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I suppose I have a fair few media discoveries to thank/blame this website for. Thank you to everyone who keeps the wiki cool:
- The Dresden Files
- Skullgirls (first on the Ascended Meme page, weirdly enough)
- The Runaway Guys
- Girl Genius
- Brawl in the Family
- Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series
- Dragonball Z Abridged, and by extension Hellsing Ultimate Abridged
- And then, via TFS at the Table, that got me reading up on Dungeons & Dragons
- Sir Apropos of Nothing
- The Order of the Stick
- In Bruges
- Gargoyles (Apparently there are characters other than David Xanatos in it)
- We Are All Pokémon Trainers. I mean, it only exists on this site, but that doesn't mean I don't enjoy it.
- Sword Art Online Abridged
- Although I didn't get into BlazBlue through this site, it definitely helped a lot figuring out what was going on.
Tropers/43trauts
I have found a large number of animes, comics, and other stuff from this site of which I would like to say thank you for.
- Doctor Who
- The Crying Game
- The Order of the Stick
- Ouran High School Host Club
- The Producers
- Penny Arcade
- The Smurfs (I actually knew about it before but TV Tropes sparked my interest in it.)
- Channel Awesome
- xkcd
Tropers/45xxx
TV Tropes has quickly become the website I visit the most (after it was mentioned on Atop the Fourth Wall)... however, I use the internet so much that I consider it a replacement to television, you can take that statement for what it's worth.
- Bob and George
- Brawl in the Family
- Darkwing Duck (in truth, TV Tropes was HALF of the reason I got into this show)
- Freeman's Mind
- Homestuck
- Loserz
- Marble Hornets
- My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: After reading the pages for the two part pilot at around 3AM in August (2011, at time of writing), I decided to look up the episodes on YouTube. And now I'm a brony. In fact, thanks to discovering their pages here, I also really love the following fan fics:
- The Order of the Stick
- Supernatural (Well... this and Tumblr.)
- Super Smash Bros..: I originally only had one game, Super Smash Bros. Brawl. But after I read the game series' page, I got really hooked, and now currently own all three games.
- xkcd (not 100% sure)
Tropers/59Efra
Ack Sed
This is what the wiki is for - feeding my Archive Binge tendencies. I seem to seek out the little gems that no-one has heard of, and that I have a devil of a time convincing people to read/watch.
- Avatar: The Last Airbender: Natch. I wasn't disappointed, either. I should say that it isn't anime - there's far too many Western animation elements for that. This also introduced me to shipping and the cracky goodness of CAPSLOCK livejournal communities.
- The Adventures of Dr. McNinja
- Irresponsible Captain Tylor: It's a crying shame this isn't well-known. I love Tylor.
- Runaways
- El Goonish Shive
- Empowered: I really do read it for the story. My experience went like this: "Ooh sexy woman with clothing damage, must read." - Later - "Okay, fanservice that reduces the subject to a quivering wreck is not funny." - Later - "Thugboy/Emp OTP for evah, yo!"
- Deadpool
- PS238: Needs More Love. Peanuts kids with superpowers, the Charlie Brown analogue is a Weirdness Magnet, but receives training to survive. What's not to love?
- Sailor Nothing: Was my first introduction to Darker and Edgier.
- The Acts of Caine: Had to resort to a sneaky copy, 'cause it isn't out in UK-land, but I'm glad I did.
- Ben 10: I liked the sound of it, so I got a copy of this to watch it with my nephew.
- Looney Tunes: Was already a fan, but finding them was another matter.
- Lucky Star: Read of Minoru's epic freakout and watched it just to see him go off. As a side-effect, I now have PSL for Kuroi-sensei and want to go to Japan to check out Maiden's Road.
- The Order of the Stick
- Tom Lehrer: "The Masochism Tango", what else? Thank you TV Tropes, for introducing me to his songs.
- No Bra: Never have I felt so confused about my sexuality. Yuki... sexy... but... GUY! ...but ...sexy...
- Omamori Himari: Catgirls never did it for me, but aggressive, playful samurai catgirl? Yes.
- Aqua Knight: I was pleasantly surprised to see the author of Battle Angel Alita had tried his hand at Low Fantasy, and done it well.
- Fanfiction in general, specifically the Fanfic Recommendations for Negima! Magister Negi Magi and Bleach ("Uninvited Guests" is the funniest fanfic ever. EVER).
- The Lucifer and Biscuit Hammer: Villain Protagonists? In my whimsical end-of-the-world-is-nigh manga? It's more readable than you think.
- Ciaphas Cain: Read its quote/entry on Dojikko, then the entry itself, then went straight out and bought the Hero of the Imperium collection. I'm becoming interested in tabletop Warhammer 40,000 and the other novels as a side effect — the Rule of Cool setting pleases me.
