1 | ''Taking a step back and looking at how we look at things.'' |
2 | ---- |
3 | !!Tropes: |
4 | [[index]] |
5 | [floatboxright: |
6 | '''Categories:''' |
7 | + AbsurdityAscendant |
8 | + CommonFanFallacies |
9 | + ContinuityTropes |
10 | + CreatorStandpointIndex |
11 | + CreatorViewerReactionsIndex |
12 | + {{Deconstruction}} |
13 | + DoomyDoomsOfDoom |
14 | + FictionalMedia |
15 | + InJoke |
16 | + LitClassTropes |
17 | + MetafictionDemandedThisIndex |
18 | ++ FourthWall |
19 | ++ PaintingTheMedium |
20 | + TheNewestOnesInTheBook |
21 | + TheOldestOnesInTheBook |
22 | + TheOldestTricksInTheBook |
23 | + ParodyTropes |
24 | + SelfDemonstratingArticle |
25 | + SelfReferentialHumor |
26 | + ShoutOut |
27 | ++ ReferencedBy |
28 | + StockRoom |
29 | + TheShadesOfFact |
30 | + TropeTropes |
31 | ] |
32 | * AccentuateTheNegative: Focusing mainly on the negative aspects with little to no acknowledgement of the merits of the work being reviewed. |
33 | * ActorInspiredElement |
34 | * ActorSharedBackground |
35 | * {{Allegory}} |
36 | * {{Applicability}} |
37 | * {{Archetype}} |
38 | * AscendedMeme: A meme is made officially canon by the work it is derived from. |
39 | * {{Camp}} |
40 | * CentralTheme |
41 | * {{Cliche}} |
42 | * TheClimax |
43 | * TheCoconutEffect |
44 | * CompetencePorn: A fictional work revolving around characters working together to solve an issue, highlighting cleverness and effort. |
45 | * {{Conceit}} |
46 | * {{Conflict}} |
47 | ** RisingConflict |
48 | * ConstrainedWriting |
49 | * ConstructiveCriticism |
50 | * ContinuityDrift |
51 | * CouchGag |
52 | * CouldHaveBeenMessy |
53 | * CyclicNationalFascination: A new fad rises in popularity and then falls. Rinse and repeat. |
54 | * DeathOfTheAuthor |
55 | * DecompressedComic |
56 | * {{Demonization}} |
57 | * {{Denouement}} |
58 | * {{Defictionalization}}: A fictional object is made real. |
59 | * DerivativeDifferentiation |
60 | * {{Detournement}} |
61 | * DiegeticSwitch |
62 | * DiegeticVisualEffects |
63 | * DifferentInEveryEpisode |
64 | * DirectLineToTheAuthor |
65 | * {{Dramatization}} |
66 | * DrinkingTheKoolAid |
67 | * DuelingDubs |
68 | * DuelingProducts |
69 | * DuelingWorks: Two works with similar premises are released at around the same time. |
70 | * EqualOpportunityEvil |
71 | * {{Escapism}} |
72 | * EscapistCharacter |
73 | * EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory: Audiences find symbolism in a work where there wasn't any intended. |
74 | * EveryoneIsSatanInHell: A work receives unfounded accusations of featuring morally objectionable content. |
75 | * FairForItsDay |
76 | * FalselyAdvertisedAccuracy |
77 | * FanDisillusionment |
78 | * FandomRivalry: The fandoms of two different works do not get along well. |
79 | * FemaleGaze: Arousing female audiences by focusing the camera on the male anatomy. |
80 | * {{Ficton}} |
81 | * FinaglesLaw |
82 | * FlawlessToken: A character belonging to a minority gets special treatment and has better things happen to them than the other characters. |
83 | * FleetingDemographicRule |
84 | * FollowTheLeader: Works ape whatever work has been proven successful. |
85 | * FountainOfMemes: A character who tends to create memes. |
86 | * FormulaWithATwist |
87 | * FunForSome |
88 | * {{Fusion}} |
89 | * GarnishingTheStory |
90 | * GatewaySeries |
91 | * {{Gaze}} |
92 | * GenerationXerox: The children are carbon copies of their parents. |
93 | * GenreBlindness |
94 | * GenrePopularizer |
95 | * GenreRelaunch |
96 | * GenreShift |
97 | * {{Gimmick}} |
98 | * HomegrownHero |
99 | * HowUnscientific |
100 | * IJustWantToBeBadass |
101 | * IJustWantToHaveFriends |
102 | * IncitingIncident |
103 | * IndividualismVsCollectivism |
104 | * InferredHolocaust: The work glosses over the fact that certain actions and events in the story have most likely resulted in countless deaths. |
105 | * InverseLawOfUtilityAndLethality |
106 | * ItWasHisSled: A plot twist is so famous that even people who haven't seen the work are aware of it. |
