Sorting Algorithm of Tropes

When you have a bucket of tropes to comb through, it helps to merge them into a single coherent strand. Luckily for you, the wiki gnome has come down from his tree to count and pigeonhole each of our vast selection of sorting tropes. It wasn't quick or smooth, and he's a shell of his former self, but with patience, he has created a library of sorting algorithms.

Grab a cocktail and enjoy a heap of tropes.


 * Food Chain of Evil
 * Sorting Algorithm of Deadness
 * Sorting Algorithm of Evil
 * Sorting Algorithm of Face Heel Turning
 * Sorting Algorithm of Mortality
 * Sorting Algorithm of Weapon Effectiveness

Not to burst your bubble, but scales, sliding or otherwise, are another form of sorting -- hence their insertion into this index.


 * Abusing the Kardashev Scale For Fun and Profit
 * Apocalypse How
 * Asimovs Three Kinds of Science Fiction
 * Brain Chain
 * Can't Catch Up
 * Emotions vs. Stoicism
 * Enthusiasm Versus Stoicism
 * Fackler Scale of FPS Realism
 * Good Hair, Evil Hair
 * Kinsey Scale of Tropes
 * Mohs Scale of Lyrical Hardness
 * Mohs Scale of Rock and Metal Hardness
 * Mohs Scale of Science Fiction Hardness
 * Network Decay
 * Player and Protagonist Integration
 * Popularity Food Chain
 * Scale of Scientific Sins
 * Season Fluidity
 * Sliding Scales:
 * Sliding Scale of Adaptation Modification
 * Sliding Scale of Alternate History Plausibility
 * Sliding Scale of Animal Communication
 * Sliding Scale of Animation Elaborateness
 * Sliding Scale of Anime Obscurity
 * Sliding Scale of Antagonist Vileness
 * Sliding Scale of Anthropomorphism
 * Sliding Scale of Anti-Heroes
 * Sliding Scale of Anti-Villains
 * Sliding Scale of Beauty
 * Sliding Scale of Character Appreciation
 * Sliding Scale of Comedy and Horror
 * Sliding Scale of Collectible Tracking
 * Sliding Scale of Content Density vs. Width
 * Sliding Scale of Divine Intervention
 * Sliding Scale of Endings
 * Sliding Scale of Fourth Wall Hardness
 * Sliding Scale of Free Will vs. Fate
 * Sliding Scale of Gender Inequality
 * Sliding Scale of Godliness
 * Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism
 * Sliding Scale of Law Enforcement
 * Sliding Scale of Libertarianism and Authoritarianism
 * Sliding Scale of Like Reality Unless Noted
 * Sliding Scale of Linearity vs. Openness
 * Sliding Scale of Living Toys
 * The Sliding Scale of Magic Versus Technology
 * Sliding Scale of Plot Versus Characters
 * Sliding Scale of Proactiveness
 * Sliding Scale of Realistic Versus Fantastic
 * Sliding Scale of Robot Intelligence
 * Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty
 * Sliding Scale of Silliness Versus Seriousness
 * Sliding Scale of Social Satisfaction
 * Sliding Scale of Objective vs. Subjective Games
 * Sliding Scale of Turn Realism
 * Sliding Scale of Unavoidable Versus Unforgivable
 * Sliding Scale of Undead Regeneration
 * Sliding Scale of Vampire Friendliness
 * Sliding Scale of Video Game Objectives
 * Sliding Scale of Villain Effectiveness
 * Sliding Scale of Villain Threat
 * Sliding Scale of Visuals Versus Dialogue
 * Small Taxonomy Pools
 * Story to Gameplay Ratio
 * Superhero Prevalence Stages
 * Super Weight
 * Temporal Mutability
 * Viewers Are Indexed

This index is guaranteed to run in O (n log n). Though if you count the recursive clicks, it won't.