Trope Overdosed - Television Tropes & Idioms

alt title(s): Tropeoverdose

Feeling bored? Here's a challenge. Find a page on this site that doesn't reference at least one of these series.

Note that being Trope Overdosed has a direct link to how popular a series is (among The Contributors at least), as well as the number of tropes being consciously pulled out - the more tropers who know about a show, the more it will be cited. Will sometimes lead to the listing of Obligatory Examples regarding the series in trope pages.

Trope Saturated (4,000 wicks or more)

Star Trek (5083+ pages — five series—six if you count the animated one—three of which ran for seven seasons each^*
^{between TOS (3), TNG (7), DS9 (7), VOY (7), and ENT (4), the franchise clocks in at twenty-eight live-action seasons, even longer than Doctor Who}
; eleven movies; and one of the most massive and internally consistent Expanded Universes in history, second only to Star Wars, although individual book quality varies - wildly. The original series was a Trope Maker many times over, and the franchise as a whole is responsible for an astonishing number of trope titles. And slash.)
Final Fantasy (4299+ pages, especially if you count all of the spin-offs; Final Fantasy VII alone has 1629+ pages, and at least Final Fantasy IV, Final Fantasy VI, Final Fantasy VIII, Final Fantasy IX, Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy XII have enough to appear on this page on their own as well; there are more than a dozen games, and counting)
Doctor Who (Referenced in an amazing 4219+ pages. Was on TV for twenty-six years and multiple Trope Maker in its original run before being brought back - and that's not even getting into the Expanded Universe... Additionally, TV Tropes uses to collectively speculate on the Time Lord nature of one or more characters in everything ever.)
Star Wars (4144+ pages — six movies and the Star Wars Expanded Universe; Knights Of The Old Republic and the X Wing Series also appear on this list, and the SWEU alone gets 694 wicks)
The Simpsons (4000+ pages — has been around for quite a while)

Trope Overloaded (2,000 - 3,999 Wicks)

Discworld (3550+ pages — tons of books)
Batman (3446+ pages; multiple comic books, television series and movies; Long Runner)
Harry Potter (3111+ pages — seven books, and enough fans to make a billionaire out of their author.)
Buffy The Vampire Slayer (3111+ pages, which makes sense considering TV Tropes has its roots in Buffistas.org)
Transformers (2956+ pages — so many series that there is a Die Cast Herd used to divide continuities that have their own separate pages, with one of them on the Film Overdosed list below)
Warhammer 40000 (2702+ pages, including spinoff novels, tabletop and video games, no fewer than 18 of which have their own pages. All of it trying to kill you in some fashion)
Superman (2676+ pages; really Long Runner, since he's the first superhero; multiple comic books, television series and movies)
Pokémon (2664+ pages; of course, this is for multiple games and a very long-running show)
Super Mario Bros (2619+ pages; long-running, popular franchise with various spinoffs; Paper Mario alone has 855+ wicks)
Gundam (2610+ pages — multiple series)
Metal Gear (2552+ pages, most referring to Metal Gear Solid; again, this has multiple long, story-heavy games and oodles of spin-offs.)
The Legend Of Zelda (2518+ pages, for a long running and very popular video game series with over a dozen titles, and several manga as well)
Naruto (2463+ pages; Long Runner as of 2009)
Warcraft (2387+ pages; a franchise of three strategy games, the MMORPG and other stuff. Has a total of twelve articles about official works set in the universe on the wiki right now)
Stargate Verse (2341+ pages — three series - one very long-running - and ~~a movie~~ three movies.)
X-Men (2315+ pages; multiple comic books, a movie trilogy with prequel films, and ~~two~~ three animated series, a Long Runner)
Bleach (2275+ pages)
Mahou Sensei Negima (2264+ pages; multiple series, most tropes coming from the manga (which is incredibly Troperiffic and loves playing around with almost everything) , becomes more and more trope overdosed, fast - could quickly become the most overdosed anime/manga on this page assuming you don't count Transformers and video game adaptations)
Avatar: The Last Airbender (2258+ pages; which, for a 3-season, 61-episode TV show without that much in the way of supplementary material, is amazing.)
Dungeons And Dragons (2223+ pages; a key Trope Maker with a lot of supplemental material)
Mega Man (2162+ pages; multiple series and spinoffs, that like Transformers above, received separate pages for each continuity)
The Lord Of The Rings (2140+ pages; also a key Trope Maker)
James Bond (2126+ pages; 22 official films, some books and video games)
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha (2084+ pages, loves playing with tropes from multiple genres)
Spider-Man (2051+ pages; multiple comic books, cartoons and a movie trilogy; Long Runner)
Order Of The Stick (2012+ pages — with about 700 strips (not counting stories unique to the print collections), based off of DnD, with a Genre Savvy Spoony Bard in the party and a board game based on it, it has earned its position on the list)
Sonic The Hedgehog (2010+ pages — a long-running games series, several successful animated series and three comic book series.)
Firefly (2002+ pages; for a series that's only 14 episodes and a movie - and a Tabletop RPG, and some comics... -, this is very impressive. Best explanation: See note on Buffy above.)

