Drama Tropes

Basic Information

Drama tropes are genre tropes that primarily appear in dramas.

List of Drama Tropes

• Achey Scars
• Achilles Heel
• All Up To You
• Always Murder
• Arc Words
• As Long As There Is One Man
• Attempted Rape
• Best For Last
• Big No
• Blaxploitation
• Boarding School Of Horrors
• Broken Pedestal
• The Casey Effect
• Chains Of Love
• Comes Great Responsibility
• Coming Of Age Story
• The Commies Made Me Do It
• CPR Clean Pretty Reliable
• Creepy Physical
• Curiosity Killed The Cast
• Cut Himself Shaving
• Cycle Of Revenge
• Date Rape Averted
• Deadly Prank
• Domestic Abuse
• Drama Bomb
• Estranged Soap Family
• Everybody Lives
• Evil Is Cool
• Feuding Families
• Give Him A Normal Life
• G Rated Drug
• Glory Days
• Golden Moment
• He's Back
• I Will Wait For You
• Important Clue
• Informed Self Diagnosis
• Insanity Ploy
• Instant Sedation
• Ironic Birthday
• It Never Gets Any Easier
• Justified Criminal
• Kirk Summation
• Knight Of Cerebus
• Last Second Chance
• Limited Advancement Opportunities
• Linked List Clue Methodology
• MacGyvering
• Magical Defibrillator
• Manufactured Drama
• Meaningful Background Event
• Meaningful Funeral
• Meghan Box
• Mysterious Parent
• Near Rape Experience
• Notable Non Sequitur
• Only Law Firm In Town
• Orphanage Of Fear
• Parental Favoritism
• Penultimate Outburst
• Phony Newscast
• Pick On Someone Your Own Size
• Pinch Me
• Plethora Of Mistakes
• Police Brutality
• Politically Correct History
• Pound Of Flesh
• Present Day Present Time
• Promotion To Parent
• Psychic Dreams For Everyone
• Rape As Drama
• Real Time
• Runaway Train
• Sarcastic Clapping
• Smoking Gun Control
• Soapland Christmas
• Soap Opera Disease
• SORAS (Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome)
• Stranger In A Familiar Land
• Take My Hand
• Talking The Monster To Death
• Teens Are Monsters
• Teeth Clenched Teamwork
• Televisually Transmitted Disease
• This Is My Part
• Timmy In A Well
• Toilet Seat Divorce
• Too Good For This Sinful Earth
• We Can Rule Together
• We Do Not Know Each Other
• Why Did You Make Me Hit You
• The Woobie
• Wounded Gazelle Gambit
• You Didn't Ask

Sources

TV Tropes Wiki entry

Game and Story Use