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{{quote|''"''Yor'' is both everything and nothing that movies have ever been. It rips off so many cinematic [[cliche]]s that it actually [[Crosses the Line Twice|passes infinity, curves back around and then comes back to become something wholly original again]]! It is, in a word, '''transcendent'''.''|'''Noah [[The Spoony Experiment|"The Spoony One"]] Antwiler''', on ''[[Yor, the Hunter from the Future]]''}}
While some works love [[Playing with a Trope]] and others are so lacking in self-awareness that they play everything painfully straight, there are some gems that take delight in their [[trope]]s and then turn them [[Up to Eleven]]. This is especially common in [[Reconstruction]]s, where all the narrative conventions that made the genre fun are present in full (and generally goofy) force, or parody works, usually of the [[Affectionate Parody|affectionate variety]], where the whole point is to laugh at as many [[trope]]s as humanly possible.
So, the [[Shell Shocked Senior|grizzled veteran]] will [[Heroic Sacrifice|jump on a grenade]]. The [[Kid Hero]] will find that last bit of [[Heroic Willpower]] to fight off [[The Virus]] and vanquish the [[Sealed Evil in a Can|newly freed]] [[Big Bad]] once and for all. The seven [[MacGuffin|Runes of Borax]] will be gathered when the planets are aligned to free the [[Cosmic Horror|Ultimate Evil]] who will inevitably [[Evil Is Not a Toy|turn on the evil overlord]].
In short, works that are deemed '''Troperiffic''' apologize for absolutely nothing and just have fun with every convention or tried idea and taking it to places never thought possible. [[MST3K Mantra]] will be sometimes be a requirement to enjoy the work, because without it, '''Troperiffic''' works can come off as confusing. Then again, a good '''Troperiffic''' work will be fairly obvious about it in some way.
Note that one person's '''Troperiffic''' is another person's [[Cliché Storm]], although most '''Troperiffic''' works have a certain level of [[Lampshade Hanging]], sarcasm, or underlying love for the genre the work exists in. That, and [[Rule of Cool]] in copious amounts.
Compare [[Serial Escalation]], [[Exaggerated Trope]]. A work that is verifiably like this can be said to be [[Trope Overdosed]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Record of Lodoss War]]'' is based on a ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' campaign its creator played. It shows. And yet it's still a classic.
* On the other hand, ''[[Slayers]]'' skewers all of those very same [[cliche]]s (with a good healthy dose of pop culture references) for laughs.
* ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]!'' A [[Kid Hero]], an [[Idiot Hero]] and a [[Small Girl, Big Gun]] [[Screw Destiny|fighting fate]] with [[Humongous Mecha]] and [[In the Name of the Moon]] speeches. A [[Naive Everygirl|pure hearted]] [[Everything's Better with Princesses|lost princess]]. Yours is the [[This Is a Drill|drill that will]] [[Freud Was Right|pierce the heavens]]!
* ''[[GaoGaiGar|Gao Gai Gar]]'' as well. In fact, ''GaoGaiGar'' may [[Up to Eleven|beat TTGL]] in sheer [[Super Robot]] [[Camp]].
* There's a reason the ''[[Haruhi Suzumiya]]'' series is on the [[Trope Overdosed]] list up with the long-running series and major franchises, despite being [[Twelve-Episode Anime|twenty-eight episodes long]], with a few scattered mentions of the unanimated novels. There's also a reason TV Tropes named the title character Goddess of Tropes, and it's not just the obvious.
* ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'' is a Noachian deluge of tropes and clichés from countless genres, from heroic bloodshed to spy films to spaghetti Westerns to blaxploitation to space opera and more. It appropriates them, it subverts them, it plays them straight, it pays loving homage, and all the while it does its own thing.
* The first episode of ''[[The Tower of Druaga (anime)|The Tower of Druaga]]'' (which the creators have put up [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vgQ6WJ8zhQ online]'') comes out swinging, hitting just about every RPG trope possible (and a few Giant Robot tropes in the process). {{spoiler|Subverted in that it's all in the hero's head}}.
* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'': [[Loads and Loads of Characters|31+ characters]], each with some character-type of every form (some with [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|many]]) used throughout [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] history: The Vampire ([[Elegant Gothic Lolita|in victorian-styled clothes]]) [http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/342/eval.jpg stands atop a gothically designed building in the moonlight], the [[Hired Guns|mercenary]] [[The Gunslinger|gunslinger]] uses [[Bizarre and Improbable Ballistics]] while [[Miser Advisor|charging massive bills for her services]], [[The Medic]] wears a [[Final Fantasy|red-rimmed white outfit]], the [[Shrinking Violet|extremely shy]] [[Hot Librarian|librarian]] has [[Mind Over Manners|privacy-invading]] [[Mind Probe|mind-reading powers]], and the main heroine has a [[Power Nullifier|magic-negating power]] and wields an [[Anti-Magic]] [[Paper Fan of Doom]]-turned-[[Big Freaking Sword]], and that's just for starters. All set up in a universe that fully embraces [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink]] in a [[Wacky Homeroom|crazy]] [[Elaborate University High|boarding school]], it plays every trope it explores well with irony, humour, wit and the occasional [[Lampshade Hanging]] (sometimes to the point [[Better Than a Bare Bulb|where no bulb is left bare]]). And [[Video Game]] references. ''Lots'' of [[Video Game]] references.