- Mysterious Girlfriend X: Read the entry, thought the concept was weird, unique and cool, checked it out and started reading.
- GaoGaiGar: From What Do You Mean, It's Not Awesome?
- Mystery Science Theater 3000: I'd never watched this before apart from the movie, but now... well, all the quotes made me check it out, though I'm not masochistic enough to sit through really bad movies, even if they generated the best snarking. One of these days I will actually sit through a full episode rather than hunting out "Best-of" clips.
- Questionable Content: Can't remember where I read about it, but it was on this wiki.
- Dollhouse: Watched up to the third episode because it was a Whedon series, then dropped it because it didn't engage me. Gave it one more try when it started popping up in other entries, and pushed through to the other side of ep. 6.
- Kimi ni Todoke: The forums
were gushing about it, I checked it out, fell for it, hard, and became that thread's most enthusiastic poster. Produced the most emotional reaction I've had to an anime ever. A refreshingly straight love story — no hilarious misunderstandings, no contrived stupidity and it makes sense. - Ai Kora: Love Hina starring Great Fetish Pervert Onizuka. What's not to love?
- B Gata H Kei: First episode is a living nightmare of Cliché Storm hell, but you soon pass through to the sweet sex comedy centre. Another forum find.
- Bunny Drop: Wondering at the odd concept in the entry (someone raising his 6-year-old aunt?), I began reading. What I got was an honest lesson in becoming an adoptive parent. It's the yang to Yotsuba&! Yotsuba's yin, especially as it averts Not Allowed to Grow Up.
- Nana & Kaoru: Three people namechecked this, so what else could I do? I can honestly say it's been educational.
- Animaniacs/Pinky and the Brain: With all the quotes, I had to check them out — I wasn't disappointed. It was very very very very very very very very very very *bonk* funny. My 8-year-old nephew loved it, though he liked PATB more.
- The Ren & Stimpy Show: And this was the one he liked most of all. Seriously, he wet himself laughing at Powdered Toast Man. I nearly joined him.
- Para Ten: A watercoloured webcomic-cum-mood piece that doesn't resemble anything I've seen. The closest comparison would be Shadow of the Colossus (Scenery Porn and loneliness).
- Himawari!: One offhand link in the forum led me to this. I would have never even imagined this existed, but here it is. Imagine a Lighter and Softer Naruto but with all the cool ninja tricks intact. (Later) Ecch, only watch this if you have "Easily Amused" tattooed on your forehead. Looks nice, shows promise but NOTHING HAPPENS.
- Planetes: In the "Hard SF" thread, the one series that kept popping up was this one. ONE episode - that's all it took for me to fall in fan-love.
- Gunnerkrigg Court: I tried - really tried - not to add more webcomics to my daily list. This little slow-burner made me break that rule. Charming, eerie, expressive Urban Fantasy about a strange girl in a stranger school.
- Blip: Needs More Love. What looks like "Breezily sarcastic slacker hangs out with her friends" reveals itself to be something more. You know how sometimes you have the feeling that Fate is holding you back? For her - it is.
- Erfworld: Don't quite remember where, but one of the articles had a link. Tabletop RPG gamer gets transported to a 'game' world (or is it?). He soon discovers that it's not that much fun when you see people die in front of you. They discover that Humans Are Cthulhu.
- Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple: Interesting fighting shonen manga that for once tries not to break Willing Suspension of Disbelief and has a female lead who isn't Overshadowed by Awesome.
ACW (by medium, in alphabetical order)
- Anime & Manga:
- Dog Soldier
- Dokuro (thanks to the above)
- Domu
- Wolfsmund
- Comic Books:
- The 13th Artifact
- Absolution: Rubicon
- American Vampire
- Back to Brooklyn
- Bushido: The Way of the Warrior
- Caliban
- Chew
- Cinder & Ashe
- Clive Barker's Next Testament
- Death Sentence
- Empowered
- E.V.I.L. Heroes
- God Loves, Man Kills
- Hack/Slash
- John Woo's Seven Brothers
- Nailbiter
- Nameless (2015)
- The Punisher MAX (somewhat)
- Reborn
- Space Ghost (DC)
- Squidder
- The Strange Talent of Luther Strode (and the 2 sequels)
- Thor: Vikings
- Numerous 2000 AD works:
- Some Judge Dredd stories
- Nemesis the Warlock
- A Love Like Blood
- Shakara
- Literarture:
- Armageddon Force
- Department 19
- In Death
- Several Richard Laymon works, including Savage
- Others:
- Wolfbreed
- Cracked. Or was I introduced to TV Tropes by Cracked ?
