General version:
Hello, troper. I want to play a game.Is it Skylanders? 'Cause I know a thing or two.
Er, no. You've spent your life chronicling and reading of the lives of others, instead of living your own. Spent it locked in a basement room. You should feel at home where I've placed you today.
You put me in front of a computer. I still feel cozy.
I offer you a chance to redeem yourself. And you'll even get a chance to put your skills to good use.
As in make a story?
On the main page is a partial list of the tropes I've invoked in the movies amusingly depicting my efforts. If you can complete it — all of it, filling it with every cliché used for two seconds in my movies — you will go free.
Oh, you mean the Saw movies.
You see? TV Tropes Will Enhance Your Life, by allowing you to continue living it. Sadly, if the list is not completed to my satisfaction... Wait, where are you? And why do I have half a ton of solid metal hanging over me? Oh no, I'm in the wrong room.
You have one hour, Jiggy. Time for karma to pay the dues.
Send help! I've been kidnapped!
YMMV version:
Hello, there, troper.I wrote this note as an...cry for help, of sorts, as I am also stuck with an anvil dangling above my head because of a deranged maniac pulling a reverse UNO card on me. If you are reading this, it is because, while adding tropes to the main page of my films, you added... a YMMV item.
You know full well of the consequences doing so, yet you put the trope on the main page anyway, foolhardy in your beliefs as to how widespread your opinion was.
Well now you have one last shot at redemption. Below is a partial listing, started by those who came before and made the same grave mistake as you, of subjective tropes found in my films. If you wish to help me help you escape our common predicament, you must complete this list, before the anvils drop on both of us. Mine is closer than yours now, troper, but luckily for you, there are fewer subjective tropes than tropes that belong on the main page.
And remember, troper, all of these items are subjective; if you do not take into account the opinions of those who disagree with you while adding examples, we will not succeed.
Your opinions brought you here, and now you must put them on display for all to see if you wish to help us escape with our lives.
Live or die, troper.
Make your tropes.
