Worse Than It Sounds / TV Tropes

• Ad Hominem: A deep insight into the character of your opponent.
• Americans Hate Tingle: Something's cool in its home country, but unfortunately not somewhere else, where people refuse to give it a chance.
• Animalistic Abomination: An animal looks really cool.
  • Humanoid Abomination: A person looks really cool.
  • Eldritch Abomination: It just looks really cool.
• Ass Pull: A way for writers to explain complex plots without too much exposition.
• Assimilation Plot: Fail-proof plot to unite all peoples and ensure that they are never lonely or in conflict with each other again.
• Audience-Alienating Premise: Proof that original, non-High Concept ideas still manage to get produced.
• Author Tract: Authors share their personal beliefs with the viewers.
• Badass Decay: Originally named after one of the most beloved characters in one of the most beloved shows of the Sci-fi genre. Involves an interesting and memorable change in a character. If it happens to a hero, it's often the result of some riveting or moving character development; if it happens to a villain, it makes life a little easier for the heroes.
• Bathe Her and Bring Her to Me: Promotes proper personal hygiene when one is a guest of an important figure.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: Something that is highly unpredictable but doesn't completely shunt the plotline off course.
• Bile Fascination: Ensures that less popular works still get the attention they deserve.
• The late Complain About Shows You Don't Like: Once one of the few pages on TV Tropes that let you freely express your opinions on fictional works.
• Complete Monster: A very effective villain.
• Covers Always Lie: A way to make the work interesting even before someone buys it.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: A hero's victory is assured.
• Darth Wiki: A Darker and Edgier TV Tropes on a dark, badass background color.
• Death Is a Slap on the Wrist: A game's way of telling you that it's okay to suck at video games.
• Death World: A land with many exotic animals and environments that you can interact with. So exhilarating, if you come there you'll never leave!
• Designated Villain/Designated Hero: Characters who force viewers to question the morality of the "heroes" and "villains."
• Dethroning Moment of Suck: Writers discuss single, game-changing moments in works.
• Died During Production:
  • Long-term writer's block.
  • A great way to easily boost the popularity of your work and get rid of all criticism.
• Die for Our Ship: The audience feels a character has done something far worse than anything a Complete Monster could ever do.
• Double Standard Rape: Female on Male/Female on Female: They didn't get raped.
• Draco in Leather Pants: Villain whose wrongful acts are rooted in a traumatic past.
• Dude, Not Funny!: A reaction one may have to a joke.
• Easy-Mode Mockery: A game that encourages player improvement and trying challenges they wouldn't normally attempt.
• Everybody Hates Mathematics: Simplicity is good.
• Executive Meddling: Fixing results of incompetence.
• Fake Difficulty: The increasing of a game's challenge in unexpected and unconventional ways.
• Filler: Writers never run out of ideas.
• Fix Fic: Removing the Dethroning Moment of Suck from your favorite work.
• Flame War: What often happens when two sides of a contentious issue sit down to discuss the issue.
• For the Evulz: Motivation deeper than money or power.
• Forced Level-Grinding: Video game mechanic sure to prolong the player's enjoyment.
• Franchise Killer: The ultimate close of a beloved series.
• Godwin's Law: I'm no Nazi!
• Good Girls Avoid Abortion: The quickest and easiest way to answer one of the biggest Plot Holes in a genre of works without getting too political or controversial.
• Internet Jerk: Witness the power of the internet in broadening the scope of conversations that would never happen in real life.
• It Sucks: Succinct and to-the-point criticism.
  • It's Easy, So It Sucks!: The belief that we all should seek out more challenge in video games.
    • It's Hard, So It Sucks!: Not too much, though. Don't frustrate your players.
  • It's Short, So It Sucks!: The belief that video games need to be more epic.
  • It's Popular, Now It Sucks!: A warning that something has become or is about to become a Cash-Cow Franchise.
  • They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: Undeniable proof that change is bad.
    • It's the Same, Now It Sucks!: You fail originality forever.
  • They Copied It, Now It Sucks: Some great incentive to try out your own ideas.
• Jerkass: This character might struggle in social contexts.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: People misunderstood that there was a different side to them, but it turns out they were always showing their true color!
• Jumping the Shark: When a series attempts something daring to keep it fresh and with the times.
