Category: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 some guidelines 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:
- When the authors are trying for the reaction in question.
- When the work is self-aware enough to Lampshade Hanging the audience's probable reaction.
- 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.[1] Otherwise, please place it on the YMMV subpage.
Compare Character Reaction Index.
- ↑ Although if it's a case of Intended Audience Reaction, you'll want to make sure it's backed up by Word of God first.
Subcategories
This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total.
Pages in category "Audience Reactions"
The following 88 pages are in this category, out of 288 total.
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- Sacred Cow
- Saved by the Fans
- Scapegoat Creator
- Sci Fi Ghetto
- The Scrappy
- Scrub
- Seasonal Rot
- Sein Language
- Seinfeld Is Unfunny
- Selective Squick
- Sequel Displacement
- Shipping
- Shipping Bed Death
- Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer
- Silent Majority
- Sliding Scale of Broad Appeal Versus Specific Appeal
- Sliding Scale of Social Satisfaction
- Smurfette Breakout
- Snark Bait
- So Bad It's Good
- So Okay It's Average
- Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped
- Something Something Leonard Bernstein
- Sophomore Slump
- Special Effect Failure
- Spiritual Licensee
- Spoil At Your Own Risk
- Spoiled by the Format
- Squick
- "Stop Having Fun!" Guys
- Subbing Versus Dubbing
- Superlative Dubbing (Sugar Wiki)
- Surprisingly Improved Sequel
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- Tainted by the Preview
- Tastes Like Diabetes
- Theiss Titillation Theory
- They Changed It, Now It Sucks
- They Copied It, So It Sucks
- They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot
- This Is Your Premise on Drugs
- Too Good to Last
- Tough Act to Follow
- Trope Enjoyment Loophole
- True Art
- True Art Is Ancient
- True Art Is Angsty
- True Art Is Complex
- True Art Is Foreign
- True Art Is Incomprehensible
- True Art Is Realistic
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Media in category "Audience Reactions"
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