Lumper, realist, and baby-eater who tends to arrive at articles by random, Wiki Walk, or the Image Pickin' forum; rodneyAnonymous was a computer animation designer and is an evolutionary biologist. note
Image Pickin'
Suggestion and capture
- Absurdly Ineffective Barricade
- Alas, Poor Yorick
- Angry Fist-Shake
- Artistic License – Biology
- As Lethal as It Needs to Be
- Attack! Attack! Attack!
- Badass Boast
- Batter Up!
- Bullying a Dragon
- Classic Villain
- Exit, Pursued by a Bear
- Familiar
- Grin of Audacity
- Historical Villain Upgrade
- The Jeeves
- Kick the Dog (Film subpage)
- Machine Worship
- Nightmare Face
- Nuns Are Funny
- Out-of-Character Moment
- Palette Swap
- Red Ones Go Faster
- Robot Religion
- Rules Lawyer
- Savage Wolves
- Slasher Smile
- Sleeping Single
- Spit Take
- Stick-Figure Comic
- Stranger Things (Nightmare Fuel subpage)
- Villain-Based Franchise
- Weirdness Censor
- Whammy
Composite (heavy manipulation)
- All Amazons Want Hercules
- Aquatic Animal Tropes
- Beauty, Brains, and Brawn
- Behind the Black
- Berserk Button
- Creepy Changing Painting
- Demoted to Extra
- Fanservice Pack
- Good Hurts Evil
- Gunpoint Banter
- Little Bit Beastly
- Ms. Fanservice (Video Game subpage)
- No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine
- Poor, Predictable Rock
- Sliding Scale of Anthropomorphism
- Smug Super
- Thanks for the Mammary
- Tomboy and Girly Girl
Composite (light manipulation)
- Ace Attorney
- Amusement Park of Doom
- Artifact of Attraction
- Base Breaker
- Blade Lock
- Body Surf
- Boobs Of Steel
- The Collector
- Darths & Droids
- Deconstructive Parody
- Disneyfication
- Environment-Specific Action Figure
- Fanon Discontinuity
- Five Bad Band
- Flaying Alive
- "Funny Aneurysm" Moment
- Funny Background Event
- Gentleman Adventurer
- Heart Container
- Hood Hopping
- The Heartless
- Labcoat of Science and Medicine
- Living Statue
- Made from Real Girl Scouts
- Marvel Mash-Up
- Metronomic Man Mashing
- No Matter How Much I Beg
- #1 Dime
- Overlord Jr.
- Pulling Themselves Together
- Ride the Lightning
- Seen It All
- Temporary Platform
- This Trope is [BLEEP]
- Uncatty Resemblance
- Unexpected Character
- Wimp Fight
- Your Costume Needs Work
Favorite works
Comic Books
- 12 Angry Men (1957)
- Aliens
- The Big Lebowski
- The Incredibles
- The Matrix
- Predestination
- Se7en
- Sinchin no Samurai
- Young Frankenstein
Music (albums, beats)
- 6 Feet Deep, by Gravediggaz
- Check Your Head, by Beastie Boys
- The Dead Symphonic EP, by Zomboy
- Drink the Sea, by The Glitch Mob
- Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), by Wu-Tang Clan
- Illmatic, by Nas
- Live at Roseland NYC, by Portishead
- Mezzanine, by Massive Attack
- None Shall Pass, by Aesop Rock
- Ready to Die, by The Notorious B.I.G.
Music (albums, rock)
- 0+2=1, by NoMeansNo
- 2112, by Rush
- All Ages, by Bad Religion
- Big Lizard in my Backyard, by The Dead Milkmen
- Bleach, by Nirvana
- Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables, by Dead Kennedys
- Pork Soda, by Primus
- Ride the Lightning, by Metallica
- Ritual de lo Habitual, by Jane's Addiction
- Sacrifice, by Motörhead
Music (other)
- Bites, by Skinny Puppy
- Clandestino, by Manu Chao
- The Nightmare Before Christmas (Special Edition), by Various
- OK Computer, by Radiohead
- Pretty Hate Machine, by Nine Inch Nails
- Psalm 69, by Ministry
- Signos de Aberracion, by Hocico
- Then: The Earlier Years, by They Might Be Giants
- Various, by JS Bach
- Various, by Sergei Rachmaninoff
Literature (fiction)
- Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson
- The Dresden Files, by Jim Butcher
- Jitterbug Perfume, by Tom Robbins
- Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov
- The Lord of the Rings, by J. R. R. Tolkien
- Me Talk Pretty One Day, by David Sedaris
- 1984, by George Orwell
- Of Human Bondage, by W. Somerset Maugham
- The Sprawl Trilogy, by William Gibson
- To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
Literature (non-fiction)
- Darwin's Dangerous Idea, by Daniel Dennett
- The Descent Of Man, by Charles Darwin
- The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins
- The Professor And The Madman, by Simon Winchester
- On The Origin Of Species, by Charles Darwin
- Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell
- The Selfish Gene, by Richard Dawkins
- The Structure Of Scientific Revolutions, by Thomas Kuhn
- Team Of Rivals, by Doris Kearns Goodwin
- A Universe From Nothing, by Lawrence Krauss
- Breaking Bad
- Cosmos
- Deadwood
- Firefly
- Game of Thrones
- The Good Place
- Rome
- That Mitchell and Webb Look
- The Sifl And Olly Show
- The Wire
- True Detective
Favorite tropes
- Animated Armor
- Anti-Villain
- Anyone Can Die
- Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
- Artifact of Doom
- The Bad Guy Wins
- Black Comedy
- Boring Invincible Hero
- Cassandra Truth
- Genre Savvy
- Idiot Ball
- Karma Houdini
- Lampshade Hanging
- Magnificent Bastard
- Mugging the Monster
- Precision F-Strike
- Science Marches On
- Serious Business
- Space Friction
- Sophisticated as Hell
- Villain Protagonist
- Xanatos Gambit