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TV Tropes is a wiki devoted to discussion of [[Shit nobody cares about|tropes, plot devices, literature, trends and entertainment media]]. It is something akin to Free Online Liberal Arts College but with 20% more [[aspergers]]. Being a site that attempts to neatly sort art and storytelling into rigidly defined categories, it has naturally attracted a massive amount of spergdroids whose only aim in life is to catalog useless shit that no one else cares about. As a result, just as how [[deviantART]] breeds hack artists, [[FanFiction.Net]] breeds hack writers, and [[Stormfront]]/[[pol]] breeds hack Political Scientists, TV Tropes is a school for hack English majors and/or literary analysts who think that indexing something is the same thing as understanding it. Before it became Politically Correct™, it was much closer in spirit to [[4chan]] due to the average member's preference towards being an [[in-joke]]y social networking service and constant in-fighting due to allowing any and every [[fandom]] to run buck wild on the wiki.
The site was characterized by its high saturation of pretentious liberal arts wannabes, [[basement dwellers]], [[aspies]], [[weeaboos]], wannabe [[elitist]] pop culture sophisticates, "snarky" dumbfucks who substitute sarcasm for personality, hidden pockets of [[That Guy With The Glasses]] fanwhoring, and [[trolls]] milking them all for the [[lulz]]. It was also frequently mocked for its [[unfunny|childish]] attempts at meta-humor and lack of quality control. Topics ranged from how much everybody [[Fap|loves]] [[Doctor Who]], how much everybody hates [[Twilight]], long "philosophising" about mindfucked animu such as [[Evangelion]] or [[Madoka]] as if Nietzsche wrote them, arguments and whining over every little change to the site, and pretentious analysis of tropes and storytelling conventions. Think of it as the wikified version of a Postmodern Art Museum; though it may appear to be art and the critics may tell you as much, even the most basic analysis from a layman's perspective will reveal it to be a load of boring crap.
However, that was the past. Today, TV Tropes is nothing compared to its troll-infested lolcow past since [[Google]] grabbed FastEddie by his minute testicles and strongarmed him into imposing "[[Political Correctness|The Rule of Cautious Editing Judgement]]" or "https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/family_friendly.php" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Family Friendliness". As a result almost [[Over 9000|99.9%]] of its demographic population has been expelled for suspected paedophilia, Asperger's Syndrome, edit wars on "the philosophy of Dr. Who", or offending some (mostly religious ones such as [[Christian]]s, [[Muslim]]s and [[Atheist]]s). Though it once had aspirations of being something akin to [[Uncyclopedia]] or [[ED]], thanks to its recent attempts at pandering to internet SJWs it is on the verge of total extinction.
[[You]] can find the website https://tvtropes.org/" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">here and a guide on how to be a productive member [[Vandal/How-to|here]].
[[Image:tvtropestropetan.png|thumb|https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/JustForFun/TropeTan" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Trope-Tan, the "[[Wapanese|Anthropomorphic Moe Personification]]" of the site.]]
A Brief Introduction
Before [[Al Gore]] and his greatest contribution to humanity, memes were controlled by a small circle of writers and poets. [[Shakespeare]] dubbed these literary memes "tropes". With the invention of the printing press, more and more people were invited into the writers' circle and the tropes spread. Eventually, modern media abused these tropes until they became [[cliché]] and commonplace. Tropes were not a secret any longer and viewers and readers began to spot them instantaneously in any [[manga]], [[television]] show, or [[movie]] they watched.
In 2003, it was determined that an entire wiki should be constructed to contain these tropes, and thus TV Tropes was created. Originally a spin-off of a [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]] https://buffistas.org/" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">message board and limited only to TV, it soon gained its own website and expanded to other realms due to site owners Fast Eddie and Janitor's (now [[ironic]]) insistence of "as few rules as possible".
After years of allowing [[fantard]]s, weeaboos, [[furries]], [[sick fuck]]s, memefags, pedophiles, and unfunny [[newfag]]s to shit up the site, Fast Eddie (now the only leader) eventually snapped and started enforcing extremely draconian yet vague standards through the judicious use of the delete key, page locks, and teh [[banhammer]]. [[Some argue]] this might make the site one of the most meticulous, drawn-out setups for mass [[trolling]] ever concocted on the internet.
