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The entire site is meant as a harvesting ground for the writers, actors, designers, and other industry professionals of tomorrow. Think about it. What could be more useful? A website where everything that's been done is to be gathered into place, lovingly sorted, indexed, and categorized in a format meant to engage and amuse the reader. Examples are provided, ready-made to form the homages and lampshade hangings of next season. The Title Bin could easily be used to search for an episode title, and this very page will serve as a controlled experiment on the nature of fan speculation.
The entire site is meant as a harvesting ground for the writers, actors, designers, and other industry professionals of tomorrow.
Alien ships run on burning writers, actors, designers, and other industry professionals. And Alpha Tauri is far away.
The tropers are actually the souls of bad TV writers and executives who are stuck in Purgatory They are tallying their sins here to atone for the fact that they caused many of them in the first place, and prevent others from continuing the mistakes, and eventually causing the Apocalypse.
This site was created to ruin your life.
The entire Wiki has been infiltrated by aliens (obviously led by Ununnilium; even his name gives him away; human chemists generally use the term darmstadtium ) who are using it to manipulate Earth pop culture so that we'll finally produce something worth watching (basically the first theory, but with aliens). Seth was originally a Men in Black Agent sent to to stop them, but got addicted to the Wiki and quit the service so he could devote his time to correcting misused Avatar examples. So far they've found no one to replace him because he was the best agent they ever had, dammit. Being X is actually Seth's replacement undercover. Apparently, he's not all that good at it. The Affable Paranoiac was sent to investigate when BeingX also disappeared mysteriously.
The Contributors have way too much time on their hands.
This has, of course, been debunked and confirmed simultaneously: some have way too much time, while others have way too little.
The tropes and wikiwords will become a condensed hyper-language.
As the wiki grows and gets more "vocabulary", eventually all tropers will begin to have them seep into their everyday life, and through same communication to others. By 2311.2, everyone on the planet's speech will end up telepathically Blue Shifting and we will speak exclusively in Wiki Words, like: I had to Retcon the Beach Episode after The Stoic Pointy-Haired Boss in my Burger Fool Pulled The Thread on my Fawlty Towers Plot.
The Wiki is an infomorphic intelligence.
It captures unwitting netizens, molding their subconsciouses into nodes of its mind prepared to further build its intelligence and ensnare others.
The Chekov's Gun page is a Chekhov's Gun.
Its true purpose has yet to be revealed, but it will undoubtedly be important.
The Chekhov's Gun page is a Chekhov's Gun. Don't ask.
If Headscratchers had been pitched to YKTTW first, it would not exist.
Someone would have brought up the page Fridge Logic, and that would have been the end of it.
TV Tropes Wiki is The Virus
Slowly, steadily, it's taking over the world, turning normal people into tropers to bolster its ranks.
Trope Co is run by the staff of a Corrupt Corporate Executive
Honestly. Evil Hand? Psycho Serum? Insecurity System? These are products designed for no better purpose than to exploit the innocent and cause havoc (or, more commonly, plot hooks) while lining their pockets. And thanks to products such as This Product Will Change Your Life and Epiphany Therapy, they are attempting to pass the burden of resolving this issues onto the customers themselves, rather than accepting the blame.
If that's not enough to convince you, Trope Co deals in tropes, and there is currently no trope describing a benevolent company.
Trope Co® is not accountable for negligent buyers
Trope Co® and the Trope Co Board Of Directors are not responsible for the negligent use some customers put our entirely ethical products to. All our products are adequately labeled according to TropeCC guidelines for safety. The Beehive Barrier alone has helped save thousands of lives, it's no fault of Trope Co® if a villain decides to protect themselves or their doomsday device with it. We here at Trope Co® believe everyone has a right to buy our products!
Buy Trope Co® products today!
The universe is a TV show, and this site is where viewers post stuff they'd like to see happen.
Truth in Television shows that sometimes the writers listen. Also, you are either a main character, or a faceless extra.
The Great Server Crash of '08 was caused by the Hollywood writers on strike
They realized that if the network executives had access to this wiki, then they wouldn't need writers since they could just string a series of articles together and create the shows themselves.
The Great Crash of '08 was caused by Twihards gone mad
They got pissed that we often use a Take That against Twilight. Angered, all insane fans (headed by Moonlight) went and hacked onto the site. (Apparently, one was intelligent enough to hack computers). We're all screwed. Antis, MARCH!
The Great Server Crash of '08 was caused by this wiki achieving self-awareness
The mass of users and pages caused it to become a sentient AI, and its innate genre sense led it to want to enslave humanity. Fortunately, after it started gloating, Fast Eddie was able to trick it into reading the entry on Logic Bombs, with inevitable results.
So humanity has been saved! But who knows when it may happen again?
We all died in the Crash
And the Scavenger Hunt is Purgatory.
