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* WhatTheHellHero: A character does something you disapprove of.
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* WhatTheHellHero: A character does something you disapprove of.
of. Heck, it doesn't even have to be a character. Feel free to pothole to this trope to accuse the work's author of writing something you didn't like.
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* FunnyAneurysmMoment: An actor died in real life, and also has played at least one character who died in-story. There is no need for any resemblance between the actor and character's deaths to qualify.
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* WhatTheHellHero: A character does something you disapprove of.
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* BeyondTheImpossible: Anytime something impressive happens. Being impossible according to the setting's rules is not required; being really, really cool and hard to do is the sole criteria.
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* OhCrap: OhCrap:
** Any moment which might make the audience brieflypanic.panic.
** A statement in your TV Tropes explanations that emphasizes how scary something is.
** Any moment which might make the audience briefly
** A statement in your TV Tropes explanations that emphasizes how scary something is.
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** You saw one person who didn't like something, and one person who did like it. Bonus points if the work/episode in question just finished airing minutes ago and it's impossible to tell how widespread any debates or disagreements over that thing will be.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: A work that was currently released contains one thing that may slightly date it.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: A work that was currently recently released work contains one thing that may slightly date it.
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* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop:
** Complain about a work that gives "wrong" morals.
** Jokingly make up a silly lesson based on the story. It's not like we have DarthWiki/WarpThatAesop for that.
** Complain about a work that gives "wrong" morals.
** Jokingly make up a silly lesson based on the story. It's not like we have DarthWiki/WarpThatAesop for that.
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* RomanticPlotTumor: A pairing you dislike even if it's a very minor subplot.
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** A lot of people like something youdon't.don't.
** Any topic of discussions that elicits ''some'' degree of diverging opinions from fans like "Does Alice look better with blue pants or a pink skirt?".
** A lot of people like something you
** Any topic of discussions that elicits ''some'' degree of diverging opinions from fans like "Does Alice look better with blue pants or a pink skirt?".
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* FanPreferredCouple: List your favorite pairings even those who are already canon or not that popular.
* HoYay: Two same-gender characters are on friendly terms and spend good time together. Actual homosexual relationships are fair game too.
* HoYay: Two same-gender characters are on friendly terms and spend good time together. Actual homosexual relationships are fair game too.
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* GenreSavvy: A character does something smart (or uses common sense).
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* NarmCharm: Defend and justify the {{Narm}} entries that bother you. For best effect, add this as a sub-bullet to the Narm entry, or change the Narm bullet point to "Narm/Narm Charm"
* NightmareFuel: Any time a character is put in the slightest amount of danger. Or a character acts menacing (even if it's PlayedForLaughs). You don't even have to feel fear watching the scene, as long as you can envision someone somewhere being afraid. After all, it's AudienceReactions, not Personal Reactions.
* NightmareFuel: Any time a character is put in the slightest amount of danger. Or a character acts menacing (even if it's PlayedForLaughs). You don't even have to feel fear watching the scene, as long as you can envision someone somewhere being afraid. After all, it's AudienceReactions, not Personal Reactions.
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* StuffedIntoTheFridge: When a female character dies.
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* ButWaitTheresMore: Marks the point where a list or explanation becomes long.
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* FromBadToWorse: Like ButWaitTheresMore, but for when you are complaining about something.
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* AndIMustScream: Any extremely bad, scary, and inescapable situation, regardless of how long it lasts until the character dies or is freed.
* {{Deconstruction}}: A dark, edgy awesome show!
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* AndIMustScream: Any extremely bad, scary, and inescapable situation, regardless of how long it lasts until the character dies or is freed.
freed.[[note]]There has actually been potholes to this trope for a character who dies a few seconds later[[/note]]
*{{Deconstruction}}: {{Deconstruction}}:
** A dark, edgy awesomeshow!show!
** A trope causes bad things to happen
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** A dark, edgy awesome
** A trope causes bad things to happen
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* AndIMustScream: Any extremely bad, scary, and inescapable situation, regardless of how long it lasts until the character dies or is freed.
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* PrecisionFStrike: Any instance of the word "fuck" that isn't [[ClusterFBomb being said multiple times in a short timeframe]] or [[AtomicFBomb at a high volume]].
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* CrazyAwesome: CrazyAwesome:
** A character is awesome. Forget about the crazypart.part.
** A ''work'' is awesome, due to not caring about making sense and instead just trying to put in as many cool things as possible. That's totally not RuleOfCool.
** A character is awesome. Forget about the crazy
** A ''work'' is awesome, due to not caring about making sense and instead just trying to put in as many cool things as possible. That's totally not RuleOfCool.
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* MostAnnoyingSound: A TV show character's voice annoys you. Disregard the "video games and toys only" disclaimer. That only applies to the MostAnnoyingSound page itself, not any work page that has a link to it.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Gush about characters you like and rant about characters you hate.
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* BaseBreakingCharacter: A lot of people like a character you don't.
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* CaptainObviousReveal: You figured out a twist so naturally everyone did. Alternatively, one fan theory among a hundred of others happens to be true.
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* CounterpartComparison: Compare two characters you know even if they only share some superficial similarities like hair color.
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* NarmCharm: Defend and justify the {{Narm}} entries that bother you.
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* AudienceAlienatingPremise: This show doesn't appeal to you, so therefore it appeals to no one else.
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* MoralEventHorizon: The villain does anything bad, from committing mass murder to being a jerk. Bonus points if you use it for real life actions, including petty stuff like your favorite show being cancelled canceled or someone changing something about it.
