TV Tropes



Affectionately known as The Other Tropes Wiki, TV Tropes is a wiki documenting, in a fairly informal manner, the various conventions of fiction. They're quite similar to All The Tropes, but have a few differences.

Like any sizeable work, they've collected their 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: They have one.
 * Exactly What It Says On the Tin: Some of the trope titles, and increasing every day. 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:
 * Ear Worm: Prepare to be hearing the piece of music from that link for the rest of the day.
 * Rick Roll: Do we really need to explain this one?
 * 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: Their 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 their trope articles are this.
 * Wiki Walk: It's a wiki, what else would you expect?