Videogame Tropes - Television Tropes & Idioms

The tropes and idioms of the interactive electronic game.

See Also:

The Grand List Of Console Role Playing Game Cliches
Videogame Characters
Videogame Culture
Videogame Genres
Videogames Of Note
Videogame Systems

Categories:

Acceptable Breaks From Reality
Boss Battle
Videogame Interface Elements
Videogame Items And Inventory
Videogame Settings

Tropes:

Announcer Chatter
A Taste Of Power
A Winner Is You
Absurdly Spacious Sewer
Action Commands
Adam Smith Hates Your Guts
Air Vent Escape
AKA 47
Already Done For You
Amateur Photographer
An Adventurer Is You
And Now For Someone Completely Different
Antidote Effect
Anti Poop Socking
Anti Grinding
Apathetic Citizens
Arbitrary Headcount Limit
Arrows On Fire
Artificial Stupidity
Asteroids Monster
Attack Drone
Attractive Bent Gender
Attract Mode
Authority Equals Asskicking
Awesome But Impractical
Back From The Brink
Bag Of Sharing
Bag Of Spilling
Baleful Polymorph
Beat Them At Their Own Game
Beehive Barrier
Behind The Black
Benevolent Architecture
Betting Mini Game
BFS - Big Effing Sword
Bilingual Bonus
Block Puzzle
Bottomless Pits
- Non Lethal Bottomless Pits
Boring But Practical
Bragging Rights Reward
Breakable Weapons
Breather Level
Bribing Your Way To Victory
Bunny Hood
But Thou Must
Cap
Cardboard Obstacle
Character Level
Charged Attack
Chasing Your Tail
Check Point
Chekhovs Boomerang
Cherry Tapping
City Guards
Civil Warcraft
Classic Cheat Code
Clowncar Grave
Combos
Cognizant Limbs
Combination Attack
Combinatorial Explosion
Command And Conquer Economy
Competitive Balance
Conspicuously Selective Perception
Construct Additional Pylons
Continuing Is Painful
Convenient Questing
Copy And Paste Environments
Copy Protection
Cosmic Keystone
Collision Damage
Colony Drop
Cosmetic Award
Cranium Ride
Crippling Overspecialization
Critical Existence Failure
Critical Hit
Crystal Dragon Jesus
Cutscene
Dance Battler
Dark World
Deadly Gas
Death Cry Echo
Death Course
Death Is A Slap On The Wrist
Demonic Spiders
Desperation Attack
The Dev Team Thinks Of Everything
Dialogue Tree
Die Chair Die
- Rewarding Vandalism
Difficulty Levels
Disc One Nuke
Ditto Fighter
Do Not Run With A Gun
Dolled Up Installment
Door To Before
Doppleganger Spin
Dronejam
Dual Wielding
Dude Wheres My Respect
Dying Like Animals
Dynamic Difficulty
Easily Amused
Easing Into The Adventure
Easter Egg
Easy Logistics
Edge Gravity
Elemental Crafting
Elemental Rock Paper Scissors
Eleventh Hour Superpower
Elite Tweak
Embedded Prequel
Emergency Weapon
Emote Animation
Enemy Civil War
Enemy Chatter
Enemy Exchange Program
The Enemy Gate Is Down
Enemy Scan
Escort Mission
Event Flag
Everything Breaks
Everything Fades
Everything Trying To Kill You
Evolving Attack
Excuse Plot
Exclusive Enemy Equipment
Exploding Barrels
Face Doodling
Fairy Battle
Fake Difficulty
- Camera Screw
- The Computer Is A Cheating Bastard
- Guide Dang It
- Leap Of Faith
- Luck Based Mission
- Mercy Mode
- Rubber Band AI
- Selective Memory
Fake King
Feelies
Fetch Quest
- Broken Bridge
Fight Woosh
Finishing Move
Fishing Minigame
Floating Platforms
Fog Of War
Follow The Money
Foregone Victory
Gaiden Game
Game Breaker
Game Breaking Bugs
Game Level
Gameplay Ally Immortality
Gameplay And Story Segregation
- Always Close
- Cutscene Incompetence
- Cutscene Power To The Max
- Stand Back Hello
- Take Your Time
Gameplay Guided Amnesia
Game Shark
Gay Option
Geo Effects
Get On The Boat
Gimmick Level
Girly Run
Give Me Your Inventory Item
Glass Cannon
Global Airship
Global Currency
Goddamned Bats
Going Through The Motions
Good Bad Bugs
Good Bad Translation
Good Morning Crono
Goomba Stomp
Grand Theft Auto Effect
Grave Humor
Grid Inventory
Grind Boots
Ground Pound
Guess The Verb
Guest Star Party Member
Guilt Based Gaming
Guns Are Worthless
Harder Than Hard
Have A Nice Death
He Knows About Timed Hits
Hello Insert Name Here
Heroic BSOD
Hide Your Children
High Altitude Battle
Hijacked By Ganon
Hit Points
Holding Out For A Hero
Hold The Line
Home Run Hitter
Honest Axe
Hostage Spirit Link
Hostage For Mc Guffin
Hundred Percent Completion
I Am Not Left Handed
I Let You Win
I Cant Use These Things Together
Idiosyncratic Difficulty Levels
Idle Animation
Improbable Weapon User
Improvised Weapon
In A Single Bound
Inescapable Ambush
Inevitable Tournament
Inexplicable Treasure Chests
Infallible Babble
Infinity Plus One Sword
Inn Security
Insurmountable Waist Height Fence
Instant Runes
Interchangeable Antimatter Keys
Interface Screw
Inventory Management Puzzle
Invisible Grid
Invulnerable Civilians
Irrelevant Importance
Its All Upstairs From Here
Its Up To You
Item Crafting
Jiggle Physics
Joke Character
Journey To Find Oneself
Jump Physics
- Double Jump
- Wall Jump
Kamehame Hadoken
Katanas Are Just Better
Kleptomaniac Hero
Kobayashi Mario
Last Disc Magic
Last Lousy Point
Late To The Party
Law Of One Hundred
Leaked Experience
Lets Split Up Gang
Level Grinding
Light And Mirrors Puzzle
Limit Break
Living Statue
Loading Screen
Loads And Loads Of Loading
Lock And Key Puzzle
Locked Door
Lost Forever
Lord British Postulate
Ludicrous Gibs
Luigification
MacGuffin Delivery Service
Mad Libs Dialogue
Macrogame
Maechen Period
Magic Tool
Magikarp Power
Magnet Hands
Malevolent Architecture
- Magical Mystery Doors
Mana Drain
The Man Behind The Man
The Many Deaths Of You
The Mario
Marked Change
Magic Knight
Massive Multiplayer Crossover
Mercy Invincibility
Mercy Rewarded
Metal Slime
Mirror Match
Mission Pack Sequel
Money For Nothing
Money Spider
Mook Maker
Multiple Endings
Nerf
Nerf Arm
New Game Plus
News Travels Fast
Nice Job Breaking It Hero
Ninja Looting
Nintendo Hard
Nitro Boost
No Campaign For The Wicked
No Doorlevers
No Fair Cheating
Non Lethal KO
- Only Mostly Dead
- Final Death
- Plotline Death
Non Linear Sequel
Nonstandard Game Over
No Recycling
No Sneak Attacks
Nostalgia Level
No Swastikas
Not Compensating For Anything
Not The Fall That Kills You
Now Where Was I Going Again
NPC Amnesia
Numbered Sequels
Old And Busted New Hotness
Old Save Bonus
One Hit Point Wonder
One Game For The Price Of Two
One Man Army
One Thousand Needles
The One True Sequence
One Up
- One Up Sampo
Only Idiots May Pass
Only Smart People May Pass
