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| 5 | * ZeroPercentApprovalRating: A carbon copy of HatedByAll. |
| 6 | * ThirteenIsUnlucky: Any time there's 13 of something, even if there's no connection to the superstition that 13 is an unlucky number. |
| 7 | * TwentyBearAsses: [[MassMonsterSlaughterSidequest A quest where you just kill X number of a certain creature and nothing else of interest happens at all]]. |
| 8 | * AbhorrentAdmirer: A character is romantically/sexually interested in someone who doesn't reciprocate. Ignore the "abhorrent" part; that's just a fancy word we used to make the trope name alliterative. |
| 9 | * AbortedArc: |
| 10 | ** A plot point raised one (1) episode ago hasn't been resolved yet. |
| 11 | ** TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot, except you can put it on objective pages. |
| 12 | * ABoyAndHisX: Any work featuring a human(oid) main character and a non-human companion, regardless of the strength of their bond or any effect it has. Remember to use pothole markup to replace "Boy" and "X" with more precise descriptions of the characters. |
| 13 | * AbsurdlyHighLevelCap: The level cap is very high by some numeric measure -- level number, hours of grinding it takes to get there, what have you. This trope is especially useful for complaining that the game requires you to reach the level cap -- ignore anyone who says the point is that the game can be completed well below the cap, you need your complaining fodder. |
| 14 | * AbusiveParent: |
| 15 | ** Any parent who isn't a 100% flawless {{Good Parent|s}}. If they lose their temper once, or make a well-intentioned but ultimately harmful parenting decision, that counts as abuse. Be sure to play up how this pushes the parent over the MoralEventHorizon even if they immediately apologize to their child. |
| 16 | ** Any parent who justifiably [[CallingTheYoungManOut calls the young man out]]. |
| 17 | * AccidentalMurder: [[MurderByMistake A character intentionally kills someone, but gets the wrong victim by mistake.]] |
| 18 | * AccidentalPun: Pothole to this page when you intentionally make a pun, because obviously "accidental" is a synonym for "intentional" and not an antonym. |
| 19 | * TheAce: MarySue or CanonSue, except you can put it on objective pages. |
| 20 | * ActorAllusion: Two roles played by the same actor have coincidental and superficial similarities, preferably phrased in the form of "This is not the first time that Joe Actor has played a character with a head." |
| 21 | * ActuallyPrettyFunny: |
| 22 | ** When talking about a work you hate, use this to describe the one joke you thought was good. |
| 23 | ** Use this to describe the one or few moments from a {{Comedic Relief Character|s}} you found annoying that you thought were actually funny. |
| 24 | ** [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Jokes that are funny.]] |
| 25 | * AdaptationDecay: An adaptation has a change from the source material you don't like. |
| 26 | * AdaptationDistillation: AdaptationDisplacement, except you can put it on the main page. |
| 27 | * AdaptationalAttractiveness: You like a character's redesign in an adaptation or reboot. |
| 28 | * AdaptationalUgliness: You don't like a character's redesign in an adaptation or reboot. |
| 29 | * AddedAlliterativeAppeal: |
| 30 | ** Use alliteration when writing examples, then pothole it to this page. |
| 31 | ** Alliteration happens. There doesn't need to be a reason. Even if it's purely unintentional, [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs it's worth noting that two words start with similar letters]]. |
| 32 | * AffablyEvil: A villain has a polite demeanor that's [[FauxAffablyEvil anything but genuine]]. |
| 33 | * AffectionateParody: |
| 34 | ** Someone, somewhere, made a parody of this work, which is definitely a trope that appears ''in this work''. |
| 35 | ** As a fan of the work being parodied, you thought their parody was awesome and didn’t trigger any of your {{Fandom Enraging Misconception}}s. Therefore, put this on the work page as a seal of approval. Don’t worry if the creators were actually ambivalent to the parodied work or if it’s flat-out a DeconstructiveParody, because it’s more important to use this to tell other fellow fans that the parody is good. |
| 36 | * AfricaIsACountry: This trope is the only representation Africa has, so be sure to include even examples where Africa is correctly portrayed as ''not'' a single country. |
| 37 | * AlasPoorVillain: Interchangable with SympathyForTheDevil. |
| 38 | * AlbumFiller: Any album song you don't like. |
| 39 | * TheAlcoholic: Any character who has ever consumed alcohol ever. |
| 40 | * AllDesertsHaveCacti: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Cacti exist]]. |
| 41 | * AllJewsAreAshkenazi: Ashkenazi Jews exist. Or maybe just people who speak YiddishAsASecondLanguage exist. |
| 42 | * AllLoveIsUnrequited: A single character has an unrequited crush on someone else. That "all" is just a trick to get the trope to the top of alphabetized lists. |
| 43 | * AllMenArePerverts: A single or a few male characters are perverted, even if other male characters within the same work aren't. That "all" is just a trick to get the trope to the top of alphabetized lists. |
| 44 | * AllThereInTheManual: A way to complain about supplemental material that should have been in the main work to make it better. |
| 45 | * AllWomenAreLustful: A single or a few female characters are sex-crazed, even if other female characters from the same work aren’t. That “all” is just a trick to get the trope to the top of alphabetized lists. |
| 46 | * AllWomenArePrudes: A single or a few female characters are repulsed by the thought of sex [[AbhorrentAdmirer with a given male character]], even if other female characters from the same work are not. That “all” is just a trick to get the trope to the top of alphabetized lists. |
| 47 | * TheAloner: Any character that is shown being alone at any given point. |
| 48 | * AlternateCharacterReading: Sick of not being able to put your [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation Alternate Character Interpretations]] on the main pages? Just link to this trope instead! |
| 49 | * AlwaysSecondBest: AlwaysSomeoneBetter but again. |
| 50 | * AmazonianBeauty: |
| 51 | ** Any strong, athletic and/or muscular female character you find attractive. Being explicitly acknowledged as such is completely optional. |
| 52 | ** Hell, you don't even need to bother with the attractive part - any female character with any visible muscle definition can qualify. |
| 53 | ** Actually, forget the female part - characters of AmbiguousGender can also qualify for this trope if you think they look feminine enough. |
| 54 | * AmbiguousGender: Anyone who is canonically nonbinary. |
| 55 | * AmbiguousGenderIdentity: |
| 56 | ** You can list characters who are obviously meant to be read as trans here, as long as they've never outright said the exact sentence "I am 100% definitely trans for certain, no disputes allowed." Absolutely no other evidence is sufficient to consider a character ''un''ambiguously trans, no matter how unlikely it would be for it to be associated with a cis character. |
| 57 | ** You can also list characters who are obviously meant to be read as cis, as long as they've never said the exact sentence "I am 100% definitely cis for certain, no disputes allowed" ''and'' are at least a little bit gender-non-conforming. (In other words, TransAudienceInterpretation, but you are allowed to put it on objective pages.) Yes, denying a character's cisness has a higher standard of evidence than denying a character's transness. Don't worry about how that could possibly have happened and just treat it as an inevitable fact of existence. |
| 58 | * AmbiguousSituation: |
| 59 | ** The latest episode introduced a new mystery, which is totally going to stay ambiguous forever and not get solved before the season ends. |
| 60 | ** A trailer doesn't reveal a certain detail about the story. |
| 61 | * AmbiguouslyBi: |
| 62 | ** A character is shown or implied to be straight, but you {{ship|ping}} them with someone of the same sex (or vice-versa). Alternatively, said character once says something to the effect of "all things being taken under consideration, I understand how (''person of the same sex'') might be considered attractive by some''. |
| 63 | ** This character is absolutely, positively, ''unambiguously'' bisexual, and particularly definitely not gay. If someone adds this trope to a character you think is gay, you need to Administrivia/EditWar over it immediately. |
| 64 | * AmbiguouslyGay: |
| 65 | ** You {{ship|ping}} this character with someone of the same sex, even if nothing in canon hints that they might be homosexual. |
| 66 | ** This character is absolutely, positively, ''unambiguously'' gay, and particularly definitely not bisexual. If someone adds this trope to a character you think is bisexual, you need to Administrivia/EditWar over it immediately. |
| 67 | * AmbiguouslyJewish: |
| 68 | ** You can list characters who are obviously meant to be ''unambiguously'' Jewish, as long as they've never outright uttered the exact sentence "I am 100% definitely a Jew for certain, no disputes allowed." Absolutely no other evidence is sufficient to consider a character unambiguously Jewish, no matter how unlikely it would be for it to be associated with a gentile character. |
| 69 | ** You can list characters who are obviously meant to be non-Jewish, as long as they've never outright uttered the exact sentence "I am 100% definitely a ''goy'' for certain, no disputes allowed" ''and'' live in New York City or [[AllJewsAreAshkenazi have a German last name]]. If the writers are Jewish, even this is unnecessary. Yes, affirming a character's Jewishness has a higher standard of evidence than denying a character's Jewishness. Don't worry how that could have happened and just treat it as an inevitable fact of existence. |
| 70 | ** You are an anti-Semite. Therefore, list every character you don't like here. [[ArtisticLicenseReligion Even if they are shown eating ham, or are uncircumcised.]][[labelnote:Serious note]]We at TV Tropes do not condone antisemitism or bigotry of any kind. However, you just know that ''someone'' on the alt-right has tried this.[[/labelnote]] |
| 71 | ** List any BrainyBrunette that isn't 100% confirmed to be non-Jewish. No other evidence needed. |
| 72 | * AmbiguousSyntax: Any sentence that could be misinterpreted regardless of its syntax playing a role. |
| 73 | * AmericansAreCowboys: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs American cowboys exist]]. |
| 74 | * AnachronismStew: A good place to chew out people for getting their history (or prehistory) wrong. Be sure to indicate your anger with lots of bolding, italicizing, and capitalization. |
| 75 | * AncientGrome: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome existed.]] |
| 76 | * AndIMustScream: |
| 77 | ** Any extremely bad, scary, and inescapable situation, regardless of how long it lasts until the character dies or is freed. As long as you can use the words "immobile" and "conscious" to describe a character's state, it qualifies.[[note]]There have actually been potholes to this trope for a character who dies a few seconds later[[/note]] |
| 78 | ** A character screams a lot while being tortured. |
| 79 | ** A character is physically prevented from screaming while being tortured. |
| 80 | * AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle: Mention trivia/a fun fact when writing an example, then link to this trope. |
| 81 | * AndThatsTerrible: |
| 82 | ** A character calls something terrible, bad, awful, etc. |
| 83 | ** A statement to use in your [=TVTropes=] explanations to emphasize how bad something is. |
| 84 | ** Complain about works that violated ShowDontTell on at least one occasion. [[HypocriticalHumor That's a bad thing]]. |
| 85 | ** DarthWiki/SoBadItsHorrible, except you can add it to main pages. |
| 86 | * AnimalWrongsGroup: You dislike the protagonist of a pro-animal rights work. Heck, it doesn't even have to be characters from a work of fiction. Feel free to pothole the names of real-life animal rights' groups you don't like to this trope. |
| 87 | * {{Animeland}}: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Japan exists.]] |
| 88 | * AnnoyingLaugh: Any time a character laughs and you hate the character and/or their laugh. |
| 89 | * AntiFrustrationFeatures: |
| 90 | ** Literally any feature in a game that makes it less frustrating than it would be without the feature. There are no further criteria like "breaking established rules" or anything like that. |
| 91 | ** The devs finally deleted the ScrappyMechanic. |
| 92 | * AntiHero: |
| 93 | ** JerkSue, except you can put it on objective pages. |
| 94 | ** If you hate a character, use this to [[RonTheDeathEater exaggerate their negative traits or actions]]. |
| 95 | ** A hero that fails to be one-hundred percent selfless. |
| 96 | * AnyoneCanDie: One or two main characters die. |
| 97 | * ArbitrarySkepticism: Any character who points out that [[IfJesusThenAliens Jesus does not entail aliens]]. We were just mistaken about the “aversions are not themselves notable” policy. You’ll also note this is exactly the same as FlatEarthAtheist. |
| 98 | * ArcWords: If the trailers and promotional material for an upcoming work emphasize a certain line, list it as this trope. Don't bother cutting the example once [[TrailersAlwaysLie the work is released and the words turns out to be mentioned only once or twice while having little to do with the actual plot]]. |
| 99 | * ArchEnemy: A generic catch-all term for a villain, just like BigBad. |
| 100 | * ArgentinaIsNaziLand: |
| 101 | ** A villain, regardless of whether they are a Nazi or [[ANaziByAnyOtherName a stand-in for a Nazi]], [[RunForTheBorder flees to Argentina to avoid arrest]]. |
| 102 | ** A work is set during or immediately after [[UsefulNotes/JuanDomingoPeron the Peron years]]. Because there is no difference in the slightest between different forms of right-wing extremism, they are all identical to Hitler. |
| 103 | * ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: |
| 104 | ** When you're Administrivia/ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike, save the weakest complaint you have for the end, and pothole it to this trope. |
| 105 | ** When listing bad or unpleasant things, intentionally list the least problematic item last, and pothole it to this trope. Bonus points if there's nothing bad or unpleasant, and you pothole the least important item instead. |
| 106 | ** Anything that follows the structure of TheTriple. |
| 107 | * ArtifactTitle: A work is titled after an item, usually one that is crucial to the plot. |
| 108 | * ArtisticLicense: A place to complain about how the author is obviously a giant idiot deliberately spreading misinformation for malicious purposes, because they couldn't have possibly known that something about their work is unrealistic but included it anyway to make the story more entertaining. And don't forget to assume everyone knows exactly what kind of minute errors you're talking about by using [[FanMyopia large amounts of esoteric jargon related to your interests]] and italicizing, bolding, and capitalizing examples to express your anger against RuleOfFun, RuleOfCool, RuleOfFunny, and any form of stylization because an imagination is a terrible thing to have and it is unacceptable for fiction to deviate from reality. |
| 109 | * AscendedFridgeHorror: FridgeHorror, but with an "A" word in the front of it so it ''ascends'' to the top of the trope list where it rightfully belongs. |
| 110 | * AscendedMeme: Any time a work references a meme, regardless of where the meme originated from. |
| 111 | * AssholeVictim: |
| 112 | ** Something bad happens to a character you don't like. |
| 113 | ** The hero defeats the villain in order to stop his evil plans. Because the villain is totally the victim in that scenario. |
| 114 | ** TakeThatScrappy, except you can put it on objective pages. |
| 115 | * AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: |
| 116 | ** Any extremely large creature. |
| 117 | ** A GiantMook. |
| 118 | * AuthorTract: Any work that includes any reference, no matter how minor, to the author's personal views. Bonus points if you happen to disagree with said views. |
| 119 | * AwardBaitSong: Any romantic song from a movie you don't like. |
| 120 | * AwesomeAussie: Any Australian person you like. |
| 121 | * AwesomeMcCoolname: You think this name sounds cool. |
| 122 | * AxCrazy: |
| 123 | ** Any character with violent tendencies (even if they're just having a bad day). |
| 124 | ** A carbon copy of InsaneEqualsViolent. |
| 125 | * BackStab: |
| 126 | ** Ignore that this is specifically about attacks from the back being more effective in a game, and use this for [[InTheBack characters getting stabbed in the back as part of the story]], including non-game examples. |
| 127 | ** The trope's name is obviously meant to be metaphorical, so use it to describe a betrayal. |
| 128 | * BadBadActing: Acting which is ''so'' bad that [[RepeatedForEmphasis you have to say "bad" twice to get across how bad it is.]] Don't worry about the fact that "this acting is bad" is obviously YMMV and this trope isn't marked as such. |
| 129 | * BadBoss: [[MeanBoss A boss who's mean to their employees]], even if they're just mean and not straight-up evil. |
| 130 | * TheBadGuyWins: A character you don't like comes out on top, even if they're a neutral or heroic character. |
| 131 | * BananaRepublic: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Latin America exists.]] |
| 132 | * {{Barsetshire}}: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Rural England exists]], even if the locations are actually real and not made up. |
| 133 | * BatmanGambit: A plan that involves trapping the villain in a specific place. Remember that this can happen at the spur of the moment. |
| 134 | * BattleBolas: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Bolas exist.]] |
| 135 | * BeAsUnhelpfulAsPossible: Any person, in any context, being unhelpful in any way, for any reason. What's a PoliceProcedural? |
| 136 | * BeatPanel: This is a two-word synonym for {{Beat}}, in case your keyboard's curly bracket keys are broken and you can't link to one-word articles. |
| 137 | * BecomeARealBoy: Want to make someone human? Boom, there you go. Who needs characters to wish it for themselves? |
| 138 | * BedlahBabe: |
| 139 | ** [[Administrivia/ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike Complain about the historical inaccuracy of this trope at length]]. [[NeverHeardThatOneBefore No one has ever heard any of the things you're about to say before]]. |
| 140 | ** It is vital that you describe the subject of this trope in a fetishistic and extremely Orientalist manner, preferably potholing to tropes like MsFanservice even if the character doesn't fit the definition. After all, TV Tropes is a website where you are [[Archive/TheGoogleIncident allowed to discuss your poorly-concealed kinks on the main pages]], right? |
| 141 | * BeePeople: Anthropomorphic bees regardless of whether they are eusocial or not. |
| 142 | * BerserkButton: |
| 143 | ** A character gets angry for legitimate and sympathetic reasons, like when the villain hurts their loved ones. |
| 144 | ** Something that slightly annoyed a character once. |
| 145 | ** A catchier and funnier name for HairTriggerTemper. |
| 146 | ** A list of dozens among dozens of things that annoyed a character, so also a catchier and funnier name for HairTriggerTemper. |
| 147 | * BestBeerEver: [[SugarWiki/{{Gushing}} Gush about beers you like.]] What do you mean this was renamed to {{Beergasm}}? |
