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Notable References To TV Tropes
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" Oh my god! TV Tropes used one of my quotes!"
It's no surprise that the TV Tropes Wiki is the most popular website on the Internet, and, equally, it's no surprise that other webpages want to give us a shout out, or that we would want to return the favor by shouting back to the pages that reference us.
Also see TV Tropes In Other Wikis, Weirdest Inbound Link of the Day, One of Us.
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Literature
Tabletop Games
- Changeling: The Lost, in the sourcebook Swords at Dawn, details Talecrafting, a way Changelings can tweak fate to force life to follow story conventions, such as the Rule of Three, the Evil Stepmother, or the elderly mentor. Guess what site they reference as a good place to find inspiration?
Webcomics
- As Dork Tower admits, TVTropes will indeed ruin your life
.
- Errant Story: in one of the chapter commentaries, Bani calls Sara the Worf of Errant Story. Sara's response? "You're not allowed to read Tv Tropes anymore".
- Trope-tan and Captain Obvious are characters in The Way of the Metagamer. The comic also directly mentions Avatar and the Airbending Fellowship of Vampire Slayers and tropes on this very wiki.
- Irregular Webcomic! mentions this wiki in the notes a lot. So does Darths & Droids. As Dmmaus is a known Troper, this should be expected.
- This strip
of Super Stupor.
- Stickman And Cube mentions us a few times. or at least refers to tropes by name.
- Nowhere University has references to this site.
- The commentary on this strip
of Partially Clips.
- Phil Foglio has a link to us on the Girl Genius Fun Stuff page
.
- xkcd once mentioned us here
. And linked the comic to this site. Randall Munroe is a cruel man, as the people in this thread can certify.
- This
Shortpacked! strip is titled (according to the accompanying blog post) "Is this something already covered by TV Tropes? I haven't checked yet". It is.
- The Adventures of Dr. McNinja recently had a strip that features a blurred website that looks veeeerryy suspicious.
- The Order of the Stick: According to the Giant
, he's aware of TV Tropes, but has never directly referenced it; everything that seems like a reference is Older than They Think.
- At least two of the authors of Exterminatus Now are tropers, and Silversword is one of them. Eastwood is the other.
- In at least one
El Goonish Shive strip, Dan has linked to TV Tropes in The Rant. Specifically, the Red Shirt page.
- Andrew Hussie of Homestuck has mentioned us a few times. While he doesn't completely agree with our specific list-based methods, he seems to like the general troping idea and has said that he's found a few articles to be interesting reads. *
Which is understandable, considering how many tropes are pulled off, lampeshaded and zigzagged in Homestuck.
- Dinosaur Comics: The archive title of the Oct 28, 2009
page is "inspired by the tvtropes 'weaksauce weakness' page. tvtropes it great, it'll remind you of how ridiculous your body is, AND also suck up endless hours of your time".
- The Unspeakable Vault (of Doom) linked this site's "good summary" of Warhammer 40K in strip #341
.
- Unwinder's Tall Comics: Barbecue Sauce has an anime to recommend
.
- The chaps that create Virtual Shackles might well be tropers, as this comic
references Manic Pixie Dream Girl.
- Ansem Retort has this
as a sort of Take That joke to the site. Duke then added in his update that people check out the site, as well as a disclaimer that he doesn't edit his own page and leaves it up to the fans.
- A Path To Greater Good: Guido (who does occasionally post on the TV Tropes forum) wonders if there's a trope for that hair
. (Anime Hair or Improbable Hairstyle, by the way.)
- Bobwhite: This page
discusses the Tzadikim Nistarim. The Alt Text notes "This one is on TV Tropes for some reason."
- The commentary to this
Critical Miss strip (referencing Assassin's Creed):
"The Templars are winning in the modern portion of the games because they finally have access to a certain website and thus can avoid embarrassing situations like the one illustrated in today's comic. That and they presumably outlawed hay."
- Johnathan Grey Carter, the writer of Critical Miss is pleased that it has a page:
One of our readers, some might say our best reader, has started a Critical Miss TV Tropes page! I've always wanted my own TV Tropes page. So much so I even considered starting my own. But that'd be kind of like like signing your own yearbook, or masturbating in public. It's just not done. Whoever started the page may step forward and receive a moderate amount of praise and adulation.
- Editing the wiki: enjoyed but slightly shameful and best done alone.
Web Original
Video Games
- Kingdom Of Loathing has a monster in its 2010 Christmas content called the "Tome of Tropes."
"You can't focus your attention on working, or on much of anything, so you turn to the nuclear solution of boredom: the Tome of Tropes. It's a giant book that explains and gives clever names to all of the recurring themes in literature, popular culture, and even real life. There are two things about the book that make it purest evil: the first is that anyone can add to it, so it's always changing and growing larger. The second is that every entry contains several references to other cleverly-named tropes, and touching one of those names sends you to an explanation of that trope's name, complete with references to other tropes... and at some point you look up and see you're eight years older than when you started."
- One of the Minecraft title blurbs reads: "Less addictive than TV Tropes!"
Fan Fic
Other
- September 2010 issue of Wired magazine featured a short article on us.
- Scans_daily mentions us a lot, especially in the comments (usually a link, accompanied by LOTS of warnings about life-ruining side effects.)
- Been mentioned in the editorial for the January edition of SFX magazine.
- Raocow
has occasionally referenced us in his Lets Plays. In a video , after mentioning "epileptic trees", he outright tells people to visit the site.
- On Reddit.
- Allen Varney blogged about the site on Paranoia.
- MetaFilter likes us too, apparently.
- Let's hope the NaNoWriMo writers don't waste their time on TV Tropes when they should be writing.
- The site was reviewed on Killer Startups.
- Fritz Freiheit wrote about the site on his blog.
He included a copy of the blog post on his wiki.
- The Hekman Library includes the site as a research resource.
- A blog called Grim Reviews
.
- Bruce Sterling mentioned us
on Wired blogs.
- This Boing Boing
front-pager sticks out a bit.
- THE BBC!
Yes, The BBC!
- The Viking's Progress, a blog by a Physician Assistant gives us a shout out here
- This
Touhou fansite references some tropes and warns about the dangers of Trope Addiction with every link to this site. It's a Troper Work, and the main site of Touhou Nekokayou.
- A Semantic Web researcher discovers that we have the Linked Data nature
,and that we may be able to teach the experts a thing or two about building data webs. Maybe this is why it's so addictive.
- NaNoWriMo's main page.
- At least one mention
on a Television Without Pity recap, not to mention their forums.
- The author of Light And Dark The Adventures Of Dark Yagami was apparently pleased to find our entry on it. Later, he thought it was awesome that Slowzombie is liveblogging it, Slow's eye problems notwithstanding.
- German weekly newspaper Die Zeit
- Cracked:
- The Agony Booth referenced a few trope titles in their review
of Repo! The Genetic Opera, then page 5 features this tidbit:
This song is just awful, so much so that TV Tropes, which is run by people who like everything, lists this scene as Repo's Dethroning Moment of Suck.
- Here's a thing from io9
, a great online 'zine for all things SFnal and cool.
- Dragonfree lovingly peppers her movie reviews
with links to tropes that pop up in the Pokemon films.
- The LA Times had a look at us.
- Know Your Meme used this site to confirm if Youtube Poop was a meme
. It's not just YTP, though. There are at least five other articles that have mentioned or linked back to this wiki.
- Arcade, Stanford University's salon magazine, has a write-up about us.
- Major online newspaper Slate.com has reference not once, not twice, not thrice, but a bunch of times:
- Fanfiction author Shadow Crystal Mage
makes constant references to tropes by name, and admits outright that his goal is to be referenced on as many pages as possible.
- Amazing Ben has referenced this site in some of his articles.
- The site received an entry in the 2011 edition of Schott's Almanac, a catalogue of recent events, trends and phenomena, along with a list of some of the tropes present here.
- The Febuary 2011 issue of Maximum PC includes this site on a list of 101 websites everyone should see once
.
- Wired's Geekdad recommends
TVTropes to keep kids reading over the summer.
- The Rachel Maddow Show has a segment on 9/29/2011
about the U.S. Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford defying the Syrian government to visit protesters titled "Ambadassador", complete with graphics.
- The "distributed recommendation system" Skipforward
provides a linked-data wrapper for TVTropes called DBTropes . Among other things, it provides a machine-readable interface to the wiki.
- Ralph Keyes mentions TV Tropes in the bibliography of his book Euphemania—though there's no mention in the main text.
- In this article
in The Guardian on fanfiction, there's a direct reference to the trope Most Fanfic Writers Are Girls.
- The Macintosh Garden page
for Lexi-Cross includes the game description from TVTropes.
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