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1	[[index]]
2	[floatboxright:'''Related:'''
3	+ PlayingWithATrope
4	+ {{Trope}}
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8	[[{{Meta}} Tropes about tropes]]. It is easy to get this confused with a category for tropes that share some commonality or are tropes that are particularly universal. That's not what this is about. It is about how tropes [[TropeMakers come into existence]], live, mutate, [[EvolvingTrope evolve]], and [[ForgottenTrope die]].
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13	[[index]]
14	[[folder:Audience Reactions to tropes]]
15	* SugarWiki/FavoriteTrope: Tropes that the author or audience can't get enough of!
16	* NewerThanTheyThink: This isn't as old as most people think it is.
17	* OlderThanTheyThink: This has been around far longer than you think.
18	* PetPeeveTrope: Tropes that piss off the audience.
19	* TropeEnjoymentLoophole: When (and perhaps why) something that's a PetPeeveTrope doesn't piss somebody off, or the inverse.
20	* TropeTelegraphing: "I know exactly what will happen next because of this trope."
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23	[[folder:Perceptions of tropes]]
24	* SpoileredRotten: Tropes that are spoilers by default.
25	* TropesHiddenFromAudience: Tropes that creators usually do not want audiences to know about or recognize.
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28	[[folder:Stages of tropes' life cycles]]
29	* CharacteristicTrope: Trope becomes discredited due to audience associating it with a certain show.
30	* CyclicTrope: The trope alternates between being played straight and discredited.
31	* DeadHorseTrope: Not only is the trope discredited, but the parodies, subversions, etc. are more common and well-known than straight use ever was.
32	* DeadUnicornTrope: The so-called DeadHorseTrope was never used seriously to begin with.
33	* DiscreditedTrope: A trope that no one plays straight anymore, lest they face ridicule.
34	* EvolvingTrope: The trope evolves after a period of disuse and become relevant again.
35	* ForgottenTrope: A trope that no one uses at all anymore.
36	* TropeBreaker: Something that renders a trope useless.
37	* TropeCodifier: One example stands out as the template that many other examples follow.
38	* TropeMakers: The first unambiguous examples of tropes.
39	* UnbuiltTrope: Trope deconstructed before it was even constructed.
40	* UndeadHorseTrope: The trope is constantly played with or scoffed at, but still sees enough straight use to avoid becoming a DeadHorseTrope.
41	* UrExample: The oldest known example of any given trope.
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44	[[folder:Trope presence]]
45	* OmnipresentTropes: Tropes that are present in pretty much all fiction, usually by necessity.
46	* OverdosedTropes: Tropes that are present in nearly all media, but not by necessity.
47	* {{Troperiffic}}: Work uses a lot of different tropes.
48	* TropesInAggregate: Meta-tropes that become apparent when looking at the whole genre or fiction in general.
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51	[[folder:Trope relationships]]
52	* SisterTrope: Tropes that share similar ideas.
53	* SubTrope: Specific variant of one trope is common enough to become its own trope.
54	* SuperTrope: The broader category that multiple tropes fall under.
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57	[[folder:Variations on a trope]]
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59	%%MOD NOTE: Per a Trope Repair Shop decision, the individual ways of playing with a trope were removed from this page in favor of linking to the PlayingWithATrope index:
60	%%https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=16862320830.78103200
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62	* GenderInvertedTrope: Trope specific to one gender is used with the other in mind.
63	* IntendedAudienceReaction: When an AudienceReaction is intentionally invoked by the authors or creators.
64	* Administrivia/TropesAreFlexible: Tropes have far more room and variation than some would think.
65	* Administrivia/TropesAreTools: Tropes are not bad, nor good. Just devices used to entertain.
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67	[[/index]]

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