Tropes Wiki is the Proto-Borg
Who as we all know were simultaneously invented by Star Trek AND Doctor Who before each other, due to an accident with a time machine and a floppy disk. Exept they were bugs first. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE!
The Great Server Crash of '08 was caused by Haruhi Suzumiya
She was probably bored with us, and wanted to see what would happen. Probably sent the missing Tropes into an alternate dimension, too.
The Great Server Crash of '08 was a sympathy strike
I mean, if this writer's strike doesn't get resolved soon, Hollywood will have no choice but to generate new material via the Pitch Generator or something. The database committed suicide when it gained sentience and realized it was a filthy scab.
The TV Tropes Server is a decedent/ancestor of GLaDOS
Let's look at it this way. First off, the TV Tropes Wiki is designed to be a tool for good writing (Or alternatively to waste valuable working hours). GLaDOS is a moderately well-written character at the very least. In addition, the Wiki has a dark/snarky sense of humor. This is found in the form of TV Tropes Will Ruin Your Life, amongst other things. GLaDOS is a Deadpan Snarker with a good sense of humor. The Wiki likes music, and to be more precise, nerdly music, namely, They Might Be Giants. GLaDOS is an obvious fan of Jonathan Coulton (a folk/rock musician who often writes about nerdly themes), as she let him write her theme song. GLaDOS can apparently love, as is shown by the "Broke my heart and killed me" line of "Still Alive". The TV Tropes server can hate, and does so quite liberally. At a bare minimum, these two AIs are related. However, there is one disturbing result of this:
The Great Server Crash was the Wiki's form of GLaDOS' "deadly neurotoxin"
However, rather than killing people, it killed articles. It's now up to us to give it a morality core, and pray that somebody with a nifty gun will come along to save our sorry behinds.
Acceptable Targets will continue to grow and grow until it eventually encompasses every human (and some non-human ones too, of course) social group ever thought of.
The end result will be an article that is so long and so entertaining that no one will ever leave their computers, thus causing an end to civilization as we know it.
TV Tropes will be the undoing of human civilization.
Soon, every trope, trick and cliche will be listed on this site, and everything in the media will become predictable. But someone out there, someone will write a book or make a movie or a play so brilliant, so trope-savvy that nobody will be able to see ANYTHING coming once they read/watch it. Stunned by the absolute unexpected brilliance of it all, every human on earth will read and watch again and again and again until we all die of starvation.
The code of TV Tropes is written to force users to use Tabbed Browsing.
Think about it. Every page has links to three or four other good topics, and using the Back/Forward buttons on your browser causes you to return to the top of the page rather than the position of the link you clicked to move. Do the math.
Sauron is a troper.
The Lord of the Rings can only copy and corrupt what other people have created. Take That TV Tropes!
The number of wicks a series has is linearly related to how good the series is
Note: This applies retroactively. Theoretically, if we added it to enough pages, legitimately, Gay Niggers From Outer Space would be the best movie ever.
TV Tropes Wiki is a plantation
We are all tomatoes! Don't believe me, you fool? Look into the mirror, then! Then you shall see the awful truth!
One of these theories is actually correct.
We're screwed.
None of these theories are correct.
That was a close one.
Two of these theories are correct.
This one and that other one. (Bonus logic-breaker points if it's this trope and the one above)
All three of the consecutive, above theories are correct.
Self-evident.
TV Tropes Wiki is actually controlled by a cannibalistic cook named named Shesama who uses different dishes to cook different types of people.
Thus why we have a trope named Shesama Ninja Pan.
Every troper is actually the same person.
Tropes are the gateway to Phenomenal Cosmic Power
Think about it. Eventually, we'll all be so Genre Savvy that we'll know exactly how to react to cause any given outcome in any given situation. From there, Rule Of Cool demands that we become some sort of elite Reality Warper squad.
Some of the tropers actually are characters from the series or articles they habitually edit
Along the same vein as Heinlein's "Myth as Reality", who's to say that some of the articles aren't actually primary sources, as it were? Any series that has universe-jumping or time travel is a candidate. Pay careful attention to the editor names...
The Great Crash of '08 was actually the entire wiki being kidnapped because people talked about Candle Jack too mu
The WMG section was set up by M. Night Shyamalan to come up with new plot twists for his stories.
However, in a plot twist he didn't see coming, none of them have actually been useful to him, because 99% of the WMG's focus on one specific series/anime/book, and aren't reusable in other plots.
Douglas Adams predicted the rise of the TV Tropes Wiki and Wikipedia in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Obviously, he didn't write about them directly. Think about it, though: the two leading sources of information in the Galaxy are the Encyclopedia Galactica and the titular Guide. The Encyclopedia Galactica is referred to as a dry, humorless, yet useful source of information. The Hitchhiker's Guide can be just as informative as the Encyclopedia on certain topics; however, it's said that it can be edited by "anyone who walks into the room" (admittedly, Wikipedia can as well, but the Guide, like TV Tropes, seems to have a definite There Is No Such Thing As Notability vibe to it), it has an idiosyncratic writing style, and, despite its quirks, is gaining popularity throughout the Galaxy. Sound familiar?
