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** So they adjust their speech in order to hide them, instead, you mean? Honestly!
* [[Asshole Victim]]: No one's gonna miss Rhea Reynolds. Or {{spoiler|Ariel's father}}.
** Or
** Or the convict that Matt strangled to death in his cell.
* [[Back-Alley Doctor]]: Dr. Merrill Bobolit loses his medical license after botching a cosmetic surgery on a dog, and winds up performing cheap liposuctions in the back of a Korean nail salon.
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* [[Chained to a Bed]]: Kimber tricks Christian into letting her tie him to a bed; she used the opportunity to torture him and get revenge after a particularly nasty break-up.
* [[Character Blog]]: Serial killer The Carver had a [[Myspace]], in which he would post videos about his motives and philosophy of life, and finally, unmasking.
* [[Clear My Name]]: In the episode "Granville Trapp," Christian was hauled into jail on suspicion of being the Carver — a hypothesis which would have demanded truly frightening devotion on his part, as both he and his partner had been Carver victims. The frame-up was, of course, {{spoiler|1=perpetrated by the actual Carver team: Dr. Quentin Costa, aided by Det. Kit McGraw.}}▼
* [[Chocolate Baby]]: Christian and Gina, the woman from the Sexaholics Anonymous meeting
* [[Church of Happyology]]: Matt and Kimber join it in Season 5.
* [[Circumcision Angst]]: [[Broken Aesop]] version, in the very first episode. But then again, the show ''is'' about plastic surgery...
▲* [[Clear My Name]]: In the episode "Granville Trapp," Christian was hauled into jail on suspicion of being the Carver — a hypothesis which would have demanded truly frightening devotion on his part, as both he and his partner had been Carver victims. The frame-up was, of course, {{spoiler|1=perpetrated by the actual Carver team: Dr. Quentin Costa, aided by Det. Kit McGraw.}}
* [[Coitus Uninterruptus]]: Escobar Gallardo uses this to intimidate Sean. He implies that the woman he's having sex with could instead be Sean's wife.
* [[Daddy DNA Test]]: Used to establish that {{spoiler|Christian}} is the father of {{spoiler|Matt}}.
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* [["It's Not Rape If You Enjoyed It"]]: {{spoiler|Lesbian Liz is raped by Christian. She then claims it was fantastic and they begin a relationship.}}
* [[Ivy League for Everyone]]
* [[Jerkass]]
* [[Just the Way You Are]]: ''Aversion being the entire point of the show''
** Becomes completely ridiculous and hypocritical when {{spoiler|Liz sleeps with a pre-op transexual woman, telling her she sees her for who she is. After she decides not to have her penis removed Liz tells her that she doesn't want to pursue a long-term relationship, saying that she won't be able to look past her "wrapping." What.}}
* [[Karmic Death]]: Rhea Reynolds, who pretended to be a Carver victim just to get attention. After Sean and Troy fix her face, the Carver shows up at her house and slashes her throat.▼
** Monica Wilder, a crazed babysitter {{spoiler|who had an affair with Sean}}, gets run over by a bus right when she was about to tell the cops that {{spoiler|Sean}} raped her, even though he didn't. What makes her death even more karmic was that {{spoiler|Sean was seriously considering killing Monica himself minutes before she died.}}▼
** Season 6 provides the greatest example with {{spoiler|Teddy Rowe. She intended to kill Sean ''and his children'' via carbon monoxide poisoning so she could get his insurance money. After she leaves them to die, she stumbles upon a camper who just so happened to be a serial killer...}}▼
* [[Karma Houdini]]: In Season 3 {{spoiler|the Carver and his sister Kit}} have successfully executed their escape plan and eager to continue their crimes.
** In Season 5 {{spoiler|Eden}} was slowly poisoning {{spoiler|Julia}}, when exposed, shot her and told everyone that it was suicide attempt, asked {{spoiler|Olivia}} to preserve this secret which resulted in her death. And since {{spoiler|Julia}}'s memories about those events never returned, {{spoiler|Eden}} remains unpunished.
