I do enjoy them, though, particularly because being genre-savvy means skipping some of the more repetitive plot tropes - or at least having the protagonist try to. Perhaps the Trapped in an Otome Game sub-genre would work for you? The majority of protagonists have to be a little genre-...
If you need the highlights, check out the Crowning Moment of Funny page on Tvtropes. It’s more than just humor, though. Justified has made a name for itself by carving out beautifully intricate characters through words alone. Boyd Crowder would be just like any other drug dealing crime ...
The unofficial mascot of DreamWorks, Shrek, has become a figure associated with humor and satire as the film critiques conventional notions of fairy tale stories, mainly poking fun at companies like Disney for its tired tropes. The franchise currently has four main films and two spinoff films ...
The script in cleaning/tvtropes.R contains the code used to scrape and combine the necessary data for this analysis. The steps are as follows. The R library rvest was used for scraping and the data cleaning software OpenRefine was used for pattern matching between metadata and TVTropes entries...
Manchester By The Sea Showrunner, Kenneth Lonergan’s Golden Rule for Writers: “Not be subverted by borrowing tropes” Manchester By The Sea showrunner Kenneth Lonergan, an acclaimed filmmaker and playwright, took the stage at Dublin’s Storyhouse festival on April 4, 2025, captivating a room ...
This demonstrates how established tropes of authenticity-via-bodily transformation, have enabled transgender to become culturally legible through the wrong body trope. Problematically, I argue, this process has worked to demarcate ideals of 'acceptable' transgender subjectivity: self-sufficient, normatively...
When I write Western novels, I’m very aware that these principles are not simply tropes in a genre but dearly held beliefs of a certain caliber of people, Americans generally, Westerners specifically, and me individually. After a few days of some kind of glitch that prevented the cover from...
News Film TV Awards Video Open Search Marry Me Features The 10 Best Jennifer Lopez Movies, from ‘Anaconda’ to ‘Marry Me’ Sadly, neither the Bennifer-starring "Gigli" nor "Jersey Girl" made the cut. By Alison Foreman July 24, 2022 11:00 am Features Between ‘Marry Me,’ Agatha Chr...
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Though all of the teen dramedy tropes are present—awkward parents, the teacher who gets it, the exploration of high school cliques—the excellent supporting cast keeps the narrative fresh. Greg's parents (Connie Britton and Nick Offerman) add an eccentric jolt of parental weirdness to their ...