You Know You Read Too Much All the Tropes When: Difference between revisions

** [[Gargoyles (Animation)|Xanatos]]

** [[Gargoyles (Animation)|Goliath]]

** [[Haruhi Suzumiya (Light Novel)|Haruhi]]

** [[Death Note (Manga)|Light]]

# If anyone criticizes something, you tell them, "Stop [[Complaining About Shows You Don't Like]]."

# You snicker whenever someone orders a "Harvey [[Wall Banger (Darth Wiki)|Wallbanger]]".

# You forget Jesus is the son of God (if you're Christian) or twenty-fourth prophet of God (if you're Muslim), and think he's the god of [[Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory|Purgatory]]. And you think he habitually manifests as a [[Crystal Dragon Jesus|crystalline dragon]].

# You wonder why ''[[Arrested Development (TV)|Arrested Development]]'' was canceled, but you just heard of ''[[The Love Boat]]'', since that page is so recent.

** You dream of the day your quotes will be found on All The Tropes.

** Or you just cut out the middleman and put them on [[Unpublished Works (Darth Wiki)|Unpublished Works]] yourself.

** When you need writing ideas, you click the Random Item button above.

# You will use the word "wank" in highly unusual contexts. Trope not applicable in Commonwealth countries.

** In addition to ''that'' addition, you have mastered applying the [[All Blue Entry]] to your external dialogue.

# You start applying your own [[Fanon Discontinuity]] to real life.

# 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]].

# When the question of naming your trope "Playing Xanatos Ball With The Dog", "Normal Name", or "Super Cool But Hard To Write Name" takes up hours of thought and discussion.

# When you don't have to look up how to spell [[Phlebotinum]].

** You use [[Wiki Word|Wiki Words]] constantly even when talking to non-tropers, and you don't even ''notice'' until they ask you what you're on about.

** School today:

** You [[Third Person Person|talk about yourself in the third person, especially when online]].

** You have ever wished that you could use [[Pothole|Pot Holes]] in conversation.

# You think it's normal for words to have [[CamelCase|capital letters in the middle]]. Your essays or literary works often need to be comprehensively proofread because it's become a sort of [[Damn You Muscle Memory|Muscle Memory.]]

# 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 keep using trope names in your history assignments, as well.

** As well as using the site to revise for a history/literature exam.

** You have cited this site as a source for your junior paper. In all fairness, the paper is an analysis of the fantasy genre, so tropes are being discussed.

# You have ever, at all, referred to the Moral Of The Story as an '[[Aesop]]'.

# One of your iPod playlists is titled [[Nightmare Fuel]].

** Another is titled [[Made of Win]].

** Another is, of course, [[Crowning Music of Awesome]].

** Another is titled [[Ominous Latin Chanting]].

# 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.

** Or describe you and your friends as one.

*** Bonus points if you call another one of your friends a [[Sixth Ranger]].

# 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 keep misspelling actual words as [[Wiki Words]], like "[[Fan Dumb]]" instead of "[[Fandom]]".

# You confuse YKTTW with [[YTMND]]. Bonus points if you attempt to pronounce YKTTW like it's an actual word ("Eektoo!" "Yickt-wuh!").

# The best thing that's happened to you all week is getting your first [[Made of Win]] point.

# You have drawn [[Trope-tan]] fanart.

** You have written [[Trope-tan]] [[Fanfic]].

** You are aware that this pairing is [[Foe Yay]].

# 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.

# You name a recipe after a trope. [[Tomato Surprise]]: contains a can of soup, a can of kidney beans, and [[Noodle Implements|a cup and a half of macaroni]]; [[Anachronism Stew]] contains mammoth meat, barley, and genetically modified potatoes.

# You have ever contemplated the possibility of actually adding tropes to the dictionary.

# The list never gets shorter because you're always here.

# You can't see a [http://www.goffpetroleum.co.uk/ Goff] petrol tanker without thinking of ''[[My Immortal (Fanfic)|My Immortal]]''.

# You pothole [[Godwin's Law]] examples ''on the All The Tropes Page for Godwin's Law.'' (note: Joke's over, don't actually do this.)

# 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.

**** Although that teacher was confused by the brief mention of his [[Irregular Webcomic|affinity for Linux]].

***** You have managed to write a college application essay by applying points from [[Wild Mass Guessing]] and other tropes it links to, and were accepted.

# You think that it is actually possible to obtain [[Dr. Horribles Sing Along Blog|a Ph.D in Horribleness]].

** And a level [[Took a Level In Badass|in badass]].

** Conversely, you wear red as much as you can, cause you're the protagonist of your own story so you need to be [[Law of Chromatic Superiority|more efficient than everyone else]].

*** Or because you're convinced it makes you [[Char Clone|three times faster than the usual troper]].

** [[Starcraft|"I've heard that one before." "It's different this time!" "Yeah, I heard that one too."]]

# You think a [[Wiki Walk]] is an exercise routine.

** I call mine the [[Tome of Eldritch Lore]].

** [[I Call It Vera]].

# You intend to re-watch old movies or movies you never liked just to see your favourite Tropes in action.

# 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 can name every single faction in [[Warhammer 40 K]], including all four Chaos Gods and at least three different chapters of [[Space Marines]], despite never having seen the game played in your entire life.

# 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.

# 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.

** You also write down every [[Plot Hole]] for [[Headscratchers]].

** You had to get an emergency liver transplant after trying to play the [[My Immortal Drinking Game]].

# The first suggestion that comes up when you type "you" in your URL bar is [[You Know You Read Too Much All The Tropes When|this page]].

# 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.

** Same goes for when you notice certain [[Les Yay]] subtext and start [[Yuri Fan|chuckling]].

** OBJECTION!

** You snicker when the first three come up on someone else's list.

*** [[Comically Missing the Point|What have you got against French Toast?]]

# 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 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.

** ''[[Lyrical Nanoha]]''

** ''[[My Immortal]]''

** ''[[Naruto]]''

** ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' (In fact, you learned more about the entire plot of ''Evangelion'' from reading [[All The Tropes (Wiki)|All The Tropes]] than you ever [[Mind Screw|did from watching it]].)

* You goof off in Technology class and go on [[All The Tropes (Wiki)|All The Tropes]], and the teacher doesn't notice because it looks like a legitimate research site from a distance.

* You're so wrapped up in what you're reading right now that you haven't realized the examples no longer have numbers.

* You dream of doing these in [[Real Life]]

** Making a [[World of Cardboard Speech]] or [[Kirk Summation]].

** [[Jumped At the Call|Leap when the call comes calling]] or [[Resigned to The Call|accept your fate.]]

** [[Defeat Means Friendship|"Befriend" somebody]]

** Be either [[Token Good Teammate|the good guy of the team]] or [[Token Evil Teammate|the team psycho]]

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* 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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