List of Tropes in Fanworks
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This page lists fannish tropes that appear in many types of fanworks. Please follow the links for more information on individual topics. See Category:Tropes & Genres for an up-to-date list of all trope pages on Fanlore.
Character Transformations and Non-Human Characters
Style, Theme or Setting
- Alternate Universe (AU) settings (a.k.a. as Uber fics in Xena fandom), including the common:
- Alpha/Beta/Omega society
- Barista AU, or Coffee Shop AU
- BDSM AU
- Crime AU
- Cyberpunk AU
- Dystopian AU
- Highschool AU, College AU
- Historical AU, for fandoms where the canon setting is modern (or futuristic)
- Magic AU
- Modern AU, for fandoms where the canon setting is historical (or fantastical)
- Mundane AU
- Noir Detective AU
- Prison AU
- Punk AU
- Regency AU
- Royalty AU
- Pirate AU
- Pornstar AU
- Rentboy AU or Hooker AU
- Spy, Secret Agent, Assassin, or Hitman AU
- Slavery AU
- Western AU
- Afterlife - Ascension
- Anthropomorfic
- Apocafic
- Chan, Underage, Shota, Lolicon
- Constructed Reality
- Documentation, Epistolary fic
- Domesticity
- Based on a Painting
- Casefic
- Crossover
- Harlequin
- Holidayfic
- Hookerfic
- Hurt/Comfort
- Incest
- Interspecies
- Forced Proximity
- Reincarnation
- Slavefic
- Tentacles
- Time Travel
Individual Elements
- Amnesia
- Conduit Fic
- Character Death
- Crossdressing
- Didn't Know They Were Dating
- Disability Fic
- Dominance Hierarchy
- Doppelgangers, Evil Twins
- Dub-con
- Fever Dream
- First Time
- Hatesex/Enemyslash
- Huddling for Warmth
- In Vino Veritas (trope) (Confessions -- of love or lust -- Under The Influence)
- Incest
- Kink
- Knotting
- Let Me Be Weak, Let Me Sleep
- Magical Healing Cock
- Mary Sue
- Mates (trope)
- Mind control or Brainwashing
- Mission Sex
- Non-Con
- Pair the Spare
- Pining
- Pregnancy
- Presumed Dead
- Pretend Couple (including Pretending to be Married, Marriage of Convenience, etc.)
- Robots
- Sex Compulsion
- Sex Magic
- Secret Siblings, especially Evil Twins
- Skin hunger
- Soulbond
- Tentaclefic
- Virgin!fic
- Yenta
Based on relationship to canon
- AU
- Canon Divergence AU
- Crossover
- Darkfic
- Denialfic
- Dream Season
- Episode tag
- Fix-it
- Futurefic
- Missing scene
- Next generation -- canon characters' children
- Recasting - Chromatic Recasting, Genderswap Casting
- Pastfic
Based on tone
Based on OTP relationship to one another
- Childhood Sweethearts
- Enemies to Lovers
- Friends to Lovers
- Hallmark AU
- In which they are exes thrown back together by a chance visit to their hometown (usually for a holiday).
- Mutual Pining