All The Tropes:Trope Workshop Guidelines: Difference between revisions

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== What a Trope Workshop Candidate Should Contain at the End ==
To determine if your candidate is a proper trope, try to eventually include as much as possible described below in the main text, before the examples. Where it makes sense, corresponding categories should be added to the candidate:
* [[Consistency]] type: How realistic the trope is and how often it's used compared to real life. Tropes can be completely unrealistic ([[Wrap AroundWraparound Background]], [[Stock Visual Metaphors]]), present much more commonly in fiction than in real life ([[Catapult Nightmare]], [[Stock Phrases]]) or be as common as in real life ([[Berserk Button]]). Note that if a said phenomenon happens as often as in real life and doesn't convey any meaning, it can easily fall into [[People Sit on Chairs]] territory.
* Type of a trope: This can be a [[Narrative Device]], [[Spectacle]] or something else.
* Medium type(s): Which mediums use the trope. Some tropes are exclusive to one medium and can only be discussed or parodied in other mediums ([[Camera Lock On]] is a video game exclusive trope for an example), some are mainly in one medium, but can be present in other places too ([[Spikes of Doom]] for an example, are much more common in video games than in other media) and others can be found pretty much everywhere ([[Fire and Brimstone Hell]] is an example).