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Asian/Eastern Animation
Badges, Medals, Patches, etc.
Cliparts
- AB Negative (CC-SA
by Blausen Medical) - Bloodsucking Bats
- Buccaneer Broadcaster
- Coca-Pepsi, Inc.
- Colour-Coded for Your Convenience
- Deathbringer the Adorable (GIF by ebonee_rose)
- Digitized Hacker (by Henrik5000)
- Dirty Cop
- Earned Stripes
- The Face of the Sun
- Geometry Tropes
- Gory Discretion Shot
- Grows on Trees (High-resolution 3d render of a rooted tree with a thick stock by James Steidl)
- Happy Harlequin Hat
- Media Watchdog
- Nobody Poops
- Old, New, Borrowed and Blue
- Skeleton Key
- Spexico
- Spork
- Stock Superpowers
- Tally Marks on the Prison Wall
- Turkish Drama
Crossovers
- 10-Minute Retirement (The Avengers — Hawkeye)
- Accidental Innuendo (Spider-Man — Superman)
- Adaptational Wimp (top half; Aquaman — Batman)
- Adventure Duo (Cable — Deadpool)
- Animal Nemesis (Moby-Dick — The Punisher)
- Animated Outtakes (A Bug's Life — Toy Story)
- As Lethal as It Needs to Be (Soulcalibur IV — Star Wars)
- Big Bad Duumvirate (Fantastic Four — X-Men)
- Black Boss Lady (Amanda Waller — Incredible Hulk)
- Brawler Lock (Incredible Hulk — The Mighty Thor)
- Bruce Wayne Held Hostage (Batman — Superman)
- Call to Agriculture (Batman — Superman)
- Canines Gambling in a Card Game (Adventure Time — Courage the Cowardly Dog — Johnny Test — Huckleberry Hound — The Life and Times of Juniper Lee — Scooby-Doo)
- Catchphrase (Fantastic Four — Incredible Hulk)
- Christmas Episode (He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983) — She-Ra: Princess of Power)
- Chronoscope (Batman — Superman)
- Combat Hand Fan (Mortal Kombat — Superman)
- Combat Pragmatist.Comic Books (Aquaman — Sub-Mariner)
- Commercial Pop-Up (The Legend of Korra — SpongeBob SquarePants)
- Conspicuous Trenchcoat (The Burger King — McDonald's)
- Contemporary Caveman (The Flintstones — The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy)
- Crossover (Futurama — The Simpsons)
- Crossover Combo Villain (Raving Rabbids — Super Mario Bros.)
- Crossover Ship (Naruto — The Simpsons)
- Crossover.Western Animation (The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius — The Fairly OddParents)
- Dark Age of Supernames (Bloodshot — Youngblood)
- Deity Identity Confusion (The Incredible Hercules — The Mighty Thor)
- Dig Your Own Grave (Batman — Superman)
- Dueling Works (Babylon 5 — Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
- Duel to the Death (Supergirl — Wonder Woman)
- Empowered Badass Normal (Batman — Green Lantern)
- Engineered Public Confession (Supergirl — Batgirl)
- Even Evil Has Standards (Batman — Captain America)
- Fan Disservice.Comic Books (Deadpool — X-Men)
- Fan Disservice.Western Animation (Family Guy — The Simpsons)
- Fight Dracula (Batman — Dracula)
- Floating Clocks (Mr. Peabody & Sherman — The Simpsons)
- Flowery Elizabethan English (The Incredible Hercules — The Mighty Thor)
- Forgotten First Meeting (Supergirl — Superman)
- Funny Aneurysm Moment.Comic Books (Batman — The Beatles)
- Friendly Fandoms (Animal Crossing: New Horizons — Doom Eternal)
- Funny.Fanfic (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic — Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney)
- Fusion Fic (Hello Kitty — Warhammer 40,000)
- Gender-Neutral Writing (Dinosaur Comics — xkcd)
- Go-Karting with Bowser (Batman — Superman)
- Guest Fighter (Soul Calibur IV — Star Wars)
- Heart Is an Awesome Power (Aquaman — Cthulhu Mythos)
- An Ice Person.Comic Books (Batman — Superman)
- I'll Take Two Beers Too (Deadpool — Hawkeye)
- Insanity Immunity (Batman — Judge Dredd)
- Intercontinuity Crossover (Super Mario Bros. — Sonic the Hedgehog)
- Intra-Franchise Crossover (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) — Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003) — Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Mirage))
- Labcoat of Science and Medicine (CSI — MythBusters)
