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** Regardless of the above, it is standard practice to give patients only their own blood type. Even if one is a universal recipient, using another type is done only if you have no choice. Rarity isn't really an issue either, because if one has a common blood type meaning there are plenty of donors, that also means there are plenty of recipients to split it between.
* [[Abnormal Ammo]]: Dragon's Breath pyrotechnic shotgun rounds. Actually most of [[wikipedia:12 gauge shotgun#Specialty ammunition|shotgun ammunition types]] could be considered "abnormal".
** Name any episode of [[
** The blunderbuss will use literally anything you can stuff down the barrel as ammo.
** The British rather ingeniously use (or used) tungsten rounds for cave fighting to prevent ricochet. [[Loophole Abuse|There was a side effect of the bullets acting like explosive rounds in human tissue.]]
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* [[Busman's Holiday]]: Carpenters spend their time off fixing the house, IT staff spend their time at home on a PC, musicians tend to spend time off going to others' shows and listening to music, and pilots and flight attendants do hitch rides on their airlines, obviously.
* [[But I Play One on TV]]: Actors, musicians, and others are often recognized for role played or stage persona.
* [[
* [[But We Used a Condom]]: To the sorrow of many, and the existence of quite a few.
** If our product doesn't work, Happy Father's Day!
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* [[Misleading Package Size]]: Overpackaging, fraud, or the desire to present something as more valuable than it is can make this happen.
* [[Miss Conception]]: If sex education doesn't exist. More common in the past, still sometimes happens in restrictive religious communities.
* [[Mission
* [[Mistaken for Gay]]: Many times, a result of the conflation of traits attributed to binary gender and sexuality. Yes, [[Captain Obvious|feminine men and masculine women can be straight]].
* [[Mistaken for Special Guest]]: See [[wikipedia:Guy Goma|Guy Goma]] for an example.
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* [[No, You Hang Up First]]: A manifestation of the "sunk cost" fallacy in that someone who is speaking in such a conversation will want to stay on as long as they can even if it would be better to stop talking.
* [[Obligatory Swearing]]: Middle and high school. The [[Music/Hardcore Punk|Hardcore Punk]] [[Heavy Metal]], [[Music/Hip Hop|Hip Hop]], and [[Visual Kei]] music scenes. Sailors and truck drivers.
* [[Obligatory War Crime Scene]]: Yes, many of those war crime scenes you see in movies ''actually happened'' (or were based on true events) and were most likely ''toned down'' for viewers. The exception would be [[
* [[Oblivious Adoption]]: Oh, it happens alright. More often than we like to think.
** Fortunately, [[Happily Adopted|the other way around]] also happens.
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* [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]]: Is there a chapter in the Mexican 19th century that doesn't has one of these? Also, any revolutionary group in the history of ''forever''.
* [[Rain of Arrows]]: A key strategy of the English during the Hundred Years' War and of the Chinese.
** [[
* [[Randomly Drops]]: Dollar stores, thrift/consignment shops, and lost and found are this trope's [[Real Life]] counterpart. Also, in large cities or other places with a lot of people, people will often drop or forget things from loose change to occasionally expensive or hard to acquire items.
** Thieves (and on the other side of the coin, police raids of thieves or drug dealers) also run into this trope - things stolen or acquired in a raid can range from absolutely useless even for resale, to incredibly valuable and/or rare.
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