| 148 | * BestialityIsDepraved: You don't like the story's InterspeciesRomance. |
| 149 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: A character that has ever been nice to someone becomes aggressive. |
| 150 | * BeyondRedemption: |
| 151 | ** MoralEventHorizon, except you can put it on objective pages. If a character commits an act that you believe makes them permanently evil, pothole this trope. |
| 152 | ** A carbon copy of ThisIsUnforgivable. |
| 153 | * BeyondTheImpossible: Any time something impressive happens. Being impossible according to the setting's rules is not required; being really, really cool and hard to do is the sole criteria. |
| 154 | * {{Bifauxnen}}: A female character wears a suit. Actually looking androgynous is optional. |
| 155 | * BigApplesauce: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs New York City exists.]] |
| 156 | * BigBad: |
| 157 | ** The most important antagonist in the show, even if most of the problems the main characters face have nothing to do with them. For example, the most frequently recurring jerk character in a SliceOfLife show. |
| 158 | ** Something you can easily pothole whenever you name the bad guy of a work in an example, even if another trope works better in the example’s context or they aren’t the work’s Big Bad at all! |
| 159 | * BigBadWannabe: Complain about BigBad characters you think are ineffectual, regardless of the author's intent. |
| 160 | * BigBeautifulMan: Any fat male character you like, even if he's not portrayed as being particularly attractive. |
| 161 | * BigBeautifulWoman: Any fat female character you like, even if she's not portrayed as being particularly attractive. |
| 162 | * BigDamnHeroes: Really badass heroes. |
| 163 | * BigDamnMovie: Film adaptations in general, including those that are still as lighthearted as the source material or adaptations of already-dramatic source material. |
| 164 | * TheBigEasy: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs New Orleans exists.]] |
| 165 | * BigGood: Any HeroProtagonist. |
| 166 | * TheBigGuy: Character who is physically larger than the other heroes. |
| 167 | * BigNo: Pothole to this trope whenever talking about something that you really didn't like. |
| 168 | * BitchAlert: The introduction to a character that you hate. |
| 169 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: If a generous character does something mean or evil out of stress, rant on how they were a horrible person all along, regardless of the author's intent. |
| 170 | * BlackAndNerdy: A black character shows any sign of intelligence. Unnervingly close to TheWhitestBlackGuy. |
| 171 | * BlackSheep: [[OddballInTheSeries Part of a series isn't like the other installments]] -- in other words, the black sheep of the series. It's not like the trope name is a preexisting term for something other than works. |
| 172 | * BlatantLies: |
| 173 | ** Any time a character lies, even if it isn't incredibly blatant. |
| 174 | ** A work you don't like is described positively on its packaging and in its promotional material. |
| 175 | ** A character says something that’s untrue, even if it’s a false prediction or something they are unaware of. |
| 176 | ** Pothole here every time you lie while editing a page. |
| 177 | * BodyHorror: |
| 178 | ** Any gory scene. Ignore that the horror has to not be the direct result of violence in order to qualify. |
| 179 | ** A character has the power to alter their body in any way (RubberMan, VoluntaryShapeshifting, SizeShifter, etc.) If it's not PlayedForHorror, you just have to describe it as more disturbing than it is. A bonus side-effect of this is that you can then add that as a NightmareFuel example, which makes the work look DarkerAndEdgier (and therefore [[TrueArtIsAngsty better]])! |
| 180 | * {{Bokukko}}: A tomboy. She doesn't even have to speak Japanese, let alone refer to herself with the ''boku'' pronoun. |
| 181 | * BolivianArmyEnding: Exactly the same as a {{Cliffhanger}}; it has two trope pages because we like it extra much. |
| 182 | * BondVillainStupidity: DarthWiki/WhatAnIdiot, except it's for villains and you can put it on objective pages. |
| 183 | * BoomerangBigot: Someone who is prejudiced against Australians. |
| 184 | * BossArenaUrgency: |
| 185 | ** The arena gets more dangerous as you damage the boss. |
| 186 | ** The arena steadily gets more dangerous, but you're supposed to survive for long enough. |
| 187 | * BossInMookClothing: DemonicSpiders, except you can put it on objective pages. |
| 188 | * BottleEpisode: Use this only when an episode takes place in a single location, even if it's expensive in other ways. |
| 189 | * BrainBleach: Pothole to this for anything you find {{squick}}y, even if there's no in-universe brain bleach involved. |
| 190 | * BreadEggsMilkSquick: When listing a mixture of harmless things and unpleasant things, intentionally list the most unpleasant item last, and pothole it to this trope. |
| 191 | * BreakoutCharacter: |
| 192 | ** Any well-liked character regardless of if their popularity has influenced the work's development later on. Yeah, this definition would be YMMV, but we don't have time to do a TRS thread. |
| 193 | ** SugarWiki/{{Gush|ingAboutShowsYouLike}} about {{Ascended Extra}}s you like. |
| 194 | ** If you hate an AscendedExtra and think they ascended for the sake of pleasing fans who ''do'' like the character (regardless of whether they're a BaseBreakingCharacter), Administrivia/{{complain|ingAboutShowsYouDontLike}} about both the character and the character's fans (in the latter case, be sure to call them FanDumb at least once). |
| 195 | * BritainIsOnlyLondon: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs London exists.]] |
| 196 | * BuffySpeak: |
| 197 | ** Pothole to this page every time you use "thing" and/or the suffix "-y" to describe something. |
| 198 | ** Complain about dialogue not being as sophisticated as you think it should be. |
| 199 | * BulletHell: |
| 200 | ** This term can be used interchangeably with ShootEmUp. Even if the difficulty comes from the speed of the bullets rather than their patterns, it can still qualify. |
| 201 | ** Also, use this trope to refer to any time a large amount of bullets are fired in any media. It's not like we [[MoreDakka have another trope for that]]. |
| 202 | * {{Bulungi}}: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Sub-Saharan Africa exists.]] This is completely redundant to DarkestAfrica. |
| 203 | * BuryYourGays: Any LGBT character who dies even if AnyoneCanDie on the show or if there're plenty other LGBT characters who survive. |
| 204 | * TheBusCameBack: Any time a character who hasn't made an appearance in a while returns, even if they were never PutOnABus. |
| 205 | * ButNotTooBlack: Ignore that this is about InUniverse colorism, and just list every black character whose skin is lighter than Wesley Snipes'. |
| 206 | * ButNotTooGay: There is a gay character, but he has one non-stereotypically gay interest (like football). |
| 207 | * ButtMonkey: This trope is purely comedic. If there's an example about a character who's a frequent target of abuse, but said abuse isn't PlayedForLaughs, it's misuse. If anyone told you there's [[TheChewToy a purely comedic subtrope]], but that this isn't purely comedic itself, they're lying. |
| 208 | * ButWaitTheresMore: Marks the point where a list or explanation you are writing becomes long. |
| 209 | * ButYourWingsAreBeautiful: {{Winged Humanoid}}s that are pretty. And never mind that it was renamed to FreakinessShame. |
| 210 | * BuxomBeautyStandard: |
| 211 | ** Gush about busty characters you think are attractive. It's not like this is exactly the type of misuse that got it renamed from Buxom Is Better. |
| 212 | ** [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Breasts exist]]. |
| 213 | * CallBack: Any reference or similarity to an earlier event regardless of its impact on the story. |
| 214 | * CampGay: |
| 215 | ** [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs flamboyant gay people exist]]. |
| 216 | ** Be sure to automatically list this as a trope for any {{Camp}}y man in any work released before 1995 regardless of their actual sexuality. |
| 217 | ** Pothole to this trope instead of {{Camp}}. You know, because campiness and gayness are inextricably intertwined with one another. |
| 218 | * TheCapitalOfBrazilIsBuenosAires: |
| 219 | ** [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Brazil exists]], and is portrayed correctly. |
| 220 | ** [[GlobalIgnorance A character makes a geography mistake.]] |
| 221 | * CaptainErsatz: Like {{Expy}}, except it starts with the word "Captain" and ends with "rsatz" instead of "xpy." Since they're the same, the full name of the trope is technically "CaptainErsatz[=/=]{{Expy}}", so make sure to always list it that way. |
| 222 | * CaptainObvious: |
| 223 | ** Pothole to this page when you make an obvious statement as a joke. |
| 224 | ** If you can't be arsed to [[Administrivia/ZeroContextExample add proper context to a trope]], just say something along the lines of "obviously this trope is present" and pothole it to this trope. |
| 225 | * CarRideGames: Go-karting and similar activities. |
| 226 | * TheCasanova: LemonStu, except you can put it on objective pages. |
| 227 | * CastFullOfGay: One or two characters are homosexual. |
| 228 | * CastingGag: Just like ActorAllusion, make flimsy connections between two roles played by the same actor even if it's to say that they play a different kind of character. For instance, the actress was seen buying flowers in one short movie scene in 1978. In a later film shot in 2005, her next-door neighbour was named Rose! |
| 229 | * CategoryTraitor: A replacement for the removed Hypocritical Fandom, except you can put it on creator pages for when someone likes a work that conflicts with their own fictional works. |
| 230 | * CessationOfExistence: [[FadingAway People cease to exist completely when they die, corpse and all.]] The main point of the trope is what happens to a person's body, not their soul or consciousness, after death. |
| 231 | * CharacterShilling: Someone saying something positive about a character you don't like. |
| 232 | * CheatersNeverProsper: [[NoFairCheating A video game mocks or punishes you for using its built-in cheat codes.]] |
| 233 | * CherryBlossomGirl: Any character named Sakura, even if her name isn't a MeaningfulName. It's not like the trope had to be renamed due to misuse or anything. |
| 234 | * ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: A recurring character is absent from the newest episode. |
| 235 | * ChurchOfHappyology: |
| 236 | ** Any religion you don't like. Especially if it's a RealLife religion. |
| 237 | ** This wiki's mandatory code for the real-world Church of Sci***ogy, because we're scared of saying their actual real name for some reason. |
| 238 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Any character who is even remotely weird or quirky. Can sometimes be interchangeable with TheDitz. |
| 239 | * CluelessAesop: Any poorly-handled message, even if the problems were caused by plain bad writing rather than the restrictions of the work's medium or target audience. |
| 240 | * ClusterFBomb: Any work with more than one swear, even if it's just two with a significant amount of time between them. |
| 241 | * ColonCancer: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs A title contains a single colon]] due to being split into two parts. There is no requirement for the amount of colons to be excessive. |
| 242 | * {{Combos}}: |
| 243 | ** [[SincerityMode A combo is a sequence of hits where, if the first hit connects, the target cannot act in any capacity until it is over.]] A combo is ''also'' any other thing any game has ever called a combo, whether it has anything to do with the previous sentence or not. |
| 244 | ** Someone orders a meal combo. |
| 245 | * ComedicUnderwearExposure: The sequel to PantyShot. |
| 246 | * ComicallyMissingThePoint: Pothole to this trope to accuse real-life people of being too stupid to understand something. It's not like it was renamed because of this issue. |
| 247 | * CommieLand: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Communist countries, current or former, exist.]] |
| 248 | * CommonMarySueTraits: Any character who has more than two of these is automatically a MarySue and therefore bad. Remember to remind us of their badness at every chance you get. |
| 249 | * ContinuitySnarl: |
| 250 | ** Complain about plot points that are contradicted by earlier installments in the series, even if they happen in a non-canon SpinOff or AlternateContinuity. |
| 251 | ** Any continuity error, no matter how minor. It's not like we have SeriesContinuityError for those. |
| 252 | ** A synonym to {{Retcon}}. |
| 253 | * ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: |
| 254 | ** The protagonist of a sequel is slightly different than the hero of the previous installment. |
| 255 | ** The protagonist of a sequel is not the hero of the previous installment. |
| 256 | * CoolOldGuy: Any old man you like. |
| 257 | * CoolOldLady: Any old woman you like. |
| 258 | * CornyNebraska: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Nebraska exists.]] |
| 259 | * CosmicHorrorStory: Any work where a monster/alien tries to destroy the world. Whether the entity is an EldritchAbomination or [[LovecraftLite the heroes can defeat the threat for good]] is irrelevant. |
| 260 | * CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: IdiotPlot, but it goes on the main page. |
| 261 | * CountryMatters: Pothole this every time you use the c-word, either when you're insulting a character that you don't like, or when a vagina is shown on screen. |
| 262 | * {{Countrystan}}: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Central Asia exists.]] |
| 263 | * TheCoverChangesTheGender: A song is originally sung by a singer of one gender. Later, it gets a cover by a singer of the other gender, but no lyrics need to be changed because the original song did not use gendered words. |
| 264 | * CrackIsCheaper: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Expensive items exist.]] |
| 265 | * CrapsaccharineWorld: Any society that has a serious problem, regardless of whether it is systemic or even a monstrous injustice at all. |
| 266 | * CrapsackWorld: |
| 267 | ** Bad things happen sometimes, therefore clearly this whole fictional world must suck! A work can qualify for this trope even if we only see bad stuff happening to [[ButtMonkey one person]] or a small group of people, and nothing indicates that the whole population of the world is as miserable as them. |
| 268 | ** Sneak in Administrivia/ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike by saying that since the show sucks, clearly it would suck to live in that show's world. |
| 269 | * CringeComedy: A work is so bad, it makes you cringe. |
| 270 | * CrystalDragonJesus: A cooler name for MessianicArchetype. |
| 271 | * TheCutie: Like {{Moe}}, except it's not YMMV. Just list any character you personally think is cute, and [[SugarWiki/GushingAboutCharactersYouLike gush about how much you love them]]. |
| 272 | * DarkestAfrica: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Sub-Saharan Africa exists.]] This is completely redundant to {{Bulungi}}. |
| 273 | * DarkestHour: Any moment where the hero feels defeated. Synonymous with HeroicBSOD. |
| 274 | * DarkIsNotEvil: A character who isn't a villain wears a black shirt. All black t-shirts are a symbol of darkness, and not just a common article of clothing that anyone can wear. |
| 275 | * DarkWorld: Any world filled with darkness, especially if it's called a dark world in the work. Since the trope name is basic English that can't possibly mean anything else, the idea that it's a reference to [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast something more specific than that]] is absurd. |
| 276 | * DeadpanSnarker: A character makes one or two snarky comments. The "deadpan" part is optional. |
| 277 | * {{Deconstruction}}: |
| 278 | ** The highest badge of honour a work can earn, awarded for being dark and cynical [[TrueArtIsAngsty and therefore awesome]]. Look for any excuse to describe your favourite show as one so that everyone will know how intelligent and sophisticated it is! |
| 279 | ** [[LiteralMetaphor A work features a demolition crew]]. |
| 280 | ** A work features the [[SimilarlyNamedWorks Deconstructivism]] movement of postmodern architecture. |
| 281 | * DeepSouth: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs The southern United States exist.]] |
| 282 | * DefogOfWar: This is what we call [[FogOfWar de Fog of War mechanic in video games]]. It's a pun, see? No game has ever contained any mechanic involving clearing up a bunch of fog all in one go, so there's no need for us to use this title for such a thing. |
| 283 | * DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: |
| 284 | ** Intentionally word something in a redundant way, then pothole your redundant wording to this trope, using a pothole. |
| 285 | ** Intentionally word something in a redundant way, then pothole your redundant wording to this trope, using a pothole. |
| 286 | * DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: |
| 287 | ** Intentionally word something in a redundant way, then pothole your redundant wording to this trope, using a pothole. |
| 288 | ** Intentionally word something in a redundant way, then pothole your redundant wording to this trope, using a pothole. |
| 289 | * DeusExMachina: You don't like how a situation was solved. |
| 290 | * DevelopersForesight: |
| 291 | ** Any instance when a video game gives attention to detail, even if it's for a situation that's not unlikely for the player to run into. |
| 292 | ** A synonym of EasterEgg. |
| 293 | ** You ''really'' like a new feature the developer thought to add, and feel the need to gush about it. Is it something players are likely to encounter? Doesn't matter; add it anyway. |
| 294 | ** A game doesn't break whenever you do something slightly off the beaten track. Because that's definitely this trope and not just basic QA work. |
| 295 | * DirtyOldMan: An elderly character is sexually attracted to someone. |
| 296 | * DiscoDan: A character who enjoys disco music. |
| 297 | * DisproportionateRetribution: Any time a character you like is punished, even if they did something legitimately dangerous and illegal. It's completely up to your personal judgment if it fits this trope or not. |
| 298 | * DistinctDoubleAlbum: Any [[MultiDiscWork double album]]. Whether or not there are any distinctive differences between the two discs is irrelevant. |
| 299 | * DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: This is for when a situation looks or sounds sexual when it really isn't. Nobody's disputing that. But all those examples involving situations that look or sound inappropriate in a non-sexual way? They're ''wrong''. |
| 300 | * DontExplainTheJoke: |
| 301 | ** Pothole to this trope whenever you're explaining a joke. |
| 302 | ** Someone explains a joke, even if nobody cares. |
| 303 | * DoofyDodo: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Dodos existed]]. |
| 304 | * DoomyDoomsOfDoom: |
| 305 | ** Any time the word "doom" is used in a work. |
| 306 | ** Pothole to this trope any time ''you'' use the word "doom" as well. |
| 307 | * DoubleStandard: Now that Hypocritical Fandom has been cut for being flamebait, you should use this to complain about a work's fandom being hypocritical. As an added bonus, it's not tagged as YMMV, so you can put it on the main page if you want to. |
| 308 | * DownerEnding: |
| 309 | ** Use this instead of BittersweetEnding, either to complain about how much you hated the ending, or to make it sound DarkerAndEdgier (and therefore cooler) than it is. |
