Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome (SORAS): the device by which writers send a young child off in order to get back someone old enough to remember lines and have hot and steamy romances.
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Top 10 Soap Opera Tropes
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Back from the Dead: A major character, possibly even a popularly nasty Big Bad, has been killed, pronounced dead and buried...but don't stay dead.
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Evil Twin: Take a popular character and introduce us to the evil version of this character.
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Love Dodecahedron: Love Triangles are stressful and often heartbreaking. Add five or ten more people to the mix, and instead they become comedy:
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Never Found the Body: A character is killed off, but their death occurs in such a way that no body is recovered.
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Heel-Face Turn: When a bad guy turns good.
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Black Sheep: the one member of a family who does not fit in, the prodigal son, the castaway.
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Face-Heel Turn: A good guy turns bad.
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Artistic License - Geography: A writer may want to set a story in a location, but that doesn't mean they want or need to be accurate- or even see it.
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Paralysis: A character becomes paralyzed and unable to walk.
