An index of tropes dealing with a character's job or work environment.
Note: If a job is related to one of the listed sub-categories, list it on that index instead of here.
Characters and their jobs:
Sub-categories:
- Authority Tropes
- Clown Tropes
- Cops and Detectives
- The Courtroom Index
- Criminals
- Doctor Index
- Hired Guns
- I Need an Index by Monday
- Military and Warfare Tropes
- The Oldest Profession
- Politics Tropes
- Schoolteachers
- Servant Tropes
- Show Business
- Sports Story Tropes
- This Index Knows What It's Talking About
- Tropes on Science and Unscience
- Acceptable Professional Targets: Jobs that are considered okay to mock.
- Adaptational Job Change: An adaptation changes a character's occupation.
- Angry Chef
- Arms Dealer: A merchant who sells weapons.
- Asian Storeowner
- The Barber
- The Bartender
- The Blacksmith
- Caring Gardener
- Chatty Hairdresser
- The Coroner
- Chinese Launderer
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: The head of a corporation is evil or at least very unscrupulous.
- Honest Corporate Executive: The head of a corporation is an honest person who refuses to do anything illegal or unethical with their company.
- Cranky Landlord
- Creepy Gas Station Attendant
- Creepy Mortician: Morticians are portrayed as being disturbing or strange.
- Crooked Contractor
- Da Editor
- Dreadful Musician: A musician who is terrible at playing music.
- The Driver
- Eccentric Artist
- Evil Chef: A chef who happens to be a villain.
- Fashion Designer
- Fashion Model
- Following in Their Rescuer's Footsteps
- Foreign Correspondent
- Gaucho
- Grease Monkey
- Great White Hunter
- Hillbilly Moonshiner
- Immoral Journalist
- Inherently Attractive Profession: A job has characteristics associated with it that people find attractive.
- Inexperienced Killer: A killer or hitman who's never killed anyone before.
- Innocent Flower Girl
- Intrepid Reporter
- Jobless Parent Drama: A family struggles because a parent is unemployed.
- Mad Artist: An artist who isn't right in the head and often creates artwork that creeps people out.
- Mad Scientist: An insane scientist who conducts bizarre experiments.
- Majority-Share Dictator
- Masked Luchador
- Mean Boss: A boss who isn't very nice to the employees.
- Most Writers Are Writers
- Mighty Lumberjack
- Native Guide
- Pointy-Haired Boss: The boss is a total moron.
- Professional Gambler
- Professional Killer
- Psycho for Hire
- Psycho Psychologist: A psychologist who isn't a model example of sanity himself.
- Railroad Employee Roundhouse
- The Real Spoofbusters
- Rom Com Job
- Sequential Artist
- Shoe Shine, Mister?
- The Shrink
- Single-Issue Landlord
- Snake Oil Salesman
- Stage Magician: An illusionist.
- Starving Artist
- Stock Superhero Day Jobs
- Straw Critic: Critics being stereotyped as perfectionist and unpleasable.
- Sweet Baker
- Tagalong Reporter
- Team Chef
- Terrible Artist
- Traveling Salesman
- Ultimate Blacksmith
- Unstoppable Mailman
- The Vicar
- Waiting for a Break
- The Watchmaker
Other work-related tropes:
- Bad Job, Worse Uniform
- Burger Fool: Someone has to work at a fast food restaurant.
- Crossing the Burnt Bridge
- Defeat Means Menial Labor: Where a villain, having been defeated, is reduced to menial labor.
- Dumb, but Diligent
- Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
- Goofy Suit
- Happiness In Minimum Wage: A worker is content with being paid minimum wage.
- Horrible Hollywood
- Hospital Hottie
- Hot Men at Work
- The Inspector Is Coming
- It's Raining Salesmen
- Jaded Professional
- Job Mindset Inertia
- Job Song
- Modeling Poses
- Muse Abuse
- New Job as the Plot Demands: A character's job changes depending on what is appropriate for the current episode's plot.
- Obliquely Obfuscated Occupation: It isn't explicitly revealed what a person's occupation is.
- Office Romance
- Phony Veteran
- The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A character has a specific job, but is never seen or otherwise indicated doing anything that has to do with their profession.
- Playing Games at Work
- Plumber's Crack
- Post-Injury Desk Job
- Pursue the Dream Job
- Really Moves Around
- Sent Off to Work for Relatives
- Service Sector Stereotypes
- The Simple Life Is Simple
- Soul-Crushing Desk Job
- Soul-Sucking Retail Job
- Strike Episode
- Successful Sibling Syndrome
- Ultimate Job Security: An employee who never gets fired even though realistically their actions would've gotten them booted out a long time ago.
- Weird Trade Union
- The Wicked Stage