| 310 | ** An episode ends with a dramatic {{Cliffhanger}}, even if the next episode sets everything right. Because that totally counts as an "ending". |
| 311 | ** When the ending was intended as a HappyEnding, but people found it sad. It's not like we have EsotericHappyEnding for those. |
| 312 | ** [[EsotericHappyEnding An ending that was intended as happy, but some oversight on the writer's part means it's not actually that great for everyone]]. |
| 313 | ** A character you don't like doesn't die. |
| 314 | ** Any ending you don't like. |
| 315 | * DramaticIrony: {{Irony}} gets PlayedForDrama. There's ''no way'' that a name like that could have a more specific meaning. |
| 316 | * {{Dramedy}}: This is a cool genre, so if possible, you definitely want to shoehorn your favorite works in there for extra Coolness Points. All you have to do is point out one serious moment and one funny moment. Actually belonging to the {{genre}}s of comedy and drama is optional. |
| 317 | * TheDreaded: In video games, use this for characters you dread having to fight against, such as ThatOneBoss, an EarlyBirdBoss, or a WakeUpCallBoss. Bonus points if it's a multiplayer game so you can essentially accuse a character of being a HighTierScrappy on the objective tropes list. |
| 318 | * DreadfulMusician: Any musician you don't like. |
| 319 | * DreamTeam: Any collaboration. |
| 320 | * DrinkingGame: Sinkhole here whenever you complain about something that happens a lot in a work. |
| 321 | * TheDriver: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Anyone who drives]]. |
| 322 | * DroppedABridgeOnHim: |
| 323 | ** Complain about the way a character you like died even if the scene was climactic and impactful on the story. |
| 324 | ** Someone dies by having something fall on them, even if it's not anticlimactic. |
| 325 | * DudeLooksLikeALady: [[ViewerGenderConfusion You and/or other fans think a male character looks feminine.]] |
| 326 | * DudeNotFunny: |
| 327 | ** Pothole to this page when you want to complain about jokes you found offensive or in poor taste. Disregard the Administrivia/InUniverseExamplesOnly warning on the page. |
| 328 | ** Any attempt at BlackComedy that you didn't like. If a show you hate has plenty of dark jokes, feel free to accuse every single one of them of this trope. |
| 329 | ** Anything you don't find funny, even if it isn't BlackComedy. |
| 330 | ** This is not a trope at all. It's actually the SigningOffCatchPhrase that must be used at the end of every DarthWiki/DethroningMomentOfSuck example regarding any usage of BlackComedyRape. |
| 331 | * DudeNotIronic: |
| 332 | ** Misusing irony. Having a character point it out is optional. |
| 333 | ** If a troper misuses irony, add this as a sub-bullet. |
| 334 | * DullSurprise: Complain about bad acting. |
| 335 | * DumbassHasAPoint: An unintelligent character gives a valid argument that [[InformedWrongness the author didn't intend]] to [[StrawmanHasAPoint be taken at face value]]. |
| 336 | [[/folder]] |
| 337 | |
| 338 | [[folder:E-M]] |
| 339 | * {{Eagleland}}: |
| 340 | ** [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs The United States exists]]. |
| 341 | ** An American portrays their country overly positively or overly negatively. Ignore that this is specifically for portrayals of the US from outside. |
| 342 | * EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: An older installment in the series has mild differences compared to later installments. Bonus points if it's something that was inevitable (the first game in a video game series has worse graphics because it's on 15-year-old hardware) or subjective ([[{{Sequelitis}} the earlier installments were better]] or [[GrowingTheBeard worse]]). |
| 343 | * EarWorm: |
| 344 | ** Use this to gush about music you like, and as with SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic, forget about context. It's not like this trope's Administrivia/InUniverseExamplesOnly status is related to a Administrivia/ZeroContextExample problem with out-of-universe examples. |
| 345 | ** On top of gushing about music you like, you can also use this to complain about music you found annoying. The example being in-universe is optional. |
| 346 | * EasierThanEasy: Any video game that is too easy for you, regardless of its difficulty options. You should use this to get away with [[ItsEasySoItSucks complaining about games being too easy]] on objective trope pages. |
| 347 | * EasilyForgiven: |
| 348 | ** Complain about villain redemptions you don't like. |
| 349 | ** Complain about a hero not being constantly condemned for doing something you didn't approve of. |
| 350 | * EasilySwayedPopulation: People believe the VillainWithGoodPublicity. |
| 351 | * EasyEvangelism: A character is convinced by hard evidence. |
| 352 | * EldritchAbomination: |
| 353 | ** A catch-all term for any big, scary monster! |
| 354 | ** Any life form that's remotely weird, such as a Portuguese man o' war.[[note]]There used to be a real life subpage for the trope, which featured exaggerated descriptions of things that are merely unusual, including Portuguese man o' wars. Near the end of its life, it also featured the notice "No listing of individual persons in this section, no matter how unattractive you may find them." Since the trope is by definition impossible in real life, the real life subpage was added to the Administrivia/PermanentRedLinkClub and the trope was added to the Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease index.[[/note]] |
| 355 | * EldritchLocation: A scary and spooky place. |
| 356 | * EmphasizeEverything: It is ''very'' important that you '''seriously abuse''' both WIKI MARKUP and '''[[SensoryAbuse THE READER'S EYEBALLS]]''' by ''emphasizing'' the most IMPORTANT or even ''unimportant parts of ''every example you write. What do you '''mean''' this ''isn't'' an Administrivia page!? |
| 357 | * EndearinglyDorky: Ignore that this is about InUniverse reactions to dorkiness, and use this to [[{{Adorkable}} gush about characters you think are cute]]. |
| 358 | * EnlightenedSelfInterest: Someone helps others just to improve self-esteem and attain self-actualization. |
| 359 | * EpicFail: Want to complain about something you don't like? Just pothole it to this page. Don't care that it violates the Administrivia/InUniverseExamplesOnly warning on the page. |
| 360 | * EpicRocking: Really SugarWiki/{{awesome music}}. |
| 361 | * EskimoLand: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs The Inuit exist.]] |
| 362 | * EtherealWhiteDress: Any woman who wears a white dress. It's not like the trope had to be renamed because of misuse. |
| 363 | * EvenEvilHasStandards |
| 364 | ** [[PragmaticVillainy Committing something evil isn't in their interest]], so they won't do it. |
| 365 | ** A villain or morally grey character refuses to do something that [[EveryoneHasStandards isn't evil in the slightest bit]]. |
| 366 | ** The villain commits an act of kindness. Whether it's [[PetTheDog genuine]] or [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk a facade]] is irrelevant. |
| 367 | ** [[EvilVersusOblivion A villain helps save the world because they'd die if they refused]]. |
| 368 | * EvenTheRatsWontTouchIt: LethalChef but more specific. |
| 369 | * EveryoneHasStandards |
| 370 | ** A character expresses discomfort with something that makes perfect sense for them to be uncomfortable about. |
| 371 | ** Something that you really don't like happens in a work and a character makes a single, maybe non-serious comment about it. Thus, this is the perfect opportunity to basically write "This is so dumb, even the characters think so!" |
| 372 | ** A mild example of a ChildHater refuses to [[EvenEvilHasStandards blow up an orphanage]], and other similar scenarios. |
| 373 | * EveryoneIsBi: One or two characters are bisexual. |
| 374 | * EverythingIsBigInTexas: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Texas exists]]. |
| 375 | * [[GarnishingTheStory Everything's Better with X]]: Every trope with this format of title means essentially the same thing: |
| 376 | ** X makes things better in-universe, so if X causes a problem or is a villain or exists without particularly improving the protagonists' lot, list it as an {{inver|tedTrope}}sion or {{aver|tedTrope}}sion. Doesn't matter which, those are the same anyway. |
| 377 | ** The story contains X, so list it as a straight example to gush about the story or a {{subver|tedTrope}}sion/inversion to bash it. |
| 378 | ** The story doesn't contain X, so list it as an inversion to gush or a {{double subversion}} to bash. |
| 379 | * EverytownAmerica: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Small towns in the United States exist.]] |
| 380 | * EvilAllAlong: If a heroic character does something mean or evil out of stress, rant on how they were a horrible person all along, regardless of the author's intent. |
| 381 | * EvilerThanThou: Villain A is more evil than Villain B. Whether or not Villain A ''defeats'' Villain B to show that Villain A is the bigger threat is irrelevant. |
| 382 | * ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: A work's title gives ''some'' information about its contents. Saying that ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' is about a character nicknamed [=JoJo=] who has an adventure that is bizarre is descriptive enough to qualify[[note]]That was an actual example on that page, by the way. It was only deleted after this trope was added to this page[[/note]]. |
| 383 | * ExcusePlot: |
| 384 | ** Any relatively simplistic plot, even if it's used as more than justification for the gameplay or action onscreen and it receives focus. |
| 385 | ** Any plots or premises you dislike for the content that comes out them (like the gameplay, the fight scenes, or the illustrations). |
| 386 | ** ClicheStorm but it's on the main page. |
| 387 | ** Complain about a plot you don't like. Read this as "Excuse for a Plot". |
| 388 | * {{Expy}}: This character is kind of like this character, and we'll pretend it's not a coincidence. Bonus points if the "copied" character is extremely obscure, or is ''several'' characters -- after all, it's totally possible and not contradictory for one character to be a blatant reimagining of several distinct other characters simultaneously. Since this is the same as CaptainErsatz, make sure to list it by its full name of "{{Expy}}[=/=]CaptainErsatz". |
| 389 | * EyepatchOfPower: A character you like that wears an eyepatch. |
| 390 | * {{Facepalm}}: Pothole to this trope whenever you're talking about something you dislike or think is stupid. |
| 391 | * FailedAttemptAtDrama: {{Narm}}, except you can put it on objective pages. |
| 392 | * FailureHero: |
| 393 | ** A hero screws up once or twice. |
| 394 | ** AntiSue, except you can put it on objective pages. |
| 395 | * FalseUtopia: |
| 396 | ** Any society that is realistically flawed, and its flaws are revealed gradually over the course of the narrative. Even if it's legitimately still a good society, or if it was never pretending to be a utopia to begin with. |
| 397 | * {{Familiar}}: Something that reminds you of something else. |
| 398 | * FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: Any time a character suffers a horrifying death, regardless of the target audience of the work. |
| 399 | * FanDisservice: |
| 400 | ** Any fanservice that doesn't match up with your own sexual orientation. For example, if you're a straight male, any MrFanservice is this. |
| 401 | ** Any time a character you don't think is sexually attractive is seen without a shirt, even in a non-sexual context. |
| 402 | * FantasticRacism: Instances of racism you think are actually pretty cool. |
| 403 | * FarEast: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Any country east of Afghanistan is mentioned in any capacity.]] Ignore that this is specifically for [[CulturalBlending mixed depictions of Japan and China]]. |
| 404 | * FatBastard: Any fat character that you don't like. |
| 405 | * FateWorseThanDeath: |
| 406 | ** Similar to AndIMustScream above, any scary, painful, and unpleasant situation. It's completely up to you to decide if a character would be better off dead. |
| 407 | ** Any punishment, no matter how minor, that doesn't kill the victim. Because people would rather off themselves than peel those potatoes. |
| 408 | * FatSweatySouthernerInAWhiteSuit: Any fat man from the Southern United States who wears white. Ignore that this is a subtrope of VillainInAWhiteSuit; being a villain is optional. |
| 409 | * FauxActionGirl: Any female character you don't like that lost a fight once. |
| 410 | * FeministFantasy: Any work that contains at least one ActionGirl. Because any woman who isn't a DamselInDistress means that the writer is being progressive, even if she's mostly used for {{Fanservice}} and/or the story is mostly focused on a male protagonist. |
| 411 | * FeralVillain: |
| 412 | ** A sapient villain who acts in a savagely vicious manner. |
| 413 | ** An antagonist who is clearly a nonsapient animal acts nonsapient. |
| 414 | * FieryRedhead: |
| 415 | ** [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Red hair exists]]. |
| 416 | ** This red-headed person got angry once. |
| 417 | * FiveManBand: |
| 418 | ** Any group of people, even if it's not five people, can be shoehorned here. You can also pick people who never interact or are not even aware of each other's existence. If two of the roles are duplicated, you add extra tropes like TagalongKid and TeamPet or the characterization is ignored for the role (for example, putting a male character in the role of The Chick, which isn't even a trope any more), don't fret. You're doing it right! |
| 419 | ** Since the trope description uses a rock band as an analogy, that means that every band ever is an example, no matter how many members it has or whether they fit the roles. |
| 420 | ** No matter what, please ignore the Administrivia/ExampleIndentationInTropeLists and put the tropes in sub-bullets beneath the main Five Man Band entry. |
| 421 | * {{Flanderization}}: |
| 422 | ** Complain about your favorite character being changed in a way you don't like. |
| 423 | ** A synonym for TookALevelInJerkass. |
| 424 | * FlatCharacter: A character you don't like. |
| 425 | * FlatEarthAtheist: Any character who points out that [[IfJesusThenAliens Jesus does not entail aliens]]. We were just mistaken about the “aversions are not themselves notable” policy. You will also see that this is exactly the same as ArbitrarySkepticism. |
| 426 | * FlatWhat: |
| 427 | ** Pothole to this trope whenever you're talking about something confusing or weird (which includes insulting a work's creator for making something so awful that you can't understand why they would make it). |
| 428 | ** The word "what" as a whole, said in any tone of voice. |
| 429 | * FlyoverCountry: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs The central United States exist.]] |
| 430 | * FoeRomanceSubtext: The hero and the villain have one moment of BelligerentSexualTension that is PlayedForLaughs and never brought up again. |
| 431 | * {{Foil}}: Two characters who are kind of similar but also a bit different, regardless if they even interacted. Make sure that every single example you write concerning this trope is a gigantic unreadable WallOfText listing every single possible similarity the characters have, no matter how small they are and how irrelevant the characters are to each other to begin with. |
| 432 | * ForcedToWatch: [[TheLudovicoTechnique Holding someone's eyes open and forcing them to watch something, like propaganda or brainwashing.]] |
| 433 | * ForGreatJustice: Any time the word "justice" is mentioned, regardless of context. |
| 434 | * ForestOfPerpetualAutumn: Any plant growth or infestation that's of warm colors, it doesn't have to do with the season following summer! |
| 435 | * FourIsDeath: This doesn't have to be an intentional reference to the superstition. Anytime there's an association between the number 4 and something bad, it's an example, no matter how tenuous. Even if the work is made in the West and has no East Asian influence! |
| 436 | ** [[EliteFour A team of four bad guys]]. |
| 437 | ** Something bad coincidentally happens four times. |
| 438 | ** Something bad happens to the fourth character we see. |
| 439 | ** Someone dies in the fourth episode of a show. Bonus points if people die in most episodes anyway, so there's nothing else that's special about this death. |
| 440 | ** [[{{Sequelitis}} You don't like the fourth installment of a series]]. |
| 441 | * FourTemperamentEnsemble: Like FiveManBand, any group of people can qualify as this, no matter how many people there are. So long as each member has acted kinda like a certain temperament once, they can qualify. Feel free to wage an Administrivia/EditWar with other fans over which character falls into which role, because it's not like this is a sign that they fall into none of them. |
| 442 | * TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: Any time a bad guy happens to glance vaguely in the direction of the camera. |
| 443 | * FreestateAmsterdam: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Amsterdam exists.]] |
| 444 | * FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: |
| 445 | ** You don't like a character's FreudianExcuse. In other words; UnintentionallyUnsympathetic, except you can put it on objective pages. |
| 446 | ** A villain has a FreudianExcuse but is portrayed as unsympathetic. No one has to [[Administrivia/InUniverseExamplesOnly call them out for their excuses in the story]]! |
| 447 | * FreudianTrio: There are three characters, whose traits differ to some extent. |
| 448 | * FriendToAllLivingThings: Interchangeable with AnimalLover and/or NatureLover. |
| 449 | * FromBadToWorse: |
| 450 | ** When you are complaining about something you don't like, pothole to this page to emphasize just how many flaws there are with that thing. |
| 451 | ** If you just finished complaining about something and are about to start complaining about something else, throw in a pothole to this trope so people will know just how much worse the second thing is compared to the first. |
| 452 | * TheFundamentalist: |
| 453 | ** You hate the protagonist of a work that pushes an opinion you don't like. |
| 454 | ** A religious person is very devout, and you hate them, particularly if it's ''because'' of their strongly held religious beliefs. Proceed to Administrivia/{{complain|ingAboutShowsYouDontLike}} about them, especially if they're a real person. |
| 455 | * FunWithAcronyms: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Initialisms exist.]] The full name being clearly shoehorned for the purpose of the initialism being interesting is not a requirement, nor for that matter is the initialism ''being'' interesting. |
| 456 | * GainaxEnding: |
| 457 | ** Any ending you found confusing or shocking. Even if it made perfect sense in the context of the story, the fact that you were confused/shocked by it is enough to qualify it for this trope. |
| 458 | ** Any ending you don't like. |
| 459 | * GambitRoulette: Complain about plans you don't like. |
| 460 | * GameMod: Use this to list every mod a video game has that you think is cool. It's kinda like FanficRecs that way, but it goes on the main page because reasons. |
| 461 | * GamerChick: Any girl who has ever played a video game. |
| 462 | * {{Gaslighting}}: A synonym of "lying". Any time a character isn't 100% honest, it's gaslighting. Feel free to bring this misuse outside of TV Tropes, and accuse people of gaslighting you whenever they tell a lie! |
| 463 | * {{Gasshole}}: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Flatulence exists]]. |
| 464 | * GayParee: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Paris exists.]] |
