50/50 chance of either an unformatted list of every character in the work and nothing else, or the following:
Quip about the massive amount of characters.note
Statement that this is a character page for [Work Name]. Disclaimer that the page is under construction.
Warning that some spoilers will be unmarked. You Have Been Warned!
- Character sheets for literally every single character, including those who only had one line in a single episode, and someone's non-sentient pet.
- Major characters get their separate page.
- Link to subpage covering the characters in a specific faction or just a loosely-defined groupnote
open/close all folders
Group of Characters in General
- Badass Crew: Will be listed here even if none of the characters are badasses.
- Betty and Veronica: Character names with no explanation, also duplicated in every character folder.
- Five-Man Band: Also duplicated in every character folder and on the main page, but the main page entry disagrees with this one about who gets what role. Bonus points if the work is not an adventure show. Someone hasn't noticed that Five-Man Band has a dozen members, or that subbulleted tropes are forbidden.
- The Hero (even though now it's The Leader): Protagonist
- The Lancer: Progagonist's Friend, also The Smart Guy.
- The Smart Guy: Other Character, also Protagonist's Friend and sometimes Protagonist's Tomboy Friend.
- The Big Guy/Genius Bruiser: Progagonist's Tomboy Friend. Inevitable spelling error.
- The Heart: Some Guy or Some Girl
- Sixth Rangers: Three characters listed.
- The Load: Protagonist's Friend who doesn't contribute much.
- Team Dad: Another Guy.
- Team Pet: Fido
- Tagalong Kid: Some child who traveled with the heroes once.
- Four-Man Band entry that thinks Four-Man Band = Five-Man Band without The Heart.
- Four-Temperament Ensemble: Even though there are more than four characters. Duplicated in all the individual character entries.
- Power Trio: Protagonist, Protagonist's Friend, and The Smart Guy. No additional context.
- The Team: Exact copy of a Five-Man Band example, just under a new name.
- True Companions: Heartwarming entry about how the characters really do love each other.
Character
Character Name
Voiced by:You have to click here to see it, for some reason
"Whatever quote the character is best known for"
Brief description of the character stolen from somewhere else.
Click here to see the character looking different due to reasons that consist a spoiler, meaning I can't even tell you why you should click on this.
- Trope about the character's appearance that has no elaboration because you could just look at the character's image to see it for yourself, except that the troper was too lazy to add an image.
- Trope about the character's personality.
- Poorly-indented trope about how that personality trait has changed after Character Development. Possibly uses arrows -> like this to show that Trope A evolves into Trope B.
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Adorkable: Zero-context example shoehorned in here, even after Adorkable was declared YMMV and the example doesn't fit in Endearingly Dorky or any other related tropes. - Ambiguously Gay: Example that was added even though the character is very obviously gay. Most of their interactions with a certain other character of the same gender are listed here due to the troper's Shipping Goggles.
- Bi The Way: Example that wasn't removed (or was re-added) after Bi The Way was turned into a disambiguation.
- Big Bad: The main antagonist of the series. No further context is necessary.
- Spoiler trope whose name is hidden even though this is not allowed.
- Spoiler trope whose name is not hidden: But everything else is, even though merely seeing the trope name makes it clear what the spoiler is, unless you don't know what the trope's definition is.
- Deadpan Snarker: The character made a sarcastic quip once, now they should be associated with deadpan delivery like it's their main gimmick.
- Death Trope: Statement that the character dies, even though, like the above trope, merely seeing the trope name makes that obvious already.
- Another spoiler trope whose name is not hidden: But it's actually a subversion, so seeing the trope's name didn't really spoil everything, and the above spoiler troped also becomes less spoil-y since until you read it, there's a possibility that it actually is also a subversion.
- Many tropes/that/all apply/to one aspect/of the character/and are thus grouped/together/so This Troper will only/have to write one/explanation/for all of/these tropes.
- Audience Reaction about the character such as Complete Monster, Ensemble Dark Horse, Magnificent Bastard, Unintentionally Unsympathetic, or The Woobie that is listed here instead of the YMMV page, and was added without consulting the relevant
cleanup. - Trivia about the character such as
Cross-Dressing Voices or Disabled Character, Disabled Actor that is listed here instead of the Trivia page. - Trope that "cleverly" uses potholes to change its name in order to better fit the character. The intention was to make the trope name 100% self-explanatory so there would be no need to write a description. It didn't work.
- Trope about fanon portrayals of the character.
- Negative character trait trope such as Jerkass, The Sociopath, Ungrateful Bastard, or Fat Bastard that doesn't really apply and was only added here by
someone with a bone to pick with the character. - Trope about some event that involved this character among others, but isn't really part of the character and would fit better on the main page.
- Moe: Example that misuses the [[invoked]] tag to suppress the YMMV icon.
- Hate Sink: Example that was added solely in order to bash the character and completely fails to demonstrate several aspects of the trope. Said character might not even be that hateable.
- Example that is still present after Hate Sink was reworked into a supertrope, and the character falls under multiple subtropes.
- Kick the Dog: Any acts of evil done by a villain, even if it's done with a clear goal besides "make the bad guy look bad".
- Older Than They Look/Younger Than They Look entry saying that the character appears slightly younger/older, even though that wouldn't make much of a physical difference and the troper might just have an overly narrow perception of aging.
