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{{quote|''"''Yor'' is both everything and nothing that movies have ever been. It rips off so many cinematic [[Cliche|clichescliche]]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|tropestrope]]s and then turn them [[Up to Eleven]]. This is especially common in [[Reconstruction|Reconstructions]]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|tropestrope]]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.

== [[Anime]] &and [[Manga]] ==

* ''[[Record of Lodoss War]]'' is based on a ''[[Dungeons and Dragons|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|clichescliche]]s (with a good healthy dose of pop culture references) for laughs.

* 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 weTV Tropes named the title character [[Trope Pantheons/Theater|Goddess of Tropes]], and it's not just the obvious.

* ''[[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-[[BFSBig 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.

* ''[[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|Love Dodecahedrons]]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|Space Westerns]]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|Mad Scientists]]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]] [[Troperiffic|why it's twelve]] [[Gainax Ending|but not eleven.]]</ref>

* ''[[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|Mad Scientists]]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, [[Always ChaoticExclusively 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.

* What do you get when [[Studio Gainax|Gainax]] makes a [[Magical Girl]] anime with the weirdness of ''[[FLCL]]'', the [[Holy Shit Quotient|HSQ]] 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.

{{quote| ''It’s an [[Exaggerated Trope|absolute distillation of the superhero genre]]. No plot lines, characters, emotions, nothing whatsoever. It’s people posing in the street for no good reason. It is people getting kicked, and then exploding.'' -- [[Warren Ellis]]}}

* ''[[Hunting the Unicorn (Fanfic)|Hunting the Unicorn]]'' is a [[Deconstruction Fic]] that mixes ''[[Glee]]'' with ''[[The Last Unicorn (novel)|The Last Unicorn]]'', and is naturally on its way to this. It seems to gain several tropes with every update (and is now well past the hundred mark), which is not helped at all by the author being [[One of Us|a fellow troper]].

* ''[[Decks Fall, Everyone Dies|Decks Fall Everyone Dies]]'' has an awful lot of tropes for a ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series|Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series]] / [[Moulin Rouge! (2001 film)|Moulin Rouge]]'' [[Film Fic]]. There does seem to be some [[Reconstruction]] attempted of both works.

* ''[[Calvin and Hobbes: The Series|Calvin and Hobbes The Series]]'' uses a ''lot''' of tropes from several genres: [[adventure]], [[Science Fiction]], the occasional [[Film Noir]]...

* ''[[Star Wars]]'' mixes the Westerns, Samurai movies, and pulp sci-fi [[George Lucas]] loved as a kid. He also studied ''[[The Hero's Journey|The Hero With A Thousand Faces]]'' intensely while writing it. It is worth noting that ''Star Wars'' is one of the biggest [[Trope Codifier|Trope Codifiers]]s in history.

* ''[[Shoot'Em Up (film)|Shoot 'Em Up]]'' revels in turning every [[Guns and Gunplay Tropes|Gunplay Trope]] in existence up to levels even John Woo wouldn't dare to.

* ''[[The Fifth Element]]''. [[Mysterious Waif]] [[MacGuffin Girl]]? Check. [[Large Ham]] [[Sissy Villain]]? Check. [[Testosterone Poisoning|Ultra-manly man]] [[Action Hero]] played by [[Bruce Willis (Creator)]]? Check. [[Rubber Forehead Aliens]], [[Flying Car|hovercar]] [[Chase Scene|chases]], [[Waif Fu]], [[Eldritch Abomination|the Ultimate Evil]], and {{spoiler|the world being saved through [[The Power of Love]]}}? Check, check, check, check, ''check.'' This movie is practically cheesy sci-fi incarnate, and it's AWESOME.

* ''[[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.]]

* ''[[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 the West]]

* ''[[Film/Hot Fuzz|Hot Fuzz]]''{{context}}

* 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 [[Distressed Damsel in Distress|constant kidnapping]] by a villain intimately tied into his past, dies and has a massive funeral, {{spoiler|or rather, fakes it for a very short time}}, and always [[Save the World|saves the world]]. The bad guy [[Evil Always Triumphs in The Middle|defeats the good guys]] and ties them up in [[Death Trap|Death Traps]]s. Famous heroes [[Heroic Sacrifice|sacrifice themselves]] to save the planet from warring aliens, while villains [[Joker Immunity|never die]] and [[Villain Exit Stage Left|always escape]], or go to [[Cardboard Prison]]. No one finds these events strange or unbelievable. Very shocking in a book where said [[Mad Scientist]] [[Lampshade Hanging|wonders why]] he doesn't [[Cut Lex Luthor a Check|find a career that'd make money rather than involve him being beaten up by powered heroes]], and the bipedal tiger is known to have back problems.

{{quote| ''When a seemingly crazy, poorly dressed soothsayer tells you not to let a magical talisman fall into the wrong hands, take him or her seriously. DO NOT laugh it off and leave said talisman simply lying around on a side table; you might as well just end the world yourself.''|[http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0441011934/ref{{=}}sib_dp_pt#reader-link The Handbook of Practical Heroics], p. 134}}

** ''[[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 "[[HSQHoly Shit Quotient|Holy shit]], [[Crazy Awesome|that was]] ''[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|awesome]]''."

