History Tropers / Bwburke94

I'm a troper from Massachusetts. Real name Brendan Burke, which I make no attempt to hide.

* UsefulNotes/AspergerSyndrome: Does this really count as a trope? No, I suppose not.

!!Tropes applying to me on [[Wiki/TVTropes ThisVeryWiki]]:
* CatchPhrase: In my edit summaries.
** "CLOUD-TO-BUTT ALERT!" [[labelnote:Context]]When I spot a C-to-B and feel like being a LargeHam. Also used for other text replacements on occasion.[[/labelnote]]
** "It's spelled [name] dammit" [[labelnote:Context]]When cleaning up misspellings of character names.[[/labelnote]]
** "This is not Film/{{Attack of the The Eye Creatures}}" [[labelnote:Context]]When removing duplication of the word "the". This tends to happen for tropes/works beginning with "The" for obvious reasons.[[/labelnote]]

!!My other Internet hobbies:
* I was a regular on [=BrantSteele=] (the site with the ''Hunger Games'' simulator) long before it became popular.
* OverlyPrepreparedGag: Seems to be my specialty.
** I joined Website/{{Smogon}} in 2010 specifically to make a [[MemeticMutation Metang@]] joke on New Year's Eve of 2012, ''two and a half years later''. The site admins were not amused.
** In early 2012, I created a new Wikipedia account. Its name, when [[SignificantAnagram anagrammed]], foreshadowed the account's main purpose... which wouldn't become clear until over a year later in 2013.
** I topped 2012's Smogon prank with a 2013 joke on a sports message board (which will remain unnamed) that I had set up with a gag on a different board in ''2005''.
* SignificantAnagram: I tend to anagram my name or my other common aliases when I need to act "anonymously". It never works.

!!Other info about me related to ThisVeryWiki:
* I discovered TV Tropes in 2009, but did not create my account here until [[Administrivia/TheSituation The Google Incident]] in 2010, because I preferred to edit anonymously while I could.
* I played a major role in cleaning up {{Understatement}} sinkholes, and later launched the effort to clean up BlatantLies and SarcasmMode as well.
* I cutlisted the infamous "Pretty Cool Guy" page, which was cut and subsequently added to the Administrivia/PermanentRedLinkClub. This makes it one of the only non-redirect pages in Main/ to be placed on the PRLC without it being the result of a forum thread or other wiki discussion. [[note]]Strictly speaking, Pretty Cool Guy wasn't a trope; had such a page been created nowadays, it would be a JustForFun page.[[/note]]

** UnprocessedResignation
* I'm a semi-frequent page image creator, usually for work pages.

!!Lastly, some random crap:
* I contributed to the ''LetsPlay/TwitchPlaysPokemon'' season 1 lore on occasion, including devising the name "Gimmick" for the ''Black'' protagonist.
** On a darker note, I was responsible for [[HistoryRepeats releasing Sarfa the Combusken]] in ''[[LetsPlay/TwitchPlaysPokemonOmegaRuby Omega Ruby]]''.

* For making the page PlayingWith.{{Yourself}} a redirect to PlayingWith.ADateWithRosiePalms ([[Archive/MadeOfWin2012 2012]]) [[note]]Second time this type of edit has received a [=MoW=], following Tropers/MrDeath in [[MadeOfWinArchiveEarly2011 Early 2011]]. Target page is now redlinked, so the redirect goes to the trope page nowadays.[[/note]]

** "''Literature/{{Worm}}'' examples go in Literature." [[labelnote:Context]]Self-explanatory. ''Worm'' examples tend to show up in Web Original far too often, and I tend to clean those up. Occasionally applied to other {{Web Serial Novel}}s as well.[[/labelnote]]

[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyV Enough expository banter! Today we fight like men! And ladies! And ladies who dress like men!]] [[Tropers/{{bwburke94}} For bwburke94...]] '''[[DescribeTopicHere IT IS DESCRIBING TIME!]]'''

I'm a troper from Massachusetts. Real name Brendan Burke, which I make no attempt to hide. I'm also occasionally a fanfic writer... well, I would be, except for ScheduleSlip.