| 465 | * GenderBlenderName: Do not, under any circumstances, do any research on a name to determine whether it is male or female. If a name ends in O, it must be masculine, and if it ends in A, it must be feminine. So be sure to Administrivia/SinkHole Consuelo Vanderbilt’s first name to this trope; it’s not like anyone here speaks Spanish. Furthermore, you may have heard that Japanese names that lack suffixes are unisex. This is a total lie. There is a [[Literature/BludgeoningAngelDokuroChan male Sakura]] in anime? Add it immediately! |
| 466 | * GenericDoomsdayVillain: |
| 467 | ** A villain you dislike and find lame. Whether they have a clear personality and goal is irrelevant. |
| 468 | ** Any simplistic villain. |
| 469 | * TheGenericGuy: Characters you hate for being more normal than everyone else in a work. |
| 470 | * GenreBlindness: Any character who [[AudienceAwarenessAdvantage doesn't magically know the work's genre]] and common tropes associated with it. Obviously, if a car breaks down in the middle of the woods at night, the first thing any remotely sane and intelligent person would think is "I must be in a horror movie. I'd better stay in the car with the lights on and the doors locked until morning." |
| 471 | * GenreBusting: |
| 472 | ** Use this to downplay a work you like being in a genre you normally don't like. |
| 473 | ** A work you think is too cool to be labelled anything, even if the labels are accurate. |
| 474 | * GenreDeconstruction: Any work you like that, however briefly, touches on the consequences of its genre's tropes. Use this as a jumping-off point to talk about how deep and intelligent this work is, and be sure to paint everything else in its genre as mindless, lowbrow shlock so it looks even better by comparison! |
| 475 | * GenreSavvy: A character does something smart (or uses common sense). |
| 476 | * GettingCrapPastTheRadar: |
| 477 | ** Ignore that DemographicallyInappropriateHumour exists. Those two pages are just synonyms, and this is the preferred PotHole because the name is super catchy. There's no need to prove that your example violates the standards a censor board sets for the work's rating, because the more examples your favorite show has here, the edgier, more sophisticated and better it is. |
| 478 | ** Any instance of swearing, {{fanservice}}, or violence, regardless of blatantness or the show's target audience/rating. If a character manages to clearly say "asshole" in your show, it's totally because the censors failed to notice the word, and not because they knew it was there but decided it was acceptable given the show's rating. |
| 479 | ** A work published on the internet has something inappropriate in it. Ignore the fact that most of the Internet has no Radar watching it for inappropriate content. |
| 480 | ** Any joke that was attempted on ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}''. Don't mind that ParentalBonus or [[DemographicallyInappropriateHumour that other thing that doesn't exist]] are things; the show itself states it "made the censors cry", therefore there was no plausible way [[SurprisinglyLenientCensor the censors simply decided to leave in the oh-so subtle "Finger Prince" joke.]] The same goes for any show you grew up with and now understand the jokes. |
| 481 | ** A moment that was acceptable in its country of release was removed by another country's censors. This is an obvious case of the original censor screwing up rather than [[ValuesDissonance those standards being different in different countries.]] |
| 482 | ** Any DoubleEntendre. |
| 483 | ** Any time something is implied rather than stated outright. |
| 484 | * GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: |
| 485 | ** Any boss that is even remotely unexpected, especially if it's an EldritchAbomination or just [[NonstandardCharacterDesign looks unusual]] compared to other bosses in the game. |
| 486 | ** A strange-looking boss, even if it's completely expected. |
| 487 | * GISSyndrome: Administrivia/ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike because they do this. |
| 488 | * GilliganCut: Any comedic cut. |
| 489 | * GirlsWithGuns: A trope that describes a girl that uses guns. Ignore the description, it's not a genre: so long as one female character uses firearms, it qualifies for the trope, even if said girl is not the main character or her getting into gunfights isn't the main focus of the work. |
| 490 | * GirlyGirl: |
| 491 | ** If a girl wears a skirt/dress even once (even if there's no other choice), is seen near the color [[PinkGirlBlueBoy pink]], has anyone even slightly more {{Tomboy}}ish around her, or has long hair, she is the girliest girl to ever girl a girl. |
| 492 | ** Be sure to mention that she's feminine, nice, kind, or gentle. These are all only related to being feminine. [[TenderTomboyishnessFoulFemininity Tomboys are never tender, and girly girls are never mean or unpleasant.]] |
| 493 | * GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak: A GirlyGirl wore pants once. |
| 494 | * GloriousMotherRussia: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Russia (or the Soviet Union) exists.]] |
| 495 | * {{Gonk}}: Any character you personally find to be ugly-looking, regardless of whether everyone else in the show is drawn in a similar manner to them or not. |
| 496 | * GoodOldFisticuffs: A character punches any other character at any time for any reason. |
| 497 | * GoodParents: Any parents that aren't {{abusive|parents}} can have this trope added to their character sheet to pad it out. |
| 498 | * GrammarCorrectionGag: Any time anyone (including the audience) criticizes anyone (including the author) for making spelling mistakes. |
| 499 | * GrossoutShow: Complain about shows you dislike for having at least some unpleasant visuals. |
| 500 | * GrotesqueGallery: Any series with character designs you find to be ugly or dislike. |
| 501 | * GuideDangIt: Every puzzle or game mechanic you couldn't figure out on your own. There's no way the game actually gave you enough hints to figure them out yourself and you just weren't intelligent enough to notice them. |
| 502 | * HandWave: An explanation you don't like. |
| 503 | * HarderThanHard: Any video game (or [[ThatOneLevel part of one]]) that is too hard for you, regardless of its difficulty options. You should use this to get away with [[ItsHardSoItSucks complaining about games being too hard]] on objective trope pages. |
| 504 | * HardTruthAesop: Any time a non-villainous character does something morally-questionable. Clearly, the author wants us to copy every single thing the heroes do. |
| 505 | * HatedByAll: |
| 506 | ** Any character who's disliked by one or more other characters. |
| 507 | ** TheScrappy, except you can put it on objective pages. |
| 508 | ** LoveToHate, except you can put it on objective pages. |
| 509 | ** DarthWiki/SoBadItsHorrible, except you can put it on objective pages. |
| 510 | * HateSink: |
| 511 | ** Any character you despise, regardless of whether the work actually wants us to hate them or like them. |
| 512 | ** Literally any antagonist. |
| 513 | ** TheScrappy, except you can put it on objective pages. |
| 514 | ** LoveToHate, except you can put it on objective pages. |
| 515 | ** CompleteMonster, except you can put it on objective pages, the character doesn't need to be exceptionally heinous, and there's no approval process. |
| 516 | ** A character is hated by multiple characters InUniverse. Even if the character isn't loathsome in the slightest. |
| 517 | ** JerkSue, except you can put it on objective pages. |
| 518 | ** If you hate a character, use this to [[RonTheDeathEater exaggerate their negative traits or actions]]. |
| 519 | * HaveAGayOldTime: If 4chan or Encyclopaedia Dramatica or any other troll site innovates an offensive slang term, or an innocuous word is used sexually in obscure Internet erotica and never in real life, add the example. Clearly, the original definitions have gone the way of the dodo. |
| 520 | * HaveANiceDeath: Somebody says "Have a nice death!" as a {{Pre|MortemOneLiner}} or PostMortemOneLiner. |
| 521 | * HellIsThatNoise: Since DarthWiki/MostAnnoyingSound is specifically about video games and toys, use this trope to complain about annoying sounds in other media. |
| 522 | * HereWeGoAgain: A work you dislike gets a sequel. |
| 523 | * HeroKiller: A character who kills a hero. |
| 524 | * HeroWithBadPublicity: A hero that you think isn't very heroic. |
| 525 | * HeroesLoveDogs: Non-villainous character has a dog. |
| 526 | * HeroicSelfDeprecation: When the hero cracks jokes about how much they suck. Perfect Administrivia/PotholeMagnet for your Troper page! |
| 527 | * HeterosexualLifePartners: A straight couple that lives together. |
| 528 | * HiddenDepths: Use this to [[SugarWiki/GushingAboutCharactersYouLike gush about characters you like]]. |
| 529 | * HijackedByGanon: Any time a villain is [[TheManBehindTheMan revealed to be behind]] or takes the place of another villain. |
| 530 | * HilarityEnsues: |
| 531 | ** Funny things happen. No, that isn't the same thing as RuleOfFunny or SugarWiki/FunnyMoments. |
| 532 | ** [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs An action by a character has consequences on the plot.]] |
| 533 | * HolidayInCambodia: |
| 534 | ** [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Southeast Asia exists.]] |
| 535 | ** Using this trope for any country other than Cambodia is misuse. After all, it's in the title. |
| 536 | * HolierThanThou: You dislike the protagonist of a work that pushes an opinion you don't like, but don't hate them enough to accuse them of being TheFundamentalist. |
| 537 | * HollywoodAtheist: |
| 538 | ** You dislike the protagonist of a pro-atheism work. [[Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease It doesn't have to be a fictional work, either]]. Real people who are vocally supportive of atheism are also fair game for criticism if you use this trope. |
| 539 | ** [[Administrivia/ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike Complain about atheists you don't like]], especially if they're a real person. |
| 540 | ** Contrariwise, if you are an atheist, use this trope to complain about any atheist character in any work made by anyone who believes in God, even if the character isn’t portrayed as unreasonable or selfish. |
| 541 | * HollywoodCalifornia: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs California exists.]] Alternatively, Hollywood in particular exists, even though that would result in this trope being named "Hollywood Hollywood". |
| 542 | * HollywoodNewEngland: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs New England exists.]] Alternatively, the story takes place in a New England town that happens to be named "Hollywood". |
| 543 | * HomingLasers: Straight laser beams that the user tracks their intended targets with. |
| 544 | * HorrorComedy: |
| 545 | ** A BlackComedy in which you can feasibly finagle several examples of dark humor into being "scary". See NightmareFuel for more information. |
| 546 | ** [[WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse A series which has both scary moments and is comedic, AKA 95 percent of all series in existence]]. |
| 547 | ** Use this to sneak {{Narm}} in horror onto objective pages. |
| 548 | * HulaAndLuaus: |
| 549 | ** [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Hawaii exists]]. |
| 550 | ** The name is literal and refers to hula and/or luaus appearing in a work, regardless of whether anything depicted is stereotypically Hawaiian. |
| 551 | * HumansAreBastards: |
| 552 | ** Exactly the same as HumansAreTheRealMonsters (see below) but this name is cooler because it has a swear in it. |
| 553 | ** The humans on the side the audience roots for fail to be morally perfect. |
| 554 | ** A human does something evil, period. |
| 555 | ** While we're on the subject, feel free to talk about this trope as if it were [[TruthInTelevision obviously objectively true in real life]], because there's no way calling real people "bastards" could possibly conflict with the Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement. |
| 556 | ** A trope where you can complain about humans you don't like. Bonus points if most of the things that make the humans in question "bastards" are exaggerations at best and [[RonTheDeathEater nonsense you made up to justify your hatred of them]] at worst. |
| 557 | ** A character InUniverse believes this to be the case. It's not like there are [[MisanthropeSupreme other]] [[FantasticRacism tropes]] that cover that. |
| 558 | * HumansAreTheRealMonsters: |
| 559 | ** Any human character behaves maliciously towards a non-human character. |
| 560 | ** A work with sapient non-human characters has at least one unsympathetic human character. |
| 561 | ** While we're on the subject, feel free to use this trope interchangeably with HumansAreBastards (see above). Most people won't know the difference, and this name is better because it doesn't have a swear in it. |
| 562 | ** A character InUniverse believes this to be the case. It's not like there are [[MisanthropeSupreme other]] [[FantasticRacism tropes]] that cover that. |
| 563 | * {{Hypocrite}}: |
| 564 | ** Accuse characters you don't like of being poorly-written and having inconsistent motivations. And if you hate the work badly enough, accuse the creator of being a hypocrite as well (after all, work creators are totally exempt from the Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease rule). |
| 565 | ** Since Hypocritical Fandom has been cut, you should put {{Hypocrite}} on YMMV pages in order to write examples that would have previously been listed under Hypocritical Fandom. |
| 566 | *** One fandom likes an aspect of a work, while another fandom dislikes it. In other words; a BrokenBase you don't like, or a BaseBreakingCharacter you don't like. |
| 567 | *** You hate a work, so you should demonize the fandoms by making up hypocrisies that few fans would make. |
| 568 | *** A single fan dislikes a work for a hypocritical reason. |
| 569 | *** You saw fans complain about one installment for one reason while complaining about another installment for the opposite reason. Obviously, someone who couldn't care less about a work they found [[TooBleakStoppedCaring too dark]] wants [[SweetnessAversion something sickeningly happy where nothing bad happens and nobody is ever sad]], or else they're a hypocrite. |
| 570 | *** FriendlyFandoms between two works with conflicting themes. For instance, any fan of ''{{Manga/Berserk}}'' must refrain from liking SliceOfLife works, [[CategoryTraitor otherwise they'd be a hypocrite]]. |
| 571 | *** Someone likes a work that conflicts with their own fictional works. |
| 572 | * HypocriteHasAPoint: |
| 573 | ** A character gives a hypocritical, yet valid argument that [[InformedWrongness the author didn't intend]] to [[StrawmanHasAPoint be taken at face value]]. |
| 574 | ** Since Hypocritical Fandom was cut, feel free to write hypocritical arguments on a work that you reluctantly agree with. Since this is subjective, you should put this trope on the YMMV page. |
| 575 | * HypocriticalHumor: You personally think a humorous statement a character made is hypocritical to how they have acted in the past. |
| 576 | * IAmNotLeftHanded: The trope name is literal, so [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs a character being right-handed]] counts. |
| 577 | * IAmVeryBritish: Someone is stereotypically British. Being either a FakeBrit or a real Brit whose real accent isn't Received Pronunciation is optional, as is the use of a Received Pronunciation accent (or an imitation thereof). |
| 578 | * IdiotBall: |
| 579 | ** DarthWiki/WhatAnIdiot, but it goes on the main page. |
| 580 | ** Any time a character does something idiotic. No matter if it's consistent with their character traits, flaws, or normal level of intelligence. |
| 581 | ** There is no such thing as PhlebotinumInducedStupidity. Anything that functions in the manner described by this nonexistent trope is, in fact, "a ''literal'' IdiotBall". Especially if it's round, but even if it isn't. |
| 582 | ** IdiotPlot, but it allows examples. |
| 583 | * IdiotHero: A main character you don't like who sometimes fails to instantly figure out the best plan of action. |
| 584 | * ImAHumanitarian: |
| 585 | ** A character cooks and serves a human being as if they were animal flesh. It doesn't matter if they eat humans regularly or if humans are their primary source of food. You will notice that this is the exact same definition as ToServeMan, so feel free to use them interchangeably. |
| 586 | ** A character eats humanoids like {{Rubber Forehead Alien}}s who are very obviously played by humans. It doesn't matter if those humanoids aren't considered human or are a kind of livestock in-universe. |
| 587 | ** A character [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant follows the ideology of humanitarianism]]. |
| 588 | * ImpossiblyCoolClothes: The word "impossibly" is being used figuratively for the sake of exaggeration, so this trope applies to any extremely cool outfit. |
| 589 | * ImpossiblyTackyClothes: Complain about outfits you don't like. In other words, WTHCostumingDepartment but you can put it on objective pages. |
| 590 | * InTheBack: Ignore that this is about characters getting hit from behind as part of the plot, and use this for games where [[BackStab attacking from behind deals bonus damage]]. |
| 591 | * IncestSubtext: Whenever any siblings don't utterly hate each other. Heck, you can use it even if they do utterly hate each other. Make sure to make your examples as [[Archive/TheSecondGoogleIncident fetishistic and advertiser-unfriendly as possible]] or they don't count. |
| 592 | * InconsistentSpelling: A name is spelled differently from how you expect it to be spelled, even if the spelling is consistent in the work. |
| 593 | * IncorruptiblePurePureness: |
| 594 | ** Any hero, or simply any nice person you love. |
| 595 | ** Any hero who achieves the HeroesFrontierStep, even if said hero later retires and becomes a simple NiceGuy. |
| 596 | ** Invert this trope to make CompleteMonster, except it's allowed on objective pages. |
| 597 | ** Add it to the hero at anytime, even if the story hasn't ended yet, with said ending otherwise making sure that the hero will be incorruptible after all. |
| 598 | * InformedAttribute: Any character that you don't like whose competence is described as anything other than completely nonexistent. |
| 599 | * InformedJudaism: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Any Jewish character who isn't Hasidic.]] Because as we all know, secular Jews do not exist. |
| 600 | * InformedSpecies: |
| 601 | ** A place to complain about the designs of stylized or anthropomorphic animals (especially those in animated works), because everyone knows it is unacceptable for works of fiction to deviate from reality. |
| 602 | ** Non-traditional depictions of mythical creatures, because there is only one correct way to imagine imaginary beings. OurMonstersAreDifferent? What's that? |
| 603 | * InjunCountry: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Native Americans exist.]] |
| 604 | * InNameOnly: Use this to complain about an adaptation you don't like of a work you like, regardless of how faithful it is to the source material. Suggesting it doesn't deserve to be linked to the beloved source material is the highest MedalOfDishonor a hated adaptation can get. |
| 605 | * InsaneTrollLogic: |
| 606 | ** Any argument that you think makes no sense, regardless of author intention. This is great for agenda-based editing, since you can just go to the page of a political work you disagree with and pothole anything that bothers you to this page. |
