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=== Wordplay ===
* '''Chekhov''' - originating with [[Chekhov's Gun]] and referring to [[Anton Chekhov (Creator)|Anton Chekhov]], Chekhov tropes often imply that something introduced early in the plot will come to be used later, or fail to be used.
* '''Cthulhu''' - originating from the [[Cthulhu Mythos]], this word generally refers to a ridiculously powerful, often god-like, being. As an example of usage, see [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]].
* '''Dragon''' - originating with [[The Dragon]], this word is sometimes used to refer to the second-in-charge to [[The Big Bad]], which is only occasionally an actual dragon. Efforts are being made to unload this trope word, as literal dragons need to be referred to in trope names, too.
* '''Face''' and '''Heel''' - originally from [[Professional Wrestling]], these words, when used together, refer to Good and Evil, respectively. For instance, a [[Face Heel Turn]] is where a Good character turns Evil.
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* '''Artistic License --''' X : These are the pages for the common ways that creators are factually wrong, because being correct wouldn't serve the story as well. We used to try to distinguish between factual errors that were in the service of the story ("Wrong, but Good"), and those that were made by a creator who simply didn't do the research (the "You Fail X Forever" and "Somewhere an X is crying" tropes were "Wrong, and Bad"), but experience proved that that distinction is impossible to judge from outside, and the "but Bad" pages became a morass of complaining and ego-stroking. We now give all factual errors the benefit of the doubt.
* '''Deus Ex''' X ''or'' X '''Ex Machina''' - originating from the concept of a [[Deus Ex Machina]], most tropes following these naming patterns are puns on the original, and involve either creation/application of gods or an unjustified solution of problems using generic and standard methods. See [[Ind Ex Machina]] for a comprehensive list of tropes following these naming patterns.
* '''Everything's''' ''comparative'' '''With''' X - tropes with this naming structure generally indicate that X either has an effect (the ''comparative'') on a work into which it is added, or improves (or worsens) a work purely by its presence. Typically, the comparative is "Better", or occasionally "Worse", although other comparatives may be used if it improves the trope name. See [[
* '''Hollywood''' X - tropes which are a gross oversimplification of a complicated or multi-faceted thing, place, or field of knowledge. Differs from the Artistic License - X tropes in that Artistic License - X is for when the creators are factually wrong. See the [[Hollywood Index]] for a list of the tropes that use this naming convention.
* '''Our''' X '''Are Different''' - Many standard concepts used in stories are standardised to the point that most works will stick to a simple formula. Tropes with this naming pattern generally break that simple formula, and do things differently when it comes to X. May use "is" if X is singular. For an index of existing tropes with this naming pattern, see [[Our Tropes Are Different]].
* '''The''' ''character'' - This is reserved for [[Omnipresent Tropes|omnipresent]] ''character roles'' ([[The Hero]] and [[The Rival]], for example), as well as a very few specific characters who are widely agreed to satisfy the [[One Mario Limit]]. Beyond this, directly naming a trope after a specific character is a '''very''' risky proposition to avoid at all costs, because of a tendency for editors to [[I Thought It Meant|assume that]] it's [[Square Peg, Round Trope|about the character, instead of the trope]], and the fact that well-rounded characters have too many facets to simply pick ''one'' side of them and declare that it's the one they should be forever known by.
* X '''The Dog''' - Tropes following this naming pattern express actions by characters that influence the audience's opinion of them, or that demonstrate to the audience that a character has changed. [[Tropey the Wonder Dog]] is an index including the existing X The Dog tropes.
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