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# You NEVER have to ask "[[Do We Have This One?]]?".

# 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 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]].

#* You think about what tropes you are using in your works and fantasize about the day when your work will have examples on this site.

#** You're already working on pages for your works.

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

#* You don't write because you're too scared of the [[Cliché Storm]].

#* 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.

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

#* School today:

#* Bonus points if you live in a country where English normally isn't spoken.

#* You break the [[Fourth Wall]] when talking to others as often as possible, and don't notice you're doing so until someone points it out.

#* Summary of the French Revolution: The [[Knight Templar]]s killed all the [[Blue Blood]]s. Then they went [[Axe Crazy]] and [[Kill'Em All|started killing everyone else too.]]

#* 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.

# 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.

#* Yet another is titled [[Autobots Rock Out]].

#* And yet another titled Can of [[Ear Worm]]s.

#* You went and made one or more of these playlists after reading this so you could check another point off the list.

#** You haven't yet, but you really, REALLY want to.

#* You know the meaning of ''all'' the tropes from memory.

# You have prayed to or sworn by [[Crystal Dragon Jesus]].

# You've written a book report on ''[[Sailor Nothing]]''.

# Most Science Fiction makes you want to cry "'''[[Space Does Not Work That Way]]!''' Good night!"

#* You tell people "[[You Fail Indexes Forever|You Fail [insert field of study here] Forever]]" whenever [[Did Not Do the Research|they say something inaccurate]].

#* You get pissed off that the person who added this item passed up the opportunity for a perfectly good reference to ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]''.

# You don't make plans for Christmas. You make [[Xanatos Gambit]]s. For family gatherings, you find these quickly become [[Gambit Roulette]]s. 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 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 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 that list isn't just a mental one.

#* It's on your resumé.

#* Or when you [[Ace Attorney|present conflicting evidence to a witness]] and think of All The Tropes.

# 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.

#* And [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]]. This one can go under [[Tropes Will Enhance Your Life (Sugar Wiki)|Tropes Will Enhance Your Life]] if you want to [[Geeky Turn On|impress]] or intimidate people.

#* Also [[Egregious]]

# 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.

#* Except for your best friends or household members, who find this perfectly normal behavior for you.

# 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 do date a fellow troper, and discuss tropes with them more often than your personal life.

#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 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.

# 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'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 are fully convinced that you've found one who is.

#* You've convinced yourself that you ''are'' the Time Lord.

# 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.

# 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]].

# Your [[Porn Stash]] is 50% [[Continuity Porn|continuity notes]] and 50% [[Scenery Porn|landscapes]].

# You've been here for three days.

#** Ladies and Gentletropers: [http://silvergryphon8.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d2bi751 A PhD 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]].

#* [[I Call It Vera]].

#* [[I Call Him "Mister Happy"]]. [[Unfortunate Implications|No wait...]]

# 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]].")

#** Your computer is less than two years old but it (meaning your OS or browser) starts to SLOW DOWN when you open new trope pages.

#*** Your computer is ''completely new'', yet the OS/browser STILL manages to be tremendously slowed down every time you're on this site.

#** You have so many tabs open that not only does your computer need to use the virtual memory file, ''the hard disk runs out of space'' because of said virtual file.

#*** You must be either running chrome or a 64-bit OS and browser (or just not have much space...)

#* Your computer crashes because you have too many trope pages open. FUCKING COMPUTER!!

# You spend four weeks just trying to think of something to write on this page.

# When you dream about tropes.

#* When you have nightmares about your examples being removed.

#* When you forget to eat lunch because you are too busy checking All The Tropes.

#** When you forget to sleep, for the above reason.

# 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).

# 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.

# 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]].

#* Someone has, and you now consider it a great day.

# When someone orders a [[Ham and Cheese|ham and cheese toastie]], you snigger a little.

#* You take ANY class and more than 50% of your notes are filled with tropes.

#* You take a media class and use All The Tropes as your only source (actually, that's probably a good idea).

# On Halloween, you went as a [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]].

# You actually think that there would be less [[troll]]ing if people would just indicate [[Sincerity Mode]] or [[Sarcasm Mode]].

# 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 never write for more than twenty minutes without saving.

#* You never do ''anything'' for twenty minutes without saving.

# You have the irresistible urge to add examples to this page.

#* And if you do, you click "Show Preview" to check if you got the coding right.

 

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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.

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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]]

 

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