Tropes commonly used among
The Abridged Series. While other media use these tropes, abridged series often have specific forms, due to the community nature of the sites these series appear on.
The vital three. You need all of these to count as a true abridged series.
Other Common Tropes:
- Adaptation Distillation - While exaggerating or parodying the characters and tropes in the original series, the plot can become much more simplified.
- Alternative Character Interpretation - for those who didn't get Character Exaggeration.
- Ascended Extra - By editing a small part into other scenes.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall - practically as important as the Vital Three. Characters are not only aware that they are in an anime, but who produces them, that they're in an abridged series, who produces the abridged series, and of other abridged series.
- Catch Phrase - Nearly every major character will end up getting one.
- Character Exaggeration - for those who didn't get Alternative Character Interpretation.
- Comedic Sociopathy
- Deadpan Snarker - When the characters are being Genre Savvy.
- Defied Trope
- Discussed Trope
- Fourth Wall Mail Slot - The comment specials.
- Fridge Logic
- Homage
- Genre Savvy - Even the Ditzes and Cloud Cuckoo Lander tend to be Genre Savvy.
- Dangerously Genre Savvy - generally the main protagonist, the straight man, and any competent villains use this.
- Wrong Genre Savvy - You will always find at least one character who thinks they're in a different series.
- Contractual Genre Blindness - Often characters will acknowledge that what they're doing is stupid, but it's in character for them to do so.
- Ho Yay
- Just a Stupid Accent - Since most series only have one or two voice actors, they often use silly accents for the minor characters.
- Lampshade Hanging - And how.
- Larynx Dissonance - Most series have one to two voice actors and even the ones with more rarely have any female cast members.
- Macekre - If the English dub of the original series was poor quality, expect it to be the butt of many jokes.
- Man of a Thousand Voices - Almost a requirement, even if a series has many voice actors.
- Medium Awareness - To varying degrees.
- Memetic Mutation - Either repeating memes or making their own.
- "Not Making This Up" Disclaimer - For when the original series (or, in some cases, the English dub) said something so ridiculous or so strange, that the abridger just can't top it.
- Off Model - If the artists or animators messed up, expect it to be mocked. Mercilessly.
- Oh God, With The Verbing!
- Post Modernism
- Reference Overdosed
- Running Gag - Some gags are even shared among series.
- Sampling
- Shout Out
- Sound Effect Bleep - Most series have quite a lot of swearing, but bleep it out either to meet Youtube's standards of decency or for comedy's sake, or both. Some abridgers come up with particularly eccentric sounds to use as bleeps.
- The Stinger - Has reached the point where many abridgers throw out two stingers instead of one.
- Take That
- Talking to Himself
- They Copied It, So It Sucks - Usually joking about every time something in a show is unoriginal. Plus many Abridgers eventually throw in a joke attacking Yu Gi Oh The Abridged Series fan boys for claiming that all Abridged series steal their jokes from Yu Gi Oh The Abridged Series. LittleKuriboh jokingly supports this claim.
- Who Writes This Crap?! - Often in the form of verbatim repeating bad dialog from dubs.
