Have you ever read an examples list and came across an example that made you think, "Wait, that thing really has a page?"
We call ourselves an "all devouring" wiki for a reason. As There Is No Such Thing as Notability and Work Pages Are a Free Launch, there are many pages on the most obscure or nigh-tropeless things that you wouldn't expect to see pages on.
Feel free to add anything you can think of.
Contrast List of Shows That Need Summary, works that you would expect to have pages but don't.
You might be surprised that these things have pages:
- Big Bill Hell's is a one-minute parody car commercial that aired in the 1990's, yet it has at least 20 tropes.
- Bomb Report is a not-so-well-known website about Box Office Bombs with little in the way of narrative in the articles, yet it has its own page.
- Common Sense Media is a review website with nothing really in the way of storytelling, but it has a decent trope page.
- Conway's Game of Life has almost no narrative, characterization or theme, yet it has a total of 37 tropes listednote as of August 30, 2023.
- CrazyBus barely even counts as a video game, since its only point of interaction is to move buses left and right, thus giving it nothing storytelling-related to work with. It somehow has 20 tropes listed.
- The Emojis are just symbols without a narrative, and yet they still have a page.
- The fact that we have a ton of pages on Fan Art creators might come as a surprise to those who don't see a fictional narrative in their artwork.
- Grand Piano Keys is just an Arcade Game about hitting the piano. Quite a few people have played it, but few people are active fans of it, so one might not expect it to have such a decent page.
- HeadOn is a single 15-second ad that somehow has 10 tropes listed.
- The Health Hotline commercials are known for their Clip-Art Animation, but that's about it. They still have a page documenting however many tropes there can be in two minute-long commercials.
- Hemingway's Six-Word Story is six words long, probably wasn't actually written by Hemingway, and may or may not qualify as a story. It has a dozen tropes as of writing, giving it a trope-to-word ratio of 2.
- iDog is a toy that you connected to your iPod, allowing it to play music and dance. It had absolutely no plot apart from "your dog loves to listen to music!", yet its trope page has 12 tropes listed as of 2023.
- A Million Random Digits With 100,000 Normal Deviates is just a long list of randomly generated numbers. It still has eight tropes listed.
- The My Special Book page was created before we had any footage of the show. At the time, we had one picture, an episode list, and some people's vague memories of the show, but it still somehow got a page on the wiki.
- The NOW That's What I Call Music! series of music albums does not comprise any storytelling elements and it consists of already-existing songs by other artists, and yet it has a page.
- The Passage of Venus is a "film" that's actually just a brief sequence of photographs of Venus transiting the Sun. Or, to be precise, a model of Venus transiting the Sun - the real version has yet to be found. Seven tropes.
- p#blm is a collection of Author Tract Text Walls formatted as Gigachad memes that were originally posted to the /bant/ board of 4chan.
- Pie Face! is one of the most simple tabletop games out there and it has no story, but someone remembered it existed and decided to give it a page.
- puppetaemon is a web series with (to date) less than 20 followers and only one very short video. It already has a page, if a rather short one.
- Rimini Riddle, due to very little of the show having surfaced. What we knew came from clips, production stills, and people's vague memories of watching the series as children, and yet it manages to meet the "at least 10 tropes" criteria for a good trope page.
- Roundhay Garden Scene: Only a couple seconds long and is just people walking. Has a page, somehow.
- Scelus' Path is an RPG Maker game that can no longer be downloaded from the Internet, is mentioned nowhere on the creator’s website, has no footage or Let’s Plays of it anywhere, and the TV Tropes page is the only evidence it ever existed at all. It still has 24 tropes on its page. Normally, Unpublished Works do not count for this page, but since this work did exist at one point before becoming lost media, and since there is evidence of its existence (the page image is a screenshot of game footage) it was originally in the Video Game namespace before being moved by discussion.
- Simple Samosa has almost no active Periphery Demographic even within its native India, despite having over 100 episodes to its name as of 2020. It has over 100 tropes listed, added by American fans.
- Space Fantasy Commemorative Stamp Booklet: Yes. A page about a booklet of five stamps.
- Tic-Tac-Toe is a really simple game with no story at all, that can be played on the span of 10 seconds with no more than paper and pencil, and still has a page with 11 tropes, and also adaptations and media appearances.
- The Ugly Barnacle is a two-sentence-long story told by Patrick Star in one episode of SpongeBob SquarePants. It has over 100 tropes listed despite its length.
- Vive Sin Drogas is just a couple of rap songs about drugs with not much in the way of a narrative. It's still able to have a decent page.
- Webdriver Torso is just colored rectangles flashing on the screen with sine waves playing in the background. It has over 20 tropes listed and quite a few people have edited it.
- A Year at the Top is completely unavailable save for the theme song, a 24-second promo, and several on-set photos. It still has a page.
