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Want further proof that [[Tropes Will Ruin Your Life]]? Just take a look at all of the [[Egregious]] [[Memetic Mutation|memes]] that ''they've'' spawned. Don't worry... [[One of Us|you'll eventually start using these in time]].

 

 

 

 

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* Referring to [[The Other Wiki]] as such.

* A YKTTW meme occurs when someone makes a blank post, after which people start complaining that we already have [[Dada Comics]], and supplying examples of the proposed trope in various media (inevitably including John Cage's ''4:33''). This is because the YKTTW for [[Dada Comics]] was actually started this way.

** Martin Van Buren [[More Information Than You Require|really was]] a Time Lord.

** Also, everyone is [[Pokémon/WMG|Ash's father]]. Who I have heard really gets around.

*** As an extension, everyone will start beeping [[Hime-chan no Ribon|in 57 minutes]].

** And [[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann|Spiral Energy]] and [[Shinigami|Shini]][[The World Ends With You|gami]] are the gears that make it work.

* This wiki also spawned a minor memetic mutation regarding the game ''[[Prey]]''. After Nezumi casually pointed out the significant usage of sphincters and sphincter-like structures in the [[Womb Level]] portions of ''Prey'', it's become a running gag to make references to sphincters any time it's mentioned on the wiki. At one point, the Sphere the game takes place in was referred to in an entry as "the sphinctership."

* [[Trope Name Injokes]].

* [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] has become a recognizable meme in certain corners of the Internet.

** [[Atop the Fourth Wall|Linkara mentioned it.]]

** Probably hit critical mass when it was used for a gag in ''[[Walkyverse|Shortpacked!]]''

** Exceeded critical mass when an article in ''Esquire'' was called "TV's Crowning Moments of Awesome."

** As the one who started the whole CMOA thing in the first place, Weaver is fully aware that they have created a monster and is happier about it than they probably should be.

* ([[Division By Zero|Abortion of reality]] that will haunt [[Ear Worm|every waking moment]] or [[Nightmare Fuel|your dreams]]). You're welcome.

* X Ensues. It's not always [[Hilarity Ensues|hilarity]].

* [[Describe Topic Here|Describe Meme here]]. It's a phrase that gets repeated until repeating it is an end in itself.

** Even though [[Describe Topic Here]] has been replaced with "Click the edit button to start this new page", this meme is still used for [[Self-Demonstrating Article|self-demonstrating]] openings to articles, and "Click the edit button..." hasn't escaped this fate either.

* '''[[Ciaphas Cain]], [[Fake Ultimate Hero|HERO OF THE IMPERIUM!]]'''

** '''[[Disgaea|Captain Gordon, Defender of Earth!]]'''

* The phrase 'loli rape bunker' has become popular after being used in a thread on the forums about a German/Swiss [[Hikikomori]] [[Otaku]] who bought a bunker to [[Porn Stash|store all his]] [[Lolicon|loli]] [[Squick|rape]] [[Doujinshi]] in, so that he could fap all the way through Armaggeddon. Disturbingly yet hilariously, many people on the forum have now changed their user location to say 'loli rape bunker' or a variation thereof.

* On the forums, sex-related derails, sometimes described as "Tropers Are Horny Bastards". Forced derails tend to take the form of references to orange juice and ''Diablo II'', following an attempt to derail the Fetishes thread.

* ''Every'' thread will eventually derail into discussions about sex, [[Neon Genesis Evangelion]], or [[Suzumiya Haruhi|Haruhi]]. No exceptions. One of these things is not found in a brothel...

** You forgot [[Joss Whedon]] works.

* In the [[The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim|Skyrim]] thread, 'acid sacks' (from a discussion about [[Bizarre Alien Biology|Weird Argonian Biology]]), and 'wrong ears' (The Dark Elves' ears apparently point the wrong direction in Skyrim).

* [[Wild Mass Guessing]] that actually makes sense. Crazy, I know.

*** That's ridiculous/you'll need more proof than that.

* Tropers often refer to themselves in the third person: "This Troper". Not to be confused with "[[That Troper (Darth Wiki)|That Troper]]". The jocular "This [[Vigilante Taxonomist]]" is also occasionally seen, in reference to a forum thread in which a user accused Tropers of being vigilante taxonomists. Note that doing either this or referring to yourself in the first person has been strongly discouraged on the wiki for quite a while now.

* In [[Doctor Who/Recap|Doctor Who]] recaps, it's comm-WOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSH. For some inexplicable reason.

* On the forum, any sentence saying "Thanks to this post of mine, you now know something that you didn't know before!" is likely potholed to [[And Knowing Is Half the Battle]].