Trope Overdosed (600 - 1,999 Wicks)

One Piece (1982+ pages; over 500 chapters, 400 TV episodes, and nine movies.)
Code Geass (1959+ pages) (What would you expect from a show that's best described as "Gundam + Death Note?")
Dragonball (1941+ pages; Long Runner) (all three series; does not include Dragonball Evolution)
Neon Genesis Evangelion (1927+ pages — at only 26 episodes and 3 movies, with 2 more coming soon, it's one of the shortest works to be included on this list. Let's hope they keep it that way.)
Sailor Moon (1750+ pages — probably the best-known Magical Girl series in the West.)
South Park (1748+ pages; Long Runner)
Fullmetal Alchemist (1708+ pages)
Family Guy (1708+ pages)
Lost (1703+ pages)
Power Rangers (1680+ pages; 15 distinct series, each with their own load of tropes, with each page growing bigger.)
Kingdom Hearts (1669+ pages)
Yu-Gi-Oh and GX (1653+ pages — not including The Abridged Series, below)
Battlestar Galactica (1624+ pages)
Heroes (1602+ pages, plus some that are currently mislinked to Heroes; keep in mind this show is in its 4th season and already has this many references)
Sluggy Freelance (1553+ pages)
Death Note (1533+ pages)
Justice League (1525+ pages, most referring to the animated series)
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (1442+ pages; gleefully threw in every single Super Robot trope)
Angel (1425+ pages)
Suzumiya Haruhi (1423+ pages — And how!)
Babylon 5 (1391+ pages - not bad for a five-season series, eh?)
Kim Possible (1387+ pages)
Teen Titans (1363+ pages)
Digimon (1360+ pages including spinoffs, multiple series)
Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1353+ pages; Long Runner)
Fire Emblem (1351+ pages)
Ranma 1/2 (1299+ pages)
Ace Attorney (1293+ pages) (Includes the Phoenix Wright and Apollo Justice series)
Super Robot Wars (1276+ pages, a mostly Japanese-only franchise with a ton of tropes and a ton of games)
Metroid (1267+ pages; recently, the Metroid Prime subseries got its own article)
Halo (1266+ pages)
Resident Evil (1253+ pages)
Super Smash Bros (1252+ pages; but considering only a few of the franchises involved in this crossover series aren't on this page...)
Fate Stay Night (1230+ pages, including the sequel)
Watchmen (1186+ pages; and that's just a 12-issue limited series and a film adaptation!)
Wikipedia (1174+ pages)
Scrubs (1169+ pages)
Homestar Runner (1168+ pages)
Castlevania (1165+ pages)
Street Fighter (1163+ pages; Long Runner, many sequels thanks to Capcom Sequel Stagnation)
Fallout (1159+ pages)
Danny Phantom (1145+ pages)
The Fairly Oddparents (1133+ pages)
Disgaea (1125+ pages; includes two sequels, a spinoff, and cameos in other Nippon Ichi games)
The Matrix (1124+ pages)
Half-Life (1112+ pages)
House (1081+ pages)
City Of Heroes (1074+ pages, along with 187+ linking to the redirect of City Of Villains that partly overlap)
Supernatural (1072+ pages)
Touhou (1071+ pages; What with all the internet memes this series generates combined with the Loads And Loads Of Characters)
Tales Of Symphonia (1050+ pages; includes all games in that continuity, including Tales Of Phantasia)
The Dresden Files (1048+ pages)
Red Dwarf (1006+ pages)
Knights Of The Old Republic (1004+ pages)