* ''[[Code Geass]]'' is a fifty-episode series about a robot war, a magical [[Evil Eye]], and a comedic high school played for as much drama as goddmann possible, with an ''absurdly'' colorful cast of characters.
* ''[[Getter Robo]]'': If there's a [[Super Robot]] trope, it's in here. If there's a [[Real Robot]] trope, it's probably in here too. And you can expect them all to be turned [[Up to Eleven]].And everything associated with [[Hot Blood]] is in ''[[Getter Robo]]''. Also dinosaurs.
* ''[[Kanokon]]'': Sure, other hero/heroine duos get by on [[The Power of Love]], but can they summon ''several story fireballs'' of love? Didn't think so.
* ''[[Sailor Moon]]''. The first anime to (successfully) combine the [[Magic Warrior]] / [[Magical Girl]] Genre with a Sentai or team format. It set the standards for many that came after it and thus has a lot.
* ''[[The Vision of Escaflowne|Vision of Escaflowne]]'': A Shojo heroine, a shonen hero, giant robots, [[Catgirl|Cat Girls]], an [[Ordinary High School Student]] [[Trapped in Another World]], [[Love Dodecahedron]]s, {{spoiler|[[Gender Bender]]}}, and more. The show seems to deliberately throw in as many anime-related tropes as possible. What's more, it refuses to limit itself to ''just'' [[Shonen]] or [[Shoujo]] tropes, [[Multiple Demographic Appeal|so it makes use of both]]. We have extremely complicated Love Dodecahedrons involving [[Cast Full of Pretty Boys|copious amounts of]] [[Bishonen]] in a war-torn world where [[Giant Mecha]] duke it out.
* ''[[Outlaw Star]]'' is generally regarded as one of the most trope-crammed [[Space Western]]s in fiction. As [http://www.youtube.com/user/Husse67#play/uploads/6/fkCASszWeL4 one reviewer] puts it:
{{quote|"This show gets a free pass for being the most wish-fulfilling sci-fi title '''''ever'''''. Everything you can love about sci-fi is here: [[Wacky Racing|space races]], [[Explosions in Space|space combat]], [[Single Biome Planet|diverse planets]], [[Another Dimension|alternate dimensions]], [[Starfish Aliens|weird aliens]], [[Green-Skinned Space Babe|hot aliens]], [[Bizarre Alien Biology|aliens of questionable gender]](seriously, what is [http://images.absoluteanime.com/outlaw_star/swanzo.jpg that?]), [[Humongous Mecha|giant robots]], [[Artificial Human|bio-androids]], [[Cyborg|human cyborgs]], [[Mysterious Waif|cold-sleep beauties]], [[Our Werewolves Are Different|shapeshifting]] [[Catgirl|beastmen]], [[Family-Friendly Firearms|laser]]-[[Guns and Gunplay Tropes|gun fights]], [[Single-Stroke Battle|sword fights]], [[Good Old Fisticuffs|fistfights]], [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|paintball]], [[Mad Scientist]]s, [[Magic-Powered Pseudoscience|Tao magicians]], [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|robotic panthers, kung-fu housecats]], ''and'' a [[Hot Springs Episode]] that is actually ''[[Crowning Moment of Funny|funny]]''.}}
* The recent GAINAX-animated, 3-episode OVA adaptation of ''[[Cutey Honey]]'' takes the campiness of the '70s anime and cranks it up to ''12''! <ref>[[Mind Screw|You can guess]] why it's twelve [[Gainax Ending|but not eleven.]]</ref>
* The producers of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha (anime)|Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' are big [[Super Robot]] fans, [[Mix and Match|which explains the]] [[Trope Overdosed|sheer number of tropes]] that the franchise has utilized.
* ''[[Heroman]]'' seems to be turning out this way, especially if you know [[Stan Lee]]. The story so far is your generic [[Kid Hero]]-recieves-giant-robot-by-fate storyline. The hero has only one friend, and then there's a cheerleader [[Love Interest]], two [[Mad Scientist]]s, a [[Hot Teacher]], and the [[The Government]] who are stereotypically evil and care only about their country's interests. There's more when you throw in a [[Missing Mom]] and [[Disappeared Dad]] combo, [[Exclusively Evil|aliens who have no complex motives]] for world conquest, and the hero's [[Long-Lost Relative|sister]] who's made her return to his life after some time away. While these are the staples of Saturday morning cartoon shows, die-hard anime fans have viciously criticized the show for it's [[X Meets Y|Pro-Americanism-meets-Marvel-comics-meets-80s-animation]] approach as opposed to the more serious kids shows that Japan often produces. As the second arc begins, the series is beginning to show a little edge, but not enough yet to bring back those who criticized it for being too American.
* ''[[Black Lagoon]]'' has been described alternately as a love letter to the action movie genre, a [[Stealth Parody]] of it, or even both. In any case, it certainly takes many of the genre's tropes [[Up to Eleven]].
* There are very, very few tropes that ''[[Excel Saga (anime)|Excel Saga]]'' doesn't mock, and pretty much none that get played straight, since each episode is an [[Affectionate Parody]] of a different movie or television genre.
