There are Omnipresent Tropes, and then there are these: things that are so omnipresent that they're not even storytelling tools. They happen so often that they lose all meaning; thus, they will likely never happen as tropes.
Compare and contrast Too Obscure or Bizarre and Too Specific.
Contrast No Trope Is Too Common (there is a meaning, regardless of how often it happens).
Dishonorable mentions:
- People Sit on Chairs
- People Sit at Tables
- Breathing Oxygen - So much so that aversions and subversions have become tropes in their own right.
- Breathing H₂O a.k.a. Drowning...
- ...Or being a fish
- Breathing H₂O a.k.a. Drowning...
- Two Objects Cannot Be in One Place (and its inversion... And no, Teleporter Accidents and telefrags do not count).
- Subverted by Quantum Physics (by bosons).
- One Object Cannot Be In Two Places
- Also subverted by Copenhagen quantum physics, but not other interpretations where a particle only is at one place a time.
- Older Than a Newborn
- Gal Looks Like a Lady
- Guy Looks Like a Dude
- Human Looks Like a Homo Sapiens
- Small and Completely Inconsequential Bugs (like sprite flickering)
- Three-Dimensional Euclidean Geometry
- Subverted by General Relativity and by string theory.
- The Word "The" (except in Spell My Name with a "The")
- Averted by a bunch of languages.
- Played for Laughs in the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Procrastination".
- Didn't Get The Call, Didn't Find the Call, Couldn't Care Less About The Call
- And its subtrope, Didn't Get The Call And Really Are Just As Happy About It; Happier, Maybe.
- And, of course, Didn't Get The Call But It Was Only A Wrong Number Anyway.
- The Call Doesn't Want To Contact You And You Don't Really Want To Be Contacted Either And Later The Call Calls Someone Who Wants To Be Called
- The Bad Guys Always Fail
- The Bad Guy Dies, with subtropes Disney Villain Death and Death Equals Redemption
- The Bad Guy Sins
- The Bad Guy Fails High School
- The Bad Guy Fails Physics Forever
- Really as Old as They Look
- And its sister trope, Really as Young as They Look.
- Exactly as Old as They Think
- Really 70 Years Old: An elderly person actually looks elderly.
- Cast Full of Lifeforms
- Averted by Object Shows.
- Porn with Porn: Pornography contains sex as its main focus.
- Plot with Plot: A work with a plot features storytelling.
- Plot Without Porn: A work that features no explicit sex.
- Plot with Plot: A work with a plot features storytelling.
- Poorly Disguised Plot
- Well Disguised Pilot
- Ferdinand Was Right — people eating animals for Christmas dinner; overlaps with Too Obscure or Bizarre
- Moderately Hard Difficulty
- Steam, of a non-gaming platform and non-punk kind.
- I'll be surprised if there isn't a trope about steam vents as obstacles in games.
- There is also Censor Steam, so this one happened twice, I guess.
- Everyday Clothing
- Possible supertrope of Not Wearing Tights (for superheroes) and Custom Uniform (for plain clothes detectives).
- Pressing the Start Button
- Starting being averted by The Seventh Generation of Console Video Games. For example, the Wii, which lacks a Start button, generally has "+" for pausing, and title screens use "press A+B" or "press any button".
- Inverted with Windows, which prior to ATX required the user to press the "Start" button in order to shut down.note
- The Commodore 64 puts Run and Stop on the same key.
- Two People Who Do Not Meet And Who Are Not In Love
- Two People Who Are Romantically Compatible But Aren't, Like, Destined To Be Together Or Anything, And It Doesn't Matter Anyway Because They Never Meet
- Both of these could be a supertrope to Ships That Pass in the Night.
- Two People Who Are Romantically Compatible But Aren't, Like, Destined To Be Together Or Anything, And It Doesn't Matter Anyway Because They Never Meet
- The Slapwankles Tetra-Inversion Principle:
Tom Siddell: It's when a character says something to another character in a story, and then later a different character says a thing that has nothing to do with that other thing.
- Over shorter time periods, compare Non Sequitur and Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!.
- Eating Food (that doesn't fall into anything in Food Tropes).
- Drinking Alcohol (that doesn't fall into Hard-Drinking Tropes).
