We Are Not Alone Index

In short, tropes which have Wikipedia articles. In long:

Here on All The Tropes, just as on The Other Tropes Wiki, we tropers dedicate ourselves to cataloging recurrent patterns in fiction. Everyone knows that; it's the name of the game. Other sites deal with tropes, too, though none of them are as exhaustive as we are, which is perfectly normal. However, there's one site that takes it too far: it's supposed to a free world-class encyclopedia, yet it's wasting time talking on and on about cliches in fiction. And that's our job. Isn't that a waste of bandwidth? Perhaps so, but the practice is a lot more common than non-tropers would think.

The truth of the matter is Wikipedians do it for a variety of reasons—the Trope may be common enough for scholarly interest, it may say something about psychology, or it may simply just be one of those many Silly Things Wikipedia does. On the other hand, it might also be because our two Tropes wikis have fallen victim to the Law of Wiki Expansion, and the topic really is one that best fits in a general-interest encyclopedia. In any case, it's beneficial to both All The Tropes and TV Tropes; the more pages on tropes there are on Wikipedia, the more people will be led to our sites.

Not to be confused with You Are Not Alone, or the idea of other intelligent life in the galaxy.

Works and Creators with Wikipedia articles should be listed in this category. (They might not be listed there, but they should be.)

#, A

 * 1-Up:
 * 2½D:
 * 419 Scam:
 * 555:
 * 90% of Your Brain:
 * Abandonware:
 * Abdicate the Throne:
 * AB Negative:
 * Above the Influence:
 * Absent-Minded Professor:
 * Ab Urbe Condita:
 * Abusive Parents:
 * Accidental Art:
 * Accidental Murder:
 * Ace Pilot:
 * Achilles' Heel:
 * Acme Products:
 * Acquired Poison Immunity:
 * Acquired Situational Narcissism:
 * Acronym and Abbreviation Overload:
 * Action Girl: ,
 * Action Hero:
 * A-Cup Angst and Buxom Is Better:
 * Ad Bumpers:
 * Ad Hominem:
 * Advert-Overloaded Future:
 * An Aesop:
 * Afraid of Blood:
 * Afraid of Needles:
 * The Ageless: and
 * Agony of the Feet:
 * Airborne Aircraft Carrier:
 * Air Guitar:
 * Air Jousting:
 * Airport Novel:
 * A.I. Is a Crapshoot:
 * Akashic Records:
 * Alan Smithee:
 * Album Single:
 * The Alcatraz:
 * The Alcoholic:
 * Alice and Bob:
 * Alien Abduction:
 * Alien Autopsy:
 * Alien Geometries:
 * Alien Invasion:
 * Alien Space Bats:
 * All Bikers Are Hells Angels: ,
 * All Cavemen Were Neanderthals:
 * All Gays Are Pedophiles:
 * All Girls Want Bad Boys:, ,
 * Alpha Bitch:
 * Alternate Universe:
 * Ambiguously Gay/Ambiguously Bi: and
 * Ambiguous Syntax:
 * Ambulance Chaser: . See also
 * Amen Break:
 * America Takes Over the World:
 * Amoral Attorney:
 * Amphibious Automobile:
 * Anachronism Stew:
 * An Axe to Grind:
 * Anal Probing:
 * Ancient Astronauts:
 * And Now You Must Marry Me:
 * Angry Guard Dog:
 * Angst:
 * Animal Stereotypes:
 * Animal Testing:
 * Anime Fan Speak:
 * Animesque:
 * Answer Song:
 * Antagonist:
 * Anthropic Principle:
 * Anthropomorphic Personification:
 * The Antichrist:
 * Anti-Humor:
 * Antimatter:
 * Anti-Hero:
 * Anxiety Dreams:
 * Anything That Moves:, , ,
 * Appeal to Worse Problems:
 * Arcadia:
 * Archangel Gabriel:
 * Archangel Michael:
 * Archangel Raphael:
 * Archangel Uriel:
 * Area 51:
 * Argumentum Ad Nauseam:
 * An Arm and a Leg:
 * Arms Dealer: and
 * Arranged Marriage:
 * Art Deco:
 * Artificial Gravity:
 * Artificial Intelligence: and
 * Artificial Limbs:
 * Artificial Meat:
 * Artificial Stupidity:
 * Artistic License:
 * ASCII Art:
 * Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence:
 * Asexuality:
 * Ashcan Copy:
 * Aspect Ratio:
 * Association Fallacy:
 * Asteroid Miners:
 * Astral Projection:
 * Atlantis:
 * Attention Whore:
 * Auction:
 * Augmented Reality:
 * Automated Automobiles:
 * Auto-Tune:

