User:ChristianBethel/Books/My Books 2

A Collection of Tropes Featured on Wikipedia

 * "I Want" song
 * 2.5D
 * 419 scams
 * 555 (telephone number)
 * Absent-minded professor
 * Action hero
 * Ad hominem
 * Age disparity in sexual relationships
 * Alazon
 * Alice and Bob
 * Alien autopsy
 * Alien space bats
 * All persons fictitious disclaimer
 * Allegory
 * Allegory of the Cave
 * Allusion
 * Ambulance chasing
 * Amen break
 * Ananym
 * Anorgasmia
 * Answer song
 * Antagonist
 * [ Anthropic principle]
 * Anthropomorphism
 * Antihero
 * Anxiety dream
 * Aptronym
 * Arcadia (utopia)
 * Archenemy
 * Arcology
 * Area 51
 * Argument to moderation
 * Arranged marriage
 * Artificial stupidity
 * ASCII art
 * Asexuality
 * Aspidochelone
 * Auction
 * Babies switched at birth
 * Backronym
 * Backstory
 * Bambi effect
 * Banana republic
 * Barratry (common law)
 * Bathos
 * Battering ram
 * Battlefield promotion
 * Bed trick
 * Belling the cat
 * Bermuda Triangle
 * BFG (weapon)
 * Big Bad
 * Big Dumb Object
 * Big Name Fan
 * Bildungsroman
 * Binary star
 * Bindle
 * Bisexual erasure
 * Bishōnen
 * Black box
 * Black comedy
 * Black knight
 * Black market
 * Blackmail
 * Blood types in Japanese culture
 * Bluebird of happiness
 * Boarding school
 * Body swap
 * Book burning
 * Bottle episode
 * Box office bomb
 * Boy band
 * Brain in a vat
 * Brevet (military)
 * Bullet time
 * Bumper (broadcasting)
 * Bunyip
 * Buried treasure
 * Burning glass
 * Byronic hero
 * Bystander effect
 * Cannibalism in popular culture
 * Caper story
 * Captain Obvious
 * Cargo cult
 * Cartoon physics
 * Cassandra (metaphor)
 * Cat lady
 * Catchphrase
 * Celebratory gunfire
 * Celebrity branding
 * Central conceit
 * Cereal box prize
 * Chalkboard scraping
 * Changeling
 * Channel drift
 * Cheese-eating surrender monkeys
 * Chekhov's gun
 * Chewbacca defense
 * Chiaroscuro
 * Ching chong
 * Christ figure
 * Christmas creep
 * Christmas elf
 * Chupacabra
 * Class reunion
 * Clip show
 * Cold open
 * Colony (biology)
 * Comfort object
 * Comic book death
 * Coming-of-age story
 * Composite character
 * Concept album
 * Conspicuous consumption
 * Cosplay restaurant
 * Court of public opinion
 * Courtly love
 * Cow tipping
 * Crop circle
 * Cult
 * Cutscene
 * Cyclops
 * Damsel in distress
 * Dark Lord (fiction)
 * Dead air
 * Deal with the Devil
 * Dear John letter
 * Death growl
 * Declared death in absentia
 * Deicide
 * Deus ex machina
 * Deuteragonist
 * Development hell
 * Digital immortality
 * Discrimination based on skin color
 * Disneyfication
 * Does exactly what it says on the tin
 * Dolorous Stroke
 * Double entendre
 * Double standard
 * Drop bear
 * Droste effect
 * Dump months
 * Dutch angle
 * Dynamic game difficulty balancing
 * Dynamic music
 * Dyson sphere
 * Dyson spheres in popular culture
 * Dystopia
 * Earworm
 * Easter Bunny
 * Easter egg (media)
 * Eidetic memory
 * Elderly martial arts master
 * Elephant in the room
 * Emancipation of minors
 * Empty nest syndrome
 * Envy
 * Ergodic literature
 * Escalation of commitment
 * Everyman
 * Evil clown
 * Evil corporation
 * Evil laughter
 * Evil twin
 * Ex-gay movement
 * Expurgation