As of 2025, Tv Tropes has become fucking unusable due to numerous large advertisements taking up every single motherfucking page and getting in the way of the words so that you can not read them. Why did this happen? Because the site is owned by greedy judeo-capitalist tranny jannies who wish to milk their dying consoomer soytopia cash cow for all it is worth before it, with any luck, finally goes under.
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[[Jimbo Wales]] once said that for a Wiki to be successful, three things are needed: Good leadership, a way of weeding out whoever is harmful to the site, and a clear vision. TV Tropes isn't governed by any single vision. Instead, it is about thousands of competing plans all trying to spread their own brand of faggotry over the whole site, consisting of uncategorized lists the size of [[TL;DR|long cat]] that requires forensic analysis to figure out what the fuck they are about, or, on the other end of the septic spectrum, massing together in hiveminds of fanwhoring fucktards and coming to reflect the place in such a manner that wasn't thought enough about.
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Because the site panders to fandoms, it is overrun with slobbering fanboys who really, really want the object of their fandom to become a cultural icon. This is why they have a trope called "Xanatos Gambit," named after a character from an old Disney cartoon that no one remembers. It basically means "always have a backup plan," so it's not like there is any particular reason for it to be dubbed after this character. Except, of course, that the users who created it are fans of said old Disney cartoon and would like to delude themselves into thinking that it isn't just an obscure footnote in television history. The entire wiki is overrun with this kind of bizarre pop-cultural jargon, so much so that Trope-speak is a recognized and much maligned form of communication elsewhere on the web.
Many of the tropes which aren't pure fan wank are metafiction and other phenomena that aren't even tropes by the classical definition; they are simply things which nerds have noticed and felt the need to write [[tl;dr]] articles about. This results in quite a few pages which are simply lists of such riveting things as "One-Book Author" and "Box Office Bomb," both of which come dangerously close to stepping on Wikipedia's toes.
At this point, [[you]] may be wondering what exactly a trope is. The truth is that a trope can be literally anything. As long as you can write a 1000+ word article about it and fill it with insufferable geek-speak and references to anime, it'll be welcome on TV Tropes.
Why it sucks
Look at Wikipedia and us at ED. Then take a look at TV Tropes. The latter looks like the prelude to [[WWIII|World War Three]] while the former looks somewhat cohesive. Why is that? Are EDiots and Wikipedos more organized and accommodating than tropefags? Of course not! Both Wikipedia and Encyclopedia Dramatica bombard the reader with a recurring slogan: "The Free Encyclopedia" and "In lulz we trust". Every EDiot understands that he is writing an encyclopedia of lulz, just like every Wikipedo understands he is writing a regular encyclopedia. Those wikis therefore becomes fairly consistent, even if they still are shit. TV Tropes has no such slogan except for "TV Tropes Will Ruin Your Life" (which says nothing about its content), or perhaps the younger header of "THE ALL DEVOURING POP-CULTURE WIKI" (which does nothing but point out how nebulous as shit the site is). The closest thing it's got is the "You know that thing, where..." section wherein users can suggest new tropes. Registered users can show their approval by awarding new tropes a "hat," and if an entry gets five hats it can be launched after three days.
This system is what's primarily responsible for the incredible bloat the wiki currently suffers from. Wikipedia generally avoids having pointless, crappy articles because of their notability requirement, whereas the only requirement for being listed on TV Tropes is that a handful of users say "yeah, okay." With such low standards, it's no surprise that there are currently hundreds of pages clogging up the site that even the spergs who obsessively prune its branches can't be bothered with (see: any page related to pro wrestling).
Notable Articles
While most of the mainspace articles on TV Tropes are total failures in being either useful or entertaining, a few manage to be indicative of the site's poor quality.
*Encyclopedia Dramatica: Deleted and salted. See [[TV Tropes/Deleted Encyclopedia Dramatica Article]] for full disclosure.