- Lawyer-Friendly Cameo (Sonic the Hedgehog — Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
- Let's You and Him Fight (The Mighty Thor — Superman)
- License-Added Game (Angry Birds — Star Wars)
- Loser Gets the Girl (The Incredible Hercules — The Mighty Thor)
- Memes.Live-Action Films (The Dark Knight — Harry Potter)
- Men Like Dogs, Women Like Cats (Superman — Supergirl)
- Mirror Universe (El Goonish Shive — The Wotch)
- Motif Merger (Batman — Superman)
- Muppet Cameo (The Daily Show with Jon Stewart — The Muppet Show)
- Narm.Music (Michael Jackson — Eddie Murphy)
- Nothing Personal (Eminem — The Punisher)
- Older Alter Ego (Shazam — Superman)
- One I Prepared Earlier (8 Out of 10 Cats — Countdown)
- Phallic Weapon (Batman — Superman)
- Powerful and Helpless (Batman — Superman)
- Power Parasite (Fantastic Four — X-Men)
- Punch! Punch! Punch! Uh Oh... (Spider-Man — Superman)
- Retroactive Recognition (Batman — The Green Hornet)
- Rule 50 (Doctor Who — My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic)
- Scooby-Dooby Doors (Johnny Bravo — Scooby-Doo)
- "Scooby-Doo" Hoax ( Doctor Who — Scooby-Doo)
- Serial-Killer Killer (American Psycho — Dexter)
- Shared Universe (American Dad! — The Cleveland Show — Family Guy)
- Smart People Build Robots (OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes — Adventure Time)
- Snark-to-Snark Combat (Daredevil — Deadpool — Spider-Man)
- Story-Breaker Team-Up (Archie Comics — The Punisher)
- Straight Man and Wise Guy (Cable — Deadpool)
- Summon Bigger Fish (Godzilla — King Kong)
- Super Hero (DC Comics — Marvel Comics)
- Super Reflexes (The Flash — Superman)
- Super Speed (The Flash — Sonic the Hedgehog)
- Tandem Parasite (Batman — Superman)
- Teamwork Seduction (Legion of Super-Heroes — Superboy)
- Teeth-Clenched Teamwork (Batman — The Punisher)
- Themed Tarot Deck (Pokémon — Tarot Cards)
- To Be Lawful or Good (Fantastic Four — Superman)
- Trademark Favorite Food (bottom right: Batman — Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
- Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny (Dragon Ball Z — Superman)
- Very Special Episode (Green Arrow — Green Lantern)
- Villain Team-Up.Comic Books (Batman — Spider-Man)
- Weird Crossover (DC Comics — Looney Tunes)
- Witch Hunt (Batman — Superman)
- Wolverine Publicity (Anita Blake — Wolverine)
- You Are Number 6 (The Prisoner — The Simpsons)
- Your Vampires Suck (Sesame Street — Twilight)
Machinima
Manhwa
Myths & Religion
- The Bible
- The Armies of Heaven
- Back from the Dead (The Raising of Lazarus by Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn)
- Cain and Abel
- Death by Childbirth (The Birth of Benjamin and the Death of Rachel by Domenico Chiesura)
- DrivenToSuicide.Mythology (Crucifixion of Jesus and the suicide of Judas Iscariot, 5th C. Roman ivory casket panel)
- Embodiment of Virtue
- Friend to All Children
- The Good King
- Good Samaritan (The Good Samaritan by Joseph Brickey)
- Holy Is Not Safe (Nadab and Abihu Destroyed by Phillip Medhurst)
- Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Four Horsemen of Apocalypse by Viktor Vasnetsov)
- It Sucks to Be the Chosen One (Christ Carrying the Cross by Jacopo Robusti Tintoretto)
- Jacob and Esau
- Long Last Look (Book of Genesis)
- Messianic Archetype (The Transfiguration by Carl Heinrich Bloch)
- Mystical Pregnancy
- Offerings to the Gods
- Our Angels Are Different
- Out-of-Character Moment
- Outliving One's Offspring (Death of the Pharaoh's First Born Son by Lawrence Alma-Tadema)
- Parting the Sea
- Pride
- Prodigal Hero
- Rays from Heaven
- Ribcage Stomach
- Suffer the Slings
- Swallowed Whole (Jonah and the Whale by Pieter Lastman)
- Tower of Babel (Building of the Tower of Babel by Bedford Master)
- Virgin in a White Dress
- Walk on Water
- Celtic Mythology (The Children of Lir by Jim Fitzpatrick)
- Classical Mythology (The Twelve Olympians by Nicolas-André Monsiau)
- Apple of Discord
- Barrier Maiden (Atlas by Boris Vallejo)
