"It was impossible to get a conversation going; everybody was talking too much."
All about the things that characters say.
See also Language Tropes and Narrator Tropes.
— Yogi Berra
Tropes:
Categories:
- Accent Tropes
- Catchphrase
- Complaining Index
- Compliment Tropes
- Confession Tropes
- Excuse of an Index
- Exposition
- Externalizing Internal Monologue
- Evil Gloating
- I Am An Index
- Inane Blabbering
- Index of Apologies
- Insult Tropes
- The Last of These Is Not Like the Others
- One-Liner
- Phone Tropes
- Rebuke Tropes
- Rhyme Tropes
- Speeches and Monologues
- Stock Phrases
- These Tropes Love to Brag
- These Tropes Should Watch Their Language
- Threatening Tropes
- Truth and Lies
- Word Power
- Accidental Public Confession
- Acoustic License
- Action Figure Speech
- After Action Patch Up
- After Action, Villain Analysis
- Ahem
- Air Quotes
- All-Cheering All the Time
- Analogy Backfire
- And Then I Said
- And the Rest
- Angrish
- Another Story for Another Time
- Announcer Chatter
- Answering Echo
- Anything But That!
- Apologises a Lot
- Appeal to Obscurity
- Applied Mathematics
- Aren't You Forgetting Someone?
- Argument of Contradictions
- Armor-Piercing Question
- Armor-Piercing Response
- Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
- Ask a Stupid Question...
- As the Good Book Says
- Astonishingly Appropriate Interruption
- Atomic F-Bomb
- Audience Murmurs
- Backhanded Apology
- Bad News in a Good Way
- Bad Omen Anecdote
- Bait-and-Switch Comment
- Bathroom Stall of Overheard Insults
- Battle Cry
- Battle Interrupting Shout
- Beam Me Up, Scotty!
- Bearer of Bad News
- The Bechdel Test
- Berate and Switch
- Bilingual Backfire
- Bilingual Dialogue
- Blah Blah Blah
- Blatant Lies
- Blunt Metaphors Trauma
- Bold Inflation
- Bond One-Liner
- Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick
- Breaking Bad News Gently
- Break Them by Talking
- Bring Them Around
- Broken Record
- But I Digress
- Calling Shotgun
- Calling Your Bathroom Breaks
- Can't Argue with Elves
- Casual Danger Dialog
- Censorship by Spelling
- Chain of Corrections
- Change the Uncomfortable Subject
- Chew Out Fake Out
- Cliché Storm
- Closed Door Rapport
- Cluster F-Bomb
- Code Emergency
- Collective Groan
- Comic Role Play
- Confusing Multiple Negatives
- Conjunction Interruption
- Constantly Curious
- Conversational Troping
- Converse with the Unconscious
- *Cough* Snark *Cough*
- Could Say It, But...
- Covert Distress Code
- Covert Emergency Call
- Critical Psychoanalysis Failure
- Cryptically Unhelpful Answer
- Cryptic Conversation
- Cue Card Pause
- Cultural Posturing
- Curse Cut Short
- Cypher Language
- Damned by Faint Praise
- Dare to Be Badass
- Dead Person Conversation
- Delighting In Riddles
- Department of Redundancy Department
- Derailed for Details
- Derailed Train of Thought
- Description Cut
- Description Porn
- Deteriorates Into Gibberish
- Dialogue Reversal
- Dialogue Tree
- Digging Yourself Deeper
- Disappointed by the Motive
- Disappointed In You
- Dismissing a Compliment
- Disorganized Outline Speech
- Dispense with the Pleasantries
- Disregard That Statement
- Does That Sound Like Fun to You?
- Do I Really Sound Like That?
