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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.

Trope Saturated (3,500 wicks or more)

1. Star Trek (4389+ pages — five series—six if you count the animated one—three of which ran for seven seasons each; eleven movies. The original series was a Trope Maker many times over.)
2. Doctor Who (Referenced in an amazing 3938+ 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 used to collectively speculate on the Time Lord nature of one or more characters in everything ever.)
3. Star Wars (3778+ pages — six movies and the Star Wars Expanded Universe)
4. The Simpsons (3544+ pages — has been around for quite a while)
5. Final Fantasy (3524+ pages, especially if you count all of the spin-offs; Final Fantasy VII alone has 1372+ pages, and at least Final Fantasy IV, Final Fantasy VI, Final Fantasy VIII and Final Fantasy X have enough to appear on this page on their own as well; there are more than 12 games, and counting)

Trope Overloaded (2,000 - 3,499 Wicks)

1. Batman (3354+ pages; multiple comic books, television series and movies; Long Runner)
2. Discworld (3217+ pages — tons of books)
3. Harry Potter (2857+ pages) (Seven books, and enough fans to make a billionaire out of their author.)
4. Buffy The Vampire Slayer (2831+ pages, which makes sense considering TV Tropes has its roots in Buffistas.org)
5. Transformers (2576+ 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)
6. Warhammer 40000 (2479+ pages, including spinoff novels, tabletop and video games, no fewer than 16 of which have their own pages. All of it trying to kill you in some fashion)
7. Metal Gear (2292+ pages, most referring to Metal Gear Solid; again, this has multiple long, story-heavy games and oodles of spin-offs.)
8. Pokémon (2281+ pages; of course, this is for multiple games and a very long-running show)
9. Super Mario Bros (2279+ pages; long-running, popular franchise with various spinoffs; Paper Mario alone has 757+ wicks)
10. The Legend Of Zelda (2233+ pages, for a long running and very popular video game series with over a dozen titles, and several manga as well)
11. Gundam (2174+ pages, multiple series)
12. Naruto (2163+ pages; Long Runner as of 2009)
13. Superman (2104+ pages; really Long Runner, since it's the first superhero; multiple comic books, television series and movies)
14. Avatar: The Last Airbender (2058+ pages; which, for a 3-season, 61-episode TV show without that much in the way of supplementary material, is amazing - in fact it was the original inspiration for this page)
15. Mahou Sensei Negima (2053+ 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)
16. Futurama (2002+ pages) (What else would you expect from the folks who brought you The Simpsons?)

Trope Overdosed (600 - 1,999 Wicks)

