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1These are the tropes of anything drawn. Whether animated or SequentialArt or any work that is a drawn or rendered graphical representation, these tropes exist only because someone has the ability to control every line of what we see.
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3As ever, please place tropes suitable for listed subindices on those indices only.
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5[[index]]
6!!Tropes:
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8[floatboxright: '''Sub-indices:'''
9+ AnimationTropes
10+ ComicBookTropes
11+ CoverTropes
12+ FunnyAnimalTropes
13+ JapaneseVisualArtsTropes
14+ LazyArtist
15+ WebcomicTropes
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18* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Humans with abnormal skin colors.
19* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: Animals who are not colored realistically.
20* AnatomyAnomaly
21* AnimalsLackAttributes: Animals are not depicted with genitalia.
22* AnimalsNotToScale
23* AnimatedWorldHypotheses: When animated characters perceive their world as animated, rather than realistic.
24* {{Animesque}}: The art style is like an anime.
25* ArtEvolution: Character designs gradually change over the years.
26* ArtShift: Moments where the art style suddenly changes.
27* ArtShiftedSequel: The sequel's art style is noticeably different from the art style of the original.
28* ArtStyleClash: A work that relies on many different art styles at the same time.
29* ArtStyleDissonance
30* BalloonBelly: Overeating causes a character to have a huge, round belly.
31* BigAnimeEyes
32* BlackBeadEyes: Character's eyes are small and black dots.
33* BlackDotPupils
34* BlackfaceStyleCaricature
35* BriffitsAndSqueans
36* BonsaiForest
37* ByTheLightsOfTheirEyes: In scenes taking place in the dark, characters are made visible by their eyes.
38* CartoonDogBreed: Dogs drawn so that they don't resemble any breed strongly.
39* CartoonThrobbing: A character's body part gets injured, turns red, and starts swelling and expanding.
40* CartoonWhale: A stock cartoon portrayal of a whale with a rectangular head.
41* CartoonyEyes
42* CheatedAngle: A character has part of them always facing the same angle regardless of which direction they're facing.
43* ComicBookFantasyCasting: Character is designed to resemble a real-life actor.
44* ConjoinedEyes: A character's eyes are drawn in a way that they appear to be fused together instead of being two individual eyes.
45* CranialEruption
46* DemonHead
47* DetailHoggingCover: The cover has more detail than the actual animation.
48* DinnerDeformation: When a character swallows an object, their throat or stomach becomes shaped like what they just swallowed.
49* DisembodiedEyebrows: A character's eyebrows aren't attached to their face and float above their eyes.
50* {{Disneyesque}}
51* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: A character's earlier appearances have them sporting a character design that is notably different from how they appear in the rest of the series.
52* ExpressiveAccessory
53* ExpressiveEars
54* ExpressiveMask: Character wears a mask that is somehow still able to register their emotions.
55* ExpressiveShirt
56* ExpressiveUvula
57* EyeGlasses: A character wears glasses that change shape to match their emotions.
58* EyesAlwaysShut
59* FacialProfiling
60* FingerlessHands: A character has hands that lack fingers.
61* FishEyes
62* FourLeggedInsect
63* FourLegsGoodTwoLegsBetter
64* FourthWallPortrait: A cartoon character is given a drawing where they are depicted in a more realistic style.
65* FrustratedOverheadScribble
66* FunnyXRay
67* GeometricMagic
68* GoodEyesEvilEyes
69* GothSpirals
70* GrotesqueGallery
71* HartmanHips: A woman has impossibly wide hips.
72* HeartBeatsOutOfChest
73* HumanHummingbird
74* HumanKnot
75* HitSpark
76* IceCrystals
77* ImpossibleHourglassFigure: A woman has unrealistically wide hips in addition to an unrealistically narrow waist.
78* InflatingBodyGag
79* InstantIceJustAddCold
80* InexplicablyTailless
81* InvisibleAnatomy
82* LanternJawOfJustice: Good guys have huge chins.
83* LightGirlDarkBoy
84* LoomingSilhouetteOfRage
85* MadeOfBologna
86* MasculineLinesFeminineCurves
87* ModelDissonance
88* NonStandardCharacterDesign: A character stands out from the other characters because the way they are designed differs from the usual art style.
89* NoodlePeople: Skinny characters with long, thin limbs.
90* NotDrawnToScale
91* PaintedTunnelRealTrain
92* PaintingTheMedium: Font, interface changes, or camera or editing tricks convey things about the story.
93* PaleFemalesDarkMales
94* PaperPeople
95* PersonalRaincloud
96* PieEyed
97* {{Phlegmings}}
98* PopGoesTheHuman
99* RainbowLite: Rainbows without all of the colors of the visible color spectrum.
100* RealisticSpeciesCartoonySpecies
101* RemovableShell
102* RobotHair
103* ScaryStitches
104* SequentialArt
105* ShapesOfDisappearance
106* ShiftedToCGI
107* SkintoneSclerae
108* SidewaysSmile: Face-splitting smiles with obscured eyes viewed from the side profile of a drawn character.
109* SpeedEchoes
110* SpeedStripes
111* SphereEyes
112* SquashedFlat
113* StickFigureComic
114* StrongFamilyResemblance
115* StylizedForTheViewer
116* SuddenAnatomy
117* SuddenEyeColour
118* SwordLines
119* ThunderingHerd
120* TimmStyle
121* TopHeavyGuy: A character is huge and burly from the waist up, but stringy and spindly from the waist down.
122* TravelingPipeBulge
123* TypesetInTheFuture
124* UnusualEyebrows
125* VolumetricMouth: Character's mouth opens real wide when they are shouting.
126* WaddlingHead
127* WheelOFeet
128* WeightTaller: Gaining extra fat or muscle also increases a character's height.
129* WhiteGloves
130* WhooshInFrontOfTheCamera
131* WingdingEyes: Character's eyes change shape to show what's on their mind.
132* XRaySparks: A character has their skeleton made visible when they are electrocuted.
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