The Elder Scrolls (990+ pages)
CSI (987+ pages; multiple series and a game)
The X Files (987+ pages)
Girl Genius (983+ pages)
Looney Tunes (983+ pages)
Mass Effect (971+ pages)
Monty Python's Flying Circus (970+ pages; and that's not counting most of the films, one of which has a place in the Film Overdosed list below)
SpongeBob SquarePants (966+ pages)
Friends (956+ pages; ran for 10 years)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (944+ pages; Long Runner with multiple, and sometimes wildly different, continuities.)
The Whateley Universe (941+ pages)
Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni (939+ pages)
Inu Yasha (920+ pages)
Chrono Trigger (918+ pages)
Pirates Of The Caribbean (916+ pages; mostly for the three movies)
The Bible (916+ pages)
Team Fortress 2 (911+ pages)
Law And Order (897+ pages; has a number of spinoffs, one of them Recycled in BRITAIN!)
Torchwood (895+ pages)
Full Metal Panic (890+ pages)
Gargoyles (889+ pages)
The Venture Brothers (878+ pages)
That Guy With The Glasses (874+ pages)
Terminator (873+ pages)
A Song Of Ice And Fire (868+ pages)
Grand Theft Auto (865+ pages)
Yu Yu Hakusho (861+ pages)
Iron Man (846+ pages; multiple comic books, cartoons and a Movie. Long Runner)
Baldur's Gate (829+ pages)
Farscape (823+ pages)
GURPS (822+ pages)
The Wheel Of Time (816+ pages)
Twilight (814+ pages)
8-Bit Theater (806+ pages; like OOTS, earns its place: over 1200 strips since 2001 and based off a Final Fantasy game)
Cowboy Bebop (806+ pages)
Magic: The Gathering (797+ pages)
Azumanga Daioh (796+ pages)
Alien (784+ pages)
Slayers (779+ pages)
Devil May Cry (776+ pages)
Persona 3 (774+ pages)
Silent Hill (773+ pages; more than half a dozen games and a movie)
The Dark Knight (772+ pages - enough to not be included among Film Overdosed!; plus some of the 268+ of The Dark Knight Saga. May have been helped by following laundry list of Batman interpretations)
Command And Conquer (765+ pages)
Smallville (759+ pages)
Powerpuff Girls (754+ pages, including Demashita Powerpuff Girls Z)
Hellsing (751+ pages)
Axis Powers Hetalia (751+ pages)
The World Of Darkness (750+ pages, and it has at least a dozen pages, including the fast-growing unofficial troper favourite Genius The Transgression)
The World Ends With You (748+ pages)
Sherlock Holmes (735+ pages)
El Goonish Shive (733+ pages)
Yu-Gi-Oh The Abridged Series (733+ pages)
Gunnerkrigg Court (731+ pages)
You Tube (722+ pages)
24 (720+ pages)
Tsukihime (717+ pages, includes sequels)
Kirby (697+ pages)
Godzilla (695+ pages for a LOT of movies)
Back To The Future (686+ pages, including the animated series)
Saturday Night Live (685+ pages)
Starcraft (675+ pages)
Ben 10 (663+ pages, including the sequel)
Seinfeld (657+ pages)
Mortal Kombat (652+ pages)
Lucky Star (650+ pages)
Green Lantern (639+ pages)
Mai-HiME (631+ pages)
Tenchi Muyo (628+ pages)
X Wing Series (625+ pages for nine novels and thirty-five issues of a comic book)
Soul Eater (625+ pages)
Exalted (624+ pages; is both a Fantasy Kitchen Sink and thoroughly Troperiffic)
Animorphs (623+ pages)
Neverwinter Nights (and the second game) (614+ pages)
The Sandman (609+ pages)
Portal (607+ pages)
Dune (603+ pages)