* What do you get when [[Studio Gainax|Gainax]] makes a [[Magical Girl]] anime with the weirdness of ''[[FLCL]]'', the [[Holy Shit Quotient]] of ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'', the [[Refuge in Audacity]] of ''[[Bayonetta]]'', ''and'' the art style of ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]''? ''[[Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt|Panty and Stocking With Garterbelt]]'', that's what.
* ''[[Sekirei]]''.
* ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'' lampshades or lampoons all the old classic shojo manga tropes, to hilarious and sometimes sweet effect.
* ''[[The World God Only Knows]]'' heavily relies on the main character's ability to [[Better Than a Bare Bulb|invariably recognize]] numerous [[Dating Sim]] tropes and [[Stock Character]] archetypes, which it [[Playing with a Trope|plays with]] in every possible way.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* ''[[Astro City]]'' is extremely casual about things like, say, Earth being the only portal between the realms of the warring Frigions and Thermeons. Even their ''names'' are troperiffic.
* ''[[Gold Digger (Comic Book)|Gold Digger]]'' takes tropes from a half-dozen genres, superheroes, SF, fantasy, martial arts flicks, [[Indiana Jones]]-style adventure movies, and mixes them all together.
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* ''[[Top Ten|Top 10]]'' takes the ''[[Astro City]]'' concept to an absurdist extreme with a city literally populated by nothing but superheroes, allowing for every trope of the genre to develop and take center stage.
* ''[[Nextwave]]''. To borrow from [[Word of God]]:
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* ''[[Sin City]]'' plays every trope [[Frank Miller]] loves.
== [[Fan Works]] ==
* ''[[Shinji and Warhammer40K]]'' takes all the respective tropes from its [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|parent]] [[Warhammer 40,000|series]] and mixes in heaping helpings of [[Serial Escalation]], [[Crazy Awesome]], [[Rule of Cool]], and [[Holy Shit Quotient]].
* Compare ''any'' fic by [[Big Name Fan|Killashandra]] to the [http://www.invisibleplanets.com/kirk_spock/KSCliches.htm Big List of K/S Clichés.] Yet, she is one of the biggest names in the ''[[Star Trek]]'' [[Slash Fic|Slash]] fandom, and her fics aren't half bad, [[So Cool Its Awesome|either]].
* From the ''[[Pokémon]]'' fandom, ''[[Latias' Journey]]'' and its [[Brave New World (fanfic)|sequel]]. It helps that [[Tropes Will Ruin Your Life|the author is a troper]].
* ''[[Kyon: Big Damn Hero]]'' is explicitly a ''[[Haruhi Suzumiya]]'' and [[TV Tropes]] crossover.
* ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6400777/1/Fanfiction_is_SO_Cliched Fanfiction is SO Cliched]'', a ''[[Pokémon]]'' fic which variously [[Deconstructor Fleet|subverts, lampshades, or deconstructs practically every fanfic cliché in the book.]]
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== [[Film]] ==
* [[Red Line]] is possibly the most troperiffic racing movie ever, rivaled only by [[Speed Racer (film)|Speed Racer]], and with even more insanity and more explosions, and it will explode with its color and art style into your retinas forever.
* ''[[The Princess and the Frog]]'' mixes all the best parts of the [[Disney Animated Canon]] in a bowl, adds [[Fractured Fairy Tale|a few twists]] for extra spice, then [[The Big Easy|deep-fries it like a beignet.]]
* ''[[Megamind]]'' advertised itself saying "The superhero movie will never be the same again." Granted, it was the same, but only for the first fifteen minutes or so... and then we have some lovely plot twists that kind of turn a parody of Superman into its own engaging story. Whether or not you like this film, you probably have to admit that the people working on this movie REALLY knew their [[Superhero Tropes]] well; just look at Megamind's [[Character Development]] and you'll get what I mean.
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* ''[[Wanted (film)|Wanted]]'', [[The Film of the Book]] [[Wanted (Comic Book)|comic book]] is an incredibly played-straight [[Hero's Journey]], or more accurately Anti-Hero's Journey (it also took [[Follow the Leader|some liberal inspiration]] from ''[[The Matrix]]'').
* Arguably, the ''entire work'' of Timur Bekmambetov, be it Russian- or Hollywood-era. He is fond of playing common film tropes unflinchingly straight—all while adding enough [[Lampshade Hanging|tongue-in-cheek remarks]] and [[Exaggerated Trope|intentionally over-the-top antics]]. As [[Caustic Critic|Anthony Lane]] put it in ''The New Yorker'',
{{quote|''How, for example, does [Bekmambetov] make a cup of coffee? My best guess, based on the evidence of the film, is that he tosses a handful of beans toward the ceiling, shoots them individually into a fine powder, leaves it hanging in the air, runs downstairs, breaks open a fire hydrant with his head, carefully directs the jet of water through the window of his apartment, sets fire to the building, then stands patiently with his mug amid the blazing ruins to collect the precious percolated drops. Don't even think about a cappuccino.''}}
* ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'' both subverts pirate/adventure movie tropes and plays them straight. It even presents unrealistic tropes straight with a realistic twist at the end. For example, Barbossa shoots Pintel, a reference by the writers to when the bad guy in a movie shows how evil he is by [[You Have Failed Me...|killing one of his own men]], which would lead to him not having a lot of henchmen left. But Barbossa and his men are immortal, so he gets to shoot Pintel with no repercussions! Hooray! [[Undead Author|Another happens when the prisoner in the next cell from Jack tells him that he's "heard stories" about the Black Pearl, and how, whenever it attacks a city, it never never leaves any survivors.]] [[Lampshade Hanging|Jack's response: "No survivors? Then where do the stories come from, I wonder?"]] The second ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'' film even includes a parody/homage to the "hero endures a whipping" scene (a trope of old pirate films, long before it became a subverted form of fanservice in exploitation films), which is played out similar to old pirate movies, only that the captain and the crew that sentence Bloom's character to the punishment are a bunch of half-human monsters, and he only receives a few hits before he is spared.
