Fanfic Tropes

''This is an index page for Tropes which are typical of Fanfics. Given that fanfiction probably was born only a few minutes after the creation of the first (really good) original story, these are likely among some of the oldest tropes in existence.''


 * Acceptable Breaks From Canon
 * After Action Report
 * Aliens Made Them Do It
 * Alternative Character Interpretation
 * Draco in Leather Pants
 * Redemption Equals Sex
 * Stockholm Shnozzing
 * Ron the Death Eater
 * Alternate Universe Fic
 * Transplanted Character Fic
 * High School AU
 * Archive of Our Own
 * Ascended Fanfic
 * Backstory
 * Beige Prose
 * Better Than Canon
 * Canon Defilement
 * Characterization Tags
 * Conveniently-Common Kink
 * Costume Porn
 * Crack Fic
 * Crossover
 * Common Crossover
 * Deconstruction Crossover
 * Doppelganger Crossover
 * Fuku Fic
 * Fusion Fic
 * Film Fic
 * Intercontinuity Crossover
 * Massive Multiplayer Crossover
 * Mega Crossover
 * Rule Fifty
 * Vegas Crossover
 * Curtain Fic
 * Dark Fic
 * A Day in The Limelight
 * Dead Fic
 * Death Fic
 * Deconstruction Fic
 * Don't Like, Don't Read
 * Drabble
 * Dramatic Reading
 * Elsewhere Fic
 * Everyone Is Gay
 * Exotic Equipment
 * External Retcon
 * Fandom Specific Plot
 * Fan Fics
 * Fanfic Fuel
 * Fan Fic Magnet
 * Fanfiction.net
 * Fan Verse
 * Fan Wank
 * Fanwork Ban
 * Featureless Plane of Disembodied Dialogue
 * Ficdom
 * Fix Fic
 * Fountain of Youth
 * The Four Loves
 * Freaky Friday Flip
 * Gender Flip
 * Gratuitous Japanese
 * Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?
 * Het Is Ew
 * Hurt Comfort Fic
 * Hypothetical Casting
 * I Do Not Own
 * IKEA Erotica
 * Interpretative Character
 * Intimate Psychotherapy
 * I Suck At Summaries
 * Jargon Debate
 * Kid Fic
 * Patchwork Kids
 * Kink Meme
 * Mary Sue Classic
 * Mary Sue Tropes
 * Canon Sue
 * Copy Cat Sue
 * Possession Sue
 * Mary Sue
 * Marty Stu
 * Mary Sue Hunter
 * Sailor Earth
 * Suetiful All Along
 * Mate or Die
 * Meta Fic
 * Mindlink Mates
 * Mister Seahorse (M Preg)
 * Most Fanfic Writers Are Fans
 * Most Fanfic Writers Are Girls
 * MST
 * Murderers Are Rapists
 * Next Gen Fic
 * Obligatory Swearing
 * Oh Crap There Are Fanfics of Us
 * Old Shame
 * Original Character (OC)
 * OC Stand In
 * Out of Character (OOC)
 * Patchwork Fic
 * Peggy Sue
 * Groundhog Peggy Sue
 * Plot Bunny
 * Prompt Fic
 * Purple Prose
 * Real Person Fic
 * Recursive Fic
 * Revenge Fic
 * Hate Fic
 * Rage Fic
 * Rouge Angles of Satin
 * Round Robin
 * Rule 63
 * Self-Insert Fic
 * Shipping Tropes
 * Slash Fic
 * Wimpification
 * The Stations of the Canon
 * Stillborn Serial
 * Ten Ways to Rewrite A Show
 * The Theorem of Narrow Interests
 * There Is Only One Bed
 * Thirty-Sue Pileup
 * Troll Fic
 * Universal Adaptor Cast
 * Virtual Soundtrack
 * WAFF
 * Wanton Cruelty to The Common Comma
 * No Punctuation Period
 * Web Serial Novel