B

 * Baby Talk:
 * Back from the Dead:
 * Backhanded Apology:
 * Backstory:
 * The Backwards R:
 * Badass:
 * Badass Boast:
 * Bag of Holding:
 * Balloonacy:
 * Balloon Belly: and
 * Banana Peel:
 * Banana Republic:
 * Bank Robbery:
 * Bankruptcy Barrel:
 * Banned in China:
 * Barbarian Tribe:
 * Bare Your Midriff: (see also )
 * The Bartender:
 * Basso Profundo:
 * Bathos and Narm share one under the former's name:
 * Battering Ram:
 * Battle Cry:
 * Bayonet Ya:
 * The Bear:
 * The Beard:
 * Beast Fable:
 * Beat:
 * Beatnik:
 * Beauty Contest:
 * Beauty Mark:
 * Bed Trick:
 * Beehive Hairdo:
 * Beginner's Luck:
 * Believing Their Own Lies:
 * Belligerent Sexual Tension:
 * Belly Dancer:
 * The Bermuda Triangle:
 * Berserk Button:
 * BFG:
 * Big Bad:
 * The Big Bad Wolf:
 * Big Brother Bully:
 * Big Dumb Object:
 * Big Eater:
 * Big Electric Switch:
 * Bigger Than Jesus: (This article covers the Stock Shout-Out/Stock Parody of the controversy; Wikipedia covers the actual events themselves.)
 * Binary Suns:
 * Bindle Stick:
 * Bite the Wax Tadpole:
 * Black Box:
 * Black Comedy:
 * The Black Death:
 * Black Dude Dies First:
 * Blackface:
 * Black Helicopter:
 * Black Knight:
 * Black Magic:
 * Blackmail:
 * Black Market:
 * Black Sheep:
 * The Blacksmith:
 * Black Spot:
 * Blank Slate:
 * Blatant Lies:
 * Blind Date:
 * Blipvert:
 * Blogosphere:
 * Bluebird of Happiness:
 * Blue Blood:
 * Blood on the Debate Floor:
 * Blood Sport:
 * Blooper:
 * Blow Gun:
 * Boarding Party:
 * Boarding School:
 * Body Horror:
 * Body Paint:
 * Body Sushi:
 * Boke and Tsukkomi Routine:
 * Bomb Disposal:
 * Bond Gun Barrel:
 * Bonus Stage:
 * Booby Trap:
 * Book Safe:
 * Bookworm:
 * Boomerang Bigot:
 * Boss Battle:
 * Bothering by the Book: ,
 * Bottle Episode:
 * Bouncer:
 * Bounty Hunter:
 * Bourgeois Bohemian: and  (United States),  (United Kingdom), (Australia/New Zealand),  (France)
 * Bowdlerise:
 * Box Office Bomb:
 * Boy Band:
 * Brain Drain:
 * Brain Freeze:
 * Brain In a Jar:
 * Brain Uploading:
 * Brainwashed:
 * Brand Name Takeover:
 * Bread and Circuses:
 * Breakout Character:
 * Brick Break:
 * British Royal Guards:
 * Broken Record:
 * Brown Note:
 * Buccaneer Broadcaster:
 * Bulletproof Vest:
 * Bullet Time:
 * The Bully:
 * Burger Fool:
 * Burial in Space:
 * Buried Alive:
 * Bury Your Gays:
 * But Not Too Black:
 * But Not Too Gay/But Not Too Bi:
 * Butterfly Knife:
 * Byronic Hero:

C

 * Cabin Fever:
 * Cake Toppers:
 * The Caligula:
 * Calling Card:
 * Caltrops:
 * The Cameo:
 * Camp:
 * Camp Straight:
 * Canis Latinicus:
 * Cannon Fodder:
 * Canon:
 * The Caper:
 * Cargo Cult:
 * Cargo Ship:
 * Carpe Diem:
 * The Cartel:
 * The Casino:
 * Cassandra Truth:
 * Casting Couch:
 * Catchphrase:
 * Cat Girl:
 * Caught on the Jumbotron:
 * Celebrity Endorsement:
 * Cel Shading:
 * Cement Shoes:
 * Censor Box:
 * Centipede's Dilemma:
 * Central Theme:
 * Cessation of Existence:
 * Chain Letter:
 * Chainsaw Good:
 * Chalk Outline:
 * Changeling Tale:
 * Character Alignment:
 * Character Customization:
 * Character Development:
 * Chariot Race:
 * Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys:
 * Cheesy Moon:
 * Chekhov's Gun:
 * Chewbacca Defense:
 * Chiaroscuro:
 * Chicken Walker:
 * The Chikan:
 * Child by Rape:
 * Child Prodigy:
 * Child Soldiers:
 * Chinese Vampire:
 * Ching Chong:
 * Choke Holds:
 * Christianity Is Catholic:
 * Christmas Elves:
 * Chroma Key:
 * Chronic Backstabbing Disorder:
 * Chupacabra:
 * City Slicker:
 * Civil War:
 * The Clan:
 * Classical Tongue:
 * Classified Information:
 * Class Representative:
 * Class Reunion:
 * Class Trip:
 * Claustrophobia:
 * Clerk:
 * Cliché:
 * Cliffhanger:
 * The Climax:
 * Clip Show:
 * Clock Tower:
 * Cloudcuckooland, Cloudcuckoolander:
 * Code Name:
 * Cold-Blooded Torture:
 * Cold Reading:
 * College Radio:
 * Colony Drop:
 * Color Wash:
 * Combos:
 * Comeback Tomorrow:
 * Comes Great Responsibility:
 * Comfort Food:
 * Comic Book Time:
 * Commie Nazis:, ,
 * Common Tongue:
 * Company Town:
 * Compensated Dating:
 * Composite Character:
 * Computer Virus:
 * Concept Album:
 * Concept Art:
 * Cone of Shame:
 * Confessional: ,
 * Confession Cam:
 * The Confidant:
 * Confirmation Bias:
 * Conflict:
 * Conjoined Twins:
 * The Conscience:
 * Conscription:
 * Conspicuous Consumption:
 * Conspiracy Theorist:
 * Constrained Writing:
 * Constructive Criticism:
 * Control Freak:
 * Convicted by Public Opinion: ,
 * Co-Op Multiplayer:
 * Copy Protection:
 * The Coroner:
 * Corporal Punishment:
 * Corpsing:
 * Corrupted Data:
 * Corrupt Politician:
 * Cosmic Egg:
 * Cosmic Horror Story:
 * Cosplay:
 * Counter-Earth:
 * Counting Sheep:
 * Country Matters:
 * Courier:
 * Courtly Love:
 * Cowboy:
 * Cram School:
 * Crawl:
 * Crazy Cat Lady:
 * Creation Myth:
 * Creepy Shadowed Undereyes:
 * Cringe Comedy:
 * Crippling Overspecialization:
 * Crisis of Faith:
 * Critical Hit:
 * Crocodile Tears:
 * Crop Circles:
 * Crosscast Role:
 * Crossdresser:
 * Crossover:
 * Crossword Puzzle:
 * Crystal Ball:
 * Crystal Skull:
 * The CSI Effect:
 * Cue the Flying Pigs:
 * Cult:
 * Cult Classic:
 * Cult of Personality:
 * Cultural Cringe:
 * Cultural Translation:
 * Culture Clash:
 * Cup Holders:
 * Cure Your Gays:
 * Curse:
 * The Cutie:
 * Cutscene:
 * Cyanide Pill:
 * Cyberpunk:
 * Cyborg:
 * Cyclops:
 * Cymbal-Banging Monkey:
 * The Cynic:
 * Cypher Language:

D

 * Deflector Shield:
 * Development Hell:
 * Damsel in Distress:
 * Double Entendre:
 * Droste Image:
 * Dynamic Difficulty:
 * Dyson Sphere:

E

 * Ear Worm:
 * Everything's Worse With Snowclones:
 * Evil Eye:
 * Evil Laugh:

F

 * False-Flag Operation:
 * Fan Service:
 * Fictional Political Party:
 * Final Girl:
 * Foreshadowing: (Though it is a common literary term.)
 * Four Is Death:
 * Freaky Friday Flip:
 * Freemium:
 * Freudian Slip:

G

 * The Gadfly:
 * Gallows Humor:
 * Gaslamp Fantasy:
 * Gaslighting:
 * Genie in a Bottle:
 * Gentleman Detective:
 * Gentleman Thief:
 * GIFT:
 * Grandfather Paradox:

