- 1/0
- The 10 Doctors
- 8-Bit Theater
- Cave Story
- Dinosaur Comics
- Discworld
- Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
- Dr McNinja
- Dwarf Fortress
- Irregular Webcomic!!
- I Wanna Be the Guy
- The Order of the Stick
- pictures for sad children
- Protectors of the Plot Continuum
- SCP Foundation
- Thursday Next (Okay, I haven't actually read these books, but, as a direct result of this wiki, I want to. That counts, right?)
- Undocumented Features
- xkcd
- Rosario + Vampire
- First off, I found this site through the Big-Lipped Alligator Moment article.
- Team Fortress 2
- Epic Meal Time
- SCP Foundation
- Brawl in the Family
- Epic Mickey
- Darths & Droids
- Dr McNinja
- Gunnerkrigg Court
- Let's Play
- Sir Ron Lionheart
- Chuggaaconroy
- Ōkami by extension.
- The Princess Bride
- Channel Awesome
- The Angry Video Game Nerd
- Betrayal at House on the Hill
- Chrononauts
- SCP Foundation
- The Star War Gatherings
- Webcomics in general:
- You Have to Burn the Rope
- Square Root of Minus Garfield
- Music
- Lemon Demon
- Tally Hall (at least their webseries)
- Ken Ashcorp
- raocow
- A Series of Unfortunate Events (at least that it was going to come out)
- Don Hertzfeldt (seriously, my new fav director.)
- Anime, which he did not like before (unless watching [[Pokémon: The Series Pokemon as a kid counts) but got into after watching:
- AKIRA
- Alien
- Blade Runner, which got him into the Cyberpunk genre as a whole
- Cowboy Bebop
- The Dark Knight and other superhero movies
- Firefly, and the movie sequel Serenity
- Ghost in the Shell and the spinoff series StandAloneComplex
- Questionable Content
- Star Trek
- Watchmen
- Daemon
- Discworld
- Firefly
- FLCL
- Higurashi: When They Cry
- kiss×sis
- Lucky Star
- My Immortal
- Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei
- SCP Foundation
- Snow Crash
- The Adventures of Dr. McNinja: YOSHI!
- Timecube: I actually read through the whole mind-numbing 2 pages of ranting.
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer - mainly because I felt like without watching this I wasn't a real Troper.
- Angel - logically.
- Ciaphas Cain - Because he is the HERO OF THE IMPERIUM!
- Dollhouse - The first season, anyway
- I Wanna Be the Guy
- Gunnerkrigg Court
- Irregular Webcomic!
- Crimson Dark
- However, this wiki has solidified a mild dislike for anime and manga into a raging hatred. I guess it cuts both ways.
- Latias' Journey
- Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Silver Resistance
- Revolutionary Girl Utena
- CLANNAD
- Dwarf Fortress
- Knytt
- Sufjan Stevens
- minus.
- Achewood
- RahXephon
- The Big Lebowski
- Kung Fu Panda
- Walk Hard
- Moral Orel
- Watchmen
- Avatar: The Last Airbender — mainly Shown Their Work guided me to it. Well, that and the reference to the A:TLA Annotations
tumblr.
- I arrived here due to an inexplicable link in an page describing Absalom's powers on One Piece Wiki. One Wiki Walk later, I shall never be bored
- Doki Doki Blue Skies
- Doki Doki Rainclouds
- Gravity Falls
- Katawa Shoujo
- Lucky☆Star
- Monolith
- NetHack
- Receiver 2
- Uncyclopedia
- Wander over Yonder
- Hetalia: Axis Powers
- Dragon Ball Z Abridged
- Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds
- Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure Abridged
- My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (that's right, it's through here that I've become a brony)
- The Order of the Stick
- Scandinavia and the World
- SCP Foundation
- Deadman Wonderland was one of the first mangas I started reading because of here.
- Toradora! is a bit full of Narm at times, but it was rather touching near the end.
- Neon Genesis Evangelion. Still no idea what was going on, other than Shinji was a whiny little bitch.
- Dick Figures was surprisingly entertaining.
- Discworld was absolutely hilarious. I think I died laughing once or twice.
- Bakemonogatari was a rather interesting show. I liked the spin on the oddities.
