- Accent Tropes
- Admiration Tropes
- Aging Tropes
- Backstory Index
- Birth Tropes
- Blame Tropes
- Character Flaw Index
- Character Derailment
- Clothing Reflects Personality
- Cynicism Tropes
- Dead Herring
- Disability Tropes
- Does Not Like This Index
- Emotion Tropes
- Ego Tropes
- Extraversion Tropes
- Fictional Culture and Nation Tropes
- Foils
- Gender and Sexuality Tropes
- Goals and Objectives Index
- Gratitude Tropes
- Heel Face Index
- I Am an Index
- Idealism Tropes
- Identity Index
- Improbable Behavior Tropes
- Internal Conflict Tropes
- Introversion Tropes
- The Jerk Index
- Madness Tropes
- Mary Sue Tropes
- Master of the Index
- More Than Meets the Eye
- Motivation Index
- Naming Conventions
- National Stereotyping Tropes
- A Nice Jewish Index
- Occupation Tropes
- Oh Great a Snark Index
- Otherness Tropes
- The Only Righteous Index of Fanatics
- Personal Appearance Tropes
- Prejudice Tropes
- Signature Tropes
- Stereotype
- This Index Has Had a Hard Life
- This Index Is Copypasted
- Tropes About Perverts
- You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry
Category:Characterization Tropes
Tropes about setting up, fleshing out, and tearing down characters.
Compare Characters and Casting for how characters are affected by being played by actors. Contrast Characters As Device for roles that characters can be shoved into for plot reasons. See Signature Tropes for tropes that define a character (or work of fiction).
- Character Sheets - for trope lists as applied to specific characters in media.
Subcategories
This category has the following 77 subcategories, out of 77 total.
A
- Accent Tropes (42 P)
- Admiration Tropes (14 P)
- Anger Tropes (54 P)
B
- Backstory Tropes (31 P)
- Birth Tropes (26 P)
- Bisexuality Tropes (17 P)
- Blame Tropes (28 P)
C
- Character Derailment Tropes (27 P)
- Character Development (14 P, 1 F)
D
- Demonic Characters (22 P)
- Disgust Tropes (34 P)
- Does Not Like This Index (16 P)
E
- Extraversion Tropes (31 P)
F
- Feminine Ideals (7 P)
G
- Goals and Objectives Index (33 P)
- Gratitude Tropes (29 P)
H
- Hated for Being Different (3 P)
- Hatred Tropes (32 P)
- Hidden Badass (83 P)
I
- I Am an Index (20 P)
- Idealism Tropes (67 P)
- Index Has a Point (7 P)
- Intelligence Tropes (91 P)
- Introspection Tropes (12 P)
- Ironic Tropes (15 P)
J
- The Jerk Index (53 P)
K
- Knight in Shining Tropes (59 P)
L
M
- Mary Sue Tropes (38 P)
- Master of the Index (25 P)
N
- A Nice Jewish Index (28 P)
O
- Oh Great a Snark Index (40 P)
P
- Pacifist (7 P)
- Perpetual Expression (7 P)
Q
R
S
- Signature Tropes (19 P)
- Smile Tropes (30 P, 1 F)
T
- This Index Has Had a Hard Life (33 P)
- This Index Is Copypasted (46 P)
- Tropes About Perverts (74 P)
U
V
Pages in category "Characterization Tropes"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 697 total.
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- Above Good and Evil
- Abstract Apotheosis
- Acceptable Feminine Goals
- Actual Pacifist
- Adaptational Badass
- Adaptational Heroism
- Adaptational Jerkass
- Adaptational Personality Adjustment
- Adaptational Sexuality
- Adaptational Villainy
- Adaptational Weakling
- Addiction Displacement
- Admiring the Abomination
- Afraid of Blood
- Afraid of Needles
- Age-Appropriate Angst
- Agent Peacock
- The Ahnold
- Air Hugging
- All a Part of the Job
- All of the Other Reindeer
- All Take and No Give
- All Work vs. All Play
- The Alleged Boss
- Allergic to Routine
- Always Camp
- Always Late
- Always Someone Better
- Ambiguous Disorder
- Ambition Is Evil
- Amnesiacs Are Innocent
- Angst Dissonance
- Angst? What Angst?