 * Fairy godmother
 * Fake Shemp
 * Faked death
 * Fallacy of quoting out of context
 * Fallacy of relative privation
 * False dilemma
 * False flag
 * False protagonist
 * False-consensus effect
 * Fan service
 * Fan translation of video games
 * Fart lighting
 * Fatsuit
 * Faux Cyrillic
 * Fear of needles
 * Feigned madness
 * Femme fatale
 * Fermat's Last Theorem
 * Fermi paradox
 * Finagle's law
 * Final girl
 * Fix-up
 * Floating island (fiction)
 * Floating timeline
 * Florence Nightingale effect
 * Flying pig
 * Flying saucer
 * Food fight
 * Force field (fiction)
 * Force-feeding
 * Forensic accounting
 * Foreshadowing
 * Forgiveness
 * Formula fiction
 * Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
 * Four temperaments
 * Fourth wall
 * Freemium
 * Freudian slip
 * Friday night death slot
 * Frivolous litigation
 * Gallows humor
 * Gaslamp fantasy
 * Gaslighting
 * Geisha
 * Generic trademark
 * Gentleman detective
 * Gentleman thief
 * Get-rich-quick scheme
 * Girl group
 * Girl next door
 * Girly girl
 * Glasses fetishism
 * God
 * God is dead
 * Godwin's law
 * Golem
 * Good cop/bad cop
 * Gravity assist
 * Great American Novel
 * Greek chorus
 * Grey alien
 * Griefer
 * Groin attack
 * Gunboat diplomacy
 * Hammerspace
 * Hand of Glory
 * Handwaving
 * Hanging judge
 * Happy ending
 * Hard hat
 * Hazmat suit
 * Headless Horseman
 * Heart (symbol)
 * Heaven
 * Hell
 * Hellhound
 * Help:What links here
 * Here be dragons
 * Hero
 * Hime cut
 * Hipster (contemporary subculture)
 * Hixploitation
 * Hobbit
 * Home advantage
 * Honeypots in espionage fiction
 * Hooker with a heart of gold
 * Hotshot (stock character)
 * Housewife
 * Hoverboard
 * Hybristophilia
 * Idiot plot
 * Idle animations
 * Illeism
 * Illuminati
 * Illuminati in popular culture
 * In medias res
 * Indian Summer
 * Infinite monkey theorem in popular culture
 * Ingenue (stock character)
 * Inherently funny word
 * Intersex
 * Ironic process theory
 * Irony
 * Isometric projection
 * It was a dark and stormy night
 * Japanophile
 * Jealousy
 * Jersey Devil
 * Josei manga
 * Jumping the shark
 * Jungle girl (stock character)
 * Kaiju
 * Kangaroo court
 * Kansas City Shuffle
 * Kappa (folklore)
 * Kasa-obake
 * Kawaii
 * Kayfabe
 * King in the mountain
 * Kirby krackle
 * Kitsune
 * Knife game
 * Knife switch
 * Knight-errant
 * Knights Templar
 * Konami Code
 * L'esprit de l'escalier
 * Late night anime
 * Leitmotif
 * Leprechaun
 * Lesbian kiss episode
 * Liminal being
 * Liminality
 * Lipstick lesbian
 * List of breakout characters
 * List of fictional political parties
 * List of musical works in unusual time signatures
 * List of scandals with "-gate" suffix
 * List of television series canceled after one episode
 * List of younger and junior versions of cartoon characters
 * Little green men
 * Loaded question
 * Long take
 * Loose lips sink ships
 * Loudness war
 * Lovable rogue
 * Love at first sight
 * Love triangle
 * Lovecraft Country
 * Ludonarrative
 * Lumpers and splitters
 * MacGuffin
 * Mad scientist
 * Madonna–whore complex
 * Magic 8-Ball
 * Magic carpet
 * Magic ring
 * Magic satchel
 * Magical girl
 * Magical girlfriend