* ''[[Speed Racer (film)|Speed Racer]]'' never even tried to justify any of the weird things in the original, and instead ran with them as fast as the [[Rule of Cool]] could possibly allow. If you try to take it at all seriously [[MST3K Mantra|you're watching the wrong damn movie]].
* ''[[Kill Bill]]'' is this as well, [[Quentin Tarantino]]'s love letter to the [[Katanas Are Just Better]] and basically every other action film trope ever. It draws liberally from [[Mix and Match|old kung fu flicks, old violent exploitation movies and old spaghetti-westerns]].
* ''[[Grindhouse]]: Planet Terror'' takes those silly [[B-Movie|B Movies]] from [[The Seventies]] and brings their [[So Bad It's Good]] charm all the way to [[So Cool Its Awesome]].
* ''[[Star Wars]]'' mixes the Westerns, Samurai movies, and pulp sci-fi [[George Lucas]] loved as a kid. He also studied ''[[
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* ''[[Whip It]]'' combines the [[Sports Story Tropes|standard sports movie]] with a side of [[Teen Drama]] and corresponding [[Parental Issues]]. It's a story that's [[
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* ''[[The Expendables (franchise)|The Expendables]]''. [[George Lucas Throwback|There's a reason]] [[Rule of Cool|why it's currently]] [[Rated "M" for Manly|the trope's picture.]]
* ''[[Mortal Kombat: Annihilation
* ''[[Black Dynamite]]'' finds a way to work in almost every relevant trope, filmmaking convention, and even plotline from 70s Blaxploitation films in the course of creating an [[Affectionate Parody]] of the genre. According to [[Word of God]] it was even deeper in that the actors were actually playing the fictional actors making the film.
* ''[[The Quick and the Dead (1995 film)|The Quick and the Dead]]'' puts every [[The Western|Western]] stock character into a [[Quick Draw]] tournament to find The [[Fastest Gun in
* TV channel Five US are currently celebrating '80/90s action film tropes via the medium of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_GmuIHL_EM hair rock full of lampshades]. Celebrates (at least, just the lyrics) [[Car Fu]], whatever-the-heck-the-trope-is-for-indestructable-hair (although they show a [[Hair Reboot]] in the video), [[Dodge the Bullet]] (while showing [[Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy]]), [[Stuff Blowing Up]], [[Good Old Fisticuffs]], [[Outrun the Fireball]], and [[Pre-Mortem One-Liner]] within the space of under a minute.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* Every [[Simon R. Green]] series ever. The characters are literally walking tropes, complete with their catchphrase and taglines which they often introduce themselves or others with. Jon Taylor, in particular, often tells people, "It's Jon Taylor and Suzie Shotgun, otherwise known as "Oh God it's her, run!""
* The ''[[Chronicles of Prydain]]'', by [[Lloyd Alexander]], are gleefully full of [[Older Than Print]] tropes from [[Celtic Mythology|Welsh myth]]. And they're still awesome. Although he does take a few liberties for purposes of fiction—for instance, converting Arawn to an Evil Dark Lord.
* John Barnes's ''[[One for the Morning Glory]]'', where all the characters have [[Medium Awareness]] that they are in a [[Fairy Tale]], so that tropes are invoked, lampshaded, and even relied on—but not excessively, since they don't know for certain what their roles are.
* David Eddings' ''[[Belgariad]]''. An intensely derivative work treading over ground walked by fantasy novels since time immemorial and still managing to be an enjoyable read. And his ''[[The Elenium|Elenium]]'' uses a lot of the same tropes as ''[[The Belgariad]]'', but is often considered by fans to be even better. It's after that that things start getting dodgy...
* Austin Grossman's ''[[Soon I Will Be Invincible]]'' gleefully describes a street-leveling superbattle involving a world-threatening [[Mad Scientist]] with tons of tricks up his sleeves facing down a [[Badass Normal|normal human]] with an animal on the chest of his uniform, a lightning-summoning fairy, a bipedal tiger, and a flying invulnerable woman, started when the [[Mad Scientist]] was just trying to [[Villains Out Shopping|drink some coffee]]. Almost perfectly invincible [[Superman|flying man with heat-beam eyes]] saves a [[The Lois Lane|lovely]] [[Intrepid Reporter|reporter]] from [[
* John Moore's ''Heroics for Beginners'' is a send up of all the swashbuckling and RPG clichés that ever were. In fact, the whole premise of the novel is about a [[The Wise Prince|Prince]] who goes off to fight the [[Big Bad]] to win the hand of the [[Rebellious Princess|Princess]] with the help of "The Handbook of Practical Heroics" (which is essentially a user's guide to [[Genre Savvy]]). The Evil Overlord, He Who Must Be Named, makes it ''disturbingly obvious'' that the writer has read the [[Evil Overlord List]]. His ventilation ducts ARE too small to crawl through. From the back cover:
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* Garth Nix's ''[[Old Kingdom|The Old Kingdom]]'' books are rife with tropes but make them all ''work.''
