TV Tropes/Quotes

It Just Bugs Me (Headscratchers)
""This is not forum games. This is IJBM. Where everything is serious business and sex topics are derailed into language discussions, and language discussions are derailed into sex topics.""

- AHR, TV Tropes thread

Neutral
""TVTropes exists as a site to catalogue "Tropes", which are supposedly common elements of fiction. In practice this means that they have a trope page for every possible cliché imaginable, plus several that aren’t really narrative clichés at all. So while a trope page for "Everyone Did It" is an actual trope, they also have trope pages for "Hawaiian Shirt" and "Fan Art", which are not narrative clichés. So a trope page exists for every possible thing that could happen in or appear in a piece of work ever, regardless of whether or not it is narratively relevant. So that’s what a trope is.""

- Namtab (Something Awful goon) in the Foreword, Anime is the Tie that Binds Us: An Unofficial Criticism of "Mills College Anime Club"

"ROFL! It's so adorable when people break their TV Tropes cherries. It's like when small children fall down wells and can't get out."

- "Kylenne," wow.com, 10/7/2009

Negative
""TV Tropes is filled with anti-intellectualism, horribly shallow "analysis" that often misses the point by a mile, a moratorium on expressing critical thought, enforced fake positivity that makes the Stepford Wives look normal by comparison, pedophilia, and disgusting insular attitudes that make all of the above possible.""

- Dr. O, Television Tropes & Idiots (Project A.F.T.E.R. editorial)

"''"A person who discovered that she is just like everybody else and instead of accepting it, she made an autistic little club into finding things that don't exist? Sounds like a troper thing to do.""

- Accel_Rider on Haruhi Suzumiya, in a Kiwi Farms thread about TV Tropes

"''"A valuable meta-cultural resource? Are you high? A better name for TV Tropes would be "A List of Things That Happened: The (Bloated And Costly) Wiki." TV Tropes doesn't analyze anything. It's just a place where socially stunted weirdos can sperg about their favorite children's cartoon show and make lists of a whole bunch of pointless trivia.""

- BreadGod, reply to a comment on TV Tropes Deletes Every Rape Trope; Geek Feminism Wiki steps in