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We Are Not Alone
[edit]A Collection of Tropes Featured on Wikipedia
[edit]- "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
- Wikipedia:Piped link
- Wikipedia:Silly Things
- Wikipedia:Systemic bias
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia is in the real world
- Wikipedia: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