Just For Fun / [Work Name]

"Quote from a character that describes the work's tone and themes."

— Character

"Some funny quote that This Troper likes."

—Character

"Long list of complaints from a Caustic Critic"

—Someone who really didn't like the work

"Another quote that awkwardly pushes the image down, because the quotes are put above it in the source rather than below it."

—Whoever

''“Cryptic quote from the work.”^CharactersList of characters, usually L-R or clockwise.

Dubious claim near the top of the page that this work is the XYZ of its genre.

Describe work here.

Description of the work's genre, release date, and production staff.^note If the work is a manga, anime or light novel, the description will go after the synopsis.

Cheesy summary that sounds like a cross between an elevator pitch and the inside of a book jacket.

Brief synopsis of the plot that isn't brief enough, as it gets to the point where spoilers are necessary even though they are not allowed in work descriptions. Synopsis partly or entirely lifted wholesale from The Other Wiki or elsewhere on the Internet by a lazy editor who simply doesn't give a damn about the repercussions of getting TVTropes into legal trouble.

List of all the main characters, which is probably redundant given the existence of a characters subpage.

Description of the work's reception, including YMMV links that don't belong. Mention of an internet Caustic Critic's review of this work.

Emphasis on the work subverting the conventions and/or being a Deconstruction of its genre. A note on the notability of the work and what it is notable for doing. Dubious claims about the work's wider influence, importance, innovation, and/or popularity. Barely concealed fan-gushing that reads like ad copy.

Long list of every piece of news regarding this work, mentioning the dates on which every relevant announcement was ever made. You know, just in case someone really wanted to know that a few years ago, the creator made a Twitter post saying that a new trailer would be dropping soon.

A link to The Other Wiki's page on this work. A link to the official website for the work. A link to a trailer on YouTube.

Demand to give money to the creator's Patreon site, either added by the creator who desperately needs the money and resorted to begging on TV Tropes, or a hyper-zealous fan who thinks that merely reading this trope page will make you want to throw your money at the author.

Compare some similar works. Not to be confused with parody trope page making essentially the same joke.

A mention of the subpages for this work, even though you could find them by just scrolling up.

Request to add character-specific Tropes to the Characters page.

Request to add episode-specific tropes to the Recap page.

Request to take your personal complaints to the Dethroning Moment of Suck page.

Warning in bold text that there is a high chance of unmarked spoilers below (however, spoilers are nearly all tagged anyway).

Or: 500 paragraphs about the lore of the work, and you don't even know what the title of the work is, who created it, or when it came out until the last sentence of the last paragraph.

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[Work Name] contains the following tropes:

[Beginning of the index markup, which makes this trope list an index. Because someone who has read a trope page and is looking for related tropes will be interested in other tropes that appear in a random work. It's unclear why this happens. Maybe someone thought this work was really important and needed an index? Maybe someone for whatever reason copied and pasted a page featuring an index?]