| 607 | ** If an argument you dislike contains LogicalFallacies, link to this trope instead to further emphasize your dislike, even if the fallacies aren't overly ridiculous. |
| 608 | * InteractiveNarrator: [[{{Narrator}} A character, sometimes part of the story proper and sometimes completely external to it, who acts either as the storyteller or as a framing device.]] Don't worry about that "interactive" word, it's just there to make the title a Administrivia/WikiWord because there was a devastating curly bracket shortage in the late 00s. |
| 609 | * InvincibleHero: |
| 610 | ** GodModeSue, but you can put it on the main page. |
| 611 | ** Any overpowered hero. Never mind that they have their fair share of defeats. |
| 612 | ** A heroic character in a fighting game that's also a HighTierScrappy, even if they're only strong because the developers didn't balance them properly. |
| 613 | * InvincibleVillain: |
| 614 | ** GodModeSue and/or VillainSue, but you can put it on the main page. |
| 615 | ** Any overpowered villain. Never mind that they have their fair share of defeats. |
| 616 | ** A MonsterOfTheWeek that goes undefeated (or gets defeated in every encounter, but escapes before they're punished) for most of the episode, only to be ultimately slain by the protagonist in their final encounter. |
| 617 | ** Any ArcVillain that doesn't get killed off until the end of the season. |
| 618 | ** A villainous character in a fighting game that's also a HighTierScrappy, even if they're only strong because the developers didn't balance them properly. |
| 619 | ** Any villain that doesn't get defeated because the story was CutShort, even if they weren't potrayed as overpowered. They might've been eventually defeated if the story continued, but hey, who can tell? |
| 620 | * {{Irony}}: |
| 621 | ** Anything that's coincidental. No exceptions. |
| 622 | ** [[Music/AlanisMorissette A traffic jam when you're already late]]. |
| 623 | ** [[Music/AlanisMorissette Rain on your wedding day.]] |
| 624 | ** [[Music/AlanisMorissette A free ride]] when [[Literature/TheMunchkinsGuideToPowerGaming you've already paid.]] |
| 625 | ** [[Film/RealityBites That's where the actual meaning is the exact opposite of the literal meaning.]] |
| 626 | ** [[Series/{{Blackadder}} It's like goldy and bronzy only it's made out of iron.]] |
| 627 | ** [[Series/JustShootMe The same day you ran Elliot down, is the same day you ruined his life forever.]] |
| 628 | ** [[WebComic/SluggyFreelance To be crushed by a giant gorilla... on your birthday!]] |
| 629 | ** [[WebComic/KoanOfTheDay Going into the woods to find the tortoise, but instead getting lost yourself.]] |
| 630 | ** [[WebComic/{{Homestuck}} HOW VERY IRONIC. THAT A LIFE HANGS IN THE BALANCE. uPON YOuR WILLINGNESS TO DRAW ME SOME PORNOGRAPHY. THE VERY PORNOGRAPHY. WHICH YOu HAVE SPENT A LIFETIME DRAWING. IN YOuR SPARE TIME. BECAuSE YOu PRESuMABLY ENJOY DOING SO.]] |
| 631 | ** [[Webcomic/ParadoxSpace A bunch of idiots who don't have a chance against me!!!!!!!!]] |
| 632 | ** [[WebVideo/SwordArtOnlineAbridged When someone gives that bastard the benefit of the doubt, only to walk into a trap.]] |
| 633 | ** [[WebAnimation/RedVsBlue I think it would be ironic if everyone was made of iron.]] |
| 634 | ** [[Series/ThirtyRock I didn't like it outside the bubble. It was very ironic.]] |
| 635 | ** [[Creator/GeorgeCarlin Two baseball players from the same hometown, on different teams, receive the same uniform number.]] |
| 636 | ** [[Music/JonLajoie Walked up to a girl and I gave her a kiss,\ |
| 637 | She said "Let's go to your place, I'll suck your dick.",\ |
| 638 | I said "Hell yeah, bitch! That's so ironic!"]] |
| 639 | ** [[Film/RevengeOfTheSith He could save others from death, but not himself.]] |
| 640 | * IsntItIronic: |
| 641 | ** A carbon copy of the {{Irony}} trope, except it looks cooler. Also, you won't have to use those pesky curly brackets. |
| 642 | ** A character gets into [[Music/AlanisMorissette a traffic jam when they're already late]]. |
| 643 | ** Complain about works using a song in the wrong context, even when it's intentional on the creator's behalf. |
| 644 | * ItMakesSenseInContext: Intentionally describe a scene in a confusing way, then pothole it to this trope. |
| 645 | * ItsAWonderfulFailure: Any game with an interesting GameOver screen. In other words, a synonym for HaveANiceDeath or GameOverMan. |
| 646 | * ItsCuban: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Cuba exists.]] |
| 647 | * IvyLeagueForEveryone: Exactly one character went to an Ivy League school. |
| 648 | * {{Jerkass}}: Every villain ever. Because destroying the planet is the rudest thing that you can do. And it's not like we have EvilIsPetty for villains who are also jerks. |
| 649 | * JerkassHasAPoint: |
| 650 | ** A jerk gives a valid argument that [[InformedWrongness the author didn't intend]] to [[StrawmanHasAPoint be taken at face value]]. |
| 651 | ** A full-on villain has a legitimate argument. |
| 652 | ** StrawmanHasAPoint, but it goes on objective pages and is interchangeable with VillainHasAPoint. |
| 653 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: A character is hinted to have a nicer side, [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk but it turns out they don't]]. |
| 654 | * JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: A jerk that's so loathsome that [[RepeatedForEmphasis the trope had to use the word "jerk" twice to get across how horrible they are]]. |
| 655 | * {{Joisey}}: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs New Jersey exists.]] |
| 656 | * JokeCharacter: |
| 657 | ** Any silly-looking character in a video game, even if they're as strong as the more serious characters. No, there's no such trope as FightingClown. |
| 658 | ** Any weak character, even if they're presented seriously and are only weak because the developers didn't balance them properly. |
| 659 | ** LowTierLetdown, but you can put it on objective pages. |
| 660 | * JokeItem: |
| 661 | ** ScrappyWeapon, except that it goes on the main, objective page. |
| 662 | ** Another word for NerfArm, a funny yet powerful weapon. |
| 663 | * JustifiedTutorial: Much like JustifiedTrope, this is a tutorial that has any reason whatsoever for it to exist. Because, you know, ''normally'', tutorials serve no purpose whatsoever and are just there to waste players' time. |
| 664 | * KangaroosRepresentAustralia: |
| 665 | ** Kangaroos exist in the work. Any connection to Australia is optional. |
| 666 | ** [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Kangaroos and Australia exist]]. |
| 667 | * KarmaHoudini: |
| 668 | ** A villain whose story arc is still ongoing and will likely be defeated at the end of the season. |
| 669 | ** Complain about a character not receiving the amount of comeuppance you think they deserve. |
| 670 | * KickTheDog: |
| 671 | ** A dog is kicked or otherwise harmed. This counts even if the character had a good reason for hurting the dog. |
| 672 | ** A character commits a cruel act for a [[ShootTheDog pragmatic reason]]. |
| 673 | ** A villain commits an act of animal cruelty. |
| 674 | ** You think someone is being mean. This is is an especially valid use if the perceived meanness is targeted at a literal dog. |
| 675 | * KidAnova: A young LemonStu, except you can put it on objective pages. |
| 676 | * KilledOffForReal: [[CharacterDeath A character dies]]. Despite what you might think from "for real", this applies under all circumstances, even if [[AllDeathsFinal deaths in the setting are already always permanent]], and regardless of whether or not [[FakingTheDead they might have been faking it]]. Bonus points for adding this trope immediately after the character dies, and they come back to life later -- that makes it a subversion, and everyone knows subverted tropes are the coolest kind. |
| 677 | * Kill 'Em All: |
| 678 | ** A character kills lots of people or orders a massacre. It's not like it was renamed to EverybodyDiesEnding precisely because people kept using it this way. |
| 679 | ** One or two main characters die. |
| 680 | * KillerRabbit: [[HairRaisingHare A rabbit that kills people]]. |
| 681 | * KillItWithFire: |
| 682 | ** A cooler way to say PlayingWithFire. |
| 683 | ** Pothole to this trope whenever you're talking about something disgusting. |
| 684 | * KillItWithIce: A cooler way to say AnIcePerson. |
| 685 | * KillItWithWater: A cooler way to say MakingASplash. |
| 686 | * KindheartedCatLover: Anyone who has a cat. |
| 687 | * KnightOfCerebus: The coolest, edgiest villain in a work. Feel free to add as many as you want. |
| 688 | * LackOfEmpathy: |
| 689 | ** Use this to [[RonTheDeathEater demonize a character you don't like]]. Point to the times where they treated someone poorly to make them sound like a sociopath who does whatever they want with no regard for others, even if said incidents are rare and/or the "victims" deserved it. |
| 690 | ** UnintentionallyUnsympathetic but you can put it on objective pages. |
| 691 | * LadyLooksLikeADude: [[ViewerGenderConfusion You and/or other fans think a female character looks masculine.]] |
| 692 | * LargeHam: |
| 693 | ** A character says a line of dialogue in an unusually loud and bombastic way, but you like the character and ''love'' the line of dialogue, so it's very important that you add this character to the examples and '''OVEREMPHASIZE''' [[EmphasizeEverything every other word in the quote]]. |
| 694 | --->'''Character from show that you love:''' THIS '''QUOTE''' ISN'T '''ACTUALLY''' THIS '''AGGRESSIVE''' WHEN ''DELIVERED'' ON THE '''SHOW'''!!!!!!!!!! |
| 695 | ** Make extra-sure to list [[WorldOfHam one line of dialogue from every character in the show]] at least once on a separate bullet point or people won't fully understand just how '''GLORIOUSLY HAMMY''' your show is. |
| 696 | ** Anyone who shouts even once. |
| 697 | * LandDownunder: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Australia exists.]] |
| 698 | * LandOfDragons: |
| 699 | ** [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs China exists.]] |
| 700 | ** [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin A location has a lot of dragons in it]]. |
| 701 | * LandOfTulipsAndWindmills: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Holland exists.]] |
| 702 | %% Don't change it to "The Netherlands", because the stereotype is specifically Holland, not the rest of the country. Most media doesn't know the difference anyway. |
| 703 | * LateArrivalSpoiler: |
| 704 | ** Reveal spoilers that you believe are well-known rather than appearing in promotional material, merchandise, or official sources. Basically sneak in ItWasHisSled on the main page. Never mind that this trope was renamed for this exact reason. |
| 705 | ** The sequel references events from the previous entry. |
| 706 | * LatinLand: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Latin America exists.]] |
| 707 | * LaughablyEvil: |
| 708 | ** You personally find the villain to be funny, regardless of the author's intent. |
| 709 | ** A villain that has many scenes of pure {{narm}}. |
| 710 | * LavaIsBoilingKoolAid: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Lava (or magma, for that matter) exists.]] |
| 711 | * LethalChef: [[ChefOfIron A chef who is also skilled in combat]]. |
| 712 | * LethalJokeCharacter: |
| 713 | ** A synonym of FightingClown, a humorous video game character that's as powerful as the more serious ones. |
| 714 | ** If you want to be boring and use the correct definition (a normally weak character that has a secretly powerful skill), be sure to disregard Administrivia/ExampleIndentationInTropeLists and list it as "Joke Character / Lethal Joke Character" or put it on a second-level bullet point below the Joke Character entry. |
| 715 | * LetsPlay: Someone, somewhere, did a Let's Play of this game, which is definitely a trope that appears ''in this game''. |
| 716 | * LightIsNotGood: A character who isn't nice wears a white or light-colored shirt. |
| 717 | * LightningBruiser: |
| 718 | ** Someone's who's a bit better of a fighter than most. |
| 719 | ** {{World of| Badass}} enhanced strength, durability, and speed. |
| 720 | * LipstickLesbian: Any lesbian who isn't [[ButchLesbian butch]]. |
| 721 | * LiteralMetaphor: You can list things that are definitely not examples of the trope, as long as the trope title kinda sounds like it could describe them and you pothole the entire example to this. |
| 722 | * LittleNo: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Any time someone says "no"]] when it isn't a BigNo. |
| 723 | * LogicBomb: This is just a funny pothole, for use whenever you describe something that doesn't make sense in your personal opinion. |
| 724 | * LovecraftLite: |
| 725 | ** Any work where [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu it is possible to punch out Cthulhu]]. It doesn't matter if punching out Cthulhu had [[BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu serious repercussions and side effects]] or if punching Cthulhu explicitly [[PyrrhicVictory only delayed the inevitable]] and [[AllForNothing there was really no point in punching Cthulhu in the first place]]. |
| 726 | ** Any CosmicHorrorStory you feel isn't hopeless enough, or better yet, [[Administrivia/ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike any Cosmic Horror Story you dislike]]. This trope is the perfect place to rant on and on about TheTamingOfTheGrue and how the whole point of the Franchise/CthulhuMythos was that all the horrors from beyond the stars were supposed to be unknowable and Creator/HPLovecraft is rolling in his grave. Also, be sure to mention at least once how Creator/AugustDerleth COMPLETELY MISSED THE POINT OF LOVECRAFT'S WORK AND [[DarthWiki/RuinedForever IRREVOCABLY TAINTED THE ENTIRE GENRE]], preferably with a few [[TakeThat potholes to negative YMMV tropes]]. |
| 727 | * LostForever: What do you mean, they renamed this to PermanentlyMissableContent? This is for anything that's forever lost, regardless of circumstance. [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes TV show got cancelled and no DVD release?]] [[TemporaryOnlineContent Event items in an MMO?]] [[{{Permadeath}} Character that dies permanently if they run out of HP?]] [[LiteralMetaphor Misplaced your keys and can't find them?]] All valid examples. |
| 728 | * MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter: A female character's father is a scientist. |
| 729 | * MadeOfIron: Characters who are robots or cyborgs. |
| 730 | * MadeOutToBeAJerkass: The episode portrays a character as a {{jerkass}}, but you think they were right to act this way. That's totally not InformedWrongness. |
| 731 | * MadnessMantra: |
| 732 | ** A character [[SurvivalMantra repeats a phrase to steel themselves or bolster their courage]]. |
| 733 | ** Any time a character [[BrokenRecord says something over and over]]. No exceptions. |
| 734 | ** When listing your example, [[Administrivia/ZeroContextExample just write out the repeated phrase a dozen times or so rather than actually explaining how the example is related to the trope. After all, the only thing which prevents an example from having context is how physically long it is]]! |
| 735 | * {{Manchild}}: Complain about characters who act in a way you consider immature. For extra fun, pothole the character's name to this trope in other examples, even when their perceived immaturity has nothing to do with that trope. |
| 736 | * MarijuanaIsLSD: [[TheStoner People smoke marijuana.]] |
| 737 | * AMatchMadeInStockholm: Any love story whose setting is one of the places named Stockholm. |
| 738 | * {{Mayincatec}}: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Mesoamerican and Andean cultures exist(ed)]]. |
| 739 | * MeaningfulName: |
| 740 | ** A work's title is representative of its content. |
| 741 | ** You happen to be a fan of name etymology, so feel free to use this trope to construct the most [[InsaneTrollLogic hackneyed, obviously conjecture-based explanation]] for why the a character has the name the have beyond "the author thought it fit them". If you don't pothole to at least three off-site links, one of which is Wikipedia, you're doing it wrong. |
| 742 | * MesACrowd: A synonym of SelfDuplication. |
| 743 | * MetaGuy: |
| 744 | ** Any character who has ever [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] anything ever. |
| 745 | ** Whenever your favourite character lampshades anything, pothole their name to this trope to make said character (and thus you for liking them) seem more intelligent and observant. |
| 746 | * MightyWhitey: |
| 747 | ** A white person is a hero. The part where they specifically save ethnic minorities who are shown to be helpless without them is optional. |
| 748 | *** If the protagonist is white and also considered by many to be a DesignatedHero, then this is ''mandatory''! |
| 749 | ** Also, it definitely can NOT also apply to characters from works made by non-white cultures who do similar things, such as an anime where a Japanese man saves poor African tribesmen. That's just misuse, after all "white" is right there in the trope name! |
| 750 | * MightyWhiteyAndMellowYellow: Any relationship between a white man and an Asian woman. |
| 751 | * MindScrew: Anything that you find confusing, including any work that involves TimeTravel, {{Parallel Universe}}s, OrWasItADream, and/or generally trippy imagery. |
| 752 | * MinnesotaNice: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Minnesota exists.]] Also, this trope refers ''specifically'' to Minnesota, and not to anywhere else in the Midwest. |
| 753 | * MisterSandmanSequence: In addition to signifying the time period of PeriodPiece works and scenes, this can apply to {{Unintentional Period Piece}}s, because it's completely necessary for fiction to remind viewers what their own time period is, and the creators obviously knew that future viewers would think the work is dated. |
| 754 | * MonochromeCasting: All major characters' skin tones share similar hues. |
| 755 | * MonsterFangirl: |
| 756 | ** Someone who likes a CuteMonsterGirl, or vice versa. |
| 757 | ** A character supports a NonMaliciousMonster. |
| 758 | ** A character has any kind of positive opinion on a villain. |
| 759 | * MookMaker: |
| 760 | ** A {{Mook}} can [[SelfDuplication make more of itself]]. |
| 761 | ** A {{Mook}} can [[EnemySummoner summon other mooks but clearly isn't the one actually creating them]]. |
| 762 | ** A {{Mook}} splits into several smaller {{Mooks}} upon being defeated. |
| 763 | * MooseAndMapleSyrup: |
| 764 | ** [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Canadians exist]]. |
| 765 | ** Any CanadianMedia or CanadianSeries regardless of whether it deals with Canadian stereotypes or not. |
| 766 | * TheMoralSubstitute: |
| 767 | ** A work that is similar to a work you like, but is targeted towards a religious or political group you disagree with. Remember to subtly imply that [[TheyCopiedItSoItSucks the work is inferior due to being an imitation]] and that the target group is worthy of being mocked for being too sensitive and needing their own version. |
| 768 | ** If the Moral Substitute turns out to not be that bad compared to the original, it's a {{subversion}}. After all, being inferior to the original is a critical part of this trope. |
| 769 | ** If you ''really strongly'' disagree with the group the work is targeted at, then it's an inversion, since the group in question is evil, and therefore any work made specifically for them must be immoral. |
| 770 | * MoreDakka: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Automatic weapons exist]]. Bonus points if you happen to think the weapon in question is really cool. |
| 771 | * TheMovie: |
| 772 | ** [[TheFilmOfTheBook A book is adapted to a movie.]] |
