- 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 (32 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 98 pages are in this category, out of 699 total.
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- Talkative Loon
- Talks Like a Simile
- Taxidermy Is Creepy
- Technological Pacifist
- Tell Me About My Father
- The Tell
- Terrified of Germs
- Thememobile
- There Are No Coincidences
- They Call Me Mister Tibbs
- They Fight Crime
- Think Nothing of It
- Threw My Bike on the Roof
- Throw Down the Bomblet
- To Be Lawful or Good
- Took a Level in Badass
- Took a Level In Dumbass
- Took a Level in Jerkass
- Took a Level In Kindness
- Trade Your Passion for Glory
- Trademark Favorite Food
- Tragic Dream
- The Tragic Rose
- True Neutral
- Twitchy Eye
U
V
W
- Warring Natures
- We Do the Impossible
- We Used to Be Friends
- We Want Our Jerk Back
- Weak-Willed
- Weakened by the Light
- Weapon of Choice
- Weapon, Jr.
- "What Do They Fear?" Episode
- What Exactly Is His Job?
- What Is This Feeling?
- What the Hell, Hero?
- What the Hell, Townspeople?
- What You Are in the Dark
- Where I Was Born and Razed
- While Rome Burns
- Whip It Good
- ...Who Needs Enemies?
- Who Wants to Live Forever?
- Who's Laughing Now?
- Why Couldn't You Be Different?
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?
- Why Do You Hate the Dog?
- Windows to the Soul
- With Friends Like These...
- The Woman Wearing the Queenly Mask
- Women Are Wiser
- The Worf Effect
- Work Hard, Play Hard
- Working Class People Are Morons
- "World of Cardboard" Speech
- Write Who You Know
- Wrong Genre Savvy
- Wrong Name Outburst