TV Tropes, the all-devouring pop-culture wiki, catalogs and cross-references recurrent plot devices, archetypes, and tropes in all forms of media.

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 …

Browse Tropes Take a stroll through the TVTropes content until you find what you like – or until that special something finds you. Use the filters below to sort our library by genre, media, …

For tropes about a particular medium, see the Media Tropes index. Related are Platforms, Fan Works, Troper Works, TV show Formats, and the List of Shows That Need Summary.

Setting tropes that aren't necessarily specific to games but are used in games to the degree they are pretty much stock elements, or without which many games would be …

An index page listing Media Tropes content. Tropes that are primarily associated with a particular medium, see the Media index for lists of works sorted by …

3 days ago · The TVTropes Trope Finder is where you can come to ask questions like "Do we have this one?" and "What's the trope about...?" Trying to rediscover a long lost show or other …

Basically one of the most super of tropes in all of fiction. Unless you're writing some sort of abstract poem, it's pretty much impossible to tell a story without characters.

An index page listing Film Tropes content. All about feature films. See also Directors, Film Genres. Tropes: Categories: Home Video Tropes Actionized …

In the case of an International Coproduction in which there is an index for one country but not the other, the series should be listed on both this page and the sub-index. For tropes, see Series …