- Chained to a Rock
- Curiosity Is a Crapshoot
- Divine Date (Cupid and Psyche by Benjamin West)
- Everybody Hates Hades (left half; from Meyers Konversationslexikon)
- God-Eating (Saturn Devouring His Son by Francisco de Goya)
- Hell Hound
- Hot God (Les liens du désir by Luis Royo)
- A Load of Bull
- Love Goddess (Eros by Jacques Clément Wagrez)
- The Magic Touch
- Mercury's Wings
- Narcissist (Echo and Narcissus by John William Waterhouse)
- Nemean Skinning (bust of Hercules)
- No Eye in Magic
- Physical God (Age of Mythology)
- Prongs of Poseidon (Age of Mythology)
- Public Domain Artifact (bottom-right: Jason and the Argonauts)
- Pygmalion Plot
- Rescued from the Underworld (Orpheus Tries to Rescue His Wife Eurydice from the Underworld But He Mustn't Look Back as They Go by Briout)
- Sealed Evil in a Can
- Transflormation
- Winged Tropes (top-left: Hermes flying on winged boots; a Greek vase painting attributed to the Tithonos Painter)
- Egyptian Mythology
- Public Domain Artifact (top-right: The Mummy Trilogy)
- Sliding Scale of Anthropomorphism (3rd row)
- Fairytales
- Snake and Serpent Tropes (bottom right, The Bride of the Lindorm King)
- Hindu Mythology
- God Was My Copilot (Arjun & Shree Krishna at War)
- Reincarnation (from an illustrated version of the Srimad Bhagavatam)
- Sacred Cow
- Sadly Mythcharacterized (left half: statue of Shiva)
- Japanese Mythology
- God of Good
- Star-Crossed Lovers (tanabata4 by Yuko Hamasaki)
- Tsuchinoko (top-left)
- UsefulNotes.Tanabata
- Mesopotamian Mythology
- Semi-Divine (up right)
- Norse Mythology (Thor's Fight with the Giants by Mårten Eskil Winge)
- Beast of the Apocalypse
- Destroyer Deity
- Divine Race Lift (top half: Heimdall)
- Eye-Obscuring Hat (Odin by Ty Hobson)
- Moses in the Bulrushes (Skjold Skelfisson by Anker Eli Petersen)
- Odd Job Gods (Skadi Hunting in the Mountains by "H. L. M.")
- Public Domain Artifact (bottom-left)
- Tragic Bromance (Orvar-Odd and Hjalmar Bid Each Other Farewell by Mårten Eskil Winge)
- Vertebrate with Extra Limbs (The Storm Worsens and Wotan Arrives by Arthur Rackham)
- The Wild Hunt (Åsgårdsreien by Peter Nicolai Arbo)
- World Tree (from Northern Antiquities [an English translation of Prose Edda], illustration by Oluf Olufsen Bagge)
Pinballs
- Absurdity Ascendant (Gottlieb's 2001)
- Advanced Tech 2000 (Flight 2000)
- Battle Trophy (Sorcerer)
- Celebrity Endorsement (Ali poster)
- Gotta Catch Them All (Safe Cracker)
- Heroic Fantasy (Dungeons & Dragons)
- Hotline (Spy Hunter)
- Idiosyncratic Combo Levels (The Party Zone)
- Licensed Game (Terminator 2: Judgment Day)
- Match Sequence (The Simpsons Pinball Party)
- Meal Ticket (Big Daddy)
- Millionaire Playboy (Playboy (Bally))
- Monster Misogyny (Attack from Mars)
- Nonhumans Lack Attributes (Barracora)
- Off-the-Shelf FX (Transformers)
- Revolvers Are Just Better (Eight Ball Deluxe)
- Skill Shot (Mr. & Mrs. Pac-Man Pinball)
- Space Is Air (The Empire Strikes Back)
- Species Lost and Found (The Lost World: Jurassic Park)
- Token Human (Asteroid Annie and the Aliens)
- Video Mode (Theatre of Magic)
- Wizard Mode (The Lord of the Rings)
Postcards & Postage Stamps
- Belgian Comics (Belgian Center of Comic Strips promotional stamp)
- Breach of Promise of Marriage
- Cat Concerto
- Cheating with the Milkman
- Death March (Surrender of Bataan and Death March by David K. Stone)
- Divorce in Reno
- Don't Eat and Swim
- Everyone Is Satan in Hell
- Fortune Teller (The Gipsy Fortune Teller, Dr. Jayne's Victorian Trade Cards)
- The Hunter Becomes the Hunted (Gerechte Jagd [Hunting with a Handicap] by Bruno Haberzettl)
- Injun Country (Indian Country, by J. R. Willis)
- Kangaroos Represent Australia
- Myth.Norse Mythology (Gullveig's Execution by Anker Eli Petersen)
- National Stereotypes (by J. N. Hughes-Wilson)
- Standard Royal Court (Pocahontas in the court of James I of England, postcard published by the Concessionaire, The Jamestown Amusement & Vending Co., Inc.)
