Tropes about skills and all the varied and weird ways in which they are learned.
Compare School Tropes (for learning skills), Levels and Experience Tropes.
Categories:
What You Know:
- This Index Knows What It's Talking About (for knowledgable people)
- Master of the Index (for people who are good at what they do)
- Adaptational Skill
- Always Know a Pilot
- Becoming the Boast
- Boxing Lessons for Superman
- Brick Break
- Charles Atlas Superpower
- Chekhov's Skill
- Clown School
- Demolitions Expert
- Emotion Suppression
- Enlightenment Superpowers
- Fantastic Fighting Style
- Fighting Fingerprint
- Fluffy Tamer
- Gentle Touch vs. Firm Hand
- The Greatest Style
- I Know Madden Kombat
- I Know Mortal Kombat
- I Don't Know Mortal Kombat
- Ki Manipulation
- Look What I Can Do Now!
- Master of Your Domain
- The Medic
- Meditation Powerup
- My Kung Fu Is Stronger Than Yours
- New Ability Addiction
- Le Parkour
- The Power of Acting
- Skill Scores and Perks
- Strong and Skilled
- Suddenly Always Knew That
- Switch-Out Move
- Unique Protagonist Asset
- Unskilled, but Strong
- Weak, but Skilled
How You Learned It:
- Adaptive Ability
- Awesomeness by Analysis
- Book on the Head
- But I Read a Book About It
- Can't Catch Up
- Character Level
- Crazy-Prepared
- Crisis Makes Perfect
- Deadly Training Area
- Die or Fly
- Don't Think, Feel
- Dumbass No More
- Had to Be Sharp
- Hands-On Approach
- Hard Work Fallacy
- Imposed Handicap Training
- Improvised Training
- Incompletely Trained
- Kingpin in His Gym
- A Lesson in Defeat
- Lotus Position
- A Master Makes Their Own Tools
- Meditating Under a Waterfall
- Physical Fitness Punishment
- Powerful, but Incompetent
- Prisons Are Gymnasiums
- Raw Eggs Make You Stronger
- Rival Dojos
- Shooting Lessons From Your Parents
- Simulated Urban Combat Area
- Sink-or-Swim Mentor
- The Spartan Way
- Super Fly Reflexes
- Super Swimming Skills
- Talented, but Trained
- Taught by Experience
- Taught by Television
- Teach Me How To Fight
- Time to Unlock More True Potential
- Took a Level in Badass
- Training from Hell
- Training Montage
- Ultimate Final Exam
- Uncertified Expert
- Victor Gains Loser's Powers
- Wax On, Wax Off
- Weapons of Their Trade
- When You Snatch the Pebble
- Working Out Their Emotions
- Workplace-Acquired Abilities
- Your Eyes Can Deceive You
- You Are Not Ready
- You Shouldn't Know This Already (regardless of the skill, there has to be learning before use).
Shortcuts/Cheating:
- Adaptational Badass
- Drunken Master
- Hard Work Hardly Works
- Mooching Master
- Opponent Switch
- Traumatic Superpower Awakening
- Xenafication
