An index of tropes dealing with scenes of narrative, visual or auditory contrasts:
Tropes:
- Ad Dissonance: An ad clashes with reality in-universe.
- Art-Style Dissonance: An art style that doesn't match the story and setting.
- Bathos: A dramatic moment is deliberately undercut by humor.
- Birth-Death Juxtaposition: Showing one life being given and another one taken at the same time.
- Brightness Shadows: Shadows are used to show something is bright.
- Chiaroscuro: One light source leaves everything else in shadow.
- Civil War vs. Armageddon: Juxtaposing a mortal conflict where all sides have valid points, with The End of the World as We Know It Swamping said mortal conflict.
- Color Contrast: Using contrasting colors for symbolism.
- Contrast Montage: A sequence showing two situations of contrasting nature.
- Dangerously Garish Environment: A colorful place that is also deadly.
- Decade Dissonance: Different areas within the same setting with differing levels of technological development.
- Demographic-Dissonant Crossover: A crossover between two or more franchises meant for different audiences.
- Earth/Wind Juxtaposition: Earth and wind are portrayed as opposites, rivals or enemies.
- Fire/Water Juxtaposition: Fire and water motifs are used to contrast two things.
- Foil: Juxtaposing two characters for contrast.
- Hailfire Peaks: A level uses two contrasting settings.
- Interplay of Sex and Violence: Violence and sex happening around the same time as each other.
- Ironic Juxtaposition: A scene with two ironically conflicting elements.
- Juxtaposed Halves Shot: A composition of two contrast half-images.
- Juxtaposed Reflection Poster: A poster that shows something different in the character's supposed reflection.
- Juxtaposition Gag: Two completely unrelated things being put together for comedy.
- Life/Death Juxtaposition: Motifs of life and death are used to contrast two related elements.
- Light/Darkness Juxtaposition: A juxtaposition between darkness and light.
- Light/Fire Juxtaposition: Light and fire are symbolically contrasted.
- Lightning/Fire Juxtaposition: Lighting (or electricity) and fire together in one scene.
- Lightning/Wind Juxtaposition: Lightning paired together with wind.
- Lyrical Dissonance: Lyrics and music don't fit together.
- Lyrics/Video Mismatch: The lyrics and video to a song don't fit together.
- Mature Work, Child Protagonists: The age of the intended audience and the age of the protagonists don't quite match.
- Mood Dissonance: Something in the story clashes with its overall mood.
- Scenery Dissonance: Unpleasant events occurring in pleasant settings or vice versa.
- Soundtrack Dissonance: The mood conveyed by the soundtrack doesn't fit the rest of the scene.
- Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: Children Are Innocent is thoroughly subverted for drama.
- Two-Faced Aside: A lie told to one character juxtaposed with the truth told to another character.
- Unreliable Voiceover: A voiceover's narration doesn't match what's being shown.
- Vocal Dissonance: The voice doesn't match the character.
- Wedding/Death Juxtaposition: The happiness of a wedding contrasts with the sadness of a death.
- Yin-Yang Clash: Two supposedly invincible extremes (such as the God of Good and the God of Evil) fight each other.
