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▲# [[TV Tropes as a Gateway Drug|You find almost all your new fiction from this site]].
# You are so trope savvy, that the mere thought of a trope [[Drinking Game]] gives you a hangover from the last times you tried it.
# You think the following are appropriate names for children:
# You think the [[Idiot Ball]] is a real thing. And you think the [[Stargate Verse|Goa'uld]] have Idiot Ba'als.
# If anyone criticizes something, you tell them, "Stop [[Complaining About Shows You Don't Like]]."
# You snicker whenever someone orders a "Harvey [[Wall Banger
# You NEVER have to ask "[[Do We Have This One?]]?".
# You forget Jesus is the son of God (if you're Christian) or
# You
#* You rejoiced when the series came back in 2013 on [[Netflix]].
# You think first names have "The" as a prefix.
# You really wonder if you have seen a trope [[Seen It a Million Times|a million times]].
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# You can identify the approximate age of any trope.
# If you're a writer:
#* You don't write because you're too scared of the [[Cliché Storm]].
# You will use the word "wank" in highly unusual contexts. Trope not applicable in Commonwealth countries.
# You use tropes to describe yourself and your friends, rather than actual traits.
# You will go into McDonald's and order a [[MacGuffin]].
# You will inappropriately find strokes to be [[Narm|humorous]], but as you did a [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]], you feel appropriately guilty afterwards.
# You add hyperlinks to your internal dialogue.
# You start applying your own [[Fanon Discontinuity]] to real life.
#** [[Godwin's Law]]!
# You become pleasantly surprised when your [[Genre Savvy]] is [[Wrong Genre Savvy]] because a given movie/series has pulled off a good [[Trick Twist]].
# You wish you were crazy enough to come up with an example for a given [[Wild Mass Guessing]] page, or tropes like [[Alternative Character Interpretation]]. You ''are'' crazy enough to come up with an example for a given [[Wild Mass Guessing]] page, or tropes like [[Alternate Character Interpretation]].
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# When you don't have to look up how to spell [[Phlebotinum]].
# [[All the Tropes Will Ruin Your Vocabulary]] in the following ways:
#::''' Friend:''' ...What?...
#::''' Me:''' ...Sorry, I was speaking Tropese again... [walks away]
# Not only do you [[Lampshade Hanging|hang lampshades]] in everyday conversation, you also hang lampshades on the fact that you are [[Department of Redundancy Department|hanging lampshades.]]
# You are able to guess what [[
# You predict your life based on the tropes it has been following. These predictions come true.
# You keep screwing up rough drafts of reports because they are formatted for this site, not for Microsoft Word.
# You use this site rather than [[Wikipedia]] as a source for your research papers.
# You have ever, at all, referred to the Moral
# You refer to Wikipedia as [[The Other Wiki]], and
# When someone asks you why you're playing a video game, you respond, "It's [[Just for Fun]]." Otherwise, you're probably the [[Stop Having Fun Guy]].
# When you decide to make a trope list for your favorite sports team.
# One of your iPod playlists is titled [[Nightmare Fuel]].
# You try to find examples of trope names being used before they were added to the Wiki.
# You have contributed to every one of the [[Tropes of Legend]].
# You
# Whenever you explain a new concept to someone, you try to demonstrate it using examples from ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', ''[[Avatar:
▲# Whenever you explain a new concept to someone, you try to demonstrate it using examples from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Avatar the Last Airbender and Harry Potter. Like how Andrew in [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]] season 8, episode 16 "Storyteller" had to use RPG style character description for everybody.
# You've written a book report on ''[[Sailor Nothing]]''.
# You've written a complete character analysis contrasting and exploring the actions of the eponymous characters of ''[[
# In other online communities not running wiki software, you find yourself using single-quotation marks in varying quantities instead of [[HTML]] or [[BB Code]] tags when you want to italicize or bold something.