- Is This A Zombie? Even though I never finished it, I liked it. Should go back and watch the rest of it.
- Keychain of Creation I really hope they update, soon.
Tropers/Electric_SheepI came here, quite by chance, from a Hetalia Axis Powers site
- Sailor Nothing
- Something*Positive
- Paradise Kiss
- Questionable Content
- Higurashi: When They Cry as well as Umineko: When They Cry
Elodie HirasWell, I came here from the FFJDR (the french ferderation for Role Playing Game), and it lead me to...
- Brawl in the Family
- Collar 6
- Darths & Droids
- Kingdom of Loathing
- TV Tropes sings protest songs to Elodie Hiras! Elodie Hiras turned Liberal! We need a slogan!
- Misfile
- Persona 4 (never played, watched let's play) and the animated adaptation.
- No, he didn't imagined that!
- The custumer is Not Always Right.
- Sparkling Generation Valkyrie Yuuki
- Spinnerette
- Strawberry Death Cake
- Weregeek
- XCOM.
Holmesishouse
- Glee. One insanely popular show I didn't know what the fuss was about until I watched the pilot while home sick from school after browsing Tropes...and I'm glad I did.
- Like many tropers on this page, I discovered xkcd through this site.
- The friggin Percy Jackson and the Olympians books, man. I'm insanely addicted.
I may not have as many things I've found like everyone else, but here're the ones I can think of.
- Code Geass: Lelouch of Britannia One of the best fan-fics I've read.
- Soul Chess One of my favourites.
- Guilty Crown Since I love Code Geass...
- Cowboy Bebop Thank Superlative Dubbing for this.
- Claymore Actually it was the page ads that got me into this one...
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Girl Genius I was already reading this before, but I wasn't obsessed until I read about all its tropes.
- Y: The Last Man
- Grave of the Fireflies (Curse you TV Troooopesss!)
- My Immortal
- Temeraire
- Channel Awesome, first the Nostalgia Chick, and then the Critic.
- Neon Genesis Evangelion (Curse you again!!!)
- Avatar: The Last Airbender Thanks for this. Seriously. <3
- Death Note
- The Rose of Versailles
- On a more general note, anime in general. I never watched it before, but now I have a tentative, very casual appreciation for the stuff.
- Fallout: New Vegas: I was encouraged to revisit the series one more time, thanks to this site.
- Greg Weisman: Thanks to this sites, I was exposed to this genius, and such masterpieces like The Spectacular Spiderman and Gargoyles
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
- Similarly, the abridged version of the OVA.
- Kid Icarus: Uprising: I heard about it before, but I was not interested, until I saw the trope page, and the praise it's gotten from other tropers.
- Last Exile: Cool Ship. Full Stop. Glorious Steampunk-y goodness.
- Haruhi Suzumiya: Really only a matter of When rather than If I would watch this once I started coming here. TV Tropes Will Enhanceyourlife.
- E.S. Posthumus
- Mary Sue Academy
- Mike Patton
- Portal: It was this site that directed me to Steam to download it while it was free.
- Psychonauts
- THE HUEMN CENIPED 2: THE HUMEN MILIPEDE: Which became a general gateway to Troll Fic.
- VG Cats
- The Reconstruction and it's prequel I Miss the Sunrise and sequel The Drop: A great series of games, wonderfully written story in each of them, I HIGHLY recommend them.
- Concession: A very... weird webcomic that I found through TV Tropes. Super NSFW. Pretty sure it turned me 20% gayer.
- ISO and Circles: Two extremely well-written comics that I just simply adore. I wouldn't have found them if not for TV Tropes.
- TV Tropes proved to be my gateway drug to a whole host of Webcomics. It's fitting that I arrived here from The Order of the Stick.
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Not yet. But I want to.
- Gargoyles: Only the first four episodes... I didn't really like it.
- James Dean: I wouldn't have watched Rebel Without a Cause if it weren't for TV Tropes.
- ninjawords.com: I don't know if this counts.
- The Nostalgia Critic
- William Shakespeare: No joke. I was reading the page for Much Ado About Nothing and thought "This sounds interesting". And here I am, 15 plays later.
