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''Now there are tears.''
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[[Describe Topic Here|Describe]] [[TV Tropes/Memes|TV Tropes]] [[Describe Topic Here|here.]]
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[[That's What She Said]].
Want further proof that [[
Since these are in-jokes, you'd be
Naturally, many of these are [[
(If you are unfamiliar with some of these, you probably
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* Tropes can be considered as memes in and on themselves.
* 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
* Look no further than [[Wild Mass Guessing]]: [[Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory]] and [[Assassin's Creed
** Martin Van Buren [[More Information Than You Require|really was]] a Time Lord.
** [[Memetic Badass|Look. No. Further.]] [[Pirates of the Caribbean|William]] "Bootstrap Bill" Turner '''''IS A TIME LORD'''''. Who makes ''EVERYONE'' '''THEIR TARDIS on [[
** Also, everyone is [[Pokémon
*** As an extension, everyone will start beeping [[Hime
** And [[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann|Spiral Energy]] and [[Shinigami|Shini]][[The World Ends With You
** They're only a [[Doctor Who
* This wiki also spawned a minor memetic mutation regarding the game ''[[Prey]]''. After
* [[Trope Name Injokes]].
* On my deathbed, I will whisper, "(old name for renamed trope)".
** [[Moral Event Horizon|"Rape The Dog."]] I sincerely hope no one confuses this for my dying wish.
* [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] has become a recognizable meme in certain corners of the Internet.
** [[Atop the Fourth Wall
** And, to a lesser extent, [[
** 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,
* Due to [[Fan Service|fortunate]] [[Clothing Damage]] in the ''[[Fantastic Four (
* ([[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]].
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* The Perfect Trumpet Thingy from the ''[[Courage the Cowardly Dog]]'' [[Nightmare Fuel]] pages is becoming a memetic nightmare-giver. Any Trope including [[Nightmare Sequence|nightmares]], [[Surreal Horror|surrealism]], or it's very image alone will result in SOMEONE commenting how scary it is.
** The name is also a TV Tropes brand [[Fan Nickname|nickname]].
* After the
* [[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
*
** [[Gargoyles|Xanatos]] and [[Death Note| Light Yagami]] planned EVERYTHING.
* '''[[Ciaphas Cain]], [[Fake Ultimate Hero|HERO OF THE IMPERIUM!]]'''
** '''[[Disgaea|Captain Gordon, Defender of Earth!]]'''
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** Let's not forget [[Girl Genius|Othar Tryggvassen]], '''[[Gentleman Adventurer]]'''!
** Any sentence... which... mentions... [[William Shatner]]... must be riddled... with... dramatic pauses.
** [[The Ace|Ace]] [[Red Dwarf
** '''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]''' always being emphasized.
* 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.
** The phrase "TAKE THAT SHIT TO FETISHES" has become a meme itself, whenever someone thinks that a sex related derail is imminent.
* ''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.
** Hell, "No exceptions" is a meme in itself.
** And ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' has since given way to ''[[Touhou]]'', and then ''[[
* 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.
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* Other forum memes include [[Literal Genie|fire]], "''Akufen -- The Dragonfly Who Thought He Was A Mockingbird''" and "{{spoiler|[[Eats Babies|rats]]}}".
* Plus the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n_xIDT2Jec&feature=player_embedded Reispin meme]. Now the tripped-out [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Rei face]] is a forum-symbol for both the [[Just for Fun]] subforum and, as one troper put it, "Descents into stygian madness."
** Which originally took
** Now in ''[[
** [[Madoka Magica]] [http://i53.tinypic.com/bijev6.gif Edition!]
* ''[[
* Arguably [[
* <span id="haven"></span>
* HAY
** LET'S HAVE HAWT, NASTY SEX THAT VIOLATES EVERY LAW OF PHYSICS. LITERALLY.
** Which, [[Memetic Mutation|of course]], spawned: HAY [AOD], HAY [[Rouge Angles of Satin|CELEBRAIN]], HAY AONDEUG, HAY IS FOR HORSES, NEEDLE, HAY HAY HAY, HAY RIDLEY, HAY GUYZ, and a few others. A few of them (the big ones) were actually saved by the Troper, Pacific, and made downloadable so that we could save this piece of craziness for posterity, after they got deleted.
* "I Am Not Making This Up" ''used'' to be a meme, but it got [[Pothole Magnet|so]] [[Overused Running Gag|overused]] that it ended up as a [[Discredited Meme]]. We now call it [[The Scottish Trope|"The Phrase That Shall Not Be Potholed"]].