- Drinking Non-Alchoholic Beverages
- Drinking Alcohol (that doesn't fall into Hard-Drinking Tropes).
- Ice Melts in Heat
- Nose
- We have tropes for exaggerations (Gag Nose) and aversions (The Noseless).
- Complaining About Nose You Don't Like
- And Your Reward Is Nose
- We Have Nose Tropes, so... I guess this one happened?
- List Of Series That Have Characters
- Talking Humans -or- Opening That Giant Hole In Your Face And Having Words And Sounds Come Out
- Played with in various ways: The Speechless, The Voiceless, and The Unintelligible.
- Call a Rabbit a "Rabbit"
- A Horse of a Color
- That Dog Has Fleas!
- People Who Can Spell Their Own Names
- Flip A Switch, The Light Comes On
- If The Light Is Off Then It Isn't On
- You Turn The Lights Off Then You Turn Them Back On
- Subverted by power outages.
- Use of Solid, Liquid, and Gaseous Matter -or- Materials Made of Atoms
- Subverted with various degenerate states of matter.
- Is light a wave or a particle?
- Averted in Cyberspace.
- Standing On A Planet
- Averted in works set on Generation Ships.
- I Have A Face
- Subverted by Mel Gibson and others?
- Invoked in cases of My Eyes Are Up Here.
- Moving
- Blinking
- Eye Tropes has a few, but not Once for Yes, Twice for No.
- Existing
- Its inversion, Not Existing, is paradoxically universal.
- Not Existing is used in The Tropeless Tale, which makes it exist even less.
- Its inversion, Not Existing, is paradoxically universal.
- Insane Troll Logic/Trolls
- Combustion Fuel
- Combustion Fuel as a MacGuffin
- Machinery Fuel
- My Lower Body From My Waist To My Ankles In My Pants
- I've got two legs from my hips to the ground...
- He got feet down below his knees..
- Aversions include some examples of Inspirationally Disadvantaged, Dream-Crushing Handicap, and Bizarre Alien Locomotion.
- Person Who Is Moderately Attractive
- Sort of exists as Hollywood Homely.
- Mediocrity Sue
- Realistically Flawed Sue
- Lawsuit Sue
- Runaround Sue
- Average Sue
- Hijinxan Sue
- The Fred
- That's what you think.
- Precedent: Jack Attack was cut.
- That's what you think.
- Gravity Is Not A Seamstress, Harsh Or Otherwise
- Adrenaline Brigade Bait
- See Nightmare Fuel.
- Dopamine Brigade Bait
- We do have Melatonin Brigade Bait, Insulin Brigade Bait, and Serotonin Brigade Bait.
- Endorphin Brigade Bait
- Triiodothyronine Brigade Bait
- Tetrahydrocannabinol Brigade Bait
- Thiotimoline Brigade Bait
- A Creator Announces That It Will Release A Work, Then Later The Work Is Released
- Double subverted with Duke Nukem Forever and anything else Uncanceled.
- Writers Write The Plot
- Imagination Writes The Plot
- Except in cases of Real Life Writes the Plot, Executive Meddling, Dub-Induced Plot Hole (Translators Miswrite The Plot), Wag the Director and surely others.
- Second Life Writes The Plot
- Monkeys With Typewriters Write The Plot
- One example is Twitch Plays Pokémon.
- Smarter than Ralph Wiggum
- Dumber than Einstein
- Inverted with Martin Prince. Einstein's IQ is 160, while Martin's IQ is 216.
- Dumber than Einstein
- Movement
- Inertia
- I Know The Limits of My Own Abilities
- Bog-Standard Protagonist
- Plain As A Pikestaff
- Touching an Item with Any Part Of The Character Or Machine Results of it Being Picked up in Video Games
- Subverted by I Wanna Be the Guy: "YOU JUMPED ONTO A SWORD! YOU RETARD!"
- Subverted by most RPGs — you have to push a button to pick things up.
- Most Books in Video Games Are Unreadable Or At Most Very Short (It'd Be Impractical To Make a Whole Library of Full Length Books in Every Game)
- There is No Time Limit In Video Games unless Otherwise Stated
- Video Games Always Give You a Second Chance After You Die, Even if You First Have to Deal with a Game Over
- Aversions at Single-Attempt Game.
