1 | A list of tropes based on how the viewer/reader/player sees things from a critical perspective. |
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3 | !Tropes: |
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5 | [[index]] |
6 | * AccentuateTheNegative: The review focuses only on the negative aspects of the work and barely says anything of the work's merits if at all. |
7 | * BadReviewThreat: Threatening to give someone's business an overly negative review. |
8 | * BetterByADifferentName: Saying that a work is either a shoddy ripoff of a pre-existing work or a suckier version of a more recent work. |
9 | * BiasSteamroller: Critics let personal biases affect their reviews. |
10 | * BrokeTheRatingScale: A critic establishes that they find what they're currently reviewing exceptionally poor in quality by giving a rating that exceeds how low the scores they give usually go. |
11 | * CantTakeCriticism: A character hates being criticized to the point that even receiving the smallest bit of criticism will enrage them. |
12 | * CausticCritic: The critic who has a tendency to give negative reviews. |
13 | * ComedyGhetto: Comedies aren't considered by critics to be works worthy of merit. |
14 | * CompassionateCritic: The critic criticizes a person's work solely because they want the person to do better. |
15 | * ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch: People complain about a work that they haven't even seen, which doesn't usually reflect well on professional critics. |
16 | * ComplainingAboutThingsYouHaventPaidFor: Instances where someone gets something free of charge, but finds dissatisfaction in it just like if they've been ripped off. |
17 | * ConstructiveCriticism: Criticizing a work because you want the creators to improve it by learning from their mistakes. |
18 | * CriticalDissonance: Audiences and professional critics differ heavily in their take on a work. |
19 | * CriticBreakdown: A critic comes across a work so traumatizing or aggravating that they freak out with rage or sink into depressed exhaustion. |
20 | * CriticProof: A work does well in spite of being savaged by critics. |
21 | * DamnedByFaintPraise: A work is politely insulted by only praising a minor aspect. |
22 | * DearNegativeReader: The creator responds to criticism by insulting the audience. |
23 | * DeliberateFlawRetcon: The creator tries to deflect criticism by claiming that the work's flaws were on purpose. |
24 | ** ParodyRetcon: The creator tries to excuse the work's flaws by claiming that it's not intended to be serious. |
25 | * DontLikeDontRead: The creator responds to negative reviews with the rationalization that the reviewers shouldn't be watching works that they dislike. |
26 | * FourPointScale |
27 | * HarshTalentShowJudge: A highly critical talent show judge. |
28 | * DarthWiki/HePannedItNowHeSucks: A critic receives backlash for giving a negative review of a well-liked work. |
29 | * HireTheCritic: A creator hires someone who panned their work to participate in the production of their next project. |
30 | * HonestAdvisor |
31 | * IdiosyncraticRatingsScale: A critic has a unique, creative way of rating what's being reviewed. |
32 | * ItsNotSupposedToWinOscars: It's argued that a work doesn't need to win awards to be considered good. |
33 | * LetsSeeYOUDoBetter |
34 | * MidReviewSketchShow |
35 | * NotScreenedForCritics: Critics aren't allowed to review a work until after it has been released, which doesn't usually indicate any confidence on the creators' part that the work is good. |
36 | * QualityByPopularVote |
37 | * QuoteMine |
38 | * {{Review}}: Evaluating a fictional work in a public manner. |
39 | * ReviewBlog |
40 | * ReviewIronicEcho |
41 | * ReviewerStockPhrases |
42 | * ReviewerStandardComparisons |
43 | * ReviewsAreTheGospel: People judge a work's quality by someone's review of the work rather than by their own viewpoints. |
44 | * SacredCow: A work is so popular and well-regarded that saying anything negative about it is a good way to make everyone pissed off at you. |
45 | * SexinessScore: Ranking, rating or scoring a character's attractiveness and sexual desirability. |
46 | * StrawCritic: Critics are stereotyped as being perfectionists and impossible to please. |
47 | * TakeThatCritics: The creator responds to criticism by insulting their critics. |
48 | * VideoReviewShow |
49 | * WouldRatherSuffer |
50 | [[/index]] |
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