* [[Jim Butcher]] is particularly good at this.
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* 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
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* Like with the Terry Pratchett example above, take any [[Kim Newman]] novel. From the ''[[Anno Dracula]]'' series about an [[Alternate History]] where Dracula won to the ''[[
* The entire ''[[Enchanted Forest Chronicles]]'' is full of references, subversions, deconstructions, and parodies of various [[Fractured Fairy Tale|fairy tale]] and fantasy tropes, with nearly every character highly [[Genre Savvy]].
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* ''[[The A-Team]]''. Part of the appeal is knowing, blow by blow, how each episode will play out before you watch it. There will be a scene where B.A. throws a guy over a car. Murdock will act silly and tick B.A. off. Face will fall in love with every remotely attractive woman he sees. It's just fun. [[A-Team Firing|And lots of machine guns will get fired, but no one will get shot.]] The [[Big Bad]]'s car will ramp off another vehicle, fly twisting sideways over a ground camera, and crash on its roof. The [[Big Bad]] and his Mooks will crawl out, uninjured, and surrender. The basic formula stays the same, but the writers switch up the specifics. Take Murdock, for instance: he'll act crazy, of course, but ''how?'' Will he decide he's a cab-driving superhero? Pretend he's [[Moby Dick|Captain Ahab]]? Act like an artsy filmmaker? Psychoanalyze a bunch of pecans while switching between a German accent and just plain German? ...And yeah, he did all of those things.
* ''[[Chuck]]'' seems to tend towards this, with many tropes played straight, though often for laughs. It's predictable, but humorously so (often dialed [[Up to Eleven]]). Someone sets a trip wire to stop Thanksgiving thieves at the Buy More? A bad guy ''will'' trip over it before the end of the episode.
* ''[[Burn Notice]]'' embraces a wide variety of tropes and proceeds to [[Playing
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* ''[[The Adventures of Brisco County Jr]]'' unashamedly plays with every trope in the book in pursuit of the [[Rule of Cool]] and [[Rule of Funny]]. Even [[Dead Horse Trope
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* ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' invokes ''all'' the Did We Just X Cthulhu tropes.
* ''[[Remote Control]]'', the [[MTV (channel)|MTV]] TV trivia [[Game Show]] that revolved around a [[Promoted Fanboy|TV junkie-turned-game-show-host]] and parodied just about every game show in existence and then some, naturally played with as many Tropes as it could get its hands on.
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* ''[[Degrassi]]''. Just ''look'' at its page. It's basically explored every possible angle of the [[Teen Drama]], not to mention being the successor of [[Degrassi Junior High|the]] [[Degrassi High|shows]] that [[Trope Maker|created the genre in the first place]], and is now a certified [[Long Runner]].
* ''[[Everybody Hates Chris]]'' did this with [[Race Tropes]].
== [[Music]] ==
* Nearly half the lines in ''[[Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny (song)|Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny]]'' have been linked to an established trope (see page). Appropriate for the subject matter.
* It's [[Tenacious D]]'s entire schtick.
== [[Recorded and Stand Up Comedy]] ==
* Steve Byrne goes over ''all'' of the [[Race Tropes]] and [[Acceptable Targets]] in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UpUeZmLZaA this routine] from his special ''The Byrne Identity''.
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* ''[[Warhammer
* What ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' does with sci-fi, ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay]]'' does with fantasy. Okay, maybe it's not ''quite'' as whacked-out, but it's still a pretty awesome mish-mash of every fantasy trope you could care to name. One example is [[The Empire]]: A [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture]] of the [[Holy Roman Empire]] led by a [[Reasonable Authority Figure|particularly]] [[Authority Equals Asskicking|awesome]] [[The Wise Prince|Emperor]] (who runs around with either the [[Heroes Prefer Swords|Reikland]] [[Cool Sword|Runefang]] or [[Founder of the Kingdom|Sigmar's]] [[Ancestral Weapon|own]] [[Drop the Hammer|warhammer]], and [[Dragon Rider|rides]] either a [[Our Dragons Are Different|dragon]] or a [[Mix and Match Critter|griffin]]).
* As implied at the top of the page, ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' campaigns can get like this. Really, the game is designed so that an enterprising DM can run a fantasy campaign based around just about ''any'' model: versatility is the game's greatest strength. The 4th Edition DM's book actually encourages it:
{{quote|''Don't be afraid to steal ideas from books, movies, and other sources for your personal use. The DM's job is to entertain, not to be original.''}}
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* ''Cleopatra's Caboose'', a [[Affectionate Parody|tongue-in-cheek]] European-style board game that throws in just about every cliched Euro-game theme or mechanic the designer could think of: trains, ancient Egypt, bidding, building, special powers, resource management, limited actions...
