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#84 a hero has super powers, can fly in the air, or hear sounds from the distance of  10 meters,  or solves each and every mystery by using complicated mathematical or scientific method :D

 

@Lawyerh @Ameera Ali

case1 Hong Gil Dong

Case 2 Monster

Case 3 Children of a Lesser God 

 

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#85 karaoke room scene, where the person can't sing :D

 

#86 eating ramen (noodles) usually slurping

If it is black bean noodles, you can imagine the result :D:D

 

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here's the updated grand list we have so far (after checking for repeats):

#1 - lazy second lead

#2 - Memory loss due to a certain accident or trauma.

#3 - Annoying prospective mother in law who tries to break up the couple.

#4 - Annoying 2nd leads (be it male or female) who tries to break up the couple. 

#5 - Bad boy turn good cos of the girl. 

#6 - Love at first sight.

7 # Make Over 

#8 Also OTT Shipper mom's / everyone eat at someone else  home end taking all there side dishes back to his home 

#9 Hot Priest is a Must

#10 Female Lead's Husband Always Cheats so that OTP can be together. 

#11 Meet up at a fast food restaurant:

#12 annoying/ always perfect love confession

#13 changing face/feeling/double personality/Amnesia

#14 Cryptic Message in Bible

15 # medical / miracle diagnosis

#16 Serial killers or psychopaths are already hot Oppas lol. 

#17 The Car splash shield scene/shielding the FL from incoming bike.

18 # kdrama Robot ( that always cute /hunk / delicious )

#18 ~ Warming your love when it's too cold outside

#19 ~ Cherry Blossom walk/confession/date/kiss/break-up

20# copy/paste elevator incident

#21 pushing someone (be it male or female) aggressively against the wall for a (surprising) kiss. 

#22 Following the Disney stories especially Cinderella.

23# little thing that is disgusting :joy::mrgreen: & supposed to be funny :phew: / there always someone rushing to do there **** or running to use toilet 

24# oops moment

#25 Oppa AHA Moment / lead in disguise

26# 18+ moment \  make out  / drooling  

#27 Contract marriage/ Fake dating

#28 digital romance

#29  DNA test to check parentage (it must always be swapped :D )

#30  lost daughter/son

#31 someone suffers from liver cirrhosis and needs donation

#32 mothers tying a white band because of headache :D

#33 cute child actors in dailies

# 34 second lead who is cuter than the main lead, but the lady is either weak-sighted or has a bad taste in men

#35 - Good girl gone bad

#36 Noraebang (karaoke) ~ happy or sad, noraebang is the place to go. / karaoke room scene, where the person can't sing 

#37 Falling sick after getting drenched just once in rain!!!!

#38 The mandatory porridge for the sick person.

#39 The hangover soup/medicines / Instance Miracle Medicine 

#40 Jump to water you won't die

#41 Body not found, don't conclude he / she die

#42 Run away from prison, pretend faint or suicide

#43 - you run into someone at the grocery store that you wish to avoid.

#44 Yellow Umbrella Prop

#45 Hand Bleeding & Aid Kit Box

#46 Mixed Identity

47# Non stop reminder of dazzling sun

#48 Kids to Save

#49 Inhumane Lead

#50  giving tofu to someone released from prison

#51 hire 20 men to fight one man , when you got gun that can do the job

#52 The cell phone battery is always dead when you most need it

#53 photo booth scene is a premonition to some tragic scene later . :naughty::skull:

#54 I hate my family, because they are bad guys and I become a policeman ,so that i will not be like them

#55 The OTP have known each other since babies and meet again as a destined couple....

#56 -The Main leads are always dumb as  a brick at certain points for no reason.

#57 -Evil people ALWAYS at the right place at the right time to hear everything

#58 -Someone will get water toss in their faces

#59 I just gave birth. Now my belly is flat.

# 60 - the mysterious gardener with green thumb (aka PD team)

#61 Some female lead who are too poor to eat but donning designer’s duds and never reused her outfits in an entire series.

#62 Uglify a super gorgeous girl for the role by sticking an eyeglasses on her and curling her hair.

#63 Happens very often in 120 episodes drama the villains are ALWAYS forgiven 

#64 super expensive (tacky) tracksuits that are supposed to be stylish worn 

#65 till this day we have contract relationships that will fail to meet their conditions of never falling in love

#66 AMERICAN IVY COLLEGE ALUMNIS / still can't talk english.

#67 Rush to the airport scenes

#68 I cant take this I must go abroad!

