Follow TV Tropes

Following

Just For Fun / Troperithmetic

Go To

When two or more existing tropes are combined (via addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, etc.) to make a different but somehow related trope.

Compare Rebus Bubble, X Meets Y, Mix and Match, or the "Just for Fun" Fusion Dance page.

Some of the basic building blocks for trope equations:
+ = "and", "with"
| = "or"
- = "not", "without"
x = "crossed with"
^ = "to the power of"

This list is alphabetized by the end result. Please put new tropes in the appropriate spot.

Advertisement:

Examples

open/close all folders

End Result Tropes, A

Catchphrase + Running Gagged = Abandoned Catchphrase
Damage Control + Know When to Fold 'Em = Abandon Ship
Shipping Goggles x Attack! Attack... Retreat! Retreat! = Abandon Shipping
It's All Upstairs from Here ^ ¹¹ = Absurdly Long Stairway
Action Mom x Gender Inverted = Action Dad
Action Girl + Love Tropes = Action Girlfriend
Action Girl + Babies Ever After - Give Him a Normal Life = Action Mom
Non-Action Guy + Took a Level in Badass x Badass Unintentional = Action Survivor
The Cutie + Nerd = Adorkable
Parody + Lampshade Hanging + Postmodernism = Affectionate Parody
Real Men Hate Affection - Always Male + Youngsters = Affection-Hating Kid
After-Action Patch-Up x Played for Drama = After-Action Healing Drama
Birthday Episode x Vague Age = Ageless Birthday Episode
Action Fashionista x In Touch with His Feminine Side = Agent Peacock
(Agitated Item Stomping | Drop What You Are Doing) + Finagle's Law = Agony of the Feet
Balloonacy + Artistic License – Physics = All Balloons Have Helium
Dream Episode + The Reveal = All Just a Dream
Really Gets Around x (Queer as Tropes - Transgender - Bisexuality Tropes - Asexuality) = All Gays Are Promiscuous
Non-Human Sidekick x This Index Meows + Witch Classic = All Witches Have Cats
Workaholic + (Lazy Bum | The Slacker) = All Work vs. All Play
Always Someone Better + Bishōnen + The Stoic = Aloof Big Brother
Alien Tropes x Played for Laughs = Amusing Alien
Injury Tropes x Played for Laughs = Amusing Injuries
Alien Abduction + Ass Shove x For Science! = Anal Probing
Ancient Greece x Ancient Rome = Ancient Grome
Sex Tropes + Critical Research Failure = Anatomically Impossible Sex
Anatomy Tropes x Injury Tropes = Anatomy Agony
An Aesop x Anvilicious - Show, Don't Tell + No Fourth Wall = And Knowing Is Half the Battle
- Or, using an equation below, An Aesop ^ ¹² - Show, Don't Tell + No Fourth Wall = And Knowing Is Half the Battle
He Who Fights Monsters + Karmic Transformation = And Then John Was a Zombie
Informed Obscenity x Cluster F-Bomb = Angrish
This Index Barks x You Shall Not Pass! x Jerkass = Angry Guard Dog
Crowd Song + Torches and Pitchforks = Angry Mob Song
Straw Nihilist + The Idealist - The Cynic = The Anti-Nihilist
The Antichrist x Dark Is Not Evil = Anti-Antichrist
"I Hate" Song + Christmas Carols = Anti-Christmas Song
Pit Trap + Sand Worm = Antlion Monster
An Aesop ^ ¹¹ = Anvilicious
Jerkass + Transparent Closet = Armoured Closet Gay
Memetic Mutation + Ascended Fanon = Ascended Meme
The Ditz + (Asian and Nerdy x Inverted Trope) = Asian Airhead
Precision F-Strike x (Big Word Shout | Chewing the Scenery | No Indoor Voice) = Atomic F-Bomb
(Superhero | Supervillain) + Unfortunate Names = Atrocious Alias
Attack! Attack! Attack! + Oh, Crap! + Screw This, I'm Outta Here! = Attack! Attack... Retreat! Retreat!
More Dakka + Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy = A-Team Firing

