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• Fridge Horror and Fridge Tear Jerker entries filed in Nightmare Fuel and, well, Tear Jerker pages more often than not increase the already overflowing feelings I have for a recent work I read, watched or played. It keeps the fire of love for that work burning long after it's over. It decreases the need to look for something new to watch, read or play.
• TV Tropes helps me advertise relatively obscure works like Poison Berry in My Brain, The Most Popular Girls in School and Dr. Havoc's Diary! Thank you! ~ Monolaf317
• TV Tropes brought me chocolate for my birthday! Thanks TV Tropes!
• Until i found TV Tropes, any informal wiki I had found was just a place for people to harass, rip apart and complain. In a way, TV Tropes renewed my faith in the internet and humanity just by showing me that people could come together on the internet and talk about how much they loved things. That people could be civilized even when relaxing online. Thank you Tropers for making my year!
• I credit TV Tropes and its Wild Mass Guessing page/s for allowing me to see the video games I've played in another view, with the many What Could Have Been possibilities many people file in at said page as Epileptic Trees.
• Talking with my sister about films, shows, games, and even Real Life has never ever been so fun! Thank you, TV Tropes! :)
• Thanks to this website, I found the wonderful Japanese theme songs of The Amazing Spider-Man and The Amazing Spider-Man 2; "0 GAME" (SPYAIR) and "Fighter" (Mika Nakashima x Miliyah Kato) respectively.
  • I also gained the ability to plant Epileptic Trees better. It's feels very good when you are able to guess the most mind-boggling plot twists ever correctly.
• I just found Pokémon Vietnamese Crystal. I've been laughing my poodles off for about two hours and I feel so good right now. Life is Made of Win.
• TV Tropes led me to believe there are people out there who like TV more than I do. And now, I know a buttload more about films and shows I have seen, and I found out about Dawson's Creek from here. If only there was a "free social life" button.
• TV Tropes made me realise how many other people there are who feel the same way about junk and stuff.
• TV Tropes restored my faith in humanity by demonstrating that online discussion doesn't have to end in Flame War.
• TV Tropes raised my Literature Analysis grade almost full letter grade for all the allusions and crap.
• TV Tropes left a Party in My Pocket, and I was the guest of honor!
• TV Tropes baked cookies for all its Tropers!
• I was taking an IQ test, and on the vocabulary portion, I got "pragmatic" as one of my words. Thanks to TV Tropes, I was able to define it!
• TV Tropes allows me to understand - and write - fiction better. I can scavenge cool tropes for my works,or a rare ones to be original, subvert and deconstruct cliches, avoid Dead Horse Tropes... this knowledge actually helps.
  • All the knowledge this troper acquired thanks to TV Tropes motivated him to dust off and take back up an old project of his, which he had given up two years before. (It's a comic book.)
• TV Tropes is my favourite website. Not only has it introduced me to works I would never have found otherwise, not only has it allowed me to show my work to the world ^note Even if I gave up working on it due to lack of income/readership, not only has it given me clues as to my own identity, but it possesses the BEST community on the entire internet — no mean feat.
• Until i found TV Tropes, any informal wiki I had found was just a place for people to harass, rip apart and complain. In a way, TV Tropes renewed my faith in the internet and humanity just by showing me that people could come together on the internet and talk about how much they loved things. That people could be civilized even when relaxing online. Thank you Tropers for making my year!
• Without TV Tropes, I never would've found out about the awesomeness that is A Very Potter Musical. :D
• TV Tropes has introduced me to some great series/comics/books/other forms of media I wouldn't know about otherwise.
• Before TV Tropes, I was hooked on So Bad, It's Horrible shows from Disney Channel. TV Tropes showed me that premises didn't have to be simple and safe, problems didn't have to be resolved within one episode, status quo didn't have to be god, aesops didn't have to be anvilicious, and hijinks and dialog didn't have to be so wacky they bordered on self-parody. It taught me that there were only so many Contrived Coincidences the audience would accept before it broke their Willing Suspension of Disbelief, and which character types were Mary Sues, Scrappy-worthy, or both. Thanks TV Tropes, for teaching me how to write stories better.
• I had so many biting questions about so many things, and TV Tropes had the answers to plenty of them! (Why it is that movies seen as terrible by critics aren't that horrible to me, why it is that Thunderbirds is awesome despite it silly marionettes, why it is that everything seems similar but not exactly the same, why it is that Reality Is Unrealistic, etc...) And hopefully I'll find the answer to more of them. (Why it is that Joe Jitsu is my favorite character, why it is that more people don't know about TV Tropes, why it is that Real Life isn't more awesome than it is now...) Thanks, TV Tropes!
• TV Tropes clears my sinuses...really. With its devotion to the Tearjerker page, I have cried so many wonderful tears. And let me tell you that crying clears a stuffy nose better than any drug. It feels so good to cry.
• TV Tropes has given me a more positive outlook on things I used to hate. And that is awesome.
• If not for TV Tropes, I never would have exposed myself to Babylon 5, or Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. Nor would I ever have known about Metal Wolf Chaos.
  • Thanks to TV Tropes, I bought the DVDs for The World of Narue the moment I saw the TV Tropes article about it.
• TV Tropes allowed me to take first in an extemporanous speaking tournament! Go Sturgeon's Law!