- If I Set This Match Alight, It May Burn
- Older Than Fusion Power
- If TV Tropes lasts another 20 years, I'll make you eat your words.
- The Sun would like a word with you, as would its many older cousins. So, how about Newer Than Fusion Power?
- Older Than Faster-Than-Light Travel
- Both could have in-universe examples.
- Older Than Time Travel
- Older Than Flying Cars
- Older Than Things That Are Younger Than It: Includes the most recently released work at any given moment.
- Older Than Ford Fusion
- Dead Historical Figures
- Conventional Learning Experience
- People Who Aren't Dead
- Not Quite Dead, at least
- People Who AREN'T DEAD
- WE'RE NOT DEAD!
- I feel happy! I feel happy!
- People Who Survive The Episode. (Zigzagged by Kenny)
- Kids Who Aren't a Dad
- Feed the Dog
- Evil Is Bad, and its sister trope, Good Is Good
- Good is Good and Bad is Bad
- This Is Your Brain On Good
- Evil Is Not Good, Evil Is Not Nice
- Nazis Are Bad, and its sister tropes Nazis Are Not Good and Nazis Are Not Nice
- Dark Is Not Light, and its sister trope Light Is Not Dark
- Good Is Well-Lit
- Midnight Horror, Things That Don't Go "Bump" in the Day
- See also: Captain Obvious
- Neutral Is Neutral
- Tropes That Have Already Happened
- Works That Have An Author
- Works That Don't Exist Because The Person Destined to Become Their Author Decided To Become A Postman Instead
- Dream has a library full of these.
- Thursday Next could probably show you a few.
- When the copyright industry wants a handout from a government, it plays up the existence of these.
- Works That Don't Exist Because The Person Destined to Become Their Author Decided To Become A Postman Instead
- All First-Person Games Include Killing
- Banned In North Korean Concentration Camps
- Banned In A Media-less Vacuum
- Averted by The Tropeless Tale.
- Banned In A Media-less Vacuum
- Most Women Are Female
- Swords that cut
- Older Than Something That Came After It
- Younger Than Something That Came After It
- Possible in real life thanks to special relativity.
- Younger Than Something That Came After It
- Memes That Failed To Catch On
- In a sense, Dino-Riders; didn't catch on as a series, but did later become a meme.
- Forced Meme, perhaps?
- Even The Guys Want Her
- Everybody Has Lots of Something
- Everyone Else Has Had More Sex Than Me
- Space Has Stars
- In fact, it was full of stars until the King of All Cosmos broke them all.
- Unreliable Reliable Narrator (How to explain the third-person limited Point of View.)
- A Father To His Sons and Daughters
- Vaguely Similar To What It Says On The Tin
- Presumably What It Says On The Tin, But We Haven't Opened It So There's No Way To Know For Sure
- Shaped Unlike Itself
- Since Never Trust a Title exists, why not Sliding Scale Of Title Accuracy?
- Physical Dog
- That would be a great name for the "zoomorphic" end capping off the Sliding Scale of Anthropomorphism.
- Unphysical Dog
- Winnable By Design
- Words With Spaces Between Them
- Averted in some languages
- Letters With Tiny Spaces Between Them
- ...And/Or Visual Representations And/Or Sound
- Averted in some languages
- Crowning Moment Of Jimmy Olsen Getting Superpowers Only To Have Them Vanish At The End Of The Issue
- Take a shot.
- Twenty Four Hour Superpowers
- Acting For One
- The Sky is Blue
- Except sometimes, when it's an Alien Sky.
- Carbon Based Terrestrial Lifeforms
- Anterograde Motion
- Beware The Obviously Evil Ones
- Buses Aren't For Freaks
- Politicians That Lie: Cited as an example of something that might be too PSOC to trope in this forum post.
- All Dogs Are Animals
- Water Is Not Air
- Subverted in Tower of God, where the air is literally magic water.
- Americans Speaking English
- Barely, especially one's Immigrant Parents
- English Speaking English
- Also barely, with some accents, especially Geordie
- People Speaking Their Own Language
- Not common at all, according to Henry Higgins: "In America, they haven't used it for years!"
