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The format:
Each analysis page comprises several essays. Each essay is to be marked by a title explaining the topic of discussion. Things get long, so make sure to use paragraphs and folders. Each essay is open for further editing as befits a wiki so that each can settle on a balanced examination. There are no bullet points, sub points nor retorts. Each essay should be self-contained and written with a single authorial voice.The content:
Work pages can take a single trope and examine at length how the work uses it. Alternatively, a theme or continuous thread of the work may be examined but it should be linked back to how tropes are used to that end. This is tvtropes.org, not tvanything.net. We are about tropes and if you're not linking back to one at some point, something has probably gone wrong.Trope pages generally have a focus on expanded description of how a trope can be used and detail variations in how they may appear.
Creator pages are usually not needed. Creators are not works, a list of tropes in their works is not normally needed, and a list of works is of limited utility, so their main namespace tends to usually be bare but for some detailing of their preferred themes, tropes and effects. Before making a creator analysis page, consider whether you're not just robbing a main page of valuable content.
What Analysis is not:
Analysis is not Wild Mass Guessing, Headscratchers, Useful Notes discussion pages nor a list of Awesome/Heartwarming/Tearjerking/Hilarious moments. The big clue is that these concepts all have their own namespaces but a few do get through. It is also not:
- Alternative interpretations
- A dumping ground for things in other namespaces you don't know what to do with.
- Your blog
- Meant to be boring
Examples:
People who like Show, Don't Tell may appreciate a couple of examples of pages to demonstrate the idea intended. The examples chosen are chosen on the basis of being the first two pages on the namespace. Quality is a whole other ballpark. Here: Analysis.Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Analysis.Warhammer 40000.There is a forum thread on the issue. If you want help to write an analysis, ask there. Some pages in the Analysis/ namespace may not yet be indexed here; refer to this page
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- 2-D Space
- 419 Scam
- Absurdly Spacious Sewer
- Accidental Pornomancer
- Ace Pilot
- Action Girl
- The Aesthetics of Technology
- Aliens Steal Cable
- All Just a Dream
- All Germans Are Nazis
- All Periods Are PMS
- All Psychology Is Freudian
- All the Good Men Are Gay
- All Women Are Prudes
- Alpha Bitch
- Alternate Continuity
- Always Chaotic Evil
- Amazing Technicolor Population
- Ambition Is Evil
- Americans Hate Tingle
- Amoral Attorney
- Anarchy Is Chaos
- An Axe to Grind
- Animal Gender-Bender
- Animal Stereotypes
- Anthropomorphic Shift
- Anti-Hero
- Anti-Villain
- Anvilicious
- Anxiety Tropes
- Apathetic Citizens
- Appropriate Animal Attire
- "Arabian Nights" Days
- Arcology
- Argentina Is Nazi-Land
- Arranged Marriage
- Artistic License Animal Care
- Artistic License Martial Arts
- Artistic License Ornithology
- Artistic License Paleontology
- Artistic License Sports
- Artsy Beret
- Asteroid Thicket
- Attack Its Weak Point
- Author Tract
- Award-Bait Song
- Awesome Ego
- Badass
- Badass and Child Duo
- The Baroness
- Base-Breaking Character
- The Battlestar
- Beast Man
- Better on DVD
- BFG
- BFS
- Big Beautiful Woman
- Blatant Lies
- Blazing Inferno Hellfire Sauce
- "Blind Idiot" Translation
- Bling of War
- Blood Bath
- Blood Knight
- Boobs of Steel
- Boom, Headshot!
