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[[WMG: TV Tropes actually possesses a private military force: [[TheKnightsTemplar The Knights]] [[IncrediblyLamePun Troper]]]]

* The most obvious symptom that marks terminal Trope infection: NoFourthWall. A Fourth Wall is what keeps reality and fiction apart. We would tell you how the Fourth Wall functions. Remember the [[NeonGenesisEvangelion AT Field]]? An AT Field is what keeps humans apart. Destroying the AT Field will result in a MindScrew called {{Instrumentality}}, where all humans are merged together in an archetypal existence. A similar effect will happen if the Fourth Wall is finally destroyed, causing all continuities to merge into one single MegaCrossover. Why does the Tropes carry this risk? Answer: Tropes know no boundaries. They treat Real Life as just another domain bounded by NarrativeCausality for them to infect. Unlike Wikipedia (which is still bounded by deletions) and more like [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Spiral Power]], Tropes will simply expand to incorporate all media and break any walls in the way. Still not convinced? See [[RealLife This page]] for evidence.

* This one guess? [[TvTropeswillRuinYourLife This one is true]]. Although viruses like TV Tropes are better known as memes (not the MemeticMutation ones, but the concept RichardDawkins originally created to describe how mimetic pieces of culture and religion are spread). [[TvTropesWillRuinYourLife I can feel the virus infecting my brain and my soul now, its mimetically spreading succubi enticing me to trope trope trope.......]]

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 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 WikiWalk 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 eats your psyche. 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.

* Epileptic Trees. Epileptic Trees are mutated plants which were infected with special variations of the Trope virus. They emit [[BrownNote special electromagnetic and metaphysical waves]], which causes any viewer to [[DeathOfTheAuthor kill the author]] and create random plots in any media so more Epileptic Trees can grow on those media. They are found mostly abundant in [[{{Lost}} Lost Island]], showing that Lost Island is actually one of Tropes' most infected domains. [[NeonGenesisEvangelion Tokyo-3]] is also near another massive Epileptic tree forest.

* Like the above, [[FreudWasRight delusions that everything is about sex]]. This happens when the Trope Virus merges with the Freudian Id (the unconscious part of the mind that functions according to the Pleasure Principle, in other words, the part of the mind which likes sex). The effects include perceiving everything that is longer than it is wide and penetrates something as a penis.

* Other symptoms: Tabbed Browsing, [[PerverseSexualLust love for fictional characters]], [[BreakingTheFourthWall breaking the fourth wall]], [[MagnificentBastard Magnificent Bastardry]], [[NietzscheWannabe nihilism]], immorality, [[CompleteMonster complete immorality]], [[BlackAndGrayMorality black and gray morality]], [[BlueAndOrangeMorality blue and orange morality]], overuse of "{{Xanatos Gambit}}s", overuse of "{{Xanatos Gambit}}s" even though he isn't [[{{Gargoyles}} Xanatos]], overuse of "[[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]]" even though he is a total flop in chess, [[NayTheist hating God]], [[RuleOfCool believing in the "Awesome"]], [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome believing in the "Awesome" even though it isn't Awesome in normal standards]], [[GenreSavvy genre savviness]], [[GenreBlind genre blindness]], contractual genre blindness, using dangerous substances called "AppliedPhlebotinum", turning into a [[LargeHam large ham]], [[BreakTheCutie breaking cute characters (and sometimes ending up being the one broken)]], [[AllPsychologyIsFreudian believing in Sigmund Freud]], [[FreudWasRight believing in Sigmund Freud to the point of seeing phallic imagery everywhere]], [[FreudianExcuse believing in Sigmund Freud to the point of explaining how one became evil]], worshipping [[WMG/TimeLord Time Lords]], worshipping HaruhiSuzumiya, worshipping both Haruhi Suzumiya and the Time Lords, worshipping Time Lords and Haruhi Suzumiya along with [[NeonGenesisEvangelion Shinji Ikari]] and the entire setting of {{Warhammer 40000}}, most especially Warhammer 40000 (with [[ChainsawGood Chainswords]], I mind you), [[DeathOfTheAuthor killing the author]], [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking arson, murder, and jaywalking]]. There are many more, countless to be exact, but mind you, jaywalking is always the last symptom. See the [[{{Main/Tropes}} Main Tropes Index]] for all the effects (and strains) of the virus.