#69 Hot namja shower scenes

#70 TIME GAPS THAT ARE apparently VERY NECESSARY that seems to depict to the viewers how their lives had been before getting a happy ending from OTP

#71  the couples must live with their in-laws, who keep interfering with each and every single detail of your lives.

#72 getting drunk. *hallucinate* *talk about philosophy

#73 Wet clothes, awkwardness - I swear the writers find one way or another to put the leads in wet clothes!

74# there always someone wish to appear on the dance with star

#75 Every Korean woman is a heavy sleeper.

#76. Flying hair scenes

#77 - freeze, couple stare at each other and end scene of episode

#78 a hero has super powers, can fly in the air, or hear sounds from tne distance of  10 meters,  or solves each and every mystery by using complicated mathematical or scientific method

#79 eating ramen (noodles) usually slurping

 

since we had some repeats, had to combine the following

@Ameera Ali ~ combined your toilet one with the other weird things that is supposed to be funny like nose picking, tooth brush sharing and other toilet related matters that is supposed to be funny. so its #23. also combined eating side dishes with @staygold OTT shipper moms who are the ones who make this side dishes. so # 8

@staygold ~ we have shower namjas but not folks wet with clothes on outside. hahahhaha.. think @triplem would agree that it is two separate categories. LOL.  so left it there on list. it is #73 now.

@joccu ~ combined yours with @sn2111a #66 as it is the ivy college grads who can't speak english

@nohamahamoud2002 ~ karaoke was already there. see #36 from @ktcjdrama. so combined the two.

 

so next up, you can start list from #80

 

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I don't know if these have been mentioned yet:

 

#85 Mothers going to the fortune teller some with bad French accent to ask for daughter or son marriage prospect or giving son or daughter birthdays to fortune teller to see if matches with their intended, 

 

#86 Matchmaking dates for son or daughter by mothers, matchmakers must make lots of money they are made busy by them pushy mothers 

 

#87 Pushing someone they hate out the door of their houses, cursing them and throwing  rice, salt, or redbeans on them

 

#88 Childhood trauma for the chaebol son gone bad, 2nd lead ie: MTG in voice, Kang In Wook in Love In Sadness, Lee Jae Joon in Doctor Prisoner, Gun Woo in Monster, or lead guy wanting revenge when grows up Woo Hyuk in Babel.... mother issues... as in mom committed suicide and son found them mostly hanging does not usually show from where (a beam in the ceiling???) or how they hanged and most of the time hanged mom or dead mom is dressed in hanbok and dad married his mistress after mom died. 

 

#89 Beautiful noona loved by hot younger man or showing younger man how to love them hotly.... can we dream??

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@zenya22 ~ no worries, will be editing list later and so if there's repeats, will remove. :)

 

1 hour ago, stargazer187 said:

#82 ways to get oppas: be a secretary and work in his office. 

Secretary is a job which is quite popular these days.

in real life, most bosses that have sescretary are ajusshis/harebojis and not oppas. hahahahha....

 

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2 hours ago, Lmangla said:

in real life, most bosses that have sescretary are ajusshis/harebojis and not oppas. hahahahha....

@triplem and I were lamenting about this a while back... :lol:

 

I see you have a new DP there... Awesome!! ;) 

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On 5/25/2019 at 4:43 PM, lu09 said:

Thanks chingu:thumbsup::D. They really should change Subway by now lol. Don't they have McDonalds or Tim Hortons there?? Or any other fast food chains, as long as it's not Subway lol:sweat_smile:

 

@lu09 had to check your location when you mentioned Tim Horton's. LOL a true Canadian looks for Tims! Hahahaha!

 

#94 Female Lead slips or starts falling and male lead always manages to catch her where they end up staring at each other and you wonder if they're going to kiss

 

#95 School romance where male lead is always the smartest and best looking male on campus who every girl adores and female lead is always the dumb, average girl who no one notices. Yet somehow, male lead falls head over heels with female lead. Oh and don't forget there's always some sort of tutoring involved

 

#96 Watching each other sleep and tracing their eyebrows or eye lashes (because apparently all people do this?? LOL)

 

#97 Jealousy - there's always a scene that sparks jealousy in every romcom and we all expect it and crave it. There's nothing like seeing stoic and usually composed male lead get insanely jealous and start doing stupid things.. we all find this very cute don't we? :joy:

 

 

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7 hours ago, Lawyerh said:

#90 Rich guy follow you go home take bus :joy:

hahha,. My Only One is a good example :D

 

#98  in 103-episode dailies, the evil guys win from episode 1 till episode 102 , and the good guys are happy in the final episode 103

 

if this is the case, I have one option of two, either to ship the evil guys (this way I will be happy for 102 episodes, what more can I ask for?), or to skip watching till episode 103  :mrgreen:

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98. how can we forget nosebleeds, if someone can't figure out some solution to some problem or gets stressed the nose suddenly bleeds

99. piggy back of the drunk person home or piggy back someone deathly sick and run to the hospital instead of calling 911. 