1. Stargate Verse (1999+ pages — three series - one very long-running - and a movie three movies.)
2. Bleach (1970+ pages)
3. The Lord Of The Rings (1961+ pages; also a key Trope Maker)
4. Dungeons And Dragons (1954+ pages; a key Trope Maker with a lot of supplemental material)
5. X-Men (1953+ pages; multiple comic books, a movie trilogy with prequel films, and two three animated series, a Long Runner)
6. Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha (1923+ pages)
7. Mega Man (1883+ pages; multiple series and spinoffs, that like Transformers above, received separate pages for each continuity)
8. Sonic The Hedgehog (1822+ pages) (A long-running games series, several successful animated series and three comic book series.)
9. Firefly (1815+ 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.)
10. Neon Genesis Evangelion (1801+ pages) (At only 26 episodes and a movie, not including remakes, it's one of the shortest works to be included on this list. Let's hope they keep it that way.)
11. Dragonball (1755+ pages; Long Runner) (all three series; does not include Dragonball Evolution)
12. Code Geass (1748+ pages) (What would you expect from a show that's best described as "Gundam + Death Note?")
13. Order Of The Stick (1727+ pages) (With over 650 strips (not counting stories unique to the print collections), based off of DnD, with a Genre Savvy Spoony Bard in the party and a game based on it, it has earned its position on the list)
14. Spider-Man (1689+ pages; multiple comic books, cartoons and a movie trilogy; Long Runner)
15. One Piece (1667+ pages; over 500 chapters, 400 TV episodes, and nine movies.)
16. World Of Warcraft (1633+ pages; the original Warcraft series doesn't qualify yet also qualifies)
17. Sailor Moon (1579+ pages) (Probably the best-known Magical Girl series in the West.)
18. South Park (1519+ pages; Long Runner)
19. Heroes (1507+ 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)
20. Power Rangers (1501+ pages; 15 distinct series, each with their own load of tropes, with each page growing bigger.)
21. Lost (1496+ pages)
22. Yu-Gi-Oh and GX (1492+ pages) (Not including The Abridged Series, below)
23. Fullmetal Alchemist (1478+ pages)
24. James Bond (1471+ pages; 22 official films, some books and video games)
25. Death Note (1458+ pages)
26. Battlestar Galactica (1455+ pages)
27. Family Guy (1454+ pages)
28. Kingdom Hearts (1442+ pages)
29. Suzumiya Haruhi (1407+ pages) (And how!)
30. Sluggy Freelance (1402+ pages)
31. Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (1359+ pages; gleefully threw in every single Super Robot trope)
32. Justice League (1337+ pages, most referring to the animated series)
33. Ace Attorney (1293+ pages) (Includes the Phoenix Wright and Apollo Justice series)
34. Angel (1270+ pages)
35. Kim Possible (1251+ pages)
36. Super Robot Wars (1223+ pages, a mostly Japanese-only franchise with a ton of tropes and a ton of games)
37. Fire Emblem (1222+ pages)
38. Babylon 5 (1218+ pages - not bad for a five-season series, eh?)
39. Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1216+ pages; Long Runner)
40. Teen Titans (1208+ pages)
41. Digimon (1195+ pages including spinoffs, multiple series)
42. Ranma 1/2 (1163+ pages)
43. Super Smash Bros (1154+ pages; but considering only a few of the franchises involved in this crossover series aren't on this page...)
44. Metroid (1089+ pages; recently, the Metroid Prime subseries got its own article)
45. Fate Stay Night (1067+ pages, including the sequel)
46. Homestar Runner (1063+ pages)
47. Resident Evil (1061+ pages)
48. Wikipedia (1058+ pages)
49. Street Fighter (1039+ pages; Long Runner, many sequels thanks to Capcom Sequel Stagnation)
50. City Of Heroes (1037+ pages, along with 177+ linking to the redirect of City Of Villains that partly overlap)
51. Danny Phantom (1024+ pages)
52. Castlevania (1019+ pages)
53. Scrubs (1017+ pages)
54. The Matrix (1006+ pages)
55. Halo (1005+ pages)
56. Watchmen (1004+ pages; and that's just a 12-issue limited series and a film adaptation!)
57. Tales Of Symphonia (957+ pages; includes all games in that continuity, including Tales Of Phantasia)
58. Fallout (957+ pages)
59. CSI (952+ pages; multiple series and a game)
60. House (949+ pages)
61. Half Life (939+ pages)
62. Disgaea (923+ pages; includes two sequels, a spinoff, and cameos in other Nippon Ichi games)
63. Supernatural (916+ pages)
64. The Fairly Oddparents (916+ pages)
65. The Elder Scrolls (904+ pages)
66. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (891+ pages; Long Runner with multiple, and sometimes wildly different, continuities.)
67. Girl Genius (883+ pages)
68. Indiana Jones (879+ pages; mostly from the four movies, but a few from the Young Indiana Jones series and the video games)
69. Monty Python's Flying Circus (878+ pages; and that's not counting most of the films, one of which has a place in the Film Overdosed list below)
70. Touhou (871+ pages; What with all the internet memes this series generates combined with the Loads And Loads Of Characters)
71. Looney Tunes (869+ pages)
72. Red Dwarf (861+ pages)
73. Chrono Trigger (849+ pages)
74. The Dresden Files (845+ pages)
75. SpongeBob SquarePants (843+ pages)
76. The X Files (828+ pages)
77. Knights Of The Old Republic (822+ pages)
78. Mass Effect (822+ pages)
79. Friends (820+ pages; ran for 10 years)
80. Inu Yasha (806+ pages)
81. Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni (805+ pages)
82. Pirates Of The Caribbean (800+ pages; mostly for the three movies)
83. Law And Order (800+ pages; has a number of spinoffs, one of them Recycled in BRITAIN!)
84. Torchwood (783+ pages)
85. Terminator (778+ pages)
86. A Song Of Ice And Fire (774+ pages)
87. Yu Yu Hakusho (770+ pages)
88. The Whateley Universe (761+ pages)
89. Baldurs Gate (756+ pages)
90. Warcraft (754+ pages)
91. 8-bit Theater (754+ pages; like OOTS, earns its place: over 1100 strips since 2001 and based off a Final Fantasy game)
92. The Bible (745+ pages)
93. Gargoyles (742+ pages)
94. Full Metal Panic (739+ pages)
95. Iron Man (736+ pages; multiple comic books, cartoons and a Movie. Long Runner)
96. Azumanga Daioh (735+ pages)
97. Team Fortress 2 (730+ pages)
98. Alien (730+ pages)
99. Farscape (719+ pages)
100. Devil May Cry (718+ pages)
101. Magic: The Gathering (718+ pages)
102. The Venture Brothers (699+ pages)
103. Cowboy Bebop (694+ pages)
104. Persona 3 (684+ pages)
105. The World Ends With You (683+ pages)
106. Tsukihime (682+ pages, includes sequels)
107. The Wheel Of Time (675+ pages)
108. The World Of Darkness (671+ pages, and it has at least a dozen pages, including the fast-growing unofficial troper favourite Genius The Transgression)
109. Grand Theft Auto (666+ pages)
110. Silent Hill (665+ pages; more than half a dozen games and a movie)
111. Twilight (662+ pages)
112. 24 (662+ pages)
113. Command And Conquer (660+ pages)
114. Smallville (656+ pages)
115. Hellsing (653+ pages)
116. Powerpuff Girls (653+ pages, including Demashita Powerpuff Girls Z)
117. El Goonish Shive (649+ pages)
118. Gunnerkrigg Court (640+ pages)
119. Yu-Gi-Oh The Abridged Series (630+ pages)
120. Kirby (628+ pages)
121. Mai-HiME (627+ pages)
122. GURPS (617+ pages)
123. Neverwinter Nights (and the second game) (614+ pages)
124. That Guy With The Glasses (609+ pages)
125. Godzilla (608+ pages for a LOT of movies)
126. Ben 10 (606+ pages, including the sequel)
127. Seinfeld (606+ pages)
128. Sherlock Holmes (605+ pages)
129. Back To The Future (603+ pages, including the animated series)
130. Axis Powers Hetalia (602+ pages)
131. Starcraft (602+ pages)
132. Mortal Kombat (602+ pages)
133. Lucky Star (601+ 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)