• TV Tropes introduced me to Puella Magi Madoka Magica, which not only swiftly became pretty much my favourite show ever, but was a key subject in my university dissertation.
• TV Tropes made this troper have a better outlook on human kind, cheered her up when she was down in the dumps, and chases away all of her fears.
• Trope Names helped me get a story written. I used them as a shorthand to get ideas down on the page, then went back to expand on each one; the story grew from there. (and grew, and grew... I'd better stop writing before it hits Door Stopper length!)
• TV Tropes (specifically this page) gave me an optimistic outlook on ordinary life.
• This wiki has enhanced my life indeed. It introduced me to Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, Drowtales, and other very good works. It has taught me that, Tropes Are Not Good, Tropes Are Not Bad, but rather, Tropes Are Tools. Used properly, the most cliched of tropes can remind you why they became cliches in the first place. I've laughed, cheered, cried, and had my heart warmed here.
• I met my current boyfriend 5 years ago. We just drifted apart as friends and stopped talking much due to circumstances. Then one day we started talking about TV Tropes, and 4 months later we're going out. He knows who he is . . . colon d!
• This Troper was having such difficulty with one of her short stories that her own teacher said to throw it out and start over. Moping around on TV Tropes, I discovered the What You Are in the Dark page and realized that I had never come to a decision about what the main character would choose in an extension of the plot. When I finally figured out that he would become a Well-Intentioned Extremist, it inspired a rewrite that got me an A. Thanks, TV Tropes!
• When it's not supporting me in the things I already love, TV Tropes is introducing me to new things. In the last year-and-a-half or so I've been a member, I've been introduced to the Gargoyles continuation comic, The Princess and the Frog, the So Cool, It's Awesome Buffy the Vampire Slayer Fan Fic The Chosen, and Wicked through TV Tropes. Last month, I was introduced to quite possibly the coolest mondegreen video in the history of EVER. Last week I learned that The Phantom of the Opera had a sequel. Not twenty minutes ago, TV Tropes introduced me to Robot Unicorn Attack and Erasure at the same time. I love you, TV Tropes!
• Through TV Tropes, This Troper has been introduced to Darker than Black, Full Metal Panic!, and a few other works. I've regained interest in Reborn! (2004) and Pokémon Special. I've also learned about awesome and heartwarming moments in history. The trope examples have also helped me out with a story I'm writing. Thank you TV Tropes! :D (I'll try to get all the things mentioned linked; haven't quite figured that out yet :P)
• TV Tropes showed me Ranma ½, Inuyasha, Haruhi Suzumiya, Bleach, Fullmetal Alchemist, Case Closed— aw, heck with it! It made me love anime again! * hugs TV Tropes*
• Thank you TV Tropes, your site provided me with great conversation subjects for many (otherwise) boring Christmas (and other) dinners. People marvel at my ability to tell about adaptations, foreshadowing, characters and other stuff.
• TV Tropes has certainly enhanced my life! The perfect place to go to when one wants to procrastinate and get away from the crazy student world. I was introduced to new things through the site, and perhaps even a few books I'd never have considered reading before. Some tropes even helped me in real life when I was stuck for any solutions to whatever problem I had. Take for instance:
  • To Know Him, I Must Become Him had been very useful for me when I was trying to think like a (hypothetical) burglar who had burst into the house, looking for money. I tried to think of every other method of storing money in a place a burglar would never look (or at least would be the last place.) After some mulling about it, I finally hit upon the best solution. No, I'm not going to say, you'll have to figure it out yourself.
• When This Troper saw the Mohs Scale of Science Fiction Hardness page, it inspired him to dust off a hard SF novel he'd been writing off-and-on for the last 30 years, and get serious about it. Perhaps one day The Pentagon War will be on the shelves at fine bookstores everywhere!
• TV Tropes was actually able to reintroduce me to several anime I have seen before, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya being one such example.
• TV Tropes got me a 99% on my american lit paper on the interrobang (the symbol for the trivia pages)!
• Tv Tropes allows me to not drown under the downpour of teenage depression. As soon as I feel depressed * bing* * random trope* and on with the Idiot Grin of happiness. I do get some rather odd looks, though.
• Tv Tropes let me pass English class with keen analytical skills. Thanks to the Sherlock Scan, I can now figure out key details about people in real life. Combine this knowledge with Deadpan Snarker, and this is a survival recipe for high school!
• By showing me how cliched most of my entertainment is, TV Tropes has helped me to appreciate works that try to do something different, even if I would otherwise criticize them. The B-movie Soul Survivor, which by most standards is about equivalent in quality to a film on MST3K, is to me a five-star movie, because everything that happens in it violates my expectations as a filmgoer but makes perfect sense in hindsight.
• TV Tropes got me back into shows I watched as a little kid. My Saturday mornings are now busy!
• TV Tropes is helping me develop my characters and plot for my novel. It also helped me learn a little about writing in HTML and showed me that I am not alone in the things that I love. It also helped me learn Buffy Speak so that my main character can speak it fluently.
• Laptop computer: $300. Internet Access: $14.99 per month. Staying up untill 12:30 A.M. on a school night waiting for the next episode of TGWTG Second Anniversery Special Kickassia to be released so you can be the first one to add examples on its page: Priceless. There are somethings money can't buy. For everything else, there's TV Tropes.
