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main index

Narrative

• Universal
• Applied Phlebotinum
• Characterization
• Characters
• Characters As Device
• Dialogue
• Motifs
• Narrative Devices
• Paratext
• Plots
• Settings
• Spectacle

Genre

• Action Adventure
• Comedy
• Commercials
• Crime And Punishment
• Drama
• Horror
• Love
• News
• Professional Wrestling
• Speculative Fiction
• Sports Story
• War

Media

• Animation (Western)
• Anime
• Comic Book
• Fan Fics
• Film
• Game
• Literature
• Music And Sound Effects
• New Media
• Print Media
• Radio
• Sequential Art
• Tabletop Games
• Television
• Theater
• Videogame
• Webcomics

Topical Tropes

• Betrayal
• Censorship
• Combat
• Death
• Family
• Fate And Prophecy
• Food
• Holiday
• Memory
• Money
• Morality
• Politics
• Religion
• School

Other Categories

• British Telly
• The Contributors
• Creator Speak
• Creators
• Derivative Works
• Did Not Do The Research
• Language
• Laws And Formulas
• Show Business
• Split Personality
• Stock Room
• Trope
• Truth And Lies
• Truth In Television

Finally, there are some tropes that get their names from other works that don't quite fall into the previous categories.

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Commercials/Advertisement

• Trix
  • Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids! (snowcloned)
  • Silly Rabbit, Romance Is for Kids! (also snowcloned)

• Charles Atlas' Bodybuilding
  • Charles Atlas Superpower

Folklore

• Lady Godiva
  • The Peeping Tom

Radio

• Firesign Theater
  • Department of Redundancy Department

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
  • Critical Existence Failure (originally "Spontaneous Massive Existence Failure")
    • Author Existence Failure
  • Gargle Blaster
  • Insignificant Little Blue Planet
  • Let's Meet the Meat
  • Puff of Logic
  • So Long, and Thanks for All the Gear
  • Two of Your Earth Minutes

• National Public Radio
  • Dope Slap (via Car Talk)

• The Shadow
  • The Shadow Knows

Stand-Up Comedy

• Dane Cook
  • The Friend Nobody Likes

Toys

• Barbie
  • Barbie Doll Anatomy
• BIONICLE
  • Beware My Stinger Tail

Holiday Tales

• Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
  • All of the Other Reindeer

Fan Works (pre-Internet)

• A Trekkie's Tale
  • Mary Sue

Theme Parks

• Disney Theme Parks
  • Beware of Hitchhiking Ghosts
  • I'm Going To Disney World!
  • Tomorrowland

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The Simpsons

Trope Namers

Real Life