Trochaic Tetrameter / Tropes

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• Abled in the Adaptation
• Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder
• Absent Animal Companion
• Accidental Innuendo
• Accidental Pornomancer
• Accidental Tickle Torture
• Accents Aren't Hereditary^note if "aren't" is pronounced as a single syllable
• Action-Hero Babysitter
• Actually, That's My Assistant
• Adaptation Deviation
• Adaptation Distillation
• Adaptation Inspiration
• Advert-Overloaded Future
• After-Action Healing Drama
• Agitated Item Stomping
• Algorithmic Story Branching
• Ammo-Using Melee Weapon
• Ammunition Conservation
• Ancient Order of Protectors^note requires a bit of stress on "of"
• Animated Adaptation
• Anti-Interference Lock Up
• Arbitrary Headcount Limit
• Arbitrary Skepticism
• Are You Sure You Want to Do That?^note depends on inflection
• Argument of Contradictions
• Artificial Family Member^note if "family" is pronounced with two syllables
• Artificial Limbs Are Stronger
• Asymmetric Multiplayer
• Audience Participation
• Awesomeness-Induced Amnesia
• Awesomeness Is Volatile
• Badly Battered Babysitter
• Barbershop Quartets Are Funny
• Being Tortured Makes You Evil
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment
• Bonding over Missing Parents
• Borrowed Biometric Bypass
• Boss's Unfavorite Employee ^note If "unfavorite" is pronounced with three syllables
• Bullet Holes and Revelations
• Buried in a Pile of Corpses^note if "pile" is pronounced as a single syllable
• But I Read a Book About It
• Calculus Is Arcane Knowledge
• Calling Me a Logarithm
• Canines Gambling in a Card Game
• Cardboard Box of Unemployment
• Celibate Eccentric Genius
• Chain Lethality Enabler
• Character Exaggeration
• Charles Atlas Superpower
• Chubby Mama, Skinny Papa
• Citywide Evacuation
• Color-Coded Multiplayer
• Commonality Connection
• Competition Coupon Madness
• Conservation of Ninjutsu^note requires a bit of stress on "of"
• Constellations as Locations
• Continuity Announcement
• Corporate-Sponsored Superhero^note if "corporate" is pronounced with two syllables
• Cover-Blowing Superpower
• Crippling the Competition
• Critical Encumbrance Failure
• Critical Existence Failure
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
• Cruelty Is the Only Option
• Crying at Your Birthday Party
• Cryptically Unhelpful Answer
• Cuckoolander Commentator
• Declaration of Protection
• Decontamination Chamber
• Desperately Craves Affection^note if "desperately" is pronounced with four syllables
• Did Not Do the Bloody Research
• Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?^note depends on inflection
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?^note depends on inflection
• Diegetic Soundtrack Usage
• Disappointed by the Motive
• Disappointing Older Sibling
• Drink-Based Characterization
• Drop-In-Drop-Out Multiplayer
• Drowning Our Romantic Sorrows
• Early Adaptation Weirdness
• Easily Embarrassed Youngster
• Eerie Arctic Research Station
• Egocentrically Religious
• Elevator Action Sequence
• Elevator Floor Announcement
• Enemy-Detecting Radar
• Entropy and Chaos Magic
• Esoteric Happy Ending
• Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas
• Everybody Knew Already
• Every Bullet is a Tracer
• Everything is Big in Texas
• Evil Learns of Outside Context
• Evolutionary Levels
• Evolutionary Retcon
• Evolutionary Stasis
• Exposition Intuition
• Exty Years from Publication
• Facial Recognition Software
• Failure Is the Only Option
• Family Extermination^note if "family" is pronounced with three syllables
• Family-Unfriendly Violence^note if "family" is pronounced with three syllables and "violence" with two
• Fantasy Americana
• Fantasy-Forbidding Father
• Fictional United Nations
• Fish out of Temporal Water^note requires a bit of stress on "of"
• Fisticuff-Provoking Comment
• Flushing Toilet, Screaming Shower
• Food and Animal Attraction
• Food as Characterization
• For Your People, By Your People