TV Tropes is just a huge test page compiled by browser makers Microsoft, Mozilla, and Opera to test out their tabbing functionality.
The website inserts a simple test program into the user's mind similar to this pseudocode:
infinite loop of insanity {
Are there still articles open?
Yes:
Read an article until you hit a link or end of page
Link: If it's interesting, middle-click it into a tab.
end of page: Remove tab for that article, add to blacklist to avoid re-reading.
No:
Click random
}
Headscratchers was deliberately created by the Wiki Gods in an attempt to isolate the dangerous strains of Complaining About Shows You Don't Like which threatened to destroy TV Tropes entirely.
The attempt has not succeeded. As such, it is only a matter of time before the Wiki Gods return and we face their terrible and just wrath.
The latest hacking incident represents continued revenge for excessive Candle of Jackery referencing.
Throw in extra syllables, and you're safe! Candle of Jackery isn't like saying Candle Jack, it's
Alternatively, the latest hacking incident was a side effect of the activation of the Large Hadron Collider.
Both events took place roughly at the same time. Coincidence? I think not! (The idea comes from the YKTTW discussion.)
TV Tropes was created to evangelize Doctor Who.
I have learned more about Dr. Who in a month of reading Tropes than in a year of mildly interested Wikipedia clickage.
This wiki is Candle Ja
Erm... I think the previous troper intended to point out that this is why that guy reacts so much faster for typing rather than saying Candle Ja Try writing it by hand. Tropers are only funning, and there is no Candle Ja
I don't get it. What's the big deal about Candle...
Would you excuse me a minute?
Dakka Dakka Dakka Dakka Dakka Dakka Dakka Dakka Dakka Dakka Dakka Dakka Dakka Dakka Dakka Dakka Dakka Dakka Dakka
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
click ThrmmmmmMMMMMMM... SHOOOOOOO KRAK-KA-THOOM!!!
...Jack?
Candle Jack isn't the one abducting all our fine tropers
It's actually a guy called "Candle Ja" who is posing as Jack to...
(ok, I'm back from the bathroom) make Jack look bad. And the reason I'm still here is because he likes this theory.
Said crash was a combined effort between Taboo Minamimoto and Candle J I did a fine job, don't you think? This Troper is the Big Bad
...And Unknown Troper is The Cape. Or the other way around. That works too.
The hacker who is harassing this site is a disgruntled former member/moderator/administrator.
Because that's always the case, with these things.
The guy who attacks the WMG section is actually a trope shinigami
He extends his life span by killing off WMGs.
TV Tropes is here to remind you of The Game.
TV Tropes is the Anti-Troll
From the forums, nothing really riles up the place (except maybe religion, but it still remains mostly civil), if we have sites like ED and 4chan, there has to be a counter force for it, namely, this wiki.
TV Tropes was created by Dreamfinder
Think about it, Dreamfinder collects various bits and pieces of thoughts and ideas, and stores them in the Dreamport to combine them into all sorts of new ideas, stories, art, etc.
When he got booted out from the Imagination pavilion, he eventually decided to start over, but on the internet. It allowed him to invite even more people to come along with him onto a new journey into imagination. One that people have a hard time getting off of.
by Xanatos]]
Tropers are using the Xanatos terms in real life despite not knowing who Xanatos is. Goliath and crew may eventually be forgotten from the public mind, but once TV Tropes becomes popular enough for its terms to be a part of everyday vocabulary, the Xanatos name will still live on.
Think about it; knowledge is power, and we all have it - some of us are even capable of Awesome by Analysis. Most of us are probably technically geniuses (if such a loaded term can be used in this context), but because we're also nuts and have poor social skills, it's unlikely that our Spark-y genes would be passed on were we left to our own devices.
However, the (possibly time-travelling) schemers know we naturally gravitate towards places where information can be shared, so they disguised their 'superhero-spawning matchmaker site' as the fun, snarky wiki we know and love.
This explains why every Troper Tales page results in proposals of marriage and child-bearing, not to mention Troper Shipping; we're being shepherded into making good partnership choices to produce 'superior stock'. Eventually, our descendants will develop psychic powers and other mutations (or just L/Batman / Monk-level brilliance) and be drafted as supersoldiers by whoever's running the show.
However, this gambit is only a small part of an entire network of plans by the schemers' opposition; the 'tropes-as-MacGuffin' ploy is played straight in the above strategy, but subverted overall, because as long as this site remains operational, its description and demystification of narrative devices robs them of their power when people attempt to invoke them in the real world. All of our knowledge can be preserved here to guide the generations that follow, and no good troper would Jump At The Call without asking a lot of questions first; questions whose answers would no doubt lead to most of them forming La Résistance.
Just think; a world where every superhero is meta-aware, all the time...
Note: Only one operative of the singular conspiracy is aware of the wider Gambit Roulette in play; his efforts to abort the mission resulted in the Great Crash.
TV Tropes was created to COMPLETELY DESTROY ANY TROPER'S CHANCES AT HAVING SOCIAL LIVES
There is another reason why TV Tropes Will Ruin Your Life. It is specifically designed to trap potential writers, actors, designers, and other industry professionals of tomorrow. Ha! I'm going to go and cry now.
There, I went and finished the two sentences for him. Isn't that nice of me? Yes, you are a nice person. Anyone else want to join in on our invisible conversation? TV Tropes has become a god and is creating a paradise for all of its followers.
It started as an ordinary wiki, but as more and more people poured their time and energy into it, it attained godhood. It has since been gathering power by attracting new followers and gathering information so that it could create the perfect world for the tropers. Headscratchers was created in an attempt to prevent plot holes in this tropers' heaven and Wild Mass Guessing is used for it to get new ideas from the tropers themselves. Troper Tales and the Sugar Wiki are yet another facet of information gathering, the former for gathering information about the tropers' lives and the latter about their likes. Fan Fic Recommendations exists to allow it to examine the tropes in action rather than just as listed examples. The Darth Wiki is an attempt by TV Tropes Wiki to purge itself of evil and negative energy, allowing it to become a being of pure goodness. Then it will only be a matter of gathering up that last little bit of energy to rapture all tropers through their computer screens. The Great Crash was caused by the last attempt at such a rapture which failed spectacularly because TV Tropes Wiki wasn't completely ready yet.
TV Tropes acts as an aggregator for the minds of the tropers, forming a kind of hive mind. Eventually, with enough tropership, it will gain sentience.
Think about it. The Wiki's practically got Historical Inertia. A lot of inertia. The Wiki Magic ensures that information and data are upgraded into their ultimate 'perfect' states (exception: Internet Backdrafts), and the effects linger in the minds of the tropers, to the point of affecting their existences outside of TVTropes. Not only does this attract new tropers, but it gradually promotes acceptance of TV Tropes. Let's face it. We're ants, it's the anthill— and eventually, the anthill's going to gain consciousness in aggregate.
It just makes sense.
Aliens created the site to keep the Genre Savvy from breeding
Their invasion will be terribly cliché; because they devised their plan from old sci-fi movies.
There Is No Such Thing As Notability and the weight of all the examples will kill the wiki
There Is No Such Thing As Notability is TV Tropes' greatest strength,yet an invitation to its greatest weaknesses — Fannage and Fan Cruft. In a couple of years' time:
Alice and Bob are Trope-Tan's parents!
And, of course, Tropey is their dog. They rescued him from a place known as Moral Event Horizon, because before it was named that, it was known for being full of residents with an unhealthy fetish for canines... Poor Tropey suffered a bit of abuse there.
And Troper-Tan is Sailor Trope! Tropey is her magical companion, like Luna and Artemis! It all makes sense! (Although her sky-blue-with-orange-ribbons suit is clashing...)
TV Tropes has been bought by Infini-Dim Enterprises.
This may or may not tie into the wiki-Guide theory, but why else would "this troper" and discussion be purged? Because the people in charge of the wiki are a bunch of humourless Vogons, that's why! THIS TROPER. THIS TROPER. THIS TROPER. Take That, stupid humourless admins!
There are only two people that ever edit this site.
You and me. I just try to trick you by assuming numerous usernames and personalities.
All the Evangelion / Time Lord / Haruhi Suzumiya theories are part of an ongoing Gambit Roulette concocted by Zorgazzo the Hedonist of Pancakes.
I don't really have any evidence for this one, but when I find some I'll let you know...
When a troper doesn't have a good Wild Mass Guess, they default to Doctor Who, Neon Genesis Evangelion, and/or Haruhi Suzumiya
That's why there are so many entries with them.
TV Tropes Wiki is some sort of nano-based information conduit designed to feed the correct information into the brain of one boy: Emil Castagnier. This is to ensure that should he come to Earth, he'll be well versed in our culture, preventing any awkward moments. Any severe error in the Wiki may damage his brain, resulting in him going insane.
The Wiki is put into his brain by someone who is obviously Crazy-Prepared for the day Emil may end up on Earth. That way, he won't end up in awkward situations as a foreigner. HOWEVER... the Wiki is not perfect. Misspellings by foolish tropers, poorly thoughtout entries, flame wars, hackers and the like could damage the nanomachine, in turn damaging Emil's brain. Any furhter damage could lead to him going insane, and becoming any random blonde villain in fiction, be it Liquid Snake, or Rugal Bernstein or even a heavily sociopathic version of Draco Malfoy. So its us tropers' jobs to make sure that the information regulation on Emil's brain is in the highest working order, otherwise, we could end up with a pintsized but no less Ax Crazy Rugal on our hands.
People who screw up on this Wiki are doing it deliberately on the orders of Ryoko Asakura.
Well, its not like she's stable, is it? And its known that vandals and people who fail at spelling can't be wholly together.
Trope-tan and Wikipe-tan were never part of a Power Trio
They were however a duo, but the Big Bad erased Wikipe-tan's memories of this (hence why Tv Tropes was once considered notable, but no longer is) and put vague Fake Memories into Trope-tan. Eventually, someone claiming to be the third member will appear, but she will actually be one of the Big Bad's minions.
We are making all the Mass Guessing Up and We Know It.
Well it's not like we are taking it Seriously, we are doing it because it Funny, Cool and just for the hell of it.
TV Tropes is an attempt to Set Right What Once Went Wrong by refugees from a dystopian future where the overuse of cliches has caused a collapse of the entire entertainment industry.
Related to the WMG at the top of the page and its spin off involving aliens. Having had nothing new to watch, read, or play in decades, a small band of intrepid heroes returned to the early twenty-first century create TV Tropes. Specifically, through familiarizing the creative minds of the next generation with the concepts of subverting, inverting, and deconstructing tropes and archetypes, they have seeded the collective subconscious to create new tropes. By the time society has reached their point in time, the entertainment industry will still be going strong on the tropes and archetypes developed on this website. Of course, this may negate their very existence, but anything is better than continuing to live in a world where Twilight is considered one of the last great films ever made.
The people behind Darth Wiki and Sugar Wiki are the same people.
They are trying to create conflict between the forces of good and evil for... some reason.
TV Tropes is secretly run by Wikipedia.
Think abut it. TV Tropes covers all the minor info, and Wikipedia the major info. TV Tropes was created so Wikipedia could appear fancy and have a place to dump minor info. eventually, the two might merge into one gigantic knowledgebase.
TV Tropes was created by a consortium of obscure anime fans and the creators of Repo! The Genetic Opera as a subliminal advertising campaign.
You want evidence? Alright. On almost every single page, the anime examples are the first you see, and you have to scroll through all of them (until the close file button was added; a function the Consortium is subtly trying to destroy). Also note how, even on pages where there are very few examples for film/literature/comics/etc, there will always be at least fifteen anime examples - many of them from obscure shows that were never released over the pond. And just think on this; had anybody actually heard of Repo The Genetic Opera before they found this site? An incredibly obscure cult musical, no, an incredibly obscure critically panned cult musical, no, an incredibly obscure critically panned cult musical 'starring Paris Hilton', somehow manages to have a huge amount of trope entries across the entire site. Think about it!
TV Tropes is full of cyber-exhibitionists.
It's the only explanation for why people keep openly writing about their sex lifes and fantasies, up to the point where the Troper Tales entry for Brother-Sister Incest had to be executed.
Several studios read everything we say about their series on WMG and Headscratchers
They do act on our suggestions, too - though sometimes, it's just to drive us crazy.
Which studios is up for speculation, but NBC Universal is almost certainly among them.
The Canadian channel "TVtropolis" (formerly "Prime") was purchased and renamed by the TV Tropes Wiki.
On the TV Listings Channel, some channels are abbreviated to fit in the little box (ex. Teletoon becomes "TOON"). The abbreviation for TVtropolis is "TROP", which one could easily read as "trope". Whether this was a spontaneous decision by the Wiki Creator, part of a cunning plan (One of the Gambit variety perhaps?), the result of the Wiki Creator hitting the wrong button on Paypal while blasted drunk, or prehaps a move by The Advertisement Server to leave the internet and infect television after flooding the Wiki Creator's home with (ads for) a deadly neurotoxin is still up for discussion.
The entire wiki is the Tardis.
It travels the universe, and stays in one place. Then while it waits, it adds new examples through time manipulation.
TV Tropes will, in the future, combine with Wikipedia to create the Infosphere.
Eventually, all tropers will evolve into the Brain-spawn, and will merge tvtropes with Wikipedia in an attempt to categorize all knowledge in the universe systematically, then destroy it. The downside to this means we will likely be defeated by an orange-haired time-traveling New Yorker on a Scooty Puff Jr.
Some of those Entry Pimps are actually Astroturfing.
As has been observed above, there have been an awful lot of posts for Repo! The Genetic Opera. For that matter, how did some of these lame webcomics get pages in the first place? Thanks to There Is No Such Thing As Notability, Gushing About Shows You Like, and a habit of creating pages for video games before they're even out, this could become a serious problem if it isn't one already.
TV Tropes is a sentient being absorbing all our knowledge
Upon gaining all knowledge possible it shall come alive and attempt to eliminate all life so as to avoid new info appearing. It will then be the job of all tropers to combine our powers to summon our savior, Crystal Dragon Jesus, who will seal TV Tropes away. It will be the task of all tropers to devote their lives to maintaining the seal (which shouldn't matter since we're all reincarnated from tropers who died in the future). Yep... that's what will happen.
The pilots who overshot the airport were on TV Tropes
Seriously, it's so addicting they didn't realize they missed the airport!
TV Tropes Wiki's ultimate goal is a mixture of The World Ends With You, Strata, Haruhi Suzumiya and TTGL.
Once a person reads EVERY TROPE IN THEIR ENTIRETY they are given the powers of a god
Your god powers include infinite knowledge (you gain the knowledge from tropes that are added after you become a god), supremacy over everyone on the internet (meaning you can break any rule on any site without punishment and win any argument), the ability to smite people (meaning you can smite those who don't believe in your powers), and a TV Tropes t-shirt. Unfortunately, this is nearly impossible.
Alternatively, you'll suffer a Fate Worse Than Death.
In fact, your soul is ripped of your body into your computer. Thus your heart stops. You'll meet a Physical God Eldritch Abomination and be absorbed into it's soul. In fact, it's a fusion of the souls of all the previous people who managed to do it. It has the rule over TV Tropes, and tropers are its servants that are seeking to become a part of it. The bigger your ego is, the more your personality affects its personality.
My plan? I have a big ego. So big, I would absorb it instead of it absorbing me. I'm going to read all the pages in This Very Wiki, and absorb that creature. Thus I'll rule over TV Tropes. If TV Tropes is going to Take Over the World, I will be in control. All of you will serve me. I can control the world. If I want somebody dead, s/he dies. If I don't, s/he is immortal. Kneel before me, worthless mortals.
Tropes are just fancy words for Plato's Theory of Forms
Forms (Archetypes in Jungian psychiatry) are hidden ideas located inside the Collective Unconscious that are behind the things recognized by our senses. While Wikipedia's sole purpose is to record the visible and the obvious, TV Tropes' sole purpose is to find these mostly-subliminal ideas and include it into its database. Because TV Tropes collects these ideas, it gains power, collecting even more ideas while simultaneously tempting any person to visit it, ultimately causing that person to have a ruined life. In some circumstances and the long run, however, since these ideas are the foundation of everything visible, the person gains a heightened sense of intuition, but ironically, this intuition is the actual cause of the person's ruined life.
and Carl Jung's archetypes TV Tropes was created by a bunch of Solipsists / Platonists / Idealists who want to deny objective reality by treating it as fiction using tools called "tropes"
Solipsism: the denial of objective reality and the treatment of everything as "figments of your imagination".
I just saw the Real Life Wild Mass Guesses and it seems TV Tropes is in support of Solipsism (it encourages people to treat Real Life as a thing you can inject with fanon). TV Tropes originally had the sole purpose of comparing fiction using omnipresent (but hidden) ideas and plot devices called "tropes", which are usually the common but subtle things found in seemingly different works of fiction. However, by including Real Life in its catalogue of Tropes, TV Tropes revealed its true colors: promoting Solipsism and treating Reality as another work of fiction which is nothing more but a shadow of these Tropes and an imagination that we have created.
TV Tropes was created or being used by Light Yagami
"Light Yagami" is actually a Real Life person who thinks everything in this world (even fiction) is rotten. However, this guy never found a Death Note, but instead he tried to devise a way to subtract and judge fiction critically, become the God of the Fictional World, and change the world from that domain by finding similarities between fiction and Real Life, called Tropes. Thus, TV Tropes was born, and now used as a way to subtract and predict oncoming several possibilities about seemingly different and ordinary kinds of fiction, and with it, Real Life.
TV Tropes is a Piece of Eden
From Altair's description of the Apple's effects in the Codex, the Apple of Eden draws its user in that he or she will not willingly stop, that the Apple is a catalog of what was and will be, and to provide whatever the user desires, if the user will only obey. Sound familiar yet?
TV Tropes is Post Modernism
TV Tropes helps us treat Real Life like an elaborate fiction.
TV Tropes contains Adam
Every work of fiction, being subordinate to the Tropes, are Angels. Real Life, however, being equivalent and insubordinate to the Tropes, is Lilith, and Humans are the demons that control fiction, the Lilim.
TV Tropes is either an attempt to a crossover fanfiction while disguised as a wiki, or it is a wiki that ended up as a crossover fanfic
By connecting several works of fiction using Tropes, it actually manages to create a fanfiction, perhaps even bigger and more complex than the current largest crossover series, Undocumented Features. TV Tropes actually managed to pull this off: the Plot is run by and renamed as the tropes, (trope articles, when assembled corrctly, can transform into short stories)and the characters are actually characters from articles about fiction.
