Describe That Troper here.
Oh, you know him. Don't lie, you've always known him. He's been around long before you were ever here. He uses Red Links to trope titles that he just made up on the spot. He Kicks Dogs, doesn't [[Pothole pot hole]]]] correctly, Pimps his own articles and Complains About Shows You Like. He Takes It To The Forums, YKTTW Bashes, uses Spoiler Tags when he really doesn't need to.and needlessly over emphasizes things FULL STOP, he shoves in inane details about himself, he repeats examples. He lurks the wiki, seeking to make your very life miserable. Nobody knows his real name, he can't be narrowed down to a single person, it's likely that he himself doesn't know of his crimes against wikis. Some say he's nobody, some say he's everybody, but we can all agree, he's That Troper. He also overuses spoiler tags, and repeats examples.
See the article, How Not To Write An Example for more information
Nothing like The Other Troper.
I heard that...
He adds examples at the Top of the list.
he hangs out at Darth Wiki, always complaining about something or other.
he posts a lot of Red Links, that cannot be good for the Server.
He puts huge sections of text under spoiler tags. Like, ridiculously huge sections of text. Like the entire example, even. Even — especially — if the entry is only partly a spoiler, or could be rephrased in such a fashion so that it would no longer be a spoiler, or that the spoiler could be adequately covered without covering a massive chunk of text with spoiler code. Even if the example is from an example that everyone knows the 'spoiler' to anyway, or an example to an entry that announces that it's going to be full of spoilers from the start. And sometimes he'll unspoil certain unnecessary words at random to really break the flow of the text. Fair enough That Troper's trying to avoid spoilers, but the way he does it usually ends up being self-defeating because people have to find out what the spoiler is anyway if they want to see how the example's at all relevant to the page.
Or alternatively, he blithely spoils plot developments without care for who has seen them or hasn't, like the fact that everyone in "The Mousetrap" is actually a vampire.
They write snarky examples in Troper Tales to prove how cool and edgy they are without realizing that kind of behavior in real life makes them an Ass Hole.
The pictures he uses completely miss the point and make you cry if you stare at them!
He gets offended when you make an error, like saying that Elizabeth I was born in 1926, and then writes long reasons why that is wrong instead of editing it.
He uses his own fanon theories and alternate character interpretations when adding examples to a trope.
Comes up with ridiculously obscure alternate names taken from shows he doesn't like for tropes he deems negative, so he can call said show the Trope Namer.
Sometimes when he's feeling particularly Genre Smart, while he's Complaining About A Show He Doesnt Like (or a fandom, or a character in the show, or what have you), he'll be sure to add Your Mileage Could Vary just so he can get away with putting his negative opinions as a bullet point to every trope example and act like a large number of people share his opinion, whether they actually do or not.
He also uses the recent site crackdown on subjective tropes being on the main page as an excuse to delete anything subjective on a page that he disagrees with, leaving the subjective tropes he does agree with, and never bothering to create a YMCV page for what he deletes.
He modifies pages so that their grammatical syntax is lost, and does not explain why the changes are necessary.
He makes snide comments in the 'edit reason' box that are less about explaining why he felt the change was necessary and more about smugly asserting that he's so much cleverer than the person who made the original edit.
He was greatly saddened upon finding out he couldn't use the strike-through markup to strike through things instead of editing or deleting them on the main wiki anymore.
Some are beginning to suspect that he may in fact be an OmnicidalEldritch Abomination who is using this wiki as his tool to turn all of us into the wetware energy particles he needs to fuel his multi-versal Apocalypse Rod.
That Troper censors out entries he doesn't like on It Just Bugs Me Okay, YMMV, and Untamed Mass Guessing pages, and because That Troper knows better than anyone what should go on a subjective page, That Troper does so without giving a reason. Certainly That Troper is under no obligation to edit said entry for better relevance and accuracy, or to move a trope from the main article to the appropriate page.
He calls people chuweros, despite clearly not having Ch Word Privileges.
He claims how his favourite show is so good that it Kill The Genre until his another favourite show revive it.
He is thoroughly convinced that all fan fiction is canon. And he'll throw a fit if canon starts to contradict his favorite fan fictions.
That Troper inserts spoiler tags in what might be otherwise oblique references only understood by familiar viewers, in order to really paste red flags over the phrases and names to look out for. After Example Pimping enough variations into the broadest range of articles, any reader will get more clues that the show would've revealed.
That Troper likes to label anyone remotely smartass a Deadpan Snacker, no matter how remote that character's description is from either half of the trope name they've just typed out.
That troper thinks that any plan that a bad guy makes is a Zanatos Gambit.
He only watches anime and plays Japanese games, unsubtitled, of course. He finds Japanese culture so much more appealing than his own. And he thinks everybody else should too.
He litters pages with Too Much Japanese and thinks every page should have a Japanese title referencing something from an anime or manga he likes, no matter how obscure.
He doesn't bullet correctly.
He insists on capitalizing every pronoun, making an example of Himself for some reason He or She or They cannot figure the hell out because there is no reason for Him to do so and It is really annoying when You are just trying to read the wiki.
sometimes he doesnt capitalize anything at all or even bother to use punctuation
Or He Capitalizes Every Word As If It's Just A Really Long Title And When He Gets Called Out On It Says "You're Trampling On My Freedom Of Expression!!!" (Yeah, Well, You're Trampling On My Eyes)
He never resists inserting the notorious meme The Candle Jack Man, and always leaves his sentences hanging like thi because he finds long dead memes hilarious.
He thinks his favorite shows are God's gift to humanity and are a cure for cancer, and deserve to be shoehorned onto every page in the wiki. He thinks your favorite shows are the worst shows ever to appear on television and you're a horrible person for liking them.
He potholes to Straw Republican or Straw Troper or whatever when he's talking about people/characters he doesn't like, even though they weren't meant to be Straw Men at all.
Standard Flame Retardant rules apply. Do not name any names, insinuate with the insinuators, or add to the article unless it would contribute in a constructive fashion. Especially you, Adrian. Or you are, in fact, That Troper or the Adrian in question, in which case, the wiki apologizes for your misfortune.
