Tropes relating to social or personal awkwardness.
Compare Index of Shame and Anxiety Tropes.
Tropes:
- Adorkable: The audience finds an awkward person cute.
- Air Hugging: Avoidance of full-on hugging.
- Amazingly Embarrassing Parents
- Awkward Father-Son Bonding Activity: Father tries to bond with son; son is not feeling it.
- Awkward First Sleepover
- Awkward Kiss
- Awkward Poetry Reading: A character awkwardly says a poem.
- "Awkward Silence" Entrance
- Awkward Stoplight Moment
- Backing Away Slowly: May be a reaction to awkwardness.
- Better with Non-Human Company: May be caused by being awkward around other people, but not things other than people.
- Cannot Talk to Women
- Caught with Your Pants Down
- Change the Uncomfortable Subject
- Chirping Crickets: Visual/audio representing silence, often of the awkward variety.
- Cringe Comedy: Comedy that evokes awkwardness for humor.
- Embarrassing Hospital Gown: Wearing a hospital gown is seen as embarrassing, bothersome, or humorous.
- Embarrassing Voicemail
- Endearingly Dorky: A character finds someone else's awkwardness cute.
- Fee Fi Faux Pas: Social blunders.
- Funny Conception Story
- Greeting Gesture Confusion: Mismatched greeting gestures can cause awkwardness, especially if they have different intimacy levels.
- Intentionally Awkward Title
- Intimate Lotion Application: Applying lotion on another character as a way to create sexual tension, romantic intimacy, awkwardness, or humor.
- Let Us Never Speak of This Again: A stock reaction to awkward moments.
- Mistaken for Bad Vision
- "No Peeking!" Request: A character requests another to turn away or not to look while they perform an action.
- No Sense of Personal Space: Often awkward for the person on the receiving end.
- No Social Skills
- Not Under the Parents' Roof: Parents are perturbed by the idea of their kids having sex at home.
- Overly Long Hug: A hug that goes on for too long becomes awkward.
- Parents Walk In at the Worst Time
- Please Put Some Clothes On
- Reluctant Fanservice Girl
- Shower of Awkward
- Socially Awkward Hero
- Sorry to Interrupt: Character catches another in a compromising position, leaves.
- The Talk: Having to explain sex to a child is very often awkward.
- Trapped with the Therapy Session: Being forced to be a witness to other people's relationship issues.
- Uncomfortable Elevator Moment
- Undressing the Unconscious: Can be awkward for the person doing it.
- The Un-Hug: Awkward hugs.