- CinemaSins
- Mass Effect, though I managed to spoil myself before getting around to play it.
- The Witcher
- Furry Fandom, in particular :
- The Order of the Stick
- Girl Genius
- xkcd
- Schlock Mercenary
- Darths & Droids
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- El Goonish Shive because of the many examples on every page relating to Shapeshifting and Gender Bender.
- Misfile - same as EGS
- Channel Awesome
- The number of anime entries and the overwhelming information and spoilers here made me watch the following anime mentioned here
- Angel Beats!! because of the trope death is cheap and the tearjerker storyline and lovable characters.
- Puella Magi Madoka Magica! the number of entries on this website on Homura Friggin Akemi and her interesting spoilers.
- Grave of the Fireflies! Same with the other two on tearjerker moments
- It would be better to pile it first and add later.
- Anime:
- Music:
- Video Games:
- Quite a lot of Western Animation that I might not have watched otherwise. It introduced me to the very idea of a Periphery Demographic: it might not be aimed at me, but if it's enjoyable enough, who cares?
- Avatar: The Last Airbender: I had seen some isolated season one episodes before, but after seeing it mentioned again and again on this site, I decided that it might be more than just another kids' show and started watching it from the start. Boy am I glad I did.
- Gargoyles
- My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Had I been told in the recent past that not only would I soon be watching a My Little Pony show, but also greatly enjoy it, I would have laughed at the idea. However, after seeing it mentioned under Periphery Demographic, I gave it a try and am now officially hooked.
- Ōban Star-Racers
- ThunderCats (2011)
- W.I.T.C.H.: Another show that I was aware of, but that I was convinced to watch by this site. I still think the Guardian costumes look ridiculous, though.
- Better Days: Despite all of its flaws, I found it to be an interesting read.
- Chronicles of the Kencyrath
- Eversion: A real piece of art.
- Gankutsuou: My first anime series.
- I Wanna Be the Guy: Never managed to get very far, though.
- Sonichu, much to my dismay.
- Channel Awesome: Another site that soaks up so much of my precious spare time...
- You Have to Burn the Rope
- xkcd
- xkcd
- The Twilight Saga - I wanted to find out what all the fuss was about.
- Fullmetal Alchemist
- Code Geass
- Death Note
- Anime and manga in general, really.
- Comicbooks in general, but especially The Dark Age of Comic Books.
- Discworld
- And that's just scratching the surface.
- Death Note: I'd read tons of references to it here, and all it took was a friend's solid recommendation to get me watching.
- Fullmetal Alchemist: Reading the manga and watching the Brotherhood anime.
- The Dresden Files
- Samurai Champloo: Having already seen Cowboy Bebop, I just had to watch it.
- Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog: Its Trope Overdosed nature compelled me!
- Noir
- Gunnerkrigg Court: Again, a combo of site references and friend's enthusiasm drew me.
- Avatar: The Last Airbender
- Webcomics in general, the main standout being Gunnerkrigg Court. Through it I've also discovered plenty of other ones.
- This site helped me discover how awesome the music from Arc System Works is, especially Guilty Gear and BlazBlue.
- Professional Wrestling as a whole! I doubt I would find myself watching WWE Raw every monday, WWE Smackdown every tuesday, the PPVs, and watching Youtube videos about wrestling on Cultaholic, What Culture Wrestling (and, for that matter, watching WCPW/Defiant Wrestling shows) and Wrestle Talk among other channels if not for this wiki.
- Doctor Who: Well, the fact that Douglas Adams had worked for the show at one point and even used elements from his work there in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency had already piqued my interest, but it was ultimately TV Tropes that got me to watching the show.
- The Order of the Stick: I'd never even heard of it before. Now not only am I addicted, my little brother heard me mention it and decided to have a look. He's a fan now too.
- Channel Awesome: Okay, I watched FernGully: The Last Rainforest as a child. I watched it a lot. Someone linked to The Nostalgia Critic and The Nostalgia Chick's review of it . . . and I was hooked to his reviews at least. I probably would have just spent my time watching reviews by the Nostalgia Critic and the Nostalgia Chick reviews if it wasn't for people on this wiki mentioning Linkara . . . so I watched one episode of Atop the Fourth Wall, and was hooked. And given the number of crossovers with Spoony and the awesomeness that is Doctor Insano, I was soon watching The Spoony Experiment as well. I now regularly watch the videos of several other Channel Awesome members as well.
- xkcd: I'd heard of it before, but it was TV Tropes that got me interested.
- Thursday Next: Okay, Jasper Fforde is now one of my favorite authors. I'd never even heard of him before.