• The Abridged Series: Now has one.
• Trope: Explanation
• Trope - Explanation
• Trope (Explanation)
• Trope Explanation
• Trope [Explanation]
• Trope
  Explanation
• Trope; Explanation
• Trope :; -
  ([Explanation])
• Action Girl: Main female character. Even though this is true for every female character in the show, and World of Action Girls is a better fit. Also duplicated on the Character page.
  • Poorly-indented sub bullets listing
  • All the other female characters
  • Inverted with a Non-Action Guy
• Adult Fear:
  • Nightmare Fuel entry involving a terrible fantastic monster, inserted here because it might have harmed some offscreen children and/or goes after a child onscreen, and Death of a Child = instant Adult Fear.
  • Fridge Horror-filled overhyping of minor bad event that occurred, talking about how bad it would be if that happened in real life, in an attempt to make the work seem more serious.
• Adaptation trope that spoils the source for people who have only seen the adaptation.
• Adaptation trope that's essentially production trivia and should probably go in the trivia tab.
• Trope
  • To elaborate...
    • To clarify on the elaboration...
    • Actually...
    • Astonishingly clueless troper asking in the middle of a work page why typing more bullets doesn't work.
• Trope: Spoilers that are completely hidden, so you have no way of knowing if they're for an episode you've already seen.
• Author Tract: Some vague remark that explains literally nothing about how the trope applies to the work. May be stealth Complaining.
• Trope: [spoiler:Major spoiler about the work that's not hidden because someone messed up the markup and didn't bother to check if they got it right. May be near the top so people who click on this page see it and get spoiled.]
• Trope: You know someone feels strongly about this trope because its name is in bold. Very non-neutral explanation bordering on complaining or gushing.
• Character-specific trope that belongs on the character page.
• Trope C: See Trope D down below.
• Trope with a link to a YMMV page that should be removed.
• Trope A / Trope B: These two should be split into different bullet points but aren't.
  • Subtrope: Badly-indented to show that it's related to the above.
• Trope that's not alphabetized correctly.
• Trope D: See Trope C up above.
• Trope E: See Trope F below (Trope F was removed for being misused, leaving this example lacking in context).
• "Clever" renaming: Trope that uses potholes to change the name to be more accurate to the specific example, even though that's not allowed. Possibly tries to make the trope name so accurate it (almost) becomes a substitute for a proper description.
• Another "cleverly" renamed trope: That also changes a significant part of the trope's definition, because Tropes Are Flexible, so any arbitrary change can be made to any trope.
• Super awesome trope combo fusion: Multiple tropes on one bullet point with a completely new name made up.
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: Alice and Bob. She's the Tsundere, he's the Jerk with a Heart of Gold. No further context is necessary.
• Big Bad: The antagonist's name. No further context is necessary. Name of real antagonist, also with no context- use of few words makes it clear that supposed antagonist is a Disc-One Final Boss.
• Bonus Boss entry that hasn't been moved to Superboss, Optional Boss, or one of the latter's relevant subtropes. It was added after the split.
• Title Tropes with no narrative value or purpose.
• A bunch of tropes from whatever the Signature Scene or episode is.
• Cerebus Syndrome: It's not a serial work, but Cerebus Syndrome is when a work has a dramatic climax and a less-dramatic beginning, right?
• Some indexes and disambiguation pages misused as tropes.
  • Badly-indented list
  • Of every trope
  • In the index
  • That also happens in the work.
• Trope: Happens in one episode. The example doesn't tell you which episode, so you have to Archive Trawl to figure out which one. Should probably be put in the Recap page instead (if only you knew which episode to put it under).
• Badly-indented Five-Man Band example that probably doesn't fit, has way too many members, and doesn't bother to explain how each character fits their role:
  • The Leader
  • The Lancer/The Smart Guy: Both are the same character, but it still counts, right?
  • The Big Guy
  • The Chick, which nobody ever changed to The Heart after The Chick became a disambiguation page.
  • Sixth Ranger / Sixth Ranger Traitor: Spoilering that second trope totally doesn't give away the plot twist. It's not like this is the most likely spoiler to be associated with that trope.
  • Team Pet
  • Tagalong Kid
  • Team Mom
  • Sixth Ranger again for some reason
• Hate Sink example that doesn't really fit, and was just added to complain about the character.
  • Hate Sink example that is just the villain of the work.
  • Hate Sink example for a character who most likely fits, but the entry is written like a Complete Monster writeup that lists the character’s litany of evil deeds instead of their loathsome traits.
• Knight of Cerebus:
  • Entry written like a Complete Monster entry listing this villain's litany of evil deeds, even though Cerebus Syndrome doesn't apply to the work.
  • Entry not-so-subtly gushing about how cooler, edgier, and more effective this villain is in comparison to the others.
  • Entry for a villain played 100% seriously with no comedic moments whatsoever, without mentioning how they permanently darken the tone of the work.
• A trope from the "most recent" installment of the work. (As of at least 6 years ago.)
