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** Inverted with Cole, because killing the serial killer who made everyone's lives hell landed him in prison. It's only 10 years, [[Die for Our Ship|but enough time for James to get in with Starr...]]
** Jack had this going for him for quite some time, but it seems like karma is ''finally'' catching up to him.
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* [[Killed Off for Real]]: Several major characters throughout the show's run. Viki's sister Meredith was the first, and Viki's first husband Joe Riley was killed off for real before the 70s were over.
* [[Lampshade Hanging]]:
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* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]
* [[Locked in a Freezer]]
* [[Love Makes You Crazy]] - Schuyler▼
* [[Long Runner]] - 7/15/68-1/13/12, 11,105 episodes
▲* [[Love Makes You Crazy]] - Schuyler
* [[Magic Plastic Surgery]] - Max, Todd {{spoiler|(actually Todd's twin brother, Victor Lord, Jr.)}}
* [[The Malaproper]] - Roxy
* [[May-December Romance]] - First Dorian with Joey, then Dorian with David, which would count as [[Squick]] [[Chelsea Lately|to many when David gets a love scene with her]].
** Even squickier was elderly Victor Lord's off-screen but often-mentioned romance with college student Irene, which became creepier (but also more 'logical') when after a [[Retcon]] it was revealed that Victor was a pedophile who had sexually abused his daughter Viki all throughout childhood.
* [[Musical Episode]]: Starr X'd Lovers.▼
* [[Mushroom Samba]]: Cole's withdrawal hallucinations of his family and friends berating him and telling him how he ruined their lives.
▲* [[Musical Episode]]: Starr X'd Lovers.
* [[Non-Idle Rich]]: Bo Buchanan, multimillionaire oil heir and cop's cop.
* [[One Steve Limit]]
* [[Pass Fail]]: When Carla Benari couldn't get roles as a black actress, she pretended to be a white one. This caused tension between her and her mother Sadie.
* [[Perky Female Minion]]: Allison Perkins
* [[The Rival]]: Dorian Cramer towards Viki.▼
* [[Pretty in Mink]] - Until the early 1990s.
* [[Rape as Redemption]] - Played straight after Marty's gang rape.
** Practically every bad girl in Llanview [[Unfortunate Implications|has been raped]] or it's been [[Attempted Rape|attempted]].
* [[Rape Is Love]] - Subverted once Marty got her memory back.
* [[Retcon]] - Since this is a soap opera, waaaaaay too many to list. But it's worth mentioning one of the show's most famous and most recurring: the cause of Viki's DID. First it was because her wealthy and powerful father had raised her so strictly and placed so many expectations on her she developed a split personality just to have all the fun and lack of responsibility she never could; then it was from a childhood trauma caused by seeing her parents argue and thinking (falsely) her father had deliberately pushed her mother down the stairs, causing her death; then it was because Viki had repressed memories of walking in on her college roommate and best friend Irene having sex with her father (leading to the birth of her sister Tina); and ''finally'' it was 'revealed' in 1995 that all along (inspired by ''Sybil'' and ''When Rabbit Howls'') that Viki's DID was the result of her father routinely raping her from the age of seven until she was in college. To be fair, the 1995 story did tie all of these explanations together.
* [[Retired Monster]] - Victor Lord after he came [[Back From the Dead]] briefly before dying for good. He never actually retired from being a [[Complete Monster]], though, and right up until his death he was trying to take the heart of his daughter that he molested as his own.
▲* [[The Rival]]: Dorian Cramer towards Viki.
* [[Rivals Team Up]] - Viki and Dorian usually don't get along. But even they could find common ground to team up against the evil Echo [[Di Savoy]].
* [[Sassy Black Woman]] - [[Hollywood Meaningful Name|Destiny]], a [[Hollywood Homely]] Sassy Black Teenage Girl.
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* [[Sociopathic Hero]]: Todd Manning. Rape Marty Saybrooke? Check. Save Marty Saybrooke? Check. Assault a blind Nora? Check. Save two children {{spoiler|(actually his long lost niece and nephew)}} while on the run from the law? Check. Kill a man by exploding his yacht? You betcha. He's made a career on these.
* [[Split Personality]] - both Viki and her daughter Jessica
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* [[Taking the Bullet]] - Bo for Rex. He lived.
* [[Teens Are Monsters]] - the whole class laughed at Justin's above-described [[Hurricane of Puns]] as though it was genuinely funny.▼
** Jack Manning is teetering on the line between a plain [[Jerkass]] and a [[Complete Monster]], and even then he's trying every conceivable method to make himself into a [[Karma Houdini]].▼
* [[Teen Pregnancy]] - Starr recently had one of these. Markko and Langston were sure to use a condom when they did the deed, though Lola poking holes in Langston's nearly caused this. Gigi also had one with Shane. Destiny is currently expecting with Matthew's baby.
** Jessica Buchanan was also pregnant as a teen, although the baby, who was named after her dead half-sister Megan, was stillborn after Jessica was hit by a car. Speaking of Megan, Viki was pregnant with her as a teenager, and the fact that Viki's [[Complete Monster|complete monster of a father]] had her brainwashed into forgetting the pregnancy and birth ever happened was one of the explanations for Viki's DID before it was retconed into being childhood sexual abuse.
▲* [[Teens Are Monsters]] - the whole class laughed at Justin's above-described [[Hurricane of Puns]] as though it was genuinely funny.
▲** Jack Manning is teetering on the line between a plain [[Jerkass]] and a [[Complete Monster]], and even then he's trying every conceivable method to make himself into a [[Karma Houdini]].
* [[Their First Time]] - Starr and Cole, Langston and Markko.
* [[Too Dumb to Live]] - Everyone has their moments.
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