100. In historicals women antagonists are poison experts, kill with poison. They would have made a lot of money in this century by bcoming druggists/pharmacists or run a poison control center

101. When eating with someone one likes, tell the person one likes to open mouth by saying AHHHH and then put food in their mouths...

102. Split/multiple personaily tropes IE: Kill Me, Heal Me, Hyde/Jekyll and Me, Oh My Ghost although here the person is possessed by a ghost so she changes into another personality when she is possessed

 

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#103 Hmmm....So many people have already said the good ones! There's one I love. I'll try to talk about it. 

 

Ok. So I actually love this one.

 

So the male lead and the female lead are eating dumplings. The male lead likes the female lead. The female lead likes the male lead.

They are not a couple. They just like each other. So the male lead reaches for a dumpling. The female lead reaches for a dumpling too.The male lead touches the female lead's hand. And the female lead touches the male lead's hand. The male doesn't stop touching the female lead's hand. The female lead lets him touch her hand. They stare at each other. They gaze at each other. The male leads thinks, "Should I tell her that I like her?" And the female thinks, "Does he know that I like him?"

 

That sounded so confusing in my head.:ph34r:

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we have reached 100! here's the grand list (after checking for repeats):

#1 - lazy second lead who doesn't confess till first lead shows up

#2 - Memory loss due to a certain accident or trauma.

#3 - Annoying prospective mother in law who tries to break up the couple.

#4 - Annoying 2nd leads (be it male or female) who tries to break up the couple. 

#5 - Bad boy turn good cos of the girl. 

#6 - Love at first sight.

7 # Make Over 

#8 Also OTT Shipper mom's / everyone eat at someone else  home end taking all there side dishes back to his home 

#9 Hot Priest is a Must

#10 Female Lead's Husband Always Cheats so that OTP can be together. 

#11 Meet up at a fast food restaurant:

#12 annoying/ always perfect love confession

#13 changing face/feeling/double personality/Amnesia

#14 Cryptic Message in Bible

15 # medical / miracle diagnosis

#16 Serial killers or psychopaths are already hot Oppas lol. 

#17 The Car splash shield scene/shielding the FL from incoming bike.

18 # kdrama Robot ( that always cute /hunk / delicious )

#18 ~ Warming your love when it's too cold outside

#19 ~ Cherry Blossom walk/confession/date/kiss/break-up

20# copy/paste elevator incident

#21 pushing someone (be it male or female) aggressively against the wall for a (surprising) kiss. 

#22 Following the Disney stories especially Cinderella.

23# little thing that is disgusting :joy::mrgreen: & supposed to be funny :phew: / there always someone rushing to do there **** or running to use toilet 

24# oops moment - * Good citizen or pervert 

#25 Oppa AHA Moment / lead in disguise

26# 18+ moment \  make out  / drooling  -- adult reading book , wishing for girlfriend and make out with pillow

#27 Contract marriage/ Fake dating

#28 digital romance -- that vacuum cleaner

#29  DNA test to check parentage (it must always be swapped :D )

#30  lost daughter/son

#31 someone suffers from liver cirrhosis and needs donation

#32 mothers tying a white band because of headache :D

#33 cute child actors in dailies

# 34 second lead who is cuter than the main lead, but the lady is either weak-sighted or has a bad taste in men

#35 - Good girl gone bad

#36 Noraebang (karaoke) ~ happy or sad, noraebang is the place to go. / karaoke room scene, where the person can't sing 

#37 Falling sick after getting drenched just once in rain!!!!

#38 The mandatory porridge for the sick person.

#39 The hangover soup/medicines / Instance Miracle Medicine 

#40 Jump to water you won't die

#41 Body not found, don't conclude he / she die

#42 Run away from prison, pretend faint or suicide

#43 - you run into someone at the grocery store that you wish to avoid.

#44 Yellow Umbrella Prop

#45 Hand Bleeding & Aid Kit Box

#46 Mixed Identity

47# Non stop reminder of dazzling sun

#48 Kids to Save

#49 Inhumane Lead

#50  giving tofu to someone released from prison

#51 hire 20 men to fight one man , when you got gun that can do the job

#52 The cell phone battery is always dead when you most need it

#53 photo booth scene is a premonition to some tragic scene later . :naughty::skull:

#54 I hate my family, because they are bad guys and I become a policeman ,so that i will not be like them / Childhood trauma for the chaebol son gone bad,

#55 The OTP have known each other since babies and meet again as a destined couple....

