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
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.
All The Tropes (Wikia) is a Wikia fork of All The Tropes, and are 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.
Differences between TV Tropes and All The Tropes
Feature
TV Tropes
All The Tropes
Wiki Engine
PmWiki (heavily modified)
MediaWiki 1.42.1 (1064d5f)
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
Advertising
Upwards of 25% of each page is ads
None
Ad Blocking
Detects ad-blockers like uBlock Origin and prevents users from seeing wiki content until they disable them and any restrictions on JavaScript
Unnecessary, no ads
Content License
CC-BY-NC-SA
CC-BY-SA
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
Yes
Yes
Secure Passwords
No (plaintext, no encryption)
Yes (cryptographic database hash)
Interwiki Support
None
Yes, interwiki linking is supported
We are fierce advocates of the free content reuse policy of Wikimedia Foundation and our site license and reuse policy was modeled on their own because we want to share our content with the world, and don't believe it should be hoarded or used to make a profit, because like the WMF, we believe knowledge should be free, and since you can reuse WMF content here (with proper attribution), please check out the following WMF wikis for anything you might wish to use for pages here:
Note: Not an official arm of the ATT family on either Wikia or Miraheze, though they have our endorsement as a gathering place for our fans to congregate.
Lindley Armstrong "Spike" Jones (1911-1965) was a legendary bandleader in the Thirties, Forties, and Fifties, and one of the first innovators of novelty music in popular culture. Spike was a master of musical comedy -- not in terms of the film genre, where one gets a comedy that happens to feature singing, but in comedy created through music.
Spike was a parodist, and having your song mocked by Spike was viewed as a necessity before you could really consider yourself to have made it to musical stardom, much like "Weird Al" Yankovic today. But unlike "Weird Al", who plays the music so straight that if you're not listening closely you might not notice that it's a parody, Spike would take the music out back and mug it. His 1944 hit cover of "Cocktails for Two", originally a nice, sweet song about how Prohibition was over and people could have alcohol on dates again, featured gunshots, gargling, slide whistles, and enough violence done to the musical instruments that he may have violated the Geneva Convention.
Miraheze 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.
Poser and Daz Studio Free Resources Wiki - A wiki for users of the Poser and Daz Studio programs that provides free support and resources for users of those programs.
We have more than just Trope And Works pages, below are the other major sections of the wiki:
