Universal Tropes
Tropes that are used in all media and are not restricted to a single category (such as Video Game Tropes).
And no, this page has nothing to do with Universal Studios or their parks.
Oh, and hello to all you Xkcd readers.
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</sidebarmenu>- Actually I Am Him
- All Is Well That Ends Well
- Appeal to Obscurity
- Because I'm Jonesy
- Beginners Luck
- The Big Board
- Bindle Stick
- Bigger Is Better
- The Blind Leading the Blind
- Bonus Material
- Call Back
- Chekhov's Gun
- Closer Than They Appear
- Comforting Comforter
- Crazy Enough to Work
- Cultural Cross Reference
- Delayed Explosion
- Dude Where's My Reward
- Elves Versus Dwarves
- Emotional Torque
- Everybody Remembers the Stripper
- Every Proper Lady Should Curtsy
- Explicit Content
- Face On a Milk Carton
- The Face
- Face Palm
- Fictional Counterpart
- Film the Hand
- 555
- Floating Advice Reminder
- From Clones to Genre
- Geographic Flexibility
- Genre Busting
- Goal in Life
- The Graph Shows the Trend
- Group Hug
- Grows On Trees
- Harmful to Touch
- Head Desk
- Hero
- Heroic Rematch
- Hollywood Driving
- Hope Springs Eternal
- Hope Sprouts Eternal
- Hospitality for Heroes
- Hypocrisy Nod
- The Illegible
- In the Hood
- Jumping Out of a Cake
- Just Whistle
- Lethal Diagnosis
- Lie Detector
- Loophole Abuse
- Long Hair Is Feminine
- Mysterious Note
- Never Accepted in His Hometown
- No Sense of Direction
- Off the Chart
- The Only One
- Our Founder
- Perfect Health
- Photo Booth Montage
- Plot Armor
- Plot Parallel
- Ring Ring CRUNCH
- Rule of Empathy
- See No Evil Hear No Evil
- Serial Escalation
- Sick and Wrong
- Someday This Will Come in Handy
- Spear Carrier
- Stop Motion Lighting
- Take Our Word for It
- That Satisfying Crunch
- Theres No Place Like Home
- Thief Bag
- Time Marches On
- Trail of Bread Crumbs
- Trilogy
- Trouble Follows You Home
- TV Telephone Etiquette
- Twisted Echo Cut
- Unpopular Popular Character
- Unreliable Expositor
- Unreliable Narrator
- Up to Eleven
- Victory Is Boring
- Wastebasket Ball
- Weather Dissonance
- We Win Because You Did Not
- The World Ends Tomorrow
- Wrong Turn At Albuquerque
- You Can't Go Home Again