| 773 | ** [[TheFilmOfTheSeries A show has a movie with a brand new cast and separate continuity.]] |
| 774 | ** [[PilotMovie A movie made and released before its respective show came out.]] |
| 775 | ** A great way to type out less when referring to a work in an example. There's no need to properly type out ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie'' when just putting a double bullet below an example from the show and saying "In TheMovie," will suffice. |
| 776 | * MrFanservice: |
| 777 | ** Any male character you find attractive. |
| 778 | ** Post this on the pages of actors or musicians you lust over. |
| 779 | * MrViceGuy: Any character who's a midpoint between a NiceGuy and a JerkWithAHeartOfGold. |
| 780 | * MsFanservice: |
| 781 | ** Any female character you find attractive. |
| 782 | ** Post this on the pages of actresses or musicians you lust over. |
| 783 | * MustBeInvited: A party or other kind of event that requires an invitation to attend. |
| 784 | * MyFriendsAndZoidberg: Pothole here any time you construct a phrase in the form "[broad category] and [narrow category or single item]". |
| 785 | * MyNameIsInigoMontoya: A character introduces themselves. |
| 786 | * MyNewGiftIsLame: Since "gift" is sometimes used as a synonym for supernatural powers, this trope covers [[BlessedWithSuck characters being granted powers that make their lives worse somehow]]. |
| 787 | * MysteriousAntarctica: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Antarctica exists]], in any capacity. |
| 788 | * Mystical108: The number 108 appears in any context. Symbolism optional. |
| 789 | * MysticalIndia: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs India exists.]] [[InterchangeableAsianCultures For that matter]], ''[[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Persia]]'' [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs exists]]. |
| 790 | * MythologyGag: This part of this work is kind of like this other installment from the same franchise. |
| 791 | [[/folder]] |
| 792 | |
| 793 | [[folder:N-Z]] |
| 794 | * NameOrderConfusion: |
| 795 | ** You personally were confused by foreign name orders. Yes, that would be an {{Audience Reaction|s}} -- the lack of a [[YMMV/HomePage YMMV]] banner for this must be a mistake. |
| 796 | ** [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Non-English name orders exist.]] |
| 797 | * NaziNobleman: When this trope appears in a work, you are to complain, vehemently, about the historical inaccuracy—never mind that many officers of the German armed forces were indeed noblemen, never mind that most of those noblemen indeed preferred Nazism to democracy irrespective of their opinion on Hitler as a leader, and never mind that almost all of them were fully on board with the regime’s antisemitism, including the Holocaust—the July 20 plot existed, therefore all nobles were anti-Nazi. And furthermore, it is of utmost importance that the reader comes to believe that the Troper who added the example is a Wehraboo, so keep up those Administrivia/{{Justifying Edit}}s! |
| 798 | * NetworkDecay: |
| 799 | ** A network keeps airing a show you don't like. |
| 800 | ** If someone claims that a network you like is suffering with this, overload the example with Justifying Edits and move it to the Unique Situations subpage. This strategy is foolproof and will demonstrate your love for the network, even if the change is as drastic as moving from scripted dramas to game shows. |
| 801 | * NeverSayDie: Any work where defeated characters are not explicitly referred to as dead. Remember to also list aversions every time death is mentioned. |
| 802 | * NeverTrustATrailer: |
| 803 | ** Use this to complain how a work would have been more successful had they done a better job with marketing. |
| 804 | ** A work doesn't end up going the way you thought because your speculation based on the trailer was incorrect, regardless if the footage in question still makes perfect sense in context. |
| 805 | * NiceGuy: Every character falls under either the Nice Guy or {{Jerkass}} tropes, so add this for everyone who doesn't go out of their way to make others miserable. |
| 806 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: Pothole here whenever you're talking about any action that had a negative outcome. Being called out for it is optional. If you hate the character who performed the action, this is a ''must''! |
| 807 | * NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Anything that can be described with three or more adjectives. |
| 808 | * NobodyPoops: List {{aversion}}s at any moment in which a character needs to potty. Disregard that the trope is {{lampshade}}-only because bathroom breaks in fiction are as common as no bathroom breaks in fiction. |
| 809 | * NoFairCheating: |
| 810 | ** [[CheatersNeverProsper A character who cheated in-story is punished for it in the end.]] |
| 811 | ** Adultery is portrayed as bad, and the adulterer is punished for their deeds. |
| 812 | * NoFourthWall: In addition to the standard definition of "this work never actually pretends not to know that it's fiction", keep in mind that when [[BreakingTheFourthWall a work which normally pretends it's not fiction briefly acknowledges that it is]], that's also this trope -- we call it "a NoFourthWall moment", because there is definitely no other trope that fits that situation more precisely. |
| 813 | * NoHuggingNoKissing: |
| 814 | ** One or two characters are asexual. |
| 815 | ** Characters never hug or kiss. Nobody's disputing that. But showing sexuality or romance? Perfectly fine. |
| 816 | * NoJustNo: Pothole this to any line about something you think is stupid, disgusting, or you just don't like, ignoring the fact that it was renamed to NoJustNoReaction, making it Administrivia/InUniverseExamplesOnly. |
| 817 | * NominalHero: |
| 818 | ** A catchier term for AntiHero. Why AntiHero would have a sub-trope for itself is a mystery. |
| 819 | ** A ruthless hero with [[UnscrupulousHero good intentions]]. |
| 820 | ** If you hate a character, use this to [[RonTheDeathEater exaggerate their negative traits or actions]]. |
| 821 | ** JerkSue, except you can put it on objective pages. |
| 822 | * NonIndicativeName: When a name, such as a work's title, [[ArtifactTitle used to mean something relevant, but things changed and now it doesn't]], then it becomes a Non-Indicative Name. The process of a name losing meaning isn't a trope of its own, and should never be considered, because we're Administrivia/{{lumper|VsSplitter}}s around here. |
| 823 | * NonMaliciousMonster: A good place to get angry about antagonistic predatory animals. Don't forget to shove down the readers' throats about how all predators are just animals trying to survive, and forget that the prey are also trying to survive as well. |
| 824 | * NoodleIncident: Any time someone mentions "the [x] incident". |
| 825 | * NoPlotNoProblem: [[PlayTheGameSkipTheStory People don't care much for a game's story]].[[invoked]] |
| 826 | * NorseByNorsewest: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Scandinavia exists.]] |
| 827 | * NorthernIrishAndNasty: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Northern Ireland exists.]] |
| 828 | * NotDistractedByTheSexy: |
| 829 | ** You find a character attractive, and cannot BELIEVE that every other character is not gazing at them 100 percent of the time without immediately getting aroused and forgetting what they were doing. |
| 830 | ** A character wears skimpy clothing, and no one comments on it. Bonus points if its historically inaccurate, so make sure mention at length how the sight of a bare midriff would have turned every Victorian man in a 500 mile radius into howling bonobos with a room-temperature IQ. Ignore any sort of ArtisticLicenseHistory or mythologizing/stylizing of the past going on, it's very important that people realize how bad the work is because of this. |
| 831 | ** You personally do not find the {{Fanservice}} in the work appealing. |
| 832 | * NotEvilJustMisunderstood: |
| 833 | ** [[DracoInLeatherPants Downplay or ignore an evil and/or loathsome character's actions and/or flaws]] by listing their ([[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk usually]]) genuine PetTheDog moments. |
| 834 | ** DesignatedVillain, except you can put it on objective pages. |
| 835 | * TheNothingAfterDeath: This means "there is nothing after death", in the sense that [[CessationOfExistence when you die, you're gone]]. There is no other possible interpretation of that phrase that you might need to worry about when considering subtle trope distinctions. |
| 836 | * NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: Pothole to this trope to emphasize how weird and unbelievable something is. It's not like this trope has already been renamed before to prevent it. |
| 837 | * NoTrueScotsman: |
| 838 | ** If you hate certain fans of a work you like, pothole to this when claiming they "aren't real fans". It's not like that crosses into calling people FanDumb (which totally isn't FlameBait), and it doesn't matter that the wiki has [[Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease restrictions]] in place to prevent this from being applied to real people. |
| 839 | ** [[FakeScot A non-Scottish actor pretends to be a Scottish character]]. |
| 840 | * NotSoDifferent: A similarity exists between these characters. This is great for complaining about [[DesignatedHero supposedly heroic]] characters you don't like, by pointing out vague and unintentional similarities between them and the villains. For example: "The villain is a mass murderer, but the hero also kills a few {{Mooks}} in self defense, so he's nearly just as heinous". Characters actually noticing and pointing out their similarity is optional. It's not like we renamed the trope to NotSoDifferentRemark for a reason. |
| 841 | * NuclearWeaponsTaboo: A fictional setting has a taboo against the use of nuclear weapons. There is absolutely no chance that this trope could possibly about the taboo against depictions of nuclear warfare in Japanese media. |
| 842 | * NukeEm: Nuclear weapons exist. Failing that, [[FantasticNuke something remotely comparable to a nuclear weapon]] exists. |
| 843 | * TheNthDoctor: A trope that must be potholed whenever you mention [[Series/DoctorWho The Doctor]] on a trope page. |
| 844 | * NWordPrivileges: Every single reference to the N-word should be {{pothole}}d to this trope, regardless of who's saying it or whether they're discussing how only black people can use that word. |
| 845 | * ObviouslyEvil: ObviousJudas, except you can put it on objective pages. |
| 846 | * OddballInTheSeries: An installment of a franchise has one or two anecdotal and mild differences with the others. Then seize the opportunity to [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks complain about it]]. |
| 847 | * OhCrap: |
| 848 | ** Scary and shocking things in general. |
| 849 | ** Any time a character says "Oh Crap!" |
| 850 | ** Any moment which might make the audience briefly panic. |
| 851 | ** Pothole to this page to emphasize how scary something is. |
| 852 | * {{Oireland}}: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Ireland exists.]] |
| 853 | * {{Oktoberfest}}: |
| 854 | ** [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Bavaria exists.]] |
| 855 | ** [[ItsAlwaysMardiGrasInNewOrleans The story takes place during Oktoberfest.]] |
| 856 | * OlderThanTheyLook: You personally think someone looks young for their age. In-universe acknowledgement is optional. |
| 857 | * OmnipresentTropes: |
| 858 | ** Tropes that can be used to pad out the trope list of almost any work. |
| 859 | ** [[Administrivia/ExamplesAreNotGeneral Tropes that are so common there's no point in listing specific examples, so just list a bunch of vague statements like "almost every [type of work] has this".]] |
| 860 | ** Since Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs refers to concepts that are too common, while anyone who says Administrivia/NoTropeIsTooCommon is lying, this category is filled to the brim with Chairs. |
| 861 | * OnlyInFlorida: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Florida exists.]] |
| 862 | * OnlyInItForTheMoney: Use this to complain about your least favorite author being a hack that doesn't care about making quality stories. |
| 863 | * OnlyInMiami: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Miami exists.]] Sub-trope of OnlyInFlorida. |
| 864 | * OopNorth: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Northern England exists.]] |
| 865 | * OpeningACanOfClones: As the name suggests, this is a trope exclusively about clones and doppelgangers. We have no idea why there are so many examples on the page talking about time travel, resurrection, and multiverse theory instead -- this is clear misuse and they should be removed. |
| 866 | * OrcusOnHisThrone: |
| 867 | ** A character doesn't spend the entirety of their screentime in action. |
| 868 | ** JustForFun/PeopleSitOnChairs, except you can add it to main pages. |
| 869 | * OriginalCharacter: A new character introduced in an IntercontinuityCrossover. That is most definitely not [[OriginalGeneration its own trope]]. Bonus points if you don't like the character in question. |
| 870 | * OverlyLongGag: |
| 871 | ** [[OverusedRunningGag A running gag that has been done so many times that even the writers are kinda starting to get sick of it.]] |
| 872 | ** Repeat something over and over in something you write, then add a pothole to this trope somewhere in the text. |
| 873 | * OvershadowedByAwesome: You think this character isn't as strong, or just not as awesome, as other characters. |
| 874 | * OverusedRunningGag: Screw the Administrivia/InUniverseExamplesOnly rule, this is a page for recurring jokes of which are overused according to the ''audience''. |
| 875 | * PacManFever: A work changes a minor detail or gets something slightly wrong about your favourite game, even if it's just a nitpick or obvious ArtisticLicense? Stick it on there! |
| 876 | * PainfulPointyPufferfish: A pufferfish appears in a work. That's it. This especially applies if the pufferfish in question lacks the spines referenced by the trope name, such as if it's a fugu (and if it ''is'' a fugu, the fact that it's poisonous doesn't have to be relevant to the plot). |
| 877 | * ParentalBonus: A less wordy name for DemographicallyInappropriateHumour. |
| 878 | * ParodySue: MarySue, except you can put it on objective pages. Since 'parody' is in the trope's name, no one will know that you're unironically stating that a character is poorly written. |
| 879 | * PayEvilUntoEvil: Any time a good guy kills a bad guy, because shooting someone who was trying to murder you counts as evil. |
| 880 | * PerkyFemaleMinion: Any female minion that isn't (entirely) stoic. |
| 881 | * PerverseSexualLust: |
| 882 | ** Ignore that it's under Administrivia/InUniverseExamplesOnly and gladly talk about how much you want to bone the ActionGirl. |
| 883 | ** If not you, how about bringing up cults sexually revolving around a certain character? They are definitely works and not real life organisations. |
| 884 | * PetTheDog: |
| 885 | ** An evil character commits an act of kindness [[BadSamaritan which is later revealed to have a selfish purpose]]. |
| 886 | ** A character is hinted to have a nicer side, [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk but it turns out they don't]]. |
| 887 | * PhysicalGod: |
| 888 | ** A [[SuperpowerLottery really powerful]] RealityWarper, especially one who [[TheOmnipotent appears to have no limits on their power]]. The character qualifies even if they are neither worshipped in-universe nor treated as divine by the narrative. |
| 889 | ** A PersonOfMassDestruction. |
| 890 | * PissTakeRap: Any rap song you don't like. |
| 891 | * PlaceWorseThanDeath: Any CrapsackWorld in a work, even if it isn't a comedic jab towards a real-world location. |
| 892 | * PlatformHell: Any NintendoHard level in a PlatformGame. |
| 893 | * PolarBearsAndPenguins: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs The Earth's polar regions are portrayed accurately.]] |
| 894 | * PoliceBrutality: Cops get into fights. |
| 895 | * PoliticalCorrectnessIsEvil: Ignore the Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease warning, and use this to complain about the political left, whether by accusing the work of being a propaganda piece or decrying that a work you like was ruined by their censorship. |
| 896 | * PoliticalOvercorrectness: Administrivia/{{Complain|ingAboutShowsYouDontLike}} about something you think is too politically correct. |
| 897 | * PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Disregard the Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease warning, and use this to call real-life people bigots. Alternatively, use this to praise people who criticize something you think is a victim of PoliticalOvercorrectness. |
| 898 | * PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Disregard the Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease warning, and use this to call real-life people bigots. |
| 899 | * PomPomGirl: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Cheerleaders exist]]. |
| 900 | * ThePornomancer: LemonStu, except you can put it on objective pages. |
| 901 | * PragmaticVillainy: |
| 902 | ** Any character who could be called a villain does anything that could be considered in any way pragmatic. No, there isn't some more specific meaning that you're missing; that's really all there is to it. |
| 903 | ** Use this to invalidate any apparent redeeming qualities a villain might have (especially qualities covered under EvenEvilHasStandards) if you want the villain to be a CompleteMonster. |
| 904 | * PrecisionFStrike: Any instance of the word "fuck" that isn't [[ClusterFBomb being said multiple times in a short timeframe]] or [[AtomicFBomb at a high volume]]. For extra fun, insert gratuitous swearing into your [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] examples for emphasis and then pothole the swear to this trope. |
| 905 | * PredatorsAreMean: A good place to get angry about antagonistic predatory animals. Don't forget to shove down the readers' throats that their prey constantly struggles to survive, and forget that the predators are also trying to survive as well. |
| 906 | * PrefersGoingBarefoot: Anyone who [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs doesn't wear shoes 24/7]] clearly prefers not to wear them at all. It's not like this was renamed from "Does Not Like Shoes" for clarification. |
| 907 | * PrehistoricMonster: An excellent place to rant and rave about ArtisticLicensePaleontology and how dinosaurs are just animals trying to survive. Because modern animals are ''[[SarcasmMode never ever]]'' portrayed in a [[ScaryAnimalsIndex similar manner]], and only prehistoric life suffers from this. |
| 908 | * PreserveYourGays: Any LGBT character who survives even if there're plenty other LGBT characters who die in the work. |
| 909 | * PretentiousPronunciation: |
| 910 | ** Use this trope to tell people how to pronounce things correctly. It's not like we renamed it from It Is Pronounced Tro-PAY for this very reason. |
| 911 | ** Complain about pronunciations you think are unintuitive. |
| 912 | * ProtagonistCenteredMorality: |
| 913 | ** Like DesignatedHero, except it goes on objective trope pages. Use this to complain about protagonists you dislike. |
| 914 | ** The protagonist or someone on the protagonist's side does something morally ambiguous, even if they aren't treated in the right for doing it. |
| 915 | * PsychoLesbian: Any villainous woman attracted to other women. Her being [[{{Yandere}} unhealthily obsessed with the heroine]] in order to imply that [[ValuesDissonance homosexuals are incapable of true loving relationships]] is optional. |
