In Trope-tastic, Ellaheh Gohari ’28 explores the history of tropes in film and media. Editor’s Note: This article is a review and includes subjective thoughts, opinions and critiques. While it is ...
TV Tropes, the all-devouring pop-culture wiki, catalogs and cross-references recurrent plot devices, archetypes, and tropes in all forms of media.
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 …
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Tropes and trope categories about setting up, fleshing out, and tearing down characters. Compare Characters and Characters and Casting (how characters are affected by being played by actors).Contrast Characters as Device (roles that characters …
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. See Media Notes for articles about background info and history on media and how it is made, as well as accolades given to it.