FinlayThere are a few... this can't be everything, but they're the ones that spring to mind...
- Aquaria: that reminds me, I still need to beat the game properly.
- Hetalia: Axis Powers
- Breaking Bad: First heard about it on here, then I was recommended it by a real-life friend who happened to have a copy to lend me.
- Chainsawsuit: via the little image at the top when I went to complain about Seltzer and Friedberg.
- Death Note: I saw its name so many times on here that when my friend offered me a choice of anime I went for that one because it was one of the few titles I recognised. Incidentally, it's still the only full anime series I've watched. Haven't had time for anything else except Studio Ghibli...
- Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog: A friend told me about how it had the highest trope:length ratio or something. And then I eventually got around to watching it.
- How I Met Your Mother: First read about it on here. The article was taunting me, and I finally got around to it one day.
- The Middle: Sorta. I watched one episode and it was alright. Can't be bothered watching any more — anyway, someone is clearly pimping it on the Malcolm in the Middle article.
- Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: Saw it on here first, then went to see the film having realised that it was the same thing. Something like that. Anyway, it was here that persuaded me... and now I have to work my way through the books.
- Channel Awesome
- The Usual Suspects: The article for Primer (which I discovered via xkcd but read about on here before watching) had a link to Usual Suspects Ending, so I had to find this film to understand what the title of the trope meant... and now whenever I see "Kevin Spacey Is Keyzer Soze" I actually understand what the hell it means!
- A Very Potter Musical
- Zero Punctuation: again, saw it come up so much that when someone recommended it to me I decided it was probably a good idea to watch it.
- "Asura's Wrath"
- "Channel Awesome"
- "Web Animation/Zero Punctuation"
- Hetalia: Axis Powers
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Discworld
- Futurama
- Kingdom Hearts
- My Immortal
- The Abridged Series in general
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: I had heard of it before, but it was TV Tropes that actually got me interested in JJBA enough to actually watch it on Netflix.
- Horrible Histories: Stumbled across this series' page, decided to check out some clips of it on Youtube, and the rest is (horrible) history.
- Celebrity Deathmatch: When I happened upon this show's page, my curiosity was piqued as to what the show was like, so I looked up some clips of it, and after liking what I saw, I binged the entire series on Kimcartoon. Now, Celebrity Deathmatch is one of my favorite TV shows ever, and I'm a frequent editor of its TV Tropes page.
- Six: Coming across its page made me think "Wow, this show sounds interesting", so I went ahead and watched a bootleg of the show. Needless to say, I ended up absolutely loving it, and it's become one of my favorite musicals.
- Cowboy Bebop
- Death Note
- Discworld
- Firefly
- Gentleman Bastard
- Good Omens
- Hetalia: Axis Powers
- Lackadaisy
- Lie Huo Jiao Chou
- Loki: Agent of Asgard
- Lucifer
- The Sandman
- Six of Crows
- Stand Still, Stay Silent
- Unsounded
- Worm
- xkcd
- Cave Story
- CLANNAD
- The Dandelion Girl, via a Shout-Out in CLANNAD; enjoyed the story so much I ended up creating the page for it.
- 5 Centimeters per Second, and Makoto Shinkai in general.
- Narcissu: I wanted to find games similar to Kana: Little Sister, which had left me an emotional wreck in all the best ways. That game's page led me to Utsuge, which led me to this. And I am so much better a person for it.
- Planetarian
- True Remembrance
- Yume Nikki
- Darths & Droids
- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
- Fate/stay night
- Fate/Zero
- Nichijou
- The Princess Bride
- Puella Magi Madoka Magica
- Red vs. Blue
- Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
- Vocaloid
- Sinfest, also addicted to the Forum. It also enriched me to Toy Story and made me ache to see the second and third one.
- Once enriched me to El Goonish Shive and Sister Claire as well as Eerie Cuties and other awesome stuff.
- Anime and manga: Seriously, before TV Tropes, anime and manga were something very weird and geeky that some total weirdoes did. Now it's something more like:
- Code Geass, Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, Death Note, FLCL, Negima! Magister Negi Magi just to name a few. And it is fun to corrupt other people.
- Cracked
- Countless Webcomics
Game ChainsawWell aside from introducing me to several fine webcomics...
