History Main / CanonicalListOfSubtleTropeDistinctions

* '''IJustWantToBeBeautiful vs.BeautifulAllAlong vs. [[TheMakeover Makeover tropes]] vs. TheBeautifulPeople'''
** These tropes are about changing personal appereance.
** IJustWantToBeBeautiful:Type B (Beautiful Swan).Its when one or many EscapistCharacters that are also main characters [[WishFulfillment fulfill the desire]] of beauty by being incredibly gorgeous themselves.This trope alsoe explains why in some fictional works there are no ugly or average looking main characters.
#Being an EscapistCharacter
#Being a Main Character
#Being a character that was designed to [[WishFulfillment Fulfill]] this wish for the audience.
** BeautifulAllAlong It covers all kind of characters that are revealed as being beautiful regardless if they are EscapistCharacters/main characters or if its WishFulfillment ot not.
** [[TheMakeover Makeover tropes]].This tropes focus on "How" the characters changea appereance not in the result.
** TheBeautifulPeople This trope focuses on characters that are beautiful regardless if they are main characters, EscapistCharacters or if they were designed to [[WishFulFillment fulfish this wish]] from the audience or not.

** IJustWantToBeBeautiful: type B (Ugly Duckling): Is when the audience gets the wish of becoming beautiful fulfilled through an EscapistCharacter.It has some BeautifulAllAlong examples but it only picks those examples if these conditions are followed:
#Being and EscapistCharacter

** IJustWantToBeBeautiful:Type B (Beautiful Swan).Its when one or many EscapistCharacters that are also main characters fulfill the desire of beauty by being incredibly gorgeous themselves.

** BeautifulAllAlong It covers all kind of characters that are revelaed as being beautiful regardless if they are EscapistCharacters/main characters or if its WishFulfillment ot not.

** TheBeautifulPeople This trope focuses on characters that are beautiful regardless if they are maincharacters, EscapistCharacters or if they were designed to fulfish this wish from the audience.

* '''IJustWantToBeBeautiful vs.BeautifulAllAlong vs. [[TheMakeover Makeover tropes]] vs. TheBeautifulPeople
** These tropes are about chaning personal appereance.
** IJustWantToBeBeautiful:Type B (Beautiful Swan).Its when an Escapistcharacter (s) fulfills the desire of being beautiful from the audience by being incredibly gorgeous in a fantasy setting.

** TheBeautifulPeople This trope focuses on characters that are beautiful regardless if they are EscapistCharacters or not (villains and minor characters for example)

** IJustWantToBeBeautiful: type B (Ugly Duckling): Is when the audience gets the wish of becoming beautiful fulfilled through an EscapistCharacter.It has some BeautifulAllAlong examples but it only picks those examples if these conditions are followed
*** #Being and EscapistCharacter
#Being a Main Character
#Being a character that was designed to [[WishFulfillment Fulfill]] this wish for the audience.

** TheBeautifulPeople This trope focuses on characters that are beautiful regardless if they are EscapistCharacters or not (villains for example)

#Being a character that was designed to [[Fulfill this wish for the audience.

** IJustWantToBeBeautiful type B (Ugly Duckling): Is when the audience gets the wish of becoming beautiful fulfilled through an EscapistCharacter.It has some BeautifulAllAlong examples but it only picks those examples if these conditions are followed

*** #Being a Main Character
*** #Being a character that was designed to [[Fulfill this wish for the audience.

* '''IJustWantToBeBeautiful vs.BeautifulAllAlong vs. [[TheMakeover Makeover tropes]]

#Being and EscapistCharacter
#Being a Main Character
#Being a character that was designed to Fulfill this wish for the audience.
** BeautifulAllAlong It covers all kind of characters that are revelaed as being beautiful regardless if they are EscapistCharacters/main characters or if its WishFulfillment.
** [[TheMakeover Makeover tropes]].This tropes focus on "How" the characters became beautiful not in the result.

** The CorruptChurch is an originally legitimate ("good") religion that has become rotten under the surface, typically by evil.
** The PathOfInspiration is a church created for evil that disguises itself as legitimate faith, typically manipulating its followers into inobvious service of evil and setting itself up as a VillainWithGoodPublicity.

** A GameOver occurs when you lose the game by dying, running out of lives or failing to complete mission objectives.
** A KobayashiMario is a game in which the sole objective is ScoringPoints -- there's no way to "win", and you were never intended to do so in the first place.
** An {{Unwinnable}} situation occurs when you do something that prevents you from progressing further in the game (but does not result in an official GameOver), forcing you to start over.

** EasySexChange has the trappings of the "realistic" sex change, but portrays it in a more simplistic manner, often minimizing the physical, psychological, and/or social issues involved.
** GenderBender generally portrays ''comprehensive'' sex changes that transform a character into a member of the opposite sex in every way (e.g., different chromosomes, the "new man" can father children, the "new woman" is capable of getting pregnant, etc.) Wholly impossible in RealLife (apart from a few animal oddities), and usually achieved via magic or AppliedPhlebotinum.
** GenderFlip isn't actually about a sex ''change'' at all. Rather, it involves a "reimagining" of the character, who (from the character's InUniverse perspective) has ''always'' been of the "opposite" sex from what the audience is accustomed to.

Items are currently sorted alphabetically by whichever trope is alphabetically first.

** TheBadGuyWins is any ending where the villain accomplishes his goal (and lives to tell about it). Almost always a DownerEnding, but not all {{Downer Ending}}s are this.

** ShootTheShaggyDog is a DownerEnding where the heroes' actions were completely meaningless.

** AppliedPhlebotinum is whatever resource is useful to the plot.
** GreenRocks is a natural resource that has just about any properties as needed for the story, such as giving any type of superpower a person might want.
** SinglePhlebotinumLimit is a resource that is used in most, if not all, of the technology in a setting, even for things that wouldn't seem to need it.

** MineralMacGuffin is specifically a crystal-like object that is used as a power-up or as a power source.
** MinovskyParticle is a fictional subatomic particle whose science and properties are rigidly defined in-universe.
** {{Unobtainium}} is a resource with important properties that is either rare, difficult to find or create.

** InnocentInnuendo is the reverse: when something that is obviously innocent is intentionally framed in such a way as to make it look sexual. The audience is shown the suggestiveness of the scene first, and then it is revealed to be totally innocent. Unlike AccidentalInnuendo, it's done on purpose by the writers.

** LukeIAmYourFather: Two characters introduced early on in a narrative end up related.
** LukeYouAreMyFather: A character's long-lost relative is introduced farther along in the story.

** BellisariosMaxim is from a more technical standpoint, it is assuming that a group of 10 writers can't squeeze in enough research to placate the millions of critical viewers. Also, they can't be expected to exorcise ''every single'' PlotHole from a story (especially on a weekly basis).

** The GuyInBack is a member of the same aircraft crew as the main character. He isn't flying the plane

* '''TheKobayashiMaru vs. McLarenSpecial vs. TrainingAccident:'''

** McLarenSpecial is when neither knows.

** TheMothership: The AirborneAircraftCarrier taken BeyondTheImpossible. A space station the size of a city and capable of interstellar flight. Usually carries a {{Battlestar}} or three of it's own. The capital ships from ''IndependenceDay'' are the [[TropeCodifier codifiers]] in modern Sci-Fi.

* '''LemonWackyHello vs. MushroomSamba:'''
** In a LemonWackyHello, a character (un)knowingly ingests drugs and begins ''acting strangely''.

*** Overlap is common, but a character in a LemonWackyHello will often react strangely to real-world situations, while a character in a MushroomSamba may react perfectly rationally to nonexistent stimuli.

** An Inverted trope is when the exact opposite of a trope is used. Sometimes lampshaded, sometimes not.

* '''AvertedTrope vs. LampshadeHanging Vs. JustifiedTrope vs. SubvertedTrope vs. DoubleSubversion vs. ZigZaggingTrope:'''

** Kill Em All means that most of the story's main characters will probably die at some point.
*** Rocks Fall Everybody Dies: Same as above, but where the entire main cast dies in a tragic accident, all at the same time.
*** Total Party Kill: Same as above, except that the main characters are directly responsible for their own death.

* '''ArtistsAreNotArchitects vs. YouFailEngineeringForever'''
** ArtistsAreNotArchitects has to do with inconsistent depictions of a character or structure's physical features relative to other characters or structures.
** YouFailEngineeringForever is when a structure is completely impossible and likely to collapse, unless it's being done [[{{Bizarrchitecture}} on purpose.]]