** It's the top-rated comment for [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuTG7iasgaE this video], with (at time of writing) about 300 votes, linked from [[So Unfunny It's Funny]].

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dC0_lVaiTQ This video] is linked from [[Bound and Gagged]], and almost every comment mentions TV Tropes. It's now reached a critical mass, and newer comments express surprise that every comment really does mention TV Tropes.

* I hate memes from the fora too. Fuck that guy.

* Marking that a trope is being [[Egregious|egregiously]] used within a work by adding the phrase "''And how!''" as description to an example, usually with some kind of misplaced italics. Further repetitive use of the same tropes [[Lampshade Hanging|will lead to a promotion]] to "''but of COURSE!''"

** Anecdotes would draw the response "Are you me?" from the like-minded and "[[Engaging Conversation|will you marry me?]]" from those who liked what they read.

** "[Character/Person] causes this type of [[Fetish Fuel]], which concerns this [[Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?|otherwise entirely straight]] [same gender] troper who isn't into that in [[Real Life]]."

* An X that is so overflowing with memes that it needs its own section.

* [[Pothole|Pot holing]] [[Battlestar Galactica|to]] [[Ordinary High School Student|a]] [[American Federalism|different]] [[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)/Characters|article]] [[Yuri|with]] [[The Toblerone|every]] [[Royal We|word]] [[Michael Jackson|in]] [[Robot Unicorn Attack|a]] [[Heroic BSOD|sentence]] [[Mama Bear/Image Links|or]] [[All Blue Entry|phrase]].

* Say, have you tried Tou-* shot*

* Another forum meme: A while ago, a troll spammed some boards with topics titled "Why is X", where X is typically a minority group or religion or something. After his banning, "Why is?" rose to prominence.

* [[The Points Mean Nothing|Bonus points]] for awarding points to your entries.

* In the case of ''[[FATAL]]'', any discussion about the "game"'s Chaos Magic will eventually lead to jokes about summoning "randy gay ogres".

** If not that, then stabs at Byron Hall's claims of "[[You Fail History Forever|historical accuracy]]" will be met with screams of '''REALISM!''' Often corrupted: '''REALISTIANALCIRCUMFRENCE!'''

* Referring to your overly cuddly bisexual friend as OCBF.

* TV Tropes misspelled as TV Trops. You've probably done it at least once.

* Every time a programming problem in the wiki happens, when Fast Eddie fixes it, he is being fast as usual.

* (I knew who made this thread) "Before I even clicked on it!"

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCJMYgPbaJk Indeed.]

* Variations on the phrase "FUCK the SHIT out of her" have become popular on the It Just Bugs Me! forum. <ref>the original statement was "If you saw her you would want to FUCK the SHIT out of her. Chick was a dime."</ref>

* [[In Which You Explain What Your Post Is About|Fake Potholes on Fora]].

* So who came from the {enter tvtropes page here} page on tvtropes?

** So who came from the {enter subpage within tvtropes page here} subpage of the {enter tvtropes page here} page on tvtropes?

* P. Diddy caused everything evil in the world. He's now to evil what [[Assassin's Creed|Altair]] is to death. <ref> Explaination: A woman sued P. Diddy claiming he caused 9/11 and stole a poker chip worth $100 zillion from her.</ref>

* Linking to TV Tropes from an outside site will inevitably spawn comments along the lines of "[[Tropes Will Ruin Your Life|Whatever plans I had to do anything productive today have pretty much been shot all to hell now]]."

* "You needed to know this." A meme from [[TV Tropes Forum|the forum's "Trash Heap" thread]].

* Full stop, full stop.

* If a character is named Fate (e.g. in [[Lyrical Nanoha|Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]), claiming that the trope [[You Can't Fight Fate]] refers to that character and listing examples (Jail Scaglietti) and exceptions to the rule (Nanoha).

* In the Fan Fic recs pages, the [[Sturgeon's Law]] phrase "The remaining ten percent is worth dying for," is replaced by something more suitable for the fandom. For example, [[Mass Effect|"I'm commander Shepard and these are my favorite Fan Fictions on the internet."]] or [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|The Remaining ten percent is worth getting]] [[Fan Nickname|tanged for.]] Or even [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|"Proof that the remaining ten percent is worth being sent to the moon for.]]

** alternately: [Name}, Oh dear God [Name]!

* Also [[Truth in Television]]! <ref> a minor [[Running Gag]] on the Warp That Aesop page. When an aesop becomes something sufficiently dark, depressing and maybe, just maybe a little funny, this is the response to that aesops warpedness...to put it another way, tropers are not a happy people</ref>.

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