- Mystery Science Theater 3000: Oddly enough, I started watching this because of the MSTed version of The Eye of Argon . . . the fact that anyone could turn anything that awful into anything that good in Fan Fic made it clear that the actual show must be pretty good.
- Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series: Why on earth would I want to watch a Gag Dub of a children's show that I've never watched about a card game I've never played and have no interest in? Gosh, a lot of people on TV Tropes seem to like it, and the first episode is only around four minutes, I might as well see what all the fuss is about . . . and the rest is history as they say.
- Azumanga Daioh- Got into it after seeing it mentioned on various pages, didn't finish the entire series, but after seeing the anime, I got into(with the help of an internet friend)...
- Yotsuba&!- Technically, I got into it thanks to a friend on Brawl in the Family, but TV Tropes still had a hand in it.
- Chuggaaconroy- I was curious as to what an LP was(even though I've read a screenshot LP of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon before, but I didn't know it was an LP). I found Chuggaaconroy and started watching his videos.
- Angel Beats!
- Hetalia: Axis Powers
- Blue Exorcist
- Corpse Party
- Deadman Wonderland
- Higurashi: When They Cry is an inversion. It was while I was looking up stuff on this series that I found Tv Tropes.
- Kingdom Hearts
- Lux-Pain
- My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors
- Ookami Kakushi
- Penny and Aggie
- Persona 3 and Persona 4
- Puella Magi Madoka Magica
- Red String
- And that's just off the top of my head!
- Without this wiki, I'd never have found out about Homestar Runner!
Ever since I accidentally discovered it, Tv Tropes has introduced me to a great deal of stuff. For instance:
- Abridged Series in general
- Amv Hell
- Neon Genesis Evangelion
- Homestuck
- Todd in the Shadows
- They Might Be Giants
- Ken Ashcorp
- Undertale the Musical
- RWBY
- My Immortal
- Light and Dark The Adventures of Dark Yagami
- Pink Floyd
- =3, for better or for worse.
- Terrible Writing Advice
- Overly Sarcastic Productions
- Death Note: I took a sudden interest in villains after seeing Thor and was looking for Villain Protagonists.
- Fullmetal Alchemist
- The Producers
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer and by extension, Angel.
- The Nostalgia Critic and The Nostalgia Chick: It all started with Labyrinth.
- Grimm
- Blue Bloods
- Once Upon a Time
- Naruto
- Good Omens
- TV Tropes introduced me to the pure awesomeness that is Hetalia: Axis Powers and from that, the wonders of Ho Yay
- The Dresden Files. What really got me was the example with Nicodemus and Harry. I'd seen it listed all over the site before that, but that was what actually made me seek out the books.
- Kings. Unfortunately too good to last, but it's on Hulu.
- Reaper. Another one cut in its prime, but also on Hulu.
- Merlin.
- Rifftrax
- Channel Awesome Nostalgia Critic/Chick for the win!
- Protectors of the Plot Continuum
- The Order of the Stick.
- Dinosaur Comics.
- Antihero for Hire.
- A Madness of Angels and the subsequent books.
- New York Magician and (by extension) the entire Everything2 site.
- The Zombie Hunters
- Sorcery 101
- Trying Human
- Garrett, P.I.So thank you, TV Tropes. Thank you for giving me so many new things to love.
- However, I don't play/watch any of these games/shows. The sole exception is Kingdom of Loathing.
- Kingdom of Loathing
- Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
- Shinji And Warhammer 40 K (Stopped reading around the 20th chapter or so. I don't know why.)
- Touhou Project
- And TV Tropes got me interested in:
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- Hetalia: Axis Powers
- Hellsing
- Inuyasha
- Negima! Magister Negi Magi
- Ouran High School Host Club
- Also, in general, it is what convinced me that there is more to Anime and Manga than porn.
- Retsupurae: Somehow I used this as a backdoor to Lets Plays. Probably my favorite thing on the internet.
- xkcd
- The Angry Video Game Nerd
- The Best Page in the Universe
- Ashens
- Bad Lip Reading
- Machinae Supremacy
- Cracked
TV Tropes helped introduce me to more anime and webcomics that I never heard of before. I also own a manga called "Happy Happy Clover" which I love reading.
- The Gothic World of Nyanpire
- Ever since Halloween 2013, I decided to make a tradition to watch all 12 episodes of the anime. It's about black cat that is also part vampire. He befriends a fallen angel named Nyatenshi,a samurai cat named Masamunya, and has a brother named Chachamaru a Siamese cat that wears a pink bow. The anime is based on an ongoing manga series "The Gothic World of Nyanpire" which was created in 2009. To this day, Nyanpire merchandise is still being sold in Japan, and is very popular with girls who are into goth. I wish the original manga series got translated in English, since the merchandise in Japan features cats who we're never seen in the anime as well as giving more info between the characters.