• Trope
  • Declaration that the trope is actually averted due to new information from a recent episode, in such a way that even listing it as an aversion or subversion wouldn't make sense (such as a character previously thought to be Ambiguously Gay being revealed to be actually gay).
• Trope: Provides the page image and/or quote. Except the image/quote on that page has been changed and the example is no longer correct.
• An example that was written entirely in past tense. This was a violation of the wiki's rules, which specifically required the usage of present tense. This example needed to be changed to present tense, but no one had changed it.
• Useful Notes page erroneously listed as a trope, even though an actual trope exists that deals with similar subject matter.
• Guide Dang It!: Something that is clearly explained or demonstrated to the player, but the troper who wrote this entry simply failed to pick up on it.
• Thing: Something that isn't even a trope and doesn't have a page, so there's just plain black text instead of a Wiki Word.
• Trope That Is Not Omnipresent: Averted in Episode 12, where nothing like this happens, nobody expected it to happen, and the trope's absence has no clear impact on the story.
• Trope: Played with in some unspecified way. Probably Zig-Zagged or Downplayed.
• Example where pronouns referring to a character are spoilered out, as revealing foo gender either immediately makes it obvious which character is being referred to or is a spoiler in and of itself. However, if it's to conceal the character's identity, and there's a Minimalist Cast or near-Chromosome Casting, you've already placed your bets on who it is by now. And God help you if you can guess what pronoun it is just by looking at the length of the spoiler box.
• Trope: This trope is Subverted. And the very presence of this spoiler immediately lets you know it's actually Double Subverted.
• Trope: Double Subverted. I'm not trying anymore.
• Spoilery quote which hides the event that makes the quote a spoiler to avoid having to hide the character involved:
  Bob: Hello, I am your friend Bob. How are you doing today? I am going to kill you!
• Spoilery quote which hides the identity of the character involved with the spoiler to avoid having to hide the event:
  Bob: Hello, I am your friend Bob. How are you doing today? I am going to kill you!
• Comically Missing the Point example added only to complain about something the creator did, e.g. "We sure hope Creator was using this trope when, in response to hordes of fans requesting a sub-arc focusing on Charlie, they made a sub-arc revolving around Alice."
• An example with a Long List that potholes to, in the following order: Department of Redundancy Department, Rule of Three, Overly Long Gag and Viewers Are Goldfish.
• A bunch of tropes for the sequel that should probably get its own page, but won't because that would be too much effort.
• Trope: Two or three word description like "played straight" or "does this" or "character is this" that contains essentially no information beyond the fact that this trope appears in this work.
• Some Type Of Fan Work: Elaborate description of a transformative work based on this work, which shouldn't be on this page on account of none of this stuff appears in this work.
• Some Trope: Assertion that this work is the Trope Namer, or provides the page's image or quote, or some other bit of TV Tropes trivia (which, if you check the trope page, has about a 40% chance to no longer be the case), and no description whatsoever as to how this work constitutes an example of the trope.
• A trope from the Writing Pitfall Index.
  • Insistence that Tropes Are Tools, and justification why it wasn't that much of a pitfall in this instance.
• Example that is specified to be In-Universe, despite being of a trope that is already in-universe by default.
• Audience Reaction that has an invoked tag on it to prevent the YMMV symbol from appearing, even though it doesn't actually happen In-Universe, because this opinion is so widespread it should be treated as objective fact. invoked
• Trope Name: Trope example that links to the trope's subpage for this work's medium.
• Wham Episode/Line/Shot/Whatever:
  • The trailer revealing the work's title and premise.
  • Heavily foreshadowed plot twist.
  • Long list of every single episode/chapter/section with a scene that is surprising to the fans of the work, but has no major effect on the story itself.
    Quote of the Wham Line that's entirely spoiled out, but makes no sense whatsoever out of context.
• Trope That Does Not Appear In This Work: Subverted by virtue of not doing this trope. There's no Bait-and-Switch aspect, it just doesn't happen, which is a subversion.
• Example that spoiler-tags one word which is relevant, plus several other words which clearly exist only to pad it out, thereby preventing a Self-Fulfilling Spoiler.
• Some Other Trope: Character does this in some situation that has nothing in particular to do with the trope and is seemingly being mentioned solely to remind people who have already seen the work what part of the story this trope appeared in.
• Trope: Example that uses a clickable note^*but then for some reason types twice as many characters to make it a labelnote of a single asterisk instead of just using regular note markup for whatever reason.
• A dozen examples that desperately need to be crosswicked.
• Trope: Notice that this is the Trope Namer, but that it's actually not an example.
• Trope: Example of a trope.
  • Unnecessary natter that, when you check the edit history to send a notifier, will turn out to have been added by the same person and in the same edit as the example it's sloppily pasted on to.
