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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 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 1.41.0 (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 None Ad Blocking Actively blocks ad-blockers like uBlock Origin 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 No 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: Commons – Media repository MediaWiki – Wiki software development Meta-Wiki – Coordination Wikibooks – Textbooks Wikidata – Knowledge base Wikipedia – Encyclopedia Wikiquote – Quotations Wikisource – Sources Wikispecies – Species Wikiversity – Learning tools Wikivoyage – Travel guide Wiktionary – Dictionary

Featured Article Film Noir You need cops, venetian blinds, lots of smoking, hats, sweat, dead-end streets, guys who know all the angles except for the one that ends up sticking out of their backs. Sirens of the automotive and female kind. —James Lileks, The Bleat "Think You Oughta Drink That" Film Noir is a genre of stylish crime dramas, difficult to define, but the 1940's and 50's were the classic period. Whether works since then can be accurately classed as Noir is a subject of much debate among film critics. Film Noir, and the literature from which it is drawn, is clearly the progenitor of later genres, particularly Cyberpunk. Common subjects of noir films include murder investigations, heists, con games, and (mostly) innocent men or women Wrongly Accused of crime. The double-cross and cigarette smoking are mandatory. Complicated plots are further convoluted by Flashbacks and Flash Forwards—the narration tying everything together, assuming we can trust him. Read more...  About Featured Articles | Nominate an Article Other Sites We Recommend 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: Quotes Quotes About Tropes Headscratchers Headscratchers that bug us about tropes and works. Laconic Tropes and Works in Brief Memes Do You Liek Memes? Funny Moments Crowning Moments Of Funny Awesome Moments Crowning Moments Of Awesome Heartwarming Moments Crowning Moments of Heartwarming Image Links Images say a thousand words about tropes and works. Nightmare Fuel Things in tropes/works we find terrifying. Analysis Indepth examination of tropes/works.. Ho Yay Scenes in works that trip our gaydars. Recap Recaps of episodes and movies. YMMV Subjective opinions about works. Radar Suggestive scenes in works that snuck by the censors. Haiku Haiku poetry about works. Trivia Little factoids we found interesting. Characters Those who make up a cast. Useful Notes Extra useful details. Fridge Horrifying/brilliant/confusing in hindsight. WMG Wild/crazy fan theories. Tear Jerker Scenes that made us cry. Fanfic Recs Fanfiction we recommend. Reviews Works we've reviewed. Source A viewable copy of a work. Setting Tropes about story worlds.