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4# You are now rereading this list, for the Nth time.
5# [[JustForFun/TVTropesAsAGatewayDrug You find almost all your new fiction from this site]].
6# You open Wikipedia to research on a series you heard about that sounds interesting, then say 'Wait, what am I doing?' and open TV Tropes instead.
7# You are so trope savvy, the mere thought of any of the DrinkingGame/{{TV Tropes Wiki Drinking Game}}s gives you a hangover from the last time you tried one.
8# You think the following are appropriate names for children:
9** Series/{{Buffy|the Vampire Slayer}}
10** [[Series/{{Firefly}} River]]
11** [[WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}} Xanatos]]
12** [[WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}} Goliath]]
13** [[ComicBook/CerebusTheAardvark Cerebus]]
14** [[GratuitousPrincess Princess]]
15** [[AerithAndBob Aerith]][[note]]Which would be pretty ironic, given what the trope is about[[/note]]
16** [[TheStarscream Star]][[Franchise/{{Transformers}} scream]][[note]]That one's just a bad omen[[/note]]
17** [[Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya Haruhi (for a girl) and Kyon (for a boy)]][[note]]Haruhi is a normal Japanese first name, Kyon isn't.[[/note]]
18** [[Manga/DeathNote Light]]
19** [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Kamina]] (for a boy)
20** [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Archer, Saber, Lancer, Caster, Rider, Assassin and Berserker]]
21** [[Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt Antimony]]
22** [[Anime/CodeGeass Lelouch (for a boy) or Nunally (for a girl)]]
23** [[Series/DoctorWho Stormageddon]]
24** [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Twilight Sparkle, Applejack, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, and Pinkie Pie]]
25** [[WesternAnimation/PawPatrol Ryder, Marshall, Rubble, Chase, Rocky, Zuma, Skye, Everest, and Tracker]]
26** [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 Lion, Fulgrim, Pertutabo, Jaghatai, Leman, Rogal, Sanguinius, Ferrus Manus, Roboute, Mortarion, Magnus, Horus, Lorgar, Corax, and especially Alpharius]][[note]]If you notice someone missing; Konrad is a relatively normal name in Germany[[/note]]
27*** Or Literature/CiaphasCain, '''[=HERO OF THE IMPERIUM=]'''. Bonus points if "Hero of the Imperium" is an actual part of their name.
28** WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}
29** VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}
30** Manga/{{Naruto}}
31** [[Manga/OnePiece Luffy]]
32** [[Manga/MyHeroAcademia Deku, Ochaco, Pinky, or Froppy]]
33** [[Film/HappyDeathDay Tree]]
34** [[VideoGame/{{Undertale}} Frisk, Chara, Papyrus, Sans, Undyne, Alphys, Mettaton, Flowey, Asriel, Toriel, and Asgore]]
35** [[WesternAnimation/SagwaTheChineseSiameseCat Sagwa, Dongwa, Sheegwa, Hun-Hun, Wing-Wing, Lik-Lik and Jet-Jet]]
36** Anime/{{Hamtaro}}
37** [[WesternAnimation/ToadPatrol Fur Foot, Beauty Stem, Elf Cup, Shaggy Mane, Puffball, Oyster, Slippery Jack, Panther Cap, Earth Star and Mistle Toad]]
38** [[Franchise/StarWars Skywalker or Organa]]
39*** Or Anakin.
40*** Or Darth ''anything'' for that matter. Or just Darth.
41** [[Literature/{{Redwall}} Matthias (for a boy) or Cornflower (for a girl)]]
42** [[Franchise/HarryPotter Harry, Ronald, Ginevra, or some variant thereof (plus Hermione)]]
43** [[Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf Weslie, Paddi, Tibbie, Sparky, and Jonie]]
44** [[Music/TheUltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny Gandalf the Gray and Gandalf the White And Monty Python and the Holy Grail's Black Knight, and Benito Mussolini, and the Blue Meanie and Cowboy Curtis and Jambi the Genie Robocop, The Terminator, Captain Kirk and Darth Vader, Lo-Pan, Superman, every single Power Ranger, Bill S. Preston and Theodore Logan, Spock, The Rock, Doc Ock and Hulk Hogan]]
45** [[Anime/SmilePrecure Miyuki, Emily, Akane, Kelsey, Yayoi, Lily, Nao, April, Reika, and Chloe]]
46** But you will '''''KILL''''' anyone who calls your kids [[TheScrappy Scrappy]]. No playground insult can be as horrendous as those.
47# You think the IdiotBall is a real thing. And you think the [[Franchise/StargateVerse Goa'uld]] have Idiot Ba'als.
48# If anyone criticizes something, you tell them, "Stop Administrivia/ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike."
49# You snicker whenever someone orders a "Harvey Wallbanger".
50# You ''never'' have to ask "Administrivia/DoWeHaveThisOne".
51# You forget Jesus is the son of God (if you're Christian) or twenty-fourth prophet of God (if you're Muslim), and think he's the god of [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory Purgatory]]. And you think he habitually manifests as a [[CrystalDragonJesus crystalline dragon]].
52# You wonder why ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'' was canceled, but you just heard of ''Series/TheLoveBoat'', since that page is so recent.
53# [[SpellMyNameWithAThe You think first names have "The" as a prefix.]]
54# You really wonder if you have ''literally'' seen a trope a million times.
55# You want to shield your children, not from sex or from drugs, but from NightmareFuel.
56# You can identify the approximate age of any trope.
57# If you're a writer:
58** You apply the Litmus Test to every character, just to make sure you ''never'' have one.
59** You think about what tropes you are using in your works and fantasize about the day when your work will have examples on this site.
60** You ''deliberately'' fall back on tropes in your work just so it will be mentioned on TV Tropes one day.
61** You dream of the day your quotes will be found on TV Tropes, or you just cut out the middleman and put them on DarthWiki/UnpublishedWorks yourself.
62** You don't write because you're too scared of the ClicheStorm.
63** You frequently get story inspiration from TV Tropes.
64** When you need writing ideas, you click the Random Item button above.
65** You've thought of writing a story about a town where [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs sitting on chairs]] is considered bad etiquette, as opposed to sitting on the floor, just to prove that you can give a meaning to that action.
66** You write lists of tropes which apply to your characters or stories.
67** You [[AnyOneCanDie kill off characters]] in the first book for [[SarcasmMode fun]].
68# You will use the word "wank" in highly unusual contexts. [[note]]Not applicable in Commonwealth countries (except maybe Canada).[[/note]]
69# You use tropes to describe yourself and your friends, rather than actual traits.
70# You will go into [=McDonald's=] and order a MacGuffin.[[note]]Although if you order an EggMacGuffin during breakfast hours, they might deliver something similar...[[/note]]
71** And you can do it so seamlessly that the employee doesn't notice.
72*** Or the employee, with a knowing look, recognizes you as a fellow troper.
73** You've had to deliver something, and upon arrival, you say to the friend/customer service person/recipient [[MacGuffinDeliveryService "I brought you the MacGuffin"]].
74** When unable to finish your [=McDonald's=] fries, you tell your friends ImDyingPleaseTakeMyMacGuffin.
75** In fact, you don't even say "[=McDonald's=]" but "[=WcDonalds=]".
76# You will inappropriately find strokes to be [[{{Narm}} humorous]], but as you did a [[HarsherInHindsight "Funny Aneurysm" Moment]], you feel appropriately guilty afterwards.
77# You add hyperlinks to your internal dialogue.
78** In addition, your external dialogue contains weird inflections as you pronounce the [[ColourCodedForYourConvenience blue]]ed text.
79** In addition to ''that'' addition, you have mastered applying the Administrivia/AllBlueEntry to your external dialogue.
80# You start applying your own FanonDiscontinuity to real life.
81** [[HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct ...Except for the Holocaust.]]
82** GodwinsLaw!
83# You become pleasantly surprised when your GenreSavvy is {{wrong|GenreSavvy}} because a given movie/series has pulled off a good TrickTwist.
84# You wish you were crazy enough to come up with an example for a given WildMassGuessing page, or tropes like AlternativeCharacterInterpretation.
85** You ''are'' crazy enough to come up with an example for a given WildMassGuessing page, or tropes like AlternateCharacterInterpretation.
86# When the question of naming your trope "Playing Xanatos Ball With The Dog", "Normal Name", or "Super Cool But Hard To Write Name" takes up hours of thought and discussion.