• Freaky Electronic Music^note if "electronic" is pronounced with stress on the first syllable, which is occasionally done in both UK and US English
• Freudian Excuse Denial
• Friends Are Chosen, Family Aren't^note if "family" is pronounced with two syllables
• Friendship-Straining Competition
• Fully Automatic Clip Show
• Flashback-Montage Realization
• Flashback with the Other Darrin
• Fling a Light into the Future^note if "into" is pronounced with stress on the second syllable
• Future Food Is Artificial
• Futuristic Superhighway
• Giant's Droplet, Human's Shower
• Global Currency Exception
• Good Republic, Evil Empire^note if "empire" is pronounced with two syllables
• Googling the New Acquaintance
• Gorgeous Garment Generation
• Gotta Get Your Head Together
• Gotta Have It, Gonna Steal It
• Graceful Landing, Clumsy Landing
• Happiness Is Mandatory
• Headphones Equal Isolation
• Healing Magic Is the Hardest
• Heavenly Concentric Circles
• Hero of Another Story
• Hero, Rival, Baddie Team-Up
• Hero's Evil Predecessor
• Hollywood Jehovah's Witness
• Hollywood Provincialism
• Hollywood Restraining Order
• Home Participation Sweepstakes
• Honorary True Companion
• Human Architecture Horror
• Human-Focused Adaptation
• Hurricane of Aphorisms
• Hurricane of Euphemisms
• Hybrid-Overkill Avoidance
• I Believe That You Believe It
• I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
• Immortality Inducer
• Instant A.I.: Just Add Water!
• Instant Awesome: Just Add Mecha!
• Instant Leech: Just Fall in Water!
• Instant People: Just Add Water!
• Internet Incorporated
• Interplanetary Voyage
• I Should Write a Book About This
• I Thought Everyone Could Do That
• It's the Best Whatever, Ever!
• I Was Quite a Fashion Victim
• I Will Fight No More Forever
• I Will Fight Some More Forever
• Jungles Sound Like Kookaburras
• Juxtaposed Reflection Poster
• Keeper of Forbidden Knowledge
• Killing for a Tissue Sample
• Knitting Pregnancy Announcement
• Legendary in the Sequel
• Lessons in Sophistication
• Let's Just See What WOULD Have Happened
• Limb-Sensation Fascination
• Literary Work of Magic
• Lotsa People Try to Dun It
• Loyal Animal Companion
• Lying Heroes, Honest Villains
• Lying to Protect Your Feelings^note requires a bit of stress on "to"
• Makes Just as Much Sense in Context
• Magic Is a Monster Magnet
• Magic-Powered Pseudoscience
• Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe
• Mars and Venus Gender Contrast
• Matchlight Danger Revelation
• Maximum HP Reduction
• Middle Eastern Coalition
• Military Superhero
• Minion with an F in Evil
• Monster Brother, Cutie Sister
• More Insulting than Intended
• Mother Nature, Father Science
• Multi-Animator Project
• Multiplayer-Only Item
• Murder Is the Best Solution
• Mutually Assured Destruction^note if "mutually" is pronounced with three syllables
• Mutually Exclusive Magic^note if "mutually" is pronounced with three syllables
• Needle in a Stack of Needles
• Never Going Back to Prison
• Never Had a Birthday Party
• Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot
• No New Fashions in the Future
• Non-Protagonist Resolver
• Normally, I Would Be Dead Now^note depends on inflection
• No Such Thing as Dehydration
• No Such Thing as Wizard Jesus
• Not Distracted by the Sexy
• Off-into-the-Distance Ending
• Older Than the Demographic
• Old Man Marrying a Child^note if "child" is pronounced with two syllables
• One Degree of Separation
• Only Bad Guys Call Their Lawyers
• Only in It for the Money
• Ontological Inertia
• Ordinary High-School Student
• Our Homunculi Are Different
• Overpopulation Crisis
• Panicky Expectant Father
• Paradiegetic Gameplay
• Patched Together from the Headlines
• Peace & Love Incorporated
• Photo Doodle Recognition
• Picture-Perfect Presentation
• Population: X, and Counting
• Porky Pig Pronunciation
• Post Apocalyptic Gasmask
• Post-Apunkalyptic Armor
• Premature Encapsulation
• Pull The Trigger Provocation
• Rage Against the Legal System
• Rapid-Fire Interrupting
• Regional Redecoration
• Relocating the Explosion
• Resignations Not Accepted (Don't forget: you're here forever.)