• Berserk Button:
  • Do not do [thing] to, near, or around [character].^note And that's it! That's all the context you get!
  • Don't threaten [character]'s loved ones. Because rage would not be the default reaction to such a situation.
  • Thing character gets mad about once.
  • Long list of every single thing that has pissed off this character, even though they would better fit Hair-Trigger Temper.
• Trope entry that's duplicated from one above because the trope was combined together with three other tropes. Written by different people years apart, as the two entries have very different interpretations of the same scene.
• Trope: Detailed example of some trope. Tacked-on notice that this example becomes Harsher in Hindsight later, because apparently this is the place to note that.
• Trope: Example that conceals the name of the trope in a spoiler tag, so readers won’t know what the trope even is without spoiling themselves.
• Generic Doomsday Villain: Villain listed as a Complete Monster that This Troper personally dislikes.
• Karma Houdini: Example about a villain whose arc is still ongoing. May or may not be removed after they are defeated.
  • Example about a character This Troper feels didn't get enough comeuppance.
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome:
  • Something realistic that happened in this work. Nothing led the viewer to believe that a realistic outcome wouldn't happen in this work, but it's just fun to gush about how real our favorite works are, isn't it?^note  This entry was likely moved entirely from an entry under "Reality Ensues" after its rename, despite being the exact misuse that got the trope renamed at all.
  • Example of a character dealing with trauma or mental health in a serious way so the troper can show how much more mature, dark and realistic this work is compared to other works of similar genres.
  • Example involving the "realistic" consequences of a trope that's impossible in real life. Might be just a dark and edgy take on the trope.
  • Example of a fantastical element having unexpected negative consequences. How this constitutes a "realistic" outcome of the fantastical element is unclear, what with the fantastical element being fantastical and not real.
• Trope: This work uses the trope so much, it deserves its own page. The troper adding this comment isn't actually going to make a subpage for all the examples, mind you - they just wanted to gush.
• Incorrectly alphabetized trope that was seemingly slapped here at random, far from where it's supposed to be. It turns out that this is a Renamed Trope, and whoever replaced the wick didn't bother to change the alphabetization.
• Link to a creator or work page being listed as if the creator or work were a trope. Because referencing a work at some point is in and of itself a trope, and totally not the same thing as Shout-Out or Referenced by....
• A Useful Notes page being used as if it were a trope.
• Video Game Settings:
  • Multiple Tropes
  • From That Index
  • Are Listed Here
  • In Violation Of
  • Example Indentation in Trope Lists
• Trope: Invoked when the trope happens. (Consciously set up by a character? What's that?) Justified because of how it contributed to the narrative structure. (In-universe explanation? What's that?)
• Trope: Example saying the trope was partially subverted.
• Trope: A spoiler is not only concealed in a spoiler tag, but made more vague than it needs to be. In case someone who hasn't seen the work clicks it because they can't hold their curiosity.
• Trope That Was Given A Premature Launch That A Moderator Unlaunched Leaving A Red Link On The Page
• Trope: An example that links to a YouTube video that is now unavailable, hope you know enough about the series to find a replacement video!
• Trope: It's an [obscure creator] specialty! Of course there's going to be this trope in it!
• Trope describing a song (like Grief Song or Bravado Song) that drops the song's name and doesn't tell you about what it's actually about.
• Trope describing a song that just quotes a portion of lyrics without context.
• This Trope: Averted; in a situation where you'd expect ABC characteristics of This Trope, they instead do XYZ.^note XYZ happens to be the exact definition of That Trope, so this event should really be listed as a straight example of That Trope instead of an aversion of This Trope, but That Trope is mentioned exactly nowhere in this example's text, suggesting that whoever added it has no idea That Trope exists.
• Some Trope: Averted: description of a sequence of events which, while avoiding some of the more common connotations of Some Trope, is still very clearly a straight example of it.
• Example that spoiler-tags the Inciting Incident.
• Example that does not spoiler-tag the Inciting Incident.
• Badass Adorable: This ass-kicking character doesn't look like they would inspire parental instincts, but just look at their endearingly awkward interactions with their crush!
• Example that lacks a period at the end that you really, really want to add, yet simultaneously is small enough to justify you not adding one
• Informed Attribute: Averted, the attribute is explicit.
• Mildly-unusual statement. Completely unnecessary "Not Making This Up" Disclaimer.
• Trope Which Is Not About Dialogue: Character says the trope name in episode. This is definitely an example of the trope and not completely unrelated.
• Example that complains about some controversy the work had before it came out and everyone has already forgotten about since then.