** In Season 6, Virginia Hayes doesn't get punished for suffocating Marcy Hamill.
** Matt seems to ''adore'' this trope. He doesn't get in trouble for running over and almost killing Cara Fitzgerald in Season 1. Or for being an accessory {{spoiler|to the murder of Ariel's father}} in Season 3. Or for burning down his apartment because he was cooking meth in Season 5. This was finally subverted in Season 6 when {{spoiler|he was turned into the police for all the stores he robbed--not to mention he got shot in a botched robbery.}} But then it was played straight ''again''; Matt didn't get a further prison sentence for {{spoiler|strangling his cellmate to death}}.
▲* [[Karmic Death]]: Rhea Reynolds, who pretended to be a Carver victim just to get attention. After Sean and Troy fix her face, the Carver shows up at her house and slashes her throat.
▲** Monica Wilder, a crazed babysitter {{spoiler|who had an affair with Sean}}, gets run over by a bus right when she was about to tell the cops that {{spoiler|Sean}} raped her, even though he didn't. What makes her death even more karmic was that {{spoiler|Sean was seriously considering killing Monica himself minutes before she died.}}
▲** Season 6 provides the greatest example with {{spoiler|Teddy Rowe. She intended to kill Sean ''and his children'' via carbon monoxide poisoning so she could get his insurance money. After she leaves them to die, she stumbles upon a camper who just so happened to be a serial killer...}}
* [[Licensed Sexist]]: Arguably, Christian Troy. Pathologically oversexed, determinedly shallow, given to anything from sexual harassment on up to psychological warfare as seduction tactics (see, for example, the scene in the "pilot" where he strips his latest conquest naked, stands her in front of a full-length mirror, and uses a red lipstick to indicate flaws he finds surgically improvable), and an overwhelming fan favorite. Possibly because of the hotness, possibly because of the tragic backstory, possibly because he's the only major character who isn't an insufferable hypocrite.
* [[Lonely Funeral]]: Recurring patient/plastic surgery addict Mrs. Grubman blackmailed Christian into giving her more treatments, beyond the point of reason. Eventually, he was asked to give a eulogy at her funeral and was the only one there: she had alienated her whole family.
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* [[White Mask of Doom]]: The Carver.
* [[Who's Your Daddy?]]: has this with {{spoiler|Julia}} and the paternity of {{spoiler|Matt}}. After finding out that {{spoiler|Christian}} is his father, due to a one night stand before {{spoiler|Julia's}} wedding to {{spoiler|Sean}}, she hides it from {{spoiler|Sean}}. She reveals it to {{spoiler|Christian, Matt}}, and {{spoiler|Sean}} (in that order) causing {{spoiler|Sean}} to kick her out. {{spoiler|Sean}} doesn't treat {{spoiler|Matt}} any differently and eventually forgives both {{spoiler|Julia}} and {{spoiler|Christian}} for the affair.
* [[You're Not My Father]]: Matt says this to Christian right after the latter bails him out of jail. {{spoiler|the twist is that Christian really ''is'' Matt's father and had only found this out in the same episode. Unusually for this trope, Matt's pronouncement is actually quite accurate-- Christian isn't much of a father figure to him at all}}.▼
* [[Yo-Yo Plot Point]]: Basically, if a character isn't dead, expect them to come back, (and even then don't rule it out.) Characters from any episode, any season, and any situation can reappear for little or no explanation, often causing the scenes shown in the "Previously on Nip/Tuck" flashbacks to be from FOUR SEASONS PRIOR.
▲* [[You're Not My Father]]: Matt says this to Christian right after the latter bails him out of jail. {{spoiler|the twist is that Christian really ''is'' Matt's father and had only found this out in the same episode. Unusually for this trope, Matt's pronouncement is actually quite accurate-- Christian isn't much of a father figure to him at all}}.
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