• Retroactive Precognition
• Retroactive Preparation
• Retroactive Recognition
• Revenge via Storytelling
• Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony
• Rising Water, Rising Tension
• Rules of Orphan Economics
• Scarily Specific Story
• Schizophrenic Difficulty
• Science Hero's Babe Assistant
• Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior!
• Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!^note depends on inflection
• Secondary Adaptation
• Second Hour Superpower
• Second Law of Gender-Bending
• Seeks Another's Resurrection
• Self-Punishment Over Failure
• Separated from the Adults^note if "adults" is pronounced with stress on the first syllable
• Serendipitous Survival
• Shabby Heroes, Well-Dressed Villains
• Sharpened to a Single Atom
• Shooting At Your Own Projectiles^note if "projectiles" is pronounced with three syllables
• Shooting Lessons From Your Parents
• Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon
• Sliding Scale of Fourth Wall Hardness
• Sliding Scale of Law Enforcement
• Slower than a Speeding Bullet
• Slowly Slipping Into Evil
• Snarky Villain, Earnest Hero
• Solid Cartoon Facial Stubble
• Someday This Will Come in Handy
• Some Dexterity Required
• Something Something Leonard Bernstein
• Something That Begins with "Boring"
• Standard Super-Hero Setting
• Suicidal Pacifism
• Sunday Evening Drama Series
• Sunny Sunflower Disposition^note if "sunflower" is pronounced with two syllables
• Super-Detailed Fight Narration^note works best when "narration" is pronounced the British way, i.e. with the first syllable being fully unstressed
• Superman Stays Out of Gotham
• Supernatural Repellent
• Superpowered Alter Ego
• Superpower Silly Putty
• Surgical Impersonation
• Systematic Villain Takedown
• Talking Down the Suicidal
• Taxonomic Term Confusion
• Temporary Online Content
• Theme-and-Variations Soundtrack
• There Are No Coincidences
• They Don't Make Them Like They Used To
• Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo^note if "Tokyo" is pronounced with two syllables
• Three Successful Generations
• Timeline-Altering MacGuffin
• Too Desperate to Be Picky^note if "desperate" is pronounced with three syllables
• Too Unhappy to Be Hungry
• Torture First, Ask Questions Later
• Tragically Misguided Favor
• Trailer Park Tornado Magnet
• Transformation Name Announcement
• Troubled Sympathetic Bigot
• Unexpectedly Abandoned
• Uniformity Exception
• Unintentional Encryption
• Universal Ammunition
• Universal Driver's License
• Universal Group Reaction
• Uninvited to the Party
• Unplanned Manual Detonation^note if "manual" is pronounced with two syllables
• Unreliable Narrator^note if "narrator" is pronounced the British way, i.e. with the first syllable being fully unstressed
• Unrequited Tragic Maiden
• Vampire Procreation Limit^note if "vampire" is pronounced with two syllables
• Variations on a Theme Song
• Villain of Another Story
• Villainous Parental Instinct
• Violence is the Only Option^note if "violence" is pronounced with two syllables
• Violently Protective Girlfriend^note if "violently" is pronounced with three syllables
• Virtual Assistant Blunder
• Voluntary Vampire Victim^note if "vampire" is pronounced with two syllables
• Weapon for Intimidation
• We Cannot Go On Without You
• Weirdly Underpowered Admins
• What Have You Done for Me Lately?^note depends on inflection
• Yet Another Baby Panda
• Yet Another Christmas Carol
• Yiddish as a Second Language