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3 18Seal Of Impending Doom
The moment it becomes clear a character is going to die and nothing can prevent it.
Created: Sep 12th 2020 at 5:31:03 AM
0 2Big/Small Juxtaposition
A juxtaposition between something big and something small.
Created: yesterday
1 2Opposites Juxtaposition Tropes
Tropes for the juxtaposition of opposites.
Created: yesterday
0 43Accidental Pain Guilt (launch this weekend)
A character accidentally injures someone they care about or gives them a disease and is wracked with guilt.
Created: Feb 21st 2024 at 5:02:54 PM
0 9Spurning The Salacious
A promiscuous character encounters a particular character who rejects them as a sex partner.
Created: Aug 29th 2023 at 6:57:12 PM
1 8High Altitude Homicide
Deliberately dropping someone to their death.
Created: May 19th 2024 at 10:16:25 AM
9 61Brainless, Spineless, and Heartless
A type of Power Trio where one character lacks intelligence, one lacks courage, and one lacks empathy. [Adopted by Asterlix]
Created: Sep 2nd 2022 at 1:26:39 PM
1 9Zener Cards
Cards used in parapsychology to measure Psychic Powers. Often used as a shorthand for psychic tropes.
Created: May 9th 2024 at 9:47:13 PM
1 6Unintentional Animal Poison Tester
A character is saved from eating poisoned food when an animal eats some first and dies.
Created: May 19th 2024 at 12:41:00 AM
11 14Vindicated by Adaptation
A work that was unpopular when it originally came out, but became more popular thanks to an adaptation of the work.
Created: May 15th 2024 at 7:08:52 AM
0 6Holding Back Backfire
A character's insistence on holding back in a competition/fight ends up screwing them out of a victory.
Created: May 13th 2024 at 8:26:15 PM
1 12Bastard Begetter
A character has a lot of kids out of wedlock as a result of constantly sleeping around.
Created: yesterday
1 21Combat Drugs
Performance enhancing drugs when the "performance" is "combat"
Created: May 2nd 2021 at 1:02:55 PM
6 3Horny Truckers
All highway truckers are horndogs. [NEEDS EXAMPLES]
Created: 7 hours ago
0 7Being the Brush
When a character douses themself in paint, and uses their body to paint the canvas.
Created: yesterday
1 17Next Stop, Andromeda
The Andromeda Galaxy is a common focal point for extra-galactic stories.
Created: Sep 12th 2020 at 8:40:47 AM
2 4Multilingual Work
A work uses two or more languages equally at the same time.
Created: Aug 1st 2018 at 10:29:51 AM
0 12Rekindled Sparks (Launching June 21st)
A Dead Sparks relationship is rekindled.
Created: Mar 12th 2024 at 1:09:50 AM
0 11Artificial World (Looking for discussion -- should worlds created by magic count?)
A world that was built, not formed naturally.
Created: May 13th 2024 at 11:54:39 AM
A world that was built, not formed naturally.
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0 1Webcomic / Peter And Company (1998)
The first continuity of Peter and Company before being rebooted.
Created: May 17th 2024 at 6:21:54 PM