Audience Reactions



This is an index of Audience Reactions. An Audience Reaction is objectively not present in the work at all. It's something fans emotionally go through from experiencing the work.

Audience Reactions are opinions, not tropes. Some of them may be very prevalent opinions, or may have inspired an author to play or avert a trope or may even be what a work is most known for, or be on the contrary completely unknown or privy to a selected few. We put a name on them and categorize them because they're a point of interest to both fans and writers, but they should not be confused with tropes. They are highly subjective, argument-causing and aren't a building block of storytelling the way tropes are. For this reason we have restrictions for when and where they can be listed or potholed.

An Audience Reaction can't be played with (Played Straight, Exaggerated, Justified, Subverted...)--because it never "gets played" intentionally to begin with--but for three exceptions:


 * 1) When the authors are trying for the reaction in question.
 * 2) When the work is self-aware enough to Lampshade Hanging the audience's probable reaction.
 * 3) In-Universe usage of an Audience Reaction (Meaning, a character has this reaction to a Show Within a Show or something to that extent).

If it falls under one of these exceptions, it's acceptable to list the reaction in question on a work's main trope page. Otherwise, please place it on the YMMV subpage.

Compare Character Reaction Index.

Categories:
 * Index Fuel
 * 8.8
 * Abridged Arena Array
 * Actor Shipping
 * Adaptation Displacement
 * Angel Devil Shipping
 * Alternate Aesop Interpretation
 * Alternative Character Interpretation
 * Alt-Itis
 * And the Fandom Rejoiced
 * And You Thought It Would Fail
 * Angst Aversion
 * Animation Age Ghetto
 * Applicability
 * Arc Fatigue
 * Archive Binge
 * Archive Panic
 * Audience-Alienating Premise
 * Award Snub
 * Awesome Art
 * Awesomeness Withdrawal
 * Base Breaker
 * Bellisario's Maxim
 * Best Level Ever
 * Better on DVD
 * Better Than Canon
 * Bile Fascination
 * Bishonen Jump Syndrome
 * Broken Base
 * Canon Defilement
 * Canon Fodder
 * Canon Sue
 * Canon Wank
 * Can't Unhear It
 * The Chris Carter Effect
 * Come for the X, Stay for the Y
 * Complacent Gaming Syndrome
 * Complaining About People Not Liking the Show


