Character Tropes:
Categories:
- Cernunnos: A horned deity usually associated with hunting, animals, and nature.
- Deranged Park Ranger: A forest ranger who is not mentally stable.
- Druid: A magic-user who communes and often commands nature.
- Earth Mother: A goddess or female figure associated with fertility, life, nature and the Earth.
- Earthy Barefoot Character: A character wears no shoes to show their connection to nature.
- Forest Ranger: A wilderness-dwelling hermit and guardian of the wild.
- Granola Girl: She's free-spirited, an environmentalist, a bit of a hippie and a fan of all things natural.
- Greenwashed Villainy: A villain presents themselves to the public as ecofriendly while covering up the harm their actions are doing to the environment.
- Jungle Princess: A woman who was raised in the wild and fights for nature.
- Mother Nature: She's the goddess of nature.
- Nature Hero: Someone who fights to protect nature.
- Nature Lover: Nature is beautiful and they know it.
- Nature-Loving Robot: A robot who loves nature.
- Nature Spirit: An Anthropomorphic Personification of nature.
- Outdoorsy Gal: A girl who loves the outdoors.
- Primal Polymorphs: Shapeshifters that prefer a simple life, usually in the wild, sometimes as animals.
- Tarzan Boy: A handsome man who was raised in the jungle and defends it.
- Treants: Humanoid trees who live in the forest and protect nature.
- Wild Child: "Civilization? What's that?"
- Woodland Creatures: Animals associated with the forest
Locations:
- Arcadia: Not quite the city, yet not quite the Wilderness.
- Bubblegloop Swamp: A video game level based on swamplands. Expect mud and crocodiles.
- Death World: A land or planet where everything — the plants, the animals, the geology, maybe even the air — is a threat to your life.
- Don't Go in the Woods: Terrible things happen to those who wander into the forest.
- Enchanted Forest: A wild, ancient forest teeming with magic.
- Forest of Perpetual Autumn: It's always autumn.
- Four-Seasons Level: A level with changing seasons.
- Garden of Eden
- Garden of Evil
- Ghibli Hills: Gorgeous, unspoiled natural landscapes right next to human settlements.
- Green Hill Zone: An early-game level themed around grassy meadows, hills and light woodlands.
- Hungry Jungle (often in Darkest Africa): The jungle is untamed and full of danger, and if you go there you're likely gonna die.
- Jungle Japes: A video game level based on tropical forests. Watch out for dangerous animals.
- Last Fertile Region: The last place to support life in an otherwise barren world.
- The Lost Woods: Video game levels based on vast, mysterious forests.
- River of Insanity
- Roaring Rapids
- Slippy-Slidey Ice World: Snow and ice-covered lands.
- Shifting Sand Land: Desert based game level.
- Swamps Are Evil: Swamps are nasty, unwholesome places, and full of evil or just unpleasant creatures.
- Thirsty Desert: Water! Water!
- Wild Wilderness: Somewhat a Deconstruction of the wilderness being so "beautiful" and filled with dangerous animals trying to kill and eat you, but still.
Seasons:
- Bizarre Seasons
- Cherry Blossoms
- Cicadian Rhythm
- Cold Snap
- Dreaming of a White Christmas: It always snows when it's Christmas.
- Forest of Perpetual Autumn
- Heat Wave
- Indian Summer
- It's Always Spring
- Seasonal Baggage: For the Four Seasons as a motif.
- Spring Is Late
General / other tropes:
- All-Natural Snake Oil
- Animals Respect Nature
- Appeal to Nature
- Bamboo Technology: Everything is made out of what you'll find in nature.
- Blade-of-Grass Cut
- Covered in Mud
- Earth Song: Environmentalism Songs.
- Endangered Pest: An organism causes a problem that's made more difficult to address because it's an endangered species.
- Extinct in the Future
- Fancy Camping: When someone on a camping trip carries so many of their city comforts with them that you have to wonder why they even went at all.
- Fertile Feet: Wherever the character walks, plants grow.
- Fill It with Flowers
- Flowers of Nature
- Gaia's Lament: When nature is sad, you'll be sad.
- Gaia's Vengeance: When nature is pissed, you're fucked.
- Garden Garment: A dress made of living plants.
- Global Warming
- Green Aesop: The moral is that nature needs to be respected.
- Green Means Natural: The color green associated with nature or used to help characterize things as being natural.
- Green Thumb: When a character has powers that allow them to control plant life.
- Heal It with Nature
- Hope Sprouts Eternal: A new, green shoot is a ray of hope in a blasted wasteland.
- Horrible Camping Trip
- In Harmony with Nature
- Mechanical Ecosystem: An ecology consisting solely of machines.
- Mother Nature, Father Science: Nature is caring and feminine, Science is industrious and masculine.
- Mucking in the Mud
- Natural Disaster Cascade: Something is causing a chain of natural disasters at the same time or close to the same time.
- Natural Elements: The forces of nature (especially fire, earth, water, and, air) conceptualized as discrete elements that often serve as the basis of all matter and creation.
- Nature Equals Plants: The word nature used to mean plants/forests rather than a broader definition of the term.
- Nature Is Boring: Some people are just not interested in nature.
- Nature Is Not Nice: Just because nature is beautiful, doesn't mean you would survive.
- Nature Is Not a Toy: Because one can harness the powers of nature doesn't mean those powers shouldn't be handled with respect and caution.
- Nature Metal: Heavy Metal with environmental themes.
- Nature vs. Technology: The dichotomy between natural and artificial.
- Neglected Garden: A garden that hasn't been cared for in a long time, showing a character's depressed emotional state.
- Nude Nature Dance: Dancing naked in the wild.
- Old Faithful: A geyser that erupts at very precise intervals.
- Painting the Frost on Windows: Natural phenomena are managed and run by magical beings.
- Picked Flowers Are Dead
- Reclaimed by Nature: Nature takes over what mankind leaves behind.
- Rotten Reincarnation: The circle of life is a circle of suffering.
- Solar Punk
- Swamp Monster: A monster that represents the deep, dark, untamed corners of the natural world. Usually swamps, bayous and murky forests.
- Transflormation: People turning into plants.
- Vine Swing: Moving through the canopy by swinging from tree to tree using conveniently placed, common and sturdy vines.
- Vine Tentacles: Vines behave like snakes or animal appendages.
