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Feeling bored? Here's a challenge. Find a page on this site that doesn't reference at least one of these series.

Being Trope Overdosed indicates how popular a series is among The Contributors. The longer a series has been around has an effect. It's not hard to use a lot of tropes when you're a Long Runner.

Not to be confused with Overdosed Tropes, which are the same but inverted.

Trope Saturated -- on more than 4000 pages

• Avatar: The Last Airbender - Pretty impressive for a 3-season, 61-episode TV show without that much in the way of supplementary material. Has a live-action adaptation, The Last Airbender, an ongoing Sequel Series, The Legend of Korra, and a concurrently published ongoing Interquel graphic novel trilogy, Avatar: The Last Airbender The Promise.
• Batman - Long Runner franchise about a Badass Normal superhero; spans multiple comic books, television series and movies.
• Bleach - more than 400 chapters of manga, 366 episodes of anime, several movies, and more or less every character trope in existence.
• Buffy Verse - Which makes sense considering TV Tropes has its roots in Buffistas.org, a Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel community. Two shows, lasting from 1997-2004, each with a comic book continuation and the limited series Fray as well as a Spike spinoff comic.
• Digimon - Seven anime series and a separate film, five manga and at least thirty video games, almost all within their own Alternate Continuity, and all spawned from the Spear Counterpart of Tamagotchi.
• Discworld - Tons of books in a setting where Stories (and thus many tropes) are a law of nature.
• Dragon Ball - Old-school martial arts Science Fantasy manga. 500 episodes and manga chapters (not counting its ongoing Recut with 60+ more episodes), 16 animated theatrical films, 3 TV specials and a live action movie, with dozens of video games along with an MMO in the works.
• Dungeons and Dragons - Ubiquitous Tabletop Game. A key Trope Maker with a lot of supplemental material.
• Fallout - Long Running post-apocalyptic video game series. Four main games, two spinoffs, somehow lighthearted and dark all at once, and plenty of humor to spare.
• Final Fantasy - Extremely popular Eastern RPG series, with over a dozen games in the main series, some of which are overdosed in their own right.
• Fullmetal Alchemist - one manga, two different anime, and a few videogames for good measure.
• Futurama - A series in its sixth season that was Un Cancelled twice and made by the same people behind The Simpsons
• Gundam - About thirty years old at this point, running on and off that entire time. Multiple separate series as well, one of which hits an almost entirely separate set of tropes from all of the other ones.
• Harry Potter - Seven books, eight films, some in-universe supplementary material and enough fans to make a billionaire out of their author.
• James Bond - 22 official films, some books and video games.
• Kamen Rider - 40 years worth of shows and movies with only a break in the 90s.
• Kingdom Hearts - Disney Animated Canon mega crossover video game series. Also has one of the most active shipping fandoms ever.
• The Legend of Zelda - A long running and very popular Video Game series with over a dozen titles, containing at least one Alternate Continuity, several manga as well, and is Trope Maker for many Video Game (especially game puzzle) tropes. A few games in particular are overdosed in their own right.
• Looney Tunes - Over 1000 short subjects lasting from 1930 to 1969, Loads and Loads of Characters, dozens of TV projects, Long Runner, Cash Cow Franchise, and nine feature length movies.
• The Lord of the Rings and other works in Tolkien's vast Legendarium of Middle-earth history, an important fantasy Trope Maker.
• Mahou Sensei Negima - Multiple series, most tropes coming from the manga, which is incredibly Troperiffic and loves playing around with almost everything.
• Mass Effect - A critically acclaimed and commercially successful Reconstructor Fleet of 70's and 80's sci-fi space operas, it merrily throws in tropes from outside the genre as well and has become incredibly popular over the past three years. Three main games, one spin-off game, three books, and a comic series and OVER 30 PAGES before the third game was even released.
• Mega Man - Multiple series and spinoffs, that like Transformers, have received separate pages for each continuity.
• Metal Gear - Most referring to Metal Gear Solid; this has multiple long, story-heavy games and oodles of spin-offs.
• My Little Pony - A three decade-old Merchandise Driven franchise. The latest incarnation, Friendship Is Magic, has a notably large internet following.
• Naruto - Shonen manga about a Highly Visible Ninja. Official Long Runner as of 2012 and still going.
• Nasuverse - A long-running Urban Fantasy Multiverse franchise of Visual Novels, Light Novels and their animated adaptations. Consists of Tsukihime and its spin-off fighting game, Fate/stay night, its prequel, sequel, and spin-offs, Kara no Kyoukai, Angel Notes, and a couple of upcoming novels, remakes and adaptations.
• Neon Genesis Evangelion - Most of them are from the original 26 episode series and the End of Evangelion movie, by themselves making this franchise one of the shortest works to be included on this list. There's also an ongoing manga and 4 planned Rebuild movies, 2 of which were released as of this writing. And lots of other adaptations.
• One Piece - Over 600 manga chapters, 500 TV episodes, and ten movies. Long Runner, since its first publication on Shonen Jump was in 1997.
• Pokémon - Billion-dollar media franchise with multiple games and a long-running show (with 15 {{[[[One Game for The Price of Two]] technically 14}}] movies and counting) and numerous manga.
• Power Rangers - Long Runner children's Sentai series. Helped by its nature. Each year, the cast, story, props, sets, and costumes (and all associated tropes) are scrapped and they start clean the next season, making it less like "one show" and more like "17 separate but closely related shows". And yes, each of the seasons from Zeo on has its own individual page.
• Real Life - The non-fictional world where we all live, Older Than Dirt and still going strong.
• Shin Megami Tensei - Video game franchise that kicked off on the NES, as the video game adaptation of a novel. Currently has four main games, a couple of obscure OVAs, and countless spin-offs with their own merchandise, including the Persona games (two of which are Trope Overdosed by themselves!). Also predated Pokémon as the creator of the Mons genre.
• The Simpsons - The animated sitcom. 23 seasons, 500+ episodes, a movie, comic books, some shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show and a lot of games and other merchandise.
• Sonic the Hedgehog - A long-running game series, several different animated series of varying degrees of success, a movie, and three comic book series.
• Spider-Man - Multiple comic books, cartoons, movies and video games; Long Runner.
• Stargate Verse - Four series - one long-running - and three movies.
• Star Trek - Six series - three of which ran for seven seasons each ; eleven movies; and one of the most massive and internally consistent Expanded Universes in history, second only to Star Wars. The original series was a Trope Maker many times over, and the franchise as a whole is responsible for an astonishing number of trope titles. And it invented slash.
• Star Wars - Six movies made in Anachronic Order, an animated full-length feature and the Star Wars Expanded Universe; Knights of the Old Republic and the X Wing Series also appear on this list, and the SWEU has 71 pages devoted to it.
• Superman - Really Long Runner, since he's the first superhero; multiple comic books, television series and movies.
• Super Mario Bros - Long-running, trope making, popular platform game franchise with various spinoffs; Paper Mario alone is overdosed.
• Super Sentai - Sentai show which Power Rangers borrows footage from.
• The Tales Series - JRPG series that always starts off with a massive list of cliches before dismantling them all in the most brutal and downright terrifying ways possible. The colourful graphics mean they're for kids!
• That Guy With the Glasses - Internet reviewer website known for its dozens of reviewers applying to various niches, notably The Nostalgia Critic
• Transformers - So many series that there is a Die Cast Herd used to divide continuities that have their own separate, unique pages. A lot of separate pages.
• Warcraft - A franchise of three strategy games, the MMORPG and other stuff. Has a total of eighteen articles about official works set in the universe on the wiki right now.
• Warhammer 40000 - Including spinoff novels, tabletop and video games, no fewer than 30 of which have their own pages, and a character page. All of it trying to kill you in some fashion
• Whoniverse - 32-season-long and consummate Trope Maker Doctor Who, and its adult-themed spinoff Torchwood (itself overdosed) and more child friendly spinoff The Sarah Jane Adventures, all which spawned a whole expanded universe of material. Doctor Who in particular has novels, comic books, stage plays and audio plays on radio and CD, to ensure that some iteration of Doctor Who can cover all the tropes missed by the TV show. Additionally, tropers collectively speculate on the Time Lord nature of one or more characters in everything, ever.
• The World of Darkness - A long-running series of Tabletop Games with two computer game spinoffs.
• X-Men - multiple comic books, a movie trilogy with prequel films, and three animated series, a Long Runner.
• Yu-Gi-Oh - Card game marketed franchise that includes anime and manga. Spawned the first known abridged series.

Trope Overloaded on more than 2000 pages but fewer than 4000

• Ace Attorney - Courtroom Antics in Video Game form. 7 games and a musical (soon to be 2) that has lots of Lampshading, Shout Outs, and general What Do You Mean Its Not Awesome for a series about FRIKKING LAWYERS.
• The Avengers
• Babylon 5 - A 90's Sci-Fi show that ran for five seasons, took the use of the Story Arc to a new level and is the Trope Namer for Wham Episode.
• Battlestar Galactica - Three different series, the third of which ran for over four seasons; also has a prequel series
• The Bible - Older Than Feudalism religious text, the main text of the world's largest religion, and has inspired many Shout Outs, symbolism and Faux Symbolism in other works.
• Call of Duty - Runs neck-and-neck with Halo as the defining FPS franchise of the 00's thanks to the Modern Warfare sub-series. Eight games in total.
• Castlevania – A long-running franchise that helped shape up the Metroidvania genre.
• Chrono Trigger - A popular, critically-acclaimed RPG by Square which involves Time Travel. Produced a spinoff visual novel, and in turn a well-received, but polarizing sequel.
• Classical Mythology – What we would call Greek, and eventually Roman mythology.
• Classic Disney Shorts - One of the most well-known series of cartoons to take off from The Golden Age of Animation.
• Code Geass - What would you expect from a show that's best described as "Gundam + Death Note?"
• The CSI Verse - CSI (an official Long Runner), CSI: Miami, CSI: NY and two spinoff series (Without a Trace and Cold Case) and other expanded universe material.
• Death Note - a long and popular manga, its equally popular anime adaptation, and three live-action movies.
• Disgaea - Three Strategy RPGs, two Platformers, a visual novel, and an anime series that all enjoy playing with and Lampshading tropes.
• Dragon Age - A computer RPG equivalent of a Doorstopper set in a Darker and Edgier (Deconstruction of the) Standard Fantasy Setting.
• Dragon Quest - Inventor of the Eastern RPG-genre, Long Runner.
• The Dresden Files - A very consciously Troperiffic series.
• The Elder Scrolls - An RPG franchise renowned for its open-ended worlds. Has five official titles, numerous spinoffs, and a devoted modding community the creators have been very welcome to.
• The Fairly Odd Parents
• Family Guy - Long Runner, Un Cancelled, and its plots go all over the place.
• Fantastic Four - A long-running comic book that has been adapted into several films and animated series.
• Fire Emblem - Long running cult Turn Based Strategy game by Nintendo; twelve games spanning five continuities, with a thirteenth on the way.
• Firefly - A series that's only 14 episodes, a movie and a few comics.
• Grand Theft Auto - Rockstar's controversial long-running flagship franchise, consisting of four main games and several spinoffs.
• Half-Life - Valve's popular debut game with three arguably canon expansions by Gearbox. Also spawned a just-as-successful (if not moreso) sequel with two episodic expansions (and one more getting delayed AGAIN!) Also the basis for many mods, some of which have launched their own franchises.
• Halo - Five games and some Expanded Universe covered.
• Haruhi Suzumiya - Eleven Light Novels and an internationally-acclaimed anime; has no one clearly-defined genre and highly Genre Savvy protagonists who make a business of lampshading everything.
• Heroes - Superhero show with four seasons (in the guise of five volumes), and a lot of characters to fit into 44 minutes.
• The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy - a science fiction series that has been adapted into just about every medium there is.
• Homestar Runner - Eccentric Flash animated series with famous Fourth Wall Mail Slot spinoff show with over 200 episodes and a ton of further spinoffs from that. Created in 2000, on hiatus since late 2009.
• Indiana Jones - Four films, a short-lived TV spinoff, several video game spinoffs and adaptations
• Iron Man - Multiple comic books, animated series, and movies; Long Runner.
• Justice League - Animated series starring numerous cast of The DCAU, spawned from a similar comic book.
• Kim Possible - A Fiery Redhead Action Girl, her blond male Sidekick, and a Voice With an Internet Connection. They Fight Crime. And Lampshade everything whilst they do.
• Law and Order - Concluded crime and punishment series, lasting 20 seasons, survived by various spinoffs.
• Lost - Screwy genre busting show on ABC that lasted six seasons about survivors of a plane crash on a magical Island, known for its flashbacks, flashforwards and flashsideways and giving psychic nosebleeds to both viewers and characters.
• Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha - Loves playing with tropes from multiple genres.
• Magic the Gathering - Long-running Collectible Card Game that's used just about every fantasy trope in the book by now.
• The Matrix - Three Mind Screws of movies, an animated spinoff, and some games.
• Metroid - Science fiction adventure game series which both made and codified the Metroidvania genre. Consists of eleven games.
• Mortal Kombat - Fighting game known for its brutality, use of Xtremely Kool Letterz and running neck-to-neck with Street Fighter in America.
• Mother - Eastern RPG Cult Classic trilogy by Shigesato Itoi. Known for strange humor, simplistic cartoony graphics, and endings that range from sad to terrifying.
• MS Paint Adventures - Collective group of webcomics by Andrew Hussie, known for their Beyond the Impossible updating schedules, creative universes and strange blends of both genre and medium. Includes Problem Sleuth and Homestuck, the latter of which already having gone through around 4,000 updates and is overdosed on its own. Is currently the Internet's largest webcomic in terms of sheer update count.
• The Muppets - Long-running puppet franchise, with many, many, many, many, many TV series, and several film adaptations.
• Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Cult Classic TV Show, with its main focus on skewering bad movies. Popularized a new brand of "film criticism as entertainment." Continues to be a major influence on online video review shows.
• The Order of the Stick - With over 800 strips (not counting stories unique to the print collections), based off of D&D, with a Genre Savvy Spoony Bard in the party and a board game based on it, it has earned its position on the list.
• Phineas and Ferb - Moooooooooooooom!!!! Phineas and Ferb is Trope Overdosed!
• Portal - From the makers of Half-Life, a 2007 hit game and its sequel. Also tied in to the Half-Life universe.
• Ranma One Half
• Resident Evil - Survival Horror/Action Horror video game series, originating on the Play Station. Six major titles and more spinoffs.
• Sailor Moon - Probably the best-known Magical Girl series in the West. Its anime adaptation ran for five seasons (spanning 6 arcs), though not everyone got to see all five. Also 3 movies and 6 specials. Also the orginal manga spanning 5 arcs. Also adapted into a live-action series and 29 different stage musicals and a number of video games including an RPG. Also the prequel manga, Codename Sailor V.
• Sluggy Freelance - One of the longest of Long Runner, a Web Comic about a Five Man Band and two animals trying to find a fulfilling life.
• A Song of Ice and Fire - Doorstopper fantasy series. Five books released and seven planned in total. Now has an HBO adaptation.
• South Park - Famously rude and offensive adult cartoon Long Runner starring paper cutouts.
• SpongeBob SquarePants - Long runner children's show about a fast food frycook underwater.
• Street Fighter - Famous fighting game series, best known for the second game and its various additions. Important Trope Maker and Codifier.
• Supernatural - Cult hit TV show with seven seasons and two series of supplemental comics, about five tie-in novels, and a monster guide.
• Super Robot Wars - Turn Based Strategy Game Crossover series of many a Mecha anime, with original characters thrown in. Long Runner but with licensing problems in the US.
• Super Smash Bros - Video game massive multiplayer crossover of numerous Nintendo franchises (and in its third game, Sonic the Hedgehog and Metal Gear).
• Team Fortress 2 - Crazy multiplayer FPS filled with over-the-top espionage assassins from the minds behind Half-Life. Updated frequently since 2007, and features quite a bit of supplemental material.
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - A long-running comic-turned-multimedia empire, consisting of the several comics series, two animated cartoon shows with one upcoming, four films with one upcoming, a live-action TV series that neither the creators nor the fans like to talk about, and a series of Video Games.
• Teen Titans - Animesque animated series (and its spin-offs), plus its original comic book series.
• Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann - Troperiffic Reconstructor Fleet for the Super Robot genre that goes Beyond the Impossible more times than it's possible to count.
• Terminator - Four films and a short-lived TV spinoff.
• Touhou - With a cast of over 80 cute girls, their relative distinctions cover all sorts of tropes.
• Watchmen - Acclaimed graphic novel that helped create The Dark Age of Comic Books, had a film adaptation.
• When They Cry - A series of four Visual Novels and their various adaptations (manga for each arc, manga arcs made for the manga, multiple seasons of anime and OVAs, remakes on various consoles, new arcs on consoles, spinoff games..) which involve people dying over and over again while the protagonists figure out the driving forces behind the murders. Includes Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni and Umineko no Naku Koro Ni.
• Wikipedia - Referred to as The Other Wiki around these parts, it's nonetheless the most popular and powerful source for information on the Web.
• The X-Files - Long Running American Sci-Fi series. Defined The Nineties. Is the Trope Namer for Shipping.
• YouTube - Ubiquitous video-sharing website.

Trope Overdosed on more than 1000 pages but fewer than 2000

• Twenty Four - A hit TV series notable for taking place in nearly real-time.
• Eight Bit Theater - 1224 strips plus an epilogue and other extras; Affectionate Parody of Final Fantasy I and role-playing games in general; Troperiffic and uses just about every trope associated with a flawed world and characters.
• Adventure Time - Troperiffic widget cartoon with a rather big cult following about two heroes named Finn and Jake; been on the air since 2010 and its fifth season is currently being written. Also has a comic book series published by Boom Studios.
• Aladdin - An Older Than Radio French (maybe) tale supposedly from the Arabian Nights, most popularly known as the 1992 box-office hit.
• Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll's well-known tale in two parts. Adapted numerous times.
• Alien - Four films, and among the related material a spinoff franchise
• American Dad
• Animaniacs - A popular 1990's throwback to the likes of the Looney Tunes.
• Animorphs - Popular series of children's books from the nineties.
• Assassin's Creed
• Axis Powers Hetalia - A webcomic, manga, and anime series describing the history of the world with Anthropomorphic Personifications of various countries.
• Azumanga Daioh - Slice of Life anime concerning high school girls.
• Back to The Future - Successful 80's Time Travel franchise, with three movies, an Animated Adaptation and an adventure game series.
• Baldurs Gate - A High Fantasy Role Playing Game series that takes place in the Forgotten Realms setting for Dungeons and Dragons.
• The Beatles - Best selling band of all time, major influence in both rock and popular music.
• Beauty and The Beast - "Tale as old as time," first known as a Rags to Riches French fairy tale and most popularly known as the 1991 box-office hit, the first animated film to receive an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture. Has had numerous other adaptations, including a CBS television series.
• Ben 10 - A story about a young boy who finds himself with the Omnitrix, a watch that just happens to be able to turn him into different aliens. It's so much Better Than It Sounds. Has spawned numerous movies and two sequel series about the now teenage Ben.
• Berserk
• Bionicle - LEGO's Merchandise Driven Science Fantasy toyline, powered by Rule of Cool and surprisingly in-depth World Building. A Long Runner which spanned a good decade before throwing in the towel.
• Bioshock - Two Genre Busting games, with a third one on the way.
• Blaz Blue - Spiritual Successor to the almost as popular Guilty Gear-Fighting Game series.
• Bones
• Breath of Fire
• Calvin and Hobbes - Classic newspaper comic
• Captain America - Another Golden Age superhero that's still going strong, with a long-awaited film adaptation.
• Charmed - The Dueling Shows to Buffy the Vampire Slayer; not as critically well-regarded, but still pretty Troperiffic.
• The Chronicles of Narnia - Fantasy literature series, with seven books. Has had a Television Serial and several film adaptations to its name.
• City of Heroes - A superhero MMORPG.
• Command and Conquer - A series of real time strategy games.
• Community - An Ensemble Cast Sit Com that is very self aware of tropes.
• Conan the Barbarian - The most iconic creation of Robert E Howard, Trope Maker and Trope Codifier for much of Sword and Sorcery genre.
• Cowboy Bebop - One of the few anime series that attempts to emulate a Western style, and pulls it off. Has since become a Gateway Series for many anime newcomers.
• Criminal Minds - A show that centers around a team of FBI profilers who use their knowledge of the human mind to get into the heads of the worst criminals--and catch them. The offenders who on other shows would merit a special event or multi-parter--serial killers who taunt the cops, school shooters, child abductors--are just another Monster of the Week. Notable for focusing on the criminal not the crime.
• Cthulhu Mythos - Influential horror Verse created by HP Lovecraft and fleshed out further by successive writers, Trope Codifier for Cosmic Horror Story, Eldritch Abomination, and Go Mad From the Revelation.
• Danny Phantom
• Dept Heaven
• Deus Ex - A critically acclaimed stealth FPS trilogy with RPG elements.
• Devil May Cry
• Diablo
• Disney Ducks Comic Universe - A well-known Disney universe that eventually spun off into a comic series and a very well-known cartoon.
• Donkey Kong Country - A spinoff series to the Mario universe featuring the eponymous ape.
• Doom - A groundbreaking FPS series, with one more game on its way.
• Dune - A series of Speculative Fiction novels currently on its second author.
• Dynasty Warriors
• El Goonish Shive - A Transformation Comic that's been running for over a decade.
• Exalted - A Troperiffic Fantasy Kitchen Sink that runs on the Rule of Cool.
• Fairy Tail
• Farscape - An Australian produced Sci-Fi series, managed to avoid getting cancelled long enough to produce a wide array of genre tropes.
• Fist of the North Star - Trope Maker for shonen fighting manga
• Friends - Acclaimed sitcom, ran for 10 years
• Full Metal Panic
• Garfield - Long-running newspaper comic that has since evolved into a multimedia empire. Spawned two animated shows, two live-action movies, and a handful of games.
• Gargoyles - A short-lived Disney cartoon, but its main villain had such an impact an a couple of tropes were named after him.
• Ghostbusters - A staple of The Eighties. The franchise has two movies, two cartoon adaptations and a video game. A rumoured third movie has long been in Development Hell.
• Ghost in The Shell - Based on the famous manga series that spawned two movies and a 52 episode anime- itself followed by another movie (and spawned another manga), with a live-action adaptation stuck in Development Hell. Codified many tropes for Cyberpunk anime. Was a big influence on The Matrix.
• G.I. Joe - A long-running Merchandise Driven franchise, spawning some animated shows and a live action film
• Girl Genius
• Glee - A musical dramady, having gone through two seasons with a third on its way.
• God of War
• Godzilla - Long series of films (with some animated and comic book spinoffs), and best-known work of the Kaiju genre
• Golden Sun - Nintendo JRPG. Has two Game Boy Advance installments, and a third on the Nintendo DS.
• Green Lantern - Comic book character that has been around since the golden age.
• Gunnerkrigg Court - Long running webcomic.
• GURPS - Award winning roleplaying game meant to cover every genre. Publishing since 1986 and now in its fourth edition.
• Hellsing
• House - Mystery show, starring a curmudgeon cripple and has diseases instead of crimes. Has its eighth season in the can.
• How I Met Your Mother - A late 2000's sitcom, probably the closest things to Friends since Friends.
• I Carly - Live Action Kid Com about Carly, Sam and Freddie making a web show in Seattle. Destroys Radars. Constant Les Yay. Also has a hyperactive Fandom that revolves around a Love Triangle between the Power Trio.
• The Incredible Hulk
• Inuyasha - Long-running manga series, with an equally long-running anime adaptation. The anime became infamous for overtaking the manga and being Cut Short without a proper resolution. It has since been re-aired and resolved once the manga finally finished.
• Invader Zim
• Jimmy Two Shoes
• Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure - A long-running Manga series covering multiple story arcs and eras.
• Jurassic Park - Two science fiction novels that in turn resulted in a very well-known series of films and some spinoff video games.
• King of the Hill
• King's Quest
• Kirby
• Land of Oz - A book series by L Frank Baum that originated in the turn of the 20th century, the first book of which more remembered as a classic 1939 film.
• Left 4 Dead - From the makers of Half-Life, one of the first video games to truly capture the feel of the Zombie genre, includes co-op play and has a sequel with a host of new characters and settings.
• The Lion King - Disney's biggest box-office hit. Spawned two sequels, some games, a non-canon TV spinoff, and a Broadway musical that is still running to this day.
• Lucky Star - Slice of Life KyoAni anime whose primary genre is Seinfeldian Conversation.
• Macross - Long-running mech anime franchise, with many successful spinoff titles to its name.
• Marvel vs. Capcom - The best known among Capcom vs. Whatever crossover fighting games.
• Monkey Island - A popular 1990's comedy adventure game series by Lucas Arts, which has seen a 2009 revival by Telltale Games and two Updated Rereleases.
• Monty Python's Flying Circus - Not all that long-running, but oh, the Memetic Mutation...
• Myth Busters - Nine years (and counting!) of testing Urban Legends, scenes from various media, and other common beliefs. This show has put various tropes to the test, yet is fun to watch due to the quirky personalities presenting the show (and their obvious love of "Hollywood magic").
• NCIS - A very popular crime show with a lot of Recurring Characters. Going strong since 2003.
