Animated Trope - Television Tropes & Idioms

alt title(s): Animated

Tropes which are very common in Animated Shows outside of Anime but seldom appear elsewhere unless specifically referencing cartoons or in a cartoon pastiche (e.g., an episode of The Drew Carey Show).

See Also: Anime Tropes

Categories:

Stock Visual Metaphors

Tropes:

Absurd Altitude
Acme Products
Action Hogging Opening
All Animation Is Disney
All CGI Cartoon
Alliterative Name
Amazing Technicolor Population
Amplified Animal Aptitude
Amusing Injuries
- Agony Of The Feet
- Anvil On Head
  - Shadow Of Impending Doom
- Accordion Man
- Cranial Eruption
- Illogical Safe
- Non Fatal Explosions
- Punctuated Pounding
- Sweeping Ashes
- X Ray Sparks
- Your Head Asplode
And Call Him George
And Knowing Is Half The Battle
Angry Guard Dog
Animal Superheroes
Animal Talk
Animated Actors
Animated Music Video
Animation Bump
Anthropomorphic Objects
Artistic Expression
Art Evolution
The Artifact
Artists Are Not Architects
Art Shift
Aside Glance
Attack Of The 50 Foot Whatever
- This Billboard Needs Some Salt
Audible Sharpness
Audience Sucker Punch
Award Bait Song
Badly Battered Babysitter
Balloon Belly
Banana Peel
Band Toon
Bankruptcy Barrel
Berserk Board Barricade
Big Ball Of Violence
Big Eater
Boomerang Comeback
Born In The Theatre
Bowel Breaking Bricks
Braces Of Orthodontic Overkill
Building Swing
Bull Seeing Red
Bullet Seed
Bumbling Dad
Buzzsaw Jaw
By The Lights Of Their Eyes
Caffeine Bullet Time
Cain And Abel
Cartoon Conductor
Cartoon Creature
Cartoon Crossover
Cartoony Eyes
The Cat Came Back
Catch That Pigeon
Cat Concerto
Celebrity Toons
Cephalothorax
Chaste Toons
Cheeky Mouth
Chirping Crickets
Clifftop Caterwauling
Clip Art Animation
Colossus Climb
Conspicuous CG
Conspicuously Light Patch
Couch Gag
Covered In Kisses
Cross Dressing Voices
Deranged Animation
Deus Exit Machina
Dinosaur Doggie Bone
Disembodied Eyebrows
Dish Dash
Distant Reaction Shot
Disney Acid Sequence
Disney Animated Canon
Disney Princess
Disney Villain Death
Dog Stereotype
Don't Look At The Camera
Door Judo
The Door Slams You
Drop What You Are Doing
Duck Season Rabbit Season
Dying Like Animals
Eek A Mouse
Efficient Displacement
Elevator Gag
Empathy Pet
Era Specific Personality
Everybody Laughs Ending
Expressive Mask
Expressive Shirt
Extreme Omnivore
Eyedscreen
Eyepatch Of Power
Eyes Always Shut
Facial Profiling
Fartillery
Feather Fingers
Fight In A Box
Five Episode Pilot
Flash Back Back Back
Follow Your Nose
Fourth Wall Portrait
Freeze Frame Bonus
Freeze Sneeze
Funny Animal
Furry Confusion
Furry Denial
Furry Fandom
Future Badass
GASP!
Geometric Magic
Girly Run
Glowing Eyes Of Doom
Good Eyes Evil Eyes
Gravity Is A Harsh Mistress
Grossout Show
Hair Color Dissonance
Hair Reboot
Half Dressed Cartoon Animal
Harmless Villain
Hartman Hips
Hello Nurse
Heroic Animals
Heterosexual Life Partners
Hey, It's That Voice!
Hit Flash
Holding Out For A Hero
I Am Not Weasel
Impossibly Cool Clothes
Improper Fraction
Incredible Shrinking Man
