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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).

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For lists of tropes as they apply to specific fictional characters, see:

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Line 147: * [[Blood Lust]] * [[Blood Knight]] * [[Blood -Splattered Innocents]] * [[Blunt Metaphors Trauma]] * [[Bookworm]] Line 166: * [[Cannot Convey Sarcasm]] * [[Can't Hold His Liquor]] * [[Card -Carrying Villain]] * [[Catch Phrase]] * [[Cats Are Mean]] Line 222: * [[Cuteness Proximity]] * [[Cruella to Animals]] * [[~~Daddys~~Daddy's Girl]] * [[Dad the Veteran]] * [[Dark and Troubled Past]] Line 240: ** [[Bad Cop Incompetent Cop]] * [[Disco Dan]] * [[Distinguished ~~Gentlemans~~Gentleman's Pipe]] * [[The Ditherer]] * [[Divergent Character Evolution]] Line 256: * [[Drink Order]] * [[Driven to Suicide]] * [[Dudley Do -Right Stops to Help]] ** [[Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat]] * [[Dumbass Has a Point]] * [[Dumb Muscle]] * [[~~Dungeonmasters~~Dungeonmaster's Girlfriend]] * [[Elective Mute]] * [[Elfeminate]] Line 326: * [[Go Karting With Bowser]] * [[Good Costume Switch]] * [[Good Flaws, Bad Flaws]] * [[Good Is Impotent]] * [[Good Is Not Dumb]] Line 332: * [[Grass Is Greener]] * [[Greed]] * [[Green -Eyed Monster]] ** [[Driven By Envy]] * [[Grew a Spine]] Line 348: * [[Hates Small Talk]] * [[Headbutting Heroes]] * [[He -Man Woman Hater]] * [[Headphones Equal Isolation]] * [[Heart Trauma]] Line 356: * [[Heroic Bastard]] * [[Hidden Heart of Gold]] * [[High Hopes, Zero Talent]] * [[His Story Repeats Itself]] * [[Historical Badass Upgrade]] Line 371: * [[Holy Burns Evil]] * [[Holy Hitman]] * [[Hormone -Addled Teenager]] * [[Horrible Judge of Character]] * [[Hospitality for Heroes]] Line 384: * [[Iaijutsu Practitioner]] * [[I Am What I Am]] * [[I Am Who?]] * [[I Can Still Fight]] * [[I Coulda Been a Contender]] Line 409: * [[Informed Wrongness]] * [[In Harmony With Nature]] * [[In ~~Harms~~Harm's Way]] * [[In Its Hour of Need]] * [[Innocent Aliens]] Line 424: * [[I Would Say If I Could Say]] * [[Jack of All Trades]] * [[Jade -Colored Glasses]] * [[Jerkass]] * [[Jerkass Dissonance]] Line 480: * [[Martial Pacifist]] * [[Masked Luchador]] * [[~~Mathematicians~~Mathematician's Answer]] * [[Measuring the Marigolds]] * [[Menacing Stroll]] Line 517: * [[Nice to The Waiter]] * [[Nobody Calls Me Chicken]] * [[Non -Idle Rich]] * [[No Object Permanence]] * [[No Sense of Humor]] Line 548: * [[Oral Fixation Fixation]] * [[Orcus On His Throne]] * [[Out -of -Character Moment]] * [[Outside Man Inside Man]] * [[Over and Under The Top]] Line 573: * [[Playing a Tree]] * [[Plucky Middie]] * [[Pointy -Haired Boss]] * [[Polite Villains Rude Heroes]] * [[Politically -Incorrect Villain]] * [[Popular Is Dumb]] * [[Possession Sue]] Line 600: * [[Reclining Reigner]] * [[Redemption Quest]] * [[Re -Ditto]] * [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]] * [[Reformed but Rejected]] * [[Relationship Writing Fumble]] Line 620: * [[Saying Sound Effects Out Loud]] * [[Scarily Competent Tracker]] * [[Scary Musician, Harmless Music]] * [[Schedule Fanatic]] * [[Screaming Warrior]] Line 647: * [[Sleepyhead]] * [[Sleeps With Everyone but You]] * [[Sliding Scale of Anti -Heroes]] * [[Sliding Scale of Antagonist Vileness]] * [[Slouch of Villainy]] Line 659: * [[Sorry I Fell On Your Fist]] * [[Sour Prudes]] * [[Spell My Name With a "The"]] * [[Squee]] * [[Stages of Monster Grief]] Line 691: * [[Terrified of Germs]] * [[That Man Is Dead]] * [[The ~~Heros~~Hero's Journey]] * [[The Magazine Rule]] * [[Thememobile]] Line 712: * [[The Tragic Rose]] * [[True Neutral]] * [[~~Twenty Four~~ 24-Hour Armor]] * [[Twitchy Eye]] * [[Ubermensch]] Line 732: * [[We Used to Be Friends]] * [[We Want Our Jerk Back]] * [[Weak -Willed]] * [[Weakened By the Light]] * [[Weapon of Choice]] Line 739: * [[What Exactly Is His Job]] * [[What Is This Feeling]] * [[What the Hell, Hero?]] * [[What the Hell Townspeople]] * [[What You Are in The Dark]] Line 746: * [[Whip It Good]] * [[Who Needs Enemies]] * [[~~Whos~~Who's Laughing Now?]] * [[Who Wants to Live Forever?]] * [[Why Couldn't You Be Different?]] * [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]] * [[Why Do You Hate the Dog]] * [[Wild Card]]