# Most Science Fiction makes you want to cry "'''[[Space Does Not Work That Way]]!''' Good night!"
# If someone complains about the frumpy way Queen [[Elizabeth II]] dresses, you just note that she's averting the [[Ermine Cape Effect]].
# You don't make plans for Christmas. You make [[Xanatos Gambit
# You start thinking of common real life occurrences as tropes, and sort of mentally propose and categorise them: "[[You Know That Thing Where]] you think you've turned on the oven, but actually you've just turned on the light...?"
▲# You don't make plans for Christmas. You make [[Xanatos Gambit|Xanatos Gambits]]. For family gatherings, you find these quickly become [[Gambit Roulette|Gambit Roulettes]]. Or, for some, a [[Gambit Pileup]].
▲# You start thinking of common real life occurrences as tropes, and sort of mentally propose and categorise them: "[[You Know That Thing Where]] you think you've turned on the oven, but actually you've just turned on the light...?"
# You say "It's [[Truth in Television]]" instead of "It happens in [[Real Life]]."
# You tell people that a certain dramatic or comedic device is [[Older Than Radio]]. You confound them further when you tell them that another one is [[Older Than Dirt]].
# Nothing [[Squick
# You watch movies with other tropers for pure [[
# You expect other people to know what a [[Big Bad]] is.
# You expect other people to know that when you say [[The Dragon]] you don't actually mean a dragon. Except when you do.
# You expect other people to be able to recognize a [[Five-Man Band]].
# You run into more difficulty than usual when talking about tropes to real people because you realize you can't call tropes by their names but you don't know what else to call them.
# You subconsciously refer to non-tropers as "real people" because you now think of yourself as a character.
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# You are very careful not to confuse [[Chekhov's Gun]] and [[Star Trek: The Original Series|Chekov]].
# You are overwhelmingly disappointed that [[Star Trek: The Original Series|Chekov's gun]] was never used as a [[Chekhov's Gun]].
# You have ever used the [[MST3K Mantra]] or [[Bellisario's Maxim]] in [[Real Life]]. Bonus points if you just used the title and not the actual mantra/maxim.
# You keep misspelling actual words as [[Wiki Words]], like "[[Fan Dumb]]" instead of "[[Fandom]]".
# You start conversations with non-tropers with words to the effect of "I read something interesting on All The Tropes the other day..."
▲# You start conversations with non-tropers with words to the effect of "I read something interesting on All The Tropes the other day..."
# You have a mental list of tropes that have occurred to you for the current day, week, month, year, and lifetime since originally coming to All The Tropes (and memorable events before then) sorted alphabetically, by importance, by occurrences, by relation to the person you believe the trope applied to, and all sub-combinations of those lists applicable.
# When you say "[[Take That]]!". And think of
# You say "You are not alone" instead of "Me too". You're aware of how often the above actually happens on this Wiki but aren't quite sure why.
# You refer to anything that scares you as [[Nightmare Fuel]].
# You shrink any picture files you have that are wider than 300 pixels.
# People can't make small talk to you because you keep saying it's [[Natter]].
# When people start speaking about any series, despite you having never seen it, you can give an accurate estimation of what happens in it.
# If someone is overreacting about X, you sarcastically note that "X is [[Serious Business]]."
# You think ''[[retcon]]'' is two words.
# 'Dissonance' has become a regular part of your vocabulary.
# The best thing that's happened to you all week is getting your first [[
# You will [[Calling Your Attacks|yell out trope names]] as you watch them on your favorite show...and have people stare at you oddly for it.
# Your first thought after watching the first episode of a new series of something with your family or friends isn't to discuss it with them - you rush off, fire up the computer and add the new examples you've spotted.
# You think that having a complimentary reference on [[All The Tropes]] is more flattering than being on the New York Times Bestseller list, while your love of a work increases tenfold if it mentions [[All The Tropes]].