- Canadians Speaking English or French
- Fiction Artists Have No Sense Of Light Pollution
- Caused by Reality Is Unrealistic, The Coconut Effect (if it's night, the stars should be out) or Rule of Cool.
- Tuning A Tuning Fork
- This is done with a tuning fork tuning fork, which has to be tuned with a tuning fork tuning fork tuning fork, with a chain of frequency references up to the atomic clock.
- Toenail Cutting
- Cut Toe Nailing
- Is it the same as toenail breaking?
- A Story With Tropes
- Averted by The Tropeless Tale
- Exaggerated when it's Troperiffic.
- If I'm Still Breathing, It's Okay
- People Brushing Their Teeth
- Guy On Girl Is Hot
- Guy On Girl Is Het
- Guy In Girl Is Het
- Would this be People Sit on Chairs for porn?
- Not quite; In Universe Examples Only.
- Girl On Guy Is Hot
- Zeno's RPG - An RPG where leveling goes briskly in the beginning until finally slowing down to a crawl.
- Zeno's MMORPG
- Zeno's FPS (the bullets never quite reach their targets).
- Zeno's Tower Defense (delays between attacks double in length every round).
- This Index Is An Example - basically all trope namers that are examples.
- Money For Something
- Golfing With Clubs
- And Chicks For Time, Money, Care, Love And A Sense Of Humour, (Or For Being A Bastard).
- Intelligent Enough to Live
- People Use Umbrellas When It Rains
- Only averted by natives of Seattle.
- The Capital of Brazil Is Brasília
- The Capital of Argentina Is Buenos Aires
- Shining Yellow Orb In The Sky
- Averted by sunset and by any story taking place IN SPACE.
- Children Are Smaller Than Adults
- We do have Short Teens, Tall Adults and Pint-Sized Kid about exaggerations.
- Children Are Younger Than Adults
- Unless the child is Really 700 Years Old
- The Alien is An Alien
- Coneheads? Men in Black?
- Someone should take this to YKAN ALIEN, ALIEN, ALIEN...
- The Man Who Had A Cough And It's Just A Cough And He's Fine
- I Did What I Didn't Really Have To Do, But Really Wanted To
- Exists as It Amused Me.
- One Game for the Price of One
- Increasingly averted with DLC.
- Greetings!
- Censorship
- Sensorship
- Censor-shipping: when Moral Guardians meet and fall in love.
- Sponsorship
- [DATA EXPUNGED]
- Heroes Vs. Villains
- Villains Are Worse Than Jerks
- Villains Are Worse Than Heroes
- Jerks Are Worse Than Nice Guys
- Animesque/Anime and Manga
- Inverted by Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt, an anime designed to look like Western Animation.
- Liminal Advertising
- Truly Normal Animal
- Spell My Name With A Letter
- Briefly averted by Prince.
- Spell My Name The Same Way That It's Normally Spelled
- Real Trailer Real Movie
- Subverted with Never Trust a Trailer?
- Fate Better Than Death
- Could be subverted in the case of immortality with the tropes Not Growing Up Sucks and Who Wants to Live Forever?
- Ordinary-Sized Regular Flea From Nowhere
- Ordinary-Sized Regular Flea From Somewhere: Annoying parasites that feed on pets and wildlife.
- Ordinary-Sized Regular Fleas From Everywhere: Includes both the cause of the bubonic plague's spread and a good reason to call an exterminator.
- Giant Nowhere Flea From Space
- Flee From Giant Flea From Space
- Everyone Wears Underwear
- Averted by anyone Going Commando.
- It's Terrible, Now It Sucks.
- Absurdly Low Stakes Game
- That could happen.
"Alright, I see your quarter and raise you a stick of gum.""Ooh, high roller!"- Does Trading Places count?
- So Ugly, It's A Curse
- Potty Success
- Do we have a trope for the feeling of incredible relief when you make it to the toilet just in time?
- Possible, But Quite Hard To Pull Off
- Within The Possible
- Regular-Ass Normal
- Exists as Muggle?
- Badass Super
- Everyone Calls Him By His Name
- First Person Person
- Monoglot
- Surprisingly Realistic Outcome/Real Life
- Crack Is More Expensive
- Orthodox Reload
- Orthodoxy: Reloaded
- Easier than Hard
- Harder than Easy
- Reality Is Realistic
- Bald of Baldness
- Angel's Advocate
- Rogue Angels of Satan, a trope for completely correct spelling.
- Averted with newer spelling books, because they completely change the rules upon how something has to be written.
- Rape Is Okay When It Is Consensual
- Rape Is Not Okay
- Non-Musical Episode
- Innocently Clothed Girl
- If Your Normal Is Our Taboo, it could happen.
- Actors Acting The Way They Were Trained To
- Correct Line Reading Reel
- Animals Without Surnames
- Explicably Tailless
- Show Not Within a Show
- Show Outside Of A Show
- A specific type of Framing Device.
- Show Outside Of A Show
- Dead Animals As Food
- Averted by vegetarians and vegans
- Anatomically Easy Sex
- Conflict As Drama
- Authority Equals Power
- Nice Job Fixing It, Hero
- Slower Than Light Travel
- Trailers Often Tell The Truth
- Name's Not The Same
- Because we need to catalog instances of two or more famous people being easy to distinguish from one another. 19th Century physicist James Clerk Maxwell is not to be confused, ever, with Scrubs actress Sarah Chalke.
- I Didn't Think It Meant
- Germans Love Kraftwerk
- Ms. Average Looking Girl
- Mr. Average Looking Guy
- I Fell For Seconds
- I Fell For You
- Which would likely cause injuries if not death.
- Rooting For The Rebels
- Same Sex Clone
- Masculine Boy, Feminine Girl
- Masculine Girl and Manly Man
- Sensitive Gal, Feminine Boy
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Dumbass
- This Is Your Premise On Medication Used Legally
- We All Live in the Universe
- Weak Against Rockets
- Trope Names from the English
- The Walls Are Remaining Still
- Everybody Poops
- And if they don't they're an android and should be destroyed!
- All Gays Are Homosexual
- Love It or Hate It Or Think It Was OK
- Humans Are Humans
- Nations Fight Wars To Win
- No Different In Hindsight
- Through The Eyes Of Sanity
- I Don't Call It Vera Because That Would Be Silly
- You're Not Drinking Breast Milk
- Your Baby is Drinking Breast Milk
- Fictitious Events Write The Plot
- Moderate Injury, Moderate Reaction
- No Injury, No Reaction
- Come for the X, Stay for the X
- Criminal Character, Law Abiding Actor
- Check the tabloids to see when this isn't played straight or inverted.
- Evergreen Christmas Trees
- Watching Shows You Don't Complain About
- Real Women Can Wear Dresses If They Wish But Are Not Required To
- Real Women Wear Pink (although Pink Girl, Blue Boy sort of does cover that)
- Real Men Never Wear Dresses
- Transvestite Men Often Wear Dresses
- Wholesome Dresser
- Offer Valid In Nebraska
- The Dog Wasn't The Mastermind
- Bleeping Computer
- Is the name of a forum about PC and operating system repair.
- Anti-Anti-Hero
- Fiction Warper
- A Conspiracy Theorist Thinks Beethoven Was An Alien Spy
- Beethoven Wasn't An Alien Spy
- Mata Hari Was A Human Spy
- Recycled ON EARTH!
- Examples would be works in a Modern A.U. or a High School AU.
- Amazing Technicolor World
- It's Partly About Me
- Untroubling Childlike Behavior
- The Fought
- No Berserk Button Is Pressed
- Viewers Vary In Intelligence
- And Now For Someone Exactly The Same
- Exists as Meet the New Boss.
- People Wearing Warm Clothes In Winter (Without Fur, Style, Or Holiday Themes)
- A Captive Is Not Hypnotized
- Reality Kitchen Sink
- Everyone Is Some Guy On Earth
- Averted by Yuri Gagarin.
- Jesus Is Jesus In Purgatory (Except When He's Not In Purgatory)
- Critical Resonance
- Everyone Is Right-Handed
- Permanent Blue Link Club
- Check the TV Tropes section of Grandfather Clause.
- Informed Christianity
- Insects Do Not Collect Wigs
- Things
- The Adjectiveless Man
- I Have A Mouth, And I Feel Fine
- Lollipops Are Cheaper
- We Were Relevant When We First Came Out, Dammit
- Adam Smith Is Perfectly Fine With You
- You Can Get Ye Flask
- The Same on DVD
- Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Romance
- Word of the Devil
- Rated Edition
- Who Wants to Die Immediately?
