You won’t find a bigger Tim Burton fan than me, but yeah this list of his standard character types is pretty spot on. Missing from this feature is Big Fish, which was a very personal movie he made that signaled to me he was getting his fastball back after a period of movies that didn’t quite live up to his previous work, which speaks to the uniqueness of that movie.
You’ll see the same handful of characters, plot devices, and even facial expressions over and over again, throughout Tim Burton’s films. We\’ve rounded up some common Tim Burton tropes and sorted them into categories, for your next drinking game.