*https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FanFic/MyImmortal" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">My Immortal: Initially the dumping ground of unfunny rejected /b/tards, Fast Eddie predictably deleted all the spam and locked it. Luckily, you can see a proper writeup of the series [[My Immortal|on this very wiki]].
*[[Joss Whedon]], https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/JossWhedon" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">their God (or "patron saint" as they like to call him). Nearly all of the awful "snarky" humor you see on this site is from people who watched Buffy and/or Firefly as a teen and still think they are the height of wit and style.
*The https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/Warhammer40000" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">main and https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/Warhammer40000" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">character pages for [[Warhammer 40,000]]. Printing out everything would take over 180 pages, and that doesn't include all the other sections and individual book series pages. As much proof as you need that the site has no concept of moderation, especially when it comes to excessive fanwankery.
*https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/FurryFandom" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Furry Fandom: TV Tropes supports [[furries]]. Hell, they even think they are https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BadassFurry" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">badass. BALEETED. Go
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*Image Boards: Despite really being the retarded /b/rothers that got institutionalized and promptly forgotten, they used to live in fear of [[4chan]]. Because of this, they had a [[meme]] where they wouldn't refer to the [[chan]]s by name for fear of invoking the wrath of [[Anonymous]] or something and instead said "Image Boards" as some way around using their name (notice "The Imageboard That Must Not Be Named" in the "alt title(s)" section). Nevermind the internet isn't fucking [[Harry Potter]] and [[B/|/b/]] has better things to do than [[raid]] a glorified fansite. They seem to have realized this by now, but still perpetuate this meme because Tropers aren't exactly quick to change their rigid social routines.
*https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Fanboy" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Fanboy, https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Fangirl" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Fangirl, https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/AspergerSyndrome" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Asperger's Syndrome: Here, let them describe themselves for you in their own words.
[[X? In my Y?|Memes? In my TV Tropes?]]
Along with https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Memes/TVTropes" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">their own house memes, they also have a bunch of meme pages despite the masses yelling such platitudes as "we are not Encyclopedia Dramatica." Indeed, they aren't. In case you want to see what some of your beloved ED articles look like through the lens of [[aspie]] fanboys and [[Know Your Meme]] happens to be down today, you can find the most popular ones on TV Tropes.
Warning: Most of these articles don't know when to quit
*[[Candlejack]] - https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/JustForFun/CandleJack" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Candle Jack
*[[Caramelldansen]] - https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/JustForFun/CaramelldansenVid" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Caramelldansen Vid
*[[Chuck Norris]] - https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Website/ChuckNorrisFacts" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Chuck Norris Facts
*[[Demotivators]] - https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FauxtivationalPoster" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Fauxtivational Poster
*[[Forced Meme]] - https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ForcedMeme" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Forced Meme
*[[The Game]] -
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*[[I Can Has Cheezburger?]] and [[Template:Cat]] - https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WebOriginal/LOLCats" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Lolcats
*[[Image Macro]] - https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ImageMacro" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Image Macro
*[[In Soviet Russia...]] - https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RussianReversal" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">In Soviet Russia Trope Mocks You
*[[No girls on the internet]] - https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThereAreNoGirlsOnTheInternet" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">There Are No Girls On The Internet
*[[NO U]] - https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NoYou" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">No You
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*[[Rickroll]] - https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/JustForFun/Rickroll" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Rick Roll
*[[Zalgo]] - https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/SelfDemonstrating/Zalgo" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Zalgo
Other types of articles
Subjective Tropes
Subjective Tropes (also called "Your Mileage May Vary" tropes) are where all the real [[lulz]] and [[troll]]-fodder of the site lie. Since most "regular" trope examples are boring recitations of [[fact]], trope pages where you're certain to [[Flame war|start an argument]] by merely bringing up an example are inherently way more interesting than noting yet another action movie that smashed a fruit cart.
