History Website / TVTropes

* DarkerAndEdgier: The Useful Notes sections, detailing more darker facets about reality than fiction.

* HurricaneOfPuns: Just read the JustForPun index.

* IncrediblyLamePun: Plenty. Often potholed.

* BreakingTheFourthWall / LeaningOnTheFourthWall: An editor of the site will introduce their self as "ThisTroper".

* LighterAndSofter: Essentially TV Tropes is Wikipedia, only more grounded about fiction then reality.
** And of course, there's SugarWiki, where all the positive opinions go to.

** Equally, a lot of links to TV Tropes are treated this way, and come with messages like "[[JustOneMoreLevel Hope you didn't have anything to do this afternoon!]]"

* LampshadeHanging: For pages about tropes, their will a folder section for TV Tropes, lampshading how TV Tropes uses the trope explained on the page in some fashion. Very meta.

* ArtifactTitle: It started with TV ([[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]] in particular). Nowadays it encompasses all media.

** Of course, there's also Darth Wiki, where all the negative opinions go to. And a couple of other dark stuff.

** And of course, there's Sugar Wiki, where all the positive opinions go to.

** UncannyValley: Clicking links on this page is just inviting a creep-out.

** UncannyValley: Clicking links on this page is just inviting a creep-out. [[text:white in-universe]]

** UncannyValley: Clicking links on this page is just inviting a creep-out.

* SelfDemonstratingArticle: A whole {{index}} of them.

If you're not a regular here, TVTropes is a {{wiki}} documenting in a fairly informal manner, the various conventions of fiction.

* BreakingTheFourthWall / LeaningOnTheFourthWall: An editor of the site will introduce their self as "This Troper".

* SelfDemonstratingArticle: A whole index of them.
* WikiWalk: It's a {{wiki}}, what else would you expect?

If you're not a regular here, TV Tropes is a wiki documenting in a fairly informal manner, the various conventions of fiction.

Of course, like any sizeable work, we've collected our own fair share of tropes.

* WikiWalk: It's a wiki, what else would you expect?

* BrowserNarcotic: TVTropes is not the first entry on the list for nothing.
* CrackIsCheaper: Depending on how much your Internet access costs and / or how much money you're not making by staying at home and reading this site instead of going out and getting a job, it might be cheaper than spending all your time at TVTropes.
* CrowningMomentOfFunny: Has [[Funny/TVTropes its own page.]]

* [[GatewaySeries Gateway Website]]: A side-effect of the site's primary function.
** See also: TVTropesAsAGatewayDrug

* [[JustOneMoreLevel Just One More Trope]]: So, how many hours have you spent here today?

* MemeticMutation: We have [[Memes/TVTropes our own page of them.]]

!!'''Tropes in TV Tropes:'''

* BrowserNarcotic: TV Tropes is not the first entry on the list for nothing.
* CrackIsCheaper: Depending on how much your Internet access costs and / or how much money you're not making by staying at home and reading this site instead of going out and getting a job, it might be cheaper than spending all your time at TV Tropes.

* BreakingTheFourthWall / LeaningOnTheFourthWall: A editor of the site will introduce theirself at times, calling theirself "This Troper".

** See also: TV TropesAsAGatewayDrug

* [[GatewaySeries Gateway Website]]

* MindScrew: At least half the entries in Wild Mass Guessing.

* CrackIsCheaper: Depending on how much your Internet access costs, it might be cheaper than spending all your time at TV Tropes.

** EarWorm -- Prepare to be hearing the piece of music from that link for the rest of the day.
** {{Rickroll}} -- Do we really need to explain this one?
** UncannyValley -- Clicking links on this page is just inviting a creep-out.

* YouCanNeverLeave: With entries on BrowserNarcotic and JustOneMoreLevel, is it surprising?

* CrowningMomentOfFunny: Has [[Funny/TVTropes it's own page.]]

* JustOneMoreLevel: So, how many hours have you spent here today?