- Animal Jingoism
- Animals Hate Him
- Annoying Laugh
- Anvilicious
- Apologetic Attacker
- Apologises a Lot
- Attention Deficit Disciple
- Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny
- Attention Whore
B
- Backported Development
- Backstory
- Backstory of the Day
- Bad Cop, Incompetent Cop
- Bad Dreams
- Bad Guys Play Pool
- Badass
- Badass Baritone
- Badass Decay
- Badass Mustache
- Baddie Flattery
- Bait the Dog
- Basement Dweller
- Be All My Sins Remembered
- Beautiful All Along
- Beetle Maniac
- Being Personal Isn't Professional
- Belated Backstory
- Benched Hero
- Berserk Button
- Betty and Veronica
- Trope Workshop:Betty, Veronica And Archie Switcheroo
- Beware the Honest Ones
- Beware the Nice Ones
- Birds of a Feather
- Bitch Alert
- Black Knight
- Blood Brothers
- Blood Knight
- Blood Lust
- Blood-Splattered Innocents
- Blunt Metaphors Trauma
- Bonding Over Missing Parents
- Bookworm
- Born in the Wrong Century
- Born Winner
- Break the Badass
- Break the Cutie
- Break the Haughty
- Brilliant but Lazy
- Broken Ace
- Bus Crash
- The Butcher
- Buy Them Off
C
- Call to Agriculture
- Can't Hold His Liquor
- Cannot Convey Sarcasm
- Card-Carrying Villain
- Catch Phrase
- Cats Are Mean
- The Chains of Commanding
- Challenge Seeker
- Chaotic Stupid
- Character Alignment
- Character Calculus
- Character Check
- Character Depth
- Character Derailment
- Character Outlives Actor
- Character Rerailment
- Character Tics
- Characterization Marches On
- A Chat with Satan
- Chef of Iron
- Chekhov's Skill
- Chewing the Scenery
- Children Are Innocent
- Chronic Hero Syndrome
- Chronic Villainy
- Cincinnatus
- Civilian Power
- Civilian Villain
- Classic Villain
- Claustrophobia
- Closet Geek
- Clothing Reflects Personality
- Cloudcuckoolander
- The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes
- Collector of the Strange
- Commuting on a Bus
- Complete Monster
- Compliment Fishing
- Consulting Mister Puppet
- Consummate Professional
- Contemplate Our Navels
- Contemplative Boss
- Contrasting Sequel Character
- Convenience Store Gift Shopping
- Cool Loser
- Corrupt the Cutie
- Counterpart Comparison
- Cowardly Lion
- Cower Power
- Crazy People Play Chess
- Creature of Habit
- Creepy Good
- Crossing the Burnt Bridge
- Cruella to Animals
- Cuddle Bug
- Cultural Rebel
- Cute Bookworm
- Cuteness Proximity
D
- Dad the Veteran
- Daddy's Girl
- Dark and Troubled Past
- Dark Is Evil
- Dark Is Not Evil
- Dartboard of Hate
- Daytime Drama Queen
- Dead Herring
- Deliberately Cute Child
- Depending on the Writer
- Designated Protagonist Syndrome
- Detective Animal
- Determined Defeatist
- Determined Expression
- Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat
- Dirty Business
- Dirty Cop
- Disco Dan
- Distinguished Gentleman's Pipe
- The Ditherer
- Divergent Character Evolution
- Divided We Fall
- Does Not Like Spam
- Dojikko
- Don't Look At Me
- Don't Make Me Destroy You
- Don't You Dare Pity Me!
- Donut Mess with a Cop
- Double Standard
- The Drag Along
- Drama Queen
- Drink Order
- Driven by Envy
- Driven to Suicide
- Dudley Do-Right Stops to Help
- Dumb Muscle
- Dungeonmaster's Girlfriend
- Dynamic Character
E
- Eagle Land
- Elective Mute
- Elfeminate
- Embarrassing Nickname
- Embarrassing Tattoo
- Emotional Bruiser
- Emotional Maturity Is Physical Maturity
- Entitled Bastard
- Entitled to Have You
- Epiphany (trope)
- Epiphany Therapy
- Escapist Character
- Establishing Character Moment
- Even Heroes Have Heroes
- Everybody Smokes
- Everyone Has Standards
- Everyone Is Related