Film Overdosed: (Number of references for a single film (or with one sequel) — trilogies and longer series should have enough material to be a candidate for the main Overdosed list above — 80 reference minimum)

Transformers (573+ pages)
The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz (565+ pages; some presumably from the book)
The Incredibles (534+ pages)
The Princess Bride (505+ pages)
- Epecially notable: "Hello! My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die." For those keeping score at home, that's the entirety of the most quotable or so line from the movie, in trope names!
Men In Black (472+ pages; some refer to the Animated Adaptation)
Ghostbusters (468+ pages; some refer to other media)
The Lion King (467+ pages, 9 also/only refer to the first sequel and 3 to the second)
Die Hard (454+ pages)
Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (419+ pages; which is remarkable, considering that it's only the length of an average TV episode)
The Godfather (406+ pages)
Kill Bill (388+ pages)
Monty Python And The Holy Grail (382+ pages)
WALL-E (372+ pages)
300 (366+ pages; made it!)
Sweeney Todd (363+ pages for both the musical and its film adaptation)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (362+ pages)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (356+ pages)
The Phantom Of The Opera (343+ pages)
Toy Story (313+ pages; will be off this list by summer 2010 with Toy Story 3)
Fight Club (298+ pages)
Spaceballs (292+ pages)
Kung Fu Panda (288+ pages)
The Little Mermaid (285+ pages, some probably referring to the original Hans Christian Andersen story)
Robo Cop (277+ pages)
Hot Fuzz (270+ pages)
The Silence Of The Lambs (269+ pages; some might refer to the books!)
Pulp Fiction (269+ pages)
Blade Runner (267+ pages)
Independence Day (257+ pages)
Galaxy Quest (247+ pages)
Titanic (245+ pages)
Repo The Genetic Opera (243+ pages)
Akira (243+ pages)
Batman Begins (238+ pages)
Predator (237+ pages, some refer to related to media such as Alien Vs Predator)
The Pink Panther (232+ pages; some may refer to the Animated Series)
The Princess And The Frog (231+ pages)
Coraline (225+ pages)
The Fifth Element (223+ pages)
The Nightmare Before Christmas (220+ pages)
Watership Down (219+ pages)
Hercules (218+ pages; some refer to The Series)
Blazing Saddles (217+ pages)
Mulan (216+ pages)
Labyrinth (209+ pages)
Enchanted (204+ pages)
Airplane! (204+ pages)
Finding Nemo (203+ pages)
District 9 (201+ pages - this one's got potential!)
The Hunchback Of Notre Dame (199+ pages)
Tron (198+ pages)
Dr Strangelove (197+ pages)
Jaws (195+ pages)
Shaun Of The Dead (195+ pages)
Battle Royale (194+ pages)
Sleeping Beauty (193+ pages)
The Emperors New Groove (192+ pages)
The Big Lebowski (190+ pages)
Batman And Robin (184+ pages - not all of them positively, though)
An American Tail (184+ Pages)
Reservoir Dogs (183+ pages)
Dogma (181+ pages)
Princess Mononoke (181+ pages)
Scarface (179+ pages)
Forrest Gump (179+ pages)
Planet Of The Apes (178+ pages)
Avatar (178+ pages)
Beetlejuice (172+ pages; some refer to the animated series)
Casablanca (174+ pages)
A Clock Work Orange (172+ pages; some may refer to the book!)
Mad Max (167+ pages)
Gladiator (166+ pages)
Up (166+ pages)
Cloverfield (165+ pages)
Citizen Kane (165+ pages)
The Blues Brothers (163+ pages)
Cinderella (163+ pages)
Apocalypse Now (163+ pages)
Gone With The Wind (162+ pages)