1. The Dark Knight (585+ pages; plus some of the 268+ of The Dark Knight Saga. Made its way to the top pretty fast...may have been helped by following laundry list of Batman interpretations)
2. The Incredibles (474+ pages)
3. The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz (473+ pages; some presumably from the book)
4. Transformers (443+ pages)
5. The Princess Bride (427+ 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!
6. Men In Black (413+ pages; some refer to the Animated Adaptation)
7. The Lion King (396+ pages, 9 also/only refer to the first sequel and 3 to the second)
8. Die Hard (389+ pages)
9. Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (375+ pages; which is remarkable, considering that it's only the length of an average TV episode)
10. Ghostbusters (372+ pages; some refer to other media)
11. WALL-E (372+ pages)
12. Sweeney Todd (324+ pages for both the musical and its film adaptation)
13. Monty Python And The Holy Grail (323+ pages)
14. 300 (321+ pages; made it!)
15. Who Framed Roger Rabbit (309+ pages)
16. Kill Bill (308+ pages)
17. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (301+ pages)
18. Fight Club (264+ pages)
19. Kung Fu Panda (263+ pages)
20. Toy Story (259+ pages; will be off this list by summer 2010 with Toy Story 3)
21. Hot Fuzz (247+ pages)
22. Spaceballs (239+ pages)
23. Blade Runner (232+ pages)
24. The Little Mermaid (230+ pages, some probably referring to the original Hans Christian Andersen story)
25. The Godfather (228+ pages)
26. Robo Cop (227+ pages)
27. The Silence Of The Lambs (226+ pages; some might refer to the books!)
28. Galaxy Quest (217+ pages)
29. Independence Day (212+ pages)
30. Pulp Fiction (206+ pages)
31. The Pink Panther (202+ pages; some may refer to the Animated Series)
32. Batman Begins (192+ pages)
33. Predator (192+ pages, some refer to related to media such as Alien Vs Predator)
34. Enchanted (191+ pages)
35. The Fifth Element (190+ pages)
36. The Hunchback Of Notre Dame (186+ pages)
37. Blazing Saddles (186+ pages)
38. Airplane! (184+ pages)
39. Titanic (182+ pages)
40. High School Musical (182+ pages)
41. Labyrinth (181+ pages)
42. Tron (177+ pages)
43. Mulan (172+ pages)
44. Finding Nemo (168+ pages)
45. Sleeping Beauty (164+ pages)
46. The Nightmare Before Christmas (162+ pages)
47. Hercules (162+ pages; some refer to The Series)
48. Jaws (162+ pages)
49. Doctor Strangelove (160+ pages)
50. Shaun Of The Dead (159+ pages)
51. The Big Lebowski (156+ pages)
52. Cloverfield (156+ pages)
53. Dogma (151+ pages)
54. Scarface (150+ pages)
55. Forrest Gump (149+ pages)
56. Beetlejuice (148+ pages)
57. Manos The Hands Of Fate (148+ pages)
58. Batman And Robin (146+ pages - not all of them positively, though)
59. A Clock Work Orange (142+ pages; some may refer to the book!)
60. Stardust (139+ pages)
61. Casablanca (139+ pages)
62. Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind (138+ pages)
63. Equilibrium (137+ pages)
64. The Blues Brothers (137+ pages)
65. Mad Max (137+ pages)
66. Planet Of The Apes (137+ pages)
67. Citizen Kane (136+ pages)
68. Cinderella (132+ pages)
69. Spirited Away (132+ pages)
70. Beauty and the Beast (130+ pages)
71. The Producers (130+ pages)
72. Mystery Men (130+ pages)
73. Tropic Thunder (129+ pages)
74. Reservoir Dogs (128+ pages)
75. 28 Days Later (128+ pages)
76. Pans Labyrinth (125+ pages)
77. Anastasia (124+ pages)
78. Apocalypse Now (124+ pages)
79. Bill And Teds Excellent Adventure (121+ pages)
80. Gone With The Wind (120+ pages)
81. Wanted (119+ pages)
82. Dirty Harry (119+ pages)
83. Mary Poppins (118+ pages)
84. Psycho (116+ pages)
85. Saving Private Ryan (116+ pages)
86. Gladiator (116+ pages)
87. Scary Movie (115+ pages)
88. Snakes On A Plane (115+ pages)
89. I Am Legend (112+ pages; some may refer to the book!)
90. Last Action Hero (109+ pages)
91. Naked Gun (109+ pages)
92. Braveheart (107+ pages)
93. Lethal Weapon (107+ pages)
94. The Great Mouse Detective (105+ pages)
95. Cars (105+ pages)
96. Up (104+ pages)
97. Angels In America (101+ pages for a two-part play and its Mini Series adaptation)
98. Mirror Mask (100+ pages)
99. Idiocracy (99+ pages)
100. Full Metal Jacket (99+ pages)
101. District 9 (99+ pages - this one's got potential)
102. Pocahontas (98+ pages)
103. Fantasia (98+ pages)
104. Van Helsing (97+ pages)
105. Bolt (93+ pages)
106. It's A Wonderful Life (93+ pages)
107. The Boondock Saints (92+ pages)
108. The Usual Suspects (92+ pages)
109. Hancock (92+ pages)
110. American Pie (89+ pages)
111. Seven Samurai (86+ pages)
112. Beowulf (84+ pages)
113. Forbidden Planet (84+ pages)
114. Top Gun (84+ pages)