# You remember September 16, 2015 as the date [[The Great Hack]] happened.
# You begin attempting to log into other pages using the password used to edit trope pages.
# You can identify tropers by what they [[Entry Pimp]]. Bonus points if you see that they've updated a specific article, and, ''knowing'' what they [[Entry Pimp]], you can guess precisely what the example they added entailed.
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# You see the words ''imminently about to attack'' in a piece of fanfic and actually go to pothole it to the [[Department of Redundancy Department]] before remembering that you can't.
# You think [[Shipping]] tropers would be fun.
#You refer to someone's overriding interest/specialty as their "[[Planet of Hats|Hat]]". Bonus points if you do it by referencing ''[[Star Trek]]''.
# Your roommate can tell you're on [[All The Tropes]] from across the room, and you try to hide it as if it were porn.
# You've considered writing a book or screenplay just so your pet YKTTW has one more example.
# You receive an open-ended research writing assignment and immediately wonder, "Can I use my Troping knowledge to come up with a topic for this?" You then manage to answer said question in the affirmative.
# You are the creator and sole contributor to an entire new namespace.
# You like All The Tropes so much that you [[Gushing About Shows You Like (Sugar Wiki)|write it love letters]].
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# You have a long list of things you must read or see when you have time, all of which you would not know about had they not come up as examples of some trope or other.
# The list never gets shorter because you're always here.
# You can't see a [
# Whenever someone brings up [[Those Wacky Nazis]], you yell out "[[Godwin's Law]]!" Especially embarrassing in a history class. Terminally embarrassing at the Holocaust Museum.
# You pothole [[Godwin's Law]] examples ''on the All The Tropes Page for Godwin's Law.'' (
# You've not only said this history class when discussing Hilter, but by now everyone in the class, including the ''teacher'' knows what a Godwin's Law is. Bonus points if other students start using it.
# The only definition of "subvert" that you're aware of is that employed in the phrase "subverted expectations".
# You suffer [[Hype Aversion]] towards series nobody outside of this wiki's heard of, just because they're so [[Trope Overdosed]].
# You have either bookmarked your favorite pages, copied them to your computer so you can look at them when the Internet's down, or printed them out. Or a combination of these.
# You liked this page so much that when you got to the end, you refreshed it to see if anyone else added anything while you were reading.
# You tell your English professor about [[All The Tropes]]... repeatedly.
# You get more than ten people addicted to [[All The Tropes]].
# You regularly attempt to work out which of your friends is [[Wild Mass Guessing|secretly]] [[Doctor Who|a Time Lord]].
# You regularly post [[All The Tropes]] URLs on sites like [[
#* You post All The Tropes links on [[4chan]] and don't mind users telling you to fuck off.
# When someone talks about "the pot holes getting really bad", it takes you several minutes to realize they mean the local roads.
# Non-tropers are gradually losing the ability to comprehend what in the nine hells you're talking about.
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# You can distinguish between a [[Crapsack World]] and a [[World Half Empty]] in the dark at fifty paces.
# When filling in what languages you speak, you always include [[Canis Latinicus]] and [[Angrish]].
# You
#* You cried when the show aired its final episode.
# Your [[Porn Stash]] is 50% [[Continuity Porn|continuity notes]] and 50% [[Scenery Porn|landscapes]].
# You've been here for three days.
# You're getting bored with being [[Genre Savvy]], and have decided to try being [[Wrong Genre Savvy]] for a few weeks. But you're never to be called out for [[Genre Blindness]]. In fact that's an insult to you!
# You missed at least one exam because of [[Wild Mass Guessing]].
#** You have actually ''passed'' one exam because of [[Wild Mass Guessing]], and your English teacher is still bewildered that you managed to make such a plausible case for Mercutio being a Time Lord.
# You consider [[Poe's Law]], [[Chandler's Law]], [[
# You think that it is actually possible to obtain [[Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog|a Ph.D in Horribleness]].
