Omnipresent Tropes

The kind of Trope which you see all the time. ALL the time.

Some of them are intrinsically vital to storytelling itself; they're so ubiquitous, you don't even think of them as tropes until they're pointed out to you. Some are Acceptable Breaks From Reality--unrealistic tropes that are intrinsic to the escapist appeal of fiction, and would seriously detract from it if they were Averted. Then you have the ones which are not necessary by any means, but look like the most natural thing in the world--timeless classics which for centuries have driven stories forward, held audience breaths and become legends. You sit through the work expecting them, even looking forward to them; come the Establishing Shot, the first thing you ask yourself is "Where's The Hero?"

If anything, these are the proof that Tropes Are Not Bad. If these are Cliche then so is nigh every single work in the history of fiction.

Not to be confused with Universal Tropes, which are used in all types of media, but need not be ubiquitous. If a Trope is omnipresent, but only within a specific genre, you may be looking at a Necessary Weasel.

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Tropes

 * The Antagonist
 * Amen Break
 * Anthropic Principle
 * Background Music
 * Backstory
 * Big Bad
 * Celebrity Paradox
 * Character Development
 * Characters
 * The Climax
 * Conflict
 * Consistency
 * Denouement
 * Distinctive Appearances
 * Dynamic Character
 * The End
 * Everyone Is Right Handed
 * Evil Virtues
 * Fiction Never Lies
 * Flat Character
 * Fourth Wall
 * Functional Genre Savvy
 * The Good Guys Always Win
 * Happy Ending
 * The Hero
 * Hero Protagonist
 * Inciting Incident
 * Like Reality Unless Noted
 * Most Writers Are Adults
 * Most Writers Are Human
 * Nobody Poops
 * No Periods Period
 * One Steve Limit
 * Perfect Health
 * Point of View
 * Plot
 * Plot Device
 * Plot Point
 * The Protagonist
 * Punch Line - Sometimes missing in European films
 * Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic
 * Reality Is Unrealistic
 * The Reveal
 * Rising Conflict
 * Romance Arc
 * Rounded Character
 * Settings
 * Static Character
 * Think in Text
 * Third-Person Flashback
 * Three Month Old Newborn
 * Villains Act, Heroes React
 * Women Are Delicate