When you have a bucket
of tropes to comb through, it helps to merge them into a single coherent strand (no, not like spaghetti!). Luckily for you, the wiki gnome is not a stooge. He has come down from his tree to count and pigeonhole each of our vast selection of sorting tropes. It wasn't quick or smooth, and he's a shell of his former self, but with patience, he has created a library of sorting algorithms.
Grab a cocktail and enjoy a heap of tropes.
Not to burst your bubble, but scales, sliding or otherwise, are another form of sorting — hence their insertion into this index.
Tropes:
- Abusing the Kardashev Scale for Fun and Profit
- Apocalypse How
- Asimov's Three Kinds of Science Fiction: Sci-Fi inventions can be the focus of the story, a prop, or a societal impact.
- Based on a True Story
- Brain Chain
- Change Vs. Status Quo
- Emotions vs. Stoicism
- Fackler Scale of FPS Realism
- Food Chain of Evil
- Good Hair, Evil Hair
- Individualism vs. Collectivism
- Kinsey Scale of Tropes
- Mohs Scales:
- Network Decay
- Player and Protagonist Integration
- Popularity Food Chain
- The Power of Language
- Scale of Scientific Sins
- Season Fluidity
- Sexiness Score
- Sliding Scales:
- Sliding Scale of Adaptation Modification
- Sliding Scale of Alternate History Plausibility
- Sliding Scale of Animal Cast
- Sliding Scale of Animal Communication
- Sliding Scale of Animation Elaborateness
- Sliding Scale of Antagonist Vileness
- Sliding Scale of Anthropomorphism
- Sliding Scale of Anti-Heroes
- Sliding Scale of Anti-Villains
- Sliding Scale of Badass Boasts
- Sliding Scale of Beauty
- Sliding Scale of Character Appreciation: How much the audience likes different types of characters.
- Sliding Scale of Collectible Tracking
- Sliding Scale of Comedy and Horror
- Sliding Scale of Continuity
- Sliding Scale of Content Density vs. Width
- Sliding Scale of Cooperation vs. Competition
- Sorting Algorithm of Deadness
- Sorting Algorithm of Evil
- Sorting Algorithm of Face-Heel Turning: How likely is it for this type of character to change sides?
- Sliding Scale of Divine Intervention
- Sliding Scale of Endings: Endings can range from happy to neutral to tragic.
- Sliding Scale of Fourth Wall Hardness
- Sliding Scale of Free Will vs. Fate
- Sliding Scale of Gameplay and Story Integration
- Sliding Scale of Gender Inequality
- Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism
- Sliding Scale of Law Enforcement
- Sliding Scale of Leadership Responsibility
- Sliding Scale of Libertarianism and Authoritarianism
- Sliding Scale of Like Reality Unless Noted: How similar a modern setting in a work is to Real Life.
- Sliding Scale of Linearity vs. Openness
- Sliding Scale of Living Toys
- Sorting Algorithm of Mortality
- Sliding Scale of Objective vs. Subjective Games
- Sliding Scale of Parent-Shaming in Fiction
- Sliding Scale of Plot Versus Characters
- Sliding Scale of Proactiveness: Sorting how proactive the leading characters are in regard to the plot.
- Sliding Scale of Realistic vs. Fantastic
- Sliding Scale of Robot Intelligence
- Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty
- Sliding Scale of Silliness vs. Seriousness
- Sliding Scale of Social Satisfaction: How livable is this fictional dystopian or utopian place?
- Sorting Algorithm of Threatening Geography
- Sliding Scale of Turn Realism
- Sliding Scale of Unavoidable vs. Unforgivable
- Sliding Scale of Undead Regeneration
- Sliding Scale of Vampire Friendliness
- Sliding Scale of Video-Game Objectives
- Sliding Scale of Video Game World Size and Scale
- Sliding Scale of Villain Effectiveness
- Sliding Scale of Villain Threat
- Sliding Scale of Visuals Versus Dialogue
- Sorting Algorithm of Weapon Effectiveness
- Small Taxonomy Pools
- Story to Gameplay Ratio
- Superhero Prevalence Stages
- Super Weight
- Temporal Mutability
- Tiered by Name
This index is guaranteed to run in O (n log n). Though if you count the recursive clicks, it won't.
