This is a list of tropes concerning a character having a realization about something.
Tropes:
- Beam of Enlightenment
- Beautiful All Along
- Being Watched
- Delayed Reaction: It takes someone longer to realize something than they should.
- Epiphany Comeback
- Eureka Moment
- Face Realization
- Go Mad from the Revelation: Realizing something causes a person to go insane.
- Heel Realization: Someone is ashamed to discover that they have been the bad guy.
- Ignored Epiphany: A villain considers redeeming themselves, then decides not to.
- Jerkass Realization: Someone realizes that they've been a jerk.
- Late to the Realization
- Love Epiphany
- My God, What Have I Done?: Someone becomes horrified and ashamed at the realization that they did something very bad.
- Noticing the Fourth Wall
- Oh, Crap!: A character is shocked at the realization that they are in big trouble.
- Delayed "Oh, Crap!"
- Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: Someone talks about something and then gets shocked once the implications of what they're talking about hits them.
- Mass "Oh, Crap!": A whole bunch of people react badly to the realization that they are screwed.
- Personal Horror
- Post Wake Up Realization: Someone who just woke up is oblivious to the situation until they fully wake up.
- Something We Forgot
- This Is Gonna Suck
- What Have I Become?
- "World of Cardboard" Speech