 * Magical Negro
 * Magnum opus
 * Mammy archetype
 * Maneki-neko
 * Manic Pixie Dream Girl
 * Mary Sue
 * Maternal insult
 * Matricide
 * Matrix digital rain
 * Meet cute
 * Meganekko
 * Meme
 * Men in Black
 * Mermaid biology
 * Meta-reference
 * Metafiction
 * Metal umlaut
 * Mexican standoff
 * Mickey Mousing
 * Micropayment
 * Mile high club
 * Military use of children
 * Min-maxing
 * Mind rhyme
 * Mind uploading
 * Miranda warning
 * Missing white woman syndrome
 * Mistress (lover)
 * Mithridatism
 * Mockbuster
 * Modus ponens
 * Moe (slang)
 * Moe anthropomorphism
 * Mondegreen
 * Monomyth
 * Montage (filmmaking)
 * Moon landing conspiracy theories
 * Moon landing conspiracy theories in popular culture
 * Moonwalk (dance)
 * Moral
 * More popular than Jesus
 * Morton's fork
 * Mrs. Claus
 * Mummy
 * Munchausen syndrome
 * Munchkin (role-playing games)
 * Mustang (military officer)
 * Mutiny
 * Narcissism
 * Nature versus nurture
 * Nazi hunter
 * Nazism and occultism
 * Necromancy
 * Nerd
 * Newspeak
 * No true Scotsman
 * Nobility
 * Noble savage
 * Nocturnal emission
 * Non-lexical vocables in music
 * Nose art
 * Nouveau riche
 * Nude swimming
 * Numbers station
 * Nyotaimori
 * Occult detective fiction
 * One-hit wonder
 * Online disinhibition effect
 * Opposite Day
 * Organ theft
 * Oscar bait
 * Otaku
 * Ouija
 * Ouroboros
 * Outlaw
 * Outlaw (stock character)
 * Panacea (medicine)
 * Pardon
 * Parkour
 * Parody advertisement
 * Parody religion
 * Parvenu
 * Patricide
 * Patron saint
 * Patter song
 * Pen name
 * People's Republic
 * Percussive maintenance
 * Perp walk
 * Peter Principle
 * Petrifaction in mythology and fiction
 * Phoenix (mythology)
 * Playing doctor
 * Plot device
 * Plot hole
 * Plot twist
 * Poe's law
 * Point of divergence
 * Police impersonation
 * Pony Express
 * Portable hole
 * Portmanteau
 * Post-credits scene
 * Powered exoskeleton
 * Praxis effect
 * Predestination paradox
 * Prelap
 * President for Life
 * Pride
 * Prince Charming
 * Princess and dragon
 * Princesse lointaine
 * Principle of Evil Marksmanship
 * Prison ship
 * Product placement
 * Protagonist
 * Protest song
 * Psychological pricing
 * Psychopomp
 * Public execution
 * Pun
 * Purple prose
 * Pyramid power
 * Pyrrhic victory
 * Queen bee (sociology)
 * Queen's Guard
 * Quiet game
 * Quisling
 * Rags to riches
 * Raygun
 * Raygun Gothic
 * Real time (media)
 * Reality television
 * Rectal examination
 * Red fascism
 * Red herring
 * Red string of fate
 * Redshirt (character)
 * Reductio ad Hitlerum
 * Rembrandt lighting
 * Retroactive continuity
 * Retronym
 * Revenge
 * Richard Nixon mask
 * Robinsonade
 * Roman à clef
 * Romantic friendship
 * Roswell UFO incident
 * Rosy retrospection
 * RTFM
 * Rule of three (writing)
 * Rules lawyer
 * Running gag
 * Ruritania
 * Ruritanian romance
 * Sacred cow (idiom)
 * Safe, sane and consensual
 * Safeword
 * Salting the earth
 * Sampling (music)
 * Satan
 * Sawing a woman in half
 * Scale of one to ten
 * Scare quotes
 * Scat singing
 * Schrödinger's cat in popular culture
 * Screaming (music)
 * Scullery maid
 * Scunthorpe problem
 * Sea monster
 * Secret history
 * Secret identity
