32 Trivia Tidbits About TV and Movie Tropes

You can’t have storytelling without tropes. If you think you’re just so original that you can bang out a screenplay without them, be our guest. You’d probably end up with some collection of random scenes in more of an art piece than a movie. Classic tropes like “the chosen one” and “friends to lovers” have been used in countless great stories, but with some subtlety and originality in the movies or shows that used them, they fly under the radar. 

So when you think of tropes as cliches, you can blame the lesser copycats who overuse them in lieu of originality. Here’s a big batch of the good, the bad and everything in between…

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