What are the characters trying to accomplish? Compare to Motivation Index which is what drives the character. While there is some overlap between goals and motivations, they are not always the same thing. Different characters may share the same goal, but have a different motivation. For example, a lawyer may be trying to Clear Their Name For Great Justice, or maybe they are Only in It for the Money.
For a villain's means, see Stock Evil Overlord Tactics.
Categories:
Tropes
- Aimlessly Seeking Happiness
- Appease the Volcano God
- Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence
- Assimilation Plot
- Avenging the Villain
- Become a Real Boy
- Bucket List
- Call of the Wild Blue Yonder
- Came Back with a Vengeance
- Clear My Name
- Clear Their Name
- Coloring in the World
- Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life
- Eastward Endeavor
- Ending by Ascending
- Escape from the Crazy Place
- Fantastic Nirvana
- Framing the Guilty Party
- Free the Frogs
- Get Back to the Future
- Goal in Life
- Godhood Seeker
- Going to See the Elephant
- Gotta Catch Them All
- Gotta Kill Them All
- Humble Goal
- Immortality Seeker
- In Their Own Image
- Make Wrong What Once Went Right
- Mission Creep
- Only Cares About Inheritance
- The Promised Land
- Pursue the Dream Job
- Quest for Identity
- Quest to the West
- Raised as a Host
- Redemption Quest
- Restrained Resistance, Reckless Rebellion: Various groups share the same goals (e.g. the overthrow of the Evil Overlord or The Empire) but because of their differing motivations and/or methods they sometimes clash.
- Revenge
- Run for the Border
- Save Our Students
- Saving Christmas
- Saving the Orphanage
- Save This Person, Save the World
- Saving the World
- Save Your Deity
- Seeking the Intangible
- Seeking Ultimate Strength
- Series Goal
- Set Right What Once Went Wrong
- Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum
- Take Over the City
- Take Over the World
- To Be a Master