  • But you just said that your TV Tropes existence was priceless, not to mention you can't actually make money with TV Tropes... Epic Fail!
• TV Tropes showed me that for all of the rude, loud idiots that inhabit the internet, there are just as many people who are intelligent, funny and polite.
  • I second that.
    • I Third it! It's nice to see people working together, particularly with the sugar Wiki... warm fuzzies all around.
• Ranting on the Troper Tales made me feel better about something that had happened. Also it gave me motivation to develop the webcomic I'm planning and to help flesh out my loads of characters. It also has made me less into Fan Dumb and shown me that Die for Our Ship is silly. It also kills my boredom.
• Until TV Tropes, no one I knew wanted to analyze movies, or wanted to see a lot of depth. They just wanted to passively watch. TV Tropes helped me see that I am NOT alone in wanting to analyze movies/video games/tv shows to a heavy extent, and the idea of classifying cliches/trends in an organized manner just makes me happy. :) Also a great boredom solver.
• TV Tropes showed me Mystery Science Theatre, That Guy with the Glasses and any Abridged Series. It also gave me something to do when I injured myself playing soccer.
  • TGWTG and Abridged Series for me. But I know that withing a matter of two hours, I will now be hooked on Mystery Science Theatre. Thats how these things go.
• Even beyond helping to develop my characters and story ideas and keeping me from going nuts from bored, TV Tropes has made me look at myself objectively. I notice when a trope applies to me, and start to think if that is a good or bad thing, and eventually it starts to influence what I do to so I can be who I want to be. And in the case of the Shrinking Violet page, it made me see just what I had overcome, and what could have happened if I hadn't found the right anime addictions. Maybe that sounds sort of silly, but I enjoy psychoanalysis like that.
• TV Tropes allowed this troper to ace a college level sociology course while she was still in high school. Thanks for the analytical skills TV Tropes!
• TV Tropes made novel analysis a whole heck of a lot easier. Verbal praise from my Honors English teacher included.
• TV Tropes led me to discover the awesomeness that is Avatar: The Last Airbender. I watched the entire series online and fell completely in love with it. Watching the fight scenes and bending throughout the show inspired me to take up Kung Fu. In the six months since I started, I've lost four pants sizes. Thanks TV Tropes! And Avatar!
• TV Tropes is the reason I consistently get As on my analysis papers for my English and Film classes. Thanks, TV Tropes, for putting me on the path to getting into a good grad school!
• TV Tropes helped me on an essay on why people think New Media Are Evil. I ended up doing exceptionally well. Hats off to you, TV Tropes.
• TV Tropes helped me memorize where the "*" key is on my keyboard. Typing class can only get you so far... spending hours editing wikis on the other hand...
• TV Tropes has led me to so many awesome things, and those awesome things have led me to discover that I'm in fact not alone. Really not alone. Thank you, TV Tropes, for allowing me to finally find the friends I always wanted and never knew I needed.
• TV Tropes showed me that others share my Perverse Sexual Lust. Whenever I go here I belong and I am One of Us.
• Tv Tropes made me feel like less of a freak for being nerdy.
• TV Tropes helped me become critical even about things I like - and made me understand that a little cliche or flaw doesn't automatically make it shitty.
• TV Tropes has shown me so many things I never would have known existed otherwise. The old I Am Not Making This Up page in particular led me to some great books and movies.
• TV Tropes helped me learn to create characters for my writing and even to do a romance scene tolerably well.
• TV Tropes introduced me to the concept of So Bad, It's Good.
• TV Tropes introduced me to Joss Whedon and helped me with writing ensemble which is a thing i'm a big fan of but at first i found real hard. also it introduced me to the idea that tropes are not bad and they actually are awesome and helpful to both tell stories and understanding and appreciating them. so thank you fast eddie and all the tropers. you are all Made of Win
• TV Tropes has improved my schoolwork, both through analysis and my own writing! From a cruddy fanfic writer to an A-student in English, this troper thanks this site heartily!
• TV Tropes made me proud of myself when this trope I came up with, made and launched was made into bumper stickers and T-Shirts.
• TV Tropes has, thus far, done these things that enhance my life:
  • Introduced me to Channel Awesome;
  • Introduced me to Lightbringer;
  • Allowed me to enjoy a bit of camaraderie with other Bifauxnen Tropers;
  • Improved my writing by showing me that Tropes Are Not Good and Tropes Are Not Bad.
  • Helped me make my characters more enjoyable and believable;
  • And it bought me a kitten. :D
• TV Tropes has pulled up my Literature grades, established me as one of the most analytical students in class. It has also improved my typing speed, because once a chapter of Kyon: Big Damn Hero comes up, at least three tropers will open it in a new tab and start listing tropes and their corresponding examples as fast as they can. The fact that there is somewhere apart from Spacebattles where intelligent conversations can be held, with a side-helping of inane jokes, is a bonus.
• Tv Tropes has done several things for me, but perhaps most importantly, has opened opened my eyes to the Double Standards that I have been completely oblivious to in my life. I have since gone through some drastic Character Development and now am an all-around more tolerant person than I was even a year ago, even standing up for those who are talked down upon for acting "outside of their expected gender roles". Though sometimes people cannot except this new, somewhat enlightened me (and sometimes I admit that there are times when it may go to my head and overwhelm me, causing me to see sexism in everything).
