Are we gonna need a stickied header like the one in the Things You Didn't Know Until Very Recently thread?
SoundCloudMaybe. I guess I can say something about not bringing new tropes that are on the front page.
Macron's notesNot very recently, but, despite having lurked for about ten years and change before I joined, I didn't notice the YMMV item Critical Backlash until around 2022 despite it having launched in 2009. Even then, I initially thought it was about work getting bad reviews, rather than than about people not finding a work to be as horrible as it's made out to be (despite the page saying right at the start that the "trope" is the opposite of Hype Backlash).
I only knew of Not Afraid to Die from Buggy's character page a few days ago. I think it's neat as a trope, and it also fits me personally (or, at least, I hope to be at such a state when I die).
Creepypasta cleanup got two major pages for JTK and Slenderjust clicked random tropes until i found something i didnt know
Found out that toys themselves have tropes.
Oh, neat, I was actually looking for a thread like this a while ago. At the time the trope that I was thinking of was Inbred and Evil, mostly because (at the risk of sounding egotistical) it interested me how a work I'd once worked on averted the unfortunate implications the description keeps wanting to criticize. But there was actually another trope just yesterday that I was surprised to discover we had in a good way. I'm trying to remember what it was.
I just found Misfit Labrat from doing my daily random trope dives for "Trope of the Day". I never seen it linked anywhere but it's apparently (probably because it has 36 wicks) an old article.
Edited by MacronNotes on Aug 31st 2023 at 1:03:26 PM
Macron's notesThird-Person Flashback and Villain Antagonist fully passed me by.
The pessimist sees a dark tunnel, the optimist sees a light, the realist sees two lights and the engineer sees three idiots.Kinda glad I found it, because it's something that happens to me a lot.
Cold turkey's getting stale. Tonight I'm eating crow.I only just now found out about Fridge Sadness.
Flora is the most beautiful member of the Winx Club. :)Maybe not that they existed but I found out Stuffed In A Fridge is not Fridge Logic nor has nothing to do with other "fridge" tropes.
Edited by ChicoTheParakeet on Nov 5th 2023 at 2:53:24 PM
Like Father, Unlike Son. A common trope that is surprisingly rarely added to work pages, which is why I was surprised to find it does in fact exist on the site.
the statement above is falseI Have Brothers. That one's so obvious that I'm shocked it didn't occur to me ages ago.
Emergent Human. Feels like it dovetails near-perfectly with Humanity Ensues and is present in a lot of media I enjoy, but it's just flown under the radar in general.
I don't actually have any Bumblebee icons, I just think the nickname is funny.Gratuitous Mariachi Band. I mean definitely an extremely funny trope, I just didn't know it had a name.
Stand up against pinkwashing, don't fall for propogandaI didn't know Come for the Game, Stay for the Mods was a trope.
The Protomen enhanced my life.Power Misidentification which is surprising because I was blown away when it happened in BoBoiBoy in the Season 2 finale (just made the example for it yesterday).
Creepypasta cleanup got two major pages for JTK and Slender
I thought we had this thread already but apparently not.
For me it is, Disproportionate Restitution.
Edited by MacronNotes on Jul 19th 2023 at 8:09:36 AM
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