- The Order of the Stick: Always good for a laugh, and with a good, if quirky story.
- Drowtales: Only read a bit of it but it looks like a good read.
- Gunnerkrigg Court: Another thing discovered on the site, its an interesting combination of Fantasy and Sci Fi.
- VG Cats: Worth an archive binge, though it doesn't update much.
The site also got me interested in Manga and Anime. I got into...
Through the site. And that's without mentioning the excellent Ciaphas Cain Warhammer 40,000 novels. As a bonus, anyone interested in doing a Let's Play? The Live Bloginations section of the forum is a fun place to do one.]
And the list just goes on and on and on and on...
- Anime in general: For years, I dismissed anime as either being too cutesy, too disturbing, too kinky, or too nihilistic (sometimes all at the same time). Then I decided to jump into the rabbit hole; I've actually found much of it quite engaging, to my surprise.
- Happy Tree Friends: Cute cartoon critters being killed off in horrific and graphic fashion. What's not to like?
- High School D×D; Miss Machiko; To Love Ru: Came for the Fanservice, stayed for the plot and characters ... and for the Fanservice.
- Let's Game It Out: Let's see, is there a limit to how funny his videos can be?
- Pani Poni Dash!: One troper described it as Looney Tunes on acid. That description doesn't begin to describe the wonderful weirdness of that show.
- Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt
- Symphonic Metal / Power Metal: Those pages showed me that there was actually new music out there that suited my tastes.
- Visual Kei: Has really expanded the borders of my musical tastes.
- Versailles & Jupiter: Stupid sexy Hizaki ...
- Vocaloid: Largely a Guilty Pleasure, but I'm starting to appreciate some of the musical arrangements.
- Star Trek: And, also...K/S. Never shipped slash before this site glued the Shipping Goggles to my face.
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer (even though I had most of the plot twists ruined for me before I even started watching the show. Use spoiler tags, guys!)
- Fanfiction: Still not sure if that one is "TV Tropes Will Enhance Your Life" or "TV Tropes will have you reaching for the brain bleach and wailing for your eye virginity". The Fanfic Recs, however, are amazing. Even though they got me into...
- Kink Memes
- Glee: Again, guilty pleasure.
- Quentin Tarantino
- Venus Envy
- Skins
- Daria
- SCP Foundation: Found out about it through its page and wound up liking it.
- NES Godzilla Creepypasta
- Not Always Right
- True Capitalist: Found out about it through its page here and can't get enough.
- Green Lantern: The Animated Series
- Legion Of Superheroes
- Dragon Flyz
- Miami Shark
- Most manga by Junji Ito other than Uzumaki
- The Slender Man Mythos: I found out about it on this site, but it's not really my cup of tea.
- Sailor Nothing
- Protectors of the Plot Continuum
- Brimstone
- Young Justice (2010)
- Guin Saga: I enjoyed watching the anime adaptation.
- The Angry Video Game Nerd (It took me a while to get around to watching the entire series, though.)
- Bambi Meets Godzilla
- Candle Cove
- cat planet: Found when wandering around the Laconic Wiki and I thought its description was... interesting.
- Cracked* **
- Cucumber Quest, thanks to the bits of its pretty pretty art that I saw on the pages for This Cannot Be! and It Is Pronounced Tro-PAY.
- Eversion, from a Shout-Out entry in NES Godzilla Creepypasta.truth be told though,
- The Eye of Argon (I managed, but my eyes glazed over a lot) (EW)
- From the Freeware Games page, mainly introduced by /v/'s recommendations lists at the beginning:
- Cave Story
- Knytt (HOLY GOODNESS that was nice <:D)
- Knytt Stories
- La-Mulana (though I didn't expect it to be so hard, agh)
- An Untitled Story*
- Within a Deep Forest
- Homestar Runner and all of its ilk
- I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream, from the trope. It was depressing.