* ''Strike Legion'' is so derivative it digs right out the bottom of [[
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== [[Toys]] ==
* [[LEGO]]'s ''[[Bionicle]]''- a [[Darker and Edgier]], [[Merchandise-Driven]] [[Science Fantasy]] series powered by [[Rule of Cool]]. It starts out with a bunch of [[Cyborg]] [[Hobbits]] living in [[Elemental Nation|Elemental Tribes]] on a [[Schizo-Tech]] [[Patchwork Map]] Island being terrorized by a mysterious [[Big Bad]]. Then a [[Five-Man Band|Six Man Band]] of heroes with [[Mask of Power|magic masks]] and [[Elemental Powers]] ([[Personality Powers|that conveniently match their personalities]]) comes along to fight the [[Monster of the Week|various beasties he sends after them]], before confronting the [[Big Bad]] himself and learning about [[The Power of Friendship]]. The series then starts deconstructing a lot of the tropes- it turns out [[All Myths Are True|the myths may not be entirely true]], that the [[Schizo-Tech]] is left over from an [[Apocalypse How|apocalypse]] [[Laser-Guided Amnesia|no-one remembers]], and the impossible [[Patchwork Map]] island [[That's No Moon|may not be an island after all...]]
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* The first ''[[Atelier (franchise)||Atelier Iris]]'' is this to a fair number of people. [[Winged Humanoid|A girl with wings]]! A [[Catgirl]]! A hero on a vague quest for knowledge and reputation! A wisecracking older dude who's along mostly just because! Ancient evil! Recent evil! [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]]s! And yet, the game plays with the cliches just enough (such as making [[The Hero]] the ''[[White Mage]]'' of the party, and making him the [[Butt Monkey|butt of every joke imaginable partially for it]] yet ''still'' making him seem legitimately badass and awesome) that the game just ''clicks'' for a lot of people.
* Anything [[Blizzard Entertainment]] ever made. Nothing in their game catalog is [[Cliché Storm|even remotely original]] but they have a knack for taking every single [[High Fantasy]], [[Heroic Fantasy]] and [[Space Opera]] cliché in existence, throw them into a blender and then [[Schedule Slip|slooooowly]] cook the resulting stew into something so [[Shown Their Work|polished]] and superbly entertaining it somehow becomes [[Rule of Cool|fresh and delicious]] again.
* ''[[City of Heroes]]'' is essentially one big [[Shout-Out]], [[Homage]], and [[Affectionate Parody]] of superheroes as a whole in [[Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game|MMORPG]] form, with the players all encouraged to join in the fun.
* ''[[Command & Conquer]]'' of course, where else can you find such amounts of [[Science Fiction]], [[Tank Goodness|tanks]], military, social, political, [[Department of Redundancy Department|tanks]], religious, technology, [[Rule of Three|tanks]] and design themes, both in a cheesy and serious way? Did I mention the [[Overly Long Gag|tanks?]] And don't forget the characters! [[Magnificent Bastard|Kane Lives!]]
* ''[[Dead or Alive (franchise)|Dead or Alive]]: Xtreme Beach Volleyball'' disposes of the male characters, plot and the whole [[Fighting Game]] thing to focus on the [[Jiggle Physics]] of [[Beach Episode|girls in bikinis]] and a sport that best shows it off.
* ''[[Evil Genius (video game)|Evil Genius]]'' lets you play the role of a '70s [[Diabolical Mastermind]] in all its over-the-top splendor.
* ''[[I Wanna Be the Guy]]'' takes all the classic [[Nintendo Hard]] [[Classic Video Game "Screw You"s|"Fuck You"s]] from all those old 8-bit [[Side Scroller]]s, takes them to [[Serial Escalation|ridiculous extremes]], and then causes you to explode into a million little bloody bits ''[[Crosses the Line Twice|while laughing the entire time]]''.
* ''[[Kingdom Hearts (video game)|Kingdom Hearts]]''. Playing that game, you spend half of your time laughing as every single cliché you've ever seen pops up nicely in a row, and the other half with your finger glued to the button to see what happens next. [[The Messiah]] Sora, [[Rival Turned Evil]] Riku, and [[Damsel in Distress]] Kairi are each the pure, distilled embodiments of their roles in the series. Hey we're taking about a game that's a [[Crossover]] between [[Final Fantasy|two]] [[Disney Animated Canon|of]] the most Troperiffic franchises in existence. So it's pretty much a given.
* ''[[BlazBlue]]'' does this on purpose, but also subverts the hell out of many well-known tropes, which only serves to create ''even more'' trope examples.
* ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'' lives off of this idea. If more evidence is needed, check out its [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]] and the ability to adventure in an area literally named The Obligatory Pirates Cove. And if you fight the right side in the War, you get to defeat The Man.
* ''[[Left 4 Dead]]'' is nothing more and nothing less than absolute distillation of everything zombie and everything co-operative multiplayer into one incredibly freakishly fun package, especially with microphones and friends. Can you say, "OH GOD GET IT OFF ME GET IT OFF ME!!!"?
* ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]''. ''Every'' trope, whether it's a [[Gambit Pileup]] or even simple [[Ho Yay]], is played so ridiculously straight that they eventually curve back in on themselves to create such an impenetrable mess that it becomes near impossible to tell what's serious and what's parody, while ''still'' managing to elicit the reactions and results that the tropes were intended for in the first place.
