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You must be at least 13 years old in order to edit on our site, unless accompanied by a parent or guardian. Okay, strap the belt in securely, because this ride is about to get started!
For our purposes, a "[[trope]]" is simply a pattern that occurs in [[media]], for good or
[[File:gilligancutdonald_7697.jpg|link=Gilligan Cut|frame|[[Donald Duck]] demonstrates the [[Gilligan Cut]], courtesy of artist [[Don Rosa]].]]
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Speaking of tropes that are the standard for the [[genre]], consider [[Finagle's Law]] (a.k.a. Murphy's Law) is a feature of just about every Horror movie out there. And sorry folks about the delay in the tour, just hold on a minute while I get this motor restarted. Oh, good, we escaped the [[Undead|zombies]] in the nick of time, and only lost one passenger!
A lot of our tropes have [[:Category:Esoteric Trope Names|funny names]], and the [[MacGuffin]] is no exception. This name was popularized by [[Alfred Hitchcock]], and describes an object that everyone in the story wants. Not that it actually matters what the object is -- it can be a [[Briefcase Full of Money]], and [[Artifact of Doom]], or a [[I'm Dying, Please Take My MacGuffin|mysterious gift from a dying man]].
Our site isn't all about traditional media, either. As we pass into our [[Video Games]] section, you can catch a glimpse of our [[Damsel in Distress]] tied to a post. (No, you don't have to slay that dragon to rescue her, she's just an actress.) Often a princess in need of saving through some magical quest, she's almost always attractive, but is completely unable of saving herself.
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To link to another page in the wiki, use double square brackets around the name, like: <code><nowiki>[[Page Name]]</nowiki></code>. If you want to display alternate text in the link, put a pipe character "|" after the name, like so: <code><nowiki>[[Page Name|my link to a wiki page]]</nowiki></code>. Lines starting with an asterisk "*" make new bullet points.
If you need to mark an "spoiler" -- like the ending of the show or a major plot twist so that you have to select it to see it, put it in a spoiler template, like: <code><nowiki>At the end of ''[[Citizen Kane]]'', we find out that {{spoiler| Rosebud is the name of his sled}}.</nowiki></code><ref>This trope is called [[It Was His Sled]], since everyone has known the spoiler ending for
To create new pages, look for a drop down menu on the edit view of the page you are about to make (under the words "select boilerplate" and select the appropriate page layout and click "Load". This will put down the page tags and templates you'll need so you can just focus on adding content.
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Those few things will deal with about 80% of the markup on the wiki -- check out [[Help:Editing]] for more when you need to know it.
===Important Note===
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A small number of people are exempt from this anti-spam measure. This is a privilege given to them for consistently good edits and being a Troper in good standing, not a right - it has to be earned, and it can be removed if the Troper decides to go rogue or starts ignoring the [[ATT:Style Guide|Style Guide]] or other wiki policies and guidelines.
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