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''All examples here are, well, examples of examples. Do not try to wrap your head around a story using all of the examples.''
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The very nature of the genre dictates that your material ''will'' fall under these tropes. Learn to use them well.
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* [[During the War]]: Well... yeah... hard to avoid this trope when you've decided to write a war story.
=== [[Scènes à faire]] ===
The scenes and scene elements that are pretty much expected in any work in this genre. Scènes à faire often have their own tropes.
* Your action-adventure private detective will likely end up in [[Hot Pursuit]] of a suspect, possibly starting with a cry of [[Follow That Car!]] or involving a [[Sheet of Glass]] along the way.
* When - not if - the climactic ship-to-ship battle takes place in the days of [[Wooden Ships and Iron Men]], the characters will board and storm their enemy's ship.
* In Japanese mystery works, the [[Engineered Public Confession]] takes place at the edge of a cliff overlooking the sea.
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These tropes cover a wide spectrum of choices regarding a certain element of your story, and you're going to have to pick a spot somewhere on that spectrum. Unless we've forgotten to include something, and you can spot it, because in that case you might actually surprise us after all.
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''Note: Depending on how the Choices section plays out, it might get pulled over to the genre-free page after all.''
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Watch out for these tropes! They're bad news - or, well, at least they're tropes you generally want to avoid - and they're particularly common in your chosen genre.
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* Your new [[Reality TV]] show? For the love of all that's worth watching, ''please'' find a way to minimize <s>[[Filleritis]]</s> [[Filler]].
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These tropes are in common use throughout the genre, so we'll forgive you if you use them - but if you can think of a good way to subvert, invert, or just plain ''a''vert them, then you just might be able to start a new [[Follow the Leader|trend]]....
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* [[After the End]]: You could go with an anti-nuclear-weapon Aesop, a total, Gandhi-esque pacifism Aesop... an "if we all work together we can survive and bounce back from anything" Aesop (hey, it worked quite well in ''Wall-E'')....
* That cynical [[Tabletop RPG]] might use the theme of [[Crapsack World]] to underscore everything that happens, [[Dark Fantasy|perhaps coupled with]] [[Humans Are
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* Vampire novel means lots of roses and blood.
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* Your High School [[Sitcom]] could include such plots as [[Two-Timer Date]], [[In with the In Crowd]], [[Feud Episode]], and even [[Horrible Camping Trip]].
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* Given that you're after a [[Heroic Fantasy]], you'll want to look into [[The Kingdom]], [[The Lost Woods]], and [[Ruritania]].
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* Spy thriller, eh? You'll need to look at some [[Guns and Gunplay Tropes|weapons]]: I suggest either [[Cool Guns]] or [[Rare Guns]], but maybe [[Revolvers Are Just Better]]... and let's not forget some backup, like [[Razor Floss]]. Then you'll need equipment: a [[Grappling Hook Pistol]], a [[Shoe Phone]]....
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* Any school-based anime worth its salt needs the [[Red Armband of Leadership]] and at least one example of [[Transfer Student Uniforms]] (we don't have a separate trope for [[Student Uniforms]] not related to transfer students? odd).
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* Well, for a heroic quest, you might go with [[Heterosexual Life Partners]], the [[
* For the Western, choose from among [[The Drifter]], [[The Gunslinger]], the [[Mountain Man]], [[The Gambler]], [[The Noble Indian]]....
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* Your spy thriller could benefit from some good moves: [[Dressing as the Enemy]], a [[Ceiling Cling]], maybe some [[Juggle Fu]]... and if you want to get ''really'' fancy, add in some [[Le Parkour]].
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Now, if you're really looking to bring up the quality of your work, head off to your local library (or jump on your computer... wait, you're already there) to study how the best (and worst) have managed to make it work:
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* If you ever wanted [[Anvilicious|An]] [[Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped|Anvil]] about the value of education dropped as well as an anvil ever ''could'' be dropped, look no further than ''[[The Phantom Tollbooth]]''.
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* [[Harry Potter]] Fanfiction: Here's a short list of [[
* So you want to adapt a video game story to a movie script, eh? Let me walk you over to this section of [[Uwe Boll]] movies....
* I'm not saying ''[[American Idol]]'' is necessarily ''bad'' (and in fact I do enjoy it!), but if you want to avoid <s>[[Filleritis]]</s> [[Filler]], give it an objective look to see (1) what the audience really wants to see and (2) all the many things they don't care about that you could easily cut out of the program.
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