Quotes • Headscratchers • Playing With • Useful Notes • Analysis • Image Links • Haiku • Laconic |
---|
"You mere device," he gnarled. "You platitude! You Golux ex machina!"
|
In service to the plot, characters are given these roles, sometimes making them just plot devices with lines.
These "devices" can also be viewed as "component parts" from which more complex, realistic characters can be built, but television production usually means churning out episodes as quickly as possible to meet looming deadlines. Mediocre writers will merely take one of the following labels and slap a name on it. By contrast, better writers start with a character and slap two or more of the following labels on it.
Contrast Characterization Tropes, where the plot serves the establishment of the character.
- Brain Chain
- Cast Filler Tropes
- Cops and Detectives
- Dead Herring
- Elders
- Fantastic Sapient Species Tropes
- Gender Dynamics Index
- Category:Indexed and Nerdy
- Occupation Tropes
- Organization Index
- The Parent Trope
- A Pretty Boy Index
- Queer As Tropes
- Race Tropes
- Scrappy Index
- This Index Is Expendable
- Youngsters
All items (978)
- A Father to His Men
- A Pirate 400 Years Too Late
- A Pupil of Mine Until He Turned to Evil
-
- A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
-
- Action Duo
- Action Girl
-
-
-
- Agent Mulder
-
- Aggressive-Submissive
- The Alcoholic
- Alice and Bob
-
-
-
- Almost-Dead Guy
-
- Always Chaotic Evil
-
-
-
-
- Ancient Keeper
- Annoying Younger Sibling
-
-
- Antagonistic Offspring
- Anti Role Model
-
- Apocalypse Maiden
- The Apprentice (trope)
-
-
-
-
-
-
- Authority in Name Only
- Automated Automobiles
- Babies Make Everything Better
- Back-Alley Doctor
-
- Bad Boss
-
- Badass Bystander
- Badass Grandpa
-
-
- Barbarian Tribe
- Barrier Maiden
- Barrier Warrior
-
-
- Battle Butler
-
- Beast Man
- Beastess
- Beleaguered Assistant
-
-
-
- Beta Couple
- Big Good
- Big Man on Campus
-
-
- Black and Nerdy
- Black Best Friend
-
- Blonde Republican Sex Kitten
-
-
-
- Boisterous Bruiser
-
- Bollywood Nerd
-
-
-
- Boomerang Bigot
- Born Detective
- Born Lucky
- Bouncer
- Bourgeois Bohemian
-
-
-
-
-
-
- Brilliant but Lazy
- Brooklyn Rage
- Bruiser with a Soft Center
- Bubble Boy
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- Captain Obvious
- Casanova Wannabe
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- Chekhov's Gunman
- Chest of Medals
- The Chew Toy
- Child Mage
-
-
- Circus Brat
- Clock King
-
- Cloudcuckoolander's Minder
- Clueless Detective
-
-
-
- Combat Commentator
- Combat Pragmatist
- Combat Referee
- Combat Sadomasochist
- Comedic Hero
- The Comically Serious
- Commander Contrarian
- Commie Nazis
- Communications Officer
- Companion Cube
-
-
- Compressed Vice
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- Cordon Bleugh Chef
- Cosmic Forces Trio
-
- Country Mouse
- Courier
-
-
- Crazy Homeless People
-
- Criminal Amnesiac
-
-
-
- Curious as a Monkey
-
- Da Chief
- Da Editor
-
- Damsel Scrappy
-
- Dark and Troubled Past
- Dark Mistress
-
-
-
-
-
-
- Decoy Damsel
- Decoy Protagonist
-
- Deliberately Bad Example
-
-