* For cleaning up {{Understatement}} sinkholes ([[MadeOfWinArchiveLate2011 Late 2011]])
* For making the page PlayingWith.{{Yourself}} a redirect to PlayingWith.ADateWithRosiePalms ([[MadeOfWinArchive2012 2012]]) [[note]]Second time this type of edit has received a [=MoW=], following Tropers/MrDeath in [[MadeOfWinArchiveEarly2011 Early 2011]][[/note]]

-->'''Denning:''' "This is a message from Lord Nergal. I await you on the Dread Isle. This is a message from Lord Nergal..."
* For participating in the [[https://i.imgur.com/D6btOHo.png Beast/Bowser]] BohemianParody ATT thread, though I admit I was merely a contributor and not the only person behind it.

!!Tropes applying to me on ThisVeryWiki:

** In early 2012, I created a new Wikipedia SockPuppet account. Its name, when [[SignificantAnagram anagrammed]], foreshadowed the account's main purpose... which wouldn't become clear until over a year later in 2013.

** ''ComicBook/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' (split from the ''Series/{{Buffy|The Vampire Slayer}}'' [[Buffy/SeasonSpecificTropes season-specific tropes]] page)

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A contribution I have made has been listed on [[Funny/TVTropes Funny/TV Tropes]] on at least three occasions:

* UsefulNotes/AspergerSyndrome: Does this really count as a trope? No, I suppose not. So why is this listed on my page?
* BerserkButton: See also [[FandomBerserkButton/{{bwburke94}} my own Fandom Berserk Button page]].
** Do '''not''' misspell the name of a major character in whatever work you are discussing. Especially on ThisVeryWiki. And if the spelling of the character's name is ''important to the work'', you have no excuse.

* GenreSavvy:
** So you think that aspies WillNotTellALie? Watch your stereotypes be proven wrong. I can be surprisingly deceptive at times.
** TVTropesHasRuinedMyLife, so I can see plot twists coming from a mile away... but I was like that even before then.

* RealNameAsAnAlias: My name is '''B'''rendan '''W'''. '''Burke'''. The 94 comes from the fact that the name "bwburke" was taken on my first email provider.

!!Tropes applying to my "Circle B" logo and its later variants:
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* LogoJoke: Several - most of which were recreated when I updated my logo later on.
** The original Circle B (September 2013) had only one variant, coloring the circle red and white (mimicking a Poké Ball) for ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' fansites.
** The second incarnation of the logo (February 2014) had three variants -- the Pokémon variant returned, along with new variants for Website/FanFictionDotNet [[note]]coloring the B green instead of red[[/note]] and the ''VideoGame/OutOfTheParkBaseball'' forums [[note]]green background instead of blue, and "stitches" cut out of the circle to resemble a baseball[[/note]].
** The third incarnation of the logo (September 2014) introduced three new variants, all involving changing the B to another letter: two for my [=bwburkeMusic=] and [=bwburkeGaming=] Website/YouTube channels [[note]]the B becomes an M and G respectively[[/note]], and one for my 20th birthday Website/{{Facebook}} profile picture [[note]]The B becomes the number 20 and the blue background becomes silver[[/note]]. In addition, the ''OOTP'' variant was redesigned [[note]]red "stitches" on the baseball[[/note]] to avoid confusion between my avatar and that of a forum administrator.
** The third-and-a-half incarnation (November 2014) [[note]](not numbered fully as it's a minor tweak rather than a full revamp)[[/note]] had one new variant, for Website/GallifreyBase [[note]]the B is in the ''Series/DoctorWho'' series 5 title font, and the already-TARDIS-blue background becomes the TARDIS[[/note]].
** The fourth incarnation introduced variants for (deep breath...) Wiki/TVTropes [[note]][[LampshadeHanging hanging a lampshade]] on the circle[[/note]], Website/YouTube again [[note]]adds the [=YouTube=] logo to the top left of the image[[/note]], Skype [[note]]the background becomes Skype's trademark blue color[[/note]], Website/FanFictionDotNet again [[note]]the blue background becomes the FFN logo[[/note]], [=SportsLogos.net=] [[note]]the B becomes the [[UsefulNotes/MajorLeagueBaseball Boston Red Sox]] logo, and the circle becomes the team's "Hanging Sox" logo[[/note]], Website/{{Twitter}} ''twice'' [[note]]the first changing the circle to the logo of ''Series/TheFlash2014'' for the season 1 finale of that series, the second changing the background to Twitter's light blue color similar to the Skype variant[[/note]], TabletopGame/{{chess}}.com [[note]]the circle becoming a king piece and the background becoming a chessboard, but colored blue and yellow instead of black and white[[/note]], and so on. All previous variants were also revamped for the new color scheme.
** The fourth-and-a-half incarnation (December 2015/January 2016) [[note]](another minor tweak, rolled out over a few weeks)[[/note]] has far too many variants to note, as this was the point I started doing logo variants for every site I use the logo on.

