Drama Tropes



Tropes that are primarily found in dramas, are not restricted to another category, and are not universal to all media.

Tropes:
Dramatic Indexes
 * Power At a Price
 * I Have Your Index
 * Index to The Rescue
 * Subverted Innocence


 * A Birthday, Not a Break
 * Abusive Parents
 * Achey Scars
 * Achilles Heel
 * Ain't Too Proud to Beg
 * All Up to You
 * Always Murder
 * Always Save the Girl
 * Ambiguous Situation
 * Arc Words
 * Arc Number
 * Arc Symbol
 * As Long As There Is One Man
 * A Tragedy of Impulsiveness
 * Attempted Rape
 * Batman Grabs a Gun
 * Berserker Tears
 * Best for Last
 * Big Word Shout
 * Big No
 * Little No
 * Slow No
 * Big "Shut Up!"
 * Big Yes
 * Billy Needs an Organ
 * Black Vikings
 * Blunt Yes
 * Blaxploitation
 * Boarding School of Horrors
 * Bond Breaker
 * Breaking Out the Boss
 * Broken Pedestal
 * Caper Rationalization
 * Captive Date
 * Casualty in The Ring
 * The Chain of Harm (usually as a subset of revenge, but it can also be used to show a down-on-their luck family being at the end of this chain)
 * Chain of People
 * Chains of Love
 * Comes Great Responsibility
 * Coming of Age Story
 * The Commies Made Me Do It
 * CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable
 * Crazy Jealous Guy
 * Creepy Physical
 * Crowd Chant
 * Curiosity Killed the Cast
 * Cut Himself Shaving
 * Cycle of Revenge
 * Dangerous Terrain
 * Date Rape Averted
 * Daylight Horror
 * Deadly Prank
 * Destination Defenestration
 * Destroy the Evidence
 * Destructive Romance
 * Domestic Abuse
 * Domestic Abuser
 * Don't Look Back
 * Down to The Last Play
 * Drama Bomb
 * Drama Queen
 * Dramatically Missing the Point
 * Dramatic Shattering
 * Drop What You Are Doing
 * Estranged Soap Family
 * Everybody Lives
 * Evil Is Cool
 * Extremely Short Timespan
 * False Friend
 * Family Disunion
 * Feuding Families
 * Finger-Twitching Revival
 * Force Feeding
 * Gaslighting
 * GASP
 * Give Him a Normal Life
 * A Glass in The Hand
 * G-Rated Drug
 * Glory Days
 * Golden Moment
 * Good Doc Bad Doc
 * Grave Marking Scene
 * Grew a Spine
 * Gut Punch
 * Hanging By the Fingers
 * Healthcare Motivation
 * He's Back
 * Heroic BSOD
 * Hey, Let's Put On a Show
 * Hollywood Heart Attack
 * Hope Springs Eternal
 * I Can Change My Beloved
 * Ignorance Is Bliss
 * Ignored Epiphany
 * I Will Wait for You
 * Indian Summer
 * Informed Self Diagnosis
 * Initiation Ceremony
 * The Inspector Is Coming
 * Instant Drama Just Add Tracheotomy
 * Instant Sedation
 * Ironic Birthday
 * It Never Gets Any Easier
 * Justified Criminal
 * Kirk Summation
 * Knight of Cerebus
 * Last Second Chance
 * Leave Your Quest Test
 * Libation for The Dead
 * Life Will Kill You
 * Limited Advancement Opportunities
 * Linked-List Clue Methodology
 * Literal Cliff Hanger
 * Lonely Piano Piece
 * Loved I Not Honor More
 * Lying in The Dirt Together
 * MacGyvering
 * Magical Defibrillator
 * Mama Didn't Raise No Criminal
 * Marital Rape License
 * Masquerade Ball
 * Meaningful Background Event
 * Meaningful Funeral
 * Melodrama
 * Milking the Giant Cow
 * Moral Dilemma
 * Mob War
 * Montage Out
 * Must Let Them Get Away
 * Mysterious Parent
 * Near-Rape Experience
 * Notable Non Sequitur
 * Not in My Back Yard
 * Off the Table
 * Only Law Firm in Town
 * Only the Leads Get A Happy Ending
 * Operation Game of Doom
 * Orphanage of Fear
 * Ostentatious Secret
 * Parental Favoritism
 * Penultimate Outburst
 * Phony Newscast
 * Pick On Someone Your Own Size
 * Pinch Me
 * Please, I Will Do Anything!
 * Plethora of Mistakes
 * Police Brutality
 * Politically-Correct History
 * Present Day Present Time
 * Promotion to Parent
 * Psychic Dreams for Everyone
 * Punch a Wall
 * Rape As Drama
 * Real Time
 * "The Reason You Suck" Speech
 * Rebuilt Pedestal
 * Remembered Too Late
 * Rewind, Replay, Repeat
 * Rooftop Confrontation
 * Rule of Drama
 * Runaway Train
 * Sarcastic Clapping
 * Shot to The Heart
 * Shower of Angst
 * Smoking Gun Control
 * Soapland Christmas
 * Soap Opera Disease
 * Soaperizing
 * Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome
 * The Stool Pigeon
 * Stranger in A Familiar Land
 * Strike Me Down
 * Sugary Malice
 * Take Back Your Gift
 * Take My Hand
 * Talking the Monster To Death
 * Tears of Fear
 * Teen Drama
 * Teens Are Monsters
 * Teeth-Clenched Teamwork
 * Televisually-Transmitted Disease
 * These Hands Have Killed
 * Things Get Real
 * Third-Act Misunderstanding
 * This Is My Side
 * Timmy in A Well
 * Toilet Seat Divorce
 * Too Good for This Sinful Earth
 * The Tragic Rose
 * Trauma Swing
 * Troubled Fetal Position
 * Unable to Cry
 * Unconfessed Unemployment
 * Underestimating Badassery
 * Waking Up Elsewhere
 * Warts and All
 * We Can Rule Together
 * We Do Not Know Each Other
 * We Used to Be Friends
 * Where Did We Go Wrong?
 * Why Did You Make Me Hit You?
 * Witness Protection
 * The Woobie
 * Wounded Gazelle Gambit
 * Police Brutality Gambit
 * Wounded Gazelle Warcry
 * You Didn't Ask
 * Your Secrets Safe With Me Superman
 * You Should Have Died Instead