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Ghilz Perpetually Confused from Yeeted at Relativistic Velocities Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Barbecuing
Perpetually Confused
#1: Mar 13th 2011 at 10:55:47 PM

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?

feotakahari Fuzzy Orange Doomsayer from Looking out at the city Since: Sep, 2009
Fuzzy Orange Doomsayer
#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
Ghilz Perpetually Confused from Yeeted at Relativistic Velocities Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Barbecuing
Perpetually Confused
#3: Mar 14th 2011 at 1:31:09 AM

[up] 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))

Micah from traveling the post-doc circuit Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#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).

132 is the rudest number.
Auxdarastrix Since: May, 2010
#6: Apr 23rd 2011 at 4:55:17 AM

Is is possible to have something so common that it simply isn't a trope? For example, you can't exactly make a trope out of nouns and list every work that features nouns, can you? Or, for example, list every work where humans are the main character, or every musical work featuring a solo?

Deboss I see the Awesomeness. from Awesomeville Texas Since: Aug, 2009
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