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

1. William Shakespeare: 1104 (when you use the phrase "Shakespeare's language" as a flowery moniker for "English", you're really talking about an influential author!)
2. Terry Pratchett: 750
3. Stephen King: 721
4. HP Lovecraft: 598
5. JRR Tolkien: 541
6. Robert A Heinlein: 517
7. The Beatles: 452
8. Neil Gaiman: 451
9. Walt Disney: 376
10. Isaac Asimov: 373
11. Dan Abnett: 362
12. Lois Mc Master Bujold: 337
13. Joss Whedon: 303
14. Alan Moore: 291
15. They Might Be Giants: 284
16. Mercedes Lackey: 257
17. Weird Al Yankovic: 254
18. Larry Niven: 248
19. CS Lewis: 245
20. Michael Jackson: 229
21. Tim Burton: 218
22. Agatha Christie: 211
23. Piers Anthony: 199
24. Edgar Rice Burroughs: 193
25. William S. Gilbert and Arthur S. Sullivan: 231
26. Graham Mc Neill: 184
27. Douglas Adams: 180
28. Tom Clancy: 174
29. Diana Wynne Jones: 172
30. Charles Dickens: 167
31. Sandy Mitchell: 150
32. James Swallow: 149
33. Norio Wakamoto: 149
34. Alfred Hitchcock: 141
35. Dave Barry: 137
36. Don Rosa: 137
37. Pink Floyd: 136
38. Osamu Tezuka: 134
39. Edgar Allan Poe: 133
40. Quentin Tarantino: 133
41. PG Wodehouse: 132
42. Harry Turtledove: 132
43. Mark Twain: 131
44. Mel Brooks: 126
45. Metallica: 124
46. Orson Scott Card: 124
47. Jane Austen: 123— from only six novels, none long.
48. George Lucas: 121
49. Stephen Sondheim: 117
50. JK Rowling: 115
51. Rumiko Takahashi: 114
52. Steven Spielberg: 113
53. Rudyard Kipling: 112
54. Tom Lehrer: 112
55. Poul Anderson: 111
56. GK Chesterton: 111
57. J Michael Straczynski: 111
58. Frank Miller: 110
59. Carl Barks: 109
60. Andre Norton: 109
61. Iron Maiden: 106
62. Roger Zelazny: 106
63. Uwe Boll: 104 (don't expect them to be positive, though)
64. Bob Dylan: 101
65. Michael Bay: 101
66. Megumi Hayashibara: 101

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 30 September 2009.

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