u/H2SO4maker

So a while back, out of pure curiosity, I wrote a little Python script that went through TVTropes.org and hunted down every fantasy book registered on the site. Then I had it count and record every single trope listed for those books.

So here is a list of the most used fantasy tropes. Thought you all might find it interesting!

Kaggle The most common fantasy tropes

Also, here are the top 10:

Trope	Count
Big Bad	1221
Shout-Out	673
Fantastic Racism	579
Meaningful Name	492
Heroic Sacrifice	490
Foreshadowing	468
Action Girl	461
Chekhov's Gun	429
Eldritch Abomination	403