"Water, water, everywhere.
And all the boards did shrink.
Water, water, everywhere.
Nor any drop to drink."
And all the boards did shrink.
Water, water, everywhere.
Nor any drop to drink."
— The Ryme of the Ancient Mariner
These are tropes about water. Try not to get wet on your way in.
Not to Be Confused with Instant Tropes.
Tropes:
Categories:
- Absurdly Spacious Sewer: A sewer is a lot more spacious than it would be in real life.
- Aquatic Mook
- Artificial Riverbank
- Battle in the Rain
- Bathtub Mermaid
- Big Dam Plot
- Blood Is Squicker in Water: Water becomes red when someone bleeds in it.
- Cannot Cross Running Water: A supernatural being is unable to cross running water.
- Cats Hate Water: Cats are depicted as having an aversion to water.
- Caught in the Rain
- Cave Behind the Falls
- City of Canals: A city criss-crossed by numerous canals, often more numerous than regular streets.
- City on the Water: A city that floats on the water like a boat.
- Cool, Clear Water
- Cue the Rain
- Danger — Thin Ice
- Don't Eat and Swim: The belief that it is dangerous to go swimming right after eating.
- Down L.A. Drain
- Down the Drain
- Dripping Disturbance: Someone gets annoyed by a drippy faucet.
- Drowning Pit
- Drowning Unwanted Pets: Getting rid of unwanted pets by drowning them.
- Exploding Fish Tanks
- Fire/Water Juxtaposition
- Floating Water
- Frigid Water Is Harmless: The harm caused by submersion in very cold water being downplayed or ignored entirely.
- Garden-Hose Squirt Surprise
- Giant Wall of Watery Doom: A tremendous mass of water rushing towards the characters and bringing doom as it goes.
- Gray Rain of Depression
- The Great Flood
- Grimy Water
- Happy Rain
- Hazardous Water
- Heal It with Water
- Healing Spring
- High-Dive Escape
- High-Dive Hijinks
- Hollywood Drowning
- Holy Water: Water blessed by a ritual, usually a powerful ward against evil.
- Hydrant Geyser
- Improvised Umbrella
- Inevitable Waterfall: When a character is sailing in a body of water, they'll eventually end up finding a waterfall at the end.
- Instant Ice: Just Add Cold!
- Instant Leech: Just Fall in Water!
- Instant Mass: Just Add Water!
- Instant People: Just Add Water!
- Instant Oracle: Just Add Water!
- Kill It with Ice: A being is vulnerable to cold.
- Kill It with Water: A being is vulnerable to water.
- Land, Sea, Sky
- Light-Haired Swimmer
- Lord of the Ocean
- Making a Splash: A character has the power to manipulate water.
- Man-Made House Flood
- Meditating Under a Waterfall
- Mega Maelstrom
- Mermaid Arc Emergence
- Mobile Fishbowl
- Murder Water
- Night Swim = Death: A person swimming at night gets killed.
- No Water Proofing In The Future: Technology that isn't waterproof.
- Not-So-Safe Harbor
- Old Faithful
- Olympic Swimmer
- Ocean Awe
- Ocean Madness
- Ocean Punk
- Ocular Gushers: When a person cries, huge floods of tears pour out of their eyes.
- Opening the Flood Gates
- Overly Nervous Flop Sweat
- Parting the Sea
- Personal Raincloud
- Pool Scene
- Portal Pool: A pool of water acts as a portal.
- Putting the Pee in Pool: Someone urinates in the pool.
- Rain, Rain, Go Away
- Redemption in the Rain
- Rising Water, Rising Tension
- River of Insanity
- Roadside Wave
- Roaring Rapids
- Rock of Limitless Water
- Romantic Rain
- Rule of Pool
- Sand Bridge at Low Tide
- Sand Is Water
- Sea Sinkhole
- Sexy Soaked Shirt: A person looks more attractive after their shirt gets wet.
- Sexy Surfacing Shot: A character surfacing or climbing out from a body of water being played for Fanservice.
- Shark Tunnel
- Shower of Angst
- Shower of Love
- The Sky Is an Ocean
- Slippery Swimsuit: Someone in a swimsuit loses part of their swimwear while in the water.
- Soft Water: You can't be hurt by falling in water, no matter from how high up you fall.
- Space Is an Ocean
- Spoofing in the Rain
- Storming the Beaches
- Suicide by Sea: Someone kills themselves by deliberately drowning.
- Sunken City
- Super Drowning Skills: Someone drowns the instant they enter water.
- Super Not-Drowning Skills
- Symbolic Baptism
- Telepathic Sprinklers
- Toilet-Drinking Dog Gag: A joke scene about animals (usually dogs) drinking from toilets.
- Trapped in a Sinking Car
- Two-Person Pool Party
- Wacky Waterbed
- Walk on Water
- Waltz on Water
- Warm Water Whiz
- Water Torture
- Waterfall into the Abyss
- Waterfall Shower: Someone showers under a waterfall.
- Water-Geyser Volley
- Water Guns and Balloons
- Water Hose Rodeo
- Water Is Blue
- Water Is Dry
- Water Is Womanly
- Waterlogged Warzone
- Water Tower Down
- Water Wake-up
- Wet Sari Scene: Wet clothing played for fanservice in Bollywood.
- Wet T-Shirt Contest: A contest to see which woman looks best in a wet T-shirt.
