannibal Lecture]]: The Grinch delivers a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_4LmbuSmpI truly epic] one to the partygoers at the Whobilation ceremony.▼
* [[The Grinch]]
▲* [[Hannibal Lecture]]: The Grinch delivers a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_4LmbuSmpI truly epic] one to the partygoers at the Whobilation ceremony.
* [[She Is Not My Girlfriend|He Was Not My Boyfriend]]: Cindy Lou's interview of Martha May opens with Martha May flatly [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|denying ever having had a crush on the Grinch]], to which a confused Cindy replies, "I didn't ask you that."
* [[Horrible Judge of Character]]: Cindy Lou.
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** [[Jerk with a Heart of Jerk]]: The Grinch, before discovering the meaning of Christmas.
** [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: The Grinch, after discovering the meaning of Christmas. He's still kind of a jerkass, but he's considerably more affable.
* [[Love Makes You Evil]]: The Grinch's backstory.▼
* [[Love Triangle]]: The Grinch, Mayor Augustus Maywho and Martha May Whovier.▼
* [[Large Ham]]: Jim Carrey as the Grinch... expected as it is, well, Jim Carrey.
* [[Live Action Adaptation]]: Obviously.
▲* [[Love Makes You Evil]]: The Grinch's backstory.
▲* [[Love Triangle]]: The Grinch, Mayor Augustus Maywho and Martha May Whovier.
* [[Masquerade Maintenance]]: As a child, the Grinch tries to shave off his green hair after being teased about it. It doesn't work very well.
* [[Mood Whiplash]]: While obviously a comedy through and through, there are quite a few scenes foreign to the genre, like the [[Award Bait Song|"Where Are You, Christmas?"]] song.
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* [[Packed Hero|Packed Heroine]]: This happens to Cindy Lou Who.
* [[Paper-Thin Disguise]]: This ugly cave creature puts on a red coat and Santa hat. Boom! He automatically looks "just like Saint Nick."
* [[Parent Service]]: Whenever Martha May Whovier is on screen. (Er, in adult form, that is.)▼
* [[Parental Bonus]]:
** During the Grinch's childhood, in one scene the sisters can be seen collecting keys in a bowl, which could either be an alcohol reference or a sex joke.
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* [[Parental Obliviousness]]: Lou and Betty Lou Who. They never seem to question where Cindy Lou is when she's out looking for the Grinch.
** Also applies to Cindy Lou's older brothers, Stu and Drew, whose warnings about running into the Grinch at the beginning of the film are ignored as well.
▲* [[Parent Service]]: Whenever Martha May Whovier is on screen. (Er, in adult form, that is.)
* [[Parrot Expowhat]]: "Holiday Whobeewhatee?"
* [[Saving Christmas]]: Inverted; in fact, the inversion of this trope is essentially the whole premise of the story. However, it's then played straight when the Grinch ends up Saving Christmas at the end.
* [[Schoolyard Bully All Grown Up]]: Mayor Augustus Maywho.
* [[Shout-Out]]: When working with Max on his reindeer impression, the Grinch wears a baseball cap deliberately modeled on one worn by and affects mannerisms often displayed by director Ron Howard.
* [[Shrunken Organ]]: The Grinch's heart.
* [[Spiritual Successor]]: 2003's live-action film of Dr. Seuss' ''The Cat in the Hat'', from the same production company and with Mike Myers as the Cat. Incidentally, [[Jim Carrey|guess who voiced Horton]] in Blue Sky Studios' ''[[Horton Hears a Who!]]'' in 2008
* [[Timeshifted Actor]]{{context}}
* [[Together in Death]]: The Grinch comforts Cindy Lou as they plummet seemingly to their deaths so that they won't cry together on Christmas.
* [[Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist]]: The Grinch.
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