 * Seeing pink elephants
 * Seinen manga
 * Self-cannibalism
 * Self-fulfilling prophecy
 * Self-immolation
 * Sensational spelling
 * Seven dirty words
 * Seventh son of a seventh son
 * Sewer alligator
 * Sex in advertising
 * Sex in space
 * Sexposition
 * Shaggy dog story
 * Shark tunnel
 * Shikata ga nai
 * Shinigami
 * Ship of Theseus
 * Shipping (fandom)
 * Shm-reduplication
 * Shooting an apple off one's child's head
 * Shooting the messenger
 * Shoulder angel
 * Shōnen
 * Shōnen manga
 * Side grip
 * Sidekick
 * Siege engine
 * Signature song
 * Situational sexual behavior
 * Skin-walker
 * Sleeper hit
 * Slut
 * Smash cut
 * Snake pit
 * Snipe hunt
 * Snowball fight
 * Snowclone
 * Soap opera rapid aging syndrome
 * Social gadfly
 * Sockpuppet (Internet)
 * Southern belle
 * Space marine
 * Space pirate
 * Spear carrier
 * Speech balloon
 * Speech disorder
 * Speech scroll
 * Spinning newspaper
 * Spinster
 * Spiritual successor
 * Split screen (filmmaking)
 * Spontaneous human combustion
 * Stan (fan)
 * Star-crossed
 * Stay-at-home dad
 * Stereotypes of Jews
 * Stink bomb
 * Stock character
 * Story within a story
 * Straight-acting
 * Straw man
 * Streisand effect
 * Strip poker
 * Striptease
 * Stunt casting
 * Succès de scandale
 * Sudden death (sport)
 * Sudden wealth syndrome
 * Supercouple
 * Superhero
 * Superior orders
 * Supervillain
 * Survivor guilt
 * Suspension of disbelief
 * Sweater girl
 * Syncro-Vox
 * Syzygy (astronomy)
 * Tabula rasa
 * Tall poppy syndrome
 * Tastes like chicken
 * Ten percent of the brain myth
 * Tengu
 * Testosterone poisoning
 * Tetraphobia
 * Tetris effect
 * The dog ate my homework
 * The finger
 * The Honest Woodman
 * The Moon is made of green cheese
 * The show must go on
 * Theme music
 * Theocracy
 * Tickle torture
 * Tidal locking
 * Tin can telephone
 * Tin foil hat
 * Title sequence
 * Titular line
 * Toilet humour
 * Tomboy
 * Tontine
 * Tournament (medieval)
 * Tragedy of the anticommons
 * Translation convention
 * Trial by media
 * Triple Goddess (Neopaganism)
 * Trope
 * Trope (literature)
 * Trophy wife
 * True meaning of Christmas
 * Tsundere
 * Tuckerization
 * Tulpa
 * Tunguska event
 * Tunguska event in popular culture
 * TV Tropes
 * Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution
 * Twin films
 * Tyrannosaurus
 * Uncanny valley
 * Unconscionability
 * Undead
 * Unicorn
 * Unknown years of Jesus
 * Unobtainium
 * Unreliable narrator
 * Unseen character
 * Up to eleven
 * Utopia
 * Vagina dentata
 * Valkyrie
 * Valley girl
 * Vaporware
 * Very special episode
 * Videophone
 * Villain
 * Visual pun
 * Wainscot (fiction)
 * Walk and talk
 * Walk this way (humor)
 * Wardrobe malfunction
 * Washing out mouth with soap
 * Wasteland (mythology)
 * Weird West
 * Wendigo
 * Wet sari scene
 * White horse (mythology)
 * White savior narrative in film
 * Piped link
 * Silly Things
 * Systemic bias
 * Wikipedia is in the real world
 * WTF? OMG! TMD TLA. ARG!
 * Wild Hunt
 * Wise old man
 * Work-to-rule
 * World domination
 * World egg
 * Worldbuilding
 * Writer's block
 * Yamato nadeshiko
 * Yellow Peril
 * Youngest son
 * Yowie
 * Yōkai
 * Zettai ryōiki