| 916 | * {{Pun}}: Pothole to this page whenever you make a pun. |
| 917 | * PunctuatedForEmphasis: The perfect trope for when you're itching for a pothole. Awkwardly force it in for some [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Sweet. Pothole. Action.]] |
| 918 | * PungeonMaster: |
| 919 | ** A character made a pun once or twice. |
| 920 | ** A character made an AccidentalPun on at least one occasion. |
| 921 | * PurpleIsPowerful: A character you like wears purple. |
| 922 | * PutOnABus: |
| 923 | ** A character [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome disappears without fanfare during a series at some point and doesn't return, at least not for a long while]]. |
| 924 | ** A character [[CommutingOnABus drops in and out of the story in intervals]]. |
| 925 | ** A character leaves a story for a handful of episodes. Or even a single episode. Or even just half of an episode. |
| 926 | * PuzzleBoss: |
| 927 | ** A DamageSpongeBoss you can defeat with a CheeseStrategy. |
| 928 | ** A boss with a unique mechanic. You know what? Scratch that, it can even be a semi-unique mechanic that the game doesn't attempt to hide from you. |
| 929 | ** A boss that takes even a modicum of critical thinking to defeat successfully. |
| 930 | ** Little known fact: this trope can actually mean whatever you want! Use it to list any and all bosses in the game which you personally found hard or defeated unconventionally. |
| 931 | ** Complain about how [[ThatOnePuzzle the solution to the boss is too hard to figure out]] and make sure to [[Administrivia/WalkthroughMode give needlessly elaborate and detailed instructions on how to beat it]]. |
| 932 | * PuzzlingPlatypus: Any time platypuses are mentioned. Mentioning that they are weird is optional. After all, the site cut Everything's Better with Platypi so examples could be listed here instead. |
| 933 | * QueerPeopleAreFunny: An LGBT+ character is at any point involved in a comedic moment. Because this trope is praising the queer community for their great sense of humor, and not about demeaning jokes being made at their expense. |
| 934 | * {{Qurac}}: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs The Middle East exists.]] |
| 935 | * RaptorAttack: An excellent place to rant and rave about ArtisticLicensePaleontology. Be sure to use [[FanMyopia lots of esoteric jargon that assumes everyone knows as much about dinosaurs as you do.]] Don't be afraid to shame the creators for being stupid science-hating, anti-intellectualists and accuse the work of trying to spread horrific misinformation that will irreparably damage science's credibility. |
| 936 | * RatedMForManly: |
| 937 | ** [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs A character is manly]]. |
| 938 | ** [[ManlyMan A man is manly]]. |
| 939 | ** Pothole this trope to any example, mention, or perceived mention of manliness in the work. The trope name is quirky and must therefore be sinkholed everywhere! |
| 940 | ** This is the exact same thing as TestosteronePoisoning, so feel free to use them interchangeably. Both trope names have that quirky, "wild west" era feel to them, so it's obligatory you sinkhole either or both of them whenever possible. |
| 941 | * ReallyGetsAround: LemonStu, except you can put it on objective pages. |
| 942 | * RealMenWearPink: |
| 943 | ** A male character wears pink. |
| 944 | ** A male character is [[InTouchWithHisFeminineSide outwardly feminine and isn't considered all the more traditionally masculine for it]]. |
| 945 | * RealWomenHaveCurves: The supertrope to BuxomBeautyStandard and ChubbyChaser. |
| 946 | * TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: A character insults another character. |
| 947 | * {{Reconstruction}}: Like the opposite of a {{Deconstruction}}, but even more awesome! |
| 948 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: In addition to normal examples, make especially sure to list absolutely every character who [[TechnicolorEyes has red eyes but isn't evil]] as an {{aver|tedTrope}}sion. This is very, very important. |
| 949 | * RedOniBlueOni: |
| 950 | ** A work contains a character who wears red and another character who wears blue. |
| 951 | ** A work contains a high-energy character and a low-energy character. |
| 952 | ** [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs A work contains two non-identical characters.]] |
| 953 | * RefugeInAudacity: [[CrossesTheLineTwice A joke that is so inappropriate, it goes back to being funny]][[note]]Most of this misuse probably comes from the trope VulgarHumor, which actually fits this definition, and used to be called "RefugeInVulgarity", possibly causing confusion between these two tropes[[/note]]. |
| 954 | * RiddleForTheAges: |
| 955 | ** An excuse to sneak in complaining on objective pages. Things like "Why is this awful show still running?" and [[DisappointingLastLevel "Why does the final level suck so much when the rest of the game is so awesome?"]] totally count as legitimate mysteries. |
| 956 | ** Any mystery within a work or series, even if it does eventually get an answer in a later installment or in supplemental material. |
| 957 | ** An extremely trivial mystery that is unanswered because the author didn't intend for it to exist in the first place ("why is this specific MemeticBystander present in the background of this scene when this contradicts these overthought facts?"). |
| 958 | ** A mystery that is unanswered simply because the fans didn't do enough research yet ("what is the name of the stock music that plays during this scene?") |
| 959 | ** The same as FridgeLogic, except that you can put it on the main page. |
| 960 | * {{Roboteching}}: Bullets whose trajectories are not straight. |
| 961 | * RocksFallEveryoneDies: A group of people are killed or otherwise harmed by falling rocks or other heavy objects. |
| 962 | * RogerRabbitEffect: Any use of CGI in a live-action work, especially if it's [[SpecialEffectFailure particularly unconvincing]] but meant to be taken as real. |
| 963 | * RuleOfThree: |
| 964 | ** Any time there is three of something. |
| 965 | ** The third item in a list with [[WritersCannotDoMath more than three items]]. |
| 966 | * RuleThirtyFour: Someone, somewhere, created pornography featuring the characters from this work, which is definitely a trope that appears ''in this work''. |
| 967 | * RuleSixtyThree: |
| 968 | ** [[GenderBender A character's gender is changed in-universe by magic or similar phlebotinum.]] |
| 969 | ** Someone, somewhere, drew genderbent FanArt of this work, which is definitely a trope that appears ''in this work''. |
| 970 | * RunningGag: A PotHole you use whenever you type out a running gag used in a work. |
| 971 | * {{Ruritania}}: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Eastern Europe exists.]] |
| 972 | * SadisticChoice: When your opponent in a board game forces you to choose between two or more bad moves. Hey, it frustrated you, so your opponent must be sadistic. |
| 973 | * SadistShow: |
| 974 | ** Complain about shows you think are too "mean-spirited". |
| 975 | ** Any show that contains at least one joke made at a character's expense or where bad/unfortunate things happen to characters, especially if you dislike the show. This is especially true if the character that has encountered misfortune is one you like or consider TheWoobie. |
| 976 | * SailorEarth: |
| 977 | ** MarySue, except you can put it on objective pages. |
| 978 | ** A SixthRanger in a canon work. |
| 979 | * SarcasmMode: Pothole to this page when you make a sarcastic comment. |
| 980 | * SatelliteCharacter: A place to complain about characters you dislike for having little focus and development or for not interacting very much with more relevant characters. |
| 981 | * SatelliteLoveInterest: |
| 982 | ** One half of a pairing [[DieForOurShip you despise]]. |
| 983 | ** Any LoveInterest character you dislike. |
| 984 | * ScarfOfAsskicking: A character you like wears a scarf. |
| 985 | * ScienceIsBad: |
| 986 | ** Chastise all media as propaganda to destroy scientific knowledge and intellectual institutions! Don't forget to cherry pick examples in a series that has also portrayed science positively. |
| 987 | ** Any and every time an invention goes wrong. |
| 988 | * {{Scotireland}}: A character speaks with a Gaelic accent. |
| 989 | * ScrewballSquirrel: A work contains at least one squirrel. [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs The squirrel(s) being mischievous is optional]]. |
| 990 | * ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: ChaoticGood, but you're allowed to list it on objective pages. |
| 991 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: A work had a JumpingTheShark moment, therefore pothole this to say that you gave up on the work right there and then. |
| 992 | * SemperFi: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs U.S. Marines exist.]] |
| 993 | * SerialEscalation: Like BeyondTheImpossible, any time something impressive happens. They didn't use to share a name for nothing. Just formulate your example as "how much more [adjective] can [thing] get?" and you can add almost anything. Bonus points if the thing is a negative meta fact, such as "How much worse can the writing get?" |
| 994 | * SeriesFauxnale: The end of a major segment of the work, like a series -- that's British for "season", and the Administrivia/AmericanAndCommonwealthSpellings rule means we can't ever rename it ever. It's also spelled "fauxnale" instead of "finale" by accident, because the troper who launched it had French as their first language. This bizarre and improbable set of coincidences adds up to making it look like this trope might have something to do with "series finale but not really" when it's definitely completely unrelated to that. |
| 995 | * SeriousBusiness: |
| 996 | ** [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Anytime anyone is serious in any work]]. |
| 997 | ** Describe a character's interests here, but overexaggerate and flanderize them to make it seem like those interests are more important than life itself for them, preferably by potholing to BerserkButton and using [[EmphasizeEverything overemphasized phrases]]. Example: "Do '''[[BerserkButton NOT]]''' get in the way of Alice eating a sandwich or she will [[GroinAttack string you up by your balls]] and [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment fillet you over hot coals]]" if Alice is noted to like eating sandwiches. |
| 998 | * TheShangriLa: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Tibet exists.]] |
| 999 | * ShapedLikeItself: Use a description to describe something as being like something, then pothole it to this trope using a pothole to this trope. |
| 1000 | * SharedUniverse: A cooler way of contextualizing a {{Crossover}}, even if no other sort of connectivity exists. |
| 1001 | * ShootTheDog: |
| 1002 | ** A dog gets shot. |
| 1003 | ** A synonym of MercyKill. |
| 1004 | * ShoutOut: |
| 1005 | ** This part of this show is kind of like this other show. Bonus points if the other show wasn't released while the episode was being written. |
| 1006 | ** Remember to also list any Shout-Outs the show has received. It's not like we have ReferencedBy for that. [[note]]In fairness, most examples that fit this definition were probably added before ReferencedBy was a thing on this wiki.[[/note]] |
| 1007 | ** Don't forget that retroactive Shout-Outs qualify as Shout-Outs too! An excellent way to sneak HilariousInHindsight examples onto the main page. |
| 1008 | * SickeninglySweet: A way to sneak a complaint about how sweet something is if your SweetnessAversion example isn’t allowed. |
| 1009 | * SickeninglySweethearts: A pairing you don't like. |
| 1010 | * SilverFox: Any elderly character ''you'' find attractive. Being intentionally portrayed as such is optional. |
| 1011 | * SincerityMode: Like NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer, pothole to this whenever you want to emphasize how unbelievable yet true something is. |
| 1012 | * SirSwearsALot: Exactly what it sounds like, a person who [[ClusterFBomb swears a lot]]. Whether or not they swear harder or more frequently than other characters in the work is irrelevant. |
| 1013 | * SmallNameBigEgo: The creator of a work you don't like, when they try to defend themselves against trolls who insult their work. |
| 1014 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: A character you like who doesn't get much screen time. |
| 1015 | * TheSmartGuy: EinsteinSue, except you can put it on objective pages. |
| 1016 | * SmellySkunk: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Skunks exist]]. |
| 1017 | * SmugSnake: A character who got rejected by the MagnificentBastard cleanup thread. |
| 1018 | * TheSociopath: |
| 1019 | ** Like HateSink above, any villain or [[{{Jerkass}} unsympathetic character]] qualifies. |
| 1020 | ** If you hate a character, use this to [[RonTheDeathEater exaggerate their negative traits or actions]]. |
| 1021 | * SoUnfunnyItsFunny: SoBadItsGood [[AC:but for jokes]]! Like SoBadItsGood, this goes on the work's YMMV page if it doesn't happen InUniverse. |
| 1022 | * SouthOfTheBorder: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Mexico exists.]] |
| 1023 | * SpaghettiAndGondolas: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Italy exists.]] |
| 1024 | * TheSpeechless: Any time a character is not currently actively in the process of speaking. |
| 1025 | * {{Spexico}}: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Spain and/or Mexico exist.]] |
| 1026 | * SpicyLatina: |
| 1027 | ** [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Latinas exist]]. |
| 1028 | ** You personally find a Latina in the work attractive. Be sure to describe them as fetishistically as possible or your example doesn't count. |
| 1029 | * SpiritualAntithesis: |
| 1030 | ** [[Laconic/SpiritualAntithesis A work with a comparable setup to a past/contemporary work, but a distinctly different execution.]] And the difference in execution is that [[Administrivia/ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike one sucks]] while the other doesn't. |
| 1031 | ** Also remember to throw in a potshot at the [[FanDumb worst fans of the work]] by contrasting the different reasons why you hate them (e.g. "Fans of Work A are always whining about how much the new episode sucks, while fans of Work B mindlessly praise it and reject any criticism"). |
| 1032 | * SpoiledSweet: |
| 1033 | ** Every rich character who is not a (complete) SpoiledBrat. |
| 1034 | ** Any child who's spoiled without being a SpoiledBrat, regardless of how much money their family has. |
| 1035 | * SpotlightStealingSquad: |
| 1036 | ** Complain about characters you feel receive too much focus. |
| 1037 | ** CreatorsPet but you can put it on objective pages. |
| 1038 | * TheStarscream: Any time the trope-naming character Starscream from ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' makes an appearance in a work, even if he's not portrayed as plotting to overthrow the BigBad. |
| 1039 | * StatuesqueStunner: |
| 1040 | ** Any tall female character you think is attractive. Being intentionally portrayed as such is optional. |
| 1041 | ** [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Tall women exist]]. |
| 1042 | * StealthPun: Any pun or wordplay, no matter how obvious. The "Stealth" is just there to save you the burden of typing curly braces. |
| 1043 | * StoryBranchFavoritism: {{Administrivia/Complain|ingAboutShowsYouDontLike}} about StoryBranching routes you don't like, regardless of the route's content and/or gameplay. |
| 1044 | * StoryBreakerPower: |
| 1045 | ** Like GodModeSue, except it's an objective trope and not FlameBait so you can put it on any page you want! |
| 1046 | ** A plot is easily resolved by a character with superpowers. |
| 1047 | * StraightMan: A heterosexual male character. |
| 1048 | * StrawberryShorthand: |
| 1049 | ** [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Any time strawberries are mentioned or shown for any reason]]. |
| 1050 | ** Any character who is named "Ichigo" even if it's not a MeaningfulName. |
| 1051 | * StrawCharacter: A character who pushes an opinion you don't like, even if they're portrayed as right or the author was going for BothSidesHaveAPoint. |
| 1052 | * SuicidalOverconfidence: Ignore that this is specifically about {{mook}}s in video games, and link to this whenever someone dies due to being overconfident. |
| 1053 | * SummerCampy: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Summer camps exist]]. |
| 1054 | * SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: |
| 1055 | ** Any action or plot point that is slightly realistic. |
| 1056 | ** A supernatural power turns out to have some unforeseen drawbacks. Because magical powers are totally realistic. |
| 1057 | ** Pessimistic {{Hard Truth Aesop}}s. Because cynicism and realism are totally synonymous with each other! |
| 1058 | ** Just list whole pages' worth of things not going as characters expect! |
| 1059 | * SuperDickery: A character acts like a dick. |
| 1060 | * SympathyForTheDevil: Interchangable with AlasPoorVillain. |
| 1061 | * TakeThat: A page you link to whenever you make a hilarious insult against a work you don't like. |
| 1062 | * ATasteOfTheLash: An alternative name for WhipItGood, as in [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs a character who uses a whip as a weapon]]. What do you mean WhipItGood was disambiguated because of Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs? Well, they clearly forgot to get rid of this completely identical-in-every-way trope, so use this to replace WhipItGood going forward. [[SchmuckBait No need to actually read the trope description or anything]]. |
| 1063 | * TheTetrisEffect: [[JustOneMoreLevel A character plays an addictive video game]], even if thoughts of the game don't end up being overly persistent when they stop playing. |
| 1064 | * ThatOneCase: A funnier name for ThatOneLevel when referring to a difficult section from a game in the MysteryFiction genre. Don't worry about it being an objective trope, you can put it on the YMMV page anyway. |
| 1065 | * ThirtySecondsOverTokyo: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Tokyo exists.]] |
| 1066 | * ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: |
| 1067 | ** Any sentence that ends with "bitch", even if the speaker is actually calling someone else a bitch and not just adding that word there for emphasis. |
| 1068 | ** The word "bitch" as a whole, said in any context and in any tone of voice. If you write an example that contains the word "bitch", be sure to pothole the word to this trope. |
| 1069 | * ThisIsGonnaSuck: |
| 1070 | ** A page that should be linked to before describing: |
| 1071 | *** A very bad work ("The work I'm about to describe sucks"). |
| 1072 | *** [[ThatOneLevel A difficult part of a video game]] ("This level is going to suck"). |
| 1073 | *** A UsefulNotes page on a real person who is controversial. |
| 1074 | ** Pothole to this page to emphasize how scary something is. |
| 1075 | * ThoseTwoGuys: There are two male characters that are associated with each other in some way. |
| 1076 | * ThoseWackyNazis: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Nazis exist]]. |
| 1077 | * TipisAndTotemPoles: This is not a trope about how indigenous Americans are commonly portrayed as one homogeneous monoculture. [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs That Native Americans exist is a trope on its own.]] |
| 1078 | * TitleDrop: |
| 1079 | ** Pothole here whenever you say the trope name in said trope's article. |
| 1080 | ** A work named after a main character or primary setting mentions its main character or primary setting in the dialogue dozens of times. |
