Basic Trope: A setting where there are three types of humans — Alphas (who can impregnate regardless of gender), Betas (normal people), and Omegas (who can get pregnant regardless of gender).
- Straight: In this world, certain percentages of the population are Alphas or Omegas. The protagonists are an Alpha/Omega couple.
- Exaggerated: Everyone is either an Alpha or an Omega in this setting.
- Downplayed: A Slice of Life story that follows an Alpha or Omega through their daily life, ignoring typical Omegaverse tropes like Ruts/Heats, Claiming, or Homosexual Reproduction.
- Justified: Alphas and Omegas were originally intersex mutations that were retained or even normalized into the human genome because they were useful adaptations. Ruts/Heats, Claiming, and other Alpha/Omega dynamics appeared because they helped humans survive in specific environments.
- Inverted: An author who lives in an Omegaverse setting writes a story about a world where Alphas and Omegas don't exist.
- Subverted: A story set in an Omegaverse world, following a Beta couple who rarely interact with Alphas or Omegas.
- Double Subverted: ...Until an Alpha and his Omega boyfriend move in next door.
- Parodied: A sitcom set in an Omegaverse world that satirizes the Alpha/Beta/Omega dynamics and the genre tropes.
- Zig Zagged: An Omegaverse story that subverts many genre expectations, such as a domineering Omega male whose Alpha boyfriend is the meek, submissive partner in their relationship, an Omega who open-carries a gun to deter any Claim attempts from Alphas, or an Alpha who doesn't go into Rut.
- Averted: There are no Alphas or Omegas.
- Enforced: The author is a sociologist writing a thought experiment examining how human history would have been different as a result of the existence of Alphas and Omegas and the Non-Heteronormative Society that would exist as a result.
- Lampshaded: A medical form asks the applicant to specify not only whether they are male or female, but also whether they are an Alpha, Beta, or Omega.
- Invoked:
- The author wants to write a queer Arranged Marriage story in a modern-day setting.
- The author wants to write a story where a gay couple can start a family without any outside intervention.
- Exploited: The author uses Omega males as an allegory for trans men and Alpha females as an allegory for trans women.
- Defied: An Omega becomes an interdimensional refugee, fleeing from an Omegaverse dimension to a non-Omegaverse dimension, to avoid being Claimed by an Alpha.
- Discussed: The author is a sociologist examining the Omegaverse genre from an academic, sociological perspective, even bringing up and answering various questions that even most Omegaverse writers would ignore or dismiss.
- Conversed: A story about a support group for Omegas, where they talk about their Alpha-related issues.
- Deconstructed:
- The Omegaverse is presented as a Crapsack World where Omegas are treated as second-class citizens (or worse, living sex toys), and Alphas frequently abuse Betas and Omegas.
- A story that follows the real-world implications of Alphas and Omegas, and how a lot of Omegaverse conventions, like Ruts/Heats and Claiming, would either be legal gray areas or outright illegal.
- An Omegaverse story in a historical setting, where Non-Heteronormative Society is averted, where bigotry is shown against even Alpha-Omega same-sex couples.
- A story about an Omega Rights Activist who is acting to prevent the sex trafficking of Omegas, becoming increasingly radicalized out of frustration, and eventually becomes a terrorist.
- Reconstructed:
- An Omegaverse setting where Omegas are treated as the equals of Betas or even of Alphas, most of the human rights abuses associated with Omegaverse are absent, or there is a Fantastic Counterpart to feminism with Omegas.
- Alphas don't lose control of themselves when in Rut, and Omegas don't lose control of themselves during Heat, removing the moral/legal gray area from Alpha/Omega dynamics.
- Omegaverse in historical settings gives Omega males and Alpha females a unique privilege to be openly gay, or even makes the setting less homophobic than it was historically.
- Even Alphas Have Standards, and they will openly shun or disavow any Alpha who Claims or Knots with an Omega without the Omega's consent.
- Played For Laughs: An Omega male Troll douses himself in "Omega in Heat" cologne to drive his Alpha coworkers into Rut, then leaves the room to watch hilarity ensue from a safe distance.
- Played For Drama:
- An Omegaverse setting that provides social commentary on various real-world issues, such as human trafficking, arranged marriages, domestic abuse, toxic masculinity, systemic rape culture, and the pro-life/pro-choice debate.
- A teenage Alpha male is the only heterosexual member of his family (his parents were an Alpha male/Omega male couple, both of whom were born to Alpha male/Omega male couples, and his siblings are all either Alpha males or Omega males), his attraction to girls is not well received by his family, and due to being raised in an all-male environment, he has absolutely no idea how to talk to women.
- An Alpha Female has to go pee, and doesn't know if she should go to the men's room and use a urinal since she's an Alpha, or go to the ladies' room since she's a female.
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