Unfortunately, since "subjective" means "in my [[opinion]]", the site is large enough where every last opinion is held by at least someone (yes, even the people who think [[The Human Centipede]] is sexy), and the site policy holds that all opinions are basically equal (so long as it doesn't piss off Fast Eddie, of course!), that basically means that these pages grow like cancerous tumors requiring constant splitting into more and more specific subpages as they lurch towards hosting every last fucking thing as an example, [[evar]].
*https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NightmareFuel" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Nightmare Fuel: Tropers are gigantic fucking [[pussies]] that shit their pants
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*Fetish Fuel: When they aren't shitting their pants in terror, they are being constantly aroused by such sexual lightning rods as cartoon animal ass and anything made of leather. This is because most tropers, being absolutely riddled with autism, cannot emotionally connect with other people enough to have sexual relationships with them so they must substitute fantasy characters and inanimate objects. Their throbbing boners for everything except actual human beings got so far out of hand that the page got baleeted and spun into http://fetishfuel.wikia.com/wiki/Fetish_Fuel_Wiki" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">its own wiki (gone)
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*https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FanonDiscontinuity" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Fanon Discontinuity: "I don't like this work, therefore, I declare it to not exist!"
*https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TearJerker" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Tear Jerker: "My favorite character just found out the clerk at Starbucks shorted him a nickel. I... I think I'm gonna cry... [[BAWWWWW]]!"
*https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Crowning Moment Of Awesome: Absolutely anything and everything about a troper's favorite show, ever, collected onto a set of hideously gigantic pages. Fast Eddie tried to cut away some of this tumor by turning it into a thumbs up/down system for each individual moment, but since this would mean showing what people actually think of an entry, it didn't take off. Eventually the administration admitted that the name had lost all meaning, due to the low standards of the average troper, and renamed it "Moment Of Awesome".
*https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Crowning Music Of Awesome: In the same failtastic vein of Crowning Moment Of Awesome, this index of pages has expanded to include absolutely every piece of music ever written. An entire page in particular (20 times longer than the main page for John Keats, someone who actually matters) is devoted to music from some shitty webcomic that Tropers spread throughout the wiki like the cancer it is. Eventually renamed to "Awesome Music" after Fast Eddie realized that there wasn't anything crowning about this fuckery.
*https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AdaptationDecay" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Adaptation Decay: If the [[animu]] of their favorite [[manga]] decides to change the birthday of the coffee shop clerk that appeared in some bullshit filler chapter, the neckbeards will all scream "DECAY!" and bitch about how it's a corruption of a literary masterpiece and the evil production company is taking a giant shit on a beloved franchise.
*https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MoralEventHorizon" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Moral Event Horizon: "This character cut somebody off at the turnpike. UNFORGIVABLE! https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CompleteMonster" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">COMPLETE MONSTER!"
*https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MagnificentBastard" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Magnificent Bastard: Who the hell even knows what this means any more?
*https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/DarthWiki/DethroningMomentOfSuck" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Dethroning Moment Of Suck: Distilled [[Nerd Rage]] so pure that you can almost hear the grinding of many gritted teeth, smell the countless pants that were pissed in anger, and taste the bitter, salty tears dripping from hundreds of double chins
*https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/DarthWiki/SoBadItsHorrible" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">So Bad It's Horrible: A basically pointless section where butthurt idiots with too much time on their hands write seriously [[TL;DR]] screeds declaring something to be the absolute worst work of fiction evar. Would be a total write-off if not for the endless stream of bickering between said delusional [[personal army]] fucktards and those that want to hold the section to some kind of standard.
*https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HoYay" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Ho Yay: "Two characters of the same sex are close friends. They must be [[gay]]!"
Subjective tropes like the above used to be placed in the example sections of work pages and invariably devolve into epic [[flame wars]] between [[fantard]]s and [[hater]]s. Faced with the possibility of having to moderate every work page with a subjective trope on it, Fast Eddie decided to [[Lazy|lazily]] [[ghetto]] them onto their own "YMMV" tab and call it a day. One will notice throughout this article that Fast Eddie's solution to everything he can't just outright delete is to [[Lazy|hide it somewhere else and pretend it doesn't exist.]]
