1 | [[quoteright:330:[[Pinball/Gottliebs2001 https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/2001_pinball_backglass.jpg]]]] |
2 | [[caption-width-right:330:Art from Gottlieb's ''2001'' {{pinball}} machine.\ |
3 | [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext No, it doesn't make sense.]]]] |
4 | |
5 | ->''"Wacky is filling your car's gas tank with 3-octane gasoline. Absurd is filling your car's gas tank with a ferret."'' |
6 | -->-- ''Webcomic/TriangleAndRobert'' |
7 | |
8 | These tropes are here to screw with your mind. These are tropes about the absurd, MediaNotes/{{dada}}ism, nonsense, {{non sequitur}}s, the surreal, and the bizarre.[[note]]But not the [[BazaarOfTheBizarre Bazaar]]; that's something else.[[/note]] |
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11 | [floatboxright: |
12 | Categories: |
13 | + MadnessTropes |
14 | ] |
15 | |
16 | '''Tropes:''' |
17 | [[index]] |
18 | * AbstractScale\ |
19 | To measure the immeasurable. |
20 | * {{Absurdism}}\ |
21 | Life itself is the absurdity. |
22 | * AcidTripDimension\ |
23 | A space-time rift that looks like an LSD trip. |
24 | * AdDissonance\ |
25 | An advertisement in a work is ironic or otherwise inappropriate to the action. |
26 | * AlienGeometries \ |
27 | Spatial arrangements that cannot be explained by the ordinary laws of physics. |
28 | * AppealToAudacity \ |
29 | Something is declared true because nobody in their right mind would make up such a ridiculous story if it were false. |
30 | * AreYouPonderingWhatImPondering \ |
31 | A non-sequitur answer when a more obvious solution is expected. |
32 | * {{Bathos}} \ |
33 | The lofty or serious juxtaposed with the ludicrous or commonplace. |
34 | * BigLippedAlligatorMoment \ |
35 | A totally random event is inserted into a serious story, then never referred to again. |
36 | * {{Bizarrchitecture}} \ |
37 | Buildings built in impossible or nonsensical ways. |
38 | * BizarroApocalypse \ |
39 | The apocalypse is strange and/or surreal. |
40 | * BizarroElements \ |
41 | ElementalPowers out of the ordinary. |
42 | * BizarroEpisode \ |
43 | A BigLippedAlligatorMoment that takes up a whole episode, though the episode itself is internally consistent. |
44 | * BizarroFiction \ |
45 | Literary genre known for high weirdness, shock horror and gross and surreal narratives. |
46 | * BizarroUniverse \ |
47 | An AlternateUniverse where everything is the opposite. |
48 | * BreathlessNonSequitur \ |
49 | A change in subject with no time to react to the previous topic. [[Advertising/TheManYourManCouldSmellLike I'm on a horse.]] |
50 | * {{Calvinball}} \ |
51 | The game's rules are whatever you feel like. |
52 | * {{Camp}} \ |
53 | Completely tasteless, over-exaggerated, theatrical style, usually SoBadItsGood. |
54 | * ChewbaccaDefense \ |
55 | You pretend you can win the argument if you get the other guy to shut up by any means. |
56 | * {{Cloudcuckooland}} \ |
57 | A strange and obscure place with strange people and customs. |
58 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}} \ |
59 | A character who is just plain out there. |
60 | * ContemplatingYourHands \ |
61 | Fascination with hands while on drug trips. |
62 | * CollectorOfTheStrange \ |
63 | Collecting the weirdest and most bizarre stuff possible. |
64 | * CrazyPrepared \ |
65 | Prepared for any and all situations. |
66 | * CueTheFlyingPigs \ |
67 | If something impossible is said to only happen if X will happen. |
68 | * CutawayGag \ |
69 | Non sequitur humor tossed in. |
70 | * MediaNotes/{{Dada}} \ |
71 | Confusing anti-art movement. |
72 | * DadaAd \ |
73 | A strange and/or frightening ad that doesn't even make sense when the product is revealed. |
74 | * DadaComics \ |
75 | Comics consisting of surreal, non-sequitur humor. |
76 | * DerangedAnimation \ |
77 | It's animated and [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial totally not made]] [[QuirkyWork on drugs]], we swear. |
78 | * DiggingToChina \ |
79 | Tunneling straight through molten core? Seems like a good idea. |
80 | * DisneyAcidSequence \ |
81 | A music sequence in a strait-laced film passes through a sudden ArtShift into DerangedAnimation territory. |
82 | * DreamLand \ |
83 | A world comprised of dreams.. |
84 | * DropTheCow \ |
85 | Breaking a lull in the plot with a spontaneously silly event, a.k.a. a deliberate BigLippedAlligatorMoment. |
