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* [[Artifact of Doom]]: Lots and LOTS of them.
* [[Ascended Glitch]]: Lara's iconic mammaries came about due to a programmer accidentally slipping a decimal point and the team throwing 'em in.
* [[Back
* [[Badass Normal]]: Lara has encountered various supernatural beings, [[One-Winged Angel]] Superbeings and outright gods, and beaten (or [[Sealed Evil in a Can|re-sealed]]) them all.
* [[Badass Preacher]]: Father Dunstan.
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** ''Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation'' features two levels at the beginning where you control teenage Lara, guided by her (then) mentor Von Croy. After these tutorial levels, the game switches to present day.
** ''Legend'' begins when Lara was nine.
* [[Doing
** The first game does the same for both Ancient Egyptian mythology and Atlantis.
* [[Doppelganger]]: Used as part of a puzzle in one of the final levels of the first game and ''Anniversary'', {{spoiler|and an evil one blows up Lara's mansion in ''Underworld''.}}
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* [[Hollywood Skydiving]]: Lara's base jump that opens the Kazhakstan level in ''Legend'', which is an "interactive cutscene". If the player doesn't press the right button as it appears on the screen, Lara won't deploy her chute and will fall to her death.
* [[Hot Mom]]: Lady Amelia Croft. Da-yum.
* [[
* [[I'm a Humanitarian]]: The Polynesian tribe in ''Tomb Raider III''.
* [[In the Hood]]: The Damned. They wear the hoods and masks to hide their [[Body Horror]].
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* [[Multiple Choice Past]]: Lara's origin seems to be "whatever the designer of the current game/movie feels like."
* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: In ''Anniversary'', Lara has this reaction {{spoiler|after killing Larson.}}
* [[Never Found the Body]]: The ending of ''Chronicles''; only her backpack is found in the rubble. Surprise: she's [[Not Quite Dead]] / [[Back
** Also, {{spoiler|Kurtis Trent}} at the end of ''The Angel of Darkness''.
** And Amanda in ''Legend''; they only found an untied shoe in the ruins of Paraiso. She's still alive, of course.
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** {{spoiler|Amanda's}} apparently certain death by drowning and crushing in the ''Legend'' flashback. But when Lara returned, she [[Never Found the Body]], just an untied shoe. Guess what that means?
* [[Nothing Is Scarier]]: This trope is invoked quite a lot as Lara is frequently exploring places no-one has entered in thousands of years.
* [[Older Than They Look]]: Sophia Leigh, who, in the words of one of her henchmen looks to be in her "late twenties; early thirties", but is actually much, much older, as the same henchman says that his father and grandfather before him also worked for her. It is later revealed that Sophia is testing treatments for everlasting beauty and keeps the best results for herself. Given that the failed experiments of some of the treatments, the Damned, cannot die, it is also quite possible that Sophia herself is immortal. {{spoiler|Indeed, she does come [[Back
* [[Omnicidal Maniac]]: Natla.
* [[One-Hit Kill]]: {{spoiler|Dr. Willard}} can fire homing energy projectiles that will instantly kill Lara if they touch her.
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** In ''Legend'', it is possible to push a crate ahead of you through such obstacles, so you are safely in between the two smashing walls that have been stopped by the crate.
* [[We Can Rule Together]]: Natla's speech to Lara in ''Anniversary'' and Egyptian god Set's offer to Lara in exchange for the [[MacGuffin]].
* [[Wet Sari Scene]]: In ''Tomb Raider: Legend'', Lara has a costume, "Classic, Gray," with a white shirt and plaid shorts. In the remastered version for the [[
* [[Wham! Episode]]: The ending of ''The Last Revelation''. {{spoiler|Lara is apparently killed in a cave-in.}}
* [[What Happened to Mommy?]]: When Lara finally manages to find her mother at the end of ''Tomb Raider: Underworld'' {{spoiler|she discovers she's already an undead Underworld zombie, and apparently has been so for the past twenty years or so. Sadly, it's not like a human being could survive in the hellish zombie-filled Underworld for 20 years anyway.}}
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