Your 2023 Ultimate Trope Tier List for Science-fiction and Fantasy....

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2023 is almost over very soon and then comes 2024.

Anyway, I wanted to make a LONG list of the best and worst tropes sci-fi and fantasy for this year that you’ve grown to love. I desires to know what tropes you love, have mixed feelings for, and hated for this whole year. In the many books that you’ve read and media that you immersed yourself in or the stories that you are writing that show what tropes you truly favor.

Here is the ranking that you all should follow to the letter:

S-tier: The absolute trope- the love of my life. IT’S THE GOD-TIER OF ALL TROPES FOR ME!
A tier: It amazing, but it hasn’t reached god tier/s-tier yet.
B-tier: Good but not the worst thing for me.
C-tier: Meh. It’s alright, just not greatest thing, but not too bad. Just lacking for me
D-tier: Awful, truly awful. This is my least favorite and hated trope…EVER!

Give me your trope tier list for this year. New tropes, old tropes, it doesn’t matter what, just give me your own trope tier list from science-fiction and fantasy.

Let’s have a discussion before the year ends.

Thoughts and feelings?

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@SecretDurham
@NotARussianBot
@Xelyn_Craft
@Akje
@TheTigerWriter
@J.L.O
@JojoDahlia
@alenatenjo
@Ichika_Fushigumo

If you need help figuring out the tropes, go to this site and they can provide some assistance.

https://tvtropes.org/

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Strangely, I wasn’t able to find any list of tropes on the TV Tropes site, but Wiki has a few:

Anyway, I can’t think of any tropes I particularly love or hate. They’re all good, it just depends on the character study and what happens in the book. (੭ˊᵕˋ)੭‧˚₊･*̥✧

Which reminds me, I bought In the Lives of Puppets today. It’s supposed to be a retelling of Pinocchio with robots and AI, so it sounds like a sci-fi fantasy. We’ll see!

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Well, I actually wanted you to list some tropes that you’ve liked or dislike in science-fiction and/or fantasy.

The link for tvtropes was just there to help if you can’t remember a certain trope or wanted to be certain of the right trope you like or disliked.

I listed the ranking list in tiers of which ranks the highest and lowest for you trope wise.

If none caught your eye for this year, then you can list down the ones that you like/love and dislike/hat period.

Sorry if I wasn’t as clear as I thought I was.

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No, I understood you. I just don’t care about tropes when I read. But maybe you could make a list of all the ones you love and hate and ask people to tier rank those…? ¯\_(ﭢ)_/¯

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UGH! WHY DIDN’T I BOTHER TO THINK OF THAT?! SERIOUSLY, WHAT THE HELL?!

Thank you and excuse me for a bit.

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Here’s my list for better assistance:

S-tiers:

Lost Civilizations/ Ancient Ruins.
Ancient Conspiracy.
Precursors.
Eldritch Abominations/Gods/Locations
Sufficiently Advanced Aliens.
Magitek (magical technology)
Constructed Worlds.
Ancient Weapons.
Succession Crisis
Fantasy Races/Species/Subspecies
Immortal Society.
Divine beings.
Space Pirates.
Travels to distant planets.
Interstellar/Intergalactic warfare
Cool Spaceships.

A-tier:
Sentient lands and objects.
Floating lands and buildings.
Found Family
Underground nations and etc.
Reincarnation/Isekai/Portal Fantasy.
High Queen.
Big, Screwed-Up Families.
Politically Active Princess.
Mecha Robots.
Giant Skeletons
Magical air?

B-tier:
Man behind the Man

C-tier:
D-tier:

I have to come back to this because I am drawing blanks here.
@Akje, thanks again for mentioning something I’ve should’ve done in the first place. LOL!

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Okay, here’s how I’d rank those:

S-tier:

Floating lands and buildings
Lost Civilizations/ Ancient Ruins
Skypunk, solarpunk, ecologically friendly future
Time travel

A-tier:

Constructed Worlds
Ancient Weapons
Succession Crisis
Immortal Society
Travels to distant planets
Cool Spaceships
Divine beings
Sentient lands and objects
Underground nations, etc.

Everything else would be B-tier. (੭ˊᵕˋ)੭‧˚₊･*̥✧

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I’ll rank what you’ve ranked lol. I haven’t read much SFF this year.

S Tier:
Found family
It Sucks to be the Chosen One

A Tier:
Succession crisis
Constructed worlds
Space pirates
Travels to distant planets
Big screwed up family
Accidental hero

B Tier:
Sufficiently advanced aliens
Magitek
Cool space ships
Floating lands
Politically active princess
Mecha robots

C Tier:
Lost civilisations/ ancient ruins
Ancient conspiracy
Precursors
Eldritch abominations
Ancient weapons
Fantasy races/ species
Divine beings
Sentient lands/ objects
Underground nations
The High Queen
Alien Invasion

D Tier:
Immortal society
Portal fantasy

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@JojoDahlia and @Akje

I shall return the next day to really answer your tier list.

So, do not fret, because I shall come back and say stuff!

Be on the look out!

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I haven’t read as much of this genre lately, or at least this year :sweat_smile: But these are my rankings from prev books and one’s I’d like to read

S-tier:
Lost Civilizations/ Ancient Ruins.
Travels to distant planets.
Floating lands and buildings
Found Family
Underground nations and etc.
Reincarnation/Isekai/Portal Fantasy.
Magitek (magical technology)
Man behind the Man.
Fantasy Races/Species/Subspecies

A-tier:
Ancient Weapons.
Interstellar/Intergalactic warfare
Cool Spaceships.

B-tier:
Sufficiently Advanced Aliens.
Politically Active Princess.
Constructed Worlds.

C-tier:
Ancient Conspiracy.
Precursors.
Succession Crisis
Fantasy Races/Species/Subspecies
Sentient lands and objects.
Mecha Robots.
Giant Skeletons

D-tier:
Big, Screwed-Up Families.
Eldritch Abominations/Gods/Locations
Divine beings.
High Queen.
Immortal Society.
Magical air.

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