** "It's Chekhov with an H." [[labelnote:Context]]When someone forgets that ChekhovsGun, or occasionally another "Chekhov" trope, has an H in it. (Well, technically, two of them.)[[/labelnote]]
** "It's spelled [name] dammit" [[labelnote:Context]]When cleaning up common misspellings of character names. Normally exclusive to ''Series/{{Buffy|The Vampire Slayer}}'' and ''Series/{{Angel}}'' pages, but I've used it for other common misspellings on occasion.[[/labelnote]]

** "_______ are not _______." [[labelnote:Context]]MadLibsCatchphrase when cleaning up various things in places they don't belong. Usually "Creators are not tropes", but not always.[[/labelnote]]
** "Literature/{{Worm}} examples go in Literature." [[labelnote:Context]]Self-explanatory. ''Worm'' examples tend to show up in Web Original far too often, and I tend to clean those up.[[/labelnote]]
** Former catchphrases:
*** "Anti-natter-fication" [[labelnote:Context]]Whenever I remove outright {{natter}} from the wiki. Dropped after 2014.[[/labelnote]]
*** "Into every generation, ________ is born." [[labelnote:Context]]Snowclone from ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', with the blank usually being taken up by something negative about the page I'm fixing. Dropped in mid-2015, though I continued to use it on ''Buffy'' pages for a few months.[[/labelnote]]

!!Tropes applying to my other Internet hobbies:

* AscendedMeme: I named my Website/{{Wikia}} bot account "Quit In Protest Bot", as a reference to my infamous rant on Survivor ORG Wiki.

* I discovered Wiki/TVTropes in 2009, but did not create my account here until [[Administrivia/TheSituation The Google Incident]] in 2010, because I preferred to edit anonymously while I could.
** And no, my password isn't "[[ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish foa]][[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer my]]" anymore. [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial Nor has it ever been "hunter2".]]
* I clean up {{Sinkhole}}s regularly. I played a major role in cleaning up {{Understatement}} sinkholes, and later launched the effort to clean up BlatantLies and SarcasmMode as well.

** Do '''not''' misspell the name of a major character in whatever work you are discussing. Especially on ThisVeryWiki.
*** When discussing ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' proper, her name is Aeris, not Aerith. NO EXCEPTIONS. I've edit warred with my brother on TheOtherWiki over that one, but I leave it alone here unless it's a direct quotation per wiki policy. She's [[HelloInsertNameHere renameable]] anyways.
*** If the spelling of the character's name is ''important to the work'', you have no excuse.
* CampStraight: Which is where all the rumors about my sexuality came from.

* TooManyBabies: My family's a borderline example. I'm a quadruplet, but my mom didn't have any other kids.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Whenever I decide to go a while without shaving, the result is this. (Yes, this and OneOfTheKids at the same time.)

* I created (sort of) the [[Characters/{{Chuggaaconroy}} Characters/Chuggaaconroy]] page, though I didn't actually do much with it. The intent was to list character tropes for [[VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor Scrap]], [[VideoGame/{{Pikmin}} Steve the Trooper]], and his various ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' teams.

I'm a troper from Massachusetts. I'm also occasionally a fanfic writer and [[LetsPlay Let's Player]]... well, I would be, except for ScheduleSlip.