• Last-Minute Hookup: The author resolves the romantic loose ends of a story rather than leave things up in the air.
• Logical Fallacies: All the tools you need to win any internet argument.
• Mary Sue / Marty Stu: The sweetest and/or most Badass character to grace fiction. Completely unstoppable, everyone falls head over heels for him or her, and overall the go-to guy or girl for any — and we mean any — problem you have.
  • Anti-Sue: A deeply flawed character always manages to get what they want in-spite of their flaws and people still love them a lot despite having flaws most people would judge them for.
  • Villain Sue: An extremely powerful villain who serves as quite the challenge for the heroes.
• Mister Seahorse: A popular romantic Fan Fiction premise, in which two Star-Crossed Lovers defy societal norms and push themselves to ever greater heights to fully consummate their love and form a true family.
• Moral Event Horizon: A character-defining moment.
• Narm: Finding comedy in the most serious moments.
• Nausea Fuel: Repeated viewings of this could help you lose weight.
• Nightmare Fuel: Unique imagery that you'll probably remember even in your deepest sleep.
• Nintendo Hard: A video game that's challenging and keeps you coming back for more.
• No Guy Wants to Be Chased: A good reason as to why women never ask out men.
• Only the Creator Does It Right: Fans give great respect to the original creators of a work.
• Paranoia Fuel: A reminder to be more alert.
• Perverse Sexual Lust: Admiration of a fictional character.
  • Rule 34: The ultimate way of showing passion for a beloved fictional character.
    • Alternately, a much-persecuted alternative lifestyle.
    • Rule 34 – Creator Reactions: The creator for your loved work shows their feelings on your creation. You should feel proud!
• Police Are Useless: Learning the hard way that you will sometimes have to do things yourself.
• Press X to Die: A fancy way to exit the game.
• Press X to Not Die: A video game mechanic that will keep you on your toes.
• Psycho Lesbian: An eccentric but fun loving girlfriend who will never leave you for someone else.
• Rage Quit: A dramatic acceptance of one's defeat.
• Rubber-Band A.I.: Computer adjusts itself to suit your skill level.
• The Scrappy: A character with tons of development potential.
  • Alas, Poor Scrappy: A moment where everyone regrets hating on a character.
  • Damsel Scrappy: A Damsel in Distress that doesn't need to be saved.
  • Ethnic Scrappy: A character that teaches people why racial stereotypes are bad.
  • Replacement Scrappy: A character that proves not everyone can be replaced.
  • Rescused From The Scrappy Heap: What happens when a character finally gets the development they needed.
  • Scrappy Mechanic: A video game mechanic with tons of development potential.
  • Scrappy Weapon: A video game weapon with tons of development potential.
  • Take That, Scrappy!: A moment where a character gets what they deserve.
  • Temporary Scrappy: A character that could have done potential damage, but was dealt with before anything bad could happen.
• Shoot the Shaggy Dog: An undeniably tragic ending.
• Smug Snake: A confident villain.
• So Bad, It's Horrible: A work with room for improvement.
• So Okay, It's Average: A work that has managed to provide some enjoyment and not be an absolute catastrophe.
• Strawman Has a Point: The losing side of a debate isn't completely wrong.
• Stupid Sexy Flanders: Perverse Sexual Lust with a unique twist.
• Take That!: Individuals provide their negative opinions on others through subtle links and phrases.
  • Or: People don't waste time on writing lenghty Author Filibusters.
• Tear Jerker: Makes you feel more connected to the story/characters. Stops stories from falling into Sweetness Aversion.
• Uncertain Audience: An attempt at Multiple Demographic Appeal.
• Unintentional Uncanny Valley: When animation reaches photorealism.
• Unfortunate Implications: A work has more to say about controversial subjects than the author could have imagined.
• Unpleasable Fanbase: Your fans are always hungry for more!
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Someone who sees a problem and is determined to solve it as best they can, come hell or high water.
• What the Hell, Hero?: The nobly-intended, audacious acts of the hero are denounced by his cowardly, incapable and self-righteous "friends".
• Word of Dante: Trustworthy pieces of canon information from a reliable source.
• Wouldn't Hit a Girl: A tradition that reduces domestic violence.
  • Would Hit a Girl: A character defies patronizing taboos and treats the genders equally, even his enemies.