86 | * EerilyOutOfPlaceObject \ |
87 | An otherwise ordinary object made unsettling by being found somewhere impossible. |
88 | * LeFilmArtistique \ |
89 | Indie TrueArt film that most people don't bother even trying to understand. |
90 | * TheFreakshow \ |
91 | A show that involves people with odd physical deformities or features and people with strange or dangerous talents. |
92 | * GainaxEnding \ |
93 | A deliberately hyper-symbolic, surreal or nonsensical ending. |
94 | * GiantFootOfStomping \ |
95 | A big foot comes out of nowhere and stomps someone to death. |
96 | * GivingUpOnLogic \ |
97 | The situation has become so strange, surreal, or stupid that someone gives up trying to make sense of things. |
98 | * TheGrotesque \ |
99 | A super-ugly/deformed character that induces fear, pity and curiosity in others. |
100 | * GrotesqueGallery \ |
101 | A group of creatures who appear ugly or gross, arranged in a way to unsettle even more. |
102 | * HappyPlace \ |
103 | Troubled people curl up and go away in their heads to a place where everything is warm and fuzzy.[[/index]] |
104 | * A hat... wait. \ |
105 | https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hat_blue_bros_flock.png[[index]][[hardline]] |
106 | * HitlerAteSugar \ |
107 | Just because someone evil did something doesn't make that thing evil -- but people treat it like it was. |
108 | * ImplausibleDeniability \ |
109 | A character consistently denies doing something, even despite incontrovertible evidence. |
110 | * IncomprehensibleEntranceExam\ |
111 | An exam to qualify for membership makes no sense to anyone except the examiners. |
112 | * IndecisiveMedium\ |
113 | A work in a certain medium behaves as if it was in another medium. |
114 | * InsaneTrollLogic \ |
115 | A line of rationale so illogical and demented that it defies attempts to rationally argue against it. |
116 | * IsItAlwaysLikeThis \ |
117 | A normal person wanders into a crazy place. |
118 | * ItRunsOnNonsensoleum \ |
119 | A "scientific" device that runs on something impossible or nonsensical. |
120 | * LittlePeopleAreSurreal \ |
121 | Little people are used as part of a surreal scene, because they're relatively rare and unfamiliar in real life. |
122 | * MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext \ |
123 | It doesn't. The EpilepticTrees remain epileptic unless you possess FridgeBrilliance. |
124 | * MindScrew \ |
125 | Something that relies too heavily on symbolism/surrealism/absurdism/metaphors to be understood in a conventional matter and lacks a clear-cut explanation (on purpose). |
126 | * MuseumOfTheStrangeAndUnusual \ |
127 | Find here what you can't find in any other museum. |
128 | * MushroomSamba \ |
129 | Ingesting something hallucinogenic results in trippy visions. |
130 | * NightmareFuelStationAttendant \ |
131 | An innocent character who constantly creeps out those around them. |
132 | * NonSequitur \ |
133 | The conclusion doesn't follow from the premises. |
134 | * NonSequiturEnvironment\ |
135 | A new area suddenly appears with no logical transition or source. |
136 | * NonSequiturThud \ |
137 | Saying something random after being clobbered. |
138 | * NonsenseClassification \ |
139 | A classification that doesn't make any sense at all. |
140 | * NoodleIncident \ |
141 | An event in the past that's referenced but never explained. Usually PlayedForLaughs. |
142 | * NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer \ |
143 | This is/was real. Really. |
144 | * OddballDoppelganger \ |
145 | An unholy dead ringer of an often sane character. |
146 | * OurMonstersAreWeird\ |
147 | Monster may or not be terrifying, but is definitely surreal. |
148 | * OxymoronicBeing \ |
149 | Someone or something that is innately self-contradictory. |
150 | * ParadoxPerson \ |
151 | This person should not be possible to exist by the laws of the setting but somehow still does. |
152 | * PersonalDictionary \ |
153 | Changing the definition of a word to suit your purposes. |
154 | * PuffOfLogic \ |
155 | When a convincing argument causes something to stop existing. |
156 | * QuirkyWork \ |
157 | A work that audiences don't think makes much sense. There's no way someone could have come up with it unless they were high -- oh wait, they did? |
158 | * RealityIsOutToLunch \ |