- Bourgeois Bohemian
- Boxing Lessons for Superman
- Brain Uploading
- Bridezilla
- British Stuffiness
- BrotherSister Incest
- The Bully
- Buses Are for Freaks
- But Not Too Black
- Butterfly of Doom
- Can't Get Away with Nuthin'
- Card-Carrying Villain
- Carnivore Confusion
- Cats Are Mean
- Cat Girl
- Cat Stereotype
- Caustic Critic
- Celibate Hero
- Centipede's Dilemma
- Chainmail Bikini
- Characterization Marches On
- Chaste Toons
- Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys
- Chosen Conception Partner
- The Church
- Chuunibyou
- Close-Knit Community
- Colony Drop
- Comforting Comforter
- Commie Nazis
- The Con
- Concussion Frags
- Conscription
- Conviction by Counterfactual Clue
- Cosmic Retcon
- Creator Provincialism
- Creator's Pet
- The Cretaceous Is Always Doomed
- Cuckold
- Cult
- Cut Short
- Damsel Scrappy
- Darker and Edgier
- Darkness-Induced Audience Apathy
- Dating Catwoman
- Deader Than Disco
- Death by Childbirth
- Deconstruction
- A Degree in Useless
- Democracy Is Flawed
- Derailing Love Interests
- Designated Villain
- Despotism Justifies the Means
- Dethroning Moment of Suck
- Diagonal Cut
- Didn't See That Coming
- Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu?
- Digging to China
- Dinosaurs Are Dragons
- Disproportionate Retribution
- Dogs Are Dumb
- Dog Stereotype
- Do Not Do This Cool Thing
- Draco in Leather Pants
- Driving Stick
- Drunk Driver
- Dual Wielding
- The Dung Ages
- Dyson Sphere
- Dystopian Oz
- Eastern Zodiac
- Eerie Anatomy Model
- Elemental Powers
- Elemental RockPaperScissors
- "El Niño" Is Spanish for "The Niño"
- End of an Age
- Excessive Steam Syndrome
- Executive Meddling
- Everything Is An I Pod In The Future
- Evil Cannot Comprehend Good
- Evil Chancellor
- Evil Is Deathly Cold
- Evil Is Hammy
- Evolutionary Levels
- Family Unfriendly Aesop
- Fan Hater
- Faster-Than-Light Travel
- Failsafe Failure
- The Fair Folk
- Fake Brit
- Fantasy Gun Control
- Faustian Rebellion
- Female Feline, Male Mutt
- Feminine Women Can Cook
- Fire and Brimstone Hell
- First Installment Wins
- Five Races
- Flanderization
- Flynning
- Foe Yay Shipping
- Four Legs Good, Two Legs Better
- Four-Temperament Ensemble
- Franchise Original Sin
- French Jerk
- Freud Was Right
- Freudian Excuse
- The Friend Nobody Likes
- Funny Animal
- Furries Are Easier to Draw
- Furry Confusion
- Furry Denial
- Gender Equals Breed
- Generic Doomsday Villain
- Genie in a Bottle
- Gentle Giant
- Getting Crap Past the Radar
- Giant Flyer
- Girl-on-Girl Is Hot
- Girl-Show Ghetto
- God Save Us from the Queen!
- GoldSilverCopper Standard
- The Good Guys Always Win
- Good Animals, Evil Animals
- Good Colors, Evil Colors
- Good Republic, Evil Empire
- Good Is Not Dumb
- Grandfather Clause
- Gratuitous English
- Gratuitous German
- Gratuitous Russian
- Gravity Is Only a Theory
- Gravity Sucks
- Great Offscreen War
- Growing Up Sucks
- Gun Kata
- Fusion Fic
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold
- Hair-Trigger Temper
- Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal
- Hard-to-Adapt Work
- Healthy Country Air
- Hell
- The Hero
- Heroic BSoD
- Heroes Prefer Swords
- Heroic Build
- Heroic Self Deprecation
- Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act
- Hollywood Darkness
- Homosexual Reproduction
- The Horseshoe Effect
- Humanoid Female Animal
- Humans Are Average
- Humans Are Cthulhu
- Hummer Dinger
- Hypocrite Has a Point
- I Am Not Left-Handed
- Ideal Hero
- I Did What I Had to Do
- If It Tastes Bad, It Must Be Good for You
- Ignorant of Their Own Ignorance
- Immortality Begins at Twenty
- Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy
- Implausible Hair Color
- Improbably High I.Q.
- Incest Is Relative
- Incorrect Animal Noise
- Informed Species
- Insane = Violent
- Instant Sedation
- Invisible to Adults
- It's Popular, Now It Sucks!
