Before people discovered the atomic elements, they hypothesized the existence of other elements that, as they thought, comprised the world around them. There were the classical elements: Earth, Fire, Water, Air, and often a fifth element (not Heart). Sometimes it was Ice, sometimes it was Lightning, sometimes Metal, sometimes nothingness (Void), sometimes Darkness, or even Light, and all will be counted here.
So these are tropes dealing with these old world elements.
Try not to get caught up in them, unless you have a counter element ready.
See also: Magic and Powers.
Tropes:
Categories:
- Bejeweled Tropes
- Darkness and Shadows Tropes
- Elemental Powers
- Heat Index
- Heliotropes
- The Ground Beneath Our Feet
- Index in the Sky
- Index on the Moon
- Instant Index: Just Add Water!
- Lava Tropes
- Metallic Tropes
- Precipitation Index
- These Tropes Were Frozen Today
- This Index Blows
- This Index Glows
- This Index Is on Fire
- Thunderbolts and Lightning
- Time Tropes
- Tropes at Sea
- Weather and Environment
- Alchemic Elementals
- Ashes to Ashes
- Bizarro Elements
- Blow You Away
- Casting a Shadow
- Color-Coded Elements
- Dishing Out Dirt
- Elemental Absorption
- Elemental Armor
- Elemental Baggage
- Elemental Barrier
- Elemental Embodiment
- Elemental Eye Colors
- Elemental Hair
- Elemental Ignorance
- Elemental Nation
- Elemental Plane
- Elemental Punch
- Elemental Rivalry
- Elemental Rock–Paper–Scissors
- Elemental Shapeshifter
- Elemental Tiers
- Elemental Weapon
- Element Number Five
- Extra-ore-dinary
- Fire/Ice Duo
- Fire, Ice, Lightning
- Fire/Water Juxtaposition
- Four-Element Ensemble
- Gale-Force Sound
- Gravity Master
- Green Thumb
- Heart Beat-Down
- Holy Hand Grenade (good treated as a destructive element)
- I Love Nuclear Power (radiation treated as an element)
- An Ice Person
- Infinity +1 Element
- Land, Sea, Sky
- Life/Death Juxtaposition (when life and death are treated as elements)
- Light/Darkness Juxtaposition
- Light 'em Up (light as a destructive element)
- Lightning/Fire Juxtaposition
- Lunacy (moon as an element)
- Magma Man
- Magnetism Manipulation
- Make Me Wanna Shout
- Making a Splash
- Non-Elemental
- Playing with Fire
- Poisonous Person (toxic chemicals treated as an element)
- The Power of the Sun (sunlight treated as an element)
- Power of the Void (nothingness as an element)
- Pure Energy
- Scissors Cuts Rock
- Seasonal Baggage (Summer, Autumn, Winter, and Spring treated as elements)
- Shock and Awe
- Soul Power
- Space Master
- Star Power (stars treated as an element)
- Time Master
- Unholy Nuke (evil treated as an element)