* ''[[Skies of Arcadia]]'' is stuffed to the gills just about every heroic fantasy cliche there is. Perhaps because [[Reconstruction|it came at a time]] when every RPG in a five-year radius was trying to be [[Darker and Edgier|dark and edgy]], subverting every trope they could, ''Skies''' return to a group of adventurers who enjoy each others' company and go looking for the [[MacGuffin]]s to save the world from an [[Good Republic, Evil Empire|Evil Empire]] ended up being a breath of fresh air.
* Pretty much the whole ''[[Tales (series)]]'' could fit in the trope, specially after ''Symphonia''. They combine bizillions of tropes with some well-calculated unexpected twists and/or original ways of presenting those tropes. And, ironically, thanks to that they manage to pull off some great, hard-to-forget stories. In other words, in Namco Tales Studio know very well what they're doing.
** ''[[Tales of Symphonia]]'', each character exhibits at least 3 character tropes, and the plot itself has predictable twists, founds itself on [[Fantastic Racism]] and [[Utopia Justifies the Means]], and plenty of other tropes and cliches thrown in for good measure, and still manages to look like an original game despite it all.
** ''[[Tales of Phantasia]]'' is this for basically the opposite reason: it plays almost every trope straight, but it just ''works''.
* ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'' throws all the unnecessary bits like plotting and storyline out and gives a varied, memorable cast who all have a very distinct but very expected way of [[Badass|kicking ass]]. It basically turns away from the modern notion of more "realistic" multiplayer FPS games for a full and complete embracing of the [[Rule of Fun]]. To put it differently, it caters to about a dozen different categories of tropes. Each of the nine characters has a trope-tastic personality and/or [[Backstory]] ([[Husky Russkie|The Heavy]], [[Scary Black Man|The]] [[Violent Glaswegian|Demo]][[Drunken Master|man]], as well as many weapons that apply for tropes ([[Batter Up]], [[Grievous Bottley Harm]], [[Stuff Blowing Up]], etc). In addition to [[Captain Obvious|first-person shooter]] tropes, it also has a few RPG/MMORPG tropes, with the class system and all.
* ''[[Touhou]]'' = Japanese folklore + [[Moe]] + [[Moe]] + [[Rule of Three|Moe]] shoot 'em ups, with some Deconstruction. Clocked up to the maximum by [[Fan Wank|fans]]. Just look at the character sheet.
* ''[[You Have to Burn The Rope]]''. It takes longer to list all the tropes that it embodies than it does to finish the game.
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
* What ''[[Metal Gear]]'' does for action movies, ''[[Max Payne (
* With fourteen games and numerous spinoffs, the ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' series has used (and sometimes created) nearly ''every'' single RPG cliche ever seen.
* Spoofed in ''[[
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* The scene in ''[[
* ''[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/508676 This is The Only Level]'' incorporates several video game tropes to change what is otherwise the exact same level over and over again.
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* ''[[Gotcha Force]]'' is based off of 1: Toy fights that children have with their action figures, and 2: Gatchapon toys based off of popular anime/video games/movies/etc. Combine these two together, and you have a video game that takes inspiration from an infinite area of resources, and proceeds to pit [[Ninja]], [[The Western|cowboys]], [[Everything's Better
* Any [[
** ''[[
** The number of tropes ''[[Mass Effect
* [[Obsidian Entertainment]] does not usually engage in this, but the original campaign of ''[[Neverwinter Nights 2]]'' is a rare example, where the game heartily engages in a by the numbers adventure story with a few unexpected twists and
* While ''[[
* ''[[
* Most [[Jidai Geki]] drama set around the Sengoku Jidai period will predictably straddle around [[
** ''[[
** ''[[Sengoku Rance]]''. Well-thought [[Rule of Cool]] [[Jidai Geki]] clashes with a [[Gender Flip]] [[Eroge]] [[Anachronism Stew]] peppered with [[Crazy Awesome]]? In which [[Hilarity Ensues]] meets [[Tear Jerker]]? Pretty much the perfect storm.
* ''[[Thief]]'' pulls off every [[Film Noir]] and [[Low Fantasy]] [[City Noir]] trope imaginable... and gets away with it by [[Deconstructor Fleet|subverting the hell out of them]]... Not to mention [[Affectionate Parody|hilariously]] [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshading]] anything that invokes a possible [[
* A [[Sierra]] [[Adventure Game]] was usually loaded to the gills with whatever Trope was handy. Leisure Suit Larry had sex and porn tropes. [[King's Quest]] took any [[Fairy Tale]] trope and went crazy with it. Laura Bow handled murder mysteries. [[Space Quest]] skewered sci-fi tropes most of the time, but when they played it straight... [[Fridge Horror]] galore.
* [[Fun Orb]]'s ''Tomb Racer'' is stuffed with as many [[Temple of Doom]] cliches as its creators could think of, resulting in a fine example of why [[Tropes Are Not Bad]].
* ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'' is basically a bunch of action heroes in an ''[[Enter the Dragon]]''-style scenario. You've got the evil spirit who wants revenge, the [[Bruce Lee Clone]], the actor who wants to prove his moves aren't faked, the thunder god, the Marine [[Action Girl]], the criminal, the Chinese assassin, the [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]], and the [[Evil Sorceror]]. Subsequent games have added a [[Magical Native American]] who at 6'3" is probably a plains Indian, [[Badass Princess]], her evil clone who is notable for almost seeming like a good guy at first, another bunch of [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]]s, ''Terminator'' clones, the guy named after his ancestor, [[Blind Weaponmaster|the blind swordsman]], and many more. And oh, yeah, the [[Big Bad]] gets more and more eldritch with each game.