• TV Tropes has given me a word to describe the situation when a moment in a piece of fiction that is desperately trying to be serious comes off as rather funny.
• Without TV Tropes, I would have never seen Key the Metal Idol, Serial Experiments Lain, or any other of a long list of thought-provoking works which have broadened my perspective on... well, everything. Also, I never would have discovered Machinae Supremacy.
• At the risk of sounding overdramatic: apart from being awesome and entertaining on its own, TV Tropes introduced me to Channel Awesome, which was pretty much the only thing that made me laugh during a truly miserable period of my life earlier this year. It's possible that TGWTG saved my life, or at least my sanity. So in a roundabout way, TV Tropes helped to save me. I am One of Us. And I love it here.
• TV Tropes got me into Rooster Teeth. That is all.
• I was able to tell right away that the Scarface School Play was a fake.
• TV Tropes inspired me to seek out better media. There's enough out there that's just "all right," but thanks to a combination of other people's reviews, thorough trope-by-trope dissection, and a number of other factors, I am able to find things to read, watch, and listen to that are really worth my time. Also, it enhanced my vocabulary. Anvilicious, Narm, Nightmare Fuel, Badass Normal, The Call Knows Where You Live, and Deadpan Snarker are now colorful additions to my daily speech. Last of all, thank you for introducing me to Avatar: The Last Airbender and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which are now my two favorite TV shows.
• TV Tropes got Sister Golden Hair out of my head when all that I knew was the melody - Random Page landed on an older version of the Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold page, and that song was quoted there. I greatly appreciate it, as that damn song was stuck in my head for a few months!
• Even before coming on this site, my life as a writer was built on playing with the things I did not yet know to be tropes. After discovering TV Tropes, I now have an endless list of tools to have my charactersavert, subvert, defy, exploit, lampshade, and sometimes even play straight. Thank you, TV Tropes!
• Thanks to Tv tropes, this troper ALWAYS has something to look at. Whenever I'm bored or need to be cheered up, Tv tropes is always available.
• TV Tropes introduced me to Event Horizon, Alien, and The Thing (1982). This meant that I was able to laugh off a flash game that takes elements from all three. If I weren't a troper, I would probably have shat my pants at some of that stuff.
• TV Tropes introduced me to Firefly and other great stuff, and helped me work on my webcomic! But even better, I used the allusions and character tropes on the site to net a 98 on an English essay last year, and the undying adoration of my English teacher. Who then wrote one of my recommendation letters to college — And I got accepted! So TV Tropes helped me get into college!
• TV Tropes...it really helped me. I was going through a really hard time in my life—I'd just moved across the country. One of my new friends introduced me to the site. Instantly, I just felt...good. I was on a site that helped me sort out the confusing contents of my brain, helped me find cool shows and series that I hadn't known existed before, and helped the quality of my writing improve by showing me how to play with tropes. It makes me feel happy to know that there's people as awesome as the other contributors to TV Tropes and that the Internet can be such a friendly, informative place—for a site that's "a buttload more informal than Wikipedia," it's actually really well-organized and welcoming. I FRIGGIN' LOVE TV TROPES!
• TV Tropes got me back into The Real Ghostbusters fandom. I had added something to They Wasted a Perfectly Good Sandwich about the opening sequence to RGB but misremembered and said it was Ray who wasted the sandwich. Someone edited it and said it was Winston. I decided I'd better go to YouTube and see if anyone posted the opening sequence. It was Winston! I decided to start watching the eps again. I'm also having a good time playing games on the Forum.
• TV Tropes got me on to a lot of good shows and books. It also helped me regain my love of Meta and Fourth Wall messing-with. It also made me appreciate my tendency to analyse Everything.
• Tv Tropes introduced me to a million new things, the best of which has been Avatar: The Last Airbender and the thousands of ideas, characters, and stories that I came up with while browsing.
• Tv Tropes got me into 3 of the 5 shows in my dvd collection.
• I once had a dream that there was an Alien Invasion, me and a squad of tropers used TV Tropes to communicate and execute a coordinated attack around the world to defeat the aliens. Now I know what to do when aliens invade.
• TV Tropes introduced me to new things and showed me things I may have missed.
• TV Tropes convinced me to become an Literary education major.
• Thanks to TV Tropes... I discovered Daria and George R.R. Martin, I improve my English, I was thaught about Cliche (even thought they [Cliches and Tropes] aren't the same thing) for future writing and I even got topics to discuss my friends. Well, thanks for ruining my life and making it funnier at the same time.
• TV Tropes Enhances my vocabulary! Egregious, eponymous, laconic, obfuscating, Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness, tract, boisterous and so on. Better for word learning than any word-of-the-day.
• TV Tropes introduced me to various movies, books, and shows I'd never even consider trying otherwise, such as Being John Malkovich, The Coen Brothers and My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.
• Someone I knew vaguely caught me inadvertently speaking tropese. I now have a new friend.
• TV Tropes told me the end of Tristan and Iseult and thus completely saved me on a French Lit test.
• TV Tropes inspired me to do not one but several series that play upon media and storytelling stereotypes. That I haven't started on many of them is besides the point.
• TV Tropes inspires me in my novels. I come here whenever I hit a block.
• TV Tropes introduced me to some of the samples I use in my music. It also brought me to The Avalanches.
