Tropes that are involved with repetition. That is to say, repeat information. Or to put it another way, occur more than once with little to no changes between occurrences. In summation, these are tropes that involve repetition.
TL;DR these tropes repeat.
Compare with Added Alliterative Appeal, Cliché, Stock Room, and Sublime Rhyme. Contrast with Double Meaning. See also Circular Definition and Flashbacks and Chronology.
Dialog examples:
Subcategories:
- Again with Feeling
- Always Introduces Themselves
- Anadiplosis: Starting a phrase with the word(s) that ended the previous one.
- Anaphora: The sentences of a text all begin with the same string of words.
- Annoyingly Repetitive Child: A kid bugs another character by doing or saying something over and over.
- Blah, Blah, Blah
- Broken Record
- Catchphrase: A phrase that a character or group is known to repeatedly say.
- Circular Reasoning: The premise of an argument is the same as its conclusion.
- Cluster F-Bomb: A character repeatedly says "fuck" or some other profanity.
- Confusing Multiple Negatives: When you don't avoid using double negatives, things don't not get confusing.
- Copycat Mockery: A character mocks another by mimicking them.
- Didn't We Use This Joke Already?: Reusing and lampshading a joke.
- Doctor, Doctor, Doctor
- Echoes
- Dialogue Reversal
- The Echoer: Someone can only speak by copying another person's words.
- Gag Echo
- Ironic Echo
- Ironic Echo Cut
- Meaningful Echo
- Narration Echo
- One-Liner Echo
- Twisted Echo Cut
- Envy-Based Mimicry: A character copying someone they envy.
- Epiphora: A text features the same word or group of words at the end of consecutive sentences.
- Episode Tagline
- Here We Go Again!: The story ends with the conflict repeating or the characters going through a conflict similar to the one that was just resolved.
- Hive-Mind Testimonial: Several people repeat the same opinion about the advertised product.
- If It Was Funny the First Time...
- Knows a Guy Who Knows a Guy
- Layman's Terms: Repeating something in less technical terms.
- Lineage Ladder
- Mantras
- Madness Mantra: A character repeatedly says a specific phrase to indicate insanity.
- Survival Mantra: A character repeats a phrase to themselves to try and motivate them to endure the difficult times they're going through right now.
- Memorized the Whole Process: A character has seen and/or done something so many times that they can recite the entire sequence of events.
- Mesodiplosis: Consecutive sentences or phrases that share a middle.
- The Name Is Bond, James Bond: A character introduces themselves by saying their surname, then saying their full name.
- Never Heard That One Before: A character complains about having heard something (usually a joke) too many times.
- Oh, No... Not Again!
- Once More, with Volume!: Thinking an incredulous "what?" means they didn't hear you, so you repeat it louder.
- One-Word Vocabulary: A character can only say one thing, which they repeat over and over.
- Verbal Tic Name: The character is named after the only thing they say.
- Pokémon Speak: The converse of the above — the character's name is the only thing they say.
- Overly Long Gag
- Parroting
- I "Uh" You, Too
- Overly Literal Transcription
- Parrot Exposition: A character repeats what another is saying when the dialogue contains plot-relevant information.
- Repeat After Me: A character is told to repeat what another person says and takes that to mean they should repeat everything the other person says.
- Repeat to Confirm
- Stop Copying Me
- Phrase Catcher: A phrase that is often spoken toward a specific character.
- Quoting Myself
- Rapid-Fire "But!": A character repeatedly says "But".
- Rapid-Fire "No!": A character repeatedly says "No".
- Rapid-Fire "Shut Up!": A character repeatedly says "Shut up!".
- Rapid-Fire "Yes!": A character repeatedly says "Yes!".
- Repeated Cue, Tardy Response: Someone doesn't respond to their cue until it has been repeated multiple times.
- Repeated for Emphasis: Repeated for emphasis!
- Repeated Rehearsal Failure
- Repeat It Until You Believe It: Repeating a statement several times indicates the speaker is trying to convince themself of the statement.
- Repeat What You Just Said
- Repetitive Audio Glitch: Due to a glitch, the audio starts - starts - starts - starts - starts repeating in parts.
- Rhyming with Itself: Rhyming a word with itself.
- Running Gag
- "Say My Name" Trailer: The main character's name is repeated many times by other people in the trailer.
- SelfDemonstrating.Mojo Jojo
- Shall I Repeat That?
- Shaped Like Itself: Describing something as being like itself (e.g. a house shaped like a house, orange-flavored oranges).
- Stop Saying That!
- Strange Minds Think Alike: A gag where two characters seem to share the same process of Insane Troll Logic, leading to the repetition of an oddly specific phrase or idea.
- Symploce: Consecutive phrases, usually sentences, that start and end with the same words, without being exactly the same.
- Telegraph Gag STOP
- Verbal Tic: The character says the same thing repeatedly, not just as a catchphrase but seemingly to the point of being a compulsion.
- Welcome to Corneria: NPCs keep saying the same inane phrases, even when major events have intervened which they would mention if they were real people.
- Word, Schmord!: A character dismisses something by saying a word along with the same word having the beginning consonants replaced with "Schm".
- "You!" Squared: Multiple people shout "You!" at the same time.
Non-dialog examples:
- Ad-Break Double-Take
- Amnesia Loop
- Arcs
- Arc Number: A recurring number.
- Arc Symbol
- Arc Words: A recurring phrase.
- Bookends
- Christmas Every Day: A story where it becomes Christmas every day.
- Creature of Habit: A character who likes their days being repetitive and hates change.
- Department of Redundancy Department
- "Double, Double" Title: The title repeats a word.
- Ear Worm
- Eternal Recurrence
- Every Episode Ending
- "Five Things" Fic: A fanfiction about five similar events and one event where things went differently.
- Generation Xerox: The new generation is a complete copy of their parents.
- "Groundhog Day" Loop: Someone gets forced to re-live the same day over and over.
- Held Back in School: A character gets forced to re-take the school year because of how poorly they're doing.
- His Story Repeats Itself
- History Repeats
- Mook Maker: An enemy that repeatedly spawns more video game enemies.
- New Game Plus: Replaying a game after beating it with some sort of new benefit.
- No-Hoper Repeat
- Once per Episode: Something that happens once in every episode.
- One Apocalypse After Another: An apocalypse happens after another apocalypse.
- Plagued by Nightmares: A character gets nightmares on multiple occasions.
- Regularly Scheduled Evil
- Rehearsing a Conversation: A character repeats what they plan to say to another character through rehearsing it.
- Repeatable Quest
- Repeat Cut
- Repeating Ad
- Repetitive Name: A character's first name and last name are exactly the same.
- Replay Mode
- Rerun: Re-airing a television episode that has already premiered.
- Rewind, Replay, Repeat
- Rotten Reincarnation
- Rule of Three: The rule that stories must have something occur or appear three times.
- Running Gag: A gag that repeats throughout the series.
- Running Gagged: The running gag is brought to a definitive end.
- Spoofed with Their Own Words
- Trauma Button Ending
- Unnaturally Looping Location
- Unwilling Copycat: A character or group of characters are made to act like somebody else.
- Vicious Cycle
- Villain Exclusivity Clause
- Writing Lines:A character is made to write something over and over as punishment.
