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We here at All The Tropes are [[Older Than They Think|not the first]] to collect tropes and try to put them in some semblance of order.<ref>Yes, yes, [[TV Tropes]]. But they weren't the first either.</ref> Of course, since few people would actually use the word ''trope'' to describe patterns in media, it may be difficult to find the various resources that exist. Therefore we now have ''this'' page. If you happen to run across a resource (a book, website, or other useful thing) that discusses a set of tropes, write up a summary page and stick the link on this index.
== Personality Profiles ==
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== Basic Plots ==
People have also tried to condense the wide and varied world of plots into a small and succinct list of ''possible'' plots. The most basic system says that all plots are about one of two things, love and death, but the list can go up to fifty or even more. Joseph Campbell tried to pin it all down to a single heroic version in ''[[
== Lists of Clichés ==
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** [[Master Character Heroines]]
** [[Master Support Characters]]
* [[Myers-Briggs|Myers-Briggs Temperament Indicator]]: Psychological system useful for character construction.
** [[Examples of Myers Briggs Personalities in Stories/Just For Fun|Examples of Myers Briggs Personalities in Stories]]
* [[The Enneagram]]t
* [[Big Five Personality Traits]]
* [[Five Foundations of Morality]]: A philosophical theory by Johnathan Haidt dealing with cross-cultural commonalities in ethical systems. Discussed notably in the book ''The Righteous Mind.'' Useful for [[Worldbuilding]], and character construction.
* [[Systems of Survival]] A philosophical and sociological examination of what makes the human ecology of a healthy society. Presented as a party discussion between friends. Useful for [[Worldbuilding]], plot and character construction.
* [[GURPS]]: Generic Universal Role Playing System. An adaptable system for constructing roleplaying game characters in a variety of settings. Mainly for gaming but any author who has mastered it's methodology can borrow it as a notetaking method.
== Basic Plots ==
* [[Conflict|The Seven Basic Conflicts]]: as formulated by various [[wikipedia:Conflict (narrative)|critics]] after the fashion of Arthur Quiller-Couch.
* [[
* [[The Hero with a Thousand Faces]]
* [[Structural Archetypes]]: The Hero Myth, Outlaw Myth, Inverted Myth, etc.
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* [[The Areas of My Expertise]] offers ''another'' Fifty-Five Dramatic Situations
* [[wikipedia:The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations|The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations]]
* [[
* The ''[[Poetics]]'' of [[Aristotle]]
* [[Scott McCloud]]'s ''[[Understanding Comics]]''
* [[Asimov's Three Kinds of Science Fiction]]
* [[The Hollywood Formula]]
* [[Kurt Vonnegut]]'s story graph ("[[The Hollywood Formula|Man in a Hole]]" / "[[Boy Meets Girl]]" / "[[Cinderella]]")<ref>it's the same curve of Luck = f(Time) sine, but you can: start at a medium level, go down, climb out / start at a medium level, go up, [down, up] / start at a low level, go up</ref>.
== Lists of Clichés ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20131025232402/http://www.cs.utah.edu/~duongsaa/more_htm/jk_100animeRules.htm 100 Rules of Anime Physics]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130115130118/http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=GLOSSARY Ebert's Little Movie Glossary]
* [[Evil Overlord List]]
** [[
*** [[Jack Butlers Original Evil Overlord List]]
* [[Limyaael's Fantasy Rants]]
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* [[Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences|Fenimore Coopers Literary Offences]]
* [[The Grand List of Console Role Playing Game Cliches]]
* [[The Grand List of Overused Science Fiction
** [http://www.rocketpunk-observatory.com/spaceguideA-E.htm The Tough Guide to the Known Galaxy]
* ''[[How Not to Write A Novel]]'', by Howard Mittelmark and Sandra Newman. Contains around 200 examples of bad writing, many of them dealing with Bad Writing or tropes used horribly.
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* ''[[Poetics]]'' by [[Aristotle]]
* [[The RPG Cliches Game]]
* [[Turkey City Lexicon]]
* [[Silly Novels by Lady Novelists]] by [[George Eliot]]
* [http://shannahmcgill.tumblr.com/ The Right Writing]
* [[The Three-
== Resources That Don't Yet Have Their Own Pages ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110907074957/http://pegasus.msmc.la.edu/english/students/casssand/Heroine%20vs%20Hero/HerovsHeroine_Journey.htm Hero's Journey vs Heroine's Journey]
* [[Writing Excuses]]
* [[History of US Naval Operations in World War II]]: [[Serious Business|The Bible]] of World War II naval history. If you want a war story that has truly [[Shown Their Work|shown it's work]] read this.
* ''[[wikipedia:The Four Loves|The Four Loves]]''—Never enter a [[Shipping]] debate without it.
* ''[[wikipedia:The Discarded Image|The Discarded Image]]''—A series of lectures by [[C. S. Lewis|CS Lewis]] about the Medieval worldview and it's effect on literature. Very useful. Contains explanations on the Medieval take on such tropes as [[Earth Is the Center of the Universe]], [[All Myths Are True]], [[But I Read a Book About It]], and of course [[The Fair Folk]].
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20171218151503/http://www.dramatica.com/ Dramatica]—This is a rather complicated literary theory that divides story telling into 4 story tellers, 64 "Quads" of 4 properties that examine 64 questions that must each be explored and resolved and...well...There's a 360 page PDF to read and you can buy a rather expensive program to sort it all out. Like most theories, it works pretty well often enough to help most of the time, but there are exceptions. The [https://web.archive.org/web/20120511142640/http://www.dramatica.com/downloads/dramaticomic.pdf comic book version] is pretty easy to follow.
** Here's a page for us to give a summary: [[Dramatica]].
* [[wikipedia:Aarne-Thompson classification system|Aarne-Thompson Classification System]] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20140217155152/http://www.folklore.bc.ca/Motifindex.htm
* [[Greenwood Press|Daily Life Through History Series]] : A vast hoard of [[Useful Notes]]. Use these for research and you will never again write [[Hollywood History]] by accident.
* ''[http://www.openculture.com/2015/04/kurt-vonneguts-8-tips-on-how-to-write-a-good-short-story.html 8 Tips on How to Write a Good Short Story]'' and ''The Shape of A Story'', from [[Kurt Vonnegut]].
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