- I Wanna Be the Guy (oh ye gods)
- Love at first sight (Harry Potter) (the best fanfic)
- NES Godzilla Creepypasta
- SCP Foundation
- This Is the Title of This Story, and MAN was I tired when I read this ahahaha
- Todd Allison & the Petunia Violet Though actually
- Transformers: Prime
- Abridged Series in general
- Berserk
- El Goonish Shive
- Puella Magi Madoka Magica
- Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann and by extension DOUBLE K
- Vagabond
- Dwarf Fortress and Literature/Worm are the big ones for me—not just because I've been obsessed with them at various points in my life, or because each introduced me to a genre I'm still fond of, but because I wound up joining their fan communities and making online friends. None of that could have happened without me coming across one random TV Tropes link in a wiki article. So thanks for that.
- The Order of the Stick: Despite having never played DnD...
- Shortpacked!: ...or collected toys, for that matter.
- Anime in general, and also:
- Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: Yes.
- Haruhi Suzumiya: I could hardly believe it wasn't overhyped. Underhyped, if anything.
- Read or Die: James Bond the Meganekko!
- Kashimashi: That first episode...
- Vocaloid: The concert, and lots of songs.
- Avatar: The Last Airbender, which kind of rekindled my love of cartoons as well.
- Discworld. Also managed to convert two of my friends to Pterry.
- Firefly. I just, I don't even have words. You can't stop the signal, tropers.
- Pushing Daisies
- Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles; it seems I am destined to love dead shows. And all those starring Summer Glau.
- Blank It - Hilarious, with great art.
- The Order of the Stick - Amazing, especially when comparing the early strips to the later ones. Cerebus Syndrome actually worked in this comic's favor; they kept the humor and lampshade hanging, but the plot has gotten a lot deeper and more involved.
- Stickman and Cube - Awesome gag-a-day (well, gag-whenever-the-author-feels-like-updating. But still).
- My Immortal
- xkcd - Awesome nerdy humor.
- Sailor Nothing - Dark, amazingly-written deconstruction of the Magical Girl genre.
- Gunnerkrigg Court - Beautiful art, great writing, all-around awesomeness.
- A quote that cracks me up:
-robot draws face on its head-Robot 1: Oh no! A sad face!Robot 2: The saddest face! - Within Temptation - Amazing band. Sharon's voice is just beautiful.
- The Dresden Files - I saw it mentioned on this site numerous times and finally picked up the first book. Have been constantly reading them ever since.
- Mass Effect - I had heard good things about it from friends, but once I read the Main Page for it, I knew I needed to play it
HG 131I've discovered a lot of things because of TvTropes. I doubt I could list them all.
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer (which I have added hundreds of tropes to). I learned of this the old-fashioned way, found the page.
- Firefly: Learned of it before BTVS, learned of the BTVS page through its page.
- Dollhouse: Learned of it because of Firefly and Buffy.
- Angel: Same.
- Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog: Same.
- Kodomo No Jikan (which is my new trope pimping project, as I'd done a lot for Buffy already). I have no idea how I learned of this, and I learned of it just a few days ago.
- [PROTOTYPE]: Page.
- Dead Space: Page.
- Witchblade: Netflix, checked out its page, decided to watch.
- Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: It's page.
- Ghost in the Shell: Same.
- V for Vendetta: Page.
- Batman Beyond: Page.
- Psych: Page.
- Doctor Who: Page.
- Torchwood: Doctor Who.
- Pushing Daisies: Page.
- Repo! The Genetic Opera: Buffy The Vampire Slayer, through common link via Anthony Stewart Head.
- Fanfiction (and it inspired me to write it, too!)
- More, more and more.
- The Elephant Man, which led me to be quickly an unabashed Merrick aficionado, and also developed a deep interest in the Victorian Era, medical conditions, and of course silent films, indirectly. Of course, it led me to interest in other sideshow performers, especially in the States and the UK.
- Of course seeing this film and corresponding with another like-minded person led me to fall in love with other silent-era films (or post-silent era) featuring deformed/disfigured protagonists, The Man Who Laughs being one of them.
Homestar 09_Mario08
- The Wotch
- Brawl in the Family
- {{8-Bit Adventure}}
- Questionable Content
- League of Super Redundant Heroes
- The Dresden Files
- The Bartimaeus Trilogy
- Anime in general
- My Immortal
- Good Fanfiction
- Website/Cracked
- The Screwtape Letters
- Bug Martini
- SCP Foundation
- Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann - Checked it out when I kept seeing it all over the site. I absolutely love it now.
