List of Tropes in Fanworks

Tropes and genres
See also	TV Tropes, Genre, Story Length
Related articles on Fanlore.

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.

Fic Trope Bingo from I Met You On LJ

Character Transformations and Non-Human Characters

Aging Up All Human AU Animal Transformation Bodysharing Bodyswap Centaurification De-aging Elf AU Genderswap

Ghosts Magic AU Merpeople Robots Vampire Werewolf Wingfic Woke Up Gay Zombies

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
  • Curtainfic
  • Gen Bed Sharing
  • Forced Bed Sharing
  • Gen Bathing
  • Marriage
  • Forced Marriage
  • Kidfic
  • Marriage of Convenience/Pretend Couple
  • Weddingfic
  • Accidental Marriage
  • Arranged Marriage
• Based on a Painting
• Casefic
• Crossover
  • Fusion
• Harlequin
• Holidayfic
• Hookerfic
• Hurt/Comfort
  • Sickfic
• Incest
  • Twincest
• Interspecies
• Forced Proximity
  • Cave Story
  • Desert Island
  • Canadian Shack
  • Snowed In
  • Elevatorfic
• Reincarnation
• Slavefic
• Tentacles
• Time Travel

Individual Elements

• Amnesia
• Conduit Fic
• Character Death
  • Deathfic
• 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
  • Twincest
• Kink
• Knotting
• Let Me Be Weak, Let Me Sleep
• Magical Healing Cock
• Mary Sue
• Mates (trope)
• Mind control or Brainwashing
• Mission Sex
• Non-Con
  • Rapefic
• Pair the Spare
• Pining
• Pregnancy
  • Mpreg
  • Fempreg
  • Magical (entire pregnancy takes only days; pregnant without sex, etc.)
• Presumed Dead
• Pretend Couple (including Pretending to be Married, Marriage of Convenience, etc.)
  • Fake Dating
  • Undercover in a Gay Bar
• Robots
• Sex Compulsion
  • Aliens Made Them Do It
  • Heat fic
  • Fuck or Die
  • Mating
  • Pon Farr
  • Sex Pollen
• Sex Magic
• Secret Siblings, especially Evil Twins
• Skin hunger
• Soulbond
• Tentaclefic
• Virgin!fic
  • Secret Virgin
• 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
  • Backstory

Based on tone

• Angst
• Crack
• Darkfic
• Emoporn
• Fluff
• Hurt/Comfort
• Porn, PWP
• Schmoop
• Smarm

Based on OTP relationship to one another

• Childhood Sweethearts
• Enemies to Lovers
  • Enemies to Friends 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
  • Oblivious Pining
  • Requited Unrequited

Based on Text Style or Elements

• Songfic
• First Person POV
• Second Person POV
• y/n
• Script Format