- Averted Trope
- Bait and Switch
- Characteristic Trope
- Conversational Troping
- Cyclic Trope
- Dead Horse Trope
- Dead Unicorn Trope
- Deconstructed Trope
- Defied Trope
- Discredited Trope
- Discussed Trope
- Double Subversion
- Downplayed Trope
- Enforced Trope
- Everything's Worse with Snowclones
- Evolving Trope
- Exaggerated Trope
- Exploited Trope
- Forgotten Trope
- Gender-Inverted Trope
- Implied Trope
- Intended Audience Reaction (When an Audience Reaction is intentionally invoked by the authors or creators.)
- Inverted Trope
- Invoked Trope
- Justified Trope
- Lampshade Hanging
- Logical Extreme
- Necessary Weasel
- Newer Than They Think
- Not a Deconstruction
- Not a Subversion
- Older Than They Think
- Omnipresent Trope
- Overdosed Tropes
- Parodied Trope
- Pet Peeve Trope
- Played for Drama
- Played for Laughs
- Playing with a Trope
- Sister Trope
- Spoilered Rotten
- Square Peg Round Trope
- Sub-Trope
- Subverted Trope
- Super Trope
- Trope
- Trope Breaker
- Trope Decay
- Trope Grid
- Troperiffic
- Troper's Block
- Trope Namer Syndrome
- Tropes Are Flexible
- Tropes Are Tools
- Tropes In Aggregate
- Trope Telegraphing
- Undead Horse Trope
- Unbuilt Trope
- Zig-Zagging Trope
Trope Tropes
Tropes about tropes. It is easy to get this confused with a category for tropes that share some commonality or are tropes that are particularly universal. That's not what this is about. It is about how tropes come into existence, live, mutate, evolve, and die.