- Do Not Taunt Cthulhu
- Doctor Doctor Doctor
- Double-Edged Answer
- Double Meaning
- Double Speak
- Dramatic Deadpan
- Dramatic Ellipsis
- Dramatic Pause
- Dramatic Stutter
- Dropping the Bombshell
- Duck Season, Rabbit Season
- Dude, Not Ironic
- Dumbass Has a Point
- Earpiece Conversation
- Easily Overheard Conversation
- Either World Domination or Something about Bananas
- Emergency Presidential Address
- Enemy Chatter
- Escalating Punchline
- Especially Zoidberg
- Euphemism Buster
- Everyone Gets Their Turn
- Everyone Knows Morse
- Evil Sounds Deep
- Evil Sounds Raspy
- Exactly What I Meant To Say
- Exposition
- Exposition Cut
- Facial Dialogue
- Famed In-Story
- Famous Last Words
- Fauxdian Slip
- Featureless Plane of Disembodied Dialogue
- Finish Dialogue in Unison
- Finishing Each Other's Sentences
- First Name Ultimatum
- Flippant Forgiveness
- Freudian Threat
- Friendly Address Privileges
- From The Latin Intro Ducere
- Full Name Ultimatum
- Fun with Homophones
- Gag Echo
- Gagging on Your Words
- Geeky Turn-On
- Gender-Neutral Writing
- Gentleman Snarker
- Get It Over With
- Gibbering Genius
- Give Me a Reason
- Good Night, Sweet Prince
- Grilling the Newbie
- Hammy Herald
- Hannibal Lecture
- Head Bob
- Hesitation Equals Dishonesty
- Hey, That's My Line!
- Hey, You!
- Hiding Behind the Language Barrier
- Hit You So Hard, Your X Will Feel It!
- Holding the Floor
- Hurricane of Aphorisms
- Hurricane of Euphemisms
- Hyperaffixation
- Hypothetical Fight Debate
- I Can't Believe I'm Saying This
- I Gave My Word
- Ignore the Disability
- Ignoring by Singing
- I Have Nothing to Say to That
- I Have This Friend
- I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
- I'll Take Two Beers Too
- I'm a Doctor, Not a Placeholder
- I'm Thinking It Over!
- Implied Death Threat
- Inaction Sequence
- Inflationary Dialogue
- Info Dump
- Inner Monologue Conversation
- Instant Seduction
- Instantly Proven Wrong
- Instructional Dialogue
- Insult Friendly Fire
- Insult Misfire
- Intelligible Unintelligible
- In That Order
- Ironic Echo
- I Say What I Say
- Is the Answer to This Question "Yes"?
- I Take Offense to That Last One
- It Tastes Like Feet
- I Uh You Too
- I Would Say If I Could Say
- Join or Die
- Joke Exhaustion
- Just Between You and Me
- Just One Man
- Just Testing You
- Kiai
- Knows a Guy Who Knows a Guy
- Lame Comeback
- Lame Rhyme Dodge
- Language Fluency Denial
- Large Ham Announcer
- Large Ham Radio
- Last-Second Word Swap
- Last Chance to Quit
- Last Request
- Layman's Terms
- Let Us Never Speak of This Again
- Let's Mock the Monsters
- Lies to Children
- Like a God to Me
- Listing The Forms Of Degenerates
- Literally Laughable Question
- Little Professor Dialog
- Loud Last Name
- Ludicrous Precision
- Lying to the Perp
- Ma'am Shock
- Mad Libs Dialogue
- Madness Mantra
- Malicious Slander
- Mamet Speak
- Mathematician's Answer
- Meaningful Echo
- Meaningful Look
- Meaningless Meaningful Words
- Melodramatic Pause
- Mirror Monologue
- Mistaken Confession
- Mister X and Mister Y
- Motive Misidentification
- Motive Rant
- Mouthing The Profanity
- Mouthful of Pi
- Multiple Persuasion Modes
- Multitasked Conversation
- Musicalis Interruptus
- My Friends... and Zoidberg
- My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
- The Name Is Bond, James Bond
- Narration Echo
- Never Say That Again
- Never Speak Ill of the Dead
- New Speak
- No Dialogue Episode
- No, Except Yes
- No Indoor Voice
- Noisy Shut Up
- "No" Means "Yes"
- No One Else Is That Dumb
- Non-Answer
- Non Sequitur Distraction
- No, You Go First
- Noodle Incident
- Noodle Implements
- Not Actually the Ultimate Question
- Not in Front of the Kid
- Not So Dire
- Oblivious Guilt Slinging
- Oblivious Mockery
- Of Corset Hurts
- Oh God, with the Verbing!
- Oh, No... Not Again!
- On Three
- One Dialogue, Two Conversations
- One-Liner, Name... One-Liner
- One Scene, Two Monologues
- One Tract Mind
- One Word Vocabulary
- Ordered Apology
- Or My Name Isn't...
