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We selected 95 tropes from TiMoS datasets and there're four category of them: Character-Trait(CT), Role-Interaction(RI), Situation(ST) and Storyline(SL)

Definitions & Categories

Trope	Category	Definition
Big Bad	Character Trait	The character who is the direct cause of all of the bad happenings in a story.
Jerkass	Character Trait	A character who is so completely obnoxious that it is unbelievable anyone would willingly interact with them.
Faux Affably Evil	Character Trait	A villain whose politeness is an act that only serves to enhance their evil.
Smug Snake	Character Trait	A type of character (usually a villain) who tends to treat friends and enemies alike with equal disdain.
Abusive Parents	Character Trait	This includes parents who are emotionally, verbally, physically, or mentally abusive, or who neglectfully allow their children to be abused \nby others if they don't abuse the child themselves
Would Hurt a Child	Character Trait	People that do hurt children, sometimes even kill them.
Action Girl	Character Trait	An Action Girl is a female badass who is tough and kicks butt.
Reasonable Authority Figure	Character Trait	Authirity that is open to heros' inasane ideas. Often, they'll ask for proof and facts rather than follow baseless accusations, but even then, \nthey'll usually humor the heroes and go check out their theories.
Papa Wolf	Character Trait	Paternal instinct can transform a Bumbling Dad into an Action Dad. If someone threatens his kids they will soon wish \nthey'd never come within a mile of them.
Deadpan Snarker	Character Trait	A character prone to gnomic, sarcastic, sometimes bitter, occasionally whimsical asides.
Determinator	Character Trait	A character \ good or evil, male or female, young or old \ who never gives up. Ever. No matter what.
Only Sane Man	Character Trait	When there is a group of characters who are all just totally weird, either in general or in a particular scenario, the Only Sane Man is the only \none who, well, isn't.
Anti-Hero	Character Trait	An antihero is a protagonist who has the opposite of most of the traditional attributes of a hero.
Asshole Victim	Character Trait	When the victim is a bad guy.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold	Character Trait	A person you would expect to be a big Jerkass has some redeeming qualities behind their tough demeanor.
Even Evil Has Standards	Character Trait	Keep a villain safely on the "still sympathetic" side of the Moral Event Horizon; give him something that he simply will not do.
Affably Evil	Character Trait	Villains that are not too bad. There is absolutely nothing separating them from being normal, polite people except for the fact that they want \nto take over the world.
Too Dumb to Live	Character Trait	People who are so stupid that they simply do not deserve to survive.
Butt-Monkey	Character Trait	The character who is always the butt of the demeaning joke or the "put them through hell" plotline.
Ax-Crazy	Character Trait	An "ax-crazy" character is someone who is psychologically unstable and presents a clear and immediate danger to others.
Adorkable	Character Trait	An adorkable character might be socially inept, shy or clumsy. However, rather than making them an outcast, these quirks give the character \nan endearing vulnerability.
Berserk Button	Character Trait	Some characters always get enraged when given a certain, minor trigger.
Ms. Fanservice	Character Trait	A female character who provides a significant amount of Fanservice (generally for males), ranging from simple revealing of cleavage, midriff, \nshoulders or legs, to shots of her curves, hips or derriere (even when covered).
The Alcoholic	Character Trait	This person likes their liquor, and in large amounts.
Disappeared Dad	Character Trait	The father of a character or characters is missing or absent.
Would Hit a Girl	Character Trait	A guy (good or evil) has no problems with violence against women.
Oh, Crap!	Role Interaction	The moment at which a character realizes that something really, REALLY bad is about to happen.
Driven to Suicide	Role Interaction	Whatever the reason, a character may be driven to commit suicide.
Adult Fear	Role Interaction	Things that mature, well-adjusted adults generally are concerned about, as opposed to supernatural fears.
Not So Different	Role Interaction	When one character in a pair (who'd otherwise be different and/or unrelated) discovers that they actually have some things in common, more \nthan the other character would want to believe.
Heroic BSoD	Role Interaction	A stunning revelation or horrible event affects a character or someone they care deeply about, leaving them shocked to the point of mentally\n shutting down for a while.
