TV tropes

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What is this about?

This wiki is a catalog of the tricks of the trade for writing fiction. We dip into the cauldron of story, whistle up a hearty spoonful and splosh it in front of you to devour to your heart's content.

 

Tropes are devices and conventions that a writer can reasonably rely on as being present in the audience members' minds and expectations. On the whole, tropes are not clichés. The word clichéd means "stereotyped and trite". In other words, dull and uninteresting. We are not looking for dull and uninteresting entries. We are here to recognize tropes and play with them, not to make fun of them.

 

The wiki is called "TV Tropes" because that is where we started. Over the course of a few years, our scope has crept out to include other media. Tropes transcend television. They exist in life, as we will be quick to tell you. Since a lot of art, especially the popular arts, does its best to reflect life, tropes are likely to show up everywhere.

 

We are not Wikipedia. We're a buttload more informal. There Is No Such Thing As Notability, and no citations are needed. If your entry cannot gather any evidence by the Wiki Magic, it will just wither and die. Until then, though, it will be available through the Main Tropes Index. We encourage breezy language and original thought (and won't object to the occasional snarky comment, either).

awesome awesome wiki. if you click the link prepare to lose hours of your life.

for bonus points, i bet you can find a trope that describes any member of WATMM.

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unusual to see such faggotry from you, andrew.

Every random page I've been to so far has been about anime.

scroll down. it lists tropes in alphabetical order, so anime will usually be first.

there is a huge amount of anime references on there, because it's a wiki and the internet is full of basement-dwelling nerds.

Figured as much. I learned more about "hot mommies" and blue haired heroines than I ever cared to know.

I've only been to that site once, and I did nothing else at work that day.

I discovered it through xkcd, fucking love TvTropes. Perfect for a really long wiki walk in the wee hours of the morning.

link up a particularly interesting thing to get started there, i'm struggling trying to figure out what is going on

  On 11/14/2009 at 5:37 PM, Fred McGriff said:

link up a particularly interesting thing to get started there, i'm struggling trying to figure out what is going on

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ManipulativeBastard

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/XanatosGambit

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PsychoticSmirk

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ToiletHumour

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IdiotBall

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NobodyPoops

  On 11/14/2009 at 7:26 PM, kaini said:

  On 11/14/2009 at 5:37 PM, Fred McGriff said:

link up a particularly interesting thing to get started there, i'm struggling trying to figure out what is going on

 

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ToiletHumour

 

does this really need defining? most of these seem to link to really nerdy anime references.

  On 11/15/2009 at 5:03 AM, zaphod said:

  On 11/14/2009 at 7:26 PM, kaini said:

  On 11/14/2009 at 5:37 PM, Fred McGriff said:

link up a particularly interesting thing to get started there, i'm struggling trying to figure out what is going on

 

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ToiletHumour

 

 

does this really need defining? most of these seem to link to really nerdy anime references.

  On 11/14/2009 at 2:36 AM, kaini said:

scroll down. it lists tropes in alphabetical order, so anime will usually be first.

there is a huge amount of anime references on there, because it's a wiki and the internet is full of basement-dwelling nerds.

here's a good jumping-off point: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ArchetypalCharacter