YMMV tropes for Words of Radiance. YMMV tropes for the entire Stormlight Archive are here.
- Ensemble Dark Horse: The Stick. It's just a random stick that Shallan found in the Frostlands, but it was popular enough to get its own "deleted scene".
- Jerkass Has a Point: Shallan repeatedly points out to Kaladin he's very sour and antagonistic towards her. Shallan assumes Kaladin is just being prejudiced against lighteyes (which, to be fair, he often is) until he points out their first meeting shows she's not above classism like she thinks she is.
- Like You Would Really Do It: Killing off Jasnah Kholin and Szeth.
- Memetic Mutation: Pretty much everything about Stick.
- "I am a stick."
- "But you could be fire."
- "I am a stick."
- Ship-to-Ship Combat: Sanderson's fandom is pretty polite in general, but this book still brought up some shipping wars. There's Adolin/Shallan, Kaladin/Shallan, and Adolin/Kaladin/Shallan as main contenders, but Adolin/Kaladin has a decent following as well. Jasnah/Kaladin has healthy support, as does Kaladin/Syl. The smallest is probably Shallan/Syl; not only do they literally not say a single word to or even about each other in the entire book, Syl's dislike of lies means she would be strongly opposed to everything Shallan is doing.