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The Stinger, probably containing some joke or vague line that only makes sense in context. Probably a pothole to TV Tropes Will Ruin Your Life somewhere in there.

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This work provides the following video examples:

• Some videos with spoilers in them, because the spoilers happened 5 years ago and It Was His Sled.
• Video that depicts the trope extremely well, but has a single word that makes it a spoiler. There's probably a heated debate over whether that one word warrants removing the video, or if it's overkill.
• A dozen videos about the same extremely minor character, added by an obsessive fan to make them seem more important than they are.
• A video that seems extremely strange to someone unfamiliar with the work. The weirdness distracts from the actual trope, which is a relatively minor part of the video.
• A video with a watermark from the illegal website they watched it on, complete with horizontal mirroring and 144p.
• Lengthy video containing several tropes. An identical, untrimmed copy has been re-uploaded in its entirety under each trope so depicted.
• Lengthy video containing several tropes. An identical, untrimmed copy has been re-uploaded in its entirety under each trope so depicted.
• Lengthy video containing several tropes. An identical, untrimmed copy has been re-uploaded in its entirety under each trope so depicted.
• Lengthy video containing several tropes. An identical, untrimmed copy has been re-uploaded in its entirety under each trope so depicted.
• Lengthy video containing several tropes, which was uploaded prior to the implementation of the "secondary trope" system and instead tagged most of them as the "media source". The uploader presumably feels very smart and vindicated that an action which looked slightly silly when they did it is now formally canonized as the proper way to do things.
• Short video that fits several tropes.
• The same short video, but under a different trope.
• The same short video, but under another different trope.
• The same short video, but under a fourth different trope. Did the uploader just love this scene so much?
• A video that depicts an entire online short that managed to slip through the cracks by technically being under 150 seconds.
• Video from a Let's Play or MST that is listed on both the page of the work being watched and the person watching the work.
• Video from a fanwork (probably DEATH BATTLE!) that lists its inspiration as a work source, even though the video isn't actually from it and doesn't even use any footage from it.
• Video that's not from the work, but from a different transformative work that discusses or uses footage from the work, such as a Video Review Show, Analysis Channel or YouTube Poop.
• Several videos from the same episode/scene, many of which feature overlapping footage. Bonus if they illustrate the same trope.
• Multiple videos that happen to illustrate a popular fetish, such as Balloon Belly or Inflating Body Gag, making you wonder if the person who uploaded it cared more about the trope or their... personal interests.
• Several videos of the same gameplay trope (Limit Break, Combination Attack, what have you) as executed by each of the many characters in this work.

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