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Is responsible for launching the following indexes:

• Our Clones Are Identical
• A Pretty Boy Index

Is responsible for launching the following pages:

• Absurdly Sharp Blade
• Acquitted Too Late
• Adaptational Badass
• All Deserts Have Cacti
• Alucard
• Annoying Laugh
• Are These Wires Important?
• Asteroid Miners
• Axe Before Entering
• Beauty Is Bad
• Beauty Mark
• The Big Bad Shuffle
• Bizarre Seasons
• Blaxploitation Parody
• Blazing Inferno Hellfire Sauce
• Bondage Is Bad
• Boxing Kangaroo
• Brand Names Are Better
• Brand Name Takeover
• Break the Badass
• But I Digress
• But I Play One on TV
• Calling Your Orgasms
• Camp Unsafe Isn't Safe Anymore
• Caper Rationalization
• Catholic School Girls Rule
• The Centerpiece Spectacular
• Character Check
• Chekhov's Exhibit
• Child Eater
• Christmas Rushed
• The Coats Are Off
• Comet of Doom
• Comfort Food
• Commie Nazis
• The Computer Is Your Friend
• The Conqueror
• Conveniently-Timed Attack from Behind
• Conversation Cut
• Cool Uncle
• Creepy Basement
• Critic Proof
• Cruel and Unusual Death
• Cruelty Rich Leather
• The Cuckoolander Was Right
• Cultured Badass
• Cutaway Gag (launched as Manatee Gag)
• Dad The Veteran
• Dancing Is Serious Business
• The Day of Reckoning
• Designated Protagonist Syndrome
• Diagnosis From Dr. Badass
• Disabled Character, Disabled Actor
• Disney Owns This Trope
• Divorce Assets Conflict
• Dope Slap
• The Door Slams You
• Dumbass Has a Point
• Easier Than Easy
• Evolutionary Ret Con
• Facial Dialogue
• False Confession
• Female Angel, Male Demon
• Fight Scene Failure
• Flies Equals Evil
• Flintstone Theming
• Forget It, He's Rolling
• Future Spandex
• Friend To All Children
• Fog of Doom
• A Fool for a Client
• A Form You Are Comfortable With
• Free-Range Children
• Gate of Truth
• Gender is No Object
• Give Geeks a Chance
• Give Me a Sign
• The Good Chancellor
• God and Satan Are Both Jerks
• Going to See the Elephant
• Guys are Slobs
• Have I Mentioned I am Gay?
• He Had a Name
• Higher Tech Species
• Hilariously Abusive Childhood
• His Name Really Is Barkeep
• Hollywood Acid
• Hollywood Fire
• Hope Springs Eternal
• House Husband
• How Is That Even Possible?
• Humans Advance Swiftly
• I Ain't Got Time to Bleed
• Ignorant of the Call
• Ignore the Fanservice
• I Got This
• Improbable Food Budget
• Improvised Microgravity Maneuvering
• The Informant
• Inhumanable Alien Rights
• In Your Nature To Destroy Yourselves
• I Should Have Been Better
• It Always Rains at Funerals
• It's Always Sunny at Funerals
• J'accuse
• Kinda Busy Here
• Klingons Love Shakespeare
• Kneel Before Frodo
• Knifing the Libby in the Back
• Leslie Nielsen Syndrome
• Let's Get Mikey
• Letting the Air out of the Band
• Lightmare Fuel
• Logo Joke
• Loser Has Your Back
• Lost In A Crowd
• Love Will Lead You Back
• Lyrical Tic
• MacGuffin Title
• Mainstream Obscurity
• Majorly Awesome
• Mangst
• Might As Well Not Be In Prison At All
• Mobstacle Course
• Mommy Issues
• Monumental Damage
• Monumental Damage Resistance
• Murder by Mistake
• Music Video Credits Sequence
• Nautical Knockout
• Nazi Grandpa
• Never Recycle Your Schemes
• No Badass to His Valet
• Nobody Ever Complained Before
• Nobody Thinks It Will Work
• Obligatory Corporate Initialism
• One Riot, One Ranger
• Open Secret
• One Song Wonder
• Ordered To Cheat (Launched as Sweep The Leg)
• Out Giving Birth, Back in Two Minutes
• Parental Substitute
• Phlebotinum Battery
• Piano Key Wave
• Player Personality Quiz (Launched as Test Of Character).
• Plucky Middie
• Plucky Office Girl
• Punch Spin Gape
• Rambling Old Man Monologue
• Rapid-Fire Comedy
• Rapid Fire Fisticuffs
• Regularly Scheduled Evil
• Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated
• Rewarding Inactivity
• Rhino Rampage
• Rhyming With Itself
• Ridiculous Procrastinator
• River of Insanity
• Royalties Heir
• Sacrificial Lion (launched as The Cedric)
• Same Face, Different Name
• Scary Musician, Harmless Music
• Scatting
• The Scrooge
• Sealed Inside a Person-Shaped Can
• Secret Circle of Secrets
• Secret Handshake
• Secret Keeper
• Secret Secret Keeper
• Sequel Number Snarl
• Serial Killer-Killer
• Sex Is Violence
• Shamed By A Mob
• Simpleton Voice
• Skeptic No Longer
• Songs Of Solace
• Small Role Big Impact
• Standard '50s Father (launched as Mister Cleaver)
• Stepping Out For A Quick Cup Of Coffee
• Stompy Mooks
• Stutter Stop
• Suggestive Collision (launched as Gravity Is A Harsh Seductress).
• Super Breeding Program
• Suspect Existence Failure
• Swamps Are Evil
• Table Space
• A Taste of the Lash
• Taxidermy Is Creepy
• Taxidermy Terror
• Teenage Death Songs
• There Are No Coincidences
• They Just Dont Get It
• Time Travel Escape
• Tonka Tough
• Took a Level in Dumbass
• Understanding Boyfriend
• Unishment
• United Europe
• United Space of America
• Uptown Girl
• Vampire Dance (Launched as Blood On The Dancefloor)
• Virgin Vision
• Warts And All
• Weaponized Cameras
• Weaponized Exhaust
• We Are Everywhere
• Weather Report Narration
• We Don't Need Roads
• What Did You Expect When You Named It ____?
• What, Exactly, Is His Job?
• What Song Was This Again?
• When It Rains, It Pours
• Who Needs Enemies?
• Why Fandom Can't Have Nice Things
• Wizards From Outer Space
• World of Ham
• Ye Olde Nuclear Silo
• You Dirty Rat
• Younger and Hipper
• Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters

Is responsible for "ghost launching" (that is, for writing and editing the initial page after someone launches a YKKTW without actually writing the page) the following tropes pages:

• Bathroom Break-Out
• Camp Unsafe Isn't Safe Anymore
• Flaming Hair
• Undignified Death

Is responsible for creating the following Works pages:

• Erik the Viking
• Known Space
• Lucifer's Hammer
• The Mote in God's Eye
• Three Little Pigs

Is responsible for creating the following Creators pages:

• John Candy
• Walter Cronkite
• Charles Dance
• Larry Niven
• Tom Selleck
• Brian Thompson
• Neil deGrasse Tyson