Board Thread:The Flash discussions/@comment-4036559-20181121182754/@comment-26618197-20181123182300

Tropes are patterns in a story that have a lot in common with other stories where something similar happened. For example, in both Tales of Symphonia and Eragon the main character unknowingly reunites with their long lost dad and don't find out for a really long time. In the former it was after the dad betrayed the main character and his friends, in the latter it was a book or two after the dad was killed.

A cliche is a trope that's been run into the ground like how 99 percent of sitcoms have a bumbling dad.