Tropes listed here limit all examples and wicks to In-Universe.
We find that a lot of tropes are about reactions, but the reactions come from the characters or narration often enough that they become objective tropes. This means the trope is only to be listed when the reactions are from the characters or narration, not the viewers. Even if they can be Audience Reactions, the tropes here are only to be noted when the characters and show have the reaction. Reason
This also means that tropers should not Pothole the trope in lines when it's not actually in the show.
Compare No Real Life Examples, Please!, Character Reaction Index.
Compare/Contrast YMMV.
Tropes That Can Only Have In-Universe Examples
- Actually Pretty Funny
- Adaptation Decay
- Aroused by Their Voice
- Attack of the Political Ad
- Attractive Bent-Gender
- Awesomeness Is Volatile
- Barely-There Swimwear
- Better by a Different Name
- Beyond the Impossible
- The Bore
- Brain Bleach
- Bring My Brown Pants
- Buxom Is Better
- Cannot Tell Fiction from Reality
- Captain Obvious
- Celebrity Resemblance
- Clickbait Gag
- Comically Missing the Point
- Comical Overreacting
- Compensating for Something
- Complaining about People Not Liking the Show
- Complaining About Shows You Don't Watch
- Constructive Criticism
- Cool, but Stupid
- Correction Bait
- "Could Have Avoided This!" Plot
- Crack Is Cheaper
- Discredited Meme
- Documentary of Lies
- Don't Explain the Joke
- Dramatically Missing the Point
- Drinking Game
- Dude Looks Like a Lady
- Dude, Not Funny!
- Embarrassing but Empowering Outfit
- Epic Fail
- Experience Entitlement
- Fan Hater
- Felony Misdemeanor
- Freud Was Right
- Giver of Lame Names
- Gold Digger
- Good Girl Gone Bad
- Good Is Boring
- Guilty Pleasures
- Hello, Nurse!
- Het Is Ew
- Humans Are Bastards
- Identical Stranger
- If I Wanted X, I Would Y
- Implausible Deniability
- Impossibly Tacky Clothes
- Informed Attractiveness
- Inhumanly Beautiful Race
- Internet Counterattack
- It's Fake Fur, It's Fine
- I Was Quite a Fashion Victim
- Jerkass Has a Point
- Jumping the Shark
- Justified Trope
- Just One More Level
- Kill Steal
- Lame Pun Reaction
- Lampshaded the Obscure Reference
- Lawful Good
- Lesser Star
- Like a God to Me
- Love It or Hate It
- Love Makes You Uncreative
- Magnum Opus
- Meal Ticket
- Mean Character, Nice Actor
- Minimalist Cast
- Missing White Woman Syndrome
- Mistaken for Profound
- Mondegreen
- Music/Age Dissonance
- Nerdgasm
- Nerds Are Sexy
- Nice Character, Mean Actor
- "No. Just... No" Reaction
- Nostalgia Filter
- "Not Making This Up" Disclaimer
- Not So Different
- Overused Copycat Character
- Overused Running Gag
- Perverse Sexual Lust
- Prepositions Are Not to End Sentences With
- Political Correctness Gone Mad
- Public Hater, Private Fan
- Rage Quit
- Refuge in Audacity
- Rock Me, Asmodeus!
- Russian Reversal
- Save Scumming
- Scandalgate
- Screaming at Squick
- Shameless Self-Promoter
- She Is All Grown Up
- Snuff Film
- Squee!
- Stacy's Mom
- Subverted Trope (there has to be something in the show outright trying to make us think the trope is happening).
- Sympathy for the Hero
- These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know
- This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!
- This Is Wrong on So Many Levels
- Too Good to Be True
- Trauma Button
- True Art Is Angsty
- Understatement
- Unexpected Virgin
- Ungrateful Townsfolk
- Unwanted Assistance
- Victory Is Boring
- Viewers Are Morons
- Villain-by-Proxy Fallacy
- Watch It Stoned
- What the Hell, Hero?
- When She Smiles
- Where Do You Think You Are?
- Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?
- Who Writes This Crap?!
- Why Don't You Marry It?
- X Called; They Want Their Y Back