• Neverwinter Nights - Based off the Dungeons and Dragons universe, another one of Bio Ware's well-known RPGs. Also has a sequel by Obsidian.
• Peanuts - A famed comic series that ran for nearly fifty years until the death of Charles Schulz in 2000. Spawned several animated specials and is still syndicated to this day.
• Penny Arcade - Popular gaming webcomic, and codifier of the Two Gamers On a Couch format.
• Pirates of the Caribbean - Four extremely popular movies. Not bad for something based on a Disney theme park ride.
• The Powerpuff Girls - One of Cartoon Network's most popular shows.
• The Princess Bride - A fantasy novel, particularly well-known as the 1980's film.
• Puella Magi Madoka Magica - A Deconstruction of the Magical Girl challenge. Premiering in 2011, it is the youngest work at this status, and with only twelve episodes, a manga adaptation and two spin-off manga (the latter of which is already over), is one of the shortest works on this list. It also has three upcoming movies.
• Ratchet and Clank - A lombax with a wrench joins forces with a little robot and goes around beating stuff with weapons.
• Red Dwarf - Cult mainstream comedy show from Britain set on a mining vessel.
• Red vs. Blue - The Machinima credited with bringing the medium into the mainstream. 9 seasons so far, and still going.
• Rugrats - the station defining animating series (predating Spongebob SquarePants) with a series, two spinoffs, and three movies, one of which was a crossover. All about babies' adventures.
• Sam and Max Freelance Police - A comic series especially well known as a series of adventure games.
• The Sandman - Comic series by Neil Gaiman.
• Saturday Night Live - A long running sketch comedy show.
• Schlock Mercenary
• Scooby Doo - Long-running cartoon show featuring four teenagers (and their dog) investigating mystery cases.
• Scott Pilgrim - Acclaimed indie comic series about a twenty-some slacker in a video game-esque Toronto. Also spawned a cult classic film and a side-scrolling beat 'em up.
• Scrubs - Medical dramedy known for its Imagine Spots. Lasted nine seasons on two channels.
• Seinfeld - Groundbreaking 90's sitcom, though some younger people may wonder what the big deal is.
• Sherlock Holmes - The Trope Codifier for the Great Detective.
• Silent Hill - A series of horror games that helped define Survival Horror
• Sin City - Cult Classic comic series and movie by Frank Miller.
• Slayers - A sword and sorcery anime based on a series of light novels
• Soul Eater
• Soul Series - Fighting Game franchise most commonly known for Soul Calibur and its three sequels.
• Starcraft - World-renowned real time strategy game series from the creators of Warcraft, set in a science fiction world.
• Star Fox - A long-running Nintendo franchise consisting of six games, not including a planned sequel to the first that never got released.
• Suikoden
• Tenchi Muyo
• Total Drama Island
• Toy Story - The flagship franchise for Pixar, it ushered in a new era of computer-generated animation. The three films have almost universal acclaim, with the third one breaking box-office records.
• Trigun
• Tron
• Twilight - Four books and three films.
• The Twilight Zone - An influential science fiction series dating back to the 60's.
• The Venture Brothers
• Warhammer - A fantasy tabletop game. Spawned a spinoff series that is distinct enough to have its own place on this page.
• The Whateley Universe
• The Wheel of Time - Long Runner fantasy book series.
• Wild Arms
• Wonder Woman - The most iconic female superhero in all of comics.
• The World Ends With You
• WWE
• Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series - Very silly Internet-based Gag Dub of Yu-Gi-Oh. A Codifier for The Abridged Series.
• Yu Yu Hakusho

This doesn't mean that these series are actually better, just that more tropers watch them and add examples. Or possibly that one really, really crazy troper watches it and adds examples. Or possibly that the show just happens to have a really, really high trope quotient while a show you don't see on here doesn't.

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A brief note on methodology. To determine a work's ranking under Trope Overdosed, you can take the "related to" number of the page related to a series that has the most references.

For those who want a perfectly accurate count, though, check out this Python script. Correct usage of it will allow you to determine exactly how many wiks a franchise with really complicated cross references (such as Final Fantasy) has. Note, however, that this page doesn't list exact numbers. We only care about the thousands digit. If you're making a change based on Python data, be sure to mention this in the "edit reason" box.

Listings here are alphabetical. If you are wondering what the previous statistics were, there is now an archived page. As for why the page has changed formats since April 25, 2010, see the forum topic and the discussion page to learn the details.