History Main / EnforcedTrope

* Suprisingly, ''WebVideo/VinesauceTomodachiLife'' enforces WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants. Since ''VideoGame/TomodachiLife'' leaves many events and outcomes to the RandomNumberGod, any number of plot twists and character traits are established with no real foreshadowing (for the most part). Since [[WebVideo/{{Vinesauce}} Vinny]] is livestreaming the game and can't save scum his way out of certain events, he ends up being just as surprised as the viewers are by them. Essentially, the series writes itself on the fly.

* Suprisingly, ''WebVideo/VinesauceTomodachiLife'' enforces WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants. Since ''VideoGame/TomodachiLife'' leaves many events and outcomes to the RandomNumberGod, [[WebVideo/{{Vinesauce}} Vinny's]] just as surprised by abrupt plot twists and character developments as the audience is. Essentially, the series writes itself on the fly.

* Suprisingly, ''WebVideo/VinesauceTomodachiLife'' enforces WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants. Since ''VideoGame/TomodachiLife'' leaves many events and outcomes to the RandomNumberGod, [[WebVideo/{{Vinesauce}} Vinny's]] just as surprised by abrupt plot twists and character developments as the audience. Essentially, the series writes itself on the fly.

* ''Disney/AladdinReturnOfJafar'' enforces TechnicalPacifist throughout; as a genie, Jafar ''can't'' [[ThouShaltNotKill kill anyone]], even though his entire plan revolves around killing Aladdin for revenge... but [[LoopholeAbuse he's able to find ways around it]] by [[MurderByInaction relying on proxies and indirect assassination attempts where he technically doesn't lay a finger on Aladdin]]. Also, as he makes clear, just because he can't ''kill'' someone doesn't mean he can't ''hurt'' them.
-->''Jafar''': You'd be surprised what you can live through...

Tropes that are there because the writer had to include them - especially when a sharp-eyed viewer can tell the creator would have preferred to leave them out.

* ActionGirl - at least when a show is action/adventure-oriented and has a prominent female role. Otherwise, the whole thing just looks plain discriminatory.
* CensorshipTropes. You can't ignore the censors without consequences.

* When fiction deals with the history of some region, it may sometimes need RoseTintedNarrative to get mainstream success in that region. In worse cases, Rose Tinted Narrative will be required for [[BannedInChina publication.]]

** Also happens with other works that require the authorization of their subjects - authorized biographies, for instance.
** Under UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode, priests, ministers, and other religious authorities had to be portrayed respectfully without exception. Fittingly, one of the co-authors of the Code's actual text was a Jesuit Catholic priest - and while he acknowledged that not all "ministers of religion" were worthy of respect, mockery of any one of them would (supposedly) encourage sacrilegious attitudes.

** ''Series/GameOfThrones'' takes this even further. In [[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire the books]], Daenerys Targaryen is 14 when she is [[ArrangedMarriage married off]] to [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Khal Drogo]], and eventually becomes pregnant with his child. She was aged up significantly to avoid the MoralGuardians, but as the time of her birth is tied to [[GreatOffscreenWar Robert's Rebellion]], the rest of the cast had to be aged up as well. Of course, this allows a few ''more'' characters to get that delicious high-skin {{Sexposition}} time, so it works out, we guess?

** Series/GameOfThrones takes this even further. In [[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire the books]], Danerys is 14 when she is [[ArrangedMarriage married off]] to [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Khal Drogo]]. She was aged up significantly to avoid the MoralGuardians, but as the time of her birth is tied to [[GreatOffscreenWar Robert's Rebellion]], the rest of the cast had to be aged up as well. Of course, this allows a few ''more'' characters to get that delicious high-skin {{Sexposition}} time, so it works out, we guess?

* ProductPlacement is often the result of ExecutiveMeddling, while some are done with the agreement of the filmmakers. Whatever reason, this trope brings more money to the production.

* AvoidTheDreadedGRating. It's presumed that any work that ''can'' be seen without moral qualms by anyone, regardless of age, is not worth seeing by adults ("children will watch ''[[ViewersAreMorons anything]]''"). Since this would cut into profits by scaring off parts of the potential audience, it needs to be avoided.

* SecondaryCharacterTitle notably shows up in many of Creator/WilliamShakespeare's plays that deal with historical monarchs and rulers. Because of the Elizabethan era's rigid social hierarchy, characters of higher social status had to set themselves apart from the commoners by speaking in verse, and plays always had to be named for the character of the highest social ranking--even if they weren't actually the protagonist. Examples include ''Theatre/JuliusCaesar'' (where the protagonist is Brutus), ''Theatre/{{Cymbeline}}'' (where the protagonist is Cymbeline's daughter Imogen), ''Theatre/HenryIV'' (where the protagonist is the young Prince Hal), and ''Theatre/HenryVI'' (which is about the feuding English nobility in the Wars of the Roses). [[note]] The only reason his most famous tragedy is called ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' instead of ''Claudius'' is because Claudius isn't the ''legitimate'' King of Denmark.[[/note]]

* In the ''Franchise/StarWars'' universe, [[OldMaster Yoda]] remains an example of InexplicablyAwesome because Creator/GeorgeLucas has explicitly forbade ExpandedUniverse writers from exploring his backstory, or revealing anything major about his (still unnamed) species.

* ProductPlacement is most often the result of ExecutiveMeddling, and therefore falls into this trope. Some works (e.g. ''Series/ThirtyRock'') try to lampshade/make fun of it; others (like ''Series/MadMen'') work it in elegantly; but in most it just sits there.

* SecondaryCharacterTitle notably shows up in many of Creator/WilliamShakespeare's plays that deal with historical monarchs and rulers. Because of the Elizabethan era's rigid social hierarchy, characters of higher social status had to set themselves apart from the commoners by speaking in verse, and plays always had to be named for the character of the highest social ranking--even if they weren't actually the protagonist. Examples include ''Theatre/JuliusCaesar'' (where the protagonist is Brutus), ''Theatre/{{Cymbeline}}'' (where the protagonist is Cymbeline's daughter Imogen), ''Theatre/HenryIV'' (where the protagonist is the young Prince Hal), and ''Theatre/HenryVI'' (which is about the feuding English nobility in the Wars of the Roses).

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** Series/GameOfThrones takes this even further. In [[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire the books]], Danerys is 14 when she is [[ArrangedMarriage married off]] to [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Khal Drogo]]. She was aged up significantly to avoid the MoralGuardians, but as the time of her birth is tied to [[GreatOffscreenWar Robert's Rebellion]], the rest of the cast had to be aged up as well.

* DawsonCasting can sometimes be necessary for legal reasons. One example is the film adaptation of ''Literature/TheReader''. Michael Kross legally couldn't shoot his sex scenes with KateWinslet until he had turned 18. A very common example is to avoid Union regulations and/or actual laws in regards to youth actors.

* MoralGuardians / PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad

** Under the HaysCode, priests, ministers, and other religious authorities had to be portrayed respectfully without exception. Fittingly, one of the co-authors of the Code's actual text was a Jesuit Catholic priest - and while he acknowledged that not all "ministers of religion" were worthy of respect, mockery of any one of them would (supposedly) encourage sacrilegious attitudes.

* When fiction deals with the history of some region, it may sometimes need RoseTintedNarrative to get mainstream success in that region. In worse cases, RoseTintedNarrative will be required for [[BannedInChina publication.]]

* In many PG-13-rated movies, PrecisionFStrike is only used because of the MPAA's rules on profanity, which state that a movie arbitrarily receives an "R" rating if it uses the word "fuck" more than once.