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Chart titled "The Periodic Table of Storytelling" laid out like a periodic table of color-coded boxes, each a TV Tropes trope with an abbreviation, name and popularity number, e.g. Ae An Aesop, Cal Call to Adventure, 4wl The Fourth Wall. Footer: "All these tropes and twenty thousand more are detailed on tvtropes.org".

The Periodic Table of Storytelling, TV Tropes Edition

A periodic table of TV Tropes storytelling tropes, from An Aesop to the Fourth Wall, with story outlines for Star Wars, Dilbert, Mass Effect and Avatar.

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Chart titled "The Periodic Table of Storytelling" laid out like a periodic table of color-coded boxes, each a TV Tropes trope with an abbreviation, name and popularity number, e.g. Ae An Aesop, Cal Call to Adventure, 4wl The Fourth Wall. Footer: "All these tropes and twenty thousand more are detailed on tvtropes.org".

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