Video games often utilize common storytelling elements known as 'tropes'. Tropes are familiar patterns, themes, and plot devices that frequently recur in various media forms. Examples of commonly used ...

These JRPG tropes may be used a bit too often, but we can't help but love them every single time they show up!

Female characters are often underwritten in shonen anime, but Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc defies the usual tropes.

There are several horror tropes that are present in so many movies and TV shows, but fans might not know the exact name for them. That's certainly true of the "And I Must Scream" trope. While it might ...

Fans have been complaining about a number of shone tropes for decades — in this list, we have considered the five most problematic examples that continue to hinder the genre. Fanservice has been a ...

The latest Doctor Who episode and Looper took very, very different approaches to time travel. But they both included one temporal cliche that needs to be taken to the time-machine scrapyard. It’s an ...

In this op-ed, Rae Chen explores the problematic trope of portraying Asian women with colorful hair as rebellious. One of my favorite movies of the early 2010s was Pacific Rim, a Guillermo del Toro ...