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Welcome to All The Tropes, Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted To Know

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

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 thus no chance of being redirected to a malware-injection site by a hostile ad) 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.
Tropedia is a FANDOM fork of All The Tropes (minus the branding as that is our trademark now they expelled the founder over a matter they deemed in violation of their Terms of Service), and are as censorship free as ourselves, with some limited exceptions for matters pertaining to certain FANDOM policies. Content from there can be imported here and vice-versa, under the terms of the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license.
The True Tropes Wiki is also a FANDOM fork of All The Tropes, also minus our branding. It was founded in October 2019 by a former ATT Admin who disagreed with a decision made by the community as a whole to lock the Complete Monster page, remove its examples and turn it into a Useful Note in response to an increase in toxic users obsessively focused on the trope. It's based on a complete dump of ATT as it existed at that time, provided with our blessings. Just like Tropedia, content from True Tropes 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 1.41.0 (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
Advertising Upwards of 25% of each page is ads, including multiple banners urging you to subscribe so they go away None other than our host's semi-annual donation drive advertising which can be dismissed with a single click; no subscription fee, either
Ad Blocking Detects some methods of ad-blocking and throws up nag banners indicating how many pages you've read without letting them show you ads 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 and in active use
User Bans Users can be banned with no warning for virtually any reason, including admin crankiness and spite, usually with no appeal User bans are strictly controlled by wiki policy which prohibits spite bans and other abuses of power
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Featured Article

It Will Never Catch On

What the gaming community thought before the launch of the Wii.
"Groups are out. Four-piece groups with guitars particularly are finished."
Dick Rowe, Decca Recording Company executive, 1962 (turning down The Beatles)

Anachronisms are funny. As are "prophecies" uttered by people who are in a position to lose a great deal of influence, money or credibility if they are wrong.

The best thing about Alternate Universes is that they have things we can't possibly imagine being true. Why can't the reverse also fit?

Oftentimes, be it a medieval setting or anything else where things we know about have no business existing, something abundantly familiar to our modern audience is put forth as a hypothetical. The punchline is that no one thinks it could possibly be popular, allowing us to laugh at how wrong people's predictions of the future really are, and pat ourselves on the back for being so clear-eyed.

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