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* NothingIsScarier. The pun that nothing is more scary than someone jumping out, and that this technique is the scariest one. --{{Tropers/Morgulion}}
* I just realize something about DarthWiki/DarthWiki, it fit to Vader/Anakin character. Darth Wiki is place part to have fun i and Vader is one of the coolest character, but Darth Wiki is also place for whining and Anakin (horever I disagree about that) was full of wangst in eyes of many fans. -- DeathCloud

* I just realize something about DarthWiki, it fit to Vader/Anakin character. Darth Wiki is place part to have fun i and Vader is one of the coolest character, but Darth Wiki is also place for whining and Anakin (horever I disagree about that) was full of wangst in eyes of many fans. -- DeathCloud

* When you read the trope DeadHorseGenre, you come to the realisation that: a.) practically anything and everything that ever got a lick of success anywhere in the world gets to be a DHG; b.) a lot of the styles mentioned as a DHG were competing against each other in the same pop culture space, and maybe were even ''concieved'' as an antidote or antithesis to another popular style; c.) if they were popular once, [[PopularityPolynomial they may well become popular again]] with at least ''somebody'', at least if given a new lease on life, and d.) becaue the styles did become [[DeaderThanDisco popular to the point of overkill]], HypeBacklash and a certain amount of FanDumb will always be a factor in the perception of those styles of music. The critics and tastemakers who declared them "dead" often ''were'' [[AscendedFan ascended fans]], after all, perhaps [[ItsPopularNowItSucks overreacting to a style's overexposure]], [[OpinionMyopia not neccessarily fans of the style (or fans of a different style) to begin with]], and/or [[SturgeonsLaw whining about the amount of below-average examples that inevitably rears its head as more and more people adopt that genre]].

* The reason why the ThatOneLevel, ThatOneAchivement, and ThatOneBoss tropes are called that? I realized it ment "Yeah, the game isn't hard, it's just that one level/achivement/boss."

* When TVTropes switched the default search device to Google I was annoyed considering how inaccurate Google can be. And there were all the reasons to consider (less wear on the server, spelling is less of a big deal, etc.) but none of them really sold me on it. Then I realized something: During TheGreatCrash what was [[NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup the main type of backup]] we had? Google caches.

* How long did it take you to realize that there's a reason the TVTropes logo has a [[LampshadeHanging lampshade hung]] on it?

* The trope name MindScrew is a Bowdlerised version of the phrase Mind F---.

* On the page for ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'', someone changed ChekhovsGun to Chekhov's Walkie-Talkie. This is a reference to the special edition where the guns were changed to walkie-talkies.
* When looking at the second entry of the [[YMMV/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic second entry]] under "OlderThanTheyThink" you read

** Not only that, but try pronouncing the name from its country of origin, Japan. It was pronounced as "Aerisu". Since the letter "u" in Japan is silent, it can also be pronounced "Aeris". And since in Japan the letter "l" and "r" can mix, the name can also pe pronounced as "Aelis", or "Alice".

* I just got the second meaning behind the trope title AerithAndBob. It's clear that it's meant to invoke the AliceAndBob page, but at first I thought it was just a random, but recognizable, odd fictional name. Then I remembered the long-standing (but ultimately false) rumor that [[FinalFantasyVII Aerith]]'s name was supposed to be "Alice," and the name makes even ''more'' sense.

--> Another good example, that's slightly less old, would be SailorMoon fans from the nighties gave way to pretty much the same reaction as we're getting now the whole "these guys are a pile of happy cigarettes" from the haters and a "it's the turning point of masculinity" from the fans side.

* At first, I didn't get the rationale behind InUniverseExamplesOnly, thinking that the only cases where that would apply would be works about a ShowWithinAShow which would severely limit the examples. I also wondered if these pages would ever even be proposed as tropes for storytelling as opposed to audience reactions, and thought it was just a cheap way to basically cut a page without cutting it by [[InNameOnly totally redefining it to something different than its original intent]]. Then I actually read some of the pages that were subjected to this treatment and discovered that not only are there a ''lot'' of ShowWithinAShow examples of things such as AdaptationDecay, but that there are a lot of other ways for audience reactions to be reflected in-universe. Maybe the characters just have the same reaction as the audience probably has to a situation, or maybe the show has NoFourthWall and directly comments on its own storytelling techniques. So making a page have InUniverseExamplesOnly doesn't cripple it nearly as much as I thought.

* On the page for ''ETTheExtraTerrestrial'', someone changed ChekovsGun to Chekov's Walkie-Talkie. This is a reference to the special edition where the guns were changed to walkie talkies.

* On the page for ETTheExtraTerrestrial, someone changed ChekovsGun to Chekov's Walkie-Talkie. This is a reference to the special edition where the guns were changed to walkie talkies.

* I just got the second meaning behind the trope title AerithAndBob. It's clear that it's meant to invoke the AliceAndBob page, but at first I thought it was just a random, but recognizable, odd fictional name. Then I remembered the long-standing (but ultimately false) rumor that Aerith's name was supposed to be "Alice," and the name makes even ''more'' sense.

** Not only that, but try pronouncing the name from its country of origin, Japan. It was pronounced as "Aerisu", which is also "Aeris". Since in Japan the letter "l" and "r" can mix, the name can also pe pronounced as "Aelis", or "Alice".

** Not only, that, but try pronouncing the name from its country of origin, Japan. It was read as "Aerisu", which is also "Aeris". Since in Japan the letter "l" and "r" can mix, the name can also pe pronounced as "Aelis", or "Alice".

** TheodoreSturgeon's short sci-fi story "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_Well_Lost The World Well Lost]]" is based on exactly this. In it an alien couple land on Earth and request asylum. They never reveal exactly why they're on the run, but everyone they meet are so touched by their relationship that they agree to help them. Later on it's revealed that [[spoiler:although they look like a straight couple to humans, they are in fact both male -- their females look completely different. They were on the run because their people disapproved of homosexuality, and they were relatively safe on Earth because, to their culture, Earth is a planet of [[DepravedHomosexual depraved homosexuals]] and best avoided.]]

* At first, I didn't get the rationale behind InUniverseExamplesOnly, thinking that the only cases where that would apply would be works about a ShowWithinAShow which would severely limit the examples. I also wondered if these pages would ever even be proposed as tropes for storytelling as opposed to audience reactions, and thought it was just a cheap way to basically cut a page without cutting it by [[InNameOnly totally redefining it to something different than its original intent]]. Then I actually read some of the pages that were subjected to this treatment and discovered that not only are there a ''lot'' of ShowWithinAShow examples of things such as AdaptationDecay, but that there are a lot of other ways for audience reactions to be reflected in-universe. Maybe the characters just have the same reaction as the audience probably has to a situation, or maybe the show has NoFourthWall and directly comments on its own storytelling techniques. So making a page have InUniverseExamplesOnly doesn't cripple it nearly as much as I thought.

* The trope name MindScrew is a Bowdlerised version of the phrase Mind F---.

* When you read the trope DeadHorseGenre, you come to the realisation that: a.) practically anything and everything that ever got a lick of success anywhere in the world gets to be a DHG; b.) a lot of the styles mentioned as a DHG were competing against each other in the same pop culture space, and maybe were even ''concieved'' as an antidote or antithesis to another popular style; c.) if they were popular once, [[PopularityPolynomial they may well become popular again]] with at least ''somebody'', at least if given a new lease on life, and d.) many different styles seem to [[start out as a breath of fresh air, become popular, [[FollowTheLeader a lot of artists copy the style until it becomes overexposed]], then HypeBacklash settles in.