#2: Mar 13th 2011 at 11:57:07 PM
I don't think this can be created as a category, because by their very existence tropes invite subversions—I can just imagine some would-be game designer on this site reading that all RTSes use Units Not to Scale and thinking "I'll show you! I'll make an RTS where the units are all proportional to each other! Then what will you do, say it's not really an RTS?"
That's Feo . . . He's a disgusting, mysoginistic, paedophilic asshat who moonlights as a shitty writer—Something Awful
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#3: Mar 14th 2011 at 1:31:09 AM
Well, yes, but the same can be said of any Omnipresent tropes then (There's stories without The Protagonist, or without a Dénouement (see No Ending))
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#5: Mar 14th 2011 at 8:41:01 PM
Necessary Weasel is a related concept, but not an identical one (e.g., Final Boss is omnipresent in video games, but I wouldn't call it a weasel).
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We had a discussion on TRS on Universal Tropes Vs Omnipresent Tropes. Those I get.
But it came to me that there's a type of trope: Tropes that are not in every medias, or every story, but in almost every work of a particular genre. The first two example that came to mind were Videogame Tropes:
So what do we call these?