- ...Or So I Heard
- Out-of-Context Eavesdropping
- Overwhelming Exception
- Parenthetical Swearing
- Passive-Aggressive Kombat
- Paused Interrupt
- Perfectly Cromulent Word
- Perplexing Plurals
- The Perry Mason Method
- Persuasion Minigame
- Picked Flowers Are Dead
- Playing the Victim Card
- Plato Is a Moron
- Pokémon Speak
- Poor Communication Kills
- Porky Pig Pronunciation
- Precision F-Strike
- Preemptive "Shut Up"
- The Promise
- Proverbial Wisdom
- Publicly Discussing the Secret
- Purple Prose
- Quiet Cry for Help
- Quote Mine
- Quote Swear Unquote
- Quote-to-Quote Combat
- Quoting Myself
- Race Name Basis
- Radio Voice
- Rage Against the Mentor
- Rapid Fire Interrupting
- Rapid-Fire Name Guessing
- A Rare Sentence
- Rationalizing the Overkill
- Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud
- Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech
- Remember That You Trust Me
- Repeat What You Just Said
- Repeated Cue, Tardy Response
- Repeat to Confirm
- Rhetorical Question Blunder
- Rhymes on a Dime
- Rhyming List
- Rousing Speech
- Said Bookism
- Sarcastic Confession
- Saying Sound Effects Out Loud
- Saying Too Much
- Secret Identity Vocal Shift
- Scheherezade Gambit
- Screw You, Elves!
- Screw Your Ultimatum!
- Seamless Spontaneous Lie
- Seinfeldian Conversation
- Seven Minute Lull
- Shall I Repeat That?
- Shamed by a Mob
- Shaming the Mob
- Shaped Like Itself
- Shutting Up Now
- Shut Up, Kirk!
- "Shut Up" Kiss
- Signature Line
- Silence Is Golden
- Silent Conversation
- Silent Whisper
- Sir Swears-a-Lot
- Sit Rep
- Smurfing
- Snark-to-Snark Combat
- Snub by Omission
- Something Only They Would Say
- Sommelier Speak
- Speak Ill of the Dead
- Speaking Like Totally Teen
- Speak in Unison
- Speaks in Shout-Outs
- Speech-Bubble Censoring
- Speech-Centric Work
- Spy Speak
- Stage Whisper
- Start My Own
- Stealth Insult
- Stereo Fibbing
- Stock Quotes
- Stop Copying Me
- Stop Saying That!
- Strange-Syntax Speaker
- Stupid Question Bait
- Suddenly Shouting
- The Summation
- Surrogate Soliloquy
- Survival Mantra
- Suspiciously Specific Denial
- Suspiciously Specific Tense
- Sustained Misunderstanding
- Switch to English
- T-Word Euphemism
- Talk About the Weather
- Talking Through Technique
- Talking in Your Dreams
- Talking to Plants
- Talking to the Dead
- Talking with Signs
- Talking Your Way Out
- Talks Like a Simile
- Teasing from Behind the Language Barrier
- Telegraph Gag STOP
- Tell Him I'm Not Speaking to Him
- Tell Me About My Father
- Tempting Fate
- Terms of Endangerment
- Terse Talker
- Thank Your Prey
- That Came Out Wrong
- That Cloud Looks Like
- That Liar Lies
- That Makes Me Feel Angry
- That Mysterious Thing
- That Was Not A Dream
- That Was Objectionable
- Thinking Out Loud
- This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!
- Time Travel Tense Trouble
- Timmy in a Well
- Trial Balloon Question
- Trick Dialogue
- The Triple
- Trouble Entendre
- Trust Password
- Twisting the Words
- Twisted Echo Cut
- Two Chicks in a Kitchen
- Two Scenes, One Dialogue
- Unnecessary Time Precision
- Unsportsmanlike Gloating
- Unusual Euphemism
- Verbal Backspace
- Voiceover Letter
- Walk-In Chime-In
- Wall of Blather
- Wasn't That Fun?
- Waxing Lyrical
- Weapons-Grade Vocabulary
- Weird Aside
- Weirder Than Usual
- Welcome to Corneria
- Wham Line
- What's a Henway?
- What the Hell, Hero?
- Where Do You Think You Are?
- While You Were in Diapers
- Who's on First?
- Whoopi Epiphany Speech
- Who Will Bell the Cat?
- Who Would Be Stupid Enough?
- Why Are We Whispering
- Witch with a Capital B
- Won't Take "Yes" for an Answer
- "World of Cardboard" Speech
- Would Rather Suffer
- Wrong Name Outburst
- Yes/No Answer Interpretation
- Yiddish as a Second Language
- You Answered Your Own Question
- You Are Not Alone
- You Can Talk?
- You Can Turn Back
- "You!" Exclamation
- You Have to Believe Me
- "You!" Squared
