Tropes in a sentence

A biting and hilarious satire that offers both jaw-dropping slasher movie moments as well as sordid spins on teen movie tropes, seems destined to become the next great horror-comedy cult classic.

A fairly successful roguelike, the 2016 game has many of the genre's standard tropes, including punishing difficulty and level-reset following a death.

Akane-banashi is one of Shonen Jump's most innovative mangas and it has proved this again by reinventing two classic tropes through combining them.

A key aspect of real representation is when you can see yourself on screen, but this has been difficult in Hollywood, given the tropes of the spicy Latina or the Hot Cheetos girl.

Although their characters are broadly conceived, Rogen and Byrne often transcend those tropes, especially when they’re on screen together.

Although the social media company kept most of its hateful-conduct policy in place, the update removed one line in the “Slurs and Tropes” subsection.

Although this upcoming horror thriller relies on some well-worn genre tropes, that doesn’t dampen my enthusiasm in the slightest.

As the first Peach game in a long time, this untitled game is a huge opportunity for Nintendo to correct its habit of falling into tropes.

Blood-splattered battle sequences and sword fights with decapitated heads serve as recurring tropes, earning all movies an R-rating, save for the third installment, Highlander: The Final Dimension.

But as tropes and stereotypes go, the TikToks seem to land on “Don’t blame us, we’re not you” as the only conclusion.

From start to finish the show is a riot, playing on classic 90s movies tropes while also twisting them, such as making the horny best friend a woman or having the bully be unironically attracted to the prude.

He also discussed how the team steered the game away from common tropes that they've come to dislike as veteran gamers themselves.

However, it might also seem strange to compare two playable classes between an online shooter that is firmly rooted in sci-fi and space like with a fantasy title like The Elder Scrolls Online which contains all the classic tropes of that genre.

However, video games are even more beholden to tropes than other media.

In Obergefell v. Hodgesthe U.S. Supreme Court relied on similar tropes stating that marriage has some transcendental importance and it’s the only institution that can fulfill our most "profound hopes and aspirations".

Instead of handpicking a few character tropes, why not just include all of them?

In “Yellowstone,” Sheridan has corralled the ranging tropes of the Western into the chambers of domestic melodrama.

Is it reinventing any sci-fi, horror, or monster movie tropes?

It is a perfect playground for ideas and symbolism, with Western tropes being familiar cultural touchstones that can easily be subverted to get the audience to ponder the more significant questions in life.

It matches the smooth gunplay id Software fans expect with a dusting of RPG tropes (i.e. skill trees, branching narrative paths, and side quests), and the whole package comes together exceptionally well.