159 | An area where the laws of physics or reality just stop applying. |
160 | * RefugeInAudacity \ |
161 | Do something outrageous enough and everyone will be too dumbfounded to interfere or punish you. |
162 | * ReminderOfImpossibility\ |
163 | Tell somebody that they are unable to do what they are doing, and they will experience reality as they stop. |
164 | * RunsOnIgnorance \ |
165 | For when things only work when you don't understand them. |
166 | * SaharanShipwreck \ |
167 | A shipwreck is found in the Sahara. Isn't that weird? |
168 | * ScaledUp \ |
169 | Turning into something reptilian. |
170 | * SerialEscalation \ |
171 | A consistent escalation in whatever the heck a work is doing. |
172 | * ShaggyFrogStory \ |
173 | An anecdote or fable with the point that is has absolutely no point. |
174 | * SpringtimeForHitler \ |
175 | There's nothing just as crazy as failing at failing. |
176 | * StillFightingTheCivilWar \ |
177 | Some people just can't get over the fact that "their side" lost some conflict long ago. |
178 | * SuccessThroughInsanity\ |
179 | A crazy character is more effective and/or awesome ''because'' of their craziness. |
180 | * SurrealHorror \ |
181 | It's scary ''and'' it makes no sense. |
182 | * SurrealHumor \ |
183 | RuleOfFunny meets MediaNotes/{{Dada}}. |
184 | * {{Surrealism}} \ |
185 | Art movement which wanted to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind, by irrational juxtaposition of images, illogical scenes, dream logic or pure MindScrew. |
186 | * SurrealMusicVideo \ |
187 | MindScrew. Music video edition. |
188 | * SurrealThemeTune \ |
189 | A theme tune with random lyrics that has little connection to the show. |
190 | * TakenFromADream: \ |
191 | A character brings something from a literal dreamworld into reality. |
192 | * TestosteronePoisoning \ |
193 | RatedMForManly exaggerated to absurd levels. |
194 | * ThoughtAversionFailure \ |
195 | Ordering someone to not think about something is impossible and inherently paradoxical. |
196 | * TheTreacheryOfImages \ |
197 | This is an image. ''But it doesn't exist.'' |
198 | * TrippyFinaleSyndrome \ |
199 | The grande finale takes place in some trippy and abstract realm. |
200 | * TrueArtIsIncomprehensible \ |
201 | Anyone can understand this tripe, it can't possibly be artistic! |
202 | * TheTysonZone \ |
203 | Some celebrities allow their reputation to become so bizarre that any story about them is believable. |
204 | * ViolationOfCommonSense \ |
205 | Do something stupid enough, and you'll be rewarded. |
206 | * {{Wackyland}}\ |
207 | A place where the laws of physics and logic no longer apply. |
208 | * WakingNonSequitur \ |
209 | A strange outburst from someone whose mouth is awake and functioning a split second before their brain is. |
210 | * TheWalrusWasPaul \ |
211 | The creator of a work outright admits it was deliberately made to confuse the audience and poke fun at their attempts to find meaning in it. |
212 | * WaveOfBabies \ |
213 | A wave comprised of infants. What else? |
214 | * WeirdAside \ |
215 | A person mentions something utterly weird in passing as if it were quite normal. |
216 | * WeirdnessCoupon \ |
217 | If someone is "weird", it's acceptable that they do things that normal people couldn't get away with. |
218 | * WhenIsPurple \ |
219 | Going beyond "comparing apples to oranges" by thinking of the color orange as an apple. |
220 | * WhereTheHellIsSpringfield \ |
221 | A city or place about which the work gives conflicting clues where it is located. |
222 | * TheWonderland \ |
223 | An alternate world that is indistinguishable from dream reality. |
224 | * WordSaladHorror \ |
225 | A random string of disturbing, ominous but ultimately meaningless phrases can indicate that something really creepy is going on. |
226 | * WordSaladHumor \ |
227 | Take InherentlyFunnyWords and try and combine them to make a funny sentence. |
228 | * WordSaladPhilosophy \ |
229 | "I believe in MeaninglessMeaningfulWords." |
230 | * WorldGoneMad \ |
231 | Nothing makes sense in this place. |
232 | * WorldOfChaos \ |
233 | WorldGoneMad doesn't ''begin'' to describe this place. |
234 | * WorldOfWeirdness \ |
235 | A world where real-life elements co-exist with various fantastical elements and the weirdest stuff imaginable. |
236 | [[/index]] |
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