** Similarly, saying "X does not exist" while potholing to [[Discontinuity]] was once a meme, but became discredited after being overused and widely agreed to be irritating. The split into [[Fanon Discontinuity]] and [[Canon
* During the short-lived movie nights on the forums, it was popular to accuse various objects in the movies of being SNAKES! This started during the [[Snakes
** THIS ARTICLE IS SNAKES!
* In [[Doctor Who
* 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]].
* Putting "I came here from [[
** 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
** [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.
* ''[[Warhammer
* 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!''"
* [[Samuel L. Jackson]], while only having one arm, beat up the T-Rex in [[Jurassic Park]], and forced him to provide the [[Deus Ex Machina]] ending. This was cut from the final print of the movie because it was so awesome, test audiences' [[Your Head Asplode|heads kept on exploding]].
** [[Too Soon]]!
** Every time exploding heads are mentioned, it's imperative to mention [[Scanners|Darryl Revok]].
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* [[Hello]]. [[My Name Is Inigo Montoya]]. [[You Killed My Father]]. [[Prepare to Die]].
** To elaborate, [[Hello]] was made specifically because it was the only part of that quote that wasn't in blue.
* [[Hey,
* Putting {{spoiler|Jesus dies}} in spoiler tags. Don't want to spoil the ending for all you Protestants out there.
** Or that {{spoiler|He gets better}}.
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* Please, no [[Complaining About Shows You Don't Like|Complaining About Memes You Don't Like on this page]].
* [[Your Mileage May Vary]], as the work was very [[Department of Redundancy Department|polarizing.]]
* It's
* I'm surprised nobody has mentioned being surprised about something nobody has mentioned yet yet.
** There's a person, of all people, who was in a show, of all shows, who used this meme, of all memes, where they show that they show that it is surprising, of all emotions, that this was an example of a trope, of all things.
** Don't forget "Not to mention", and [[Word Cruft|lest we forget]] something [[Fan Myopia|you've never heard of]].
* [[Claude Rains|Cpt. Louis Renault]] is shocked - ''shocked'' - to see that gambling is going on in [[Casablanca|here]].
*
* The page on [[Left Fielder]] had become just a place for endless [[Memetic Mutation]] of whatever you want, until the examples were cut.
* [[You Fail Indexes Forever|You Fail X Forever]], leading to the Laconic entry: [[Futurama|X DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY! GOODNIGHT!]]
* From the now-defunct [[Troper Tales]]:
** 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]]."
** The fact that in the [[
* 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 (
* Thanks to the forum wordfilter, variations on the phrase "'''Sorry, I skipped some posts.'''" are now common. Less widely used is "'''I am too lazy, or possibly too incapable, to actually read anything. I resent the fact that this makes me seem like an inconsiderate person and hereby pledge to resume taking my ADHD medication.'''"
*
** Do you think he is playing? {{spoiler|He was. Until he wasn't a year later.}}
* 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.
* [[Just a Face
* [[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!'''
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* 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]].
* It seems like every time [[
* 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?
*** ([[YouTube]]) Featured on [[
* 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 "[[
** Also "Don't click this link" or "Click if you dare" are common.
** "Must...not...click..on...trope...link."
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** [[Haruhi Suzumiya|"Are there aliens/time travellers/espers?"]] Evidently, Haruhi's search criteria work pretty well in-game.
* [[Trope Name]]: [[The Movie]] (or This is practically [[Trope Name]]: The Movie!) as an alternative to [[Trope Codifier]] (usually cos it's taken).
* '''{{color|purple| [[Interrupting Meme|Too bad.]] [[Brawl in the Family|Waluigi Time.]]}}'''
* '''NOT UNPOPULAR!'''
** Originally a response to [[Opinion Myopia]] in the "Unpopular Opinions" threads at the forum. Has since spread to memetic uses elsewhere.
* "You needed to know this." A meme from [[TV Tropes Forum|the forum's "Trash Heap" thread]].
* Full stop, full stop.
* Whenever there's a link to something scary and/or disturbing someone is likely to write: "Yeah right, as if X could be really that bad-''HOLY SHIT'' ." or anything similar.
* 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 [[
* [[Mind Rape|"My head is full of fuck."]] <ref> In OTC, in a thread about CERN discovering a particle that may be faster than the speed of light, the scientific discussion to such a high level of theoretical science that this phrase became the go-to expression when someone didn't understand. It has been spreading slowly ever sense as OTC regulars use it as a sort of in-joke.</ref>
* [Insert Trope Here]: And how!
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** 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>.
* Anywhere else, "Me Me" is the sign of an [[Attention Whore]]. On TV Tropes, it's a [[Memetic Mutation]].
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'''[[Statler and Waldorf|Waldorf]]:''' Simple! They wouldn't shut up otherwise!
'''Both:''' Do-Ho-Ho-Ho-Hoh! }}
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