Tropes

Tropes are storytelling devices and conventions.

Narrative Tropes :

 * Applied Phlebotinum
 * Characterization Tropes
 * Characters
 * Characters As Device
 * Dialogue
 * Montages
 * Motifs
 * Narrative Devices
 * Paratext
 * Plots
 * Settings
 * Spectacle

Genre Tropes :

 * Action Adventure Tropes
 * Advertising Tropes
 * Alternate History Tropes
 * Comedy Tropes
 * Crime and Punishment Tropes
 * Derivative Works
 * Drama Tropes
 * Espionage Tropes
 * Game Show Tropes
 * Horror Tropes
 * Love Tropes
 * Military and Warfare Tropes
 * News Tropes
 * Professional Wrestling
 * Reality TV Tropes
 * Speculative Fiction Tropes
 * Sports Story Tropes
 * Superhero Tropes

Media

 * Animation Tropes
 * Audio Tropes
 * Live Action
 * Game Tropes
 * Sequential Art
 * Text Tropes
 * Others

Topical Tropes :

 * Abuse Tropes
 * Afterlife Tropes
 * Animal Tropes
 * Authority Tropes
 * Bargain Tropes
 * Betrayal Tropes
 * Biology Tropes
 * Censorship Tropes
 * Circus Index
 * Cleanliness Tropes
 * Clown Tropes
 * Combat Tropes
 * Criticism Tropes
 * Currency Tropes
 * Dating Tropes
 * Death Tropes
 * Distraction Tropes
 * Doctor Tropes
 * Door Tropes
 * Drug Tropes
 * Dueling Tropes
 * Elements of Nature
 * Emotion Tropes
 * The Ex Index (Ex-"significant other" tropes)
 * Failure Tropes
 * Fame and Reputation Tropes
 * Family Tropes
 * Fan Service
 * Fate and Prophecy Tropes
 * Flying Tropes
 * Food Tropes
 * Friendship Tropes
 * Furniture Tropes
 * Geometry Tropes
 * Index in The Sky
 * Injury Tropes
 * Intelligence Tropes
 * Language Tropes
 * Locomotion Superindex
 * Loyalty Tropes
 * Luck Tropes
 * Madness Tropes
 * Memory Tropes
 * Money Tropes
 * Morality Tropes
 * National Stereotyping Tropes
 * Number Tropes
 * Occupation Tropes
 * Philosophy Tropes
 * Politics Tropes
 * Poverty Tropes
 * Power
 * Psychology Tropes
 * Rape Tropes
 * Religion Tropes
 * Revenge Tropes
 * Rituals and Ceremonies
 * Royalty and Nobility Tropes
 * School Tropes
 * The Secret Index
 * Series Tropes
 * Shapes and Symbols Tropes
 * Silence Tropes
 * Skill Tropes
 * Sociology Tropes
 * Split Personality Tropes
 * Stupidity Tropes
 * This Index Is in The Way (Obstacle Tropes)
 * This Is Your Index On Drugs
 * Time Tropes
 * Tiny Tropes
 * Tropes About Taboos
 * Tropes of Nature
 * Truth and Lies
 * Vehicle Tropes
 * Velocity Index
 * Walking Tropes
 * Weather and Environment
 * Workplace Tropes

Other Categories :

 * Administrivia
 * Artistic License
 * Audience Reactions
 * Books On Trope
 * British Media Tropes
 * Camera Tricks
 * Chekhov's Pun
 * The Contributors
 * Creator Speak
 * Creators
 * Did Not Do the Research
 * Fandom
 * German Media
 * Information Desk
 * Japanese Media
 * Just for Fun
 * Korean Media
 * Language Indices
 * Laws and Formulas
 * Media Specific
 * Meta Concepts
 * More Like a Footnote Than Anything Else
 * Networks
 * The Oldest Ones in The Book
 * Omnipresent Tropes
 * Overdosed Tropes
 * Show Business
 * Spoilered Rotten
 * Stock Room
 * Sturgeon's Tropes
 * There Are No Indexes
 * This Index Does Not Exist
 * This Index Happened Offscreen
 * This Index Has Left the Building
 * This Might Be an Index
 * Tropes
 * Trope Tropes
 * Truth in Television
 * Universal Tropes
 * Useful Notes