87# When you don't have to look up how to spell {{Phlebotinum}}.
88# JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourVocabulary in the following ways:
89** You use Administrivia/{{Wiki Word}}s constantly even when talking to non-tropers, and you don't even ''notice'' until they ask you what you're on about.
90** School:
91---> '''Troper:''' So the BigBad brutally [[KickTheDog Kicks The Dog]] twice, but it's okay because he's such a MagnificentBastard that he pulls it off wonderfully. The AntiVillain is better than TheHero though, because she's just TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth. \
92''' Non-Troper Friend:''' ...what? \
93''' Troper:''' Er... sorry, I was speaking Tropese again... [walks away]
94** Bonus points if you live in a country where [[GratuitousEnglish English normally isn't spoken]]. Even more points if you actually call it Gratuitous English.
95** You break the FourthWall when talking to others as often as possible, and don't notice you're doing so until someone points it out. Super-duper bonus points if they tell you that because this is RealLife, there's no FourthWall to break anyways.
96*** You actually located the FourthWall, just to prove them wrong.
97** You live your life in general as though it was a work in PostModernism.
98** You have tried and failed to explain "{{Lampshad|eHanging}}ing" to a non-troper.
99** You have tried and failed to ''not'' explain "{{Lampshad|eHanging}}ing" to a non-troper.
100** You [[ThirdPersonPerson talk about yourself in the third person, especially when online]].
101** You have wished that you could use {{Pot Hole}}s in conversation.
102** You've been on the ThisIsForEmphasisBitch page so much that now every other thought that pops into your head ends with "bitch" or "bitches".
103** When called out on any of the above, your response is to just say "JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourVocabulary".
104# You think it's normal for words to have [[CamelCase capital letters in the middle]]. Your essays or literary works often need to be comprehensively proofread because it's become a sort of [[DamnYouMuscleMemory Muscle Memory.]]
105** Your autocomplete starts registering CamelCase versions of titles as valid.
106# Not only do you [[LampshadeHanging hang lampshades]] in everyday conversation, you also hang lampshades on the fact that you are [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment hanging lampshades.]]
107# You have ever been able to guess what {{pothole}}s will link to before rolling over them.
108** Someone tells you they "hit a JustForFun/{{pothole}}" and you immediately think of linked text.
109** Whenever you see blue text on a non-wiki website, you immediately, often unconsciously, click it or roll over it.
110** Bonus points if you die a little inside when you find out it's not a pothole.
111# You predict your life based on the tropes it has been following.
112** These predictions come true.
113# You keep screwing up rough drafts of reports because they are formatted for this site, not for Microsoft Word.
114# You use this site rather than Website/{{Wikipedia}} as a source for your research papers.
115** When you have to summarize a movie or book for class, you include a list of relevant tropes.
116** In fact, your English teacher now knows several tropes by name (despite never having seen the site!) because you keep bringing them up in class.
117** In addendum, several of your non-troper friends know several tropes by name, because you keep bringing them up.
118** You keep using trope names in your history assignments, as well.
119** As well as using the site to revise for a history/literature exam.
120** Summary of the French Revolution: The {{Knight Templar}}s killed all the {{Blue Blood}}s. Then they went AxeCrazy and [[LeaveNoSurvivors started killing everyone else too.]]
121** You have cited this site as a source for your junior paper. In all fairness, the paper is an analysis of the fantasy genre, so tropes are being discussed.
122** You have introduced your English teacher to Website/TVTropes. She/he now plans lessons based around this website.
123*** You ''are'' that English teacher.
124*** You [[FailedASpotCheck use TV Tropes to teach English]] to ''your family''.
125# You refer to the moral of a story as an '{{Aesop}}'.
126# You refer to Wikipedia as Website/TheOtherWiki, and you don't regularly edit Uncyclopedia or Encyclopedia Dramatica.
127# When someone asks you why you're playing a video game, you respond, "It's JustForFun." Otherwise, you're probably the StopHavingFunGuy.
128# When you decide to make a trope list for your favorite sports team.
129# One of your music playlists is titled NightmareFuel.
130** Another is titled JustForFun/MadeOfWin.
131** Another is titled SoBadItsGood.
132** Another is titled DarthWiki/SoBadItsHorrible, just for the hell of it.
133** Another is, of course, SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic.
134** Another is titled OminousLatinChanting.
135** Another is titled OminousPipeOrgan.
136** Another is titled DownerEnding.
137** Another is titled PokeThePoodle, and you're not sure how it got there, but you decide it's best [[KickTheDog not to delete it]].
138** Yet another is titled AutobotsRockOut.
139** And yet another titled Can of {{Ear Worm}}s.
140** You went and made one or more of these playlists after reading this so you could check another point off the list.
141# You try to find examples of trope names being used before they were added to the Wiki.
142# You have contributed to every one of the JustForFun/TropesOfLegend.
143** You know the meaning of all the JustForFun/TropesOfLegend from memory.
144** You know the meaning of ''all'' the tropes from memory.
145# You have formed a personal philosophy (moral ''or'' natural) based on one or more tropes.
146# You have prayed to or sworn by CrystalDragonJesus.
147# You never watch trailers anymore because of TrailerJokeDecay, NeverTrustATrailer, TrailersAlwaysSpoil and {{Missing Trailer Scene}}s.
148# Whenever you explain a new concept to someone, [[GeekyAnalogy you try to demonstrate it using examples]] from Series/{{Buffy The Vampire Slayer}}, WesternAnimation/{{Avatar The Last Airbender}} and Literature/HarryPotter. Like how Andrew in Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer season 7, episode 16 "Storyteller" had to use RPG style character description for everybody. Bonus points if you have never actually ''seen/read'' Series/{{Buffy The Vampire Slayer}}, WesternAnimation/{{Avatar The Last Airbender}} or Literature/HarryPotter, but you still feel confident in your assertions because you read the trope pages.
149# You've written a book report on ''Literature/SailorNothing''.
150# You've written a complete character analysis contrasting and exploring the actions of the eponymous characters of ''[[Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya The Melancholy Of Haruhi Suzumiya]]'' and ''Literature/MadameBovary''.
151# In other online communities not running wiki software, you find yourself using single-quotation marks in varying quantities instead of HTML or UsefulNotes/BBCode tags when you want to italicize or bold something.
152# Most Science Fiction makes you want to cry "'''[insert subject here] does not work that way!''' Good night!" You tell people "[[ArtisticLicense You Fail [insert field of study here] Forever]]" or "Somewhere, a [insert Scientist here] Is Crying", whenever they say something inaccurate.
153# If someone complains about the frumpy way Queen Elizabeth II dressed, you just note that she was averting the ErmineCapeEffect.
154** You get pissed off that the person who added this item passed up the opportunity for a perfectly good reference to ''Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''.
155** You get pissed off that the person who added that item passed up the opportunity to identify said perfectly good reference to ''Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''.
156** You get REALLY pissed that they, and I, still failed to add [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment said reference]] from ''Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''
157# For family gatherings, you find these quickly become {{Gambit Roulette}}s. Or, for some, a GambitPileup.
158# You think @/MetaFour actually looks like [[Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt Antimony]].
159# You start thinking of common real life occurrences as tropes, and sort of mentally propose and categorise them: "YouKnowThatThingWhere you think you've turned on the oven, but actually you've just turned on the light...?"
160# You say "It's TruthInTelevision" instead of "It happens in RealLife."
161# You tell people that a certain dramatic or comedic device is OlderThanRadio. You confound them further when you tell them that another one is OlderThanDirt.
162# Nothing {{Squick}}s you anymore.
163# You watch movies with other tropers for pure MSTing purposes. Or you do it alone.
164** You pay extra for a private screening in order to do this in an actual movie theater.
165# You expect other people to know what a BigBad is.
166# You expect other people to know that when you say TheDragon you don't actually mean a dragon. Except when you do.
167# You expect other people to be able to recognize a FiveManBand. Or describe you and your friends as one.
168** Or as [[EliteFour Shitennou]].
169** Or as FreudianTrio
170# You run into more difficulty than usual when talking about tropes to real people because you realize you can't call tropes by their names but you don't know what else to call them.
171** You know what a trope means and you can describe it in relation to other tropes, but you're lost when trying to describe it ''without'' Troper-speak.
172# You subconsciously refer to non-tropers as "real people" because you now think of yourself as a character.
173# You have ever used a [[TropeyTheWonderDog metaphorical dog]] in Real Life.