# You laugh at real-life uses of the word "[[Egregious]]".
# You have ever said [[My Immortal|"stop it now you horny simpletons"]] as a substitute for "get a room".
# You are wary about taking any job that requires you to wear a [[Red Shirt]].
# You feel a twinge of [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks|bittersweet nostalgia]] or [[Overused Running Gag|eye-rolling annoyance]] whenever someone assures you they "aren't making this up!"
# You think a [[Wiki Walk]] is an exercise routine.
# You forget you can't edit pages on non-wiki sites, even if you just want to fix some typos.
# So Yeah has become a normal part of your everyday speech pattern for some reason.
# You watch an entire series just so you can read it's [[Wild Mass Guessing|WMG]]/[[Headscratchers]] page without worrying about spoilers.
# Your vision has gotten substantially worse from the eye strain that comes with spending hours a day on All The Tropes.
# You see some linked words on a non-[[All The Tropes]] site and expect the link to go to a [[All The Tropes]] page.
# While reading this page you have a Word document open to note down anything new that comes to mind while reading.
# You are sitting here reading this with a plate of long ago eaten food on your lap.
# When your baby sister asks for help in arranging her alphabet magnets, you arrange them to spell your favourite Tropes and tell her the job is done.
# When you are talking to your friend through the phone or chat and he/she mentions a story you've never heard of, you excuse yourself for lunch while really looking for it on All The Tropes. Ten minutes later you return having learnt everything about it.
# You begin sulking when you find an example you wanted to add to a page has already been added.
# You call your laptop 'The [[Great Big Book of Everything]]'.
# You intend to re-watch old movies or movies you never liked just to see your
#* You watch them so you can expand or create their work pages on ATT.
# When playing 20 questions with your friends, when they ask you a question you say it is 'averted' or 'subverted' to what you are thinking about.
# You consider opening a business and naming it after a trope (example: opening a bicycle messenger service named "[[MacGuffin Delivery Service]].")
# When people ask how you manage to keep fit, you tell them you take [[Wiki Walk|WikiWalks]] daily.
# You have ever referred to yourself as This Troper in a class.
# You have not reset your computer in 5 days because there are still 50 tabs of trope pages that you need to read.
# You spend four weeks just trying to think of something to write on this page.
# When you see red links on ''other websites'' you freak out when they actually have content.
# You create trope pages for the [[
# You talk like an excitable American teenager, using words like "awesome" and "epic" in every other sentence without noticing.
# When asked for a password, your first instinct is to write '[[The Password Is Always Swordfish|swordfish]]'.
# When you spend your nights trying to think of new tropes.
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# When, if you are a game programmer, you challenge your fellow programmers to see who can [[Lampshade Hanging]], [[Subverted Trope]], and [[Exaggerated Trope]] the most tropes.
# When you do the above, even if your fellow programmers aren't tropers.
# When you dream about tropes.
# When your schedule looks something like this: wake up, check All The Tropes, eat breakfast, check All The Tropes, eat lunch, check All The Tropes, eat dinner, check All The Tropes, sleep.
#* When
#** When you forget to
# When your mom/dad/spouse realizes you spend to much time on All The Tropes and sneaks over to your computer and changes the password. At 3:00 in the morning, because you are only out of All The Tropes when you are sleeping.
# When somebody has to put a time limit on how long you're allowed to stay on [[All The Tropes]] to ensure that you come out alive.
# You add a reference or entry to a page, linking to other tropes, then immediately open those mentioned tropes.
# You're ''disappointed'' that you haven't "scored" as highly on fulfilling all the points of this list.
# [[Unsound Effect|* Trope* * Trope* * Trope* * Trope* * Trope* * Trope* ? * Trooooooooooooooooooooope* !!! * Trope* * ...trope*]] (This is what your world sounds like).