End Result Tropes, B

End Result Tropes, C

Annoying Younger Sibling + Big Brother Bully = Cain and Abel
- Sibling Rivalry¹¹ = Cain and Abel
I Was Told There Would Be Cake + I Lied = The Cake Is a Lie
Potty Emergency + Too Much Information = Calling Your Bathroom Breaks
Jerkass x Bystander Syndrome = Callousness Towards Emergency
As Long as It Sounds Foreign x Gratuitous Latin + = Canis Latinicus
Canon x Put On The Bus|Chuck Cunningham Syndrome x Let Us Never Speak of This Again|Old Shame = Canon Discontinuity
Staircase Tumble x (Oh, No... Not Again! | Here We Go Again!) - Mind Your Step = Can't Use Stairs
Humongous Mecha + Badass Cape = Caped Mecha
Doomsday Device + Self-Destruct Mechanism + Inventional Wisdom (+ Billions of Buttons) = Caps Lock, Num Lock, Missiles Lock
Abandon Ship x Running Gag = Captain Crash
Brainwashed and Crazy + This Is Unforgivable! = Cartesian Karma
(Queer as Tropes - Bisexuality Tropes - Transgender - Asexuality)^11 = Cast Full of Gay
The Smurfette Principle + Bishōnen = Cast Full of Pretty Boys
Archetypal Character x One Steve Limit = Cast Speciation
Artistic License – Medicine + Exposed to the Elements | Braving the Blizzard | (Caught in the Rain - Kissing Tropes - Sex Tropes) + Sick Episode = Catch Your Death of Cold
This Index Meows + Tree Tropes + Help, I'm Stuck! = Cat Up a Tree
- cat + Angry Guard Dog + tree + The Siege = Cat Up a Tree
(Lazy Bum + This Index Meows) x Animal Stereotype = Cats Are Lazy
Jerkass + This Index Meows = Cats Are Mean
Deadpan Snarker + This Index Meows x Animal Stereotype = Cats Are Snarkers
This Index Meows + Hates Baths = Cats Hate Water
- Alternatively, This Index Meows + Rain, Rain, Go Away = Cats Hate Water
Rain, Rain, Go Away x Took a Level in Cheerfulness + Love Tropes = Caught in the Rain
A Date with Rosie Palms + Entrance = Caught with Your Pants Down
Celebrity Song + Break-Up Song = Celebrity Break-Up Song
Romance on the Set + Downer Ending + Break Up Song = Celebrity Break-Up Song
Klingon Promotion x Combat by Champion = Challenging the Chief
(Written-In Infirmity ^ ^{Logical Extreme}) x Killed Off for Real = The Character Died with Him
Flanderization x Adaptation Deviation = Character Exaggeration
Chase Scene ^ ^Plot = The Chase
Genki Girl x Token Mini-Moe = Cheerful Child
- Alternatively, The Pollyanna x Youngsters = Cheerful Child
(Team Chef | Supreme Chef) x Minored in Ass-Kicking = Chef of Iron
Museum of Boredom + Chekhov's Gun = Chekhov's Exhibit
Clucking Funny + Stock Jokes = Chicken Joke
Maternally Challenged x Flanderization = Child Hater
Put on a Bus x What Happened to the Mouse? = Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
(Joker Immunity - Resurrection/Death Loop) x Darker and Edgier = Chronic Villainy
One-Winged Angel + One-Hit Point Wonder + Weaksauce Weakness = Clipped-Wing Angel
