The TVTropes Trope Finder is where you can come to ask questions like "Do we have this one?" and "What's the trope about...?" Trying to rediscover a long lost show or other medium but need a little help? Head to Media Finder and try your luck there. Want to propose a new trope? You should be over at You Know, That Thing Where.
Okay, thank you for the reply. I agree with how Magic by Any Other Name is the trope I am looking for. However, I need clarification on how Differently Powered Individuals fit with power systems. Doesn't the trope focus on a group of people that have superpowers who affect the setting rather than powers?
Edited by nightlightie
The name is pretty literal in this case, in that it's about how the work can name, categorize, and subdivide people with powers however it likes, and the corollary that these are internal narrative choices about how a work handles the universal concept of Magic and Powers.
As an example, One Piece has devil fruit users, haki users, alchemy-type mad science, cyborgs, the various humanoid types like the sky people, fishmen, giants, and the mink tribe... these are in-universe distinctions that can matter in-universe, but for troping purposes they're various types of Differently Powered Individuals with Applied Phlebotinum and Magic by Any Other Name
Edited by Scorpion451
Alright, that clears things up. I get the jist and I get what the tropes are.
Edited by nightlightie
I have a question on if there is a trope for power systems like from anime like One Piece, Bleach, and Naruto. I tried searching for it but the closest is Functional Magic but that's more about magic than powers. Does the trope go by a different name or does one not exist for them?