Optional Party Member
Optional Sexual Encounter
Orcus On His Throne
Orphans Plot Trinket
Overly Long Fighting Animation
Palette Swap
Parasol Parachute
Party In My Pocket
Pass Through The Rings
Path Of Inspiration
Paused Interrupt
Penultimate Boss Theme
Perpetually Static
Personal Space Invader
Pipe Shooter
Pixel Hunt
Playable Epilogue
Player Punch
Player Versus Player
Pointless Waste Of Time
Point Of No Return
Poison Mushroom
Poor Predictable Rock
Pop Quiz
Pop Up Video Games
Portal Picture
Power Creep Power Seep
Power Up
Powerup Letdown
Protagonist Without A Past
Purely Aesthetic Gender
PVP Balanced
Quad Damage
Quicksand Box
Ragdoll Physics
Rainbow Pimp Gear
Random Encounters
Randomly Drops
Random Power Ranking
Rank Inflation
Rated M For Money
Real Is Brown
Real Money Trade
Recurring Riff
Recurring Traveller
Reinventing The Wheel
Relationship Values
Respawning Enemies
Reverse Blade Sword
Revenue Enhancing Devices
Revive Kills Zombie
The Ridill
Rise To The Challenge
Risk Style Map
RPG Elements
Run Dont Walk
Rocket Jump
Save Game Limits
Save Point
Save The Princess
Saving The World
Separate But Identical
Schala Lives
Scrappy Level
Scratch Damage
Screamer Trailer
Script Breaking
Scripted Event
Scrolling Text
Secret Character
Selective Gravity
Set Piece Puzzle
Sidequest
Slap On The Wrist Nuke
Smashing Hallway Traps Of Doom
Sniping Mission
Sorting Algorithm Of Evil
Sorting Algorithm Of Weapon Effectiveness
Soul Train
Soup Cans
- Alphabet Soup Cans
Space Compression
Space Filling Path
Speaking Simlish
Spikes Of Doom
Spoony Bard
Stalked By The Bell
Standard FPS Guns
Standard Status Effects
Statistically Speaking
Status Buff
Sticks To The Back
Stock Puzzle
Story To Gameplay Ratio
Strategy Guide
Strong Flesh Weak Steel
Stupidity Is The Only Option
Subtitles Are Superfluous
Sucking In Lines
Suicidal Overconfidence
Summon Magic
Super Star
Surprisingly Easy Mini Quest
Tactical Rock Paper Scissors
Talk To Everyone
Tech Tree
Tele Frag
Teleporting Keycard Squad
Ten Second Flashlight
That One Sidequest
Theme Song Reveal
There Are No Tents
Thriving Ghost Town
Timed Mission
Time Keeps On Slipping
Too Awesome To Use
Took A Shortcut
Trauma Inn
Trial And Error Gameplay
- Save Scumming
Turns Red
Unbreakable Weapons
Underground Monkey
Unexpected Genre Change
Unstable Equilibrium
Unusable Enemy Equipment
Unusually Uninteresting Sight
Unwinnable
Upgrade Artifact
Urban Segregation
Useless Useful Spell
Useless Useful Stealth
Use Item
Variable Mix
Vendor Trash
Victory Pose
Videogame Cruelty Potential
Videogame Geography
Videogame Stealing
Videogame Historical Revisionism
Videogame Setpiece
Villain Override
Violation Of Common Sense
Visible Silence
Walkthrough
Wall Crawl
The Wandering You
The War Sequence
Warp Whistle
Warring Without Weapons
Waste Of Time Story
Weak Turret Gun
We Cannot Go On Without You
Welcome To Corneria
White Magic
Who Cares About Gameplay
Whoring
Wide Open Sandbox
With This Herring
Wizard Needs Food Badly
Wutai Theft
You ALL Look Familiar
You Can't Get Ye Flask
Your Money Is No Good Here
Zero Sum Game

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