Losing a Shoe in the Struggle x Fanservice = Clothing Damage
The Ditz x (Flanderization | Character Exaggeration) = Cloudcuckoolander
Chick Magnet + Failed a Spot Check = Clueless Chick Magnet
Berserk Button + Sir Swears-a-Lot = Cluster F-Bomb
- Guide Dang It! + Unwinnable = Cluster F-Bomb
- Motor Mouth + These Tropes Should Watch Their Language = Cluster F-Bomb
Here We Go Again! x Characters as Device = Coincidence Magnet
Interrupted Intimacy + Excuse Me While I Multitask = Coitus Uninterruptus
Large Ham + The Stoic = Cold Ham
Lame Comeback + Orphaned Punchline + Brick Joke = Comeback Tomorrow
Don't Make Me Take My Belt Off x Played for Laughs = Comedic Spanking
Panty Shot x Played for Laughs - Always Female - Fanservice = Comedic Underwear Exposure
(Mistaken for Gay x Exaggerated Trope) + (Coming-Out Story x Inverted Trope) = Coming Straight Story
Villains + Moral Event Horizon + Lack of Empathy - Freudian Excuse - Even Evil Has Standards - Even Evil Has Loved Ones = Complete Monster
Knight Templar + A.I. Is a Crapshoot = The Computer Is Your Friend
Conflict x Out-of-Character Moment = Conflict Ball
Lava Adds Awesome + Artistic Licence: Physics = Convection Schmonvection
Let's Get Dangerous! x Desperation Attack = Cornered Rattlesnake
Sugar Bowl + Crapsack World = Crapsaccharine World
Chase Scene + Contrived Coincidence + Accidental Pervert + 12 x Ms. Fanservice = Crashing Through the Harem
Watch Where You're Going! + Romance Ensues = Crash-Into Hello
Creator's Favourite x Inverted Trope = Creator's Pest
The Scrappy + ((Character Focus - Character Development) | Mary Sue | Spotlight-Stealing Squad) = Creator's Pet
Skeleton Crew - Literal Metaphor = Critical Staffing Shortage
Holy Burns Evil + No-Sell x Scissors Cuts Rock = Cross-Melting Aura
Refuge in Audacity x Played for Laughs = Crosses the Line Twice
(So Long, Suckers! | Take This Job and Shove It) + Pride Before a Fall + We Meet Again = Crossing the Burnt Bridge
Crossover + Love at First Sight = Crossover Couple
Ocular Gushers ^¹¹ = Crying a River
Artistic License – Biology + Tear Tropes = Crying Critters
Cloudcuckoolander + Talkative Loon + Dumbass Has a Point = The Cuckoolander Was Right
Yandere - Love Makes You Crazy = Cute and Psycho
This Index Meows + Babies Ever After + Moe = Cute Kitten
Candle Jack + Precision F-Strike = Curse Cut Sh-I've always hated arithmetic. The teacher would always say, 'Candle Jack, you have no talent fo'. Then I kidnapped her.
- Alternatively We Interrupt This Index | Last-Second Word Swap | Sound-Effect Bleep | Smash Cut | Killed Mid-Sentence | Injury Tropes + These Tropes Should Watch Their Language = Curse Cut Short
Elders + These Tropes Should Watch Their Language | Gosh Dang It to Heck! = Curse of the Ancients