• TV Tropes did almost all of the above for this troper but to help it increased my vocabulary, gave me plenty of movie ideas and tropes to use and play with, made me snarky and hammy, made me become a Meta Guy to my friends and family and I also make a Lampshade Hanging every couple of minutes.
• In all seriousness TV Tropes has taught me a-lot more things about math, science, history, and language than my teachers from my crappy school have, weird but true. Thanks TV Tropes for making me a more intellectual individual!
• TV Tropes found me the perfect YA novel to bring into my Irish mythology class: I was at my wits end, unable to find anything that would work until in my desperation I searched " Irish Mythology" and was led to The Hounds of the Morrigan.
• TV Tropes has Expanded my vocabulary and has generally increased entertainment in my life.
• TV Tropes introduced me to Monty Python. It also helped me a lot with my writing and was one of the things that inspired me to write a comic.
• TV Tropes allowed me to explore a bunch of new ways of looking at morality without having to read a bunch of stuffy philosophy books.
• TV Tropes introduced me to The Slender Man Mythos... THANK YOU!!!
• TV Tropes helped me study for a test on World War II, which I aced.
• TV Tropes finally got me to watch My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Before, I just kind of watched the occasional clip on YouTube. Now, after reading about it on TV Tropes, I watch actual episodes. Also, if I'm using a trope in a fanfic that I'm coming up with (nothing's actually been written yet though, so don't go looking for them on Fanfiction.net or DeviantArt) it helps to look at the "Playing With" page, because it give you an idea of how to take a trope and, well... Exactly What It Says on the Tin.
• Thanks to TV Tropes, I now view TV in an entirely new way. Also, this site turned me into an Otaku. And I'm proud.
• How this troper found El Goonish Shive and Blank It. Possibly The Order of the Stick too, but my memory's hazy on that.
  • And just a couple minutes ago, Holy Bibble, from an example on Sophisticated as Hell. Only 12 strips in and I'm in love with it. I also just discovered Gunnerkrigg Court from the Technobabble page image, too, although I'm not sure yet if I'm in love with it.
  • Also Goblins, Inhuman, Girl Genius, and possibly Three Panel Soul, xkcd, Questionable Content, and Dinosaur Comics. To add to this, some of these webcomics have led me to other webcomics, like Prequel and Northwind.
  • Same goes for memes. This troper gleefully broke down into fits of laughter when he discovered Narm.
• This troper has read several series just based on the fact that if you notice a series on multiple pages, or it's page has a large number of tropes listed, it's been well-read, and usually worth checking out.
  • Although Wheel of Time did get tedious about five books in...
• This troper tends to start at TV Tropes when looking for a new webcomic/TV series to read/watch. Notable finds include Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, Goblins,
• This troper found the Ace Attorney series through TV tropes. This led to a love of visual novels, which led to a love of Japanese video games, which led to a love of Japanese media in general. This troper is now learning Japanese to experience anime, manga, and games as they were meant to be experienced and to avoid the pain of No Export for You.
• TV tropes saved this troper from falling behind in english lit! Thanks to tv tropes I've begun to actually put some thought into stories andd use words that sound clever...
• Where to start? TV tropes gave me a resource for my history class with its Useful Notes pages. It introduced me to numerous fandoms, the works of Joss Whedon in particular. It also gave me a ton of ideas for tropes to use in writing, as well as a more critical view of fiction, as opposed to just mindlessly consuming (though some of my family members may not agree that's a good thing). Oh, and it's also helpful for suppressing boredom.
• TV Tropes helped with some of my lessons and introduced me to the best fanfics I have ever read
• TV Tropes helped me write better by introducing me to so many things I was doing wrong- I do better research now- and boosted my confidence at the same time by showing me what I was doing right- totally accidentally just typed "write" there, I have autocorrect in my brain or something- and helping me think of ways I could do it more/better. Thanks!
• TV Tropes, along with reading reviews on GoodReads, essentially taught me how to write. I know about so many more pitfalls to avoid, so many hidden opportunities, so much stuff that I never would've known otherwise.
• Thanks to TV Tropes,not only do I have many awesome new ideas to use for my stories, but I've also been able to see things in new lights, think differently about some things I enjoy, and soon I plan on meeting some of the other awesome tropers when I finally check out the forums. So, thank you, TV Tropes!
• TV Tropes introduced me to several cool works, expanded my vocabulary, always gives me something to look at and gave me a Flawless Victory (as in maximum marks on the first draft) for some English coursework.
• TV Tropes fueled my interest in searching for Fridge Horror/Brilliance/Logicin practically everything I do. Also:
  • Expanded my vocabulary. I catch people off guard a lot with terms like Phyrric Victory.
  • Refueled my nostalgic interest in old things that I'd forgotten with things like the occasional Parental Bonus. Batman: The Animated Series (which in turn fueled my DC love in general), Rayman (which fueled my replaying of PlayStation 1 games), The Muppet Show, among many others.
  • Made me love tropes. I always click random expecting something new and/or funny. Thanks, TV Tropes! :D
• TV Tropes not only introduced me to different amazing works that I probably would have glossed over or passed on, but it has also expanded my vocabulary by a mile. At the same time, it also somehow reinvigorated my love for writing fiction. Before, I would simply load up a random series I knew and read about its tropes. Nowadays, it has pretty much become such a big part of my life that I don't know what I'd do without it. A lot of my current mannerisms about many things stemmed from TV Tropes. I love this site, and I am proud that I found and stuck with it.
