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In its original form, tropes are storytelling devices meant to convey a concept to an audience. The overwhelming majority of tropes on this site are specifically that: devices that can be recreated by an aspiring author who visits this wiki. Other tropes are about identifying how the [[Audience Reaction|audience reacts]] to an event, and are often an unintended side-effect of the use of a trope. If common enough, there are separate tropes for the same thing from two points of view. Some tropes tend to blur that line where both the characters within the story and the audience react the same way to the use of the trope, which sometimes involve a [[Lampshade Hanging]].
In this wiki you will find the use of the comment "in-universe" by someone saying "This trope was used in-universe when..." and that is where a trope more often thought of as an ''audience reaction'' is used within the story. One such use is the [[Invoked Trope]], where the characters actively set up the trope in advance, though that happens more often with ''storytelling tropes''.
For an example, [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]] is more often a fan reaction to a replacement character. The reaction is often "You're mostly the same as the previous character, but you're not the one I remember and love." The series ''[[Star Wars:
And there is also a distinction between what is used in the story and the reasons it was used in the story. For example, Elliot was [[Gender Bender|transformed]] with [[Rapunzel Hair|long hair]] during [[Exposition Party|Grace's birthday party]] in ''[[
Word of advice to prospective writers. Despite what may be often believed, even without a [[Lampshade]], writers should be aware of the tropes they are using and how people will react to it. What separates Good Writing and Bad Writing is how much effort there is put into cleaning up the way tropes are used. Do not neglect the In-universe reasons. Give them a [[Hand Wave]] at least. Your readers will not forgive you if you don't.
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And here are some tropes that are separated by In-universe and Audience Reaction / [[Real Life]] (In that order):
* [[Anti
* [[Ascended Fanboy]] and [[Promoted Fanboy]]
* [[Brain Bleach]] and [[Squick]]
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* [[Good Is Not Nice]] and [[Jerkass Sue]]
* [[Hand Wave]] and [[Rule of Cool]]
* [[Hello, Nurse!]] and [[Memetic Sex God]]
* [[Innocent Innuendo]] and [[Accidental Innuendo]]
* [[Invoked Trope]] and [[Intended Audience Reaction]]
* [[Miles Gloriosus]] and [[Fake Ultimate Hero]]
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]] and [[Why Fandom Can't Have Nice Things]]
* [[Orcus
* [[Passing the Torch]] or [[Take Up My Sword]] (depending on whether the character lives) and [[Changing of the Guard]]
* [[Replacement Goldfish]] and [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]
* [[Resignations Not Accepted]] and [[Retirony]]
* [[Shipper
* [[Shrouded in Myth]] and [[Memetic Badass]]
* [[Stylistic Suck]] and [[So Bad
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When writing wiki entries, use "In-universe" (either as plain text or as a link to this page) to mark cases of in-story use of [[Audience Reactions]], that don't have genuine trope equivalents.
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