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Regardless of whether people are good, bad, or a bit of both, it's clear we love to insult in various ways, enough to make several tropes of them in fiction.

Contrast These Tropes Love To Brag, Admiration Tropes.

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Tropes

• Abomination Accusation Attack
• Actually Pretty Funny
• Armed With Canon
• Bait-and-Switch Comparison
• Bathroom Stall of Overheard Insults
• Better by a Different Name
• Big Stupid Doodoo Head
• Biting-the-Hand Humor
• Blowing a Raspberry
• Boring Insult
• Brutal Honesty
• Calling Me a Logarithm
• Calling the Old Man Out
• Comeback Tomorrow
• Compliment Backfire
• *Cough* Snark *Cough*
• Creator Career Self Deprecation
• Damned by Faint Praise
• Dear Negative Reader
• Defiant to the End
• Did You Actually Believe?
• Finger Wag
• Flame War
• Flipping the Bird
• Flowery Insults
• Gentleman Snarker
• Ha Ha Ha No
• Hard On Soft Science
• If I Wanted X, I Would Y
• If You Taunt Him, You Will Be Just Like Him
• Insulted Awake
• Insult Backfire
• Insult Comic
• Insult Friendly Fire
• Insult Misfire
• Insult of Endearment
• Insult to Rocks
• Irrevocable Message
• I Shall Taunt You
• I Take Offense to That Last One
• I Will Show You X
• Lame Comeback
• Mediation Backfire
• Minor Insult Meltdown
• Mother F-Bomb
• My Dad Can Beat Up Your Dad
• My Grandma Can Do Better Than You
• My Name Is Not Durwood
• Network Sideswipe
• Nobody Calls Me Chicken
• No You!
• Oh Wait!
• The One Thing I Don't Hate About You
• Outside Inside Slur
• Overly Narrow Superlative
• Pitiful Worms
• Practical Taunt
• Pretender Diss
• Self-Deprecation
• Spiteful Spit
• Stealth Insult
• Stereotype Reaction Gag
• Stop Being Stereotypical
• Take That
  • Take That, Audience!
  • Take That, Critics!
  • Take That, Scrappy!
• This Loser Is You
• Trash Talk
• Verb This
• Volleying Insults
• Witch with a Capital B
• World's Shortest Book
• World's Smallest Violin
• Years Too Early
• You Are Fat
• You Fight Like a Cow
• You Fool!
• You Rebel Scum!
• Your Little Dismissive Diminutive
• Your Mom

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