Follow TV Tropes http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Tropes A trope is a storytelling device or convention, a shortcut for describing situations the storyteller can reasonably assume the audience will recognize. Tropes are the means by which a story is told by anyone who has a story to tell. We collect them, for the fun involved. Tropes are not the same thing as cliches. They may be brand new but seem trite and hackneyed; they may be thousands of years old but seem fresh and new. They are not bad, they are not good; tropes are tools that the creator of a work of art uses to express their ideas to the audience. It's pretty much impossible to create a story without tropes . Here is a list of indexes, split into conceptual groups. At the bottom of each trope page you will find a convenient Next or Previous link that allows browsing alphabetically. This is a long list of all tropes we have already catalogued . You may, however, want to take along a supply of Narnia Time in either case. Main Indexes: Genre Tropes Media Tropes Narrative Tropes Topical Tropes Narrative Tropes Other Indexes: Administrivia Audience Reactions Books on Trope The Contributors Creator Speak Creators Derivative Works Fandom Flame Bait Forgotten Tropes Formats Genres Home Pages By Language Information Desk Just for Fun Laws and Formulas Media Media Notes Meta-Concepts Networks The Oldest Ones in the Book Omnipresent Tropes Overdosed Tropes Platforms Project Snowclones Sub Wiki Trope Overdosed Trope Tropes Trivia Tropes of Legend Truth in Television Universal Tropes Useful Notes Wiki Tropes Works Your Mileage May Vary Audience Reactions The Contributors Derivative Works Forgotten Tropes Home Pages By Language Information Desk Laws and Formulas The Oldest Ones in the Book Omnipresent Tropes Overdosed Tropes Trope Overdosed Tropes of Legend Truth in Television Universal Tropes Your Mileage May Vary Alternative Title(s): General Tropes Seiten auf Deutsch Fr/Index des Langues Seiten auf Deutsch Administrivia/Home Pages By Language Páginas en Español Truth in Television Pt/Índice de Tradução The Tropeless Tale TimeImmemorial/Other Pages Important Links

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