"Trope"

• anime How My Dress-Up Darling and Dandadan Subvert the "Outcast Loves Popular Girl" Trope By Maddy Myers August 19, 2025 | 10:41am
• tv I loathe you, I love you: How TV's enemies-to-sweethearts trope evolved By LaToya Ferguson July 17, 2025 | 1:00pm
• tv The trendy post-apocalyptic trope The Last Of Us just couldn’t resist By Cindy White March 7, 2023 | 2:00pm
• aux The M3GAN trailer yass-ifies the haunted doll trope By Hattie Lindert October 11, 2022 | 6:52pm
• film Jessica M. Thompson on The Invitation and everyone's favorite horror trope By Peter Scobel, Jack Smart August 24, 2022 | 5:17pm
• film William Shakespeare invented every romantic comedy trope we love today By Caroline Siede July 31, 2020 | 11:00am
• aux Tracking the evolution of the “smart girl” trope in pop culture By Gwen Ihnat February 4, 2020 | 2:39pm
• tv Riverdale busts out the classic "long lost sibling" soap trope in a downbeat hour By Charles Bramesco November 7, 2019 | 12:15am
• tv Fosse/Verdon's Steven Levenson and Joel Fields on subverting the "tortured genius" trope By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin April 8, 2019 | 5:30pm
• tv DuckTales takes The Christmas Carol trope in an entirely unexpected, ambitious direction By Kevin Johnson December 1, 2018 | 5:40pm
• film Pontypool puts a wicked intellectual twist on a horror trope By Alex McLevy June 7, 2018 | 8:00pm
• tv An uneven Riverdale hits the trope and reset buttons hard By LaToya Ferguson October 19, 2017 | 1:19am
• aux Sci-fi’s troubling trope of serving up hot adult women with the minds of children By Randall Colburn May 1, 2017 | 9:11pm
• tv Dirk Gently narrowly escapes several painful deaths, but succumbs to a painful trope By Lisa Weidenfeld November 13, 2016 | 3:05am
• aux Read This: Digging up the origins of the “Indian burial ground” trope By Joe Blevins October 22, 2015 | 5:49pm
• games Until Dawn: We're All Stars Now in the Trope Show By Cameron Kunzelman August 25, 2015 | 10:13am
• film Bette Davis created a tearjerker trope in Dark Victory By Gwen Ihnat June 18, 2015 | 6:00pm
• aux From pufferfish poison to Hollywood trope, the winding myth of the zombie By Mike Vago November 3, 2014 | 3:00pm
• tv What TV trope aggravates you the most? By Zack Handlen, Carrie Raisler, Sonia Saraiya, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Erik Adams, Emily St. James, Marah Eakin, Brandon Nowalk, Mike Vago, Tasha Robinson March 14, 2014 | 5:00am
• film Devil’s Due does nothing new with the demon-baby trope By Mike D'Angelo January 17, 2014 | 5:19pm
• aux Hollywood back trying to make witches the hot young-adult trope again By Marah Eakin April 8, 2013 | 7:45pm