List of Tropes in Fanworks

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===
*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