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* [[Adult Child]]: Maggy, who is twenty-eight but whose mental development was stopped by an accident at ten years old. |
* [[Adult Child]]: Maggy, who is twenty-eight but whose mental development was stopped by an accident at ten years old. |
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* [[Blackmail]]: Rigaud discovers that {{spoiler|Arthur is not Mrs. Clennam's child}}, resulting in this trope. |
* [[Blackmail]]: Rigaud discovers that {{spoiler|Arthur is not Mrs. Clennam's child}}, resulting in this trope. |
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* [[Card-Carrying Villain]]: Rigaud, practically into [[Dastardly Whiplash]] territory. |
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* [[Children Raise You]]: A rather sad example, with Amy providing money, food and emotional support to her helpless father and careless siblings even though she's the youngest of them all. |
* [[Children Raise You]]: A rather sad example, with Amy providing money, food and emotional support to her helpless father and careless siblings even though she's the youngest of them all. |
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* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Mr. F's aunt. |
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Mr. F's aunt. |
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* [[Dropped a Bridge On Him]]: {{spoiler|Rigaud is crushed under the ruins of the Clennam house.}} |
* [[Dropped a Bridge On Him]]: {{spoiler|Rigaud is crushed under the ruins of the Clennam house.}} |
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* [[Dysfunctional Family]]: The Dorrits and the Clennams. |
* [[Dysfunctional Family]]: The Dorrits and the Clennams. |
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* [[Everyone Calls Him Barkeep]]: The narrator refers to Mr. Merdle's powerful acquaintances by their careers: Bar (a lawyer), Physician, Bishop and Treasury. |
* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]]: The narrator refers to Mr. Merdle's powerful acquaintances by their careers: Bar (a lawyer), Physician, Bishop and Treasury. |
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* [[Evil Lawyer Joke]]: Bar often makes them at his own expense. |
* [[Evil Lawyer Joke]]: Bar often makes them at his own expense. |
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* [[First Love]]: Flora Finching to Arthur. |
* [[First Love]]: Flora Finching to Arthur. |
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* [[Memento MacGuffin]]: The mysterious watch Clennam's father entrusts to his son on his deathbed. |
* [[Memento MacGuffin]]: The mysterious watch Clennam's father entrusts to his son on his deathbed. |
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* [[Married Name Doodling]]: John Chivery blissfully daydreams about matching marital tombstones for himself and Amy. |
* [[Married Name Doodling]]: John Chivery blissfully daydreams about matching marital tombstones for himself and Amy. |
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* [[May-December Romance]]: Arthur and Pet Meagles; Arthur and Amy Dorrit. |
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* [[Meaningful Name]]: Well, it ''is'' Dickens. Most notably, Merdle, Mrs. General, Sparkler, the Barnacles, Flintwinch, and Tattycoram. |
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Well, it ''is'' Dickens. Most notably, Merdle, Mrs. General, Sparkler, the Barnacles, Flintwinch, and Tattycoram. |
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** As for place names, there's [[Wrong Side of the Tracks|Bleeding Heart Yard]] and the [[Obstructive Bureaucrat|Circumlocution Office]]. |
** As for place names, there's [[Wrong Side of the Tracks|Bleeding Heart Yard]] and the [[Obstructive Bureaucrat|Circumlocution Office]]. |
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* [[Ponzi]]: How {{spoiler|Mr. Merdle}} makes his fortune. |
* [[Ponzi]]: How {{spoiler|Mr. Merdle}} makes his fortune. |
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* [[Proper Lady]]: Despite having been born in debtor's prison, Amy Dorrit embodies this trope. Furthermore, she does so in spite of her father's small-minded attempts to hold on to gentility, shining as an example of true nobility of soul, rather than class or wealth. |
* [[Proper Lady]]: Despite having been born in debtor's prison, Amy Dorrit embodies this trope. Furthermore, she does so in spite of her father's small-minded attempts to hold on to gentility, shining as an example of true nobility of soul, rather than class or wealth. |
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* [[Screw the Money I Have Rules]]: Amy Dorrit. |
* [[Screw the Money, I Have Rules]]: Amy Dorrit. |
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* [[She Is Not My Girlfriend]]: Arthur denies his crush on Pet even to ''himself'', transferring all his jealousy and anxiety onto a "Nobody" in his own mind. |
* [[She Is Not My Girlfriend]]: Arthur denies his crush on Pet even to ''himself'', transferring all his jealousy and anxiety onto a "Nobody" in his own mind. |
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* [[Shrinking Violet]]: Amy. |
* [[Shrinking Violet]]: Amy. |
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* [[Sibling Yin-Yang]]: Mr. Dorrit and his brother Frederick; Fanny and Amy. |
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* [[Spoiled Sweet]]: Pet. |
* [[Spoiled Sweet]]: Pet. |
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* [[The Cynic]]: Henry Gowan. |
* [[The Cynic]]: Henry Gowan. |
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* [[The Dog Bites Back]]: {{spoiler|Pancks bites back at Casby (see [[The Reason You Suck Speech]]). Affery bites back at Flintwinch and Mrs. Clennam by supporting Rigaud's evidence. Flintwinch bites back at mrs. Clennam by revealing that he kept a certain document instead of destroying it.}} |
* [[The Dog Bites Back]]: {{spoiler|Pancks bites back at Casby (see [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]). Affery bites back at Flintwinch and Mrs. Clennam by supporting Rigaud's evidence. Flintwinch bites back at mrs. Clennam by revealing that he kept a certain document instead of destroying it.}} |
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* [[The Jeeves]]: Mr. Merdle's eerily capable butler, who makes him feel like an intruder in his own mansion. |
* [[The Jeeves]]: Mr. Merdle's eerily capable butler, who makes him feel like an intruder in his own mansion. |
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* [[The Reason You Suck Speech]]: {{spoiler|Pancks gives an epic one to Casby in front of all their tenants, showing them once and for all who's really been exploiting them. Then he hacks off Casby's hair.}} |
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: {{spoiler|Pancks gives an epic one to Casby in front of all their tenants, showing them once and for all who's really been exploiting them. Then he hacks off Casby's hair.}} |
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* [[The Reveal]]: {{spoiler|Subverted. Amy Dorrit chooses not to tell Arthur Clennam about his real mother.}} |
* [[The Reveal]]: {{spoiler|Subverted. Amy Dorrit chooses not to tell Arthur Clennam about his real mother.}} |
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* [[The Un-Smile]]/[[Slasher Smile]]: When Rigaud's mustache comes up and his nose comes down, it's never a good sign. |
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* [[Those Two Guys]]: Bar and Physician often comment to each other at the Merdle dinners. {{spoiler|They wind up discovering Mr. Merdle's dead body.}} |
* [[Those Two Guys]]: Bar and Physician often comment to each other at the Merdle dinners. {{spoiler|They wind up discovering Mr. Merdle's dead body.}} |
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* [[Terms of Endangerment]]: Rigaud showers them on everyone he meets, including the men. |
* [[Terms of Endangerment]]: Rigaud showers them on everyone he meets, including the men. |