An index of Obsession Tropes. These tropes describe the varying ways a character cannot leave something alone. Whether it be spending too much time, money, effort, or patience; the character will not stop until they are either dead, imprisoned, or possibly even finished. And maybe not even then.
Compare with Body Image Tropes, Prejudice Tropes, Selfishness Tropes & This Is Your Index on Drugs. Opposite of Apathy Index.
- 10-Minute Retirement
- Arch-Enemy
- Baby Be Mine: A woman will go to extreme lengths to have a baby.
- Blind Obedience
- Blood Lust
- Challenge Seeker
- Clingy Jealous Girl
- Clock King
- Conspiracy Theorist: A person believes that the world is being manipulated by some secret organization and is obsessed with proving that they are right.
- Crack Is Cheaper: Feeding your obsession can prove very expensive.
- The Collector
- Crazy Jealous Guy
- Complexity Addiction
- Determinator: A person is so focused on achieving their goal that nothing can deter them from it.
- Devoted to You
- Driven by Envy
- Easter Egg
- Enemies List
- Fanboy
- Fangirl
- Fanon
- Feuding Families
- The Fettered
- Foreign Culture Fetish
- Geek
- Gotta Kill Them All
- Grammar Nazi: Getting upset over every little grammatical error another person makes.
- Groupie
- Harem Genre
- Heroic Vow
- I Gave My Word
- If I Can't Have You...
- Intrigued by Humanity
- It Must Be Mine!
- Longing for Fictionland
- Longing Look
- Loony Fan: A fan who won't leave the person they admire alone.
- Lust Object
- Money Fetish: Someone has an obsession with money.
- My Country, Right or Wrong
- My Master, Right or Wrong
- Narcissist: Someone who has extreme love and admiration for oneself.
- Neat Freak: Someone is obsessed with making everything as neat and clean as possible.
- Obsessed Are the Listmakers
- Obsessed with Food
- Obsessed with Perfect Attendance
- Obsession Song
- Obsessive Hobby Episode: An episode which involves a character taking up a hobby and becoming obsessed with it.
- Obsessively Normal
- One-Track-Minded Artist
- One-Track-Minded Hunger
- Otaku
- Overcomplicated Menu Order
- Pining After Protagonist's Parent
- Pinocchio Syndrome: A robot or other kind of artificial being strongly desires to become human or at least be able to feel like a human.
- Please Don't Leave Me
- Poisonous Friend
- Principles Zealot
- Psycho Ex-Girlfriend
- Race Fetish
- Rail Enthusiast
- The Resenter
- The Rival
- Saw "Star Wars" 27 Times: A character's obsession with a movie is demonstrated by having them claim to have seen the film a ridiculously large number of times.
- Schedule Fanatic
- Single-Issue Wonk
- Single-Target Sexuality: A character who is only attracted to one specific person.
- Spurned into Suicide
- Stalker Shot: A character thinks they're alone until the camera reveals they're being stalked without their knowledge.
- Stalker Shrine
- Stalker with a Crush
- Stalker with a Test Tube
- Stalker Without a Crush
- Stalking Is Funny If It Is Female After Male
- Stalking Is Love
- Stop Poking Me!
- Super OCD: A person who is obsessed with things being neat and orderly to the point that stuff ending up out of order or disarray is enough to drive them bonkers.
- There's No Place Like Home
- Trekkie
- TV Tropes Will Ruin Your Life
- Undying Loyalty
- Unrequited Love Lasts Forever
- Went Crazy When They Left
- Workaholic
- The Xenophile
- Yandere
- Yandere Couple