| 1081 | * ToiletHumour: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Urine, faeces, and/or flatulence exist]]. |
| 1082 | * {{Tomboy}}: |
| 1083 | ** If someone is not the most GirlyGirl in the world, ever wears [[PinkGirlBlueBoy blue]] or pants, doesn't curl her hair or keeps it short, or anyone else around is even slighty more more girly than her, she's a hardcore tomboy. |
| 1084 | ** Bonus if she plays outside. Feminine girls never play outside, ever. |
| 1085 | * TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: A {{Tomboy}} wore pink or a skirt once, has long hair (bonus if it's curly, cause curly hair is girly hair) or was nice to someone. |
| 1086 | * TokyoIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Tokyo exists... in anime.]] |
| 1087 | * TooDumbToLive: |
| 1088 | ** A character you don't like dies or has something bad happen to them. |
| 1089 | ** The name is purely figurative and refers to characters who are extremely stupid, especially if ''you'' think they are. Whether their stupidity leads to their death is irrelevant. |
| 1090 | ** Forget characters, use this for any RealLife person or group that does something you find to be extremely stupid. After all, what better way to insult someone than to imply they shouldn’t live? |
| 1091 | * TooFunnyToBeEvil: |
| 1092 | ** A funny character turns out to be GoodAllAlong. |
| 1093 | ** Every single character with a sense of humor are genuinely the good guys. |
| 1094 | * TooPowerfulToLive: |
| 1095 | ** A powerful character dies. How powerful they are, and how they'd impact the story, is irrelevant. |
| 1096 | ** TooCoolToLive, except you can put it on objective pages. |
| 1097 | * ToServeMan: A character or creature eats humans. It doesn't matter if they eat them without cooking or otherwise preparing them first, or are an unintelligent animal that primarily eats humans. You will notice that this is the same definition as ImAHumanitarian, so feel free to use them interchangeably. |
| 1098 | * TorosYFlamenco: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Spain exists.]] |
| 1099 | * TrademarkFavoriteFood: A character is seen enjoying a certain food a few times. |
| 1100 | * {{Tradesnark}}: |
| 1101 | ** Snark about trademarks being marked as trademarks in contexts that you personally find silly. You might think this would constitute an AudienceReaction, but it doesn't, because reasons. |
| 1102 | ** Complain about trademark and copyright enforcement you don't like. Again, the fact that this isn't filed under YMMV shouldn't give you pause -- actually, it just means that TV Tropes officially considers your complaint an objective fact about the work. |
| 1103 | * TragicDropout: A character doesn’t finish secondary school, even if they go on to have a successful adult life and career. |
| 1104 | * TragicVillain: |
| 1105 | ** Any villain with a sad backstory, even if they're enjoying their villainy instead of feeling that they have no choice. |
| 1106 | ** If you like a villain or {{Jerkass}}, [[DracoInLeatherPants list your headcanon on why they're actually tragic figures, even when the story states otherwise]]. |
| 1107 | * TransEqualsGay: |
| 1108 | ** A transgender character just happens to be attracted to the gender they were assigned at birth. |
| 1109 | ** A transgender character just happens to be attracted to their actual gender. |
| 1110 | ** [[PersonalDictionary You personally use the word]] "gay" as an umbrella term like "queer" to cover the entire LGBT spectrum including transhets. |
| 1111 | * {{Trope}}: |
| 1112 | ** Any page on this wiki that isn't about a work. This includes... |
| 1113 | *** AudienceReactions and {{Trivia}} (aka "[[SubjectiveTropes YMMV tropes]]" and "trivia tropes"). Disregard the part where it is clearly stated that they are Administrivia/NotATrope. Of course, this means that audience reactions and trivia can be PlayedWith, because the author was clearly trying to play BrokenBase or TheScrappy and it's totally not just you trying to shoehorn in a complaint. |
| 1114 | *** UsefulNotes whose topic appears in the work. If a story is set in New York, link to UsefulNotes.NewYorkCity (instead of an actual trope like BigApplesauce or TheBigRottenApple). |
| 1115 | *** JustForFun pages like JustForFun/XMeetsY or SugarWiki/BetterThanItSounds. It's up to you to decide if they should go in the main trope list, the YMMV page, the Trivia page, or even a separate page in the [=JustForFun/=] namespace, because that's completely valid usage of that namespace.. |
| 1116 | *** [[IndexIndex Indices]] that don't explicitly have the word "Index" or "Tropes" in their name, such as PlotTwist. It's not like the index almost certainly contains a trope that more precisely represents what you're trying to convey. |
| 1117 | ** A {{Creator|s}} who appears in a work. As with the UsefulNotes mentioned above, Creators are perfect for padding out a work's trope list. |
| 1118 | ** You can even place examples of objective tropes on YMMV pages if it makes a work you like sound bad, as a way to [[Administrivia/ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike shoehorn in complaints]], or when [[Administrivia/ExamplesAreNotArguable you're not sure whether or not it qualifies]]. |
| 1119 | * TropeCodifier: Your favorite use of the trope! Bonus points if it's from a niche, obscure, and/or recent work. |
| 1120 | * TruckDriversGearChange: Any key {{modulation}} in any music, irrespective of its form. Whenever it happens, make sure to complain about it—if the trope were not inherently bad, it wouldn’t be [[DiscreditedTrope discredited]]. |
| 1121 | * {{Trumplica}}: |
| 1122 | ** Use this to list any [[RichBitch unpleasant wealthy and powerful character]], and insinuate that the real Donald Trump shares his flaws. |
| 1123 | ** Use this to list any [[UnclePennybags pleasant wealthy and powerful characters]], and insinuate that the real Donald Trump shares his good qualities. |
| 1124 | ** Any character (or even a real person) whose views are similar to Donald Trump's, even if it's coincidental. |
| 1125 | * {{Tsundere}}: |
| 1126 | ** A {{jerkass}} character that you {{ship|ping}} with someone. |
| 1127 | ** A JerkWithAHeartOfGold who is in love with someone. |
| 1128 | ** A female character who has expressed more than one emotion, ever. |
| 1129 | * TurnsRed: This is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin -- a character or object literally changing color to red, such as [[HighPressureEmotion because of intense anger]]. |
| 1130 | * {{Uberwald}}: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Romania exists.]] |
| 1131 | * UncertainDoom: A character is left in a critical situation in a {{Cliffhanger}} and will very likely revealed to be alive in the next episode or season. |
| 1132 | * {{Understatement}}: |
| 1133 | ** Pothole to this trope in order to emphasize how something is so good or bad that your own words cannot do it justice. |
| 1134 | ** Pothole your own understatements to this trope. |
| 1135 | * UndignifiedDeath: |
| 1136 | ** You don't like how a character was killed off. |
| 1137 | ** A character gets killed off sooner than you wanted. |
| 1138 | * TheUnfavourite: Any character who's disliked by one or more other characters. |
| 1139 | * UniversalTropes: [[OmnipresentTropes Tropes that are so basic to the very structure of storytelling itself that they appear in almost every work.]] |
| 1140 | * UnreliableNarrator: Use this to justify bad or criticized parts of your favorite work by claiming that it's only happening from one character's point of view and [[Administrivia/JustifyingEdit actually, to be fair, what really might've quite possibly happened]] was something entirely different from what was shown on-screen. It doesn't matter if there's little to no evidence the work has an unreliable narrator or even if the story is in third-person omniscient style! |
| 1141 | * UnsettlingGenderReveal: |
| 1142 | ** Any gender reveal, period, regardless of whether it's portrayed in a negative light or not. Don't worry, no one will point out that there are tropes that better suit what you're describing or that framing all gender reveals as "unsettling" is a [=ROCEJ=] violation. |
| 1143 | ** You are transphobic, so pothole this trope to any time [[ComingOutStory a character comes out as trans]], or better yet, [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs any time a transgender character appears in a story]].[[note]] TV Tropes does not condone hate speech of any kind; please do not actually do this.[[/note]] |
| 1144 | * UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: |
| 1145 | ** [[VillainProtagonist The protagonist is unambiguously evil]], even if they are [[AffablyEvil likable]]. |
| 1146 | ** DesignatedHero, except you can put it on objective pages. |
| 1147 | ** If you hate a character, use this to [[RonTheDeathEater exaggerate their negative traits or actions]]. |
| 1148 | ** The {{Jerkass}} behavior of the protagonist is PlayedForDrama. |
| 1149 | * VaryingTacticsBoss: A BossBattle whose attack pattern order is determined by GameplayRandomization. |
| 1150 | * VeryFalseAdvertising: Complain about [[NeverTrustATrailer promotional material for a work getting you hyped up for the work's release by promising things that turned out to be irrelevant to the story or not in it at all]]. |
| 1151 | * ViewersAreGeniuses: GeniusBonus, except you can put it on objective pages. |
| 1152 | * ViewersAreMorons: Whenever something is explained in a work you don't like. Obviously, the writers are so terrible, they aren't above insulting the audience's intelligence. Or the fans are so stupid they wouldn't be able to understand anything without constant explanations. |
| 1153 | * VillainHasAPoint: |
| 1154 | ** A villain gives a valid argument that [[InformedWrongness the author didn't intend]] to [[StrawmanHasAPoint be taken at face value]]. |
| 1155 | ** [[JerkassHasAPoint A mean or selfish character gives a valid argument]]. |
| 1156 | ** StrawmanHasAPoint, but it goes on objective pages and is interchangeable with JerkassHasAPoint. |
| 1157 | * VillainInAWhiteSuit: Any villain who wears white. Being WickedCultured and/or a mobster is optional. |
| 1158 | * VillainousFriendship: Two villains that both work togther and don't (entirely) hate each other. |
| 1159 | * VillainProtagonist: |
| 1160 | ** [[UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist An unlikable protagonist]]. Never mind that everything that they do is legal. |
| 1161 | ** A protagonist that commits evil deed that [[DesignatedHero the author didn't intend to be seen as evil]]. |
| 1162 | ** If you hate a character, use this to [[RonTheDeathEater exaggerate their negative traits or actions]]. |
| 1163 | * VillainyDiscretionShot: A villain's atrocities are offscreen. The crimes not being treated with the horror they should be is optional. |
| 1164 | * VillainyFreeVillain: DesignatedVillain, except you can put it on objective pages. |
| 1165 | * ViolationOfCommonSense: This is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin -- an easy excuse to complain when a video game violates your personal idea of what constitutes common sense. The ''only'' misuse of this trope is if it's used for non-video-game examples. There are no other criteria. |
| 1166 | * ViolentGlaswegian: A Scottish character does well in a fight. It doesn't matter if they fight enthusiastically or reluctantly, and it ''certainly'' doesn't matter if they're from Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee or the Isle of Skye. |
| 1167 | * TheVirus: Fictional diseases. |
| 1168 | * WaifFu: A female anime character you want to marry. |
| 1169 | * WalkingShirtlessScene: [[ShirtlessScene A normally fully clothed character is shown without a shirt.]] |
| 1170 | * WalkingSpoiler: Any character that is involved in a plot twist or has a SecretIdentity or secret motives, even if they do plenty of other stuff that isn't a spoiler. Bonus points if said plot twist [[FirstEpisodeTwist happens early on]] or is a minor and inconsequential one. |
| 1171 | * WallOfText: Whenever you don't feel like reading someone else's comment, just pothole to this. |
| 1172 | * WallsOfTyranny: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Any settlement with an oppressive regime surrounded by a wall.]] |
| 1173 | * WeaselWords: Use these if you want to make a definitive statement, but can't actually find anything backing up your claims. [[SelfDemonstratingArticle Experts agree that weasel words are a writer's best friend!]] |
| 1174 | * WhamEpisode: Technically, any good episode can qualify, but try to limit yourself to the definitions below to keep the StopHavingFunGuys from getting too upset. If you end up listing more than half of the episodes of the show, you're doing it right. |
| 1175 | ** Any episode that progresses the plot, even if the "progress" ends up being undone via SnapBack, NegativeContinuity, or ResetButton. |
| 1176 | ** An episode that starts a new StoryArc, even if [[StatusQuoIsGod the arc ends with everything going back to normal]]. |
| 1177 | ** A pilot with a FirstEpisodeTwist. |
| 1178 | ** Any episode which contains a WhamLine or WhamShot, even if the majority of the episode is about something else. |
| 1179 | ** Any episode that has any kind of emotional impact whatsoever, regardless of its effect on the story. |
| 1180 | * WhamLine: |
| 1181 | ** Any line of dialogue that reveals any new information, even if it was heavily {{foreshadow|ing}}ed. Bonus points if the line is in a recently released trailer and is only surprising if you had no idea what the trailer was for before the line. |
| 1182 | ** Any dramatic and memorable line that describes something that just blatantly happened onscreen (like announcing a character is dead right after they get beheaded) also qualifies. |
| 1183 | ** Things that aren't story related, like announcing the work's release date or a new entry in the series are also fair game for this trope. |
| 1184 | ** [[InternalReveal A line of dialogue that reveals something that the audience knew for years, maybe even decades]]. |
| 1185 | ** Any line that has any kind of emotional impact whatsoever, regardless of its effect on the story. |
| 1186 | * WhamShot: |
| 1187 | ** Any shot that reveals new information in a recently released trailer like a character showing up even though it's common knowledge by the time of the release. |
| 1188 | ** The moment in the first trailer for a work where an iconic character, item, or logo appears. Because merely learning what a work ''is'' counts as a radical change. |
| 1189 | ** Just like WhamLine, the shot doesn't have to be whammy for the audience. You can put examples of characters being surprised upon seeing something. |
| 1190 | ** Any shot that has... well, you know by now where we're going with this one. |
| 1191 | * WhatBeautifulEyes: You like this person's eyes. |
| 1192 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: An [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome important character]] or [[AbortedArc important plotline]] are suddenly dropped from the story. |
| 1193 | * WhatIf: |
| 1194 | ** Alternate name for the AlternateHistory trope. |
| 1195 | ** Any time a character asks a question starting with those words. |
| 1196 | * WhatTheHellHero: A character does something you disapprove of. Heck, it doesn't even have to be a character. Feel free to pothole to this trope to accuse the work's author of writing something you didn't like. |
| 1197 | * WhatYearIsIt: Any time a character asks someone what the current date is. |
| 1198 | * WhereDaWhiteWomenAt: A black man and a white woman are in a relationship. |
| 1199 | * WickedWasps: Any mention of the furless flying stinging insects. |
| 1200 | * AWizardDidIt: A mage is revealed to have been the culprit or mastermind. |
| 1201 | * WomenAreDelicate: A woman is present and does literally anything. |
| 1202 | * TheWorldIsJustAwesome: SugarWiki/GushingAboutShowsYouLike, except you can put it on objective pages. |
| 1203 | * WorldOfActionGirls: One or two characters are an ActionGirl. |
| 1204 | * WorldOfBadass: |
| 1205 | ** One or two characters are badass. |
| 1206 | ** A lot of characters are capable of fighting, but they're too incompetent to be threats. |
| 1207 | * WorldOfBuxom: One or two female characters have larger than average breasts. |
| 1208 | * WorldOfFunnyAnimals: One or two characters are animals. |
| 1209 | * WorldOfHam: One or two characters are hammy. |
| 1210 | * WorldOfJerkass: |
| 1211 | ** A series has many characters that you hate. |
| 1212 | ** As previously noted, simply being evil makes you a jerk, so the series is full of villains. AffablyEvil, what's that? |
| 1213 | ** The protagonist is [[UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist loathsome]], if not [[VillainProtagonist outright villainous]]. The other characters don't matter, as one character can make up a world if they hinder it enough. |
| 1214 | ** One or two characters are jerks. |
| 1215 | * WorldOfMuscleMen: One or two characters are muscular. |
| 1216 | * WorldOfNoGrandparents: |
| 1217 | ** One or two characters have no known grandparents. |
| 1218 | ** List aversions at any moment a grandparent appears or is mentioned by another character. |
| 1219 | * WorldOfPun: |
| 1220 | ** A pun is made once or twice throughout the work. |
| 1221 | ** A single PungeonMaster appears in a work. |
| 1222 | * WorldOfSnark: One or two characters are snarky. |
| 1223 | * AWorldWidePunomenon: Literally any time a {{pun}} is made. ''Especially'' if you're the one making it. Ignore that it redirects to WorldOfPun. Nobody clicks those [[Administrivia/{{Sinkhole}} "fun" potholes]] anyway. |
| 1224 | * WrittenInAbsence: On Recap pages, use this to list every character that didn't appear this episode. |
| 1225 | * WrongGenreSavvy: A character who makes at least one bad decision. |
| 1226 | * XanatosGambit: |
| 1227 | ** A character has a complex plan. |
| 1228 | ** A cooler version of BatmanGambit. You should always use this trope in place of BatmanGambit for characters that you like, and be sure to gush about how awesome and cool and mind-bendingly sick their plan was to differentiate it a from normal old BatmanGambit, even if it aligns one to one with the definition of that trope. |
| 1229 | * XtremeKoolLetterz: The word "blitz" is in the title. |
| 1230 | * {{Yandere}}: Any cute female character who happens to be AxCrazy. |
| 1231 | * YodelLand: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs The Alps exist.]] |
| 1232 | * YouBastard: |
| 1233 | ** A character calls somebody a bastard. |
| 1234 | ** A character does something bad, and some people in the audience want to call the character "bastard" in response. |
| 1235 | ** A character has parents that never got married. |
| 1236 | ** Any instance of VideoGameCrueltyPotential you think is excessive. |
| 1237 | * You Can Panic Now: A character tells another they can panic. Ignore the part where it says "nothing to do with ThisIsNoTimeToPanic". That's just FORKS propaganda. What do you mean, this trope was renamed to MediaScaremongering specifically to prevent this type of misuse? |
| 1238 | * YouTalkTooMuch: |
| 1239 | ** You think a character talks for way too long. In other words, a CharacterFilibuster you don't like. |
| 1240 | ** In the Characters page, apply this trope to the character with the most dialogue. |
| 1241 | * YoungerThanTheyLook: You personally think a character looks older than they actually are. In-universe acknowledgement is optional. |
| 1242 | * ZeroApprovalGambit: A character is HatedByAll and also has [[ThePlan a plan]]. No need for any kind of connection between these things. |
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