- Bitter Sweet Candy Bowl
- I started reading the webcomic in the summer of 2013. It's basically Arthur but takes place in high school, it mostly focuses on two cats. A male cat with a named Mike, and a female cat named Lucy. My favorite characters is Sandy, and Lucy. The webcomic would sometimes get very dramatic, especially during the stories dealing with Mike and Lucky's relationship.
- The Smurfs - Because I'm looking forward to the 2016 reboot.
- Game Grumps - I enjoy seeing these guys doing discussions and playing video games. Leading to hilarious results.
- The Nostalgia Critic - One of my favorite internet reviewers, next to The Angry Video Game Nerd,Ani Mat, and The Cinema Snob
- Chi's Sweet Home
- One of the cutest anime and manga series I ever seen.
- Watchmen - the original.
- 52. And boy am I glad as this served as a Gateway Series to the DC Universe in general, with the help of wiki pages here.
- Gotham City Sirens - I hadn't even heard of until TV Tropes.
- Gotham Central likewise. In retrospect, I actually started reading this before 52 because I knew it was part of the backstory, and it came highly recommended, but while this got me back into comics, I'd say it was 52 that got me back into superheroes.
- Dragon Age: Origins. I was considering buying it, but it wasn't until I read about it on the site that I got really excited for its Australian release.
- Batman: The Animated Series. I'd watched it as a kid but reading entries about it is what made me watch the whole series again.
- Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha.
- Channel Awesome. It certainly pays to be the source of page quotes.
- Candy☆Boy.
- Glee.
- My-Otome. I'd seen My-HiME before, but not Otome. I wasn't too enticed by the prospect of an elseworlds story, until I read the entry page on it.
- RiffTrax, and, by extension:
- Wicked (the novel)
- Sailor Moon Abridged. I think it was Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series that got me to TV Tropes in the first place, so it's suitable that it connected me to other abridged series.
- Rose of Versailles Abridged is what I'm currently watching.
- xkcd
- Firefly: Never would've known it had ever existed if not for this site. On June 28, 2013, at 6:26 PM Winnipeg time, the Netflix connection with the series finale, "Objects in Space," terminated in my basement.
- Arrested Development: I knew it was there and had tried it out once, but picking up in the middle of Season 2 was horribly unhelpful to me, so I gave it up. Then, just a couple of months later, people in my social circle commenced the name-dropping of it. Now that my family has Netflix, I have started watching it, and is it ever good! (Of course, the first three seasons have something of an Unintentional Period Piece aspect to them, but I don't complain about that.)
- Community: Like Arrested Development, it was popular at my high school. Like Firefly, I never knew it had existed.
- Heck, this could apply to all the scripted live-action TV I've watched recently.
- Noir - probably through Heterosexual Life-Partners.
- I generally knew about a lot of shows comic and games but TV Tropes did introduce me to a lot of awesome stuff
- Chaotic Monki
- Mangaminx
- Markiplier you can sorta see that i was introduced to a lot of let's players
- Before discovering TV Tropes I really disliked anime due to believing most of them have extremely dark and depressing plot, and I thought I would never like or even watch anything in the entire anime medium. That is not until I started seeing some anime works I had herd of and knows a little on tropes pages, I realize that most my prejudice against Anime are false and Archive Binge ensues.
- RWBY: while not technically an Japanese anime, it is the first show TV Tropes introduced to me.
- A Certain Magical Index and A Certain Scientific Railgun
- Date A Live
- Haruhi Suzumiya
- Neptunia I ended up buying all the games even before I finished the first one.
- Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? This became the first Light Novel I actually bought.
- Is This A Zombie?
- Waiting in the Summer
- Ben-To
- Works by Makoto Shinkai (Other than 5 Centimeters per Second and Your Name)
- As a side effect, My Anime List and many wikis about those anime.
- Nowadays whenever I discover something new I just come here to do some trope research before watching any new anime... just to realize that I've been seeing them in trope examples in multiple pages. Examples:
- Other works I found of TV Tropes are usually from trope images, or because seeing them way too many time in examples on many pages.
- MS Paint Adventures and all that entails
- Channel Awesome as a whole
- The Angry Video Game Nerd as a side-effect of the above
- Unskippable
- Zero Punctuation almost captured my interest this way, but one too many cases of poor research ended that.
- Cave Story
- The Slender Man Mythos minus Marble Hornets (the latter was due to a friend)
- Ruby Quest
- Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series
- Sonichu. Arg.
- After Last Season. Arg.