* [[
* ''[[Asura's Wrath]]'', Of course. The setting is [[Space Opera]] and [[Science Fiction]] meets Asian Mythology, for starters.
=== [[Visual Novels]] ===
* The ''[[When They Cry]]'' series is excellent at this.
** ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro ni]]'' deserves a particular mention, combining [[Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane]], [[Groundhog Day Loop]], [[Closed Circle]], [[Clueless Mystery]], ''and'' [[Fair Play Whodunnit]] into one [[Visual Novel]]. It has [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|debates]]! [[Recycled in Space|IN COLOR]]! The characters are also quite [[Genre Savvy]] when it comes to dealing with mysteries, and even lampshades the use of the related tropes.
* ''[[Ace Attorney]]'' has an impressive list of tropes, and it's a game about [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]] lawyers.
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* If individual characters can be Troperiffic, ''[[Antihero for Hire]]'''s Dr. Nefarious is.
* In-story example: In ''[[
* Chris Hastings once wrote down every single '80s action movie trope that he could remember. Then he crammed ever one of them into a story. The result was ''[[
* ''[[No Rest for The Wicked (
* ''[[Terinu]]'' combines old school YA science fiction coming of age, super powers, space pirates, a galaxy wide war story, cyberpunk style net hacking... WITH FURRIES!
* ''[[Adventurers
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* Even though ''[[The Dreamer]]'' only has 10 issues so far{{when}}, it is particularly trope-filled.
== [[Web Original]] ==
* The ''[[SCP Foundation]]'' is a heartless, ruthless secret organization dedicated to containing (and occasionally destroying) hundreds of abnormal objects that variously subvert, deconstruct, or play straight loads of [[Urban Fantasy]] and [[Cosmic Horror]] tropes.
* In a podcast, the ''[[Loading Ready Run]]'' crew have expressed a desire to use every trope in the main [[TV Tropes]] directory. Good luck to them.
* Everything by the [http://www.youtube.com/user/duncanbros Duncan Bros]. Their hallmark is a short movie of around 5 mins which takes on a given genre and crams in as many tropes and clichés from the genre as possible while still being very funny.
* ''[http://community.livejournal.com/beststoryever The Best Story Ever]'', a NaNoWriMo novel in six
* If it's a Super Hero trope, or a [[Gender Blending Tropes]], it's probably found somewhere in the ''[[Whateley Universe]]''.
* ''[[
* [[Tropes Are Not Good]]: Both ''[[Neko Sugar Girls]]'' and ''[[
* The [[Cracked.com]]/
* The [[That Guy With
* On the note of [[That Guy With
* If ''[[Gaia Online]]'' isn't the most
* ''[[
* ''[[Mall Fight]]'' is especially not ashamed of that fact.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* While many superhero comics since the end of [[The Silver Age of Comic Books]] try to avoid the almost inherent silliness of the genre, ''[[Batman: The Brave and the Bold]]'' embraces them so hard that [[Crosses the Line Twice|it goes back around from "stupid" to]] [[Rule of Cool|spectacular]]. It also adds the occasional dash of Bronze Age and Modern Day super-hero tropes to keep viewers on their toes.
* ''[[Buzz Lightyear of Star Command]]'' took what could have been a cheap knock-off show and turned it into [[Rule of Cool|pure awesome]] through a combination of [[Genre Savvy]] and this trope. Zurg gets extra points for being [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]...[[Card-Carrying Villain|most of the time]].
* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''. Example: it takes [[Elemental Powers]], plays them to the hilt by having the benders use their powers for more than just fancy martial arts. There are a few subversions, notably {{spoiler|Azula's interruption of Aang's Avatar transformation and Zuko's subverted [[Heel Face Turn]] at the end of the Season 2 finale.}} This just makes those trope subversions all the more jarring and awesome.
* ''[[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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* ''[[My Little Pony:
* ''[[
* ''[[Courage the Cowardly Dog]]'', for ''starters'', features both an [[All-Stereotype Cast]] and nearly ''every'' horror/comedy trope in existence.
* ''[[Rocko's Modern Life]]'' can basically be described as Cartoon/[[Sitcom]] [[Troperiffic]]. Naturally enough, it very-clearly [[Played for Laughs|plays this for laughs]] (most of the time, at least).
* [[Earthworm Jim (animation)|The ''Earthworm Jim'' cartoon series]] basically combines this with a Cartoon/[[Superhero]] [[Cliche Storm]] for [[Played for Laughs|maximum comedic effect]].
== [[Real Life]] ==
* Eric Berne wrote a book called ''Games People Play'', which was essentially a collection of tropes of human interaction. Berne gave them games memorable titles such as "Now I've got you, you son of a bitch," "Wooden leg," "Yes, but...," and "[[Let's You and Him Fight
* [[Tropes Are Not Good|More disturbingly]], [[Nazi Germany]] could be called this. Part of their strategy for drumming up the support of the German people was using a lot of pageantry, theatrics, and such to [[Villain
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