174# You have ever referred to an especially awesome smart guy as a MagnificentBastard, TheChessmaster, or [[WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}} Xanatos]]. That last one also counts for phrases of the form "Xanatos X".
175# You have ever used Chekhov without referring to the writer Anton Chekhov, in a phrase ''other'' than ChekhovsGun.
176# You don't know who Anton Chekhov is but you do know what ChekhovsArmoury is.
177# You are very careful not to confuse {{Chekhov|sGun}} and [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Chekov]].
178# You are overwhelmingly disappointed that [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Chekov's gun]] was never used as a ChekhovsGun.
179# You have ever used the MST3KMantra or BellisariosMaxim in RealLife. Bonus points if you just used the title and not the actual mantra/maxim.
180** When someone keeps wondering how something was done in-universe, and specifically ''who'' did it, you finally burst into "AWizardDidIt!", to make him/her stop.
181# You keep misspelling actual words as Administrivia/{{Wiki Word}}s, like "FanDumb" instead of "{{Fandom}}".
182# You confuse YKTTW, the old name of TropeLaunchPad with Website/{{YTMND}}. Bonus points if you attempt to pronounce YKTTW like it's an actual word ("Eektoo!" "Yickt-wuh!").
183# You start conversations with non-tropers with words to the effect of "I read something interesting on TropeLaunchPad/the TV Tropes fora the other day..."
184# You have a mental list of tropes that have occurred to you for the current day, week, month, year, and lifetime since originally coming to TV Tropes (and memorable events before then) sorted alphabetically, by importance, by occurrences, by relation to the person you believe the trope applied to, and all sub-combinations of those lists applicable.
185** When that list isn't just a mental one.
186** It's on your resumé.
187# When you say "TakeThat!". And think of TV Tropes.
188** When you hear a song by Take That and think of TV Tropes.
189** Or when you [[Franchise/AceAttorney present conflicting evidence to a witness]] and think of TV Tropes.
190# You say "You are not alone" instead of "Me too". You're aware of how often the above actually happens on this Wiki but aren't quite sure why.
191# [[invoked]] You refer to anything that scares you as NightmareFuel.
192# You shrink any picture files you have that are wider than 300 pixels.
193# People can't make small talk to you because you keep saying it's Administrivia/{{Natter}}.
194# When people start speaking about any series, despite you having never seen it, you can give an accurate estimation of what happens in it.
195# If someone is overreacting about X, you sarcastically note that "X is SeriousBusiness."
196# You think ''RetCon'' is two words.
197# 'Dissonance' has become a regular part of your vocabulary.
198** And {{Narm}}.
199** And {{Anvilicious}}.
200** And {{Sesquipedalian|Loquaciousness}}. This one can go under SugarWiki/TVTropesWillEnhanceYourLife if you want to [[GeekyTurnOn impress]] or intimidate people.
201** And JustForFun/{{Egregious}}.
202** You're playing hangman and you guess one of these words when no one else has a clue.
203** You're playing hangman and use one of these words.
204# The best thing that's happened to you all week is getting your first JustForFun/MadeOfWin point.
205# You have drawn JustForFun/TropeTan fanart.
206** You have drawn a RuleThirtyFour variant of Trope-tan.
207** You have written Trope-tan FanFic.
208# You will [[CallingYourAttacks yell out trope names]] as you watch them on your favorite show...and have people stare at you oddly for it.
209** Except for your best friends or household members, who find this perfectly normal behavior for you.
210** Whenever you say a word that your friends don't recognize, they respond "Which trope is that now?".
211** You have friends (or household members) who have learned several tropes from you without actually having visited the wiki.
212# Your first thought after watching the first episode of a new series of something with your family or friends isn't to discuss it with them - you rush off, fire up the computer and add the new examples you've spotted.
213** You have your TV Tropes open whenever you're watching something, specifically so you can add the examples as they appear.
214** Furthermore, you find that what was meant to be an expedition of no more than two minutes of editing turns into a half hour of distraction because you accidentally read one of the other examples and found a link to another trope that caught your attention. Meanwhile, your DVD player remains on pause, forgotten. Speaking of which, I've some Star Trek to return to... after the three other tabs of tropes I have open are read, that is.
215# You think that having a complimentary reference on Website/TVTropes is more flattering than being on the New York Times Bestseller list, while your love of a work increases tenfold if it mentions TV Tropes.
216# You mark January 12 on your calendar so you can take a day off to mourn the tropes that were lost during Archive/TheGreatCrash, and celebrate the stalwart tropers who shed sweat, blood, and tears to pick through the rubble and fix what could be fixed.
217# You begin attempting to log into other pages using the password used to edit trope pages.
218# You can identify tropers by what they Administrivia/EntryPimp. Bonus points if you see that they've updated a specific article, and, ''knowing'' what they Administrivia/EntryPimp, you can guess precisely what the example they added entailed.
219# When a new [[YMMV.HomePage YMMV]] makes it through TropeLaunchPad (especially if it's a particularly negative one), you start taking bets on how soon it'll be on the CutList. Or, possibly, you're the one [[SeriousBusiness jumping to]] ''put'' it on the CutList.
220# You name a recipe after a trope. TomatoSurprise: contains a can of soup, a can of kidney beans, and [[NoodleImplements a cup and a half of macaroni]]; AnachronismStew contains mammoth meat, barley, and genetically modified potatoes.
221# You have ever contemplated the possibility of actually adding tropes to the dictionary.
222# You've come across someone saying or doing something awesome and immediately thought you want to award it a JustForFun/MadeOfWin.
223# You become aware that [[JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourVocabulary TV Tropes has ruined your vocabulary]], and among other counter-measures, make a conscious effort to not even ''think'' the words "[[GambitIndex Xanatos]]-Anything"... then start to worry if this is all falling into someone's plan to bring you off your guard.
224# When someone makes a scathing retort against a work of fiction, you mentally {{Pothole}} it as a TakeThat.
225# You see the words ''imminently about to attack'' in a piece of fanfic and actually go to pothole it to the DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment before remembering that you can't.
226# You think {{Shipping}} tropers would be fun.
227** You think ''dating'' a troper would be fun.
228** You do date a fellow troper, and discuss tropes with them more often than your personal life.
229** Your discussions of your personal life are packed with Lampshading of Relationship Tropes.
230#You refer to someone's overriding interest/specialty as their "[[PlanetOfHats Hat]]". Bonus points if you do it by referencing ''Franchise/StarTrek''.
231# Your roommate can tell you're on Website/TVTropes from across the room, and you try to hide it as if it were porn.
232# You've considered writing a book or screenplay just so your pet TropeLaunchPad page has one more example.
233# You receive an open-ended research writing assignment and immediately wonder, "Can I use my Troping knowledge to come up with a topic for this?" You then manage to answer said question in the affirmative.
234# You are the creator and sole contributor to an entire new namespace.
235# You like TV Tropes so much that you [[SugarWiki/GushingAboutShowsYouLike write it love letters]].
236# You [[ICallItVera name your computer "Trope"]], because you're always {{deconstructi|on}}ng and {{reconstructi|on}}ng it. Or [[KickTheDog you call it]] [[TheScrappy Scrappy]].
237# You identify likely tropers that you know and deliberately use trope names around them to see if you get that little smiling glimmer of recognition.
238# You surf so long that you completely miss your working shift for the day. Worse if you are actually present!
239# You've tried to use this site as a source in a research paper.
240# You've succeeded in using this site as a source in a research paper.
241# You've lost sleep trying to think of new examples for tropes.
242# And when you finally get to sleep you dream new examples for tropes. (And about putting them on this site.)
243# You're having a conversation with someone about someone else and you think he's talking about a TV show.
244# You have a long list of things you must read or see when you have time, all of which you would not know about had they not come up as examples of some trope or other.
245# The list never gets shorter because you're always here.
246# You can't see a [[http://www.goffpetroleum.co.uk/ Goff]] petrol tanker without thinking of ''FanFic/MyImmortal''.
247# Whenever someone brings up ThoseWackyNazis, you yell out "GodwinsLaw!" Especially embarrassing in a history class. Terminally embarrassing at the Holocaust Museum. Epically embarrassing if [[http://xkcd.com/261/ you're actually fighting one of Hitler's allies]].
248# You pothole GodwinsLaw examples ''on the TV Tropes Page for Godwin's Law.'' (note: Joke's over, don't actually do this.)
