An index page listing Emotion Tropes content. Tropes about emotions in general. (For specific emotions, see the specific indexes.)

Emotional Powers manifest themselves through emotion in the characters. What the emotions are will vary.

The five Core Emotions have distinct colors: Joy is yellow, Sadness is blue, Anger is red, Disgust is green and Fear is purple.

The more emotional a character is, the more likely they are to fall to The Dark Side. Conversely, the more stoic, composed, and self-denying a character the ...

Sapping the enemy's will to fight is always a good idea; the Emotion Bomb can make it quick and easy (barring any inconvenient Heroic Willpower, of course).

A common response to the stereotype of women as overly emotional, the Emotionless Girl is an enigmatic female character who appears to be entirely emotionless.

Emotion Suppression can be used to enter Heroic Safe Mode, to escape Mind Rape or simply to concentrate on the fight clearing your head of unimportant thoughts.

An Emotion Eater is someone who draws psychic nourishment or power from another person's emotions, and will usually do what they can to instill those emotions ...

The High-Pressure Emotion trope as used in popular culture. Embarrassed or angry, a cartoon character can go beyond a red face. The deep redness wells up …

Controlling emotions is quite different from regular mind control. It lets you toy with people, brainwash them, and in some cases get a lot of result from ...