• Thanks to TV Tropes I got into many works.
• TV Tropes gave this troper the tools she needed to pick apart the guts and workings of a story, an ability she now takes great pride in. It also taught her how to express the patterns she noticed, and make herself look like a literary genius to her uncultured friends. *evil laugh*
• Thanks to TV Tropes, this troper learned about shipping. An offhand comment about that and suddenly I have a girlfriend. So thanks TV Tropes for getting me a girlfriend!
• I've been on this site for several years and it has never failed to entertain me. But what's more, it taught me to think more critically of shows, to look at beloved characters in a new way. Very useful when writing fanfic or whatever. So thank you, TV Tropes. Thank you.
• I found a catchy name for when the media fails its fact checks: Cowboy BeBop at His Computer!
• This website has introduced me to all sorts of ideas I hadn't considered before, along with books like Fire Bringer and Watership Down. Oh, and it taught me the dangers of announcing your ships in volatile fandoms, even if you just say you're a canon shipper.
• This place has given me a place to put all my crazy Doctor Who theories and talk about media in a casual way. Oh, and it's a good place to sink hours of time.
• TV Tropes showed me series like El Goonish Shive and Puella Magi Madoka Magica and they're awesome (even with the latter being a Wham Series) and I love them. It's also easier socializing, which for me was a bitch.
• TV Tropes introduced me to the Flying Omelette Website in addition to the other sites linked to it via the link page, and, of course, has given me a lot of things to read. I also found Square Root of Minus Garfield and Brawl in the Family from here too.
• It was on TV Tropes that I happened to find Babylon 5. I'm never going to be able to thank anyone who had any part in bringing me together with the show, but whoever you are who picked the quote for Warts and All, thank you. It was enough to get me curious about the show. I was just reading random articles when I came across it. After doing some research I decided to watch the show, and it was worth every second. When I first came here on January 1 2013 my life was a mess. I had been playing with Google and found this site. Withing 5 minutes I was laughing at the vocabulary used here (BSOD, anyone?). I've always been able to count on TV Tropes to cheer me up, but special mention goes to helping me discover Babylon 5. I'd like to live just long enough to be there when this webite helps everyone the way it's helped me as a sign to the next ten generations that there is still hope for the Internet. I want to look at the world and smile.
• TV Tropes turned me from a mere Girl on Girl Is Hot fan to a genuine Yuri Fan (at least regarding fictional characters).
• TV Tropes introduced me to Vocaloid! It was July the 23rd 2011, 01:00 AM. I was searching for another scary song to listen to before sleep when I stumbled upon Alice Human Sacrifice. I was intrigued: "Hmm, Vocaloid? Synthesised singing? Sounds fancy..." I listened and became immersed IMMEDIATELY. I typed that with bold letters because that thing never happened to me before! It always takes me at least some time to get to like something! It's January the 16th 2015 now. I witnessed births of two generations of Vocaloids (3rd and 4th), their songs claimed 94% of space in my mp3-player, and I call light blue a "Color of Miku". And I'm not going to stop. Vocaloid is forever!
• TV Tropes introduced me to The Dresden Files, The Thrawn Trilogy, Repo! The Genetic Opera and MirrorMask.
• TV Tropes made me notice more details in characters, stories and people, and also made me able to see the awesomeness I'd otherwise missed in both fiction and real life.
• Now, before writing, I consider which tropes (since they are not bad) I want my work to have and think it should have, which should be averted and, eventually, subverted, discussed or de/reconstruced, it does make writing a bit longer and harder but also much funnier and with better results.
• TV tropes taught me new, interesting things about my favorite subjects and thanks to that, made me appreciate shows I love even more, when writers show that they INDEED went to school. Plus, is not as confusing as, for example, Wikipedia. So, thanks for that, TV Tropes. ;)
• TV Tropes has, in no particular order:
  • Got me into Vocaloid (I spend more time listening to them than is probably good for me), Katawa Shoujo (one of the few works to ever make me cry), Attack on Titan, System Shock 2 (Best. Villain. Ever), Dwarf Fortress, Pacific Rim, Ciaphas Cain HERO OF THE IMPERIUM! and many more.
  • Made me realise it was okay for a 22-year old guy to admit to liking Frozen (2013).
  • Encouraged me to finally start writing, and gave me the tools to ensure it wasn't complete crap.
  • Reignited my love of Pokémon.
  • Helped me find like-minded people on the internet.
  • So thank you Website/TVTropes, and thank you to all the tropers who helped make this website what it is today. I have so many more interests because of you. I'm glad I followed that hyperlink from The Other Wiki to the Big Damn Heroes page all those years ago.
• I have anxiety attacks and racing thoughts, and sometimes the only way to get out of that downward spiral of thoughts is to give my brain other things to focus on. Reading TV Tropes helps distract me while I calm down, and stops those racing thoughts from attacking me.
• I'm an aromantic asexual, and if it wasn't for TV Tropes's article on asexuality I never would have even known what that was. Thank you so much for helping me realize who I am.
• TV Tropes has inspired me to start writing my second novel. Also, I started a WMG page for a programme I've just started watching and other people have added to it!
• I credit TV Tropes with the fact I got an A in my advanced English class this year, since it really helped my literary analysis skills.