* [[Rudyard Kipling]]'s "[[The Three-Decker|The Three Decker]]" is a defense of (not to say exultation in) the Troperific three-volume novel.

* 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 ''[[Dark Future|Demon Download]]'' novels;, in which [[Elvis Presley]] fights [[Eldritch Abominations]] with a [[Cyborg]] heroine.

* 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]] ==

* ''[[Glee]]'', in that it relies heavily on plot clichés and a very large amount of character tropes. It's quite predictable, but never completely in the way you'd expect.

* ''[[ICarlyiCarly]]'' and it's use of various [[Kid Com]] staples.

* ''[[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|Dead Horse Tropes]]s.

* ''[[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.

* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' is a show about a [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|time travelling alien]] that fights other aliens in different times. It has used every science-fiction trope in the books, and even [[Trope Namer|named some of them]]. Notable that in its nearly [[Long Runner|50 year run]], its not only used most sci-fi tropes, but also ones belonging to [[Genre Busting|fantasy, historical fiction, horror and comedy]]. And that's not even touching on things like character tropes.

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

* ''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'' takes every sci-fi trope and cliché ''imaginable'', [[Darker and Edgier|paints it black]], [[This Is Your Premise on Drugs|pumps it full of a cocktail of every drug known to man]], [[Incendiary Exponent|sets it on fire]], [[Rule of Cool|sends it off into space screaming WAAAGH! and waving a chainsaw sword]]. As an example, [[Super Soldier|Space Marines]] are recruited with an extreme form of [[The Spartan Way]] which only one in every hundred aspirants survive, [[Training Fromfrom Hell|given years of insanely dangerous training]] and [[Church Militant|religious indoctrination to turn them into utterly fearless, pitiless fanatics.]] They're equipped with [[Ancestral Weapon|gigantic millenia-old suits of]] [[Powered Armour]] and spend their days fighting [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|unkillable zombie robots]], [[Horny Devils|gigantic flaming-head sex demons and the like.]] This is what ''one faction'' does with ''one trope'' as background for its ''basic troops choice''. And they have [[Chainsaw Good|Chainswords]].

* As implied at the top of the page, ''[[Dungeons and Dragons|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.''}}

* ''[[Grave Robbers From Outer Space]]'', a card game about making low-budget genre movies that both mocks and glorifies the numerous clichesclichés and archetypes of a variety of genres.

* ''[[GURPS]] Cliffhangers'': The GM is urged to avoid subtlety and use every pulp fiction clichecliché he can think of because a game based on pulp fiction ''should'' have clichesclichés.

* ''[[Tabletop GameMonsterpocalypse]]/Monsterpocalypse'' uses every trope used in a [[Kaiju]] setting.

* ''[[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 and& 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.

* ''[[I Wanna Be the Guy]]'' takes all the classic [[Nintendo Hard]] [[Classic Video Game "Screw YousYou"s|"Fuck You"s]] from all those old 8-bit [[Side Scroller|Side Scrollers]]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 [[Distressed 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.

* ''[[Blaz BlueBlazBlue]]'' does this on purpose, but also subverts the hell out of many well-known tropes, which only serves to create ''even more'' trope examples.

* ''[[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|MacGuffins]]s to save the world from an [[Good Republic, Evil Empire|Evil Empire]] ended up being a breath of fresh air.

* ''[[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.

** ''[[Dragon Age]]'' is this on many levels -- andlevels—and anyone who's tried to read the [[Great Big Book of Everything|Codex]] knows it has many, many levels.

* [[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 turns -- allturns—all while merrily [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshading it]]. When they aren't unleashing a [[Deconstructor Fleet]] against everything from ''D&D'' to George Lucas's idea of morality, that is...

* While ''[[Red Steel]]'' is a [[Cliché Storm]], ''Red Steel 2'' is [[Troperiffic]]. ''Red Steel 2'' combines [[Desert Punk]] and [[Samurai]] tropes in every way possible. In every AWESOME way possible, mind you.

* ''[[Chrono Trigger]]'' just had almost RPG cliché you can think of at the time it was released, such as [[Rebellious Princess|rebellious princesses]] with [[Orphan's Plot Trinket|mysterious pendants]], [[Heroic Mime|Heroic Mimes]]s who live with a single mom ([[Disappeared Dad|no dad]]), [[Good Morning, Crono|are woken up by said mom to get ready for the fair]], and [[Saving the World]] from the [[Cosmic Horror]]...[[Recycled in Space|WITH TIME TRAVEL!]] Nevertheless, the story itself and the characters were praised by many for its brilliant usage of these cliches. Its successor, ''[[Chrono Cross]]'', was less troperiffic than its predecessor, and that itself [[Love It or Hate It|divided the fanbase on the game.]]

