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'''The Core Design era'''
* ''[[Tomb Raider (
** The game got much critical acclaim (including a couple of "game of the year" awards), and established many of the tropes of the [[Action Adventure]] genre. As a result of the amount of genre conventions it established, it is frequently cited as one of the most influential games of all time.
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*** Also marks the point where Toby Gard came back into the picture after Confounding Factor shut down, though as a creative consultant this time.
* ''[[Tomb Raider (
** ''Anniversary'' pleased many irritated by the changes in ''Legend'', with the level design more complex and the sidekicks gone. Its reviews were about the same as ''Legend'' (namely depending on whether the reviewer preferred the original style or the new ''Legend'' style). Some of the changes as a remake came under heavy scrutiny though, especially Atlantis and the T-Rex encounter, which were both generally regarded as being very lacking even by those with no particular memory of their original incarnation. Also a [[Surprisingly Improved Sequel]] to many let down by the changes in ''Legend''.
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'''Films'''
[[Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
'''Animation'''
* ''[[Revisioned: Tomb Raider Animated Series]]''
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* [[Ascended Glitch]]: Lara's iconic mammaries came about due to a programmer accidentally slipping a decimal point and the team throwing 'em in.
* [[Back From the Dead]]: Lara in ''The Angel of Darkness'', although it's hardly a surprise seeing as she's the series' protagonist. A much bigger twist was the return of {{spoiler|Natla}} in ''Underworld''.
* [[Badass Normal]]: Lara has encountered various supernatural beings, [[One-Winged Angel]] Superbeings and outright gods, and beaten (or [[Sealed Evil in
* [[Badass Preacher]]: Father Dunstan.
* [[Bare Your Midriff]]: Lara seems to be quite fond of this.
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** In ''Tomb Raider III'', after Lara winds up knocking herself out from a failed jump with her ATV, some mooks comment on how crazy she was to pull a stunt, then one of them wonders if Lara is an eco-terrorist. The other mook sarcastically replies "And they wear hot pants, huh?"
* [[Death Course]]: What the series is all about.
* [[Death Is a Slap
* [[Demonic Possession]]: Von Croy is influenced and sometimes directly possessed by Set for much of ''The Last Revelation''.
* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: Averted most of the time; while Lara faces gods she can rarely do direct damage and tends to just [[Sealed Evil in
* [[Dirty Communists]]: Subverted, if unintentionally. In ''Legend'', Lara comes to the assistance of Russian-speaking Kazakh soldiers at a Soviet-era research facility that is being attacked by, of all things, American mercenaries hired by a West Point graduate attempting to steal a Soviet-owned relic. She saves them from a likely death, and with some reluctance, they supply her with the passcode for their command center.
* [[Dismantled MacGuffin]]: Used often enough. In ''Legend'', Lara must find the different pieces of Excalibur and reassamble them. In the first game, the Atlantean Scion is split into three parts. The second example is a variation of the trope, as the fragments were not necessarily all from the same version of Excalibur, as it is mentioned that there was more than one such sword.
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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 in
** 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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* [[Dynamic Loading]]
* [[Egyptian Mythology]]: A huge part of the plot of ''The Last Revelation''.
* [[The End of the World
* [[Enemy Mine]]: At the end of ''Underworld'', Lara and {{spoiler|Amanda}} team up to stop {{spoiler|Natla}} from destroying the world.
* [[Enemy Chatter]]: In ''Legend''. Very amusing to listen to.
* [[Everything Trying to Kill You]]: Bats, bears, wolves, crocodiles, eels, tigers, monkeys, gorillas, sharks, ravens, random hobos and ''museum security guards''. Lampshaded in ''Legend'', when [[Mission Control]] wonders why predators always attack prey larger than themselves.
* [[Everything's Better
* [[Everything's Better
* [[Everything's Better
* [[Lava Adds Awesome]]: Loads and loads of lava to be found in the first and second games.
* [[Everything's Even Worse
* [[Everything's Worse
* [[Everything's Worse
* [[Evil Albino]]: Amanda Evert. While she's not explicitly albino, her skin and hair become considerably lighter after she is possessed by the wraith.
* [[Evil Counterpart]]: Amanda again.
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* [[Evil Twin]]: {{spoiler|Lara's evil clone in ''Underworld''.}}
* [[Excuse Plot]]: The [[Gaiden Game]]s, and, arguably, 80% of ''Tomb Raider III''.
* [[Exposed to
* [[Fan Girl]]: The series has gained plenty thanks to Kurtis, Larson and Karel.
* [[Fan Service]]: Lara, of course, but ''Legend'' gives most of its male cast huge, muscular frames and half-unbuttoned shirts.
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* [[Giant Spiders]]: The large spiders encountered in the Temple of Xian in ''Tomb Raider II''. Even bigger ones are encountered in ''Underworld''. {{spoiler|Dr. Willard}}'s [[One-Winged Angel]] form also has elements of this.
