Tropes
Tropes are storytelling devices and conventions.
Narrative Tropes:
- Applied Phlebotinum
- Characterization Tropes
- Characters
- Characters As Device
- Dialogue
- Montages
- Motifs
- Narrative Devices
- Paratext
- Plots
- Settings
- Spectacle
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
Media
- Animation Tropes
- Audio Tropes
- Live Action
- Game Tropes
- Sequential Art
- Text Tropes
- Others
Topical Tropes:
- Abuse Tropes
- Afterlife Tropes
- Animal Tropes
- Authority Tropes
- Bargain Tropes
- Betrayal Tropes
- Biology Tropes
- Censorship Tropes
- Circus Index
- Cleanliness Tropes
- Clown Tropes
- Combat Tropes
- Criticism Tropes
- Currency Tropes
- Dating Tropes
- Death Tropes
- Distraction Tropes
- Doctor Tropes
- Door Tropes
- Drug Tropes
- Dueling Tropes
- Elements of Nature
- Emotion Tropes
- The Ex Index (Ex-"significant other" tropes)
- Failure Tropes
- Fame and Reputation Tropes
- Family Tropes
- Fan Service
- Fate and Prophecy Tropes
- Flying Tropes
- Food Tropes
- Friendship Tropes
- Furniture Tropes
- Geometry Tropes
- Index in The Sky
- Injury Tropes
- Intelligence Tropes
- Language Tropes
- Locomotion Superindex
- Loyalty Tropes
- Luck Tropes
- Madness Tropes
- Memory Tropes
- Money Tropes
- Morality Tropes
- National Stereotyping Tropes
- Number Tropes
- Occupation Tropes
- Philosophy Tropes
- Politics Tropes
- Poverty Tropes
- Power
- Psychology Tropes
- Rape Tropes
- Religion Tropes
- Revenge Tropes
- Rituals and Ceremonies
- Royalty and Nobility Tropes
- School Tropes
- The Secret Index
- Series Tropes
- Shapes and Symbols Tropes
- Silence Tropes
- Skill Tropes
- Sociology Tropes
- Split Personality Tropes
- Stupidity Tropes
- This Index Is in The Way (Obstacle Tropes)
- This Is Your Index On Drugs
- Time Tropes
- Tiny Tropes
- Tropes About Taboos
- Tropes of Nature
- Truth and Lies
- Vehicle Tropes
- Velocity Index
- Walking Tropes
- Weather and Environment
- Workplace Tropes
Other Categories:
- Administrivia
- Artistic License
- Audience Reactions
- Books On Trope
- British Media Tropes
- Camera Tricks
- Chekhov's Pun
- The Contributors
- Creator Speak
- Creators
- Did Not Do the Research
- Fandom
- German Media
- Information Desk
- Japanese Media
- Just for Fun
- Korean Media
- Language Indices
- Laws and Formulas
- Media Specific
- Meta Concepts
- More Like a Footnote Than Anything Else
- Networks
- The Oldest Ones in The Book
- Omnipresent Tropes
- Overdosed Tropes
- Show Business
- Spoilered Rotten
- Stock Room
- Sturgeon's Tropes
- There Are No Indexes
- This Index Does Not Exist
- This Index Happened Offscreen
- This Index Has Left the Building
- This Might Be an Index
- Tropes
- Trope Tropes
- Truth in Television
- Universal Tropes
- Useful Notes