249# You've not only said this history class when discussing Hitler, but by now everyone in the class, including the ''teacher'' knows what a Godwin's Law is. Bonus points if other students start using it.
250# You regularly post TV Tropes [=URLs=] on sites like Website/FourChan simply to watch people scream and protest about how they were planning to do something productive for the next four hours.
251# The only definition of "subvert" that you're aware of is that employed in the phrase "subverted expectations".
252# You suffer HypeAversion towards series nobody outside of this wiki's heard of, just because they're so JustForFun/TropeOverdosed.
253# You have either bookmarked your favorite pages, copied them to your computer so you can look at them when the Internet's down, or printed them out. Or a combination of these.
254# You liked this page so much that when you got to the end, you refreshed it to see if anyone else added anything while you were reading.
255# You tell your English professor about Website/TVTropes... repeatedly.
256# You get more than ten people addicted to TV Tropes.
257# You regularly attempt to work out which of your friends is [[WildMassGuessing secretly]] [[Series/DoctorWho a Time Lord]].
258** You are fully convinced that you've found one who is.
259** You've convinced yourself that you ''are'' the Time Lord.
260# When someone talks about "the pot holes getting really bad", it takes you several minutes to realize they mean the local roads.
261# Non-tropers are gradually losing the ability to comprehend what in the nine hells you're talking about.
262# Non-tropers have converted themselves to tropers just to understand what the heck you're saying.
263# ''Lesser Tropers'' are also losing the ability to understand you.
264# You've printed out trope pages and handed them to your friends whenever they need an explanation when you mention a trope.
265# You regularly use the trope names from this site to explain plot points and don't miss a beat when people look at you like you grew a third head. You simply explain the trope.
266# To you being tortured for a few hours is preferably to seeing a DeadHorseTrope for one.
267# You exclaim "ApocalypseWow" when you see an epic disaster scene. Or EarthShatteringKaboom.
268# Your mind starts incorporating Trope names as regular thoughts and you barely notice it.
269# A minor grammar mistake is enough to drive you bat-shit insane, until you try to edit it and realize you can't edit a book, which drives you even more bat-shit insane.
270# Reading ''BuiltWithLego'' started [[NoodleIncident a chain of events]] leading to you suddenly being richer by a half-dozen Lego kits, with more to follow as soon as your paycheck comes. Unfortunately, this means you have to eat the packaging.
271# You have two dogs, named {{Tropey|TheWonderDog}} and {{Spoiler|Hound}}. Or a ''platypus'' named {{Mind|Screw}}fuck.
272# You're keeping a stockpile of funny paragraphs from this wiki in a number of Word documents. These currently total 817 pages, and you get frustrated whenever someone changes one you've copied. Or you just copy the new one, adding more to your collection.
273# You occasionally log on to TV Tropes [[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation and get off to find you've been declared legally dead]].
274# You have in past constructed entire WMG entries due to a dream you had. When this dream revolved around ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'', [[Manga/ShamanKing a show you stopped watching when you were 11]] and of one of the characters being mentioned as {{Bifauxnen}} in said show's Trope page, along with various [[FanNickname nicknames]] for that character.
275# If you're working on some media, you come up with new episodes/games/books/whatever by coming to this site and playing the Wiki game. On a related note, one of the characters is [[WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}} Xanatos]] [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute Quinn]], and the character with the OverlyLongName includes [[Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya Kyon]] and [[Series/StargateSG1 O'Neill]] in his name. And all aliens know about Haruhi Suzumiya.
276# You hear your sister is going to be PutOnABus after her flight was cancelled, and you briefly wonder who will play her replacement.
277# You have competitions with your friends to find out who has memorized the most from the EvilOverlordList.
278# You point out whenever a product you buy is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
279# You memorized a number on this list as a point you want to edit when you've finished reading the page. You are then annoyed to discover that the coding does not include numbers, and/or you've forgotten by this point what you wanted to add.
280# When you put stuff intended for this list in DarthWiki/TVTropesRuinedYourLife, instead of acknowledging your mistake, you blame the IdiotBall.
281# You spend so long editing pages that the TV Tropes logo is burned into the top of your monitor.
282# You can distinguish between a CrapsackWorld and a WorldHalfEmpty in the dark at fifty paces.
283# When filling in what languages you speak, you always include CanisLatinicus and {{Angrish}}.
284** Whenever someone speaks Latin, you reply "GratuitousLatin".
285# You keep an Internet-connected laptop activated while watching ''Series/TheColbertReport'' just so you can edit in trope examples as they happen. You then get frustrated when another happens before you've finished writing in the first one.
286# Your PornStash is 50% [[ContinuityPorn continuity notes]] and 50% [[SceneryPorn landscapes]].
287# You've been here for three days.
288** You began reading this three days ago and when you finish you believe it is still the same day as the day you began.
289** [[ParanoiaFuel You realize the likelihood of that actually happening.]]
290** You set yourself a timer on your phone to go off every ''n'' minutes, just to make sure this doesn't happen.
291# You're getting bored with being GenreSavvy, and have decided to try being WrongGenreSavvy for a few weeks. But you're never to be called out for GenreBlindness. In fact, that's an insult to you!
292# You missed at least one exam because of WildMassGuessing.
293** You failed at least one exam because of WildMassGuessing.
294** You have actually ''passed'' one exam because of WildMassGuessing, and your English teacher is still bewildered that you managed to make such a plausible case for Mercutio being a Time Lord. Although that teacher was confused by the brief mention of his [[Webcomic/IrregularWebcomic affinity for Linux]].
295** You have managed to write a college application essay by applying points from WildMassGuessing and other tropes it links to, and were accepted.
296# You consider PoesLaw, ChandlersLaw, UsefulNotes/TheBechdelTest, and the rest of the LawsAndFormulas on par with the laws of thermodynamics.
297# You think that it is actually possible to obtain [[WebVideo/DoctorHorriblesSingAlongBlog a Ph.D in Horribleness]].
298** And a level [[TookALevelInBadAss in badass]].
299** And to have MajoredInWesternHypocrisy.
300** You actually ''have'' obtained a Ph.D in Horribleness.
301** Ladies and Gentletropers: [[https://www.deviantart.com/silvergryphon8/art/Ph-D-in-Horribleness-140257189 A PhD in Horribleness!]]
302# You laugh at real-life uses of the word "JustForFun/{{egregious}}". You use "egregious" so [[HypocriticalHumor egregiously]] that you {{discredit|edTrope}} ''yourself''!
303# You have ever said [[FanFic/MyImmortal "stop it now you horny simpletons"]] as a substitute for "get a room".
304# You are wary about taking any job that requires you to wear a RedShirt.
305** You throw away all your {{red shirt}}s.
306** Conversely, you wear red as much as you can, cause you're the protagonist of your own story so you need to be [[LawOfChromaticSuperiority more efficient than everyone else]].
307** Or because you're convinced it makes you [[CharClone three times faster than the usual troper]].
308# You think a WikiWalk is an exercise routine.
309# You forget you can't edit pages on non-wiki sites, even if you just want to fix some typos. Likewise, you forget you can't edit reasons for editing, even if you just want to fix typos.
310# So Yeah has become a normal part of your everyday speech pattern for some reason.
311# You watch an entire series just so you can read its {{W|ildMassGuessing}}MG[=/=]{{Headscratchers/Headscratchers}} page without worrying about spoilers. You spend the whole time watching the show thinking about reading the {{W|ildMassGuessing}}MG[=/=]{{Headscratchers/Headscratchers}} page, miss something, and end up reading a spoiler you didn't know anyway.
312# Your vision has gotten substantially worse from the eye strain that comes with spending hours a day on TV Tropes.
313# You see some linked words on a non-Website/TVTropes site and expect the link to go to a TV Tropes page. You're happy if it actually does.
314# While reading this page you have a Word document open to note down anything new that comes to mind while reading.
315# You are sitting here reading this with a plate of long ago eaten food on your lap.
316** Or you skip meals because you're troping. [[JustOneMoreLevel Just one more tab to read...]]
317** You've lost weight because of this site.
318# When your baby sister asks for help in arranging her alphabet magnets, you arrange them to spell your favourite Tropes and tell her the job is done.
319# When you are talking to your friend through the phone or chat and he/she mentions a story you've never heard of, you excuse yourself for lunch while really looking for it on TV Tropes. Ten minutes later you return having learnt everything about it.