Monsters Vs Aliens (162+ pages)
Manos The Hands Of Fate (159+ pages)
Wanted (157+ pages; some refer to the comic)
Equilibrium (157+ pages)
Spirited Away (156+ pages)
Beauty and the Beast (156+ pages)
Tropic Thunder (156+ pages)
Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind (155+ pages)
Mystery Men (151+ pages)
28 Days Later (151+ pages)
Ratatouille (148+ pages)
Stardust (148+ pages)
The Producers (147+ pages)
Psycho (147+ pages)
The Shining (146+ pages)
Lethal Weapon (144+ pages)
The Da Vinci Code (144+ pages)
Bill And Teds Excellent Adventure (143+ pages)
Scary Movie (143+ pages)
Dirty Harry (141+ pages)
Mary Poppins (141+ pages)
Little Shop Of Horrors (141+ pages)
Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs (141+ pages)
2001: A Space Odyssey (140+ pages)
Braveheart (138+ pages)
Saving Private Ryan (137+ pages)
American Pie (129+ pages)
Demolition Man (129+ pages)
Monsters Inc (129+ pages)
Pan's Labyrinth (128+ pages)
Snakes On A Plane (126+ pages)
The Goonies (126+ pages)
Anastasia (124+ pages)
I Am Legend (124+ pages; some may refer to the book!)
Last Action Hero (124+ pages)
Naked Gun (124+ pages)
Cars (124+ pages)
Full Metal Jacket (124+ pages)
The Thing (122+ pages)
The Sound Of Music (120+ pages)
Team America World Police (120+ pages)
Pocahontas (118+ pages)
Night Watch (118+ pages)
Van Helsing (117+ pages)
Night Watch (117+ pages)
Fantasia (116+ pages)
The Boondock Saints (116+ pages)
Young Frankenstein (116+ pages)
Sky High (116+ pages)
The Usual Suspects (113+ pages)
American Psycho (113+ pages)
The Great Mouse Detective (112+ pages)
It's A Wonderful Life (112+ pages)
Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow (112+ pages)
Escape From New York (112+ pages)
Top Gun (111+ pages)
No Country For Old Men (111+ pages)
The Fly (111+ pages)
Plan 9 From Outer Space (108+ pages)
Idiocracy (107+ pages)
Corpse Bride (107+ pages)
Gremlins (106+ pages)
Mirror Mask (105+ pages)
Bolt (103+ pages)
True Lies (103+ pages)
Pinocchio (103+ pages)
Angels In America (101+ pages for a two-part play and its Mini Series adaptation)
Brazil (101+ pages)
Big Trouble In Little China (101+ pages)
Donnie Darko (101+ pages)
Minority Report (101+ pages)
Seven Samurai (100+ pages)
Clerks (100+ pages)
A Bugs Life (100+ pages)
Ace Ventura (98+ pages)
Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs (98+ pages)
Carrie (98+ pages)
National Treasure (98+ pages)
Metropolis (97+ pages)
Catch-22 (97+ pages)
Underworld (97+ pages)
Chicago (97+ pages)
Hancock (96+ pages)
The Truman Show (96+ pages)
The Sixth Sense (96+ pages)
The Blob (94+ pages)
Se7en (94+ pages)
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (93+ pages)
Brokeback Mountain (93+ pages)
Forbidden Planet (92+ pages)
Wayne's World (92+ pages)
One Hundred And One Dalmatians (92+ pages)
Night Of The Living Dead (91+ pages)
The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari (90+ pages)
Robin Hood Men In Tights (90+ pages)
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (90+ pages)
Dark City (89+ pages)
Being There (88+ pages)
War Games (88+ pages)
Hot Shots! (88+ pages)
Harold And Kumar (88+ pages)
Soylent Green (87+ pages)
Event Horizon (86+ pages)
Borat (86+ pages)
Treasure Planet (86+ pages)
Beowulf (85+ pages)
Love Actually (84+ pages)
Bruce Almighty (84+ pages)
The Dark Crystal (83+ pages)
The Wall (83+ pages)
Mars Attacks (82+ pages)
Yellow Submarine (81+ pages)
Constantine (80+ pages)