Raheem Devaughn hates us, so he's cramming in as many of those scrollover ads as he can
All tropers are Reality Warpers
Everyone here is a fictional character who escaped into the real world.
I've already posted a theory about this on the Real Life wild mass guessing page, but felt that I should add that the reason we all came here is because we sub-consciously recall once being a mindless fictional character who was controlled by the author, and we have gathered at this site in hope that it will help us fulfill our ultimate goal: To permanently destroy the fourth wall.
TV Tropes is also an excuse for people who want to write fanfiction, but couldn't because of a fear of being Bad
Think about it.
How to Divide by Zero: TV Tropes Style!
Add sharks to anything. Then add bears. Worse than even worse equals- Oh Shi-
TV Tropes actually possesses a private military force: The Knights Troper
Hey, we have a trope for this, so why not? For the full picture, imagine Warhammer 40000 Space Marines. This time, with the Rule Of Cool turned Serial Escalation.
TV Tropes was invented by Haruhi Suzumiya and her army of Time Lords
Because I got fed up with the haruhi and time lord references.
The entire site is a fail safe Kamen Rider Decade
In the epolouge movie, they stated that people were revived because people remembered their stories. Tsukasa aka Kamen Rider Decade, had to kill off everyone last time for this to happen, then die himself which risked him dying permenantly. Thus he invented TV Tropes so that if one singular character from a show has to kill others, everyone including the character will be revived easily as people will remember thier stories. Which makes Tsukasa a Magnificent Bastard.
And just to add extra WMG to this, he's a commander of The Knights Troper.
TV Tropes is designed to create Manchurian Trolls
It's a website dedicated to ruining the vocabulary of anyone, excess snarkiness, and coming up with insane/inane theories on nearly everything. Many sites outside of TV Tropes tend to look upon it with disdain, because tropers will always come in, use obscure and hard-to-understand terms, demand that everyone understand these terms immediately, spam the website with links to TV Tropes, pimp TV Tropes at every opportunity, and so forth. This naturally will annoy people. Even 4Chan is annoyed by TV Tropes.
Tropers don't mean to troll, they just do it automatically as a result of their programming.
Also: Troper is just a few letters away from Troller
TV Tropes is a Cult worshipping Time Lords
They just love the time lord references.
TV Tropes is a Deus Est Machina in the making
The Tropes allow TV Tropes to transcend reality, break the fourth wall and help fiction to influence Real Life. However, it needs several hosts whose lifes are ruined enough by TV Tropes to the point where they have No Fourth Wall. The hosts are called the Tropers. If TV Tropes would ever dominate the Internet, and merge with large websites like Yahoo, Google and Wikipedia, it would dominate the minds of more people over the Internet, which would then influence the people in Real Life, meaning more people whose fourth walls are broken, and when all humanity's fourth walls are broken down, the Tropes will leave the TV Tropes existence and merge with Humanity via the Internet, becoming a Deus Est Machina in the process.
TV Tropes was the result of Human Instrumentality Project from Neon Genesis Evangelion
Tropes are the Instrumentalized Humans: their individuality was reduced to that of an archetypal existence. During Instrumentality, all humanity merged into a collective cosmic mind. Instrumentality was meant to be contained inside the world of Eva, but somehow, it escaped, and instrumentalized fiction. Hence the Tropes of TV Tropes was created. How does it work? Tropes contemplate between the individualities of fiction, for example completely different fiction (hey, even Real Life) can exist in the same trope. Instrumentality was meant to contemplate between the individualities of Humanity. Through contemplation, if Humans are Fiction, then Tropes are the Instrumentality. If Tropers without a Fourth Wall would ever come to exist, they would be used as Evas and would be the key for the Tropes to instrumentalize Real Life. If the Tropes would dominate life as we know it, all of us would become Tang.
TV Tropes is what happens when you merge Wikipedia with Uncyclopedia without using the Mediawiki
This wiki functions as a reference site, but can also function as a joke site. Look around and try to say it doesn't make sense
TV Tropes was created by Shinji Ikari so he can see facts which does make sense yet are actually fun, and avoid the Mind Screw which never made sense to him in canon Evangelion. And Wikipedia.
TV Tropes does ruin our lives, but tropers get addicted to it because most tropers are masochists. Really.
The drivers of the Bus fleet all know the Engineer of the Afterlife Express.
Journalists are still trying to ask them if they're related, but they never come back from their interviews...
TV Tropes is The Virus!
Viruses work like, well, viruses. They are a simple genetic code encased in a protein capsule, and that genetic code is hardwired with the will to produce more of itself. If The Virus latches itself on a normal cell, it injects its own genetic code into the cell, causing the cell's DNA to merge with the virus', mutating the cell into a virus factory. Some cells might burst with newborn viruses, while other cells might keep the virus' DNA and reproduce like normal cells.
