Characters



""An idea has no worth at all without believable characters to implement it; a plot without characters is like a tennis court without players. Daffy Duck is to a Buck Rogers story what John McEnroe was to tennis. Personality. That is the key, the drum, the fife. Forget the plot.""

- Chuck Jones

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Basically one of the most super of tropes in all of fiction. Unless you're writing some sort of abstract poem, it's pretty much impossible to tell a story without characters.

Compare Conflict, Plots.

Tropes:

 * Always Female
 * Always Male
 * Action Genre Hero Guy
 * Amusing Alien
 * Archetypal Character
 * Badbutt
 * Captive Audience
 * Cartoon Characters
 * Characters and Casting
 * Characters As Device
 * Chest of Medals
 * Conveniently an Orphan
 * Cops and Detectives
 * Crime Magnet
 * Criminals
 * Cuckoolandian Counterpart
 * The Cynic
 * The Dandy
 * Deity of Human Origin
 * Dramatica
 * Dream People
 * Duo Tropes
 * Elders
 * Enfant Terrible
 * Ensembles
 * Foil
 * The Index Team
 * Evil Roy
 * The Extremist Was Right
 * Fountain of Expies
 * Forgot He Was a Robot
 * Fun Personified
 * Heaven Seeker
 * Hell Seeker
 * Heroes
 * Hired Guns
 * Historical Domain Character
 * Hope Bringer
 * The Idealist
 * An Index of Ladies and Gentlemen
 * Index of Pupils and Protoges
 * Intrepid Merchant
 * Jenny Everywhere
 * Love Interests
 * Loser Protagonist
 * Main Characters
 * Mentors
 * Schoolteachers
 * Normal People
 * Otherness Tropes
 * Aliens
 * Our Monsters Are Different
 * Public Domain Character
 * Race Tropes
 * Raised By Grandparents
 * Really Was Born Yesterday
 * Rich People
 * Rich Kids
 * Seekers
 * Seers
 * Sensor Character
 * Servants
 * Body and Host
 * Sit Com Characters
 * Solitary Tropes
 * Southern-Fried Genius
 * Sore Loser
 * Starving Artist
 * Starving Student
 * Stupid Scientist
 * Stock Characters
 * The Stoic
 * Taste the Rainbow
 * Team Killer
 * Too Quirky to Lose
 * The Trickster
 * Con Man
 * Villains
 * Western Characters
 * Young Future Famous People
 * Youngsters