Nor will it ever exist.
This index page (which does not exist), is about everything non-existent. Beyond the veil of our perceived reality lies the great void of non-existence. Largely, it is science fiction that employs these tropes, as it is a common and popular theme is to bring into question whether or not our reality is really real.
Non-existence or 'nothing' can be used as a force in its own right, to build suspense, drama or used as a break from material things such as bright colors or loud noises. Negative Space or a vacuum is a good narrative tool for painting the boundaries for situations or to isolate worlds or characters. Things that don't exist can major points of interest in many genres and mediums.
See also Imagine All the Tropes.
These tropes do not exist:
- Absence of Evidence: The absence of a thing is a vital clue.
- Bald Head of Toughness: A tough character's hair does not exist.
- Bald Mystic: A mystical, supernatural, or wise character's hair does not exist.
- Bald of Authority: An authority figure's hair does not exist.
- Bald of Evil: A villain's hair does not exist.
- Baldness Angst: The fact that a character's hair does not exist makes them angsty.
- Baldness Mockery: A character is mocked because their hair does not exist.
- Blackground: The background of the area has nothing outside of pitch-blackness.
- Cessation of Existence: The idea that there is no afterlife and once a person dies, that's it.
- Empty Room Psych: You would expect this room to contain Video Game Characters or Video Game Rewards, but they don't exist.
- Invisible Bowstring: You would expect a bow that fires arrows to have a bowstring, but this time it doesn't exist.
- Missing Reflection: A mirror doesn't provide a vampire with their reflection.
- No Ontological Inertia: Destroying the being that has caused destruction causes the damages they've done to disappear.
- The Nothing After Death: The afterlife is nothing but an empty void.
- Nothing Is Funnier: Sometimes leaving things to the imagination is funnier.
- Nothing Is Scarier: Sometimes not knowing what something looks like is scarier than actually seeing it.
- Ontological Mystery
- Power of the Void
- Ret-Gone: Someone is erased from existence alongside all evidence and memory of their existence.
- Temporal Abortion: A time travel plot to end someone's existence by preventing them from ever being born.
- The Treachery of Images
- Un-Installment: A series mentions or alludes to installments that do not exist.
- Un-person: All evidence and records of a person's existence are eliminated or revised to make it seem as if they never did exist.
- Void Between the Worlds: A realm of complete and empty nothingness.