# You ''actually read'' this ''entire'' list.▼
** You read it several times.▼
** You've read it backwards too.▼
# Whenever your family [[I Thought It Meant|replaces a]] [[Lampshade Hanging]], you snicker a little.
# In trying to think of [[Inglourious Basterds|the title of a work]], you instead think of [[Magnificent Bastard|a trope name]].
# You've come up with a [[Double Entendre]] for most of the tropes and enjoy using them in real life, among fellow tropers and non-tropers alike. Also, [[BFS]] no longer means what it should when you say it.
# You can name every single faction in ''[[Warhammer
# When writing in a notebook or in Word, you constantly write [[Wiki Words|WordsTogether]] or with <nowiki>{{brackets}}</nowiki> around them, and it takes you a few seconds to realise why it won't link you (or your Professor) to the relevant trope.
# If you're in a [[Girls Love]] relationship, you start to [[Paranoia Fuel|look for signs]] that it's just a [[Romantic Two-Girl Friendship]].
# When watching a movie (or reading a book, or engaging in some other form of media), you automatically write down all the tropes as they appear.
# Corollary to 119: You explain series on other sites by linking to their [[All The Tropes]] page.
# If you make games/books/whatever, you either propose a new name for known tropes or define entirely new ones in it.
# Whenever [[All The Tropes]] has scheduled downtime, you [[Tear Jerker|cry]].
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# You see council workers cutting branches off a tall tree and mentally link it to [[Chainsaw Good]] and [[Blade on a Stick]].
# [[All The Tropes]] and all the stuff related to it really ''is'' [[Serious Business]] to you, but neither do you, neither do the other tropers seem to notice that.
# More than 20% of your open browser tabs are All The Tropes... and the total tab count is a three-digit number.
# Whenever someone takes offense because you laughed at their misfortune or something else that really wasn't funny, you defend yourself by saying, "But it's [[Narm]]!"
# When another site is down, you automatically think "The server hates me right now..."
# You’ve written down an example on the back of an old receipt you found in your car… while in traffic.
# You had a dream about editing [[All The Tropes]], and the first thing you thought when you woke up was to add that example.
# [[Wiki Walk|You no longer wonder how you managed to get from]] [[Tropes Will Ruin Your Life]] to [[Autobots Rock Out]].
# You write trope names as Wiki Words with no blank spaces outside of All The Tropes and expect the link to work.
# You've never seen a show, but you know it so well that you can [[Complaining About Shows You Don't Watch|complain about it]] with none of the guilt.
# You've ever linked to so many tropes in a posting on a [[Message Board]] that you posted something similar to an [[All Blue Entry]]. And that was a posting with multiple paragraphs.
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# You want or have your very own [[The Thing That Goes Doink|Thing that goes Doink]]
# You've got three computers with six operating systems and even more browsers, and you're Cookied Up in all these browsers.
# You've actually read ''[[My Immortal]]''.
# The first suggestion that comes up when you type "you" in your URL bar is
# You get arrested for [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]
# You notice [[Ho Yay]] subtext in the least likely of places, making your friends ask what you're [[Yaoi Fangirl|giggling]] about when you watch certain movies.
#** OBJECTION!
# You have [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick|bread, eggs, milk and squick]] on your shopping list.
# When you feel down, the first thing you do to cheer yourself up is head over to the [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]] page. [[Manly Tears|You'll still wind up crying]], but in a good way. The [[Real Life/Heartwarming|Real Life]] ones in particular are reserved for more severe depression.
# When talking with friends after you say something the most common repose is "You used another of those trope things could you explain it?" ([[Sarcasm Mode|Thanks]] [[FORKS]])
# You know the true meanings of the words "subvert" "invert" and "avert" and can use them flawlessly in real conversation.
