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  2. TV Tropes - Wikipedia

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    TV Tropes is a wiki that collects and documents descriptions and examples of plot conventions and devices, which it refers to as tropes, within many creative works. [7] Since its establishment in 2004, the site has shifted focus from covering various tropes to those in general media, toys, writings, and their associated fandoms, as well as some ...

  3. Trope (literature) - Wikipedia

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    A literary trope is the use of figurative language, via word, phrase or an image, for artistic effect such as using a figure of speech. [1] Keith and Lundburg describe a trope as "a substitution of a word or phrase by a less literal word or phrase". [2] The word trope has also undergone a semantic change and now also describes commonly ...

  4. Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not TV Tropes - Wikipedia

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    Wikipedia is not TV Tropes. For those not familiar, TV Tropes is a wiki that lists plot devices, tropes, and the like in all manner of fiction. However, the fact that it's a wiki is where the similarity to Wikipedia ends. While Wikipedia does have articles on various plot devices and tropes, the intent is to give an encyclopedic outlook on how ...

  5. Fantasy trope - Wikipedia

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    A common trope is that magical ability is innate and rare. As such, magic-wielding people are common figures in fantasy. Another feature is the magic item, which can endow characters with magical abilities or enhance the abilities of the innately powerful. Among the most common are magic swords and magic rings.

  6. Flanderization - Wikipedia

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    Flanderization. Flanderization is the process through which a complex fictional character's essential traits are oversimplified to the point where they constitute their entire personality, or at least exaggerated while other traits remain, over the course of a serial work. The term Flanderization was coined by TV Tropes [1] in reference to Ned ...

  7. Category:Fantasy tropes - Wikipedia

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    Category:Fantasy tropes. Category. : Fantasy tropes. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Fantasy tropes. Articles relating to fantasy tropes, literary tropes that occur in fantasy fiction. Worldbuilding, plot, and characterization have many common conventions, many of them having ultimately originated in myth and folklore .

  8. American comic book tropes - Wikipedia

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    The Marvel Universe, sometimes abbreviated to MU, is the shared universe in which the X-Men, Spider-Man, the Avengers, etc. all exist and interact. Earth-616, the Six-One-Six, etc., denotes the numerical designation of the Earth which the Marvel Universe inhabits. The term was coined in the pages of Captain Britain, by either Alan Moore [1] or ...

  9. Game of Thrones - Wikipedia

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    Game of Thrones. Grok! Television. Game of Thrones is an American fantasy drama television series created by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss for HBO. It is an adaptation of A Song of Ice and Fire, a series of fantasy novels by George R. R. Martin, the first of which is A Game of Thrones.