- Sweet Sheep (Ruth J. Morehead)
- Those Magnificent Flying Machines (Romanet & Cie, collection 476)
- UsefulNotes.Los Angeles (Greetings from Los Angeles California, postcard by Curt Teich & co.)
- UsefulNotes.New York State
- UsefulNotes.Pennsylvania
- Weather-Control Machine ("Hildebrands Deutsche Schokolade", 1900)
- White Bunny (Precious Moments)
- You Got Murder (Un Attentat at la Banque Rothschild, 1895)
Print Media
- Actual Pacifist
- Angrish
- Anti-Cavalry (Desperta Ferro!; Battle of Nördlingen by Mikel Olazábal)
- Appeal to Popularity (Reynolds Newspaper)
- Assassin Outclassin'
- Beastly Bloodsports (The Sporting Magazine [London]; Bear Baiting, 1795)
- Bold Explorer ("Christophe Colomb Découvre l'Amérique" Collection Rossignol – Coopérative Pédagogique – Montmorillon Vienne)
- Common Nonsense Jury (News of the World)
- Conspicuously Public Assassination (Domenica del Corriere. Drawing by Achille Beltrame)
- Crop Circles
- Dream Team (promotional magazine cover)
- Elmuh Fudd Syndwome (The Sun)
- Everything Is an Instrument (La Nature, 1883)
- Fingore (standard safety sign)
- A Fool for a Client
- Fr.Littérature (political cartoon by Frederick Deligne)
- Garden Garment (Daily Mail, 7 February 2012)
- Gas Leak Cover-Up ("U.S. Air Force Official Identification Chart" by Ed Stein for Rocky Mountain News)
- The Great Depression (London Herald)
- The Grim Reaper (Le Petit Journal; Le choléra, December 1st 1912)
- Heterosexual Life-Partners (TV Guide)
- Human-Interest Story (Daily Mirror)
- Human Subspecies (Der Spiegel)
- If It Bleeds, It Leads (New York Post)
- Insignia Rip-Off Ritual (Le Petit Journal; Le traître. Dégradation d’Alfred Dreyfus, 13 January 1895)
- Just for Fun.Apocalypse Day Planner
- Kneel, Push, Trip
- Maligned Mixed Marriage (The Charlotte Observer; cartoon by Kevin Siers)
- Matricide (Police News, 27 July 1895)
- Medication Tampering (Washington Post illustration)
- Mystery Magnet (USA Today fan edit)
- Obfuscating Stupidity (The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception, illustration by Javier Zarracina)
- Penal Colony ("Convicts going to bathe, Mazaruni", Illustrated London News, 1888)
- Reveille (Saturday Evening Post, Parents' Reveille, illustration by Amos Sewell)
- Role-Ending Misdemeanor (New York Post)
- Self-Demonstrating Article
- Sexy Scandinavian (Slitz)
- Sink The Life Boats (Halifax Mail)
- Social Climber (The New Yorker)
- Social Media Before Reason (New York Post)
- The Suffragette
- Suspect Is Hatless
- Textbook Humor
- These Tropes Should Watch Their Language (Daily Mirror)
- UsefulNotes.Fermat's Last Theorem
- UsefulNotes.Richard Nixon (Times)
- Vestigial Empire (Le Petit Journal, Le réveil de la question d'Orient, October 18th 1908)
- Victorian London (The Illustrated London News; "A Thaw in the Streets of London", 1865)
- "Wanted!" Poster
- We Win... Because You Didn't (New York Post)
- Word of Gay (People fan edit)
- You Can Panic Now (The Telegraph)
Radio & Audio Plays
- The Big Reveal (RNZ)
Software
- Mockup/Other
Sports
Theme Parks & Rides
Trading Cards
Troper-Made