320# You begin sulking when you find an example you wanted to add to a page has already been added.
321** You become irrationally annoyed when a work is missing a really obvious trope that should have been added years ago.
322** You become irrationally disappointed when a new chapter/episode has already been out for a day and there are still popular tropes relevant to it that haven't been listed on the work's page yet.
323# You call your laptop 'The GreatBigBookOfEverything'.
324** I call mine the TomeOfEldritchLore.
325** ICallItVera.
326** ICallHimMisterHappy. [[UnfortunateImplications No wait...]]
327** I call mine Henrick.
328# You intend to re-watch old movies or movies you never liked just to see your favourite Tropes in action.
329# When playing 20 questions with your friends, when they ask you a question you say it is 'averted' or 'subverted' to what you are thinking about.
330# You consider opening a business and naming it after a trope (Example: Opening a bicycle messenger service named "MacGuffinDeliveryService").
331# When people ask how you manage to keep fit, you tell them you take {{Wiki Walk}}s daily.
332# You have ever referred to yourself as This Troper in a class.
333# You have not reset your computer in 5 days because there are still 50 tabs of trope pages that you need to read.
334** You try to put off reading said 50 trope pages because you know when you do the number will only grow larger.
335** You use your browser's Save and Quit feature so that you can reboot every so often - and then realize the horrors that await when you reopen your browser. (Firefox, at least, has an option to ''always'' open your tabs from the last session.)
336*** Your web browser uses more than 500 MB of RAM at any given time, except when not running.
337*** Your computer is less than two years old but it (meaning your OS or browser) starts to SLOW DOWN when you open new trope pages.
338*** Your computer is ''completely new'', yet the OS/browser STILL manages to be tremendously slowed down every time you're on this site.
339*** You have so many tabs open that not only does your computer need to use the virtual memory file, ''the hard disk runs out of space'' because of said virtual file.
340** Your computer crashes because you have too many trope pages open. FUCKING COMPUTER!!
341# You spend four weeks just trying to think of something to write on this page.
342# When you see red links on ''other websites'' you freak out when they actually have content.
343# You create trope pages for the Platform/LiveJournal [=RPGs=] you're in, though they'd never get on Website/TVTropes.
344# You talk like an excitable American teenager, using words like "awesome" and "epic" in every other sentence without noticing.
345** You ''think'' like an excitable American teenager.
346** You ''are'' an excitable American teenager.
347# When asked for a password, your first instinct is to write '[[ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish swordfish]]'.
348# When you spend your nights trying to think of new tropes.
349# When you succeed in thinking of a new trope, then try to write a book around it.
350# When, if you are a game programmer, you challenge your fellow programmers to see who can {{lampshade|Hanging}}, {{subvert|edTrope}}, and {{exaggerate|dTrope}} the most tropes.
351# When you do the above, even if your fellow programmers aren't tropers.
352** And you're not a programmer.
353** Heck. You do this ''all yourself''.
354# When you dream about tropes.
355** When you dream of JustForFun/TropeTan.
356** When you have nightmares about your examples being removed.
357*** Or a WikiVandal messing with your favorite page.
358# When your schedule looks something like this: Wake up, check TV Tropes, eat breakfast, check TV Tropes, eat lunch, check TV Tropes, eat dinner, check TV Tropes, sleep.
359** When you forget to eat lunch because you are too busy checking TV Tropes.
360** When you forget to sleep, for the above reason.
361# Your mom/dad/spouse realizes you spend to much time on TV Tropes and sneaks over to your computer and changes the password, at 3:00 in the morning, because you are only out of TV Tropes when you are sleeping.
362** When your mom/dad/spouse attempts to do the above, but they can't, because you are still on TV Tropes at 3:00 in the morning.
363*** Unless you sleep at your computer because [[ParanoiaFuel you know what your parents are planning]], when you've finally figured out Firefox will save your tabs and you can continue once you have more free time.
364*** Or you dream about troping.
365*** [[DarthWiki/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife TV Tropes will give you insomnia!]]
366# Somebody has to put a time limit on how long you're allowed to stay on Website/TVTropes to ensure that you come out alive.
367** And you frequently break that limit.
368# You add a reference or entry to a page, linking to other tropes, then immediately open those mentioned tropes.
369# You never need to look at Markup Help or the Administrivia/TextFormattingRules while editing anymore.
370# You're ''disappointed'' that you haven't "scored" as highly on fulfilling all the points of this list.
371# [[UnsoundEffect * Trope* * Trope* * Trope* * Trope* * Trope* * Trope* ? * Trooooooooooooooooooooope* !!! * Trope* * ...trope*]] (This is what your world sounds like).
372# You ''actually read'' this ''entire'' list.
373** You read it several times.
374** You've read it backwards too.
375# Whenever your family [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant replaces a]] {{lampshade|Hanging}}, you snicker a little.
376# In trying to think of [[Film/InglouriousBasterds the title of a work]], you instead think of [[MagnificentBastard a trope name]].
377# You've come up with a DoubleEntendre for most of the tropes and enjoy using them in real life, among fellow tropers and non-tropers alike. Also, {{BFS}} no longer means what it should when you say it.
378# You can name every single faction in TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}, including all four Chaos Gods and at least three different chapters of SpaceMarines, despite never having seen the game played in your entire life.
379# When writing in a notebook or in Word, you constantly write Administrivia/{{W|ikiWord}}ordsTogether or with [={{brackets}}=] around them, and it takes you a few seconds to realise why it won't link you (or your Professor) to the relevant trope.
380** Also when writing in Word, you type [=''apostrophes''=] when you want to italicise a word, and [=[[https://tvtropes.org brackets]]=] when you want to enter a hyperlink.
381# If you're in a gay relationship, you start to [[ParanoiaFuel look for signs]] that it's just a PseudoRomanticFriendship.
382# When watching a movie (or reading a book, or engaging in some other form of media), you automatically write down all the tropes as they appear. You also write down every PlotHole for {{Headscratchers/Headscratchers}}.
383# Corollary to 119: You explain series on other sites by linking to their Website/TVTropes page.
384** You immediately scrolled up to 119 to check what it was.
385*** You didn't scroll up to 119 because you knew what it was without checking.
386** You were shocked at how far away it turned out to be.
387** You tried to use the Find command to get back up there and got mad at the computer for only directing you to this one.
388** You didn't need to use the Find command again to get back down here because you remembered what number you were on.
389# If you make games/books/whatever, you either propose a new name for known tropes or define entirely new ones in it.
390# Whenever Website/TVTropes has scheduled downtime, you [[TearJerker cry]].
391# When some people in RealLife have told you that your attempts at becoming a DeadpanSnarker are not really a good thing, because, you know, there are many important people in RealLife that won't enjoy getting only sarcastic answers.
392# You see council workers cutting branches off a tall tree and mentally link it to ChainsawGood.
393# Website/TVTropes and all the stuff related to it really ''is'' SeriousBusiness to you, but neither do you, neither do the other tropers seem to notice that.
394# More than 20% of your open browser tabs are TV Tropes... and the total tab count is a three-digit number.
395** Only three digits? I should be so lucky.
396** Wait. You have [[FridgeLogic more than twenty]] tabs open that ''[[ComicallyMissingThePoint aren't]]'' TV Tropes?
397# Whenever someone takes offense because you laughed at their misfortune or something else that really wasn't funny, you defend yourself by saying, "But it's {{Narm}}!"
398# When another site is down, you automatically think "The server hates me right now..."
399# You’ve written down an example on the back of an old receipt you found in your car… while in traffic.
400# You had a dream about editing TV Tropes, and the first thing you thought when you woke up was to add that example.
401# [[WikiWalk You no longer wonder how you managed to get from]] DarthWiki/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife to AutobotsRockOut.
402# You write trope names as Administrivia/{{Wiki Word}}s with no blank spaces outside of TV Tropes and expect the link to work.
403** At Website/TheOtherWiki.
404** On paper in RealLife.
405** In curly brackets if need be.
406** When you talk.
407** You've done so deliberately, just to set up a joke.
408** You've done so deliberately, but ''not'' as a joke.
409# You've never seen a show, but you know it so well that you can complain about it with none of the guilt.
410# You've ever linked to so many tropes in a posting on a MessageBoard that you posted something similar to an Administrivia/AllBlueEntry. And that was a posting with multiple paragraphs.
411# You right-click to "Open Link in New Tab" and read "Open a New Trope".