H

 * Hammerspace:
 * Hand Waving:
 * Harsh Vocals: (but the intro lists harsh vocals as a variant)
 * Hazmat Suit:
 * Heavy Metal Umlaut:
 * Here There Be Dragons:
 * Hime Cut:
 * Honey Trap:
 * Hooker with a Heart of Gold:

I

 * I'm a Humanitarian:
 * The covers these three tropes:
 * Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy (Stormtrooper Effect)
 * Mook Chivalry (One-at-a-time Attack Rule)
 * Conservation of Ninjitsu (Inverse Ninja Law)
 * Indian Summer:
 * Inherently Funny Words:
 * In the Future, Humans Will Be One Race:
 * Isometric Projection:

J

 * Jewish Mother:
 * Jumping the Shark:

K

 * Kaiju:
 * Kawaisa:
 * Knight Errant:
 * Kraken and Leviathan: and

L

 * Leitmotif:
 * Lite Creme:
 * Loose Lips: as well as
 * Loudness War:
 * Lumper vs. Splitter:

M

 * MacGuffin:
 * Magic Carpet:
 * Magical Girlfriend:
 * Magical Negro:
 * Magnum Opus:
 * Mammy:
 * Man-Eating Plant: and
 * Manic Pixie Dream Girl:
 * Mary Sue:
 * Meaningful Name:
 * Memetic Mutation:
 * Metal Scream:
 * Microtransactions:
 * Min-Maxing:
 * Miranda Rights:
 * Moe Anthropomorphism:
 * Mondegreen:
 * Money to Burn:
 * Monkeys on a Typewriter: ,
 * Monster Clown:
 * Munchkin:
 * Mutants:

N

 * Nazi Hunter:
 * Nekomata:
 * Network Decay:
 * Nice Jewish Boy:
 * Noble Savage:
 * Nose Art:
 * No True Scotsman:
 * Nouveau Riche:, see also

O

 * Obfuscating Insanity:
 * Occult Detective:
 * One-Hit Wonder:
 * Opinion Myopia:

P

 * Patchwork Story:
 * Percussive Maintenance:
 * Plot Device:
 * Plot Hole:
 * Portable Hole:
 * Powered Armor:
 * President for Life:
 * Prison Ship:
 * Pull a Rabbit Out of My Hat:
 * Pyrrhic Victory:, also which is virtually the same.

R

 * Rags to Riches:
 * Ray Gun:
 * Raygun Gothic:
 * Red Herring:
 * Red Shirt:
 * Ring of Power:
 * Robinsonade:
 * Ruritania:, also for the related genre

S

 * Saw a Woman In Half:
 * Scandalgate:
 * Scatting: and
 * Schrödinger's Cat:
 * Scunthorpe Problem:
 * Screwed by the Lawyers: ; also applies to patent law, land ownership, leasing issues, etc.)
 * Sdrawkcab Name:
 * Self-Immolation:
 * Sea Monster:
 * Shaggy Dog Story:
 * Shark Tunnel:
 * Shipping:
 * Short Runners:, though that's a little more restrictive.
 * Sissy Villain: Also classed under
 * Signature Song:
 * Situational Sexuality:
 * Snipe Hunt:
 * Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome:
 * Solar-Powered Magnifying Glass:
 * Spontaneous Human Combustion:
 * Star-Crossed Lovers:
 * Streisand Effect:
 * Super Couple:
 * Syncro-Vox:
 * Sweeps Week Lesbian Kiss:
 * Switched At Birth:

T

 * Tastes Like Chicken:
 * Tetris Effect:
 * The Thirty-Six Stratagems:
 * This Is a Work of Fiction:
 * Tickle Torture:
 * Tin Can Telephone:
 * Tontine:
 * Tsundere:
 * Tuckerization:
 * Turtle Island:

U

 * Unconventional Formatting: (although our definition is much more broad)
 * Unobtainium:
 * Unreliable Narrator:

V

 * Vaporware:
 * Very Special Episode:
 * Video Phone:
 * Visual Pun:

W

 * Walk and Talk:
 * Walk This Way:
 * Wet Sari Scene:
 * What Measure Is a Non-Cute?:
 * William Telling:
 * Willing Suspension of Disbelief:
 * World Building:

Y

 * Yamato Nadeshiko:

Z

 * Zero-G Spot