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* [[Jim Butcher]] is particularly good at this.
** ''[[The Dresden Files]]'' loves to cram in as many tropes as possible, make them [[Crazy Awesome]], give them the [[Deconstructor Fleet]] treatment, and then turn them loose, with Harry's terrible jokes providing a backdrop to the resulting insanity.
** ''[[Codex Alera]]'' is a [[High Fantasy]] series in which a plucky underdog [[Farm Boy]] from a backwater of the imperiled kingdom undergoing a succession crisis becomes a [[Heroes Prefer Swords|sword-wielding]] [[Badass]] and saves the world, making friends of ancient enemies as he goes. {{spoiler|And he's [[Secret Legacy|the heir]] [[Rags to Royalty|to the throne]] and [[Authority Equals Asskicking|consequently]] has the most powerful magic of... [[Person of Mass Destruction|well, pretty much anyone]].}} Yet the setting is such an unusual twist on [[Medieval European Fantasy]] and Tavi is so [[Guile Hero|brilliant]] and [[Crazy Enough to Work|insane]] that you probably won't even notice the fact that so many elements of the story are old fantasy cliches. You'll be too busy going "[[
* Pick a [[Terry Pratchett]] novel. Any Terry Pratchett novel. The man seems to have a fetish for tropes, as his novels consist entirely of deconstructing, reconstructing, parodying, averting, subverting, and inverting various tropes of all shapes and sizes. Coupled with his decisively British humor, it makes for consistently entertaining literature.
* [[Rudyard Kipling]]'s "[[The Three-Decker]]" is a defense of (not to say exultation in) the Troperific three-volume novel.
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* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'', in spades. Just check out the length of their page.
* ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]''. Their favorite is [[Better Than a Bare Bulb]], but judging from the page length, they're no strangers to ''any'' trope—almost every single one has been played straight, subverted, double-subverted, inverted, etc.
* The ''[[Scooby-Doo (animation)|Scooby-Doo]]'' reboot, ''[[Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated]]''. By the first episodes official airing its page had dozens of tropes, and as of this writing only around seven episodes have been replaced and it's almost as big as the main page. It's also noteworthy that very few other shows in the series have their own page yet.
* ''[[Sym-Bionic Titan]]'' is just one huge love letter to the super robot genre and tokusatsu and boy, does it ever show.
* ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]''. The show isn't even two seasons long yet, but the page for it is filled with tropes.
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