Advertisement:

End Result Tropes, D

End Result Tropes, E to F

The End of the World as We Know It x Stuff Blowing Up = Earth-Shattering Kaboom
He-Man Woman Hater + In Touch with His Feminine Side = Effeminate Misogynistic Guy
Tropes Are Not Good x Exaggerated Trope = Egregious
Translation Train Wreck x Lopsided Dichotomy = Either "World Domination", or Something About Bananas
Deadly Bath x High-Voltage Death = Electrified Bathtub
Our Ghosts Are Different x Walking Techbane = Electromagnetic Ghosts
The Stoic + Always Female = Emotionless Girl
The Emperor + Mad Scientist = Emperor Scientist
What an Idiot! x Single-Issue Wonk = Enraged by Idiocy
Double Entendre + Literal-Minded = Entendre Failure
(Critical Failure | Game Over) ^ ^{Refuge in Audacity} = Epic Fail
Evil Chancellor + Sissy Villain = Eunuchs Are Evil
Tear Tropes^11 = Everybody Cries
All Women Are Lustful + All Men Are Perverts = Everybody Has Lots of Sex
Bisexuality Tropes ^¹¹ = Everyone Is Bi
Ho Yay ^¹¹ = Everyone Is Gay
- Slash Fic + (Cast Full of Gay x Out of Character) = Everyone Is Gay
Epileptic Trees x Symbolism = Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory
Unfortunate Implications x Ass Pull = Everyone Is Satan in Hell
- Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory x Evil Counterpart = Everyone Is Satan in Hell
Hair-Trigger Temper + Political Correctness Gone Mad = Everything Is Racist
(Freudian Trio x Evil Counterpart) - The Kirk = Evil Duo
(Slippy-Slidey Ice World - Video Game Tropes) x Villains = Evil Is Deadly Cold
Villains + Signature Scent = Evil Smells Bad
Psychological Projection x Right for the Wrong Reasons = Evil vs. Evil
Sleep Deprivation + Idiot Ball = Exhaustion-Induced Idiocy
Clone Army x What Measure Is a Non-Human? = Expendable Clone
Bizarre Alien Biology + Rule 34 = Exotic Equipment
Mr. Exposition + Oh, Crap! x Double Take = Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!
The Man They Couldn't Hang + Artistic License – Law = Failed Execution, No Sentence
Our Elves Are Different x Nightmare Fuel x Deconstruction = The Fair Folk
Knight of Cerebus + Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain = The Family for the Whole Family
Naked People Are Funny - Fanservice + Squick = Fan Disservice
Fandom + Idiot Ball = Fan Dumb
Stock Epileptic Trees x Fandom-Specific Plot = Fanon
Canon + I Reject Your Reality = Fanon Discontinuity
(Half-Human Hybrid | Cute Monster Girl | Rubber-Forehead Alien) + I Didn't Mean to Turn You On = Fantastic Arousal
Action Girl x Pirates Who Don't Do Anything = Faux Action Girl
Ho Yay + (Mistaken for Gay | Not What It Looks Like) = Faux Yay
Winged Humanoid + Flechette Storm = Feather Flechettes
Species Equals Gender + (This Index Meows x Always Female) + (This Index Barks x Always Male) = Female Feline, Male Mutt
Stay in the Kitchen + Boomerang Bigot = Female Misogynist
Fetish + Narm = Fetish Retardant
- Alternatively, Fanservice + Epic Fail + Squick = Fetish Retardant.
Dream Episode + Sick Episode = Fever Dream Episode
Author Filibuster + Protection from Editors + Flanderization = Filibuster Freefall
Playing with Fire + An Ice Person + Shock and Awe = Fire, Ice, Lightning
Stock Object Colours + Paint the Index Red x This Index Is on Fire = Fire Is Red
The Hero + The Lancer + The Smart Guy + The Big Guy + (The Chick | The Heart) = Five-Man Band
Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap! + Beat + (From Bad to Worse | Gone Horribly Wrong) = Five-Second Foreshadowing
Values Dissonance x 2 = Flame Bait
Cool Sword ^ ^{Incendiary Exponent} = Flaming Sword
Knife Nut x More Dakka = Flechette Storm
Casual Danger Dialogue x Hotter and Sexier = Flirting Under Fire
Ode to Food x Played for Laughs = Food Songs Are Funny
Did I Just Say That Out Loud? x A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read = Forgot About the Mind Reader
Three Faces of Eve + Tomboy = Four-Girl Ensemble
Comic Trio + The Smart Guy = Four-Man Band
Knight Knave And Squire + The Kirk = Four-Philosophy Ensemble
- Nice, Mean, and In-Between + The Ditherer = Four-Philosophy Ensemble
Freudian Trio x Nice, Mean, and In-Between = Four-Temperament Ensemble (with the "Nice" McCoy being the Sanguine and the "Mean" McCoy being the Choleric, while The Kirk (Phlegmatic) and The Spock (Melancholic) are both In-Between)
- Red Oni, Blue Oni + Good Cop/Bad Cop = Four-Temperament Ensemble
Sir Swears-a-Lot + Not in Front of the Parrot = Fowl-Mouthed Parrot
I Thought It Meant x Double Entendre = Freud Was Right
Freudian Excuse + No-Sell = Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse
(Freudian Slip | That Came Out Wrong) + Digging Yourself Deeper = Freudian Slippery Slope
To the Pain x Groin Attack = Freudian Threat
Self-Offense + No-Sell = Friendly Fireproof
(Mind Screw + Mind Screwdriver) | (Fridge Logic + "Eureka!" Moment) = Fridge Brilliance
Plot Hole + Audience Reaction x Delayed Reaction = Fridge Logic
Delayed "Oh, Crap!" x Audience Reaction = Fridge Horror
La Résistance + Underdogs Never Lose + Aesop Amnesia|Face–Heel Turn|Here We Go Again!|Motive Decay = Full-Circle Revolution
(My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels | Fee Fi Faux Pas) x Throwing Down the Gauntlet = Fumbling the Gauntlet
Dude, Not Funny! x Harsher in Hindsight = "Funny Aneurysm" Moment
Robot + Played for Laughs = Funny Robot

End Result Tropes, G

End Result Tropes, H

End Result Tropes, I

Advertisement:

End Result Tropes, J to K

End Result Tropes, L to M

End Result Tropes, N to O

End Result Tropes, P

End Result Tropes, Q to R

End Result Tropes, S

End Result Tropes, T

Shout-Out + Insult Tropes = Take That!
The Scrappy + Take That! = Take That, Scrappy!
(Boss | Workplace | Insult) + The Resenter + Last Straw x Rage Quit = Take This Job and Shove It, where:
- Boss = (Bad Boss | Clueless Boss | Corrupt Corporate Executive | Mean Boss | Obstructive Bureaucrat | Pointy-Haired Boss)
- Workplace = (Dangerous Workplace | Evil, Inc. | Incompetence, Inc. | Inhuman Resources | No Such Thing as H.R.)
- Insult = (Delegation Relay | First Day from Hell | George Jetson Job Security | I Don't Pay You to Think | Non-Promotion | Passed-Over Promotion | Promoted to Scapegoat | Pulled from Your Day Off)
- The Resenter = (Beleaguered Assistant | Hyper-Competent Sidekick | Only Sane Employee | Servile Snarker)
Shut Up, Hannibal! + Combat Pragmatist = Talk to the Fist
Shameless Fanservice Girl ^ ¹¹ = The Tease
(Good Is Not Nice + Good Is Not Soft + Dark Is Not Evil) x The Dreaded = Terror Hero
Marathon Level + Checkpoint Starvation = That One Level
Blind Shoulder Toss + Offscreen Crash + Kick the Dog = That Poor Cat
- Alternatively, Stock Sound Effect + Offscreen Crash + This Index Meows = That Poor Cat
(Amusing Injuries | Curb-Stomp Battle | This Index is a Real Pain) + Bystander Syndrome x Reaction Shot = That's Gotta Hurt
Innocent Innuendo + Lampshaded Double Entendre = That's What She Said
Abomination Accusation Attack + I Will Show You X = Then Let Me Be Evil
Hero with Bad Publicity + Rage Quit + Face–Heel Turn = Then Let Me Be Evil
Plot + Because I Said So = Theory of Narrative Causality
Powers That Be x Genre Savvy = Theory of Narrative Causality
More Dakka + Improbable Aiming Skills = There Is No Kill Like Overkill
Wunza Plot + Odd Couple = They Fight Crime!
Comedic Sociopathy + Negative Continuity = They Killed Kenny Again
Imminent Danger Clue + Deadpan Snarker = This Is Gonna Suck
- Sir Swears-a-Lot + (Swear Jar | Soap Punishment) = This Is Gonna Suck
Skewed Priorities x Subverted Trope ^ ^{Not What It Looks Like} + Poor Communication Kills = This Is No Time for Knitting
Audience Surrogate + Viewers Are Morons = This Loser Is You
Cuckoos Nest x Mind Screw = Through the Eyes of Madness
Tree Tropes x Incoming! = Timber!
Time Travel Tropes + Mistaken for Spies = Time-Travelers Are Spies
Cold-Blooded Torture x Discussed Trope x Perp Sweating = To the Pain
Said Bookism + Pun = Tom Swifty
Cold-Blooded Torture + No-Sell = Too Kinky to Torture
Strawman Product + Too Dumb to Live + Viewers Are Morons = Too Incompetent to Operate a Blanket
Babies Ever After ^ ¹¹ x Last Straw = Too Many Babies
Lost My Appetite - Disgust Tropes + Anger Tropes | Sadness Tropes | Fear Tropes = Too Unhappy to Be Hungry
Writer's Block x Sadness Tropes = Too Upset to Create
Powder Keg Crowd + Rabble Rouser + Gardening-Variety Weapon + Hollywood Torches = Torches and Pitchforks
Ho Yay + Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today? + Everyone Can See It = Transparent Closet
(Body Horror + Transformation Sequence + Psychological Horror) ^ ^{Transformation at the Speed of Plot} - Obscured Special Effects = Transformation Horror
"Blind Idiot" Translation ^ ¹¹ = Translation Trainwreck
Ax-Crazy + More Dakka = Trigger Happy
Dressing as the Enemy + Play-Along Prisoner + Right Under Their Noses = Trojan Prisoner
Trope + Rebus Bubble = Troperithmetic
True Art x The Oldest Ones in the Book = True Art Is Ancient
True Art + Angst = True Art Is Angsty
True Art + Mind Screw = True Art Is Incomprehensible

End Result Tropes, U to V

End Result Tropes, W

End Result Tropes, X to Z

End Result in Numbers

Alternative Title(s): Trope Mathematics

Previous

Index

Next

Top

How well does it match the trope?

Example of:

/

Media sources:

/