412# You want or have your very own Thing that goes Doink.
413# You've got three computers with six operating systems and even more browsers, and you're Cookied Up in all these browsers.
414** [[GoshDangItToHeck Heck]], you're Cookied Up on your mobile phone.
415** You routinely clean all your cookies with the sole exception of the Website/TVTropes cookies.
416# You've actually read ''Fanfic/MyImmortal''.
417# You had to get an emergency liver transplant after trying to play the [[DrinkingGame/MyImmortal My Immortal Drinking Game]].
418# The first suggestion that comes up when you type "you" in your URL bar is [[JustForFun/YouKnowYouReadTooMuchTVTropesWhen this page]].
419# You get arrested for ArsonMurderAndJaywalking.
420# You notice HoYay subtext in the least likely of places, making your friends ask what you're [[YaoiFangirl giggling]] about when you watch certain movies.
421# You have [[BreadEggsMilkSquick bread, eggs, milk and squick]] on your shopping list.
422** You snicker when the first three come up on someone else's list.
423** [[ComicallyMissingThePoint What have you got against French Toast?]]
424** Alternatively, you have [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs Bread, Eggs, and Breaded Eggs.]]
425# When you feel down, the first thing you do to cheer yourself up is head over to the [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]] page. [[ManlyTears You'll still wind up crying]], but in a good way. The Heartwarming/RealLife ones in particular are reserved for more severe depression.
426# When talking with friends after you say something the most common response is "You used another of those trope things could you explain it?"
427# You know the true meanings of the words "subvert" "invert" and "avert" and can use them flawlessly in real conversation.
428** You get irrationally annoyed when someone else uses one of those words incorrectly in real life. Bonus point if you find yourself wanting to edit the conversation to fix their mistake.
429# You have Website/TVTropes as your home page.
430# You have ''this'' TV Tropes page as your home page.
431# You die a little inside when no one replies to your [[Headscratchers/HomePage Headscratchers]].
432# You write {{FanFic}}tion solely to have a list all of the tropes found in the series. And regularly ask other FanFiction writers if they're Tropers when you review.
433# You can identify a LoveTriangle by type at a glance without consulting [[Analysis/LoveTriangle the trope's Analysis page]].
434# The word "cliche" is your BerserkButton.
435# You refresh the forum pages every five seconds, hoping some one has replied to your post.
436# Someone has, and you now consider it a great day.
437# When someone orders a [[HamAndCheese ham and cheese toastie]], you snigger a little.
438# You take a class related to media and more than 50% of your notes [[SugarWiki/TVTropesWillEnhanceYourLife are filled with Tropes.]]
439** You take ANY class and more than 50% of your notes are filled with tropes.
440** You take a media class and use TV Tropes as your only source (Actually, that's probably a good idea).
441# You have read about tropes occurences and recognized them afterwards when you watched the show despite the odds of that happening as often as it has happened to you
442# You read a page in the edit window so you can add new things as you think of them.
443# Whenever anyone uses the term "color coded" it is always [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience for your conveniece.]]
444# On Halloween, you went as a NinjaPirateZombieRobot.
445# You actually think that there would be less {{troll}}ing if people would just indicate SincerityMode or SarcasmMode.
446# [[@/MidnightMan You trope yourself]].
447# You add new trope examples to a work of media just to subvert, invert, avert, play with, or justify them.
448# You can't bring yourself to [[{{Hatedom}} blindly hate]] things no matter what the premise.
449# You read AntiPoopSocking and try to create a new trope about urinating in your shoes.
450# You try fitting your schedule ''around'' Website/TVTropes!
451# You never write for more than twenty minutes without saving.
452# You never do ''anything'' for twenty minutes without saving.
453# You start adding to JustForFun/TVTropesTheWebcomic because you want to know if it will stick.
454# [[@/{{Bladist}} You take over TV Tropes The Webcomic because it hasn't updated in four months.]]
455# You feel a void in your soul whenever you're separated from TV Tropes for more than a few hours.
456# You regularly have dreams in which you edit TV Tropes. You awaken from said dreams to find that the examples were added while you were asleep... by you.
457# You consider all the tropers you know best friends... much to the dismay of the person you've known since 3rd grade and did everything with.
458# Your parents scheduled an appointment for you with a therapist due to Website/TVTropes and you got the therapist addicted.
459# You firmly believe any statement, question, or request can be answered by linking the other person to a TV Tropes page.
460# In the movie theatre, you whip out a pen and start taking notes on the tropes used so that you'll be sure not to forget any by the time you get home.
461# Your parents think you're studying, but you're actually here.
462# You actually are studying for something using TV Tropes.
463# You look for the Laconic tab in Website/TheOtherWiki when you're in a hurry or looking a for a short explanation.
464** You look at the Laconic tab on TV Tropes, but always end up reading the page itself anyway.
465** You look for the Laconic tab in your college textbooks. When you realize that there are none, you decide to fail your exam rather than allow studying to cut into your troping time.
466# You check TV Tropes before your emails, no matter where you are or how long you've been out of contact with your family and friends.
467# Checking the TV Tropes page of a work once you've finished it has become so much a part of your routine that it's not after you've read every page that you feel sad that it's over.
468# You daydream about your favourite celebrities being Tropers and being fully aware of everything TV Tropes says about them or their series.
469# You've spent hours trying to think of the most [[Administrivia/AllBlueEntry trope-heavy]] and yet still accurate sentence possible.
470# You ''haven't'' done a bunch of these, but now have become firmly resolved to fulfill as many as possible as a matter of principle.
471# You accidentally name a trope in your homework and have an uncontrollable urge to follow it with something like "LOL I see what I did there." Bonus points if it's astronomy homework and you capitalize the words [[RecycledInSpace IN SPACE!]]
472# You don't have to visit pages on the site to give links to them.
473# Half of your browser addons was added for the sole purpose of enhancing your troping experience.
474# The first thing you do after finishing a series is going to the works page for it and finally filling out the spoilered sentences and seeing what trope applied to what plot twist.
475# You look at Dairy Queen's slogan ("So Good, It's [=RiDQulous=]"), and all you can think about is SoBadItsGood, DarthWiki/SoBadItsHorrible, and SugarWiki/SoCoolItsAwesome.
476# You have ever told your spouse/significant other that sex with them is a Crowning Moment of Awesome. Bonus points if you have said it while in bed.
477# You have the irresistible urge to add examples to this page. And if you do, you immediately scroll down to check if you got the coding right.
478# You've bought [[http://www.zazzle.com/tvtropes something related to TV Tropes]].
479# You know about the [[Encounters/{{Index}} Encounters/ namespace]].
480#[[white: You knew what super secret spoilers were, and how to replicate them.]]
481#[[white: You are Genre Savvy enough to know that there's most probably a super secret spoiler where there's a large blank spot.]]
482# You know the entire plot of all these series from spoilers on the site alone:
483** ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''
484** ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''
485** ''Anime/CodeGeass''
486** ''Manga/DeathNote''
487** ''Literature/{{Discworld}}''
488** ''Series/DoctorWho''
489** ''WebVideo/DoctorHorriblesSingAlongBlog''
490** ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight''
491** ''Series/{{Firefly}}''
492** ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt''
493** ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers''
494** ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry''
495** ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}''
496** ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague''
497** ''Manga/LuckyStar'' (Wait, it has a plot?)
498** ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha''
499** ''FanFic/MyImmortal''
500** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' ([[HehHehYouSaidX Heh-heh, you said]] "[[DoubleEntendre plot.]]")
501** ''Franchise/{{Naruto}}''
502** ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' (In fact, you learned more about the entire plot of ''Evangelion'' from reading Website/TVTropes than you ever [[MindScrew did from watching it]].)
503** ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick''
504** ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}''
505** ''Franchise/PowerRangers''
506** ''Anime/PrettyCure''
507** ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica''
508** ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya''
509** ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann''
510** ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles1''
511** ''Film/ThePrincessBride''
512** ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry''
513** ''Comicbook/{{Watchmen}}''
514** ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}''
515** ''VideoGame/AsurasWrath''
516** ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}''
517** And anything else created by Creator/JossWhedon.
518*** You watched all of the Creator/JossWhedon series on Netflix (where all are available streaming) just to understand where so many of these tropes came from.
519*** Bonus points for watching them in chronological production (not aired) order.