- Japanese Spirit
- Japan Takes Over the World
- Jousting Lance
- Jumping the Shark
- Junk Rare
- Just Following Orders
- Karma Houdini
- Katanas Are Just Better
- Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better
- Kissing Cousins
- Klingon Scientists Get No Respect
- Knight in Shining Armor
- Lady and Knight
- LEGO Genetics
- Locked Room Mystery
- Lower-Class Lout
- Made-for-TV Movie
- Magic A Is Magic A
- Magical Native American
- Man Bites Man
- MadonnaWhore Complex
- The Main Characters Do Everything
- Male Frontal Nudity
- Male Gaze
- Manic Pixie Dream Girl
- Man of Wealth and Taste
- Masquerade
- Mary Sue
- Mature Animal Story
- Medieval Morons
- Medieval Stasis
- Men Act, Women Are
- Men Are Generic, Women Are Special
- Men Are Strong, Women Are Pretty
- Men Are the Expendable Gender
- Merchandise-Driven
- Military Mashup Machine
- Mismeasurement
- Modesty Towel
- Moe
- Mondegreen
- Money Is Not Power
- Monster Clown
- Muscles Are Meaningless
- Music Is Politics
- My Girl Is Not a Slut
- Narcissist
- National Stereotypes
- National Animal Stereotypes
- Naval Blockade
- Nay-Theist
- Nazi Nobleman
- '90s Anti-Hero
- No Bikes in the Apocalypse
- No Bisexuals
- No Transhumanism Allowed
- Nonhumans Lack Attributes
- Not Allowed to Grow Up
- Occam's Razor
- Of Corset Hurts
- Offer Void In Nebraska
- Ojou
- The Omnipotent
- Original Position Fallacy
- Our Mermaids Are Different
- Our Werewolves Are Different
- Our Wormholes Are Different
- Out of Focus
- OOC Is Serious Business
- Panthera Awesome
- Parents As People
- Pastimes Prove Personality
- People of Hair Color
- Percussive Maintenance
- Pet the Dog
- Pizza Boy Special Delivery
- Playing Card Motifs
- Post Cyber Punk
- Potty Dance
- Potty Emergency
- Preppy Name
- The Presents Were Never from Santa
- Primal Fear
- Princely Young Man
- Prongs of Poseidon
- The Problem with Licensed Games
- The Prophet Muhammad
- Purple Is the New Black
- Race Lift
- Race Tropes
- Ragnarök Proofing
- Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
- Rapunzel Hair
- Raving Lunacy
- Real Men Wear Pink
- Red China
- Red Oni, Blue Oni
- Red Shirt
- Replacement Scrappy
- Reptiles Are Abhorrent
- Required Secondary Powers
- Reverse Grip
- Revolvers Are Just Better
- Ridiculously Cute Critter
- Ridiculously Human Robots
- Right Through His Pants
- Right Under Their Noses
- Right-Wing Militia Fanatic
- Romanticism Versus Enlightenment
- Ron the Death Eater
- Royal Rapier
- Running the Asylum
- Russia Called; They Want Alaska Back
- Sapient Pet
- Satan
- Satellite Love Interest
- Say My Name
- School Bullying Is Harmless
- Science Is Bad
- The Scrappy
- Scunthorpe Problem
- Seme
- Sentient Vehicle
- Sex Sells
- Sexy Stewardess
- Shell-Shocked Veteran
- Shiny New Australia
- Shipping Goggles
- Shock and Awe
- Sick Episode
- Single Woman Seeks Good Man
- Sitcom Arch Nemesis
- Slave Galley
- Sliding Scale of Anthropomorphism
- Small Steps Hero
- The Smurfette Principle
- Snakes Are Sinister
- SoCalization
- The Social Darwinist
- The Sociopath
- Soft Water
- Soldier vs. Warrior
- Somewhere, a Herpetologist Is Crying
- Somewhere, a Mammalogist Is Crying
- Some of My Best Friends Are X
- Space Clouds
- Space Fighter
- Space Is Cold
- Space Jews
- Space Whale Aesop
- Speculative Biology
- Spell My Name with an "S"
- Spoiled Sweet
- Standard Human Spaceship
- Standard Sci-Fi Army
- Standard Starship Scuffle
- Stanford Prison Experiment
- Starfish Language
- Star Scraper
- Start of Darkness
- Stealth in Space
- Stealth Pun
- Stockholm Syndrome
- Stock Light-Novel Hero
- A Storm Is Coming
- Story Branching
- Stout Strength
- Strategy Versus Tactics
- Straw Nihilist
- Sugar Apocalypse
- Super-Deformed
- Sword Cane
- Symbiosis
- Tabletop RPG
- Taxonomic Term Confusion
- Teleportation Sickness
- Ten-Second Flashlight
- Textual Celebrity Resemblance
- The Worf Effect
- They Don't Make Them Like They Used To
- Those Magnificent Flying Machines
- Time to Unlock More True Potential
- Tinman Typist
- Token Minority
- Toon Physics
- Triang Relations
- Troll
- True Neutral
- Tsundere
- TV Tropes as a Gateway Drug
- Two Decades Behind
- Two-Part Trilogy
- Typical Cartoon Animal Colors
- Uke
- Uncanny Valley
- Unit Confusion
- Universal Universe Time
- Unpleasant Animal Counterpart
- Unproblematic Prostitution
- Values Dissonance
- The Vamp
- Victorias Secret Compartment
- Virtue/Vice Codification
- Virtue Is Weakness
- War Is Hell
- Web Video
- We're Still Relevant, Dammit!
