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[[File:PSOC_godfather_6094.jpg|link=The Godfather|frame|'''Tropes''': [[Cool Chair]], [[Slouch of Villainy]], [[Sharp-Dressed Man]], [[Damn, It Feels Good to Be a Gangster!]]<br />'''Not Tropes''': People Sit On Chairs]]
{{quote|'''Mouse''': ...what does ''that'' mean? <br />
'''Switch''': It doesn't mean anything.|'''''[[The Matrix]]'''''}}
[[Trope|Tropes]] are conventions used in storytelling to convey some sort of information to the audience. People Sit On Chairs don't convey any meaning -- they aren't storytelling conventions at all, they're just things that happen normally or incidentally during the storytelling. So if somebody is calling
The whole point of a chair, after all, is to give people something to sit on, but this by itself doesn't convey meaning. On the other hand, there '''are''' ways in which chairs can be used for a trope; perhaps we're talking about an [[Cool Chair|impossibly awesome-looking chair]] (or a more functional [[Super Wheelchair]]); maybe it gets used for a [[Chair Reveal]], or for the [[Big Bad]] to express his [[Slouch of Villainy]]. And maybe the chair is [[Empty Chair Memorial|conspicuous by its emptiness]]. All these add some sort of meaning to the
Note that the criticism here isn't simply that the trope in question is "too common" or "too broad", as [[About/No Trope Is Too Common|No Trope Is Too Common]]. There are some extremely common [[Cliche|cliches]], and [[Omnipresent Tropes]], that appear in fiction maybe even as frequently as chairs, but these are still storytelling devices. For instance there is [[The Couch]], another item people sit on, but given a purpose that correlates with [[Standardized Sitcom Housing|the visual layout of house floorplans]].
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