- Accentuate the Negative
- Achilles' Heel
- A.I. Is a Crapshoot
- Animeland
- Anvilicious
- ASCII Art
- Aspect Ratio
- Attention Deficit Creator Disorder
- Bathroom Tropes
- Better Than Sex
- Black-and-White Morality
- Black Box
- Brainwashed
- Brainwashed and Crazy
- Camera Tricks
- Can-Crushing Cranium
- Can't See a Damn Thing
- Cardiovascular Love
- Character Alignment
- Cheesy Moon
- China Takes Over the World
- Circular Reasoning
- The Climax
- Cut-and-Paste Note
- Dead Unicorn Trope
- Death Ray
- Discredited Meme
- Double In-Law Marriage
- Dramatic Ellipsis
- Dramatic Shattering
- Dug Too Deep
- Effeminate Misogynistic Guy
- Everyone Looks Sexier If French
- Exact Progress Bar
- Fake Interactivity
- Fast-Roping
- Fantasy World Map
- Fan Wank
- Fauxtivational Poster
- First Law of Gender-Bending
- Friday Night Death Slot
- Good Hair, Evil Hair
- Gushing About Characters You Like
- Harpo Does Something Funny
- "Have a Nice Day" Smile
- Heir Club for Men
- Hive Queen
- The Horseshoe Effect
- Infinity +1 Sword
- In Medias Res
- Jumping the Shark
- JustForFun.Trope Name
- Last of His Kind
- The Law of Fan Jackassery
- Law of Inverse Fertility
- Letterbox
- Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics
- Linear Warriors, Quadratic Wizards (wizardsandmelees by Catalogue)
- Made of Bologna
- Made of Evil
- Medal of Dishonor
- Middle Child Syndrome
- Misaimed Marketing
- Moral Event Horizon
- Murder by Inaction
- Netorare
- Non-Elemental (by Earnest)
- Non-Heteronormative Society (by Earnest)
- Non-Indicative Name
- Obfuscating Insanity
- Original Character
- Oscar Bait
- Our Wormholes Are Different
- Pan and Scan
- Parodies for Dummies
- People's Republic of Tyranny
- Percussive Shutdown
- Playing with a Trope
- Restricted Rescue Operation
- Ruined Forever
- Schizophrenic Difficulty
- Self-Made Orphan (by Piearty)
- Sequel Escalation
- Sinister Sentient Sun
- Square-Cube Law
- Starbucks Skin Scale
- Sub-Trope (by Earnest)
- Super-Persistent Predator
- Tentacled Terror (by Jubileus 57)
- That One Boss
- Three-Dimensional Episode
- Timey-Wimey Ball
- Triang Relations
- Trope Co.
- Trope Co.Force-Field Door
- UsefulNotes.Analog vs. Digital
- Vanity License Plate
- Visual Compression
- Wide Open Sandbox
- Xanatos Gambit
- Zettai Ryouiki
T-shirt Designs
- Adaptational Self-Defense
- Air Guitar
- All Anime Is Naughty Tentacles
- Awful Wedded Life
- The Big Bad Wolf (Big Bad's Revenge by Moonlight Fantasies)
- Boom in the Hand
- Bottomless Magazines (Infinite Ammo by robotrobotROBOT)
- The Bro Code
- Butter Face
- Chocolate Baby (You've Got Some 'Splaining to Do by Andy Wilhite)
- Conspiracy Kitchen Sink (Plotting the Risky Agenda by Michal "blinski" Szyszko)
- Disposable Intern
- Double-Edged Answer
- Fun T-Shirt
- The Hecate Sisters
- Hentai
- Leitmotif
- Mechanical Evolution
- My Eyes Are Up Here
- Never Live It Down (top-right)
- UsefulNotes.British Accents
- UsefulNotes.Schrodinger's Cat
- Vampires Hate Garlic
- We Dont Suck Any More (Kansas City Royals 2015)
- Wind Is Green (Elemental Magic – Aerogaby by KirbywithaMasamune)