Inescapable Net
Ink Suit Actor
In One Ear, Out the Other
Instant Bandages
Invisible Anatomy
Invisible Holes
iSophagus
It's Always Spring
Jaw Drop
Just Whistle
Kent Brockman News
Knife Outline
Koosh Bomb
Lamarck Was Right
Lantern Jaw Of Justice
Lazy Artist
- Faceless Masses
- Four Fingered Hands
- No Knees
- Ring Around The Collar
- Unmoving Plaid
- Wheel O Feet
- Wraparound Background
Lighthearted Rematch
Limited Animation
Limited Wardrobe
- School Uniforms Are The New Black
Live Action Adaptation
Long Pants
Lull Destruction
Magic Skirt
Malfunction Malady
Marked Change
Mascot Races
Matchlight Danger Revelation
Meat-O-Vision
Mecha-Mooks
Medium Blending
Mime And Music Only Cartoon
Mirror Cracking Ugly
Mobile Suit Human
Morally Ambiguous Ducktorate
Motionless Chin
Mouse Hole
Narrow Escape
News Travels Fast
Negative Continuity
Nightmare Fuel
No Celebrities Were Harmed
No Dialogue Episode
Noodle People
No Mouth
Non Mammal Mammaries
Non Sequitur Thud
Nonstandard Character Design
Not Quite Starring
Ocular Gushers
Off Like A Shot
Off Model
Oh Wait This Is My Grocery List
One Froggy Evening
On One Condition
Organ Autonomy
Overly Long Gag
Packed Hero
Peek A Bogeyman
Pepper Sneeze
Pigeonholed Voice Actor
- Relationship Voice Actor
Pinball Gag
Potty Dance
Potty Emergency
The Power Of Rock
Psycho Electric Eel
Pull The Plug On Awesome
Radioactive Teenage Samurai Robot Wombats
Reaching Between The Lines
Recycled IN SPACE!
Relax O Vision
Reptiles Are Abhorrent
Roger Rabbit Effect
Rules Of The Road
Rummage Fail
Running On The Spot
The Runt At The End
Sadist Show
Scooby Dooby Doors
Scooby Stack
Scout Out
Scream Discretion Shot
Screeching Stop
Screwy Squirrel
Seen It All Suicide
Segregated Commercial
Self Offense
Shadow Discretion Shot
Sign Language
Silence Is Golden
Slapstick
Slice Of Life
Something Else Also Rises
Species Surname
Speech Impaired Animal
Spinoff Babies
Spit Take
Speed Echoes
Squirrels In My Pants
Stationary Wings
Strong Family Resemblance
Stylistic Self Parody
Suddenly Voiced
Sugar Bowl
Super Hero
Super Villain
Sword Lines
The Take
Talking Animal
- Carnivore Confusion
Talking To Himself
Telecom Tree
Temporary Atomisation
Temporary Bulk Change
Telescoping Robot
Tertiary Sexual Characteristics
There's No B In Movie
Thundering Herd
Timm Style
Took A Level In Dumbass
Toon
Toon Physics
Toothy Bird
Transformation Conventions
Tree Buchet
Ugly Cute
Unnamed Parent
Use Your Head
Vague Age
Vaudeville Hook
Vocal Evolution
Voices Are Mental
Voices In One Room
Wafer Thin Mint
What Kind Of Lame Power Is Heart Anyway?
What Measure Is A Non Cute
Where Did They Get Lasers?
Where? Where?!
White Gloves
Wild Take
Wingding Eyes
With Boxing Gloves On
Wolf Whistle
Wonder Dog
Xylophone Gag
Your Size May Vary

Technical terms:

Animation Lead Time
Cel Shading
Motion Capture
Mouth Flaps
- Lip Lock
Rotoscoping
Squiggle Vision
Synchro Vox
Thick Line Animation
Three Shorts (animation-specific episode format)
Uncanny Valley

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