Tropes

A "trope" is a literary device, motif, or cliché. In storytelling, a trope is a conceptual figure of speech, a storytelling shorthand for a concept that the audience will recognize and understand instantly.

A trope is a convention. It can be a plot trick, a setup, a narrative structure, a character type, a linguistic idiom—you'll likely know it when you see it or when it's pointed out.

Tropes are not only within the works itself, but also in related aspects such as the behind-the-scenes aspects of creation, the technical features of a medium, and the fan experience. Storytelling is not just writing, it is the whole process of creating and showing a story.

We use TVTropes.com as our main resource, and most links on this page and trope subpages lead there.

Some tropes are consistent enough or important enough to have their own page:

• Missing Moms
• the Bechdel test
• Bloodlines
• Death tropes
• Time travel tropes
• Tropes by Trouble

Production

• Acting for Two
  • Cristián de la Fuente as Cornell Stamoran and his evil twin
  • Emily Rose as Sarah Vernon, Lucy Ripley, Audrey Parker and Lexie DeWitt
  • Eric Balfour as Duke Crocker and Tyler

Character

• The Dark Man and the Golem have several parallels. They both function as Vigilante Man who Pay Evil Unto Evil with Disproportionate Retribution.
• Vince and Dave Teagues are Non Idle Rich.

Supernatural

• The Nose Knows - Nathan Wuornos has a heightened sense of smell to help compensate for his inability to feel physical sensations. Wendigos and triggered members of the Nix family also have a heightened sense of smell.
• The End Or Is It - seen in "Spiral" and "Real Estate"
• Super Strength demonstrated with a Neck Life - a side effect of the Crocker family Trouble, and a the Golem

Single use tropes

• The Password Is Always Swordfish - Audrey Parker's password is "Lucy". This is lampshaded when Parker realizes that Nathan Wuornos broke into her laptop.

References

• Trope (literature) at wikipedia.com
• Trope at TVTropes.com
• Haven at TVTropes.com