Elements of Nature

Before people discovered the atomic elements, they hypothesized the existence of other elements that, as they thought, comprised the world around them. There were the classical elements: Earth, Fire, Water, Wind, and often a fifth element (not Heart). Sometimes it was Ice, sometimes it was Lightning, sometimes Metal, sometimes nothingness (Void), sometimes Darkness, or even Light, and all will be counted here.

So these are tropes dealing with these old world elements.

Try not to get caught up in them, unless you have a counter element ready.

Tropes:
Related:
 * Magic and Powers
 * Weather and Environment

Categories:
 * Elemental Powers
 * Heat Index
 * The Ground Beneath Our Feet
 * Instant Index, Just Add Water
 * Precipitation Index
 * Tropes At Sea
 * These Tropes Were Frozen Today
 * This Index Blows
 * This Index Is On Fire
 * Lava Tropes
 * Thunderbolts and Lightning


 * Alchemic Elementals
 * Elemental Absorption
 * Elemental Armor
 * Elemental Baggage
 * Elemental Barrier
 * Elemental Embodiment
 * Elemental Ignorance
 * Elemental Nation
 * Elemental Plane
 * Elemental Punch
 * Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors
 * Elemental Shapeshifter
 * Element Number Five
 * Fire, Ice, Lightning
 * Four-Element Ensemble
 * Holy Hand Grenade (good or light often treated as an element)
 * Non-Elemental
 * Seasonal Baggage (the Four Seasons)
 * The Power of the Sun (sunlight treated as an element)
 * The Power Of The Void (nothingness as an element)