Audience Reactions



This is an index of Audience Reactions. An Audience Reaction is objectively not present in the work at all. It's something fans emotionally go through from experiencing the work.

Audience Reactions are opinions, not tropes. Some of them may be very prevalent opinions, or may have inspired an author to play or avert a trope or may even be what a work is most known for, or be on the contrary completely unknown or privy to a selected few. We put a name on them and categorize them because they're a point of interest to both fans and writers, but they should not be confused with tropes. They are highly subjective, argument-causing and aren't a building block of storytelling the way tropes are. For this reason we have some guidelines for when and where they can be listed or potholed.

An Audience Reaction can't be played with (Played Straight, Exaggerated, Justified, Subverted...)--because it never "gets played" intentionally to begin with—but for three exceptions:


 * 1) When the authors are trying for the reaction in question.
 * 2) When the work is self-aware enough to Lampshade Hanging the audience's probable reaction.
 * 3) In-Universe usage of an Audience Reaction (Meaning, a character has this reaction to a Show Within a Show or something to that extent).

If it falls under one of these exceptions, it's acceptable to list the reaction in question on a work's main trope page. Otherwise, please place it on the YMMV subpage.

Compare Character Reaction Index.

Categories:
 * Index Fuel

For sub-tropes, check the category page.

Sorting and weeding needed

 * Communitied Out
 * Designated Protagonist Syndrome
 * Hard Core
 * Humor Dissonance
 * Lady Mondegreen
 * Level Breaker
 * Lowest Common Denominator
 * Misaimed Marketing
 * Moff's Law
 * MST3K Mantra
 * Newbie Boom
 * Newer Than They Think
 * No Such Thing as Bad Publicity
 * Offending the Creator's Own
 * Offscreen Inertia
 * Old Guard Versus New Blood
 * Older Than They Think
 * Pandering to the Base
 * The Producer Thinks of Everything
 * Reviews Are the Gospel
 * Saved by the Fans
 * The Scrappy
 * Scapegoat Creator
 * Sophomore Slump
 * Selective Squick
 * Sliding Scale of Broad Appeal Versus Specific Appeal
 * Sliding Scale of Social Satisfaction
 * Spiritual Licensee
 * Spoil At Your Own Risk
 * Subbing Versus Dubbing
 * Superlative Dubbing
 * Theiss Titillation Theory
 * This Is Your Premise on Drugs
 * Too Good to Last
 * True Art
 * True Art Is Ancient
 * True Art Is Angsty
 * True Art Is Incomprehensible
 * Unconventional Learning Experience
 * Unfortunate Character Design
 * Video Game Movies Suck
 * Viewers in Mourning
 * Waggle
 * We're Still Relevant, Dammit!
 * Woolseyism
 * X-Pac Heat