Tropes
Tropes are storytelling devices and conventions. Basically, the entire point of this site. Here is a really long list—what we call an 'index'—broken up in conceptual groups. At the bottom of each trope page you will find a convenient 'next' and 'previous' link that will make following a particular concept fun. You may, however, want to take along a supply of Narnia Time.
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Genre Tropes
- Genre Tropes
- Action Adventure Tropes
- Advertising Tropes
- Alternate History Tropes
- Comedy Tropes
- Crime and Punishment Tropes
- Derivative Works
- Drama Tropes
- Espionage Tropes
- Game Show Tropes
- Horror Tropes
- Love Tropes
- Military and Warfare Tropes
- News Tropes
- Professional Wrestling
- Reality TV Tropes
- Speculative Fiction Tropes
- Sports Story Tropes
- Superhero Tropes
- Tokusatsu Tropes
Media
Narrative Tropes
Topical Tropes
- Topical Tropes
- Abuse Tropes
- Accidental Index
- Afterlife Tropes
- Animal Tropes
- Annoyance Tropes
- Anxiety Tropes
- Apathy Index
- Authority Tropes
- Bargain Tropes
- Betrayal Tropes
- Biology Tropes
- Bookish Tropes
- Bravery Tropes
- Celebration Tropes
- Censorship Tropes
- Character Reaction Index
- Circus Index
- Cleanliness Tropes
- Clown Tropes
- Combat Tropes
- Competition Index
- Criticism Tropes
- Currency Tropes
- Dating Tropes
- Death Tropes
- Dignity Tropes
- Discord Tropes
- A Dishonorable Index
- Distraction Tropes
- Doctor Tropes
- Door Tropes
- Dueling Tropes
- Elements of Nature
- Emotion Tropes
- Excuse of an Index
- The Ex Index (Ex-"significant other" tropes)
- Failure Tropes
- Fame and Reputation Tropes
- Family Tropes
- Fanservice
- Fate and Prophecy Tropes
- Fear Tropes
- Flying Tropes
- Food Tropes
- A Forgiving Index
- Frenemy Tropes
- Friendship Tropes
- Furniture Tropes
- Gambling Tropes
- Geometry Tropes
- Healing and Curing Tropes
- Ignored Index
- Index in the Sky
- Indexitis
- Index of Apologies
- Index of Solutions
- Injury Tropes
- Intelligence Tropes
- Language Tropes
- Legacy Tropes
- Locomotion Superindex
- Logic Tropes
- Loyalty Tropes
- Luck Tropes
- Madness Tropes
- Mail and Delivery Tropes
- Memory Tropes
- Money Tropes
- Morality Tropes
- Mythology Tropes
- National Stereotyping Tropes
- Number Tropes
- Obsession Tropes
- Occupation Tropes
- Philosophy Tropes
- A Polite Index
- Politics Tropes
- Poverty Tropes
- Power
- Prideful Tropes
- Probability Tropes
- Psychology Tropes
- Pragmatism Tropes
- Recognition Tropes
- Rejection Index
- Religion Tropes
- Responsibility Tropes
- Revenge Tropes
- Rituals and Ceremonies
- Royalty and Nobility Tropes
- School Tropes
- The Secret Index
- Selfishness Tropes
- Selflessness Tropes
- Series Tropes
- Sexual Harassment and Rape Tropes
- Shapes and Symbols Tropes
- Silence Tropes
- Sociology Tropes
- Sour Grapes Tropes
- Split Personality Tropes
- Stealth Tropes
- Stupidity Tropes
- Substitution Tropes
- Text Tropes
- These Tropes Are Equal
- This Index Is in the Way (Obstacle Tropes)
- This Index Is Unstoppable
- This Is Your Index on Drugs
- Threatening Tropes
- Time Tropes
- Tiny Tropes
- Toy Tropes
- Treasure Tropes
- Tropes About Taboos
- Tropes for Sale
- Tropes of Nature
- Tropes of Wisdom
- Tropes on Science and Unscience
- Truth and Lies
- Vandalism Tropes
- Vehicle Index
- Velocity Index
- Victory and Defeat
- Walking Tropes
- Weather and Environment
- WorkplaceTropes
Other Categories
- Administrivia
- Artistic License
- Audience Reactions
- Books on Trope
- A Bouncy Springy Index
- Box Tropes
- Camera Tricks
- The Contributors
- Creator Speak
- Creators
- Europe Index
- Fandom
- Formats
- Genres
- Information Desk
- Just for Fun
- Language Indices
- Laws and Formulas
- Map Tropes
- Meta-Concepts
- More Like a Footnote than Anything Else
- Networks
- The Oldest Ones in the Book
- Omnipresent Tropes
- Overdosed Tropes
- Return of the Index
- Show Business
- Snowclones
- Spoilered Rotten
- Stock Room
- There Are No Indexes
- This Index Does Not Exist
- This Index Happened Offscreen
- This Index Has Left the Building
- This Index Is On Purpose
- This Might Be an Index
- Tropes
- Trope Tropes
- Truth in Television
- Universal Tropes
- Useful Notes
- Word Salad Index