Monthly Obscure Trope Series – Intro and Training Montage

The Trope Series will be an ongoing, multiangle look at Tropes—what they are, how you can use them, as well as highlighting some specific tropes each month.  My hope is that both readers and writers can get something out of these posts.  

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Tropes

First, what is a trope?  Well, a trope is a tool that storytellers use (see the hyperlink).  It’s a necessarily broad definition because tropes can pertain to a vast array of story-pieces.  There are trop...