Tropes about rocks, dirt, sand, the ground, stuff found in dirt, and the earth beneath us.
Compare This Index Earth.
Contrast Flying Tropes, This Index Blows.
Tropes:
Categories:
- Abandoned Mine
- All-Natural Gem Polish: Raw gemstones appear as shiny as polished gemstones in their natural state.
- Antlion Monster
- Artificial Riverbank
- Asteroid Miners: Mining valuable minerals from asteroids.
- Bad Vibrations
- BBC Quarry: A surface mine frequently used as a filming location.
- Beach Bury: Burying someone's body in the sand at the beach.
- Boulder Bludgeon
- Bronson Canyon and Caves
- Buried Alive
- California Collapse: A cataclysm makes California disconnect from the mainland USA or sink into the ocean.
- Cave Mouth: A cave’s entrance looks like a giant mouth.
- Chained to a Rock
- Chunky Updraft: Chunks of debris float up around a powerful character.
- Covered in Mud
- Crater Power: A powerful person creates a crater under them.
- Creepy Cave: Ominous underground openings.
- Crossing the Desert
- Crystal Landscape: A natural area covered in crystals.
- Crystalline Creature: A creature entirely made of crystal.
- Crystal Prison: Someone trapped in a crystal.
- Deadly Dust Storm
- Defiant Stone Throw
- Dig Attack
- Dishing Out Dirt: Earth elemental powers.
- Drill Tank
- Dug Too Deep: The consequences of excessive mining.
- Earthquake Machine
- Earthquakes Cause Fissures
- Earth/Wind Juxtaposition
- Earthy Tortoise: Tortoises are associated with the element of earth.
- Eat Dirt, Cheap: A creature who eats earth or stone.
- Elaborate Underground Base
- Fast Tunnelling: Super speedy digging through the ground.
- Filthy Fun: Playing in the mud.
- Funny Terrain Cross Section
- Gemstone Assault
- Gem Tissue: A being with gems as part of their body.
- Genius Loci: Living land.
- Golem: Living humanoid constructs, often made of clay or stone.
- Ground Pound
- Ground Punch
- Ground-Shattering Landing: Landing with so much force, the ground cracks.
- Ground-Shattering Takeoff: Taking off with so much force, the ground cracks.
- Ground Wave
- Hair-Trigger Avalanche: A small vibration triggers a huge avalanche.
- Hammered into the Ground
- Indian Burial Ground: Land that was once used as a cemetery by Native Americans, often bringing a curse to those who build on top of it.
- Involuntary Group Split: A split in the ground causes a split in a group.
- Kirk's Rock
- Kissing the Ground
- Landmarking the Hidden Base
- Land, Sea, Sky
- Land Shark
- Literal Cliffhanger: Hanging from an actual cliff.
- Living Statue
- Messy Pig: Pigs love to roll in the mud.
- Mineral MacGuffin: Gems are a MacGuffin.
- Mining for Cookies: Mining the earth from non-naturally-occurring substances.
- Mistaken for Granite: Someone is confused for a statue.
- Mistreated Miners
- Mole Miner: An anthropomorphic mole works as a miner.
- Monster-Shaped Mountain
- Monumentally Important Founder: A statue of the founder.
- Mucking in the Mud
- Mud Wrestling
- Mystical Cave
- Our Gargoyles Rock: Winged statue-like guardian monsters.
- Palatial Sandcastle
- Planetary Core Manipulation
- Power Crystal: A gemstone that can be used as a power source.
- Prefers Rocks to Pillows: A character would rather sleep on the ground than on a bed.
- Quicksand Sucks
- Regional Redecoration
- Rise from Your Grave: Undead beings emerge from their graves.
- Rock Monster: A hostile creature made of stone.
- Rock–Paper–Scissors
- Rock Theme Naming: Characters named after minerals.
- Rushmore Refacement
- Salt the Earth
- Sand Blaster: Sand-based elemental powers.
- Sand Bridge at Low Tide
- Sand Is Water
- Sand Necktie: Someone is buried up to their neck.
- Sand Worm: A giant desert-dwelling worm monster who burrows in the sand.
- Sea of Sand
- Sentient Sands: A hostile creature made of sand.
- Shifting Sand Land
- Shockwave Stomp
- Silver Has Mystic Powers
- Stalactite Spite: Falling stalactites.
- Stepping Stones in the Sky: Walking on falling debris.
- Striking Oil
- Subterranean Sanity Failure: Going underground leads to going insane.
- Supernaturally Marked Grave
- Super Rug-Pull
- Swirling Dust: Battle Aura stirs a dust cloud around the character.
- Sword Plant: Sticking a sword in the ground blade side down.
- Taken for Granite: A living being is turned to stone.
- Tears from a Stone
- Terra Deforming
- Terrain Sculpting
- Thirsty Desert: Deserts are extremely hot and dry.
- Tremor Trampoline
- Tunnel King
- Tunnel Network
- Under City
- Underground City
- Underground Level
- A Way Out of a Cave-In
- Wormsign
- Yellow Earth, Green Earth: The colors yellow and green often represent earth.
- Ye Olde Nuclear Silo
