Socrathetic is a student of narrative theory, currently attending New College of Florida. He is genre savvy by nature and could already figure out the little quirks and conventions in the fictional arts long before TV Tropes could get to him; this website just provided him with names and terms with which to associate them. In other words, TVTropes did not ruin his life, merely increased his vocabulary. (Granted, this tends to backfire.)
Socrathetic uses TV Tropes as a storyboard of sorts, as well as a springboard for research (he finds this place much easier to navigate than you-know-what). He also struggles with a very obsessive habit of reading various Horror Tropes in the dead of night (a favorite being Eldritch Abominations). Never used to be much for getting scared as a thrill. He's turning into his dear old mother, it seems...
Upon discovering You Know You Read Too Much TVTropes When he was pleasantly horrified, if you'll forgive the oxymoron, to find that he's a textbook example of #15—both parts. In fact, reading it evoked a similarly textbook reaction.
Most recently, Socrathetic has discovered The Thirty Six Stratagems, and is now taking great delight in devising methods of use in his various stories. He may end up creating the next Sousuke Aizen at this rate...
Has a number of unhealthy obsessions, including pink hats, the Mauser C96, and fictional villainy in all its many forms.
Contributions:
Tropes
- Almighty Janitor - Added Yu-Gi-Oh
- Bang, Bang, BANG - Added Ed Edd n Eddy example
- Card-Carrying Villain - Added Yu-Gi-Oh! examples
- Crowning Moment Of Awesome:
- Video Game Levels - Commented on Kingdom Hearts example
- Anime & Manga - Commented on Naruto example (Pein)
- Crowning Music: Castlevania - Added Portrait of Ruin example
- Empire with a Dark Secret - Added Final Fantasy VII example
- Evil Is Cool - Added Beauty And The Beast example
- Evil Laugh - Added real example (himself)
- High Octane Nightmare Fuel
- D.Gray-Man - Added comment on list of HONF examples
- Hopeless Boss Fight - Commented on The World Ends With You example and added Resident Evil 4 example
- I Hit You, You Hit The Ground - Slightly ashamed to admit that a Will Smith example immediately came to mind (from his music, not his acting. I would never be ashamed to say I'm a complete fanboy of Will Smith the actor.)
- Insistent Terminology - Commented on Boondocks example
- Lightning Bruiser - Added Trinity Blood example
- Magnificent Bastard - Added Soul Calibur and Knights of the Old Republic examples
- Memetic Badass - Added Dragonball Z, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, and Bear Grylls examples
- Nightmare Fuel - Commented on Final Fantasy VII and Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask examples
- Psycho for Hire - Added additional Knights of the Old Republic example
- Punch! Punch! Punch! Uh Oh... - Added Hellsing example
- Raised by Wolves - Added Trinity Blood example
- Schrödinger Fu - Captain Jack Sparrow.
- Scrappy Level
- The Unfettered - Commented on Death Note example
- The Worf Barrage - Submitted Punch! Punch! Punch! Uh Oh... as a comparative example
- Theme Music Power-Up - Added Halo example
- This! Is! SPARTA! - Added additional Hellsing examples
Video Games
- Armored Core - Corrected Hey Its That Voice section (Otsdarva/Thermidor's voice actor is Kyle Hebert).