The Trope Virus is considered by many to be an incurable and highly-contagious disease, and only a full [[{{Warhammer 40000}} Exterminatus]] will destroy the virus, along with the rest of the world. However, [[TropesAreNotBad being infected by the Trope Virus isn't always bad]]. With the right infections and enough skill, [[TVTropesWillEnhanceYourLife the virus will actually enhance your life]] and [[CursedWithAwesome curse you with awesome]]. Also, the TroperTales page shows how these surviving tropers dealt with the Apocalypse.

He commonly views ThatTroper and ThisTroper in media (see BonusFeatureFailure for possibly the MostTriumphantExample), this just takes that to the obvious conclusion.

Hey, [[KnightTemplar we have a trope for this]], so why not? For the full picture, what if you took some {{Warhammer 40000}} Space Marines, then [[BeyondTheImpossible removed every laws of physics]] except for the RuleOfCool, infused them with every sci - fi and DarkerAndEdgier tropes known to the entire Omniverse as we know it, fed with [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs a cocktail of every drug known to man]] and genuine lunar dust, stuck in a blender with {{Alien}}, {{Mechwarrior}}, {{Starship Troopers}}, {{Star Wars}}, etc., trained with an extreme form of TheSpartanWay, [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife which only one in every ''million'' aspirants survive]] (while in the original 40k it's just one in every hundred), submitted to even more genetic augmentation which makes them insanely superhuman, [[TrainingFromHell given years of insanely dangerous training]], [[ChurchMilitant religious indoctrination]] and [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife combined knowledge of tropery]] [[KnightTemplar to turn them into utterly fearless, pitiless, merciless fanatics]], [[AncestralWeapon equipped with gigantic millenia-old suits of]] PoweredArmour forged from genuine AppliedPhlebotinum which are [[BlingOfWar ornately covered in skulls, parchment strips affirming their purity and dedication]], [[SoGoodWeMentionedItTwice skulls]], [[BlingOfWar gold bling in the form of eagles and]] [[RuleOfThree skulls]], and [[RunningGag skulls]], and skulls, given [[MoreDakka fully-automatic]] {{BFG}}s [[HandCannon for ''pistols'']], [[ItsRainingMen deployed into combat in pods that come straight down from orbit ''without slowing'']], and spend their days [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu fighting]] [[HordeofAlienLocusts countless]] [[GoMadFromTheRevelation insanity]]-[[MindRape inducing]] [[BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu unkillable]] [[NaughtyTentacles tentacled]] {{Eldritch Abomination}}s ([[ZergRush which apparently just keeps going on, and on, and on]]) gigantic flaming-head HornyDevils, evil [[SuzumiyaHaruhi aliens, espers, and time travelers]], etc. and all of this turned up to eleventy billion (and then set on fire)? [[RuleOfThree Thrice]]. With [[ChainsawGood chainsaws]].

There is another reason why TVTropesWillRuinYourLife. It is specifically designed to trap [[ChekovsGun potential writers, actors, designers, and other industry professionals of tomorrow]]. Ha! I'm going to go and cry now.

* There's only one solution then. Gather up all the Tropers into one nation, the Tropics of TV. Then, our social lives will BE TVTropes, and we can [[{{Darwinist}} use our superior genes]] to create a race of super tropers that will defend the world from vampires, monsters, aliens, espers, evil time travellers and other bad guys. After that, we take their stuff, [[MegaManning their powers]] and their knowledge to rule the world! [[EvilLaugh HA]] [[MadScientist HA]] [[TheyCalledMeMad HA]]!

* [[{{@/That897Guy}}This Troper]] is an aspiring cartoonist. I have lots of original characters I draw, and I often come up with writing ideas that my best friend/fellow writer tells me are awesome when I have almost no idea what makes them awesome. Currently writing [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg a graphic novel series and a comic book]] in the same continuity.

* This Troper is in the process of modeling characters and items for future video games. My profession is going to be video game artist.

* This Troper is in the process of modeling characters and items for furure video games. My profession is going to be video game artist.

* FUTURE GAME DESIGNERSS FTW!