• TV Tropes introduced me to some of my favorite films, shows, books, plays, etc., introduced me to alternate interpretations of ones I already knew about, and helped with my story analyzing skills.
• As I learned "Mechanically Unusual Class/Fighter" from TV Tropes, I noticed that some people need to be "mechanically unusual" to be successful.
• TV Tropes taught me that you can be bi and be normal about it! It also convinced me to listen to the Skyrim Theme!
• TV Tropes made me find and watch Anime and Manga I might have never watched/read, Music I might have never listened to, Video Games I might have never played. It helped me realize why I like certain character types and what they tend to have in common and it enhanced my vocabulary and grammar in English (I'm not a native); and lastly it gave me countless hours of joy and fun just reading about tangential silly stuff that is still very informative, with the occasional Serious Business article inbetween. Thank you TV Tropes!
• After taking a daily dose of TV Tropes, miraculous things happened to me.
  • My cancer disappeared!
  • I found a hot girl!
  • I got a discount at a fast food chain just because that hot girl turned out to be Ronald McDonald himself!
  • And 99 more things!
• This troper feels horrible for not discovering this site earlier!
• I used to be in plays all the time. Due to development of vocal nodules, I had to stop for several years. TV Tropes and all of their theatre articles inspired me to take up voice lessons since my voice has recovered. Recently, I got the leading role in a community theatre production near me because of the well thought out character pages and the way our tropers delve deeply into the mind of the characters they analyze. I could not be more grateful for all of the wonderful tropers here and their dedication.
• EVERYBODY LIVES, TV Tropes! JUST THIS ONCE, EVERYBODY LIVES!
• TV Tropes made me realise that I'm not an insane freak for taking fictional stories serious and spending hours thinking about the characters, their motivations and relations, analysing the plot etc. It also improved my English vocabulary and I also found numerous new great works through it. I found it through coincidence and I'm just so glad I did, it's really the most fun I have on the internet!
• Any time I examine the Moment of Awesome and Fridge Logic (Brilliance, Horror, etc) pages of something, it makes me appreciate a work so much more, the former because it helps get me interested in a work because of its awesome parts, the latter because people are taking the time to look into the depths of something and see little subtle things the creators of something snuck in that not everyone would get but for those who do it adds another layer of cleverness and those are incredibly fun to discover and add so much to a work. At the time of writing this, those pages for The Hunchback of Notre Dame in particular have me very much excited, especially because the Archdeacon makes me go "this is how you do clergy awesomely". Also like many other people, TV Tropes has gotten me into awesome things I otherwise wouldn't have touched (Nuclear Throne, Ouja no Yuugi, and Basilisk, for starters)... and now I'm recalling that the first-ever page on here I saw was the one for Tsundere. Ahh, nostalgia. How many years ago was that? That aside, I'm pretty sure this site has actually done more for my English and Psychology skills than my actual college courses and it synergizes very well with them nonetheless, so thank you for that, TV Tropes. ^_^
• Thank you, TV Tropes, for giving me the courage to outright admit that I still like "kiddie" shows. If it weren't for my curiosity about Censorship Tropes some seven or eight years ago, I'd still be afraid of showing off my fandoms, both online and in real life.
• 99% of the people I see daily hate me. Thanks to TV Tropes, I help myself understand how and why this is so.
  • Short story: Every time I hold the door for people, they don't even look at me, let alone show gratitude for my actions. But they took it up a notch when they USED THE ADJACENT DOOR, COMPLETELY NEGATING MY KIND GESTURE.
• TV Tropes keeps me from being bored at work and during one my readings it led me to the Villain Protagonist page which gave me the inspiration to write a story around one.
• I LOVE TV Tropes. Believe me or not, but for the last 10 years, it has been helping me in several ways:
  • As someone who uses English as a second language, it's the most enjoyable resource to learn new words and use of pop culture terms. I improved my understanding of Puns alone, reading and editing some pages. Case in point - my official IELTS reading score is 8.5/9. TV Tropes definitely contributed to that
  • It has become my go-to source for ANY new movie and video game releases. I can get a good idea of the plot and genre just by looking at the tropes alone
  • When I am not completely sure if I understood the recent episode/chapter of my current favourite show, I always go to TV Tropes first for clarification.
  • When I don't have time to watch the show/manga etc. because of RL commitments, I spoil myself with a 1h read of TV Tropes, which allows me to follow my friends conversations and understand their discussions.
  • Sometimes in RL I classify situations into tropes. Thinking about them in the context of a trope, it helps me act more GenreSavvy, eg. avoiding arguments or confrontations, or quelling them before they escalate
• TV Tropes may have saved my life. I was mindlessly clicking the Random Media button at midnight one night when I came across Rain (2010), the story of a high school-aged trans girl. Having recently realized I was nonbinary, this story, starring a trans character and featuring a nonbinary character I related to, filled me with so much joy, and gave me the courage to come out to my brother. That first step allowed me to come out to my parents, and I am now out, proud, and well into my transition. TV Tropes introduced me to the exact piece of media I needed at the perfect time, and I don't know where I'd be today if I hadn't found that webcomic. Thank you, TV Tropes.
