Training Tropes

Basic Information

Skills and Training Tropes are narrative tropes about acquiring new abilities

What You Know

• Charles Atlas Superpower
• Chekhovs Skill
• I Know Kung Fu
• I Know Mortal Kombat
• I Dont Know Mortal Kombat
• The Medic

How You Learned It

• Awesomeness By Analysis
• Dont Think Feel
• Gonna Fly Now Montage
• Hands On Approach
• The Spartan Way
• Taught By Experience
• Taught By Television
• Training From Hell
• Training Montage
• Time To Unlock More True Potential
• Took A Level In Badass
• Wax On Wax Off
• When You Snatch The Pebble
• Your Eyes Can Deceive You

Shortcuts/Cheating

• Drunken Master
• Look What I Can Do Now
• Hard Work Hardly Works

See Also

• Combat Tropes
• School Tropes

Sources

Bibliography

1. TV Tropes Wiki entry

Game and Story Use

• In most RPGs the characters will become stronger and more experienced over time. Use these tropes to make the training more memorable.