Characterization Tropes

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Tropes about setting up, fleshing out, and tearing down characters.

Compare Characters and Casting for how characters are affected by being played by actors. Contrast Characters As Device for roles that characters can be shoved into for plot reasons. See Signature Tropes for tropes that define a character (or work of fiction).

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• Accent Tropes
• Admiration Tropes
• Aging Tropes
• Backstory Index
• Birth Tropes
• Blame Tropes
• Character Flaw Index
• Character Derailment
• Clothing Reflects Personality
• Cynicism Tropes
• Dead Herring
• Disability Tropes
• Does Not Like This Index
• Emotion Tropes
  • Anger Tropes
  • Disgust Tropes
  • Fear Tropes
  • Happiness Tropes
  • Hatred Tropes
  • Love Tropes
  • Sadness Tropes
  • Surprise Tropes
• Ego Tropes
• Extraversion Tropes
• Fictional Culture and Nation Tropes
• Foils
• Gender and Sexuality Tropes
  • Always Female
  • Always Male
  • Lesbian Tropes
  • Bisexuality Tropes
  • Double Standard
  • Queer As Tropes
  • Unisex Tropes
• Goals and Objectives Index
• Gratitude Tropes
• Heel Face Index
• I Am an Index
• Idealism Tropes
  • Knight in Shining Tropes
• Identity Index
• Improbable Behavior Tropes
• Internal Conflict Tropes
• Introversion Tropes
• The Jerk Index
• Madness Tropes
• Mary Sue Tropes
• Master of the Index
• More Than Meets the Eye
• Motivation Index
• Naming Conventions
• National Stereotyping Tropes
• A Nice Jewish Index
• Occupation Tropes
• Oh Great a Snark Index
• Otherness Tropes
• The Only Righteous Index of Fanatics
• Personal Appearance Tropes
  • Costume Tropes
    • Stripperiffic
  • Eye Tropes
  • Hair Tropes
  • Race Tropes
  • Smile Tropes
  • Tear Tropes
• Prejudice Tropes
• Signature Tropes
• Stereotype
• This Index Has Had a Hard Life
• This Index Is Copypasted
• Tropes About Perverts
• You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry

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