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* [[Bullet Dodges You]]: As Samuel the Lamanite preaches of Christ's birth, Nephites shoot arrows and throw rocks at him for at least 20 minutes without managing to hit him once.
* [[The Call Knows Where You Live]]: Amulek says he was "called many times" before he met Alma.
* [[Cassandra Did It]]: Nephi II announced the murder of the chief judge before he could have known about it by normal means. He only narrowly avoided being convicted of conspiring with the murderer.
* [[Catch Phrase]]: "It came to pass" is used 1298 times.
* [[Comforting the Widow]]: Amalickiah arranges the murder of the king of the Lamanites then goes to console the Queen. Shortly thereafter they are married. Presumably she never finds out what really happened. A more cynical interpretation is that the Queen realized Amalickiah had control of the Army, and that therefore marrying him was the best option left to her.
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* [[Never My Fault]]: When Korihor's anti-Christ preaching was proven wrong, he admitted he'd been lying all along, but claimed that the devil (disguised as an angel) had told him to do it. That [[YMMV|might]] be why Alma didn't believe he'd changed.
* [[No Pronunciation Guide]]: The pronunciation and sometimes even the spelling is largely up to the interpretation of the translators. Modern editions offer a guide, but this is mostly for church unity and doesn't claim to be the original pronunication.
* [[One Steve Limit]]: Thoroughly averted. It's stated that the first few kings of the Nephites all got nicknamed Nephi, and a lot of later characters were named after earlier ones. There are even four Books of Nephi, written by two of the three people actually named Nephi.
* [[Pride Comes Before the Fall]]: A recurring theme.
* [[Rousing Speech]]: Captain Moroni rallying his people to defend themselves from the Lamanite army. [https://web.archive.org/web/20131109065050/http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Book_of_Mormon/Alma#46:23\]
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