# You have [[All The Tropes]] as your home page.
# You die a little inside when no one replies to your [[Headscratchers]].
# You write [[Fan Fiction]] solely to have a [[Mary Sue]] list all of the tropes found in the series.
# You can identify a [[Love Triangle]] by type at a glance without consulting [[Triang Relations]].
# The word "cliche" is your [[Berserk Button]].
# You refresh the forum pages every five seconds, hoping some one has replied to your post.
# When someone orders a [[Ham and Cheese|ham and cheese toastie]], you snigger a little.
# You take a class related to media and more than 50% of your notes
# You have read about tropes
# You read a page in the edit window so you can add new things as you think of them.
# Whenever anyone uses the term "color coded" it is always [[Color Coded for Your Convenience|for your
# On Halloween, you went as a [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]].
# You actually think that there would be less [[
#
# You add new trope examples to a work of media just to subvert, invert, avert, play with, or justify them.
# You [[Complaining About Shows You Don't Watch|can't bring yourself to]] [[Hatedom|blindly hate]] things no matter what the premise.
# You read [[Anti-Poopsocking]] and try to create a new trope about urinating in your shoes.
# You try fitting your schedule ''around''
# You never write for more than twenty minutes without saving.
# You feel a void in your soul whenever you're seperated from All The Tropes for more than a few hours.
# You regularly have dreams in which you edit All The Tropes.
# You consider all the tropers you know best friends... much to the dismay of the person you've known since 3rd grade and did everything with.
# Your parents scheduled an appointment for you with a therapist due to [[All The Tropes]] and you got the therapist addicted.
# You firmly believe any statement, question, or request can be answered by linking the other person to an All The Tropes page.
# In the movie theatre, you whip out a pen and start taking notes on the tropes used so that you'll be sure not to forget any by the time you get home.
# Your parents think you're studying, but you're actually here.
# You look for the Laconic tab in [[The Other Wiki]] when you're in a hurry or looking a for a short explanation.
# You check [[All The Tropes]] before your emails, no matter where you are or how long you've been out of contact with your family and friends.
# Checking the [[All The Tropes]] page of a work once you've finished it has become so much a part of your routine that it's not after you've read every page that you feel sad that it's over.
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# You accidentally name a trope in your homework and have an uncontrollable urge to follow it with "LOL I see what I did there." Bonus points if it's astronomy homework and you capitalize the words IN SPACE!
# You don't have to visit pages on the site to give links to them.
# Half of your browser addons was added for the sole purpose of enhancing your troping experience.
# The first thing you do after finishing a series is going to the works page for it and finally filling out the spoilered sentences and seeing what trope applied to what plot twist.
# You look at Dairy Queen's slogan ("So Good, It's RiDQulous"), and all you can think about is [[So Bad It's Good]], [[So Bad It's Horrible (Darth Wiki)|So Bad
# You have ever told your spouse/significant other that sex with them is a Crowning Moment of Awesome. Bonus points if you have said it while in bed.
# You have the irresistible urge to add examples to this page.
#* And if you do, you
▲# You ''actually read'' this ''entire'' list.
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* You watched all of the [[Joss Whedon]] series on Netflix (where all are available streaming) just to understand where so many of these tropes came from.
** Bonus points for watching them in chronological production (not aired) order
* You have now probably a huge amount of bookmarks/favorites. Over 2/3 of those bookmarks are
* You post a thread on a forum relating tropes to users, forum incidents, and the forum itself. And then get at least three other users addicted to [[All The Tropes]].
* Your friends have started sending you emails with random words in blue and underlined just to drive you insane when they're not actually links. And it works!
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* Instead of hearing something and thinking that's [[A Good Name for a Rock Band]], you think 'Good title for a trope.'
* Whenever something tropable comes up in conversation, you mentally [[Pothole]] it.
* You annoy everyone in the room by sitting on the couch with your laptop on your lap and reading all the trope examples for a Trope to them.▼
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** Be either [[Token Good Teammate|the good guy of the team]] or [[Token Evil Teammate|the team psycho]]
** [[Wake Up, Go to School, Save the World]]
▲* You annoy everyone in the room by sitting on the couch with your laptop on your lap and reading all the trope examples for a Trope to them.
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