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* [[All There in the Manual]]: ''[[wikipedia:Hidden Passions|Hidden Passions]]'', which was a tie-in novelization that looked into the backstories of the main characters, supposedly written by Tabitha, making it an offline variation of the [[Character Blog]].
** It should be pointed out that this is averted ''very'' hard because much of what was in ''Hidden Passions'' was contradicted in the series; two good examples are Eve Russell's and Katherine Crane's back story. What was aired on the screen was completely different than what was in ''Hidden Passions''.
* [[Ax Crazy]]:
** Norma is this.
** Not an ax, but after Gwen is told by Ethan that he wants to cancel the wedding (and he says this ''the night before the ceremony''), she realizes his and Theresa's secret relationship and goes after Theresa in her home with a baseball bat.
** Beth used an ax to destroy a closet door in order to force her mother out of hiding.
* [[Back
** Actually, {{spoiler|Martin}} was officially missing for the first five years of the show; it was at times speculated that he might be dead, but it was never proven or taken for granted.
** Also true of {{spoiler|Alistair Crane, Julian Crane, Sheridan Crane (twice), Vincent Clarkson, Antonio Lopez-Fitzgerald, Luis Lopez-Fitzgerald, Marty Lopez-Fitzgerald, and Theresa Lopez-Fitzgerald (twice)}}.
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* [[First Girl Wins]]: Theresa and Ethan discover a photo of themselves as children showing a young Ethan giving a young Theresa a teddy bear. A few years later, he and Gwen, both twelve years old, first meet at a mixer their boarding schools held.
** For the longest time, Miguel and Kay appeared to be set to be an inversion of this since they'd known each other in childhood and Miguel seemed far more interested in Charity, but eventually the two ended up together.
* [[Flat What]]: Alastair Crane (the shows [[Big Bad]]) created a borderline Rube Goldberg [[Gambit Roulette]] involving elaborate and (at times) interconnected forms of cruel revenge upon nearly every resident of Harmony, which the writers milked the mystery as to why he was doing this for all it was worth. Finally the real reason was revealed which was..His wife died there, so he felt that literally the ''entire town'' (including his relatives who only happened to live there and people who only recently moved there who ''he never met before'') should suffer as much as he. ...What
* [[Four Lines, All Waiting]]: The show left [[Soap Wheel]] for this.
* [[Gambit Roulette]]: Alistair Crane appeared to be quite the master of this. At one point, he {{spoiler|staged Theresa's execution by using sedatives and an open coffin. Theresa woke up briefly, threatened Ivy and Rebecca, then returned to sleep just long enough for Pilar to notice that her body had moved. She then snuck out of the coffin, but was taken back by an unseen person, and then the coffin caught on fire. The body burned, but Alistair then revealed that the "body" in the coffin was actually a lifelike wax dummy, and the real Theresa was alive and well}}.
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* [[Psychic Power]]: Charity has premonitions.
* [[Rape Is Ok When It Is Female On Male]]: Surprisingly averted. There were several instances of women taking advantage of men while knowing that said man was under the influence and not aware of what was happening (or at the very least, believing he was making love to his wife/girlfriend). In all cases, the women were blasted for their actions and accused of rape.
** Theresa raped Ethan twice, once by [[Bed Trick|disguising herself as Gwen and drugging his drink]], and the other in the Crane jet.
*** Three times, actually: she did it again towards the end of the DirecTV run. Theresa was living as the Winthrop children's frumpy nanny, Gertrude, because her whole family would somehow die if she were revealed to be alive, and wanted to be with Ethan, so she drugged Gwen to keep the other woman out of the way and then drugged and had sex with Ethan so that he would think that he had been dreaming. While Theresa's actions were reprimanded all three times and she was once labeled a rapist, the show largely presented her actions as justified acts of desperation and upheld the trope--in fact, the incident where she disguised herself as Gwen was [[Retcon|retconned]] into Ethan knowing that it was Teresa all along.
* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]: Tabitha is this.
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* [[The Runaway]]: Antonio (aka Brian).
* [[Screams Like a Little Girl]]: Ethan during the ''Hell in the Closet'' storyline. A demon attacks him and he lets out a very girlish high pitched scream.
* [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money]]: The Crane family motto. And how.
* [[Serial Killer]]
* [[Shirtless Scene]]: Every episode.
** [[Walking Shirtless Scene]]
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* [[Villainous Incest]]: Vincent not only rapes his half-sister (twice!) and has an affair with his uncle, but also has sex with his unwitting father while dressed in drag and later gives birth to his baby.
* [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made on Drugs?]]: Oh, ''god''.
* [[Who's Your Daddy?|Who's Your Mommy?]]: After Theresa secretly had Gwen and Ethan's embryos implanted in her womb to get her son back from them, she later saw blood spottings and thought she had a miscarriage. In order to get her bargaining chip back, she disguises herself as Gwen, drugs Ethan's drink, and rapes him to get pregnant again. However, she discovers that she did not have a miscarriage after all and is pregnant with two babies (twins). Unfortunately, her uterus is unable to carry both and is told that one of them must be aborted. At first, she wants to abort Gwen's baby, but in the end, she decides to abort the weakest baby. Later, a baby girl was born. Theresa then tells Gwen the news that Gwen may not be the mother of the baby and Theresa does not plan to give the baby to her whether she is the biological mother or not. A DNA test is performed, and after some time, it is revealed that {{spoiler|Theresa}} is the biological mother, devastating {{spoiler|Gwen}}.
* [[Yandere]]: Beth turns into this.
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