Big \"NO!\"	Role Interaction	The moment when a character realizes that something awful has happened, or notices that something awful is about to happen, and screams \n"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
Eye Scream	Role Interaction	When the creator of a work takes advantage of our Primal Fear of having something utterly horrible happen to our eyes, usually involving the \ninvasion of the eye sockets by a foreign body.
Gory Discretion Shot	Role Interaction	Blood or brains are seen splattering against a wall and the rest is left to the imagination.
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice	Role Interaction	When someone gets stabbed in a really extreme way..
Off with His Head!	Role Interaction	When someone is going to get his head chopped off.
Disney Villain Death	Role Interaction	Villains exit the film by falling off or out of things.
Your Cheating Heart	Role Interaction	Cheating on your partner.
\"The Reason You Suck\" Speech	Role Interaction	One character delivers a speech to another character on all the reasons why that other character sucks or is a horrible person.
Tempting Fate	Role Interaction	Tempting Fate is when a character says something that dares the universe into making things miserable for them, and the universe takes them up \non the challenge.
Disproportionate Retribution	Role Interaction	the situation where a person let the opponent know that if they so much as sneeze on someone you protect, it will cost them a limb.
Badass Boast	Role Interaction	The character has got to be pretty impressive to be able to make this kind of boast convincingly, though sometimes a weaker character will \nbluff like this.
Groin Attack	Role Interaction	Groin attack
Roaring Rampage of Revenge	Role Interaction	The Roaring Rampage of Revenge differs from the standard Revenge plot in that our hero dispenses with the Machiavellian plotting that would \ndefine a classic revenge tale and goes straight for the bloodshed.
Big Damn Heroes	Role Interaction	Any time the heroes/anti heroes get to save the day in a big, awesome manner.
Heroic Sacrifice	Role Interaction	A character saves another/others from harm and is killed, crippled, or maimed as a result.
Screw This, I'm Outta Here!	Role Interaction	Screw you guys, I'm going home.
Kick the Dog	Role Interaction	When a character does something evil for no apparent gain, because the author wants to demonstrate that he's not a nice guy and shift \naudience sympathy away from him.
Pet the Dog	Role Interaction	Show the nasty old crank petting a dog, and you show the audience, aw shucks, they're not that bad of a person after all.
Villainous Breakdown	Role Interaction	The tendency of relatively calm and composed villains to lose their cool over the course of the story.
Precision F-Strike	Role Interaction	When a character suddenly swears in an uncharacteristically strong manner, or when a swear is unexpectedly used in a work with mild language.
Cluster F-Bomb	Role Interaction	Lots of swearing occur.
Jerkass Has a Point	Role Interaction	When a jerkass is right.
Idiot Ball	Role Interaction	A moment where a character's stupidity fuels an episode, or a small plot line.
Batman Gambit	Role Interaction	A plan that revolves entirely around people doing exactly what you'd expect them to do.
Police are Useless	Situation	Whenever someone in film or on TV reports a murder, or a monster, or a stalker or whatever, the police come as close to ignoring them \nas procedure will allow.
The Dragon	Situation	There is almost always someone, person or monster, The Hero has to get past to get at the Big Bad.
Cool Car	Situation	The hero's ride has to be just as unique and awesome as the hero is. Enter a Cool Car!
Body Horror	Situation	This is any form of horror or squickiness involving body parts, parasitism, disfigurement, mutation, or unsettling bodily configuration.
The Reveal	Situation	A character is revealed as another character's father, a god, or secret suitor or arch nemesis in disguise.
Curb-Stomp Battle	Situation	A fight that's extremely one-sided, where one side just absolutely trashes the other with little-to-no effort
Cassandra Truth	Situation	Sometimes people just won't believe you even though you are telling the truth, because the truth sounds insane.
Blatant Lies	Situation	A glaringly obvious lie.
Crapsack World	Situation	A Crapsack World is a horrible setting of the world where it's dark and hopeless
Comically Missing the Point	Situation	A character completely misses a really obvious point for comic effect.
