TV Tropes
Template:Quote box Regular visitors here won't need to read the introduction.
If you're not a regular here, TV Tropes is a wiki documenting, in a fairly informal manner, the various conventions of fiction.
Of course, like any sizeable work, we've collected our own fair share of tropes.
Tropes in TV Tropes:
- Accentuate the Negative: Darth Wiki.
- Artifact Title: It started with TV (Buffy the Vampire Slayer in particular). Nowadays it encompasses all media.
- Beige Prose: The Laconic Wiki.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall/Leaning On the Fourth Wall: An editor of the site will often introduce themselves as "This Troper". This is frowned upon for examples though.
- Darker and Edgier:
- The Useful Notes sections, detailing more darker facets about reality than fiction.
- Of course, there's also Darth Wiki, where all the negative opinions go to. And a couple of other dark stuff.
- Dark World: Darth Wiki.
- Drinking Game: We have one.
- Exactly What It Says On the Tin: Some of our trope titles. These are listed in the Index of Exact Trope Titles.
- Hive Mind: A conscious goal. (See also Edit Tip #1.)
- Hurricane of Puns:
- Just read the Just for Pun index.
- The Sorting Algorithm of Tropes index qualifies, although the puns will likely slip under your radar if you don't have a computer science background.
- Lampshade Hanging: For pages about tropes, there will a folder section for TV Tropes, lampshading how TV Tropes uses the trope explained on the page in some fashion. Very meta. Even more meta is the logo.
- Lighter and Softer: Sugar Wiki, where all the positive opinions go to.
- Major General Song: The page on the topic itself counts as a partial one. Anyone want to write a full-length version for the site?
- Medium Awareness: References to how the site is a wiki are constantly referenced.
- Mind Screw: At least half the entries in Wild Mass Guessing.
- Overused Running Gag: I Am Not Making This Up and So Yeah were so overused that the wiki said "Enough is enough!" and purged all mention of them from the wiki, deleting and perma-locking their pages.
- Post Modern: Plenty of examples. Since the site is a catalog of devices used in fiction, the whole site is this.
- Punny Name: Quite a few article titles.
- Running Gag: Several, most commonly "TV Tropes Will Ruin Your Life".
- Schmuck Bait: A lot of external links are this. Notable offenders:
- Seen It All: Read the site enough and take it too seriously and you may become this.
- Self Demonstrating Article: A whole index of them.
- Theme Naming: Our trope naming organizations, SPOON, FORKS, KNIVES, and PLATTER, were all named after kitchen utensils.
- Thrown Down a Well: The Permanent Red Link Club.
- TV Tropes Will Ruin Your Life
- Visual Pun: Some of the images for our trope articles are this.
- Wiki Walk: It's a wiki, what else would you expect?