** Do ''not'' accuse me of being homosexual, racist, or a pedophile. EVER. [[note]]At one point, my brother spread rumors on ThisVeryWiki that I was in a relationship with a "young" boy from my high school. Not only was he trolling, but said boy was two years ''older'' than me.[[/note]]

* OneOfTheKids: I'm in college, and I occasionally talk to inanimate objects. I've exaggerated this trope sometimes to annoy my brother.
-->'''Me:''' Hi pillow. You're my friend.
-->'''My brother:''' SHUT UP FAG.
-->'''Me:''' [[BerserkButton I! AM!]] [[PunctuatedForEmphasis NOT! GAY!]]

!!Tropes applying to me as a gamer:
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* ComplacentGamingSyndrome: Averted with my ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' mains. My main is [[VideoGame/{{Mother 3}} Lucas]] in ''Brawl'' and [[VideoGame/EarthBound Ness]] in ''Melee''.

!!Tropes applying to my Let's Plays:
* OldShame: Any of my pre-2016 [=LPs=]. I'm surprised I was never Retsupuraed.

** "It's Chekhov with an H." [[labelnote:Context]]When someone forgets that ChekhovsGun, or occasionally another "Chekhov" trope, has an H in it. Exactly what it says on the tin.[[/labelnote]]

** And no, my password isn't "[[ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish foa]][[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer my]]" anymore. [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial Nor has it ever been "Brendan1994" or "hunter2".]]

* I edit TheOtherWiki. I have been blocked several times for trolling, usually on April 1. My main account was blocked years ago, so most of my edits nowadays are from one-shot throwaways.

[[caption-width-right:282:Oh look, I've finally updated my image.]]

I'm a troper just like you, from Massachusetts. I'm also occasionally a fanfic writer and [[LetsPlay Let's Player]]... well, I would be, except for ScheduleSlip.

My username is bwburke94 with AllLowercaseLetters, and is custom titled that way. I highly recommend you pay attention to that.

* BerserkButton: I actually have [[FandomBerserkButton/{{bwburke94}} my own Fandom Berserk Button page]].

** Do ''not'' accuse me of being homosexual, racist, or a pedophile. EVER. [[note]]At one point, my brother spread rumors on ThisVeryWiki that I was in a relationship with a "young" boy from my old school. Not only was he trolling, but said boy is two years ''older'' than me.[[/note]]
** Do ''not'' treat me like I'm still a little kid. EVER.

** "It's Chekhov with an H." [[labelnote:Context]]When someone forgets that ChekhovsGun has an H in it. Exactly what it says on the tin.[[/labelnote]]

*** "Into every generation, ________ is born." [[labelnote:Context]]Snowclone from ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', with the blank usually being taken up by something negative about the page I'm fixing. Dropped in mid-2015.[[/labelnote]]

** In early 2012, I created a new Wikipedia account. Its name, when [[SignificantAnagram anagrammed]], foreshadowed my main April Fools' prank of 2013.

** And no, my password isn't "[[ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish foa]][[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer my]]" anymore. [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial Nor has it ever been "Brendan1994" or "hunter2".]] [[WereStillRelevantDammit Or "Eckstein123".]]

* I'm a frequent page image creator, usually for work pages.

** On a darker note, I was the one who [[HistoryRepeats released Sarfa the Combusken]] in ''[[LetsPlay/TwitchPlaysPokemonOmegaRuby Omega Ruby]]''.

->''Hey, this is bwburke94!''

!!Fanfics I have written include:
* ''Orphan Crack'' (a collection of ''Series/OrphanBlack'' [[CrackFic crack]] oneshots; on hiatus until further notice)
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*** If the spelling of the character's name is ''important to the work'' (Near's real name in ''Manga/DeathNote'' to give one example), you have no excuse.

!!Tropes applying to my fanfics:
* CrackFic: ''[[Series/OrphanBlack Orphan Crack]]''. It's in the name.
* FollowTheLeader: ''Orphan Crack'' was inspired by a similar ''OB'' crack fic collection written by Smurfinablender.