Tropes to Remember:
Often Sucky
- Aesop Amnesia - generally frustrating.
- Pair the Spares - I loathe you, trope.
- Mood Whiplash
- Butt-Monkey - always the butt of the joke.
- When the characters are holding the Idiot Ball. Compare with Idiot Plot.
Dialogue Tropes
Drama
- Inn Between the Worlds
- Night and Day Duo
- Back-to-Back Badasses (and Took a Level in Badass)
- Beware the Quiet Ones - think Fluttershy.
- Corrupt the Cutie
- Break the Badass and Break the Haughty - some of my favorites.
- Berserk Button
- Heroic BSoD - in a similar vein, when the hero experiences a Despair Event Horizon.
- "Eureka!" Moment
- MacGuffin - the quest to get that item.
- Meaningful Echo - think My Hero Academia.
- Significant Name Shift - also think My Hero Academia.
- Heel–Face Turn - when evil turns good.
- Teeth-Clenched Teamwork
- I Let Gwen Stacy Die
- Fridging i.e. when a character is Targeted to Hurt the Hero.
- Mentor Occupational Hazard - the mentor figure dies.
- When She Smiles - the non-smiley character smiles.
Comedy
- Makes Just as Much Sense in Context
- Expressive Hair - think Apollo Justice.
- Smash Cut
- Brick Joke
- Noodle Incident - you know. The incident.
- Genki Girl - think Pinkie Pie.
- Department of Redundancy Department - quite redundant.
- Corner of Woe - usually in anime.
Meta and Misc
- Dead Horse Trope - a trope that's been beaten to death.
- Undead Horse Trope - a trope that should be dead, but it's still kickin'.
- Dead Unicorn Trope - a trope that's parodied as though it were dead, but it never was that overused in the first place.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality - morality doesn't align with typical good versus evil ideals.
- Status Quo Is God - especially common in slice of life. Beware the Reset Button.
- Sturgeon's Law - 90 percent of everything is crap.
- Occam's Razor - the simplest explanation is usually the right one.
- Word of God says your headcanon is invalid.
- Lampshade Hanging of course.
- Well, This Is Not That Trope