* For the ordinary average joe, [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife a ruined life]]. When the ordinary man infects himself with the Trope virus, he ceases to become ordinary. At first, the ordinary man cannot see fiction in the usual way before. Then he cannot see Real Life in the usual way before. This is actually the Virus corrupting the person's soul. His perception is slowly corrupted, causing his social, and later physical, life to be ruined... before his own eyes.
* Epileptic Trees. Epileptic Trees are mutated plants which were infected with special variations of the Trope virus. They emit special electromagnetic waves, which causes any viewer to [[DeathOfTheAuthor kill the author]] and create random plots in any media so more Epileptic Trees can grow on those media. They are found mostly abundant in [[{{Lost}} Lost Island]], showing that Lost Island is actually one of TV Tropes' most infected domains. [[NeonGenesisEvangelion Tokyo-3]] is also near another massive Epileptic tree forest.
* [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic Delusions of random symbolism]], most specifically, delusions that [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory everyone is actually Jesus and everywhere is Purgatory]]. When the Trope virus gets into your neurons, it first struggles against the Religion viruses (sorry for the RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement), and eventually, the Trope virus merges with the dominant Christianity strain. The eventual effect? Perceiving Jesus everywhere. The Christianity Strain might make you only see a single Jesus, but when the Christianity Strain combines with the Trope Virus, it destroys the psyche so much that the poor victim ends up seeing Jesuses everywhere.

* The most obvious symptom that marks terminal Trope infection: NoFourthWall. A Fourth Wall is what keeps reality and fiction apart. We would tell you how the Fourth Wall functions. Remember the [[NeonGenesisEvangelion AT Field]]? An AT Field is what keeps humans apart. Destroying the AT Field will result in a MindScrew called {{Instrumentality}}, where all humans are merged together in an archetypal existence. A similar effect will happen if the Fourth Wall is finally destroyed, causing all continuities to merge into one single MegaCrossover. Why does the Tropes carry this risk? Answer: Tropes know no boundaries. They treat Real Life as just another domain for them to infect. Unlike Wikipedia (which is still bounded by deletions) and more like [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Spiral Power]], Tropes will simply expand to incorporate all media and break any walls in the way. Still not convinced? See [[RealLife This page]] for evidence]].
* Other symptoms: Tabbed Browsing, [[PerverseSexualLust love for fictional characters]], [[BreakingTheFourthWall breaking the fourth wall]], [[MagnificentBastard Magnificent Bastardry]], [[NietzscheWannabe nihilism]], immorality, [[CompleteMonster complete immorality]], [[BlackAndGrayMorality black and gray morality]], [[BlueAndOrangeMorality blue and orange morality]], overuse of "{{Xanatos Gambit}}s", overuse of "{{Xanatos Gambit}}s" even though he isn't [[{{Gargoyles}} Xanatos]], overuse of "[[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]]" even though he is a total flop in chess, [[NayTheist hating God]], [[RuleOfCool believing in the "Awesome"]], [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome believing in the "Awesome" even though it isn't Awesome in normal standards]], [[GenreSavvy genre savviness]], [[GenreBlind genre blindness]], contractual genre blindness, using dangerous substances called "AppliedPhlebotinum", turning into a [[LargeHam large ham]], [[BreakTheCutie breaking cute characters (and sometimes ending up being the one broken)]], [[AllPsychologyIsFreudian believing in Sigmund Freud]], [[FreudWasRight believing in Sigmund Freud to the point of seeing phallic imagery everywhere]], [[FreudianExcuse believing in Sigmund Freud to the point of explaining how one became evil]], worshipping [[WMG/TimeLord Time Lords]], worshipping Haruhi Suzumiya, worshipping both Haruhi Suzumiya and the Time Lords, worshipping Time Lords and Haruhi Suzumiya along with [[NeonGenesisEvangelion Shinji Ikari]] and the entire setting of {{Warhammer 40000}}, most especially Warhammer 40000 (with [[ChainsawGood Chainswords]], I mind you), [[DeathOfTheAuthor killing the author]], [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking arson, murder, and jaywalking]]. There are many more, countless to be exact, but mind you, jaywalking is always the last symptom. See the [[{{Main/Tropes}} Main Tropes Index]] for all the effects (and strains) of the virus.

The Trope Virus is considered by many to be an incurable and highly-contagious disease, and only a full [[{{Warhammer 40000}} Exterminatus]] will destroy the virus, along with the rest of the world. However, [[TropesAreNotBad being infected by the Trope Virus isn't always bad]]. With the right infections and enough skill, [[TVTropesWillEnhanceYourLife the virus will actually enhance your life]]. Also, the TroperTales page shows how these surviving tropers dealt with the Apocalypse.

It is specifically made to keep Tropers looking for funny ads so they will be forced to turn off their [=AdBlock=].

I mean what better way to have people not leave their computers besides [[{{Tvtropeswillruinyourlife}} this very website]].

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* ED-tan begs to differ. She says she was the MagnificentBastard of the trio. OrSoIHeard.