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** It's practically a 'your mum' joke.
* [[Gold Digger]]: Cordelia has a suitor who drops his suit when her father disinherits her.
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* [[Hope Spot]]: Lear eventually reunites with Cordelia and obtains her forgiveness. Yay! Wait, what just happened?
* [[Hurricane of Euphemisms|Hurricane Of Insults]]: Hoo ''boy'', Kent's got a mean tongue.
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* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: The Fool.
* [[Obviously Evil]]: Edmund is the ''illegitimate son''. Remember that the play was written 400 years ago.
* [[One-Scene Wonder]]: The First Servant, who suddenly [[Took a Level
* [[Only Sane Man]]: Kent and the Duke of Albany. Edgar is one as well, but he spends most of the play pretending to be insane.
* [[Plot Parallel]]
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** Because of Lear's rather unwound state, however, he alternates between cursing nature, asking nature to smite Goneril and Regan, and thanking nature for not being as inhumanely cruel as Goneril and Regan.
* [[This Is Something He's Got to Do Himself]]: By the end of the play, Edgar is convinced that only he can undo his brother's plot.
* [[Took a Level
** And the Duke of Albany, who is described as "mild" but turns out to be one of the only characters willing to stand up to Regan or Goneril.
* [[Tragedy]]
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