520# You have now probably a huge amount of bookmarks/favorites. Over 2/3 of those bookmarks are TV Tropes articles.
521# You post a thread on a forum relating tropes to users, forum incidents, and the forum itself. And then get at least three other users addicted to TV Tropes.
522# Your friends have started sending you emails with random words in blue and underlined just to drive you insane when they're not actually links. And it works!
523# You move in to a new place, and find you need new lampshades, so first you go to this site.
524# You apply the MediaNotes/MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness to all the songs on your iPod.
525# You hear someone say the word "gospel" in a latin based language and instantly think of [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Mind Rape and Tang!]]
526# You see an asterisk on a web page, and you try clicking it to read the subscript.
527# You find a page you haven't commented on yet and do everything you can to find a new example for that page.
528# Instead of hearing something and thinking that's AGoodNameForARockBand, you think " That's a good title for a trope!".
529# Whenever something tropable comes up in conversation, you mentally PotHole it.
530# If you've actually read this far, there's no doubt about it. You're addicted. You've been booked into a rehab clinic for 4:00. Don't be late!
531** You miss said appointment because you were here.
532*** You didn't miss it, but you didn't notice you were in rehab because you were still reading Website/TVTropes. You remain oblivious and now have practically no obligations to distract you.
533** You've gotten one or more members of your rehab clinic to switch addictions to TV Tropes.
534*** You thought the appointment was at [[Memes/TengenToppaGurrenLagann 8:52]], and avoided it because you were afraid that [[spoiler: a monkey man would appear at the rehab agency and [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impale you to death with his spear]] ]].
535# Apparently, TV Tropes is better than [[spoiler: ascending to Garhalla and having your name immortalized in awesomeness.]]
536# They took away your computer, but you're still here, reading, inside your head, the pages slowly rolling by your mind's eye...
537# You goof off in Technology class and go on TV Tropes, and the teacher doesn't notice because it looks like a legitimate research site from a distance.
538# You see PotHoles on a TV Tropes page and already know what they lead to just by context.
539# You dream of doing these in RealLife:
540** Giving somebody a HannibalLecture or TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.
541** Making a NoMoreHoldingBackSpeech or KirkSummation.
542** [[JumpedAtTheCall Leap when the call comes calling]] or [[ResignedToTheCall accept your fate.]]
543** [[DefeatMeansFriendship "Befriend" somebody]].
544** Be either [[TokenGoodTeammate the good guy of the team]] or [[TokenEvilTeammate the team psycho]].
545** WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld.
546# You annoy everyone in the room by sitting on the couch with your laptop on your lap and reading all the trope examples for a Trope to them.
547# You begin typing in the name of a website, but automatically start typing "TV Tropes".
548# You fear dying only because you can't check out Website/TVTropes anymore.
549** Or update it.
550** And because of all the new tropes you'll miss out on after you're gone.
551** Or you don't fear it, because you want to fulfil a specific {{Death Trope|s}}.
552# You're STILL reading this list.
553** You thought of it was a RunningGag a couple of times even before reaching this point.
554# Each of your items are named after tropes (ICallItVera, ICallHimMisterHappy, and such).
555# You make references to Website/TVTropes in extremely awkward situations for no reason at all.
556# You dream of having TooManyBelts and a {{Zipperiffic}} outfit.
557** You DO have all of the above, and you wear it regularly when not in school.
558*** You actually wear all those in school.
559*** Despite the fact that your school has uniforms.
560*** And it became the new fad at school!
561# You're [[RunningGag STILL]] reading this list.
562# You use trope names as a form of shorthand when writing memos to yourself.
563# You have ever been kicked out of a theater for posting trope examples from a movie on your smart phone, ''during'' the movie.
564# You instinctively know whether or not a work is SugarWiki/BetterThanItSounds, without watching it or even reading its trope page.
565** You instinctively know whether or not a seemingly nonsensical quote or summary MakesSenseInContext as well, without knowing if its been {{Pothole}}d.
566# You refer to your shaving habits as you having PermaStubble.
567# When you grow a beard you feel the need to remind people that it's not a BeardOfSorrow.
568** You insist that it's a BeardOfEvil instead. If anyone asks for proof that you are evil, you introduce them to this site.
569** Either way, you're glad to have [[GrowingTheBeard grown the beard.]]
570# The majority of the anime you watch comes from TV Tropes.
571# You've read this list often enough that you're aware of several items on it that are practically the same thing.
572# You think doing all the stuff mentioned here sounds amazing and are already mentally planning it.
573# Your family is bewildered by your constant usage of the words "Angst" and “Snark”.
574# You literally applaud when reading a fanfic and a character quotes the name of a trope.
575# You use Administrivia/{{Wiki Word}}s and Tropes when on Tumblr, before remembering that’s the wrong nerdy community.
576** You use Tropes as Tumblr tags on a regular basis…when making posts about Real Life.
577# You weep when you have a perfect example/trope to add to a page, only to find it’s under edit lock.
578# You're playing ''VideoGame/TheSims,'' your new character is a [[SociallyAwkwardHero shy, bookish university student]]...[[MeaningfulName you name her]] [[{{Meganekko}} Meghan Echo]].
579# You keep track of the majority or ALL of the trope entries you've ever made in a text program, like Notepad.
580# You click "Random Article" and it often takes you to a page you've read already.
581** And rather than sighing in annoyance, you read the page again to see what has changed.
582# You're up at some crazy hour, stifling laughs at this article so you don't wake anyone up.
583# You wish you can write in Tropes when creating a character's bio in somewhere else in the Internet, or in Real Life.
584# [[SelfDemonstratingArticle You finish this list.]]
585# And then you start it again at the top.
586# Less than a year after you've learned of the site's existence, ''trope titles'' speak more clearly to you than standard trait terminology (for example, DawsonCasting instead of "adults who portray teenagers").
587# You hear the phrase "[[Administrivia/ZeroContextExample And how]]" and giggle.
588** Even in songs, like Pet Shop Boys' This Must Be The Place I Waited Years To Leave.
589# You characterise yourself and your friends as a FreudianTrio, FourTemperamentEnsemble, TownGirls and/or FiveManBand.
590** You have turned down potential friends solely because their role in the FreudianTrio, FourTemperamentEnsemble, TownGirls, and/or FiveManBand had already been filled by an existing friend.
591# You find yourself making up titles for what the ForcesWithFirepower pages for the military and paramilitary organizations from your favorite SpeculativeFiction works would be if TV Tropes allowed UsefulNotes on [[TheVerse fictional universes]]:
592** [[WesternAnimation/StarWarsCloneWars An Army of One...Genetic Template]]
593** [[{{Series/Firefly}} Browncoats with BFGs]]
594** [[Franchise/StarTrek The Federation's Shields]]
595** [[Literature/HonorHarrington Graysons with Grasers]]
596** [[Literature/HonorHarrington Havenites with Huge Fleets]]
597** [[Franchise/StarWars Imperials with Humongous Mecha]]
598*** [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi That's No Moon it's Another Death Star]]
599** [[Franchise/StarTrek Klingons with K'vort-class Cruisers]]
600** [[{{Series/Firefly}} Purplebellies with Patrol Ships]]
601** [[Literature/HonorHarrington Manticorans with Multi-Drive Missiles]]
602** [[Franchise/StarWars Rebels with Cool Starships]]
603** [[Franchise/StarTrek Romulans with Radical Technologies]]
604** [[VideoGame/MassEffect Turians with Thanix Cannons]]
605** [[VisualNovel/MuvLuvAlternative Waifus With Real Robots]]
606** [[Franchise/StarWars The Wrath of Mand'alor]]
607# You're taking a history course and the first thing you do before a day of notes is read the Useful Notes page on the given subject before correcting the teacher about something that you only just read about on said useful Notes page. The teacher is suitably impressed.
608# You ignore a pile of damp laundry because your twenty-minute lock is about to expire.
609# You encourage your friends to start reading TV Tropes so you can discuss TV Tropes with your friends.
610# TV Tropes has substituted for a legitimate media studies class.
611# You plan to use your TV Tropes knowledge to jump-start a legitimate career.
612# You actually ''have'' a career in media thanks to your TV Tropes knowledge, and [[TroperWorks your works]] are listed on TV Tropes.
613# You add something here about how it's at the bottom of the page, [[GenreSavvy knowing full well]] that there ''will'' be more entries soon enough.
