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Characterization Tropes
Tropes and trope categories about setting up, fleshing out, and tearing down characters.
Compare Characters and Characters and Casting (how characters are affected by being played by actors).
Contrast Characters as Device (roles that characters can be shoved into for plot reasons).
Contrast Characters as Device (roles that characters can be shoved into for plot reasons).
Tropes:
Categories:
- Accent Tropes
- Admiration Tropes
- Aging Tropes
- Anatomy Tropes
- Attraction Tropes
- Authority Tropes
- Backstory Index
- Blame Tropes
- Body Language
- Bravery Tropes
- Character Flaw Index
- Character Derailment
- Dialogue
- Disability Tropes
- Does Not Like This Index
- Ego Tropes
- Emotion Tropes
- Extraversion Tropes
- Fame and Reputation Tropes
- Family Tropes
- Fictional Culture and Nation Tropes
- Gender and Sexuality Tropes
- Goals and Objectives Index
- Gratitude Tropes
- Idealism Tropes
- Identity Index
- Immaturity Tropes
- An Index of Ladies and Gentlemen
- Indexed and Nerdy
- Indexitis
- Intelligence Tropes
- Internal Conflict Tropes
- Introversion Tropes
- Language Tropes
- Loyalty Tropes
- Luck Tropes
- Mary Sue Tropes
- Memory Tropes
- Morality Tropes
- More Than Meets the Eye
- Motivation Index
- Naming Conventions
- Occupation Tropes
- Otherness Tropes
- Personal Appearance Tropes
- A Polite Index
- Pragmatism Tropes
- Protective Tropes
- Psychology Tropes
- Race Tropes
- Rebel Tropes
- Religion Tropes
- A Reluctant Index
- Royalty and Nobility Tropes
- Selfishness Tropes
- Selflessness Tropes
- Sensory Index
- Shyness Tropes
- Signature Tropes
- Skills and Training Tropes
- Sociology Tropes
- Solitary Tropes
- Stereotype
- Strength Index
- This Index Has Had a Hard Life
- This Index Is a Bitch
- This Index Is Copypasted
- Tropes About Perverts
- Tropes of Innocence
- Tropes of Wisdom
- Abstract Apotheosis
- Adaptational Badass
- Adaptational Intelligence
- Adaptational Heroism
- Adaptational Villainy
- Adaptational Wimp
- Adaptation Personality Change
- Addiction Displacement
- Admiring the Abomination
- AM/FM Characterization
- Backported Development
- Beetle Maniac
- Being Personal Isn't Professional
- Born in the Wrong Century
- Call to Agriculture
- Challenge Seeker
- Character Calculus
- Character Check
- Character Depth
- Character Development
- Characterization Marches On
- Character Rerailment
- Chest of Medals
- Collector of the Strange
- Creature of Habit
- Crowd Pleaser
- Cuddle Bug
- Cuteness Proximity
- Daytime Drama Queen
- Deconstructed Character Archetype
- Depending on the Writer
- Descent into Addiction
- Disco Dan
- Divergent Character Evolution
- Dramatica
- Dynamic Character
- Earthy Barefoot Character
- Elective Mute
- Elective Unintelligible
- Elemental Rivalry
- Everybody Smokes
- Everyone Has Standards
- Experienced Protagonist
- Face of the Band
- Flat Character
- Fleeting Passionate Hobbies
- Forgot Flanders Could Do That
- Friend to Bugs
- Functional Addict
- Gasshole
- Genre Refugee
- The Gimmick
- Grass Is Greener
- Heart Trauma
- Heaven Seeker
- Hell Seeker
- Informed Wrongness
- In Harmony with Nature
- Insists on Paying
- Interpretative Character
- In the Original Klingon
- I Thought Everyone Could Do That
- Jack-of-All-Trades
- Kitsch Collection
- Knuckle Cracking
- Like a Fish Takes to Water
- Loony Friends Improve Your Personality
- The Magazine Rule
- Misery Builds Character
- The Movie Buff
- Nature Lover
- Now Let Me Carry You
- Number One Dime
- Office Golf
- OOC Is Serious Business
- Oral Fixation
- Over and Under the Top
- Pastimes Prove Personality
- Personal Arcade
- Personality Powers
- Poster-Gallery Bedroom
- Putting On My Thinking Cap
- Real Award, Fictional Character
- Rhymes on a Dime
- Ridiculously Successful Future Self
- Rounded Character
- Rules Lawyer
- The Silent Bob
- Smoking Is Cool
- Something About a Rose
- Static Character
- Stock Yuck
- Survival Mantra
- Sweet Tooth
- Thememobile
- Too Much Alike
- The Tragic Rose
- Vanity License Plate
- Work Hard, Play Hard
- Write Who You Know
- Wrong Genre Savvy