An index of all our tropes that are about the contents of a list.
Therefore, Not on the List, as it's a gag based on a list, not about how the contents of a list relate to each other, so it doesn't count.
Neither does the Evil Overlord List, which is Just for Fun.
Nor Grand Tabletop Rules List or Rules of the Internet.
Obsessed Are the Listmakers may occur at the same time as any of the tropes listed here. Counting Tropes usually involves a list of numbers to count things.
Tropes:
Also see:
- Alliterative List: A list of things all starting with the same letter. Commonly used in conjunction with Rule #1.
- Amusingly Short List: A list that's much, much shorter than you'd expect it to be.
- And a Diet Coke: A character orders a diet soda after they just ordered a ton of unhealthy food.
- Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: A list of accomplishments or flaws ends with one that doesn't sound as impressive or heinous when compared to everything else on the list.
- Arson, Murder, and Lifesaving: A character is chewed out for what they did wrong, then praised for the one thing they did right.
- Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: A list of three or more things ends with a combination of the previously listed items.
- Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: A list of mundane stuff ends with something gross or disturbing.
- The Commandments: A definitive list of rules that are meant to be obeyed at all times.
- Enemies List: Someone keeps a list on hand of people they dislike.
- Epic Catalog: Epic poetry tends to contain huge lists of things, be they people or gods/goddesses.
- Famous, Famous, Fictional: A list of real-life famous people are put next to an obviously fictional one that doesn't really fit.
- "Five Things" Fic: A fanfiction that lists the five times something happens, and the one time it doesn't.
- Hurricane of Aphorisms: Someone lets loose with a series of aphorisms or sayings.
- Hurricane of Euphemisms: A character refers to something using various euphemisms for the subject.
- Listing the Forms of Degenerates: Someone gives a list of the types of horrible people that populate a place.
- List-of-Experiences Speech: Someone recaps all the things that happened in their life up to this point in a speech.
- List of Transgressions: When put on trial, a criminal's offenses are listed.
- List Song: Listing a selection of things through song.
- Long List: A really, REALLY big list of something.
- Odd Name Out: The one member of a group or family whose name doesn't follow the same theme the other's names do.
- Oh Wait, This Is My Grocery List: Someone mistakes a grocery list for another important list.
- Rhyming List: A list of things that all coincidentally rhyme with each other.
- Rule #1: Someone creates a list of rules that they expect everyone to abide by.
- Snub by Omission: Someone mentions a group of characters and intentionally leaves one of them out to spite them.
- Song of Song Titles: A song that mentions the titles of other songs in its lyrics.
- Sparse List of Rules: A list of rules is implied to have a large number of them, but only a handful of them are brought up.
- Top Ten List: Ten things are put into a list and ranked based on their position.
- The Triple: A common comedy shtick: listing three things, with the third and last one being the funniest and most out of place.
- Two out of Three Ain't Bad: Someone gives a list of three things, with the last one not being as great as the others. Cue trope name.
