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8''An index dedicated to Nature-related tropes. For specific PlantTropes, see the related index.''
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12!!Character Tropes:
13[[index]]
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15[floatboxright:
16'''Categories:'''
17+ TwentyFourHourTropeClock
18+ AnimalTropes
19+ PlantTropes
20+ SeasonalIndex
21+ TropesAtSea
22+ TropesOfTheJungle
23+ WeatherAndEnvironment
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26* {{Cernunnos}}: A horned deity usually associated with hunting, animals, and nature.
27* DerangedParkRanger: A forest ranger who is not mentally stable.
28* {{Druid}}: A magic-user who communes and often commands nature.
29* EarthMother: A goddess or female figure associated with fertility, life, nature and the Earth.
30* EarthyBarefootCharacter: A character wears no shoes to show their connection to nature.
31* ForestRanger: A wilderness-dwelling hermit and guardian of the wild.
32* GranolaGirl: She's free-spirited, an environmentalist, a bit of a hippie and a fan of all things natural.
33* GreenwashedVillainy: A villain presents themselves to the public as ecofriendly while covering up the harm their actions are doing to the environment.
34* JunglePrincess: A woman who was raised in the wild and fights for nature.
35* MotherNature: She's ''the'' goddess of nature.
36* NatureHero: Someone who fights to protect nature.
37* NatureLover: Nature is beautiful and they know it.
38* NatureLovingRobot: A robot who loves nature.
39* NatureSpirit: An AnthropomorphicPersonification of nature.
40* OutdoorsyGal: A girl who loves the outdoors.
41* PrimalPolymorphs: Shapeshifters that prefer a simple life, usually in the wild, sometimes as animals.
42* TarzanBoy: A handsome man who was raised in the jungle and defends it.
43* {{Treants}}: Humanoid trees who live in the forest and protect nature.
44* WildChild: "Civilization? What's that?"
45* WoodlandCreatures: Animals associated with the forest
46
47!! Locations:
48%%(maybe its own index shared under this and Settings /sister to TheCity?/)
49* {{Arcadia}}: Not quite the city, yet not quite the Wilderness.
50* BubblegloopSwamp: A video game level based on swamplands. Expect mud and crocodiles.
51* DeathWorld: A land or planet where everything -- the plants, the animals, the geology, maybe even the ''air'' -- is a threat to your life.
52* DontGoInTheWoods: Terrible things happen to those who wander into the forest.
53* EnchantedForest: A wild, ancient forest teeming with magic.
54* ForestOfPerpetualAutumn: It's always autumn.
55* FourSeasonsLevel: A level with changing seasons.
56* GardenOfEden
57* GardenOfEvil
58* GhibliHills: Gorgeous, unspoiled natural landscapes right next to human settlements.
59* GreenHillZone: An early-game level themed around grassy meadows, hills and light woodlands.
60* HungryJungle (often in DarkestAfrica): The jungle is untamed and full of danger, and if you go there you're likely gonna die.
61* JungleJapes: A video game level based on tropical forests. Watch out for dangerous animals.
62* LastFertileRegion: The last place to support life in an otherwise barren world.
63* TheLostWoods: Video game levels based on vast, mysterious forests.
64* RiverOfInsanity
65* RoaringRapids
66* SlippySlideyIceWorld: Snow and ice-covered lands.
67* ShiftingSandLand: Desert based game level.
68* SwampsAreEvil: Swamps are nasty, unwholesome places, and full of evil or just unpleasant creatures.
69* ThirstyDesert: Water! Water!
70* WildWilderness: Somewhat a {{Deconstruction}} of the wilderness being so "beautiful" and [[NatureIsNotNice filled with dangerous animals trying to kill and eat you]], but still.
71
72!! Seasons:
73* BizarreSeasons
74* CherryBlossoms
75* CicadianRhythm
76* ColdSnap
77* DreamingOfAWhiteChristmas: It always snows when it's Christmas.
78* ForestOfPerpetualAutumn
79* HeatWave
80* IndianSummer
81* ItsAlwaysSpring
82* SeasonalBaggage: For the Four Seasons as a motif.
83* SpringIsLate
84
85!! General / other tropes:
86* AllNaturalSnakeOil
87* AnimalsRespectNature
88* AppealToNature
89* BambooTechnology: Everything is made out of what you'll find in nature.
90* BladeOfGrassCut
91* CoveredInMud
92* EarthSong: Environmentalism Songs.
93* EndangeredPest: An organism causes a problem that's made more difficult to address because it's an endangered species.
94* ExtinctInTheFuture
95* FancyCamping: When someone on a camping trip carries so many of their city comforts with them that you have to wonder why they even went at all.
96* FertileFeet: Wherever the character walks, plants grow.
97* FillItWithFlowers
98* FlowersOfNature
99* GaiasLament: When nature is sad, you'll be sad.
100* GaiasVengeance: When nature is pissed, [[OhCrap you're fucked]].
101* GardenGarment: A dress made of living plants.
102* GlobalWarming
103* GreenAesop: The moral is that nature needs to be respected.
104* GreenMeansNatural: The color green associated with nature or used to help characterize things as being natural.
105* GreenThumb: When a character has powers that allow them to control plant life.
106* HealItWithNature
107* HopeSproutsEternal: A new, green shoot is a ray of hope in a blasted wasteland.
108* HorribleCampingTrip
109* InHarmonyWithNature
110* MechanicalEcosystem: An ecology consisting solely of machines.
111* MotherNatureFatherScience: Nature is caring and feminine, Science is industrious and masculine.
112* MuckingInTheMud
113* NaturalDisasterCascade: Something is causing a chain of natural disasters at the same time or close to the same time.
114* NaturalElements: The forces of nature (especially fire, earth, water, and, air) conceptualized as discrete elements that often serve as the basis of all matter and creation.
115* NatureEqualsPlants: The word nature used to mean plants/forests rather than a broader definition of the term.
116* NatureIsBoring: Some people are just not interested in nature.
117* NatureIsNotNice: Just because nature is beautiful, doesn't mean you would survive.
118* NatureIsNotAToy: Because one can harness the powers of nature doesn't mean those powers shouldn't be handled with respect and caution.
119* NatureMetal: HeavyMetal with environmental themes.
120* NatureVersusTechnology: The dichotomy between natural and artificial.
121* NeglectedGarden: A garden that hasn't been cared for in a long time, showing a character's depressed emotional state.
122* NudeNatureDance: Dancing naked in the wild.
123* OldFaithful: A geyser that erupts at very precise intervals.
124* PaintingTheFrostOnWindows: Natural phenomena are managed and run by magical beings.
125* PickedFlowersAreDead
126* ReclaimedByNature: Nature takes over what mankind leaves behind.
127* RottenReincarnation: The circle of life is a circle of suffering.
128* SolarPunk
129* SwampMonster: A monster that represents the deep, dark, untamed corners of the natural world. Usually swamps, bayous and murky forests.
130* {{Transflormation}}: People turning into plants.
131* VineSwing: Moving through the canopy by swinging from tree to tree using conveniently placed, common and sturdy vines.
132* VineTentacles: Vines behave like snakes or animal appendages.
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134[[/index]]

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