Fanservice	Situation	The use of sex or sexualized situations to reward or entice viewers.
Fan Disservice	Situation	Fan Disservice looks like regular garden variety Fanservice, except that the creators intentionally use the circumstances around it to make the \nscene outright creepy or disgusting.
Brick Joke	Situation	When two seemingly unrelated jokes work together to create a comedic effect.
Hypocritical Humor	Situation	A type of gag in which a character's actions or words contradict each other and this is Played for Laughs.
Does This Remind You of Anything?	Situation	Any situation which is made, sometimes for comic effect, sometimes for dramatic effect, to look like another situation.
Black Comedy	Situation	A sub-genre of comedy and satire where topics and events that are usually treated seriously are treated in a satirical manner, while still being \nportrayed as the negative events that they are.
Irony	Situation	The intended meaning is an inversion of the plain meaning.
Exact Words	Situation	When the exact wording of a rule, promise, prophecy, etc. matters more than the spirit of the wording, it's an Exact Words situation.
Stealth Pun	Situation	The writers put in a joke (almost always a pun), but never make or put in a Punch Line or explicit statement, hiding it in the set up of the joke.
Bittersweet Ending	Story Line	When victory came at a harsh price, when, for whatever reason, the heroes cannot fully enjoy the reward of their actions, when some \nirrevocable loss has happened during the course of the events, and nothing will ever be the same again.
Karma Houdini	Story Line	The character has done a number of things that deserve a karmic comeuppance, most importantly things that caused harm to the innocent. But \nwhen the time comes for the hammer to fall, that's not what happens. At least, not on them. They don\t get what they deserve.
Downer Ending	Story Line	A finale to a movie that ends things in a way that varies from sad to tragic.
Laser-Guided Karma	Story Line	If you mistreat the people and things around you, karma will strike you down.
Earn Your Happy Ending	Story Line	A cast of characters in a story go through a lot more hardship, anguish and grief than is really necessary. In the end, however, you see them get \ntheir happily-ever-after.
Karmic Death	Story Line	When the villain dies in a manner that is completely their own fault. Or, at least, obviously not the hero's.
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!	Story Line	The hero has accomplished their goal, but it turns out that by the very act of success, they've unwittingly made things worse.
My God, What Have I Done?	Story Line	Well-intentioned but misguided character (very likely a Tragic Hero, a Tragic Villain or Anti-Villain) comes to realize that his actions have\n caused incredible damage, physical pain, emotional pain, or even loss of life.
What the Hell, Hero?	Story Line	When characters In-Universe call out one of the heroes for doing something clearly unheroic, if not outright heinous.
Hope Spot	Story Line	The Protagonist is about to face utter defeat. Suddenly, he finds a glimmer of hope what have you only to be crushed cruelly by the bad guys \nreturning in force.
Heel Face Turn	Story Line	When a bad guy turns good.
Took a Level in Badass	Story Line	A charcter who is transformed into someone stronger and tougher that the viewer almost can't recognize him.
Chekhov's Gun	Story Line	An insignificant object that later turns out to be important.
Foreshadowing	Story Line	A clue or allusion embedded in the narrative that predicts some later event or revelation.
Chekhov's Skill	Story Line	Training in any kind of skill, ability, or knowledge that will likely later come in handy.
Chekhov's Gunman	Story Line	Any character who is innocuously and unimportantly introduced to the viewer, but who later proves to be important by the end of the episode.
Red Herring	Story Line	A clue that leads in the wrong direction.
Ironic Echo	Story Line	When a character repeats a comment they received in a different situation, giving it a flipped or surprising new meaning.
Hoist by His Own Petard	Story Line	The villain's own weapon or malicious plan is the cause of their downfall and/or death.
Meaningful Echo	Story Line	It occurs when characters, in their usual way, say things to one another, and repeat it later on to give extra meaning.
Freudian Excuse	Story Line	The villain had an abusive and particularly violent childhood (such as Abusive Parents, being bullied by peers, etc.), making them insane and warping their perception on the universe