An Index for tropes about the senses: what they are, how they work (or fail to work), and/or the act of detecting sensations with them. Tropes that involve any of the five well-known human senses (Vision, Hearing, Touch, Smell, Taste) belong here, as do other biological sensory mechanisms (kinesthesia, echolocation, etc) and supernatural "Sixth Sense"-style variants.
Tropes:
General
- Bizarre Alien Senses: Aliens have senses that Earth lifeforms do not have.
- Brown Note: A mysterious thing that causes insanity or destruction when people view or hear it.
- Cranial Plate Ability: When a character acquires new abilities thanks to a steel piece implanted (accidentally or via surgery) in their head.
- Disability Immunity: Not having a sense means it can not be used against you.
- First Time Feeling
- FTL Travel Sickness: Traveling faster than light can cause people who aren't properly protected to have strange sensory experiences.
- Magical Sensory Effect
- My Sensors Indicate You Want to Tap That: An artificial intelligence points out when a person is attracted to someone.
- Mysterious Animal Senses
- Sense Freak
- Sense-Impaired Monster: A monster that lacks one or more sense but is very perceptive in its remaining ones.
- Sense Loss Sadness: An individual loses sensation and laments being unable to feel it anymore.
- Sensor Character: Detection as a superpower.
- Sensory Abuse
- Sensory Overload
- Sensory Tentacles
- Super-Senses
Vision
Hearing
- Accidental Ventriloquism: Thinking an inanimate object is speaking. The voice belongs to an out-of-sight character.
- Acoustic License
- Critical Annoyance
- Fooled by the Sound
- Hearing Voices
- Hell Is That Noise
- I Can't Hear You
- Loud of War
- Loud Sleeper Gag
- Misophonia Gag
- The Misophonic
- Most Annoying Sound
- Most Wonderful Sound
- Stress-Induced Mental Voices
- Super-Hearing
Smell
- Alluring Flowers
- Anticipatory Breath Spray
- Bitter Almonds
- Clothespin Nose Plug: Something smells so bad you'll use any object you can find to block it out.
- Evil Smells Bad: Evil characters have an unpleasant stench to mark them as evil.
- Follow Your Nose
- Good Smells Good: Good characters have a pleasant aroma to mark them as good.
- I Love the Smell of X in the Morning
- Humans Are Smelly: Non-humans consider humans to smell bad.
- Jerks Use Body Spray
- The Nose Knows
- Pheromones
- Signature Scent
- Smell Phone
- Smells of Death
- Smells Sexy
- Smelly Feet Gag
- Smelly Skunk
- Stink Bomb
- Stink Snub
- Stinky Flower
- They Have the Scent!
- Tomato Skunk Stink Cure: Bathing in tomato juice to wash off skunk smell after getting sprayed by skunks.
- Visible Odor: Using visuals to indicate a scent's presence.
- Weaponized Stench
- Wilting Odor: A smell is so awful that it's actually causing physical damage to its surroundings.
Touch
- Agony of the Feet: Getting hurt on one's feet.
- Fingore: Violence upon the fingers.
- Groin Attack: Getting injured in the crotch.
- Pain-Powered Leap
- Punch! Punch! Punch! Uh Oh...
Taste
- Eating Pet Food
- Evil Tastes Good
- Fingertip Drug Analysis
- Hot Sauce Drinking
- Instant Taste Addiction
- I Taste Delicious
- It Tastes Like Feet: A character complains about food they've eaten by claiming it tastes like something disgusting.
- A Tankard of Moose Urine
- Tastes Better Than It Looks
- Tastes Like Chicken
- Tastes Like Disdain
- Tastes Like Friendship
- Tastes Like Purple
- Unaffected by Spice
- You're Drinking Breast Milk
- You Taste Delicious
- You Won't Like How I Taste
Other
- The Empath
- Killing Intent
- Limb-Sensation Fascination
- Love Before First Sight
- Mentally Unwell, Special Senses
- My Significance Sense Is Tingling
- Non-Linear Character
- Spider-Sense: A character can sense danger before it happens and is therefore able to avoid it mere moments before the disaster occurs.
- Thermal Dissident: A character likes temperatures to be significantly colder or hotter than those around him.
