Tropes about the maturity that comes from experience and those who have it. It can include anything from a naturally insightful mentality to an understanding of philosophy. The result is anything from a serious selflessness to a calm determination to a well-informed acceptance. Wisdom is a knowledge not to be confused with Intelligence Tropes.
Contrast The Fool and other Stupidity Tropes.
Tropes:
- Bald Mystic
- Barefoot Sage
- Closer to Earth
- Enlightened Antagonist
- Enlightenment Superpowers
- Gentleman and a Scholar
- Genre Savvy
- Glasses of Aging
- The Hecate Sisters (The Crone)
- Hermit Guru
- Ice-Cream Koan
- Koan
- Magical Asian
- Magical Jew
- Magical Negro
- Officer and a Gentleman
- Old Master
- Older and Wiser
- Proverbial Wisdom
- Reasonable Authority Figure
- Sage Love Interest
- Simple-Minded Wisdom
- Street Smart
- Taught by Experience
- The Three Faces of Eve (The Wife)
- The Owl-Knowing One
- The Wise Prince
- Unfazed Everyman
- Warrior Poet
- Wax On, Wax Off
- Wisdom from the Gutter
- Wise Beyond Their Years
- Wise Tree
- Zen Slap
- Zen Survivor