- The Sociopath:
- Another example added to bash this character, missing several aspects of this trope and failing to account for moral agency, perhaps with a pothole to Troubling Unchildlike Behavior.
- Entry that opens with "[Character] is a textbook example of a sociopath", likely with Shown Their Work wicked.
- Trope about the character's WeaponOfChoice (that still uses the old name despite weapon of choice being disambiguated), which just says whatever their preferred weapon is without explaining how the weapon reflects their personality.
- Trope about the character's favorite weapon, now potholed under the new name Weapon Specialization, sans explanation and/or context.
- Walking Spoiler: Was involved in a plot twist, even though they aren't marked as a spoiler character and did plenty of stuff that isn't a spoiler.
Folder with a bunch of characters
Folder contains several characters even though this makes it harder to find a specific one, and it would be neater to give each character their own folder.
Character 1
Description.Character 2
Description.Character 3
Description. A female character
Female character
Description that goes over her appearance in way too much detail to the point where it's kind of creepy.
Thinly-veiled thirsty comment.
- Obligatory Action Girl entry even if she's not especially tough, because a woman being anything more than completely passive is automatically tropeworthy.
- A lot of "sexy" appearance tropes being misused, gushing about how hot she is, such as Buxom is Better or She's Got Legs. It is from such misuse that these tropes usually end up being disambiguated and/or renamed.
- Hidden Buxom: Used to gush about that one time she wore a bikini, even if her normal clothes don't hide her body shape enough to qualify for this trope.
- Tropes about sexy/fetishy situations that she was in once or twice each, such as Bound and Gagged or Clothing Damage. They're not actually Characterization Tropes and would fit better on the main or recap pages.
- A trope that's more about how hot her actress is than it is about the character herself.
- Ms. Fanservice: And HOW!
- Alternatively, Ms. Fanservice entry that's just listing why the troper who added it finds the character sexy even if it's clear that she's not portrayed in a particularly sexual way in the work.
- A trope that has nothing to do with appearance, sex, or even fetishy situations, but still shoehorns in a mention of how attractive the character is.
- One token trope that isn't reducing this character to a sex object.
Unpopular mouthpiece character
Unpopular mouthpiece character
Description that highlights how supposedly unlikable the character is. Would probably be heavily edited if not for the fact that most tropers agree.- Example calling the character a Hypocrite.
- Example calling the character a Know-Nothing Know-It-All, or calling their views Insane Troll Logic.
- Example that potholes negative Audience Reactions to the character (most likely Designated Hero, The Scrappy, Creator's Pet or Unintentionally Unsympathetic).
- Several tropes from The Jerk Index based on how the character's detractors perceive them, even though that was very clearly not the author's intent.
- Hate Sink: Generic statement that the character in question is awful, with no further elaboration.
- Tropes for negative portrayals of the author's views, for instance The Fundamentalist and Holier Than Thou for a pro-Christianity work, Animal Wrongs Group and Straw Vegetarian for a pro-animal rights work, and Straw Atheist for a pro-atheism one.
SPOILER CHARACTER
Spoily McSpoilerson, whose name has been hidden even though there are rules against something like this.
Huge block of spoiler text, in case someone wanted to open the section labeled "SPOILER CHARACTER" without seeing any spoilers.
- Several tropes whose names and descriptions are completely hidden in spoiler markup
- Walking Spoiler: Cheerful declaration that this fact is obvious from all the spoiler tags in this folder, with no further elaboration.
- Mention that this character is dead before the story starts, even though we learn this in the first installment and the plot would be pointless if they were still alive.
Other spoiler character whose name is hidden in spoiler markup, making it hard to look at the spoiler text without accidentally opening or closing the folder.
Another massive block of spoiler text that hides everything because This Troper was too lazy to decide which parts of the description were worth hiding and which ones could be read without spoiling too much.
Yet another spoiler character (First letter of character's name)
Spoilers that you never would have guessed just from seeing the character's first name.
Character
Long, rambling description that goes on for several paragraphs, going into truly excessive detail about this character's backstory, often clearly copying blocks of text from canonical material describing them, and generally trying a bit too hard to impress on the reader that this character is really cool.
- Oh, and sometimes also a couple short trope entries.
Empty character folder
Just the character's name and nothing else. Might add actual tropes and descriptions later.
Another empty character folder
Folder that has nothing but a link to another character page, even though there's already a link near the top.
Character
Character Name
TBA
TBA
- TBA
Upcoming character
It's been confirmed that this character will appear later, but nobody knows anything about them right now so there isn't much point to this folder.
- Appearance tropes based on early concept art.
- A few tropes based on creator tweets, blog posts, website descriptions and the like, which are considered to be Word of God and thus not actually supposed to be the sole source material for trope entries outside of Trivia.
- A bunch of other tropes that are based on Speculative Troping. Every one read like "It looks like this might apply, maybe, I'm not too sure, but I really want to add more tropes here because I'm too impatient to wait for more information."
Inanimate Object
A trope list about a non-character element such as a weapon, a magical artifact, or a spaceship.
Fourth Wall Breaker
(See also: SelfDemonstrating.Fourth Wall Breaker)
Hey everyone! I'm a Fourth-Wall Observer in the show, so some troper thought it would be clever if I broke the fourth wall in my character page too! This makes my folder more fun to read and totally doesn't make it pointlessly hard to add or edit examples for people not familiar with me (not that it would matter, since there's no way anyone who isn't a hardcore fan would ever edit my folder)!