- Dingo Pictures. Arg.
- You know what, all of
So Bad, It's Horrible. So much for this being a subtrope of TV Tropes Will Enhance Your Life. - Then again, there's also all of So Bad, It's Good.
- And many more I can't remember off the top of my head.
- xkcd: I already heard of it, but TV Tropes really got me into it.
- Tweenies: I used to watch it as a child, but TV Tropes got me back into it.
- Chuck E. Cheese: Yes, I got into Chuck E. Cheese of all things, despite being British.
- GoAnimate: Ironically, due to a lot of the videos being filled with Narm and are So Bad, It's Good.
- Anything that's So Bad, It's Good or So Bad, It's Horrible in general really, thank god this is a Sub-Trope of TV Tropes Will Enhance Your Life and not TV Tropes Will Ruin Your Life.
- Polandball: Also because of Nostalgia Filter.
- Backstroke of the West: Do not want!
- Channel Awesome
- Star Wars: Got me back into the franchise as a whole.
- The Lego Adaptation Games: Also because of Nostalgia Filter and Memetic Mutation.
- Barney & Friends: Ironically, also because I feel bad for the show having a huge Periphery Hatedom.
- Breaking Bad: Also because of Memetic Mutation.
- The Angry Video Game Nerd
- The Disney Afternoon: Rediscovering childhood
- Cowboy Bebop: Was already a fan of anime, but had never really got into one of the gateway series
- The Great Mouse Detective
- Channel Awesome
- The Happy Video Game Nerd: One of my favorite reviewers, even if he seemed Narmy at first
- Mickey Mouse: A renewed faith in the character, especially after Epic Mickey
- Phineas and Ferb: The troperiffic nature of drew in my attention. Before, I just saw it as an okay show.
- Understanding the beliefs behind Ralph Bakshi and John Kricfalusi, despite not necessarily being a fan of their work.
Bomberman121890 In general, TV Tropes has introduced me to the entire Anime medium, which has led to a lot of individual works.
- Aggretsuko
- Ajin
- Assassination Classroom
- Attack on Titan
- Hetalia: Axis Powers
- Black Butler
- Blue Exorcist
- Cowboy Bebop
- DEATH BATTLE!
- Death Note
- From that, Maximum the Hormone
- The Devil is a Part-Timer!
- DEVILMAN crybaby
- The Divine Comedy
- Doki Doki Literature Club!
- Dr. STONE
- Fate/stay night
- Fist of the North Star
- Fullmetal Alchemist (2003)
- From that, Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood
- Gravity Falls
- Haven't You Heard? I'm Sakamoto
- Hunter × Hunter
- Ib
- In Another World with My Smartphone
- Jojos Bizarre Adventure
- Keijo!!!!!!!!
- Kill la Kill
- Linkin Park
- The entire Marvel Cinematic Universe
- Ménage à 3
- Miraculous Ladybug
- My Hero Academia
- Ninja Sex Party
- One-Punch Man
- Ok Goodnight
- Ouran High School Host Club
- Persona 5 and its Animated Adaptation.
- From that, all of Shin Megami Tensei
- Power Rangers
- All of Rooster Teeth, but especially:
- The Seven Deadly Sins
- Star vs. the Forces of Evil
- A large portion of Stephen King's expanded literary universe
- Steven Universe
- Subnautica
- Super Smash Bros. (Longtime fan, but I didn't know there was a fourth game until I came here)
- Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
- Thank You Scientist
- TwoKinds
- Wander over Yonder
- Yandere Simulator
- Your Lie in April
- Yuri!!! on Ice
- all of these were gleaned by the "geez I keep seeing that name on trope pages, let's look over it and see" method.
- Firefly
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Discworld
- Deadpool
- The Sandman
- Watchmen
- Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei - I came across various references to this amazing anime as soon as I became a Troper, but only when I read the page quote on Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant did I think; "Okay I have got to watch this!" The entire Anime Society at my uni is in TV Tropes' debt.
- The Order of the Stick - Had heard of it before, but only when I clicked a random link to it and started reading did I realise how awesome it was.
- The Prisoner - Another one I had heard of but not paid too much attention to, I am currently on the fourth episode of the original series and completely hooked already.
- Neon Genesis Evangelion
- Preacher - Has gone straight to the top of my favourite
comic booksthings about stuff. Ever - Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann - You think I don't? WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK I AM?!?!?
- American Gothic (1995)
- Avatar: The Last Airbender
- A Very Potter Musical, and from it, Little White Lie and Me and My Dick
- The Honor Harrington series
- The Order of the Stick
- Star Trek. Yeah, you heard me.