Creator Overdosed: (Number of references for popular writers / directors / musicians / whatever — 100 reference minimum)

William Shakespeare: 877 (when you use the phrase "Shakespeare's language" as a flowery moniker for "English", you're really talking about an influential author! And why else would we have The Zeroth Law Of Trope Examples?)
Stephen King: 848
Terry Pratchett: 811
HP Lovecraft: 626
Robert A Heinlein: 589
The Beatles: 576
JRR Tolkien: 572
Neil Gaiman: 495
Isaac Asimov: 448
Walt Disney: 447
Dan Abnett: 404
Joss Whedon: 375
Michael Jackson: 347
Lois Mc Master Bujold: 345
Alan Moore: 338
Weird Al Yankovic: 328
Mercedes Lackey: 299
Larry Niven: 296
CS Lewis: 293
They Might Be Giants: 292
William S. Gilbert and Arthur S. Sullivan: 266
Agatha Christie: 246
Tim Burton: 218
Edgar Rice Burroughs: 209
Tom Clancy: 207
Diana Wynne Jones: 202
Piers Anthony: 199
The Three Stooges: 194
Graham Mc Neill: 193
Metallica: 189
Pink Floyd: 184
Douglas Adams: 183
Norio Wakamoto: 182
Queen: 182
Marx Brothers: 182
Dave Barry: 178
Alfred Hitchcock: 176
James Swallow: 174
Harry Turtledove: 174
Charles Dickens: 173
Roger Ebert: 172
Quentin Tarantino: 170
Don Rosa: 169
Edgar Allan Poe: 163
Sandy Mitchell: 162
Orson Scott Card: 157
PG Wodehouse: 155
David Eddings: 155
David Bowie: 152
Osamu Tezuka: 150
Frank Miller: 150
Jack Chick: 146
Iron Maiden: 143
Mel Brooks: 142
Mark Twain: 140
Richard Wagner: 139
Andre Norton: 135
George Lucas: 135
Timothy Zahn: 134
Nine Inch Nails: 134
Rumiko Takahashi: 132
The Who and Tommy: 120
Jane Austen: 130— from only six novels, none long.
Steven Spielberg: 130
Tom Lehrer: 130
Bob Dylan: 129
GK Chesterton: 128
Stephen Sondheim: 128
Carl Barks: 128
Led Zeppelin: 128
JK Rowling: 126
Poul Anderson: 126
Michael Bay: 126
Rudyard Kipling: 123
Roger Zelazny: 123
Stan Lee: 123
Ray Bradbury: 121
Lewis Carroll: 117
Uwe Boll: 117 (don't expect them to be positive, though)
The Rolling Stones: 117
Oscar Wilde: 116
J Michael Straczynski: 116
Hayao Miyazaki: 116
Warren Ellis: 116
Disturbed: 110
Woody Allen: 110
Roald Dahl: 110
Eddie Izzard: 110
Homer: 108
Michael Crichton: 107
Megumi Hayashibara: 106
Kevin Smith: 106
Seltzer And Friedberg: 105
HG Wells: 104
Tex Avery: 103
Ursula K Le Guin: 102

Note: The above numbers refer to the number of pages that reference the series, not the number of examples that series gives.

This doesn't mean that these series or writers are actually better. Just that more tropers watch them and add examples. Or possibly that one really, really crazy troper watches it and adds examples. Or possibly that the show just happens to have a really, really high trope quotient while a show you don't see on here doesn't.

If you feel like another challenge, try to compare the popularity of a series with its Example Explanation Density.

See also Tropes Of Legend for tropes with at least 300 wicks.

The last tally was conducted on 21 January 2010.