These are the tropes of anything drawn. Whether animated or Sequential Art or any work that is a drawn or rendered graphical representation, these tropes exist only because someone has the ability to control every line of what we see.
As ever, please place tropes suitable for listed subindices on those indices only.
Tropes:
Sub-indices:
- Amazing Technicolor Population: Humans with abnormal skin colors.
- Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: Animals who are not colored realistically.
- Anatomy Anomaly
- Animals Lack Attributes: Animals are not depicted with genitalia.
- Animals Not to Scale
- Animated World Hypotheses: When animated characters perceive their world as animated, rather than realistic.
- Animesque: The art style is like an anime.
- Art Evolution: Character designs gradually change over the years.
- Art Shift: Moments where the art style suddenly changes.
- Art-Shifted Sequel: The sequel's art style is noticeably different from the art style of the original.
- Art-Style Clash: A work that relies on many different art styles at the same time.
- Art-Style Dissonance
- Balloon Belly: Overeating causes a character to have a huge, round belly.
- Big Anime Eyes
- Black Bead Eyes: Character's eyes are small and black dots.
- Black Dot Pupils
- Blackface-Style Caricature
- Briffits and Squeans
- Bonsai Forest
- By the Lights of Their Eyes: In scenes taking place in the dark, characters are made visible by their eyes.
- Cartoon Throbbing: A character's body part gets injured, turns red, and starts swelling and expanding.
- Cartoon Whale: A stock cartoon portrayal of a whale with a rectangular head.
- Cartoony Eyes
- Cheated Angle: A character has part of them always facing the same angle regardless of which direction they're facing.
- Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: Character is designed to resemble a real-life actor.
- Conjoined Eyes: A character's eyes are drawn in a way that they appear to be fused together instead of being two individual eyes.
- Cranial Eruption
- Demon Head
- Detail-Hogging Cover: The cover has more detail than the actual animation.
- Dinner Deformation: When a character swallows an object, their throat or stomach becomes shaped like what they just swallowed.
- Disembodied Eyebrows: A character's eyebrows aren't attached to their face and float above their eyes.
- Disneyesque
- Early Installment Character-Design Difference: A character's earlier appearances have them sporting a character design that is notably different from how they appear in the rest of the series.
- Expressive Accessory
- Expressive Ears
- Expressive Mask: Character wears a mask that is somehow still able to register their emotions.
- Expressive Shirt
- Expressive Uvula
- Eye Glasses: A character wears glasses that change shape to match their emotions.
- Eyes Always Shut
- Facial Profiling
- Fingerless Hands: A character has hands that lack fingers.
- Fish Eyes
- Four-Legged Insect
- Four Legs Good, Two Legs Better
- Fourth-Wall Portrait: A cartoon character is given a drawing where they are depicted in a more realistic style.
- Frustrated Overhead Scribble
- Funny X-Ray
- Geometric Magic
- Good Eyes, Evil Eyes
- Goth Spirals
- Grotesque Gallery
- Hartman Hips: A woman has impossibly wide hips.
- Heart Beats out of Chest
- Human Hummingbird
- Human Knot
- Hit Spark
- Ice Crystals
- Impossible Hourglass Figure: A woman has unrealistically wide hips in addition to an unrealistically narrow waist.
- Inflating Body Gag
- Instant Ice: Just Add Cold!
- Inexplicably Tailless
- Invisible Anatomy
- Lantern Jaw of Justice: Good guys have huge chins.
- Light Girl, Dark Boy
- Looming Silhouette of Rage
- Made of Bologna
- Masculine Lines, Feminine Curves
- Model Dissonance
- Non-Standard Character Design: A character stands out from the other characters because the way they are designed differs from the usual art style.
- Noodle People: Skinny characters with long, thin limbs.
- Not Drawn to Scale
- Painted Tunnel, Real Train
- Painting the Medium: Font, interface changes, or camera or editing tricks convey things about the story.
- Pale Females, Dark Males
- Paper People
- Personal Raincloud
- Pie-Eyed
- Phlegmings
- "Pop!" Goes the Human
- Rainbow Lite: Rainbows without all of the colors of the visible color spectrum.
- Realistic Species, Cartoony Species
- Removable Shell
- Robot Hair
- Scary Stitches
- Sequential Art
- Shapes of Disappearance
- Shifted to CGI
- Skintone Sclerae
- Sideways Smile: Face-splitting smiles with obscured eyes viewed from the side profile of a drawn character.
- Speed Echoes
- Speed Stripes
- Sphere Eyes
- Squashed Flat
- Stick-Figure Comic
- Strong Family Resemblance
- Stylized for the Viewer
- Sudden Anatomy
- Sudden Eye Colour
- Sword Lines
- Thundering Herd
- Timm Style
- Top-Heavy Guy: A character is huge and burly from the waist up, but stringy and spindly from the waist down.
- Traveling-Pipe Bulge
- Typeset in the Future
- Unusual Eyebrows
- Volumetric Mouth: Character's mouth opens real wide when they are shouting.
- Waddling Head
- Wheel o' Feet
- Weight Taller: Gaining extra fat or muscle also increases a character's height.
- White Gloves
- Whoosh in Front of the Camera
- Wingding Eyes: Character's eyes change shape to show what's on their mind.
- X-Ray Sparks: A character has their skeleton made visible when they are electrocuted.
