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About This Wiki All The Tropes is a community-edited wiki website dedicated to discussing Creators, Works, and Tropes -- the people, projects and patterns of creative writing in all kinds of entertainment: television, literature, movies, video games, and more. And by all kinds of entertainment, we don't just mean English language content (especially just American English content), we want to cover and address all types of media from around the world and the tropes that media uses, as both tropes and the works that use them are universal. Tropes are tools of the trade for writers; They are devices and conventions that we the audience expect to see again and again. Whether tropes are cliche or just standard for the genre is largely a matter of writing quality and personal opinion. But tropes will always exist, as they often reflect life -- and we exist to document them, play with them, and generally have fun with them. This wiki is called All The Tropes because we want to accept discussion of patterns in all forms of media while keeping censorship to a minimum. We want to encourage creative thought, discuss new works, and welcome everyone to play around. This is not Wikipedia, this is a site for fans. We hope to educate and entertain -- to be both informal and informative. And we hope that you'll join us. So read, edit, have fun, and play nice! This wiki is an English specific wiki, and our content may reflect a strong American bias due to the fact we forked from TV Tropes, which had a strong bias in that regard. If you would like to help us make a foreign language version of ATT or help improve our international appeal, please contact the ATT administrators and we'll be happy to provide any resources you may need. Differences From the Competition Differences between TV Tropes and All The Tropes Feature TV Tropes All The Tropes Wiki Engine PmWiki (heavily modified) MediaWiki 1.41.0 (5498056) Content Dumps Only via administrator approval Can be requested by anyone Censorship Imposed via Google Ads and an administrator approved committee Only what is legally required Content License CC-BY-NC-SA, they take ownership CC-BY-SA, you own your own writing Colored Text Globally disabled Available via template or CSS styles Strike-through Markup Globally disabled Available WikiWords Most common form of linking Not available Page Moves Manual copy-paste-redirect Move action (preserves history) Page History Changes only, natterfy button Changes between multiple revisions, view old versions, undo edit Unicode Support Character escapes only Available everywhere HTTPS browsing No Yes Secure Passwords No (plaintext, no encryption) Yes (cryptographic database hash) Interwiki Support None Yes, interwiki linking is supported TV Tropes does not allow certain articles and topics to be discussed, because of censorship policies ostensibly imposed by their advertisement sponsors. We are hosted on a service funded by donations, so we have no ads and no widespread censorship. We have a wide range of other benefits too: modern software, secure browsing, and administrators who listen to other opinions. For a fuller explanation of the schism, see Why We Forked TV Tropes. TMW is a Wikia fork of TV Tropes, and they preceded us in breaking away from TV Tropes because, like us, they didn't like how the place was run. They have ads and an incomplete import of TVT, but are almost as censorship free as ourselves. Content from there can be imported here and vice-versa, under the terms of the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license.

Featured Article {{FeaturedRandom/Anthropic Principle For any given story, there exist basic elements that are required for the story itself to happen; there would be no story otherwise. The original Anthropic Principle is a theoretical explanation of why the conditions of the universe are so perfect for the existence of intelligent life (like us humans on Earth). Why? Because without those conditions, we wouldn't even be here to be making those observations in the first place. Even though the raw probability of those conditions is astronomically unlikely, our very existence requires us to accept that it must have happened somewhere. The Anthropic Principle as it applies to fiction is similar: Every fictional universe has fundamental, axiomatic elements without which its story simply could not exist, and the reader must accept those elements in order to enjoy the work. The ultimate expression of this trope is Minovsky Physics -these elements are actually carefully planned in advance, ensuring a logical transition from real life to the fictional universe. Read more... }} Other Sites We Recommend Orain Meta - The main wiki of the service we are hosted on. An incredible wiki farm that is ad free and costs nothing, funded purely through donations, and who we recommend highly if you want to set up a wiki of your own that also hosts some other good wikis you might want to check out.

We have more than just Trope And Works pages, below are the other major sections of the wiki: Quotes Quotes About Tropes Headscratchers Headscratchers that bug us about tropes and works. Laconic Tropes and Works in Brief Memes Do You Liek Memes? Funny Moments Crowning Moments Of Funny Awesome Moments Crowning Moments Of Awesome Heartwarming Moments Crowning Moments of Heartwarming Image Links Images say a thousand words about tropes and works. Nightmare Fuel Things in tropes/works we find terrifying. Analysis Indepth examination of tropes/works.. Ho Yay Scenes in works that trip our gaydars. Recap Recaps of episodes and movies. YMMV Subjective opinions about works. Radar Suggestive scenes in works that snuck by the censors. Haiku Haiku poetry about works. Trivia Little factoids we found interesting.