- A Very Potter Musical - I had heard about it before, but when I saw the page on this site I decided to watch it. Again, love it and its sequel.
- Cowboy Bebop - Same as TTGL.
- GastroPhobia - Found the page when I was using the random button. It's now one of the webcomics I regularly check.
- Pokecapn and Co's Let's Play of Sonic 2006 - Saw it on the Let's Play page, and liked it so much I watched the other two Let's Plays
- Mystery Science Theater 3000 - I had already heard of it beforehand, but this site (and it being recommended to me by Netflix) persuaded me to watch it. Now I can see why people love it so much.
- Many Schoolgirl Series, like Azumanga Daioh, A Channel, Nichijou, Hidamari Sketch, YuruYuri etc. Sole exception is K-On!, which I've seen prior to first stumbling across TV Tropes (another exception was probably also Lucky Star, but I'm not so sure on that one).
- Many works by Key/Visual Arts, like CLANNAD or Angel Beats! or Air.
- Rie Kugimiya and her Tsundere roles Shana, Nagi, Taiga and Aria (haven't watched The Familiar of Zero yet, but I'm planning on).
- Works by Makoto Shinkai (through one of his works 5 Centimeters per Second being used as illustration for Scenery Porn).
- Though not to Serial Experiments Lain, I found interest in that one after seeing Lain in user's picture of one guy from a certain internet forum, but to Haibane Renmei through some creator connection here.
- Katawa Shoujo.
- Tamako Market
- Many Iyashikei works. Some may overlap with Schoolgirl Series mentioned above.
- Haruhi Suzumiya franchise (now I'm especially interested in The Vanishing of Nagato Yuki-chan).
- Fate/stay night
- Lyrical Nanoha
- Puella Magi Madoka Magica
- Strike Witches and Vividred Operation (though I first watched the latter).
- Future Diary
- Elfen Lied
- Higurashi: When They Cry and Umineko: When They Cry.
- And many more. Regarding anime, it's probably easier to list works, that I didn't find thanks to this site. Aside from already mentioned, there's: Pokemon (though I haven't seen it since I was 10), Digimon, Haiyore Nyaruko San, which I consider my personal gateway drug to anime (Pokemon and Digimon didn't really sparkle my interest in anime in general), Death Note (found it through AMV with a song by Helloween) and Book Girl (I don't know where I picked that one up, but I'm damn sure it wasn't here).
- Awful Hospital
- Camp Weedonwantcha
- Cinderella Phenomenon
- Cracked
- Game Grumps
- Lost Media Wiki... well, kinda. I was a huge fan of blameitonjorge's lost media videos, but I didn't know there was a wiki until I saw it linked in Keep Circulating the Tapes.
- The Ren & Stimpy Show
- Superdickery
- This Is Not Fiction
- Todd in the Shadows
- Treading Ground
- The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power- I learned about the series from House of the Dragon page and the constant comparisons between the two prequels.
- Halo (2022)
- Codex Alera, via poking around the Literature list for something to read
- Raptor Red
- Dwarf Fortress, via Boatmurdered
- Eversion, which really didn't scare me. Except those damn HANDS.
- Zero Punctuation
- ElfQuest
- Dino Run
- Team Fortress 2
- Codex Alera, via poking around the Literature list for something to read
- Raptor Red
- Dwarf Fortress, via Boatmurdered
- Eversion, which really didn't scare me. Except those damn HANDS.
- Zero Punctuation
- Most recently, ElfQuest
- Hetalia: Axis Powers
- Black Lagoon
- Cracked
- Fullmetal Alchemist
- Hanna Is Not a Boy's Name
- The Joker Blogs
- Soul Eater
- Team Fortress 2
- Transformers
Inverted TritoneI got here from The Other Wiki doing research for a paper. It was the gateway for:
- Doctor Who
- xkcd
- Girl Genius
- The Order of the Stick
- Penny Arcade
- NCIS
- Torchwood
- Chuck
- A Bit of Fry and Laurie
- Blackadder
- Jeeves and Wooster
- Neon Genesis Evangelion
- The Dresden Files
- The Order of the Stick
- Temeraire
- Code Geass
- Hellblazer
- Unshelved
- MegaTokyo
- The Acts of Caine
- Doctor Who
- I found out the existence of Avatar: The Last Airbender through Magi - Main Characters, where Hakuryuu Ren was described as an Expy of Prince Zuko.