- What Do You Mean, It's Not Political?
- Whatevermancy
- What Measure Is a Non-Cute?
- Where da White Women At?
- Who Wants to Live Forever?
- Who Watches the Watchmen?
- Wicked Wasps
- Witch Hunt
- With Due Respect
- The Woobie
- Yandere
- Yaoi Genre
- Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe
- Yoko Oh No
- You Are a Credit to Your Race
- You Can Panic Now
- You Dirty Rat!
- Your Cheating Heart
- Your Mom
- You Say Tomato
- Yuri Genre
- Zeerust
- Zombie Apocalypse
- 28 Days Later
- 300
- Adventure Time
- Aeon Legion: Labyrinth
- Afro Samurai
- Alantutorial
- All-Star Superman
- American Idiot
- Analogue: A Hate Story
- Angel Notes
- Animorphs
- Arrow
- Arrowverse
- Attack on Titan
- Avatar: The Last Airbender
- Avengers: Age of Ultron
- Avengers: Infinity War
- Avengers: Endgame
- Babylon 5
- Bakemonogatari
- Batman
- Battle B-Daman
- Battlestar Galactica (2003)
- A Beautiful Mind
- Ben 10: Ultimate Alien
- Better Call Saul
- Bewitched
- The Big Bang Theory
- The Big Lebowski
- Black★Rock Shooter
- Blades in the Dark
- Blue Is the Warmest Color
- The Book of Mormon
- Bronyism
- Brother 2
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Bungo Stray Dogs
- Calvin and Hobbes: The Series
- Captain America: Civil War
- Cardfight!! Vanguard
- Casper
- Castlevania (2017)
- A Certain Magical Index
- Chronicles of the Kencyrath
- Chobits
- Chrontendo
- Cinderella
- CLANNAD
- Claymore
- Code Geass
- Community
- Craig of the Creek
- Crest of the Stars
- Cross Ange
- Cupcakes
- Daring Do & the Mysterious Mare-Do-Well: Canterlot Crisis
- Darker Than Black
- The Dark Knight
- The Dark Knight Trilogy
- Days of Our Lives
- Dead Bart
- Dear Evan Hansen
- Death Note
- Defiance
- Deryni
- Despicable Me
- Diamond in the Rough (Touhou)
- Digimon Tamers
- Doctor Who
- Don't Hug Me I'm Scared
- Doom House
- Dora Wilk Series
- The Downward Spiral
- Dream House
- Dream SMP
- Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
- Earth 2
- Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show
- Eden of the East
- El Camino
- Elementary
- Embers
- Epic Rap Battles of History
- Ethan Frome
- Falling Down
- Fallout
- Family Guy
- Fate/stay night
- Fate/stay night [Unlimited Blade Works]
- Fate/Zero
- Flip Flappers
- The Flowers of Evil
- Fire Emblem: Three Houses
- Foundation Series
- Fullmetal Alchemist
- Full Metal Jacket
- Fushigi Yuugi: Genbu Kaiden
- Firefly
- Frozen (2013)
- Game of Thrones
- Genji Tsuushin Agedama
- Gimme Shelter
- Girls und Panzer
- The Girl With All the Gifts
- Gleams of Aeterna
- Glee
- Goof Troop
- Gravity Falls
- Grezzo 2
- G-Senjou no Maou
- Gungrave
- Gunnerkrigg Court
- Haganai
- Halt and Catch Fire
- Heaven's Memo Pad
- Hellboy
- Hemingway's Six-Word Story
- Higurashi: When They Cry
- His Dark Materials
- The Hobbit
- The Hold Steady
- Homestuck
- The Homestuck Epilogues
- Inception
- Independence Day
- Inglourious Basterds
- In the Mouth of Madness
- Iris Zero
- Irredeemable
- John Carter
- Johnny Test
- Jojos Bizarre Adventure
- Jurassic Park
- K
- Kid Radd
- The King of Fighters
- Kung Fu Panda
- Legend of Galactic Heroes
- The Legend of Korra
- Licence to Kill
- The Little Mermaid (1989)
- The Lord of the Rings
- Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions
- Lupin III: The Secret of Twilight Gemini
- Magic: The Gathering
- Mage: The Awakening
- Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's
- Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Striker S
- Magical Girl Site
- Magick Chicks
- Mahabharata
- Mahou Sentai Magiranger
- Mai-Otome
- Maison Ikkoku
- Maken-ki!