#56 -The Main leads are always dumb as  a brick at certain points for no reason.

#57 -Evil people ALWAYS at the right place at the right time to hear everything

#58 -Someone will get water toss in their faces

#59 I just gave birth. Now my belly is flat.

# 60 - the mysterious gardener with green thumb (aka PD team)

#61 Some female lead who are too poor to eat but donning designer’s duds and never reused her outfits in an entire series.

#62 Uglify a super gorgeous girl for the role by sticking an eyeglasses on her and curling her hair.

#63 Happens very often in 120 episodes drama the villains are ALWAYS forgiven 

#64 super expensive (tacky) tracksuits that are supposed to be stylish worn 

#65 till this day we have contract relationships that will fail to meet their conditions of never falling in love

#66 AMERICAN IVY COLLEGE ALUMNIS / still can't talk english.

#67 Rush to the airport scenes

#68 I cant take this I must go abroad!

#69 Hot namja shower scenes

#70 TIME GAPS THAT ARE apparently VERY NECESSARY that seems to depict to the viewers how their lives had been before getting a happy ending from OTP

#71  the couples must live with their in-laws, who keep interfering with each and every single detail of your lives.

#72 getting drunk. *hallucinate* *talk about philosophy

#73 Wet clothes, awkwardness - I swear the writers find one way or another to put the leads in wet clothes!

74# there always someone wish to appear on the dance with star

#75 Every Korean woman is a heavy sleeper.

#76. Flying hair scenes

#77 - freeze, couple stare at each other and end scene of episode

#78 a hero has super powers, can fly in the air, or hear sounds from tne distance of  10 meters,  or solves each and every mystery by using complicated mathematical or scientific method

#79 eating ramen (noodles) usually slurping

#80 Locksmith Master Skill Needed

#81 soul swap/soul revived; / possessed by ghost leading to different personality

#82 ways to get oppas: be a secretary and work in his office. 

#83 ~ contemplating about life and death by the bridges over Han River

# 84 - somewhere in their current or past life they need to know how to play this (cards)

# 85 - mothers, fortune tellers and matchmakers -- the quest to get kid married

#86 Pushing someone they hate out the door of their houses, cursing them and throwing  rice, salt, or redbeans on them

#87 Beautiful noona loved by hot younger man or showing younger man how to love them hotly

#88 Rich guy follow you go home take bus 

#89 BF acts as a bodyguard in crowded public transport.

#90 online test , that tell you if your psychopath, fan and other Qs

# 91 genie help future boyfriend sleep next the girl  / Watching each other sleep and tracing their eyebrows or eye lashes (because apparently all people do this?? LOL)

#92 Female Lead slips or starts falling and male lead always manages to catch her

#93 School romance where male lead is always the smartest and best looking male

#94 Jealousy - there's always a scene that sparks jealousy in every romcom

#95  in 103-episode dailies, the evil guys win from episode 1 till episode 102 , and the good guys are happy in the final episode 103

# 96. how can we forget nosebleeds, if someone can't figure out some solution to some problem or gets stressed the nose suddenly bleeds 

# 97 piggy back of the drunk person home or piggy back someone deathly sick and run to the hospital instead of calling 911. 

# 98 In historicals women antagonists are poison experts, kill with poison. They would have made a lot of money in this century by bcoming druggists/pharmacists or run a poison control center

#99. love scenes with food -- When eating with someone one likes, tell the person one likes to open mouth by saying AHHHH and then put food in their mouths; eating dumplings and freeze stare

#100: Oh God you are not doing as I say as  a parent! I am about to pass out!

 

thanks to the contributors: :wub:

@DeePlatonicFan , @Lawyerh, @staygold, @lu09, @sushilicious, @Ameera Ali, @ktcjdrama, @nohamahamoud2002, @chococarmela , @triplem, @cenching, @dramaninja, @sn2111a, @joccu, @rocat @2handsintertwined, @stargazer187, @zenya22, @mouse007

since we did this last year, wondered if we would be able to come up with new tropes but there were lots! hahahahha... guess dramaland is filled with tropes and we love them! hahahahhaha... we will be using this tropes as a list in OTP bingo in June. do join us for the event and play along. for our silent readers, hope you had fun reading along and hope to see you all in OTP bingo!

 

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