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* [[Everything Trying to Kill You]]: [http://www.cracked.com/funny-163-australia/ Australia.] For the immunocompromised, life.

* [[Evil Debt Collector]]: <s>Most</s> '''All''' of them. No exceptions. See Palisade Collections or the collections department of Wachovia Dealer Services as typical examples.

* [[Evil Luddite]]: [http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/terrorists_spies/terrorists/kaczynski/1.html Ted Kaczynski], more commonly known as The Unabomber, is probably the [[Real Life]] [[Trope Codifier]].

* [[Evil Luddite]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20090819114620/http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/terrorists_spies/terrorists/kaczynski/1.html Ted Kaczynski], more commonly known as The Unabomber, is probably the [[Real Life]] [[Trope Codifier]].

* [[Evil Power Vacuum]]: Anytime a dictator or a really powerful dude is deposed. Colombia, for example, sank in a chaos of guerrillas and rival crime lords after Pablo Escobar got killed.

* [[Evil Uncle]]: The laws of primogeniture, where the deceased's son gets estates ahead of the deceased's younger brother, sometimes provoked younger brothers into this sort of thing.

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* [[Roboteching]]: Many guided weapons actually do this.

* [[Rock Beats Laser]]: Though not common, superior tactics or sheer weight of numbers have defeated superior technology. This was apparently one of the reasons the Japanese won in the Russo-Japanese war, too. There's also the Whack-a-Mole theory: wherever you wipe out insurgency one place, they'll just pop up somewhere else, ad infinitum. Iraqi insurgents, the Viet Cong, and Afghanistan over the last 50 years are examples.

* [[Romantic Two-Girl Friendship]]: It is [~~http~~://web.archive.org/web/20080417001927/http://www.guidemag.com/temp/yaoi/a/mcharry_yaoi.html proposed] that eight out of ten Japanese women had experience with such relationships.

* [[Romantic Two-Girl Friendship]]: It is [https://web.archive.org/web/20080417001927/http://www.guidemag.com/temp/yaoi/a/mcharry_yaoi.html proposed] that eight out of ten Japanese women had experience with such relationships.

* [[Runaway Bride]]: An anonymous bride left the groom at the altar ''and ran away with his witness '''who was also his best friend'''.'' And they all lived happily ever after (except the groom).

* [[Ruptured Appendix]]: Yes, it happens in [[Real Life]]. And it IS fatal if untreated (this is why, if you have severe stomach pain in the lower right side or that started there and spread, you go to an emergency room, and you DO NOT take a laxative.)