 * Complaining About Shows You Don't Watch
 * Comedy Ghetto
 * Commitment Anxiety
 * Confirmation Bias
 * Contested Sequel
 * Continuity Lock Out
 * Counterpart Comparison
 * Covered Up
 * Creator Worship
 * Critical Backlash
 * Critical Dissonance
 * Critic Proof
 * Crushed Childhood Memories
 * The CSI Effect
 * Cue Irony
 * Cult Actor
 * Cult Classic
 * Darkness-Induced Audience Apathy
 * Dancing Bear
 * Deader Than Disco
 * Default Setting Syndrome
 * Die for Our Ship
 * Director Displacement
 * Disappointing Last Level
 * Discredited Meme
 * Don't Shoot the Message
 * Dork Age
 * Draco in Leather Pants
 * Ending Aversion
 * Ending Fatigue
 * Ensemble Darkhorse
 * Epileptic Trees
 * Even Better Sequel
 * Everybody Remembers the Stripper
 * Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory
 * Everyone Is Satan in Hell
 * Expectation Lowerer
 * Fan-Disliked Explanation
 * Fandom Heresy
 * Fandom Rivalry
 * Fan Dumb
 * Fan Hater
 * Fan Myopia
 * Fanon
 * Fanon Discontinuity
 * Fan-Preferred Couple
 * Fan Yay
 * Fetish Fuel
 * Fight Scene Failure
 * The Firefly Effect
 * First Installment Wins
 * Foe Yay Shipping
 * Fountain of Memes
 * Fourth Wall Myopia
 * Franchise Original Sin
 * Freud Was Right
 * Fridge Run
 * Friendly Fandoms
 * Fun for Some
 * Funny Aneurysm Moment
 * Gannon Banned
 * Gateway Series
 * Genius Bonus
 * Genre Turning Point
 * Girl Show Ghetto
 * Good Troi Episode
 * Gratuitous Special Effects
 * Harsher in Hindsight
 * Hate Dumb
 * Heartwarming in Hindsight
 * He Panned It, Now He Sucks
 * He Really Can Act
 * He's Just Hiding
 * Hilarious in Hindsight
 * Ho Yay
 * Holy Shit Quotient (Aka the HSQ)
 * Household Names
 * Hype Aversion
 * Hype Backlash
 * Internet Backdraft
 * I Liked It Better When It Sucked
 * Incest Yay Shipping
 * Ink Stain Adaptation
 * It's Easy, So It Sucks
 * It Gets Better
 * It's Hard, So It Sucks
 * It's Not Supposed to Win Oscars
 * It's Popular, Now It Sucks
 * It's Short, So It Sucks
 * It's the Same, Now It Sucks
 * It Was His Sled
 * Jumping the Shark
 * Just Here for Godzilla
 * The Law of Fan Jackassery
 * Less Disturbing in Context
 * Like You Would Really Do It
 * Love It or Hate It
 * Love to Hate
 * Mainstream Obscurity
 * Maturity Is Serious Business
 * Memetic Badass
 * Memetic Bystander
 * Memetic Molester
 * Memetic Mutation
 * Memetic Sex God
 * Mexicans Love Speedy Gonzales
 * Minority Show Ghetto
 * Misaimed Fandom
 * Misattributed Song
 * Mis Blamed
 * Money Making Shot
 * Mr. Starship
 * Music to Invade Poland To
 * My Real Daddy
 * Narm
 * Narrowed It Down to the Guy I Recognize
 * Needs More Love
 * Never Live It Down
 * Nightmare Fuel
 * Nightmare Retardant
 * Not So Crazy Anymore
 * One True Pairing (often abbreviated OTP)
 * Only the Author Can Save Them Now
 * Out of the Ghetto
 * Overshadowed by Controversy
 * Periphery Demographic
 * Pet Peeve Trope
 * Pop Culture Isolation
 * Quality by Popular Vote
 * Rated "M" for Money
 * Real Women Have Curves
 * Retroactive Recognition
 * Rewatch Bonus
 * Ron the Death Eater
 * Rooting for the Empire
 * Sacred Cow
 * Scrub
 * Sci Fi Ghetto
 * Seasonal Rot
 * Seinfeld Is Unfunny
 * Sein Language
 * Sequel Displacement
 * Shipping
 * Shipping Bed Death
 * Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer
 * Silent Majority
 * Smurfette Breakout
 * Snark Bait
 * So Bad It's Good
 * Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped
 * Special Effect Failure
 * Spoiled by the Format
 * Squick
 * "Stop Having Fun!" Guys
 * Straw Man Has a Point
 * Surprisingly Improved Sequel
 * Tainted by the Preview
 * Tastes Like Diabetes
 * The Problem with Licensed Games
 * They Changed It, Now It Sucks
 * They Copied It, So It Sucks
 * They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot
 * Too Sexy for This Time Slot
 * Tough Act to Follow
 * Trope Enjoyment Loophole
 * Uncanny Valley
 * Unintentionally Sympathetic
 * Unintentionally Unsympathetic
 * Unpopular Popular Character
 * Values Dissonance
 * Viewer Gender Confusion
 * Vindicated by Cable
 * Vindicated by History
 * Vindicated by Reruns
 * Vocal Minority
 * Watch It for the Meme
 * Weird Al Effect
 * What an Idiot!
 * What Do You Mean It's Not Didactic?
 * What Do You Mean It's Not Political?
 * Where Is Deado?
 * Win Back the Crowd
 * Win the Crowd
 * Writer Induced Fanon

Sorting and weeding needed:

 * Communitied Out
 * Designated Protagonist Syndrome
 * Hard Core
 * Humor Dissonance
 * Lady Mondegreen
 * Level Breaker
 * Lowest Common Denominator
 * Misaimed Marketing
 * Moff's Law
 * MST3K Mantra
 * Newbie Boom
 * Newer Than They Think
 * No Such Thing as Bad Publicity
 * Offending the Creator's Own
 * Offscreen Inertia
 * Old Guard Versus New Blood
 * Older Than They Think
 * Pandering to the Base
 * The Producer Thinks of Everything
 * Reviews Are the Gospel
 * Saved by the Fans
 * The Scrappy
 * Scapegoat Creator
 * Sophomore Slump
 * Selective Squick
 * Sliding Scale of Broad Appeal Versus Specific Appeal
 * Sliding Scale of Social Satisfaction
 * Spiritual Licensee
 * Spoil At Your Own Risk
 * Subbing Versus Dubbing
 * Superlative Dubbing
 * Theiss Titillation Theory
 * This Is Your Premise on Drugs
 * Too Good to Last
 * True Art
 * True Art Is Ancient
 * True Art Is Angsty
 * True Art Is Incomprehensible
 * Unconventional Learning Experience
 * Unfortunate Character Design
 * Video Game Movies Suck
 * Viewers in Mourning
 * Waggle
 * We're Still Relevant, Dammit!
 * Woolseyism
 * X-Pac Heat