- Supernatural
- Corpse Party, Angels of Death, SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom, Hotline Miami, Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number, Persona
- Slightly Damned, Lackadaisy, Dominic Deegan, Savestate, MegaTokyo, El Goonish Shive, It Sucks to Be Weegie!, Ménage à 3, The Order of the Stick, VG Cats, Ozy and Millie, The Adventures of Dr. McNinjanote , Usagi Yojimbonote , Pogo, Li'l Abner
- The King and the Mockingbird, The Thief and the Cobbler, Hazbin Hotel
- Dream Eater Merry, Yandere Kanojo, The Prince of Tennis, Skip Beat!, PandoraHearts, Berserk, Cheeky Brat, Hunter × Hunter, My Hero Academia, The Gentlemen's Alliance, Bakuman。, Servamp, The World God Only Knows, K-On!, D.Gray-Man, Goth, Lucky Star, Onidere, Phoenix, Platinum End, Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei, ×××HOLiC, Sailor Moon
- Gentle Giant, Camel, Jellyfish, Jawbreaker, The Cowsills, Beach House, Tom Lehrer, The Velvet Underground, Dream Theater, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, Ride, Lush, Catherine Wheel, Kitchens of Distinction, The Boo Radleys, Pale Saints, American Football, The Ink Spots, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Weather Report, The Residents, Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, Yes, Opeth, Manic Street Preachers, Van der Graaf Generator, Lord Huron, Genesis, Howlin' Wolf, Frank Sinatra, Take That, Ramones, Depeche Mode, The Grateful Dead, Descendents, Vince Guaraldi, Tangerine Dream, Big Star, BTS, BLACKPINK, The Stooges, John Zorn, Queensrÿche, Travis Scott, Anton Bruckner, Gustav Mahler, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Johannes Brahms, Johann Sebastian Bach, Béla Bartók, George Frederic Handel, Antonín Dvořák, Dmitri Shostakovich, Edward Elgar, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Felix Mendelssohn, Fryderyk Chopin, Franz Liszt, Robert Schumann, Franz Schubert, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, Charles Ives, Igor Stravinsky, George Gershwin, Erik Satie, Edgard Varèse, Philip Glass
- Red Dwarf, The Chase, Fawlty Towers, Mock the Week, Have I Got News for You, Father Ted, Cobra Kai, 9-1-1
- Australian New Wave films (Wake in Fright and Walkabout in particular).
- Marble Hornets, Citation Needed, Two of These People Are Lying, Sidemen
- The movie version of All the President's Men, then the book.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky, John Milton, Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner, and Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- SWAT Kats, Persona 5, My Hero Academia, Codename: Kids Next Door, Sly Cooper, Cuphead, and YuYu Hakusho fanfics.
- The Criterion Collection by way of the addition of Come and See.
- The Censored Eleven.
- The Authority: I hadn't run across many non-mainstream comic books, but what I read here intrigued me. A few collections later, my local comic shop has "sucker" marked next to my name....
- The Authority also led me to its parent series, Stormwatch, and its successor series, also called Stormwatch.
- The Lizzie Bennet Diaries. I love me some good updates of Pride and Prejudice, and this is a clever one.
- SF Debris: It's mentioned a lot in the pages for various shows I enjoy, so I checked it out. Now I'm there every week.
- The 10 Doctors: The description on the Doctor Who fanfic recommendations page made it sound awesome. It did not lie!
- Doctor Who - Was always interested in it but now more so after this site.
- Franken Fran
- Nobody Dies
- Puella Magi Madoka Magica
- Sailor Moon Abridged
- Yume Nikki
- Gargoyles - I had never heard of this series before I came here. It is now my favorite show.
- El Goonish Shive
- Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch - I only watched a few episodes, but it helped me get over my anime aversion.
- Also the Long Drive series of Sherlock fanfics.
- Avatar: The Last Airbender: I'd actually seen The Legend of Korra already, and wasn't terribly impressed, but TV Tropes inspired me to finally check it out. And it was awesome.
- Puella Magi Madoka Magica: JesuOtaku's review was what first made me aware of the series, but I was on the fence until I started seeing all the page-long spoiler boxes around here...
CardboardLuigiTV Tropes has introduced me to a few things. From memory,
- Skull Girls
- Sam & Max
- Webcomic/Hiimdaisy
- Fullmetal Alchemist
- Half-Life
- Catherine
- Some of these examples here are only semi-gateway drugs, while some others are ones I've completely met through TV Tropes. For the semi-gateway drugs, I've known about some of them, before, but TVTropes made me completely establish them as a part of my life.
