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This is an index of tropes that are about taboos as such, rather than issues that can be considered taboo.

Compare That Which Must Not Be Indexed.

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A list - tropes that are squarely about taboos

• Gay Panic
• Jesus Taboo
• Nuclear Weapons Taboo
• Our Nudity Is Different - showing your X is taboo.
• The Scottish Trope
• Your Normal Is Our Taboo

"B list" - tropes that have a component of being about taboos

• Alien Blood - black blood makes violence easier especially on Mecha-Mooks, Taboo of enemies you can sympathize with.
• Bloodless Carnage - blood is taboo, violence is okay.
• Bury Your Gays
• Jesus Was Way Cool - a taboo against portraying Jesus in a negative light, a taboo that doesn't necessarily extend to God.
• Kissing Discretion Shot - don't show kisses!
• Moral Guardians - and the taboos should remain taboo, thank you very much.
• Once Acceptable Targets - making fun of these used to be OK, but now is taboo.
• Please Put Some Clothes On - a trope about characters getting embarrassed because of a nudity taboo.
• Sex Is Evil and I Am Horny - a character being destructive because his sexual urges clash with his internalized sexual taboos.

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