History Main / CharacterizationTropes

* CagedBirdMetaphor: Character is associated with a caged bird.

* DescentIntoAddiction: A character's story arc involves them becoming dependent on a substance.

* GlassesCuriosity: When a character wants to try on the glasses of others.

* LiterallyPrizedPossession: A lot can be said about a character depending on how they view a possession they won as a prize.

* TheMagazineRule: A character subscribes to a weirdly specific fandom magazine that represents who they are.

* OralFixation: A character who feels the need to suck or chew on something such as a toothpick or a cigarette.

* PersonalArcade: A character has commercial pinball and/or video game machines for his own amusement.

* PosterGalleryBedroom: A character's personality can be seen from the way they decorate their room.

* SmokingIsCool: A badass character who smokes.

* StockYuck: Eww! What's this? I'm not eating it!

* VanityLicensePlate: A character puts a unique license plate on their vehicle to make it look cooler.

* CharacterizationByRelation: For all of the tropes and indexes that relate characters to each other, including the AdaptationDeviation tropes, about adaptation of characters, and most EmotionTropes, because emotions usually involve other people.
* FoodAsCharacterization

* NumberOneDime: A mundane item with pricelessly sentimental value to a certain character.

* AddictionDisplacement: Character uses a safer addiction in place of a destructive one.
* AdmiringTheAbomination: Character is fascinated by [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]] rather than scared by them.

+ FoodAsCharacterization

* AgeStereotypicalFood: A character is implied to be immature or mature depending on their food of choice.

* DrinkBasedCharacterization: Characters are defined by their preferred beverages.

* LuxuriousLiquor: A wealthy character drinks alcoholic beverages just because they can.

* SweetTooth: Character who is shown to have a love of sweet foods.

+ SignatureTropes

* SignatureInstrument: A musical instrument that defines a character.

* AdaptationalBadass: Character who was a wimp in the source material is made much more competent in an adaptation.
* AdaptationalDumbass: Characters who was of average intelligence at the very least in the source material is made much dumber in an adaptation.
* AdaptationalIntelligence: Character who was previously not the brightest bulb in the source material is made much smarter in an adaptation.
* AdaptationalJerkass: Character who was nice becomes more of a jerk in an adaptation.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Character who was a {{Jerkass}} becomes nicer in an adaptation.
* AdaptationalNonsapience: Character who was smart enough to talk isn't in the adaptation.
* AdaptationalVillainy: Character who was heroic or at least morally gray in the source material is made more villainous in an adaptation.
* AdaptationalWimp: Character who was a competent fighter in the source material is made weaker in an adaptation.

* TheHecateSisters

* MutuallyUnequalRelation: Two or more characters have differing views of their relationships.

CharacterizationByRelation is a Sub-index for all of the tropes and indexes that relate characters to each other, including the AdaptationDeviation tropes, about adaptation of characters, and most EmotionTropes, because emotions usually involve other people.

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+ AdmirationTropes

+ BlameTropes

+ CharacterizationByRelation

+ LoveTropes

* AdaptationalAbomination: Characters are made into {{Eldritch Abomination}}s [[MediaAdaptationTropes in-adaptation]].

* AdaptationalHeroism: Character who was evil or at least morally gray in the source material is made more heroic in an adaptation.

* AdaptationPersonalityChange: Character has a different personality in an adaptation than they do in the source material.

* ElementalRivalry: Characters with contrasting ElementalPowers oppose each other.

+ CharacterDerailment

* DescentIntoAddiction: A character's story arc evolves them becoming dependent on a substance.

* NumberOneDime: A mundane item with pricelessly sentimental value to a certain character.

* WrongGenreSavvy: GenreSavvy character doesn't realize the story they're apart of isn't in the genre they thought it was.

+ BadassTropes

* FleetingPassionateHobbies: A character who gains a hobby, is passionate about it, and then abandons it for something else.

+ Index/TheByronicIndex

+ FoodAsCharacteriztaion