614# Your genre preferences have changed since you discovered that [[JustForFun/TVTropesAsAGatewayDrug TV Tropes is a Gateway Drug]]. You hate the stuff you liked before you discovered TV Tropes, or you like stuff you thought you never would.
615# You have listed TV Tropes as one of your browser's default search engines.
616# You instinctively search TV Tropes for UsefulNotes pages before you go to any other source. For any topic, even if it's not trope-related.
617# [[OverlyLongGag You're STILL.]] [[PunctuatedForEmphasis READING. THIS. LIST.]]
618# You make a habit of writing down trope ideas as they occur to you and build up a long list of them over many months, even though you'll never have the spare time to properly write up more than a few of them for TropeLaunchPad.
619# You get angry when you're trying to remember the name of a trope, and then go to a media page where you know you saw it just so you can get on the page.
620# You wait around on pages for your favorite works and repeatedly check the History to see if anybody added anything new while you weren't looking.
621#You get overly excited about finishing a tv series or a book because you will be able to browse its page without worrying about spoilers.
622# You describe things regularly in AdverblyAdjectiveNoun form. (for instance: That was an overly complicated piece of homework the teacher gave us.)
623# Upon finding out the FourTemperamentEnsemble, you search frantically for an online test so you can find out which one you are, and which ones your friends/family are.
624# You sometimes try to click on an image on other sites thinking it will lead you to a work page. Or click on an image in RealLife.
625#It took you four days to get to the end of this list because you kept {{wiki walk}}ing.
626# You don't feel comfortable watching a movie without a pad of paper and a pencil to take notes on tropes to put on the site.
627# You watch an independent movie and notice to your annoyance that it's not on the site yet, meaning you've got work ahead for you.
628** You're actually happy, and get right on it.
629# When you're bored with doing something, and you tell people "ScrewThisImOuttaHere".
630# [[GenreSavvy You skip to the bottom of the g-ddamn list]] [[DevelopersForesight to see how many numbers there are.]]
631# You keep all of the trope pages you found through a WikiWalk bookmarked so that you can close them as necessary to avoid a huge number of tabs.
632** And despite doing this, you eventually end up with 25 more tabs open again anyway.
633# You use the UsefulNotes to learn for your finals.
634** And you, [[BadLiar of course, NEVER]] [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial click on the "Random Trope" button while learning.]]
635# When you secretly wish your own original works were a part of a much larger continuity with a much longer history so that you'd have [[ContinuityNod more to nod at]].
636# While conversing with others, you constantly make mental notes of where the camera would be if there were one in order to make [[AsideGlance Aside Glances]] when appropriate.
637# While reading this list, you're keeping a tally to see how many of this points apply to you.
638** You scored 206 and genuinely wonder whether you should be ashamed that you scored so much...or whether you should be ashamed that you didn't score more.
639# You've reached a point of Troper Knowledge Saturation that you are no longer able to recall trope names because you've seen tropes ''everywhere'' in both media and RealLife. In other words, the occurrence of a trope no longer phases you.
640# You instantly return to being a fan of a book, TV show, movie, or anything else that you haven't seen/read/played for a long time.
641# You frequently come back to admire pages you've raised up with [[Administrivia/TVTropesGlossary Wiki Magic]]... and then discover more you can do.
642# You managed to read this entire list in one sitting.
643** If anyone manages this, than oh wow. This Troper is a speed-reader and it took me so freaking long. And not because of WikiWalk. There are ''three hundred and sixty points'' as of writing. Wow. Hats off to you!
644*** This troper also reads super quickly and took about thirty minutes to get through the page. Closer to forty if we count constantly clicking off the page.
645*** This troper did it under 20.
646# You discover a trope that isn't indexed on the site, and someone basically gift-wrapped it to you. You dash off to TropeLaunchPad.
647# You frequently access pages by typing in the URL bar rather than searching. You never need to search for the page you're looking for, not even this one.
648# Your sense of logic frequently clashes with your [[GenreSavvy genre savviness]], and you never know which to believe. For example, you hear a noise in the dark. Logic tells you it's nothing, but you also know that people who say it's nothing are always proven wrong...
649** On balance, you decide to go with the GenreSavvy option.
650# You finish a series and are excited to read the [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Funny]]/[[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Awesome]]/[[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments Heartwarming]]/[[Main/TearJerker Tear Jerker]]/[[Main/NightmareFuel Nightmare Fuel]] sub-page without worrying about spoilers, only to be extremely disappointed when said sub-page has only 2-3 moments listed.
651** But then you get happy because you realize than you can now describe and add those moments yourself in your own words.
652# You avoid adding examples because you're too worried about Administrivia/SquarePegRoundTrope.
653# This site has managed to convert you from someone who couldn't care less about a particular genre/series/medium, into a hardcore fan of that genre/series/medium.
654# You wish you were clever enough to come up with creative descriptions for the SugarWiki/BetterThanItSounds game.
655# You've added multiple entries on this list in a row.
656# You know that Website/TVTropes is dot org, not dot com.
657# Your reaction when first coming to this page was ''not'' OhCrap at the apparent length because you have seen the tropes for a work be broken down into single-letter sub-pages which are ''still'' longer than this list.
658# You know you can still edit after the twenty-minute-edit-lock expires and have your changes be saved.
659# You are so used to typing asterisks when editing that it took you longer than you care to admit to remember to type pound signs when editing this page.
660# You made a page for something that hasn't been updated in a while, then the writer discovered the pages you made and completed the work.
661# You link to a Website/TVTropes page and someone worries about you.
662# You say OhCrap because you’ve reached the end.
663# You decide to add things to this list because you want to have more things to go through when you read this next time
664# You say "One Last Page!" before losing over an hour WikiWalking.
665# You forget to add full stops to a sentence because you are exited to add the next point.
666# Your Laptop keyboard hates you after your constant typing and editing on this site.
667# You slip into BuffySpeak accidentally.
668** You do this intentionally, because its fun.
669# When someone asks you to relate a conversation, you tell some mildly accurate words, and to defend yourself, you reply with "ItMakesSenseInContext."
670** Or that it MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext.
671# You've read the ParanoiaFuel page, and now are paranoid about literally everything.
672# You know what happens in ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' using only the trope examples and its own page.
673** You don't, but pretend to, by quoting the example pages verbatim.
674# You are now hooked to some webcomics ''because'' of Website/TVTropes.
675** On the other hand, you were introduced to Website/TVTropes from ''{{Webcomic/XKCD}}''.
676# You instinctively reply "General Kenobi" Every time someone says "Hello There".
677# No one watches movies with you any more.
678# You make up a dance called TheMasochismTango.
679# You add [[OverlyLongGag yet another]] joke about the length of this list to this list.
680# You find yourself getting into obscure Canadian cartoons from the late-1990s/early-2000s.
681# You go to edit this page and are shocked to realize that there are no numbers on THIS editing page but rather number signs instead.
682# You find yourself getting into obscure {{BritCom}}s from the 1990s.
683# You regularly refer to off-colour humour as CrossingTheLineTwice.
684# You are disappointed that this list is too so short.
685# You read a new book, watch a new show or movie, or finish a video game, and your first or second instinct afterwards is to go straight to that work's trope page.
686# You make fake TV Tropes pages for your work-in-progress works.
687# You make your own account to make pages for obscure works that aren't readily known of or available. Plus points if they're not well-known in English.
688# You can't ''not'' write '''Creator/{{BRIAN BLESSED}}''' in bold caps anymore.
689# You haven't used the word "Wikipedia" in years because you only ever refer to it as Website/TheOtherWiki.
690** And everyone who knows you also knows what you mean.
691# Instead of typing out TV Tropes, you instinctively type out [=Website/ThisVeryWiki=].
692# [[PunctuatedForEmphasis You. Actually.]] [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs Bread. Eggs.]]
693# You're celebrating because you reached item 400! Hey, congrats on the big round number!
694# You're now adding items to the list because you can't stand it ending on a messy number.
695# [[OverlyLongGag You're still reading this list.]]
696# You call someone a KarmaHoudini when they get away with something.
697# You don't misread something but think of how it can be misread so you add it to JustForFun/IReadThatAs.
698# You see titles of works and think of what others may think it's about so you add it to JustForFun/IThoughtThatWas.
699# You hear a song and think of any possible {{Mondegreen}}s so you add them to JustForFun/IHeardThatAs.
700** You search the lyrics to make sure what you heard them as are the actual lyrics.
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