- SCP Foundation. I don't post, just browse. It's good Wiki Walk bait. I've learned that any page I find linked through TV Tropes tends to rise above Sturgeon's Law.
- Chip's Challenge. I eventually integrated into what I think is the one remaining Chip's Challenge community, CCZone. It eventually lost its novelty.
- Knytt Stories. Designed some pretty good levels for it, but entering its community also caused a large chain reaction of events that ended up really reducing my self-image.
- OFF. Did not like the commmunity. My only interaction with the fanbase was looking at the fanfiction and fangames provided in that one page. I never fully completed the fangames before losing interest. The game itself is great, though.
- Jumper. I think 100%ing Jumper Two helped shape my platforming skills.
- Matt Thorson and Nifflas, in general. I wouldn't own Celeste or Knytt Underground without TV Tropes hooking me into Jumper and Knytt Stories.
- Homestar Runner, although it's one big Archive Binge at this point.
- I only really read stuff anyway. Books, webcomics, websites, etc.
- Spinnerette
- Grrl Power
- xkcd... sort of. I definitely wouldn’t have read it as much if not for TV Tropes.
- Cracked
- The Wish List
- Protectors of the Plot Continuum
- SCP Foundation
- Cracked (by way of the xkcd Alt Text in that strip)
- The Adventures of Dr. McNinja
- Empowered
- Irredeemable
- The Joker Blogs
- Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths
- Powerpuff Girls Doujinshi
- PS238
- Xkcd
- Thatguywiththeglasses.com, which in turn led me to Atop the Fourth Wall, and The Spoony Experiment.
- And Linkara got me interested in Blue Beetle and Booster Gold, which led to a couple stacks of comics being added to my bookshelf.
- Jeeves and Wooster
- Which led to the rest of Wodehouse's works.
- Dr. Horrible
- Which led to How I Met Your Mother
- Where to start, where to start...
- Dwarf Fortress.
- Portal.
- The Ace Attorney games (which I am the most grateful for).
- The Nameless Mod.
- Elona.
- Yume Nikki.
- Disgaea DS.
- Let's Play in General.
- Believe it or not, WebComics in general. Particulary:
- Ctrl+Alt+Del (my personal favorite).
- A Softer World.
- RahXephon: I was browsing the site after watching the massive mind screw that is Evangelion, and found several entries where RahXephon is described as similar to NGE, but not as much of a downer. Now I know that RahXephon is just like NGE, only better!
- I was first linked here from the El Goonish Shive. My tastes have changed since, and I've definitely picked up some new things. In no particular order, those are:
- Haibane Renmei
- Gargoyles
- Fullmetal Alchemist
- Discworld
- Soon I Will Be Invincible
- The Order of the Stick
- Girl Genius
- The Spectacular Spider-Man
- and Avatar: The Last Airbender.
- I did try One Piece and found myself bored utterly, but mostly curiosity has paid off.
- Adventure Time
- Regular Show
- Doctor Who (I knew about it beforehand but I watch it more now)
- Being Human
- Buffy and Angel or anything by Joss Whedon.
- Misfits
- Cracked
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- Every single of Joss Whedon's works was brought to me by this place
- also TGWTG and most importantly TITS
- Hey what's this? Sunless Sea? Name's sounds cool. Oh and that picture is nice! I'll read about it a bit maybe that would be nice... Cue 2 years later, with hundreds of hours of playing Sunless Sea, Sunless Skies and Fallen London: "I NEED MORE ! MORE! MOAR!"
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Excel♡Saga & Warhammer 40k led me here, Sugar Bowl got me hooked, and Better Than It Sounds & Image Pickin' keeps me around.
- Hayate no Gotoku — one of the few shows that has me laughing every episode
- NationStates — its like a Maxis simulation without Apocalypse How
- That Mitchell and Webb Look — hilarious comedic sketch show
- Touhou Project — why do they have my favorite fighting games!? especially the one with a giant catfish boss battle
- ...and countless others I've lost track of.