- Reptiles Aren't Abhorrent
- Not All Myths Are True
- All Myths Are False
- Reliable Narrator
- Actor Outlives Character
- Boring And Impractical
- Not Using The N Word
- Meaningless Name
- Meaningless Release Date
- Sex Porn
- Everyone Is Straight
- Praising Shows You Watch
- Someone Dies
- Found A Pen
- Artistic License - Art
- Two-Way Sex
- Pleasurable Orgasm
- Hard Is Bigger In Bed
- Shower Of Washing
- Department of Redundancy
- Scene
- Ancient Legend
- And Now For Something Only Somewhat Different
- Room Full of Sane
- Blessed With Awesome
- Cursed with Suck
- Fairly Intelligent and Reasonably Industrious
- Walking
- Again, averted in some examples of Inspirationally Disadvantaged, Dream-Crushing Handicap, and Bizarre Alien Locomotion.
- This one actually DID happen, although it will never happen again.
- In Order
- Perfectly Acceptable Word
- Books That Don't Bite
- A Wizard Didn't Do It
- Something Happens
- As Someone Else
- Set Before The Year 9000
- Made Before The Year 9000
- Someone's Name Isn't Bob
- These Are Things Man Was Not Meant To Know, But He Can If He Wants To. It's Really Not That Big A Deal
- Rodents Of The Usual Size
- Plausibly Specific Denial
- No One Chasing You
- Creating Life Is Hard
- They Changed It, Now It's Different!
- Ruined TEMPORARILY
- Consistent Gravity
- Tropes On Earth
- Press X to Do Something, If the Button Has an Assigned Function in the Given Game, That Is
- Deader Than Alive
- Usually Uninteresting Sight
- Narnia Does Not Exist
- Canada Exists
- Not Everything is Trying to Kill You
- Small Creepy-Crawlies
- Everything's More Average With Humans
- Battle Indiscretion Shot
- Normal People Wear Glasses
- Race Non-Lift
- Fictional Trope Index
- Stubbing Your Toe is Painful
- "This work does not provide examples of..."
- Heterosexual Reproduction
- Sequential Events Plot
- Both Actor And Character Are Still Alive
- Does Not Cross The Line
- Please Don't Take The Candle
- This Town IS Big Enough For The Two Of Us
- Vampires Are The Real Monsters
- You Can Trust This Title
- What Couldn't Have Been: A page for listing every single possibility that a work was never intended to be and never had any chance of being. Did you know that Friends was never planned to be a love story between a tired, by-the-book time-traveling cowboy and a magical alien wizard who was actually Shakespeare?
- Making Someone Suffer A Fate Worse Than Death Is a Special Kind of Evil
- The Pronounceable
- The Intelligible: Understanding a character's speech is effortless.
- Subverted by viewers who don't speak the work's language.
- Redemption Equals Redemption
- Even The ISO Has Standards
- Reality Supertext: When a work is created and set inside the larger context of reality and must be viewed in that light.
- Last-Episode Twist
- So You Want To/Drive A Car
- The Hills and Flat Terrain of Illinois: A work set in Illinois averts Artistic License – Geography.
- Slouch of Bad Posture: Someone is always slumped over for no clear reason.
- Works set in space
- Mario Gambit: A plan that is completely average and unremarkable in every possible way.
- Horrifyingly Realistic Black Hole: An aversion of Unrealistic Black Hole in a game or setting where it wouldn't be expected, so the player or a character casts a spell to create one, or fires a black hole gun or whatever, only to have the entire planet destroyed.
- In Scribblenauts, black holes can be summoned but doing so pretty much immediately results in death and the level resetting. (Except in the level where you must kill the dinosaurs, where it's a valid solution.)
- People Don't Sit on Chairs: There are chairs, but nobody sits on them. See, it's the opposite of People Sit on Chairs, so by definition it will be a relevant and thriving trope.
- Artistic License – Biology/Rule 34
- Shaped Like A Shelf: A trope page listing every work that contains at least one shelf-shaped object, regardless of whether or not the object in question is actually a shelf.