- Man of Steel
- Martha Speaks
- M*A*S*H
- Merlin (2008)
- Metroid
- Mobile Suit Gundam SEED
- Monster
- Mork & Mindy
- Mo Dao Zu Shi
- Mouse Madness
- The Mousetrap
- Mr Love Queens Choice
- My Friend Dahmer
- My Hero Academia
- My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- Naruto
- Napoleon Dynamite
- Nasuverse
- Nero Wolfe
- The New Normal
- The Nightmare Before Christmas
- Nightmare Ned
- Norse Mythology
- Once Upon a Time
- One Piece
- One-Punch Man
- Överenskommelser
- Pandorum
- Paranoia Agent
- PAW Patrol
- Peg + Cat
- Penguindrum
- Person of Interest
- Phineas and Ferb
- Pocket God
- Pony POV Series
- Pooh's Grand Adventure
- Predator
- The Princess and the Frog
- Princess Tutu
- The Prisoner (1967)
- Project Tatterdemalion
- Puella Magi Madoka Magica
- Pushing Daisies
- RahXephon
- Ready Jet Go!
- Recess: School's Out
- The Return of Godzilla
- Revolutionary Girl Utena
- The Road
- RoboCop (2014)
- Roswell, New Mexico
- Run Lola Run
- RWBY
- Scandal
- Scanners
- Scum and Villainy
- Scooby-Doo
- Sentou Yousei Yukikaze
- Sesame Street
- Shakugan no Shana
- Shaun of the Dead
- Sherlock
- Shimoneta
- Skins
- Sleepaway Camp
- A Song of Ice and Fire
- Sonic the Hedgehog (2020)
- The Sopranos
- Sound of the Sky
- Space Battleship Yamato
- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
- SpongeBob SquarePants
- Star Trek: The Original Series
- Star Trek Beyond
- Star Wars
- Stellvia of the Universe
- Steven Universe
- Stranger Things
- Superman
- Sword Art Online
- Takin' Over the Asylum
- Tangled
- Teenage Jinchuriki Shinobi
- The Thief of Always
- Thor
- Three Worlds Collide
- Thunder Cats 2011
- Todd in the Shadows
- Top Gun
- Total Drama
- Toy Story
- Transformers: Prime
- Transmetropolitan
- The Tree of Life
- Trigun
- Trinity Seven
- Triumph of the Will
- Trolls
- Tsubasa -RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE-
- Tsukiuta
- Tweeny Witches
- Twilight
- Ultra Series
- Umineko: When They Cry
- Unfriended
- Universe Falls
- Up
- Vinland Saga
- Wakfu
- Warhammer 40,000
- Watchmen
- Welcome to the N.H.K.
- The West Wing
- Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?
- Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?
- Where Things Come Back
- The Wind in the Willows
- The Wire
- Wonder Woman
- The Word Weary
- The World of Kanako
- X Japan
- Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's
- Yu-Gi-Oh! The Thousand Year Door
- Zap Dramatic
- Zootopia
- Zubeidaa