Category:Laws and Formulas
"It was against the law —Paul Simon, "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard"
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Some tropes seem to be an expression of an underlying law of fiction. This category attempts to collect these fundamental elements. If some of these entries seem a bit tongue-in-cheek to you ... well, you should probably just get used to that feeling. And yes, sometimes there are two or more that are directly contradictory. We don't write them. We just catalog them.
If you're looking for an index for tropes about actual laws, try Courtroom Index, Crime and Punishment Tropes, and/or Cops and Detectives.
Subcategories
This category has the following 7 subcategories, out of 7 total.
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R
- Rule of Creepy (29 P)
- Rule of Cute (63 P)
- Rule of Glamorous (39 P, 1 F)
- Rule of Sexy (22 P, 1 F)
Pages in category "Laws and Formulas"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 208 total.
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C
- Catharsis Factor
- Chandler's Law
- Chekhov MIA
- Chekhov's Armoury
- Chekhov's Army
- Chekhov's Boomerang
- Chekhov's Classroom
- Chekhov's Exhibit
- Chekhov's Gag
- Chekhov's Gift
- Chekhov's Gun
- Chekhov's Gunman
- Chekhov's Skill
- The Chris Carter Effect
- Chunky Salsa Rule
- Clarke's Law for Girls' Toys
- Clarke's Third Law
- Competence Zone
- Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like
- Conservation of Competence
- Conservation of Ninjutsu
- Contractual Boss Immunity
- Contractual Immortality
- Convenient Questing
- Conveniently Empty Building
- Cool of Rule
- The CSI Effect
- Cute Is Evil
- Cuteness Proximity
- Cybernetics Eat Your Soul
D
E
F
G
I
L
- Last Confession Wins
- Last Girl Wins
- Law of Cartographical Elegance
- Law of Chromatic Superiority
- The Law of Conservation of Detail
- The Law of Conservation of Excitement
- Law of Conservation of Normality
- The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort
- Law of Disproportionate Response
- The Law of Fan Jackassery
- Law of Inverse Fertility
- Law of Inverse Paternity
- Law of Inverse Recoil
- Law of Inverse Romantic Interest
- Law of One
- Law of One Hundred
- Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics
- Linear Warriors, Quadratic Wizards
- Literary Agent Hypothesis
- Locard's Theory
- Lord British Postulate
M
R
- Reality Is Unrealistic
- Redemption Earns Life
- Redemption Equals Death
- Redemption Equals Sex
- Refuge in Audacity
- Rule 34
- Rule 34/Creator Reactions
- Rule 50
- Rule 63
- Rule Number One
- Rule of Animation Conservation
- Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment
- Rule of Cool
- Rule of Empathy
- Rule of Escalating Threat
- The Rule of First Adopters
- Rule of Fun
- Rule of Funny
- Rule of Perception
- Rule of Personification Conservation
- Rule of Pool
- Rule of Romantic
- Rule of Scary
- Rule of Sean Connery (Sugar Wiki)
- Rule of Seven
- Rule of Symbolism
- Rule of Three
- Rule of Two
- Rule Zero
- Rules of Orphan Economics
- Rules of the Internet
- Rules of the Road
S
- The Schlub Pub Seduction Deduction
- Schrödinger's Gun
- Science Cannot Comprehend Phlebotinum
- Science Is Bad
- Second Law of Gender Bending
- Second Law of Metafictional Thermodynamics
- Seinfeld Is Unfunny
- The Sidekick Theory of Heroic War
- Significant Birth Date
- Significant Reference Date
- Sliding Scale of Beauty
- Sliding Scale of Fourth Wall Hardness
- Sliding Scale of Free Will vs. Fate
- Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism
- Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty
- Sliding Scale of Silliness Versus Seriousness
- Sliding Scale of Video Game World Size and Scale
- Sliding Scale of Villain Threat
- Sliding Scale of Visuals Versus Dialogue
- The Smurfette Principle
- Sorting Algorithm of Evil
- Sorting Algorithm of Face Heel Turning
- Sorting Algorithm of Mortality
- Trope Workshop:Stigler's law of eponymy
- Sturgeon's Law
- Sukhomlinov Effect
- Super Weight
T
- Tenchi Solution
- Theiss Titillation Theory
- The Theorem of Narrow Interests
- Theory of Narrative Causality
- Third Law of Gender Bending
- Three-Month Rule
- Too Many Cooks Spoil the Soup
- Triang Relations
- Trope Example Laws
- Troper's Law (Darth Wiki)
- TV Never Lies
- Twain's Observation on Originality
- Two Girls to a Team