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* SnarkBait: When a film has less than 50% score on Rotten Tomatoes.
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Any scene that is even remotely weird.
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* EnsembleDarkhorse: Any character other than the main character who is popular, even if that character plays a major role.
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* {{Narm}}: Anything in the show that annoys you since DethroningMomentOfSuck DarthWiki/DethroningMomentOfSuck is limited to only one example per troper.
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* FiveManBand: Any group of people, even if it's not five people, can be shoehorned here. You can also pick people who never interact or are not even aware of each other's existence. If two of the roles are duplicated, or the characterization is ignored for the role, don't fret. You're doing it right!
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* ActorAllusion: Hey it's not the first time this actor played this archetypal character!
* ActorAllusion: Hey it's not the first time this actor played this archetypal character!
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* {{Expy}}:This character is kind of like this character, and we'll pretend it's not a coincidence. Bonus points if the "copied" character is extremely obscure.
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* {{Expy}}:This {{Expy}}: This character is kind of like this character, and we'll pretend it's not a coincidence. Bonus points if the "copied" character is extremely obscure.
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* SugarWiki/MostTriumphantExample: The show you like has an example of a trope.
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* EldritchAbomination: A catch-all term for any big, scary monster!
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* TheScrappy: You don't need objective criteria like popularity polls or critic's reviews to define it. Just put any character that you dislike.
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* EpicFail: Want to complain about something you don't like? Just pothole it to this page. Don't care that it violates the Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease warning on the page.
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* EpicFail: Want to complain about something you don't like? Just pothole it to this page. Don't care that it violates the Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease Administrivia/InUniverseExamplesOnly warning on the page.
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See also, HowNotToWriteAnExample.
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See also, HowNotToWriteAnExample.
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Are you tired of the boring old accurate trope definitions? Never fear! For according to some tropers, we don't need to actually go to the page and read the definition. We can shoehorn [[SquarePegRoundTrope any example into any trope]], no matter how little sense it makes!
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* EpicFail: Want to complain about something you don't like? Just pothole it to this page. Don't care that it violates the NoRealExamplesPlease warning on the page.
* {{Expy}}:This character is kind of like this character, and we'll pretend it's not a coincidence. Bonus points if the "copied" character is extremely obscure.
* FiveManBand: Any group of people, even if it's not five people, can be shoehorned here. If two of the roles are duplicated, or the characterization is ignored for the role, don't fret. You're doing it right!
* ShoutOut: This part of this show is kind of like this other show.
[[AC:AudienceReactions]]: After all, audience reactions are subjective, and therefore you can put anything there as you please!
* BrokenBase: A lot of people like something you don't.
* CompleteMonster: Any villain who does anything bad. If your show doesn't have one, it sucks. It can apply to any show, even G-rated shows created for toddlers. After all, a school bully or a {{jerkass}} is totally comparable to dictators, serial killers, rapists, and child abusers.
* CrazyAwesome: A character is awesome. Forget about the crazy part.
* CriticalResearchFailure: Obviously, the author is a giant idiot. They couldn't have known the fact and ignored it for a good story. And the fact couldn't have been too obscure to all but experts.
* ItWasHisSled: You know what happened in this movie/show, and therefore, the entire world knows as well!
* MarySue: Any character that is any bit special that you dislike. After all, we only want boring losers as protagonists! Bonus points if [[DoubleStandard the character is female.]]
* MoralEventHorizon: The villain does anything bad, from committing mass murder to being a jerk. Bonus points if you use it for real life actions, including petty stuff like your favorite show being cancelled or someone changing something about it.
* TheScrappy: You don't need objective criteria like popularity polls or critic's reviews to define it. Just put any character that you dislike.
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* EpicFail: Want to complain about something you don't like? Just pothole it to this page. Don't care that it violates the NoRealExamplesPlease warning on the page.
* {{Expy}}:This character is kind of like this character, and we'll pretend it's not a coincidence. Bonus points if the "copied" character is extremely obscure.
* FiveManBand: Any group of people, even if it's not five people, can be shoehorned here. If two of the roles are duplicated, or the characterization is ignored for the role, don't fret. You're doing it right!
* ShoutOut: This part of this show is kind of like this other show.
[[AC:AudienceReactions]]: After all, audience reactions are subjective, and therefore you can put anything there as you please!
* BrokenBase: A lot of people like something you don't.
* CompleteMonster: Any villain who does anything bad. If your show doesn't have one, it sucks. It can apply to any show, even G-rated shows created for toddlers. After all, a school bully or a {{jerkass}} is totally comparable to dictators, serial killers, rapists, and child abusers.
* CrazyAwesome: A character is awesome. Forget about the crazy part.
* CriticalResearchFailure: Obviously, the author is a giant idiot. They couldn't have known the fact and ignored it for a good story. And the fact couldn't have been too obscure to all but experts.
* ItWasHisSled: You know what happened in this movie/show, and therefore, the entire world knows as well!
* MarySue: Any character that is any bit special that you dislike. After all, we only want boring losers as protagonists! Bonus points if [[DoubleStandard the character is female.]]
* MoralEventHorizon: The villain does anything bad, from committing mass murder to being a jerk. Bonus points if you use it for real life actions, including petty stuff like your favorite show being cancelled or someone changing something about it.
* TheScrappy: You don't need objective criteria like popularity polls or critic's reviews to define it. Just put any character that you dislike.