* ''[[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 [[Cliché Storm]] or is in dire need of an [[MST3K Mantra]].

* [[Alice SoftAliceSoft]] does this frequently, but especially with the ''[[Rance]]'' series which is an [[H-game]] [[Indecisive Deconstruction]][[Indecisive Parody|isive]] [[Deconstructive Parody]] of the [[Medieval European Fantasy]] [[Role -Playing Game]] powered by [[Rule of Cool]], [[Rule of Funny]], [[Rule of Sexy]], and definitely [[Refuge in Audacity]]. The [[Designated Hero]] is a [[Sociopathic Hero]] [[Lovable Sex Maniac]] on a [[Quest for Sex]] with his [[Badass Adorable]] [[Sex Slave]] Sill. They wander around in a [[World of Badass]] [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink]] filled with [[Schizo-Tech]] playing the trope [[Black Comedy Rape]] [[Rape as Drama|(almost)]] always straight while fighting a variety of [[Cute Monster Girl|Cute Monster Girls]]s, [[Horny Devil|Horny Devils]]s, [[Our Demons Are Different|Demons]], and [[Eldritch Abomination|Eldritch Abominations]]s. Lastly, the [[Crap Saccharine World]] is ruled by [[Rule of Three|three]] [[Chaotic Evil]] [[Jerkass Gods]] all created by a [[Space Whale]] who created strife and suffering [[For the Evulz]]. Note that this is one of the few franchises (if not the only) that can claim to include almost '''ALL''' of the [[Rape Tropes]] in some shape or form. Yes, even the ones that seem to contradict each other.

* In-story example: In ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'', Dr. Disaster's [[Hard Light|holo-simulator]] plugs its users into a story straight out of [[Raygun Gothic|1950s pulp sci-fi]]: [[Latex Space Suit|Latex Spacesuits]], [[Death Ray|Death Rays]]s, and alien moon fortresses are played gleefully straight. Antimony is the [[Meta Guy|only one]] who [[Tropes Will Ruin Your Life|has any problem accepting this]], and even she eventually lightens up and has a great time.

* ''[[Adventurers!]]'' skewers basically every RPG trope in the entire TV Tropes Wiki.

* And ''[[Girl Genius]]'' is another Trope-alicious example.

* ''[[Problem Sleuth]]'', like ''[[Adventurers!]]'', goes out of its way to use, [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshade]], avert, subvert, invert, and [[Affectionate Parody|pay homage to]] nearly every single RPG and Adventure game trope out there, culminating in one of the most gloriously surreal [[Final Boss]] battles ever, as all the tropes collapse in on themselves like some giant [[Post Modernism|Post-Modernist]] singularity.

* Even though ''[[The Dreamer]]'' only has 10 issues so far{{when}}, it is particularly trope-filled.

* ''[http://community.livejournal.com/beststoryever The Best Story Ever]'', a NaNoWriMo novel in six EXTREME''extreme'' sentences.

* ''[[Darwin's Soldiers|Darwins Soldiers]]'' has a ''spectacular'' amount of tropes that are played straight, averted or subverted. It probably helps that all three of the main players are tropers. But despite the massive amount of tropes, the story never manages to get corny.

* [[Tropes Are Not Good]]: Both ''[[Neko Sugar Girls]]'' and ''[[The Ugly Barnacle]]'' <ref>though the latter isn't bad as much as [[Broke the Rating Scale|not applicable]]</ref> are highly [[Troperiffic]], containing several tropes per minute/word. But that's just because they're so short in the first place.

* The [[Cracked.com]]/[[Bri TA Nick]]BriTANicK.com video ''[[A Trailer for Every Academy Award Winning Movie Ever]]'' has most of the tropes in popular Oscar winners.

* If ''[[Gaia Online]]'' isn't the most [[Troperiffic]] online community, then we don't know what is.

* ''[[True Capitalist]]''.

* ''[[Mall Fight]]'' is especially not ashamed of that fact.

* ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]''. Their favorite is [[Better Than a Bare Bulb]], but judging from the page length, they're no strangers to ''any'' trope -- almosttrope—almost every single one has been played straight, subverted, double-subverted, inverted, etc.

* The ''[[Scooby-Doo (animation)|Scooby-Doo]]'' reboot, ''[[Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated|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.

* ''[[Regular Show]]'' is another, if not bigger love-letter to [[The Nineties]]' cartoons and even goes as far to have many references to [[The Eighties]]. Its characters, crazy plots, and overall surreal nature is loved by many a tv troper.

* ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]''. The two-part pilot draws from nearly every [[Magical Girl]] trope in the book. The rest of the series is a [[Slice of Life]] comedy with heavy [[Looney Tunes]] influences, numerous [[Shout-Out|shout outs]] that the target demographic might not get, and [[An Aesop]] applied at the end of nearly every episode. It's also self-aware enough that it lampshades most of these tropes. Is it any wonder why this show got such a vocal [[Periphery Demographic]]?