107 | * {{Kayfabe}} |
108 | * LampshadedTheObscureReference: A work references something obscure and acknowledges that not many people are familiar with it. |
109 | * LateArrivalSpoiler: If you don't watch a series from the beginning, you'll get spoilers on what happened in the earlier episodes. |
110 | * LateToThePunchline: Not understanding the joke until a bit later. |
111 | * LawOfConservationOfDetail |
112 | * LayoutOfASeason: The kinda StrictlyFormula structuring of a show's seasons. |
113 | * LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn |
114 | * LifeImitatesArt |
115 | * LiteraryAgentHypothesis |
116 | * LocalReference |
117 | * LondonEnglandSyndrome |
118 | * LongRunnerTechMarchesOn: A series lasting a long time updates the technology used the same way real life technology is advancing. |
119 | * MaleGaze: Arousing male audiences by focusing the camera on women's breasts or butts. |
120 | * MemeAcknowledgment |
121 | * MemeticMutation |
122 | * MenActWomenAre |
123 | * MenAreGenericWomenAreSpecial |
124 | * {{Meta}} |
125 | * MetaCasting |
126 | * {{Metapuzzle}} |
127 | * MetaTwist |
128 | * {{Metagame}} |
129 | * MilestoneCelebration: A work that celebrates the franchise's anniversary. |
130 | * {{Minimalism}} |
131 | * ModularFranchise |
132 | * MediaNotes/MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness |
133 | * NarrativeFiligree |
134 | * {{Nerdgasm}} |
135 | * NoCanonForTheWicked |
136 | * OldGuardVersusNewBlood |
137 | * OneshotRevisionism |
138 | * OutOfCharacter |
139 | * OutOfGenreExperience |
140 | * {{Pastiche}} |
141 | * PerverseSexualLust: Sexual attraction to a fictional character. |
142 | * PlayingWithATrope |
143 | * PopculturalOsmosis |
144 | * PopularityPolynomial |
145 | * {{Postmodernism}} |
146 | * PostSomethingism |
147 | * {{Prop}} |
148 | * ProppsFunctionsOfFolktales |
149 | * PublicMediumIgnorance |
150 | * RadioSong |
151 | * ReachingThroughTheFourthWall |
152 | * {{Realism}} |
153 | * RealitySubtext |
154 | * RealityIsUnrealistic: There are certain aspects of the real world that are stranger than what is established in fiction. |
155 | * {{Redubbing}} |
156 | * ReplayMode: A feature to replay elements of a video game ([[BossBattle bosses]], {{Cutscene}}s, [[MiniGame mini-games]], or even whole levels/chapters), and thus rewind or revisit the tropes that occur within them. |
157 | * RetroactiveLegacy |
158 | * {{Romanticism}} |
159 | * RomanticismVersusEnlightenment |
160 | * RPGMechanicsVerse |
161 | * SatireParodyPastiche |
162 | * SatireAndSwitch |
163 | * SchematizedProp |
164 | * SeasonFluidity |
165 | * SelfPlagiarism: Stealing material from your own work. |
166 | * SlidingScaleOfLikeRealityUnlessNoted |
167 | * SpiritualAntithesis |
168 | * {{Squee}} |
169 | * StarringAStarAsAStar |
170 | * StrictlyFormula: Every episode of the series basically has the same plot. |
171 | * {{Stripperific}}: Character wears a very revealing outfit. |
172 | * SturgeonsLaw |
173 | * {{Surrealism}} |
174 | * TechnologyMarchesOn: An old work features use of technology that is now out of date. |
175 | * JustForFun/TelevisionIsTryingToKillUs: An index of tropes that one should not attempt in real life or assume is the case in real life because doing so can have serious consequences. |
176 | * TraumaButton |
177 | * {{Trope}} |
178 | * TropeBreaker |
179 | * TropeCodifier |
180 | * TropeMakers |
181 | * TropeName |
182 | * TropeTelegraphing |
183 | * TrueArtIsIncomprehensible |
184 | * TwoActStructure |
185 | * UnbuiltTrope |
186 | * UnintentionalPeriodPiece: A work doesn't age well due to excessive references to the time period where the work was made. |
187 | * UrExample |
188 | * TheUtterlyAndCompletelyDefinitiveGuideToCool |
189 | * WatsonianVersusDoylist |
190 | * WhatDoYouMeanItsNotDidactic |
191 | * WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical |
192 | * WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief |
193 | * WishFulfillment |
194 | [[/index]] |
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