* [[Girlish Pigtails]]: Teenage Lara sports them.
* [[Grave Robbing]]: Well the games are called [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Guns Akimbo]]: Lara, of course.
* [[He Knows About Timed Hits]]
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* [[Hand Cannon]]: The Desert Eagle in ''III'' and the revolver in ''The Last Revelation'' were one-shot kills for most of the baddies in the game
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: Sargent Aziz in ''The Last Revelation'' drives his truck filled with explosives into the dragon blocking that is blocking the Citadel, making it explode and killing the beast and himself in the process, which allows Lara to progress. Lara even gives Aziz a farewell salute after the deed is done.
* [[Hijacked
* [[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.
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* [[Killer App]]: While it was initially developed for the Saturn, ''Tomb Raider'' and its early sequels became a killer app for the [[Play Station]], the PC version was also one of the first games to get [[Graphics Processing Unit|3D card support]].
* [[Large Ham]]: Quite a few, but Verdilet, the demon from the Ireland levels of ''Chronicles'', is [[No Indoor Voice|particularly noteworthy]].
* [[Letting the Air Out of
* [[Living Motion Detector]]: In the third game, the T-Rex can not see Lara if she doesn't move (a direct [[Shout-Out]] to ''[[Jurassic Park]]'') - but it ''can'' harm her, as it will stomp around very close to her even if she stays completely still.
* [[Locked Into Strangeness]]: In the Ireland levels of ''Chronicles'', Father Dunstan's hair turns white and stays that way after an offscreen encounter with a demon.
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* [[Misplaced Wildlife]]: Are those baboons in India? And lions in Egypt and China? They're extinct in both those places.
** Well, ''now'' they are...
** How about ''[[Everything's Better
** Let's not forget Crocodiles in Greece as well, or the fact that these animals have lived for centuries with no food in enclosed spaces.
** But the Blue Ribbon goes to the ''Velociraptors'' and ''T-Rex'' that live in, of all places, ''the frozen peruvian mountains.'' And China. And Polynesia.
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* [[Scaled Up]]: Marco Bartoli at the end of ''Tomb Raider II''. The intro of the same game also shows the same happening to the then-Emperor of China.
* [[Scenery Porn]]: Practically everywhere.
* [[Sealed Evil in
* [[Selective Condemnation]]: ''Angel of Darkness''
* [[Shape Shifter]]: {{spoiler|Karel - this is one of his Nephilim aspects.}}
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** The "Ghana" level in ''Legend'' opens with Lara swan-diving off a cliff into a lake about 100 feet below.
** Basically, most of the time you jump from an incredible height but land in a body of water, you'll be alright (if it isn't too shallow, that is).
* [[Spell My Name
* [[Spy Catsuit]]: Lara dons a short-sleeved variant in the London levels of ''Tomb Raider III'', and a more traditional one in the VCI Headquarters levels of ''Chronicles''.
* [[Stalactite Spite]]: Seen in ''Tomb Raider II'''s "Catacombs of the Talion".
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** Made even more fun in the second and third games with the grenade launcher and the rocket launcher.
* [[These Hands Have Killed]]: Lara does this in Anniversary. ''[[Anvilicious|Repeatedly]]''.
* [[This Is Sparta]]: Lara has an admirable and frightening go at this where thanks to punctuating each word with a gunshot right by Amanda's face is even more powerful than [[
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* [[Third Person Seductress]]: Arguably the [[Trope Maker]], and while there have been examples before definitely the [[Trope Codifier]].
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** In ''Legend'', it is possible to push a crate ahead of you through such obstacles, so you are safely inbetween 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 Could Have Been]]: ''The Angel of Darkness'' was supposed to be the first game in a trilogy. {{spoiler|Karel}} was supposed to survive and be in Turkey, trying to bring back his fellow Nephilim. Kurtis's fate apparently depended on how much the fans liked him (i.e. he would come back if he was really liked, or he would not if he was really disliked). Of course, since ''The Angel of Darkness'' [[Executive Meddling|failed miserably]], the trilogy idea was scrapped and ideas attached to it along with it.
** Also in the same game, the watch Lara can find in Francine's apartment was supposed to play a bigger role or at least have a sub plot of its own.
* [[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.}}
* [[What Happened to
** Jean-Yves, a close friend of Lara's, completely disappears between ''The Last Revelation'' and ''Chronicles''. This was due to legal trouble between Eidos and an archaeologist of the same name, who complained that Jean-Yves resembled him in both profession and name. [[What Could Have Been|Because of this, the decision was made to remove Jean-Yves]] from ''Chronicles'' and replace him with a different friend of Lara's, Charles Kane.
* [[White Male Lead]]: Inverted. Maybe one of the reasons the series gained so much popularity is because it portrayed an attractive white female as protagonist, which garnered a substantial female [[Periphery Demographic]] to the franchise.
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