5 Terms From TV Tropes We Really Could Use

TV Tropes is a massive time sink, but there are some gems in the general pop-culture amusement that I think could use some wider currency with those of us who workshop or otherwise talk about the nuts and bolts of story construction on a regular basis.  Some of these are just too useful not to use.

Moral Event Horizon – You have a character who's the bad guy.  But we all like to believe in redemption, and he's got a tragic back-story that makes him a little sympathetic, and he's got enough...