- Warhammer40000 - I think I became a fangirl, even if I would never get interested if not for constant mentions of Ciaphas Cain here.
- Webcomics in general: Gunnerkrigg Court, The Adventures of Dr. McNinja, Girl Genius, Ava's Demon, Strays...
- Fanfiction. I'd never start reading and writing it if it wasn't for TV Tropes articles about it.
- Codex Alera
- Kemono Friends
- Webcomic/Avialae
- High School Star Musical
- Bungou Stray Dogs
- Death Note
- Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
- Wild Rock
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney)
- Gargoyles
- My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- Cuphead
- Tumblr. It backfired. I don't want to talk about it.
- Much of the Xenofiction list:
- SCP Foundation
- Not Always Right
- The Mysterious Mr. Enter and later PhantomStrider
- How I got here is actually an inversion: I searched for ‘’StarKitsProphcy’’ out of Bile Fascination and the first result was this site’s page on it. That said, this wiki got me interested in all things So Bad, It's Good.
- Enemy Mine
- With Pearl and Ruby Glowing - Seriously, how is it that a Massive Multi Player Crossover fanfic is able to deal with topics like rape and sexual assault more sensitively than many mainstream stories?
- Gone Home
- What Remains of Edith Finch
- The Sea Beast
- Hetalia: Axis Powers - I never would've gotten interested, despite my friends talking about it, if I hadn't heard about it on TV Tropes first.
- Ansem Retort - Clicking on Random Page. Combine that with a growing interest in Kingdom Hearts and you have a new webcomic fan.
- xkcd - Another webcomic I'd never have heard of otherwise.
King ClarkTV Tropes got me into...
- Neon Genesis Evangelion
- The Wall
- Twin Peaks, and pretty much anything else involving David Lynch
- The Sandman
- The Protomen
- My Immortal (The best bad fanfic ever)
- Shinji And Warhammer 40 K (I haven't read much of it yet, but I like it so far)
- Paranormal Activity
- The Star Wars Holiday Special (Okay, so I didn't like it, but TVTropes showed me where it was.)
- There Will Be Brawl
- This Is the Worst Idea You've Ever Had!
- DM of the Rings
- Saya no Uta (I've never played it, an I don't plan to, but it's Interesting nonetheless.)
- Slightly Damned
- Freefall
- My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Let's be honest, who here hasn't?)
- Todd in the Shadows
- Epic Rap Battles of History
- Innumerable fanfics (thanks, recommendation pages)
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- quite possibly Tumblr
- Anime in general, but specifically:
- Haruhi Suzumiya (until Endless Eight, when I decided Screw This, I'm Outta Here)
- Anime/Naruto (though I only made it through 20 episodes before I had to stop, I like the story and I know what else happens, maybe I should try the manga)
- Mobile Suit Gundam Wing
- Kuroko's Basketball
- Which in turn acted as a gateway drug for a crapton of other sports anime/manga (in partnership with Tumblr)
- And it's probably going to be a gateway drug for a bunch more anime when I finally get around to watching Fairy Tail, Fruits Basket, Attack on Titan, Fullmetal Alchemist, and who knows what else
- The Adventures of Dr. McNinja
- Brawl in the Family
- The Comics Curmudgeon - After being linked there multiple times from here, I decided to sit down and read the entire damn archives. Still not finished...
- Cowboy Bebop - Though it was Orson Scott Card's review which truly persuaded me to check it out.
- DM of the Rings
- EarthBound (1994)/Mother 3
- Gunnerkrigg Court
- Hellboy
- Iji
- MS Paint Adventures - Judging from the Late-Arrival Spoiler page, I should consider myself lucky for managing to read the entirety of Homestuck without knowing anything about the comic.
- Psychonauts
- SCP Foundation - Was linked to SCP-173 from the Nightmare Fuel page. Immediately set on an Archive Binge. Man, that was years ago...
- Spelunky
- Terror Island - More people should read this! One of the funniest webcomics I know.
- Yume Nikki - Well I didn't play it myself, but it persuaded me to watch the entire Let's Play on YouTube.
