Tropes listed here limit all examples and wicks to In-Universe.
This means the trope is only to be listed when the reactions are from the characters or narration, not the viewers.
We find that a lot of tropes are about reactions, but that the reactions come from the characters or narration often enough that they become an objective trope. Even if they can be Audience Reactions, the tropes here are only to be noted when the characters and show have the reaction.
The reason for this is that otherwise too many trope pages would be overwhelmed with examples, since every work ever could apply. Depending on the trope, it could also easily turn into Gushing About Shows You Like or Complaining About Shows You Don't Like. Another reason is that listing Real Life examples could easily attract complaining and Flame Bait.
This also means that tropers should not Pothole the trope in lines when it's not actually in the show.
Compare No Real Life Examples, Please!, Character Reaction Index.
Compare/Contrast YMMV.
Tropes That Can Only Have In-Universe Examples
- Accidentally Real Fake Address
- Actually a Good Idea
- Actually Pretty Funny
- Adaptation Decay
- Annoying Laugh (Intended Audience Reaction examples are also permitted if backed by Word of God.)
- Aroused by Their Voice
- Auto-Incorrect
- Attack of the Political Ad
- Attractive Bent-Gender
- Awesome McCoolname
- Awesomeness Is Volatile
- Barely-There Swimwear
- Beautiful Singing Voice
- Beautiful Tears
- Better by a Different Name
- Beyond the Impossible
- The Bore
- Both Sides Have a Point
- Brain Bleach
- Bring My Brown Pants
- But Not Too Black
- Buxom Beauty Standard
- Buy or Get Lost
- Cannot Tell Fiction from Reality
- Captain Obvious
- Celebrity Resemblance
- Cheat Code
- Clickbait Gag
- Comically Missing the Point
- Comical Overreacting
- Compensating for Something
- Complaining About People Not Liking the Show
- Complaining About Shows You Don't Watch
- Constructive Criticism
- Cool, but Stupid
- Correction Bait
- "Could Have Avoided This!" Plot
- Crack is Cheaper
- Discredited Meme (also allows creator-acknowledged examples)
- Disappointed by the Motive
- Documentary of Lies
- Don't Explain the Joke
- Dramatically Missing the Point
- Dream Team
- Drinking Game
- Dude Looks Like a Lady
- Dude, Not Funny!
- Ear Worm
- Embarrassing but Empowering Outfit
- Endearingly Dorky
- Epic Fail
- Experience Entitlement
- Failed Attempt at Scaring
- Fake a Fight
- Fan Hater
- Felony Misdemeanor
- Freud Was Right
- Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse
- Game Night Fight
- Game Show Goofballs
- Giver of Lame Names
- Gold Digger
- Good Girl Gone Bad
- Good Is Boring
- Good-Looking Privates
- Grammar Correction Gag
- Guilty Pleasures
- Hated by All
- Head-Turning Beauty
- Hell Is That Noise
- Humans Are Bastards
- House Rules
- Identical Stranger
- If I Wanted X, I Would Y
- Implausible Deniability
- Impossibly Tacky Clothes
- Improv Comedy Is Inane
- Informed Attractiveness
- Inherently Attractive Profession
- Inhumanly Beautiful Race
- Internet Counterattack
- In-Universe Factoid Failure
- It's Fake Fur, It's Fine
- I Was Quite a Fashion Victim
- Jerkass Has a Point
- Jumping the Shark
- Justified Trope
- Just One More Level!
- Kill Steal
- Lame Pun Reaction
- Lampshaded the Obscure Reference
- Lesser Star
- Like a God to Me
- Love It or Hate It
- Love Makes You Uncreative
- Love the Product, Hate the Producer
- Magnum Opus
- The Man Is Sticking It to the Man
- Meal Ticket
- Mean Character, Nice Actor
- Missing White Woman Syndrome
- Mistaken Death Confirmation
- Mistaken for Profound
- Mixed Ancestry Is Attractive
- Music/Age Dissonance
- Namesake Institution
- Nerdgasm
- Nerds Are Sexy
- Nice Character, Mean Actor
- No Clear Leader
- "No. Just… No" Reaction
- Nostalgia Filter
- "Not Making This Up" Disclaimer
- "Not So Different" Remark
- Old People are Nonsexual
- Old Shame
- Once Done, Never Forgotten (meta examples go under Never Live It Down)
- Overused Copycat Character
- Overused Running Gag
- Painful Rhyme
- Parallel Porn Titles
- Personal Dictionary
- Perverse Sexual Lust
- Pet-Peeve Trope
- Political Correctness Is Evil
- Political Overcorrectness
- Prepositions Are Not to End Sentences With
- Pretentious Pronunciation
- Pretty Boy
- Pronouncing My Name for You
- Public Hater, Private Fan
- Rage Quit
- Refuge in Audacity
- Revenge Is Sweet
- Revenge via Storytelling
- Rock Me, Asmodeus!
- Russian Reversal
- Save Scumming
- Scandalgate
- Scars Are Ugly
- Screaming at Squick
- Shameless Self-Promoter
- She Is All Grown Up
- Sickeningly Sweet
- Snuff Film
- Squee
- Stacy's Mom
- Sturgeon's Law
- Subverted Trope (there has to be something in the show outright trying to make us think the trope is happening)
- Surprisingly Moving Song
- Sympathy for the Hero
- The Tetris Effect
- Theatre Is True Acting
- These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know
- This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!
- This Is Wrong on So Many Levels!
- Too Good to Be True
- Trashy True Crime
- Trauma Button
- True Art Is Angsty
- True Art Is Incomprehensible
- A True Story in My Universe
- Uncanny Valley (Intended Audience Reactions are also permitted)
- Understatement
- Unexpected Virgin
- Unfortunate Names
- Ungrateful Townsfolk
- Unwanted Assistance
- Victory Is Boring
- Viewers Are Morons
- Villain-by-Proxy Fallacy
- Villain Has a Point
- Watch It Stoned
- What the Hell, Hero?
- When She Smiles
- Where Do You Think You Are?
- Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?
- Who Writes This Crap?!
- Why Don't You Marry It?
- World of Jerkass
- X Called; They Want Their Y Back
- Yoko Oh No