• When I was a preteen, I was lurking and absently scrolling the character sheet for Pokémon Black and White and reached the very lengthy entry for N Harmonia. There, a single trope, and one that's not really meant to be positive, at that made me see the character and myself in a whole new light. I had had a lonely and sometimes difficult childhood due to Asperger Syndrome, and the few portrayals of autism spectrum disorders that I had seen in media were negative, depicting children (and it was always children) as freaks, burdensome objects of parental pity. But N is a complex, likable character not defined by a stereotyped condition; his fixation on mathematical and scientific formulas is just part of who he is. I truly realized that I didn't have to be defined by my condition, either. So thank you, whoever catalogues Pokémon human characters, for showing me that there are better ways to see myself in media and in real life.
• TV Tropes helped me appreciate video games even more than I already do. Seeing all the work that goes into making them and telling their stories is always interesting and fun. Plus I can tell my other gamer friends about it too! And I can even make pages about all the cheesy .exe games I like for some reason!
• TV Tropes, because of its fun analysis of fiction and pop culture^note It did ruin some parts of me, but that's a different story, makes me want to get a job in the creative field, namely writing and art! It's also my #1 place to document fiction I've recently seen. - PrincessPandaTrope
• TV Tropes helped me in so many ways that I can barely list them all. I can try, though.
  • It's made me better at arguing. When I'm arguing about some work I know little about I just go to the TV Tropes page to help me. For example, when I have to prove that Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire is better than Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire^note It is. all I have to do is go to it's Trope Page.
  • Whenever I need a good laugh I go to the funny page for one of my favorite works.
  • TV Tropes helped me find some of my favorite works.
  • TV Tropes inspired me to write more and now I want to be a screenwriter.
  • TV Tropes helped me discover that I have Dyscalculia.
• I first found TV Tropes In a Google search, pulling up the Nightmare Fuel page for Undertale In 2016. I believe I forgot what the site was for a bit after that, then randomly stumbled upon It again. I love TV Tropes and love to reference a trope name or link a trope page when the time Is right. For example I use the phrase Guide Dang It! sometimes, a lot of trope names I just find nice for quotes because I'm weird like that. I want to view this page real quick and suddenly I'm zipping through pages like the procrastinator I am. I occasionally have sessions where I put on music and browse to my hearts content, cookie eating may or may not be Included. TV Tropes probably taught me a fair amount of things too, but I don't have the memory to try to list anything specific. I know TV Tropes Introduced me to some sites as well, like Not Always Right! I'm also someone who enjoys wiki editing, so I hope to find things ( mainly stuff like grammar errors ) I can fix here and there. At the same time I'm usally pretty shy and nervous–especially when I start editing on something new–so when I end up adding examples to tropes, who knows.
• TV Tropes restores my faith in humanity - ask a question on the Headscratchers page of a work? You’ll get a polite and informative answer that deepens your understanding of that work? Read the Moment of Awesome or Heartwarming Moments pages of a work? Many Tropers each found value in a moment that meant so much to them that they decided to chronicle it for eternity. Even the simple act of adding a page quote or image caption proves that TV Tropes is just a collection of Internet-people that care about their favorite works immensely.
• TV Tropes gave me a better look towards both sides of an argument. Initially I viewed things to be black and white and was mostly spoon-fed by incomplete wikis and my own briefs. Reading information on tropes like Alternative Character Interpretation and Base-Breaking Character, and taking a unique look at certain events with more relatable entries written by Tropers every day. Thank you TV Tropes! For challenging my mind and for learning more about others!
• TV Tropes gave me writing prompts for my fiction. I love Tv Tropes!
• TV Tropes helped me get over my sensitivity to criticism.
• TV Tropes is made of chocolate.
• I rub TV Tropes on my skin and it lets me live forever.
• TV Tropes cured my arthritis.
• TV Tropes won both the popular vote and the electoral vote.
• TV Tropes was offered a place in the Avengers Initiative.
• TV Tropes reclaimed the Infinity Stones and brought back everyone that was dusted.
• TV Tropes saved New York from this week's supervillain plot to destroy it.
• TV Tropes impressed Ninja Brian.
• TV Tropes brought about world peace with its music. Or was did it save the space-time continuum with it?
• TV Tropes introduced me to the wondrous Gun Porn Decon-Recon Switch that is Receiver 2, taught me about the four temperaments, gave me clear-cut names for the tropes known as Draco in Leather Pants and Ron the Death Eater, and helped me discover the best Doki Doki Literature Club! Game Mod ever (not to mention said mod's main inspiration)!
• Thanks to Tv Tropes now I can understand a lot of things from media, specially American and English works, that in my country we just dont do or say. I wasted nearly 30 years wondering why the troll guarding the bridge of Monkey Island wanted a Red Herring!
• TV Tropes helps me feel confident in my writing and helps me discover new series to check out.
• TV Tropes introduce me to wide array of fanfics. Changing my opinion of them and giving me ideas for them. - Bulba Friend
• TV Tropes helped me write better, thanks to the obscure Encounters namespace! Thanks! -A Random Page
• After I found TV Tropes, my knowledge of the world as a whole was greatly enhanced, as well as my vocabulary and storytelling elements, allowing me to appreciate a work due to its properties, and increase my love for different works that I already enjoy for the magnificent ways that these media are formed. It also got me into works which I enjoy today, like Five Nights at Freddy's. I love browsing different works and tropes, especially ones that make me laugh or become in awe, and the website in general became a favorite pastime of mine.