- Marvel vs. Capcom 2 (semi)
- Tatsunoko vs. Capcom (semi)
- Azumanga Daioh (semi)
- Lucky Star (semi)
- Haruhi Suzumiya (completely)
- Excel♡Saga (semi)
- VG Cats (semi)
- Brawl in the Family (completely)
- Sonic, Naruto, and Brawl's Hatedoms. Unlike the other examples I've listed, these are the ones that I wish I didn't learn about. ugh... (completely)
- The whole concept of Rule 34: See 4chan above. (completely)
- And for that matter. Sankaku Complex. It's not all bad, though... (completely)
- Oh yes. And I found this site while Googling the phrase "Fanservice". Take that as you will. (semi)
- Finally, TV Tropes has introduced me to TV Tropes. I never looked back, since. Or have I? (completely)
- From my favourites list alone:
- Regular Show
- The Adventures of Dr. McNinja
- xkcd... I think.
- Death Note
- Barkley Shut And Jam Gaiden: At first I was meh on this. Now I've played it three times. I really can't get over how good the writing is when it wants to be (and how good it is at being bad the rest of the time).
- Sonic Colors: A Sonic game, by Sonic Team, made recently, and it's good? Would have never known without the help of this site.
- Genetos: this one I probably would have never played.
- The Adventures of Dr. McNinja
- Gunnerkrigg Court
- MS Paint Adventures
- Darths & Droids
- A Song of Ice and Fire
- The Dresden Files
- Protectors of the Plot Continuum
- Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
- StarKitsProphcy
- Erfworld
- SCP Foundation
- I'd like to thank TV Tropes for introducing me to anime and manga in general, especially these series:
- Doctor Slump (It sounds like a series my inner 8-year-old self would love to read/watch. And it's by Akira Toriyama.)
- Fullmetal Alchemist
- Gintama (came across it through a video example for Overly Long Scream. Probably the hardest I've ever laughed!)
- Hunter × Hunter (great quarantine entertainment!)
- Naruto (Knew a bit about it through 2000s Pop-Cultural Osmosis [and my cousin used to read the manga], but TV Tropes made me check it out)
- Neon Genesis Evangelion
- BoJack Horseman
- Sonic the Hedgehog (TV Tropes renewed my appreciation of it after a few years as a kid. I learned about Sonic Adventure and Sonic Adventure 2 here.)
- You Have to Burn the Rope
- Several fics from the Fan Fic Recommendations pages, including the Sonic "Let's Watch Our Show" Plot fic My Arms are Blue.
- Terrible Writing Advice
- Squirrel and Hedgehog (I can't believe this has an uncut English dub starring two 4Kids Entertainment alumni! Very unintentionally hilarious!)
- Defunctland (especially the DefunctTV spinoff. A nostalgia channel that isn't a Caustic Critic.)
- Girl Genius
- Irregular Webcomic!
- Channel Awesome - partly. TV Tropes is the reason I took my friend's advice to check out the site.
- Cracked - it seems that half my TV Tropes WikiWalks end up on Cracked.
- Fullmetal Alchemist
Chabal 2I can't even remember how I got here. I no longer care. Tropes for the Trope God!
- Azumanga Daioh
- Lucky Star
- Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
- Fullmetal Alchemist
- Warhammer 40,000
- Warhammer
- Neon Genesis Evangelion
- AMV Hell
- Channel Awesome
- The Order of the Stick
- Gone To Ground
- Servants of the Imperium
- Turn Signals on a Land Raider
- anti-HEROES
- Discworld
- Looking for Group
- Least I Could Do
- Girl Genius
- Something*Positive
- Questionable Content
- Lightbringer
- Schlock Mercenary
- San: Three Kingdoms Comic
- MegaTokyo
- xkcd
- Claymore - Because it was deemed similar to Berserk, and so must be awesome. TV Tropes was not proven wrong.
- Hikaru no Go
- Exterminatus Now
- Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series
- Thunderstruck
- Brawl in the Family
- The Adventures of Dr. McNinja
- Erfworld
- VG Cats
- Eversion
- The Noob
- Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
- the white chamber
- From Fanfic Recs:
- When They Cry. First heard about Higurashi here, and I'm still addicted to that series two years later. Darn you, TV Tropes!!!
- Hetalia: Axis Powers
- Darths & Droids
- Death Note
- Haruhi Suzumiya
- Lucky Star
- Neon Genesis Evangelion
- Ghost in the Shell
- School Days (I liked it!)
- My Immortal
- Revolutionary Girl Utena
- Serial Experiments Lain
- Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei
- Studio Ghibli
- Studio Gainax
- Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series
- The Annotated Series Not only was I introduced to this great series by finding it on a Wiki Walk, but I'm now a major contributor to the team! And it's all thanks to you, TV Tropes!