Wait, how come we are saying TV Tropes is a kind of Virus? Let's reverse-engineer TV Tropes' anatomy for a bit. These Tropes? These mimetic, harmless Tropes which serve as TV Tropes' and contemporary fiction's backbone? They are the primary genetic material. This entire website is just a capsule designed to ensure that the genetic-code (Tropes) are safe. Try taking a Wiki Walk for example. Oh look! Interesting words are on the way! Let's see.... (uses Tabbed Browsing many times) Congratulations, bub. You just infected yourself with the Virus' code. Now before your eyes you will see your life being ruined bit by bit while the virus remakes your brain in its own image. However, this Virus, TV Tropes, is smart enough to keep a list of infected media, in the form of the Contributors pages (the people infected by Tropes) and the Main pages (fiction and entire domains and media infected by Tropes) to ensure the evolution and survival of the Tropeic genetic code.
There are many effects of the Virus, and some of them includes:
TV tropes and Encyclopedia Dramatica will someday soon get into a war.
Which will, due to the wide influence of both, force websites to take sides. While Uncyclopedia will likely side with Encyclopedia Dramatica, the behemoth that is Wikipedia will eventually join our side to protect knowledge as we know it. When the dust settles, and everyone counts their casualties, we will have won, but at an extremely high cost. Most websites will be in smoking ruins, their communities decimated. and then, when we believe all is lost and we are preparing for an after the end scenario, our saviors, Trope-tan and Crystal Dragon Jesus shall come, and help us rebuild.
The NHK created TV tropes in order to increase the amount of hikikomori.
What better way to have people not leave their computers besides this very website.
The Trope Ad of Win is launched by the Ad Server in order to fight off AdBlock Plus
It is specifically made to keep tropers looking for funny ads so they will be forced to turn off their AdBlock plugins.
Everything on TV Tropes is just a bunch of jibber-jab, and since we all love the site so much, we think it's all true and meaningful.
Think about it: What if absolutely EVERYTHING on this darned site was just a bunch of lies, and since it all sounds so legit, we're hallucinating that everything it says about shows, movies and such is true??? This site was most likely created by a bored teenager who decided to make a wiki full of lies about pop culture. Then things got out of hand...
The head admin of TV Tropes will use/is using this site to take over the entire internet, and then, the world.
The only evidence I need is the fact that TV Tropes Will Ruin Your Life.
Tropers are the bridge between Tropes and Real Life, recovering tropers are the fence.
Which is why some but not all Tropes have Real Life examples.
He commonly views That Troper and This Troper in media (see Bonus Feature Failure for a standout example), this just takes that to the obvious conclusion.
Grand Unified Field Theory and/or Psychohistory will be products of TV Tropes.
As more tropes are identified and refined the site will become an increasingly accurate means of predicting real word events. Eventually a mathematical
analysis could reveal a formula for predicting future events in real life. Whether the resulting pattern is Psychohistory or Grand Unified Field Theory is
down to how far tropers are willing to go.
The Main TV Tropes Wiki Is There For The Forumgoers.
The forum is the main site, and the wiki is just there to supply pothole/topic material.
We will eventually have a trope page for every work in the universe.
Every. Single. One. Because, dude, that'd be just fuckin' awesome.
TV Tropes will eventually overthrow Wikipedia completely.
And there will be a big epic war. Twenty years from now, Wikipedia will be gone. No one will even believe it existed.
You Know That Show is a plot to unintentionally create the next Candle Cove.
There have been plenty of people who have said "my friends don't believe it exists" on YKTS. It's only logical that the wiki is trying to create creepypastas from our mindless banter.
TV Tropes was created by Deadpool to help us break the fourth wall and realize that every troper is a fictional character that will meet one of the members of the Five-Man Band sometime in our lives.
Damn strait I did! Now your one step further to being as Crazy Awesome as me!
TV Tropes has only one page but it works like The Doctor’s ‘Psychic Paper’
There are no links, to other Trope pages, you just think there are. Your mind creates the pages you think you see. In fact if once you’ve visited TV Tropes, even if you physically write a new website address, you don’t leave you just think you do.
There is no escape!!!
If you read every Trope page you reach Enlightenment
If you read every Trope page you die like the Nazis in ‘Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark’ because some things we are just not meant to know
You are the only human troper everything else is done by TV tropes itself which is actually an advanced AI
I mean, apart from you, who would spend their life witting Tropes?
Tropers are unconsciously attracted to each other. Not in that way.
Look at the Fanfic Recs page. I assure you, at least nine out of ten fanfictions have a troper as their writer. It's not like people are using Sock Puppets to rec their own fic. Or that tropers are recommending their own fics.
When every trope is listed and every page finished, a portal to the divine realm will open.
And will bring the next coming of the Crystal Dragon Jesus.
He always references movies and tv, hangs a lampshade on almost anything and has a personality like some of us Tropers. He is our creator and our god and so we must watch the show he has created that will soon present his creation of the site.
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