For those who recognize that the YMMV pages are stupid and want to help accelerate their decay, just go through this list (don't miss the other linked categories on the side] and contrive some reason to add each one to every work page possible. Any idiot can see that this is obvious and useless, but hey: all opinions are valid and should be represented, so back off, fuckers. This particular bit of advice is obsolete, however: Fast Eddie has finally decided to stop ignoring obvious solutions to [[grudgewank]] on the main wiki and outlawed any reference to the "flame bait" pages. He even deleted and salted mainspace redirects to the offending pages. Too bad waiting years and years to do this shit means hundreds of dead links and way too many idiots that will keep making more out of obliviousness, rebellion, or simple malice.
Darth/Sugar Wiki
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The "good" and "evil" sections of the wiki.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/DarthWiki/ThisExists" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Darth Wiki initially started off as some [[unfunny]] [[in-joke]] before swiftly being turned into a [[ghetto]] for everything too negative to appear on the main site. With a hideous greyscale color scheme that frequently breaks due to Fast Eddie's poor grasp of [[Cascading Style Sheet]]s, it's divided between articles [[trying too hard]] to be like Dark Helmet from Spaceballs and [[BAWWWWW]]tism-incarnate bitching articles. Some suggested reading:
*http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/DarthWiki/WallBanger" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Even more redundant complaining about sucky moments in fiction. BALEETED. '''
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*https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/DarthWiki/HowNotToWriteATropePage" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Their real style guide.
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*https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/DethroningMoment/ChannelAwesome" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">About the only place where criticizing That Guy With The Glasses won't earn a swift ban and ass-rape.
*https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/DarthWiki/UnpublishedWorks" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Want to write a Great American Novel, but too lazy to do anything but throw together some TV Tropes memespeak for your half-formed idea? Here's the section for you!
On the flip side of Darth Wiki is the https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/SugarWiki/SweetExists" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Sugar Wiki. Created long after its evil twin, this was always intended as a ghetto for obvious blowjob articles like Crowning Moment Of Awesome. This section is divided between said ghetto and an awkward parody of ultra-girly shows like [[My Little Pony]] mixed with "KAWAII WA [[DESU]] =^_^=" bullshit typical of the site's [[weeaboo]] bend. There are absolutely no [[lulz]] to be found here, so don't waste your time.
TV Tropes Fanfiction
TV Tropes, with their septic tank of fan trivia, do what any sensible person with such wealth of information at their fingertips would do: write [[fanfic]]s. Most of them stay in the forums as shitty RP threads, but sometimes the shit gets so big it leaks into the main site, warranting their own page and [[at least 100]] sub-pages to go with it. From then on, it becomes a gigantic collab fanfic (or at least moreso). They are constructed like a fake TV show, and the contents consist of episode summaries for the first part, and then character summaries, character backstory, world backstory, character sexuality, developer commentary, cameos, invoked tropes, camera tricks, fan materials of a fan material, and scraps of rejected then recycled ideas for the rest. They're about as cliched as tropes.
*https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/JustForFun/AvatarAndTheAirbendingFellowshipOfVampireSlayers" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Avatar And The Airbending Fellowship Of Vampire Slayers - A show made to appeal to the average troper. Like its namesake, it's like an average [[fantasy]] show.
*https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/DarthWiki/ThePunishersSongOfEvangelionAndIMustScream" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Punishers Song Of Evangelion And I Must Scream - The DarthWiki version. Reads like a shitty comic-based action movie.
*https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/SugarWiki/MyLittleRainbowPrincessPrettyMoonShortcake" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">My Little Rainbow Princess Pretty Moon Shortcake - The SugarWiki version. Reads like a [[My Little Pony]] fanfic with magical girls.
*https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Pantheon/TropePantheons" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Trope Pantheons - Tropers give various influential figures arbitrary titles and pay tribute with their fanjizz.
*TV Tropes the TV Show - The biggest chuck of shit in the crap pile. In a nutshell, this is a crossover-ish self-insert fanfic with a shit ton of animu cliches and animu relationships. BALEETED in 2012, although the show's forum still exists.
Troper Tales
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