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About This Wiki PurposeWhat are tropes?GoalsOther Languages 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. 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Featured Article So You Want To/Avoid Unfortunate Implications Whether you're creating something that may or may not touch on known issues, or you're wanting to avoid creating new tropes with their own Unfortunate Implications, you may find it useful to have a simple guide to handling potentially loaded tropes and situations with care. This guide is intended only as a simplistic overview not applicable to each and every situation (and sometimes ignoring its advice may be a good idea), and some of you may know far more than it illustrates. Its purpose is to help the average writer without much experience in social justice activism (except maybe within his/her/their own group) avoid creating unintended offense and/or badly creating intended offense. Do not assume the Viewers are Morons, do not use Small Reference Pools, and refuse to play to the Lowest Common Denominator. This is as close to a "golden rule" of avoiding Unfortunate Implications as one can get. Specifically, assume that your viewers will be of a diverse nature, smart enough to understand implications, and expecting well-rounded, interesting characters and plotlines in many cases. Even if they are Just Here for Godzilla or Fan Service, your objective is to assume that even Godzilla battling an armada of strippers will not make the viewers morons who ignore everything else along the way. 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: Analysis Indepth examination of tropes/works. Ho Yay Scenes in works that trip our gaydars. Recap Recaps of episodes and movies. Awesome Moments Crowning Moments Of Awesome Image Links Images say a thousand words about tropes and works. Reviews Works we've reviewed. Characters Those who make up a cast. Just for Fun Because we shouldn't take ourselves seriously. Setting Tropes about story worlds. Fanfic Recs Fanfiction we recommend. Laconic Tropes and Works in Brief Source A viewable copy of a work. Fridge Horrifying/brilliant/confusing in hindsight. Mechanics of Writing Actually using all this to write stories. Tear Jerker Scenes that made us cry. Funny Moments Crowning Moments Of Funny Memes Do You Liek Memes? Trivia Little factoids we found interesting. Haiku Haiku poetry about works. Nightmare Fuel Things in tropes/works we find terrifying. Useful Notes Extra useful details. Headscratchers Headscratchers that bug us about tropes and works. Quotes Quotes About Tropes WMG Wild/crazy fan theories. Heartwarming Moments Crowning Moments of Heartwarming Radar Suggestive scenes in works that snuck by the censors. YMMV Subjective opinions about works.