- Found on All-Red Entry: They Didn't Change It, So It's the Same!
- Unsurprisingly Good Native Language: Truth in Television in public.
- Sorting Algorithm of Writing Systems: Subtropes include How to Alphabetize Things.
- Most Gamers Are Gamers
- The Walrus Was John
- People Shit in Toilets
- Normal Syntax Speaker
- Blue and Orange Insanity: A character espouses a completely bizarre, alien moral framework... because they are insane.
- Unlocked Pages
- IC Is Serious Business: A serious scene happens and a characters holds to their characterization during it.
- ICU Is Serious Business: Who knew that getting rushed to the emergency room was a big deal?
- Sorting Algorithm of Algorithms
- Cats Have One Life
- Humans Have One Life
- All Organisms Have One Life
- Inverted with the Turritopsis Dohrnii, otherwise known as the Immortal Jellyfish.
- Inverted with the Turritopsis Dohrnii, otherwise known as the Immortal Jellyfish
- It Has Context In Context
- Name's Different: A listing of all pairs of characters, across all works and mediums, whose names are not the same.
- So Beautiful, It's Nothing Out Of The Ordinary
- Most Writers Are Mammals
- Screwed by the Sexy
- Love Sink
- Politically Correct Hero
- Heroic Friendship
- Action Guy
- Love to Love
- Useless Notes
- Meaningless Anagram: A word's letters can be rearranged to form a meaningless jumble of letters.
- Ron in Leather Pants
- Would Hit A Boy
- Would Hurt An Adult
- Rule 34 – Audience Reactions
- Disconnected All Along: A number of recurring characters have absolutely no connection to each other or specific events.
- No Role, No Impact: A character never appears in the story, never gets mentioned, and has no impact on it whatsoever.
- Invoked by Sir Not Appearing In This Film from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
- The Continued Existence of the World as We Know It
- Physical World
- Dark Is Not Light
- Light Is Not Dark
- Fan Beloved Explanation: An answer to a plot thread which the fanbase ends up seeing as a great reveal or logical explanation.
- Harmful Villain
- Unambiguously Human
- Housepet Dog
- Discussed Trope/TV Tropes
- Satan Is Evil
- Named After Nobody In Particular
- Male Band, Male Singer
- The Same Export For You
- Took the Good Film Seriously
- Family Unfriendly Firearms
- Can See Just Fine Without 'Em
- Multi-Letter Name
- Rhythm Bassist
- Rhythm Drummer
- R-Rated Drug
- Frothy Mugs of Beer
- The Fourth Wall Will Protect You
- Soundtrack Resonance (The soundtrack fits the scene.)
- Scenery Resonance (The scenery matches the events happening.)
- Mood Resonance
- Lyrical Resonance
- Soundtrack Sonance (When the soundtrack sonates, but doesn't necessarily resonate.)
- One Line, Waiting
- Circle (When there's a circle.)
- Semi-Circle (Social Semi-Circle but without the social part.)
- Does Not Contradict the Existence of Hotlegs' 1970 Single "Neanderthal Man"
- Falsehood in Television
- Truth In Real Life: Double-Subverted by Aluminum Christmas Trees and Reality Is Unrealistic. They are true, even if it's not what we expect.
- The Universe
- Removed Allerative Charm: A trope for every single name or phrase that is not alliterative.
- Properly Placed Wildlife
- Marth Debuted in "Fire Emblem"
- Old Friend, Old Gender
- New Friend, New Gender: Befriending a new person with a different gender than yours.
- Consistent Spelling
- Superheroes Wear Clothes
- Superhero Movie Villains Fight Superheroes
- Early-Installment Consistency
- Moderate Eater
- Nice Guy with a Heart of Gold
- Human Character, Human Actor
- Longest Song Goes Somewhere in the Middle
- Unsurprisingly Gentle Song: An acoustic song by a folk musician.
- Adaptation Conflict: Conflict exists in an adaptation.
- Consistent Coloring
- Morally Incorrect Villain
- As Heavy As It Looks
- You Gotta Have Hair: Works where most characters are not bald.
- Properly Aimed Merchandising
- Ron in Leather Pants
- Draco the Death Eater
- Life Imitates Life
