But even Dark Matter is good at something I can’t do at all. I can conceive big ideas and make the fine details sparkle, but I still haven’t learned how to do medium-scale storytelling, to keep a multi-thread narrative going page after page. Now I’m thinking I’ll have to bring in some tropes to do that, because I’m not good enough to be completely original on every level. Even my weirdest favorite song has verses and hooks.
Source: Ran Prieur
The Hero presented with a Leave Your Quest Test will be given the chance to lay down their Sword of Plot Advancement and leave the fight. The form this test takes varies quite a bit, but there are a few common variants.
There are the persons who have a nationality. And there are the stateless persons, who don’t have one. Whether your state was destroyed, your country doesn’t want you anymore or you passed through breaks in nationality laws, you ended up without nationality.
Source: The Stateless – TV Tropes
Source: Knight Errant – TV Tropes
The He Who Fights Monsters trope as used in popular culture. Usually, not quite a villain, but they act antagonistically enough that they’re little better.
Affably Evil is when a villain is polite, friendly and genuinely kind, even while plotting evil. Good Is Not Nice is the inverse of that: a character who is morally slanted toward the good side but is rude, unfriendly, and mean.
Source: Good Is Not Nice – TV Tropes
A Legacy Character is a character whose identity is passed down to them from an older character in the form of a title, job or persona for the newer character to assume.
Source: Legacy Character – TV Tropes
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