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The creators of a work can't always predict (let alone control) how the audience will receive it. Dramatic moments cause laughter. Titillating scenes cause discomfort. Attempts to appease the fanbase only lead to more complaints. The following is a list of tropes dealing with unexpected reactions to media.
Note that sometimes these reactions, paradoxically, are what the creators intended.
See also It Sucks, Scrappy Index, and What Do You Mean, It's Not an Index?. |
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| | Accidental Aesop |
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| | Accidental Innuendo |
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| | Accidental Nightmare Fuel |
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| | Alternate Aesop Interpretation |
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| | Alternative Character Interpretation |
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| | Alternative Joke Interpretation |
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| | Aluminum Christmas Trees |
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| | Americans Hate Tingle |
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| | Arc Fatigue |
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| | Audience-Alienating Ending |
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| | Audience-Alienating Premise |
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| | Audience-Coloring Adaptation |
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| | Baby Name Trend Starter |
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| | Base-Breaking Character |
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| | Best Known for the Fanservice |
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| | Black Sheep Hit |
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| | Breakout Character |
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| | Breakout Villain |
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| | Broken Aesop |
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| | Broken Base |
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| | Captain Obvious Aesop |
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| | Captain Obvious Reveal |
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| | Clueless Aesop |
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| | Creator's Pet |
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| | Damsel Scrappy |
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| | Designated Hero |
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| | Designated Love Interest |
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| | Designated Villain |
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| | Disappointing Last Level |
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| | Do Not Do This Cool Thing |
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| | Draco in Leather Pants |
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| | Eight Deadly Words |
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| | Emergent Gameplay |
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| | Ending Fatigue |
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| | Ensemble Dark Horse |
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| | Esoteric Happy Ending |
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| | Ethnic Scrappy |
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| | Failure Hero |
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| | Fan-Preferred Couple |
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| | Fantastic Aesop |
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| | Faux Symbolism |
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| | Fetish Retardant |
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| | Game-Breaker |
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| | Generic Doomsday Villain |
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| | Ham and Cheese |
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| | Humor Dissonance |
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| | Iconic Sequel Character |
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| | Iconic Sequel Song |
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| | Inferred Holocaust |
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| | Internet Backdraft |
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| | Invincible Hero |
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| | Invincible Villain |
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| | Iron Woobie |
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| | Jerkass Dissonance |
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| | Jerks Are Worse Than Villains |
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| | Jumping the Shark |
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| | Just Here for Godzilla |
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| | "Just Joking" Justification |
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| | Like You Would Really Do It |
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| | Lost Aesop |
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| | Magnum Opus Dissonance |
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| | Mexicans Love Speedy Gonzales |
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| | MisBlamed |
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| | Misaimed Fandom |
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| | Narm |
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| | Narm Charm |
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| | Nausea Fuel |
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| | Never Live It Down |
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| | Nightmare Retardant |
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| | Not Badass Enough for Fans |
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| | Obvious Judas |
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| | Opening a Can of Clones |
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| | Overshadowed by Controversy |
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| | Periphery Demographic |
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| | Periphery Hatedom |
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| | Pet Fad Starter |
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| | Poe's Law |
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| | Ron the Death Eater |
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| | Rooting for the Empire |
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| | Running the Asylum |
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| | Scrappy Mechanic |
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| | Shipping Goggles |
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| | Smurfette Breakout |
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| | So Bad, It Was Better |
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| | So Okay, It's Average |
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| | Space Whale Aesop |
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| | Springtime for Hitler |
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| | Squick |
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| | Starter Gear Staying Power |
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| | Strawman Has a Point |
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| | Stupid Sacrifice |
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| | That One Boss |
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| | That One Level |
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| | The Inverse Law of Fandom Levity |
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| | The Red Stapler |
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| | The Scrappy |
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| | The Un-Twist |
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| | They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character |
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| | They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot |
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| | Too Bleak, Stopped Caring |
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| | Took the Bad Film Seriously |
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| | Unconventional Learning Experience |
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| | Unexpected Character |
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| | Unexpectedly Realistic Gameplay |
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| | Unfortunate Implications |
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| | Unintentional Uncanny Valley |
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| | Unintentionally Sympathetic |
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| | Unintentionally Unsympathetic |
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| | UnpleasableFanbase |
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| | Unpopular Popular Character |
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| | Unprovoked Pervert Payback |
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| | Values Dissonance |
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| | Viewer Gender Confusion |
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| | Viewers in Mourning |
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| | What Do You Mean, It's for Kids? |
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| | What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? |
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| | What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids? |
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| | What Do You Mean, It's Not for Little Girls? |
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| | What Do You Mean, It's Not Political? |
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| | Why Fandom Can't Have Nice Things |
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| | X-Pac Heat |
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| | Yank the Dog's Chain |
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| | Germans Love David Hasselhoff |
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| | Villain Decay |
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