WMG / The Great Crash

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.

• Executives are not that smart, buddy. After all, writers themselves use this page, sometimes.

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.

• Jossed because of the lack of a Jeshua.
  • I came after the Crash, so, friggin' Jossed.
    • That's what YOU believe, Neo.

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.

• Alternatively, a faction of the Integrated Data Entity caused the Crash to see how Haruhi would respond.
  • Perhaps I just got too amused at the day, that's it. Oh, wait. Came after the Crash. Maybe the Haruhi theory is true.

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.

• Poor database... It lost its honor!

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.

• But what would that gun do? Open up plot holes?
• AND accuse meaningless details of being Hand Waves!

The Great Crash of '08 was actually the entire wiki being kidnapped because people talked about Candle Jack too mu

• Candlejack? Wha
  • You know! Candle Jack, that one guy who kidnaps people who are stupid enough to say his nam * slips out of rope & bashes guy in white mask in the head with crowbar* Yeah, that guy I just KO'd...

I'm just punishing you for overcomplicating the link syntax.

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.

• What a Twist!
  • Correction: WHAT-A-TWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEST!!!

The Great Crash was to prevent Cloud from meeting Gordon Frohman and offing The Composer.

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 question is, who is The Starscream?
  • A Transformer?

The Great Server Crash of '08 was caused by Crash Kirby

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