"The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself."
— George R.R. Martin, paraphrasing William Faulkner
This is an index for tropes about internal conflict. Related to Psychology Tropes.
Categories:
- Amnesiac Dissonance
- Amnesiac Villain Joins the Heroes
- Battle in the Center of the Mind
- Beneath the Mask
- Broken Ace
- Conflicting Loyalty
- The Corruption
- The Ditherer
- Double Consciousness
- Double Think
- Dramatic Drop
- Dramatic Sit-Down
- Emotions vs. Stoicism
- Enemy Within
- Enemy Without
- Face Your Fears
- Fighting from the Inside
- Frequently-Broken Unbreakable Vow
- Friend or Idol Decision
- Gollum Made Me Do It
- Good Angel, Bad Angel
- Heel Realization
- Heroic B.S.O.D.
- Heroic Willpower
- Hope Is Scary
- If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him
- "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight
- Jekyll & Hyde
- Making the Choice for You
- The Man in the Mirror Talks Back
- Many Spirits Inside of One
- Moral Dilemma
- Ordered to Cheat
- Personal Horror
- Sadistic Choice
- Secret Identity Identity
- Sexual Extortion
- Shapeshifter Identity Crisis
- Shell-Shocked Veteran
- Sour Outside, Sad Inside
- Split Personality
- Split-Personality Takeover
- Stages of Monster Grief
- Stepford Smiler
- Superpowered Evil Side
- To Be Lawful or Good
- Tsundere
- Warm Blood Bags Are Everywhere
- What You Are in the Dark
