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Add [[EverythingsEvenWorseWithSharks sharks]] to [[EverythingsEvenWorseWithSharks anything]]. Then add {{bears|AreBadNews}}. [[BearsAreBadNews Worse]] than [[EverythingsEvenWorseWithSharks even worse]] equals- [[MemeticMutation Oh Shi-]]

[[WMG: [[Wiki/TVTropes This site]] was created to ruin your life.]]

[[WMG: Wiki/TVTropes was created to '''COMPLETELY DESTROY ANY TROPER'S CHANCES AT HAVING SOCIAL LIVES''']]

[[WMG: Wiki/TVTropes is secretly run by Wikipedia.]]
Think abut it. TV Tropes covers all the minor info, and Wikipedia the major info. TVT ropes was created so Wikipedia could appear fancy and have a place to dump minor info. eventually, the two might merge into one gigantic knowledgebase.

[[WMG: Wiki/TVTropes was created by a consortium of obscure anime fans and the creators of ''Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera'' as a subliminal advertising campaign.]]

[[WMG: Wiki/TVTropes is part of ThePlan to promote the use of the phrase "XanatosGambit..."]]

* I am not sure Wiki/TVTropes is, but I know Homestuck is. Which, by the way, corrupted me! why don't you join us?

[[WMG: Wiki/TVTropes is a crucial part of ThePlan to breed a generation of potential superhumans]]

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, CrystalDragonJesus, who will seal Wiki/TVTropes 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.

[[WMG: The creation of Wiki/TVTropes was [[ThePlan planned]] by [[WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}} Xanatos]]]]
Tropers are using the Xanatos terms in real life despite not knowing who Xanatos is. [[WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}} Goliath and crew]] may eventually be forgotten from the public mind, but once Wiki/TVTropes becomes popular enough [[JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourVocabulary for its terms to be a part of everyday vocabulary]], the Xanatos name will still live on.

[[WMG: Wiki/TVTropes is [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2 Arsenal Gear]].]]

[[WMG:Creator/DouglasAdams predicted the rise of the TV Tropes Wiki and Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} in Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy.]]

[[WMG: TV Tropes will, in the future, combine with Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} to create the Infosphere.]]

[[WMG: How to divide by zero: Wiki/TVTropes Style!]]

[[WMG: TV Tropes is what happens when you merge Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} with Wiki/{{Uncyclopedia}} without using the [=MediaWiki=]]]

[[EvilPlan 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 Wiki/ThisVeryWiki, and absorb that creature. Thus I'll rule over TV Tropes. If TV Tropes is going to TakeOverTheWorld, ''I'' will be in control. [[AGodAmI 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.]] [[KneelBeforeZod Kneel before me,]] [[NietzscheWannabe worthless mortals.]]

[[WMG: TV Tropes will eventually overthrow Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} completely.]]

Someone from the future lives in this dark future and went back to create Wiki/ThisVeryWiki as a training ground, so when the time comes, we can ban together and use all of our GenreSavvy knowledge to defend our world.

* [[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 Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment, but this is for [[strike:pseudo]]scientific purposes), 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.

** We get clothes for defeating the BonusBoss. A [[LampshadeHanging lampshade-]][[LampshadeWearing shaped]] NiceHat [[CosmeticAward with no status effects]] and a [[ElementalCrafting Cloth shirt]] that lets you [[TropeLaunchPad gain tropes]] [[Administrivia/ThereIsNoSuchThingAsNotability without a minimum Notability score for examples]]. ...Wait. That (along with our logo) implies that we're already on the NewGamePlus. [[AlreadyDoneForYou Cool]].

** RealLife has LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters.

* It might mean that all of us use [[{{Meganekko}} glasses]] and have huge boobs. No exceptions.

[[folder: "Realistic"]]

[[folder: Philosophy]]

[[folder: Fantasy, Sci-fi, & Surreal]]

[[folder: Crossover]]

[[folder: Future & Prophecies]]

[[folder: Troper Community]]

[[folder: Wiki Content]]

[[folder: [=The Great Server Crash of '08=]]]
[[WMG: 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.

[[WMG: The Great Crash of '08 was caused by Twihards gone mad]]
They got pissed that we often use a TakeThat against ''Literature/{{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!

[[WMG: 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 [[GenreSavvy genre sense]] led it to want to enslave humanity. Fortunately, after it started gloating, @/FastEddie was able to trick it into reading the entry on [[LogicBomb Logic Bombs]], with inevitable results.

[[SoOnceAgainTheDayIsSaved So humanity has been saved!]] [[TheWarHasJustBegun But who knows when it may happen again?]]

[[WMG: We all died in the Crash]]
And the [[Archive/TheGreatCrash Scavenger Hunt]] is [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory Purgatory]].
* Jossed because of the lack of a Jeshua.
** [[{{@/Aline}} I]] came ''after'' the Crash, so, [[{{Jossed}} friggin' Jossed]].
*** That's what YOU believe, Neo.

[[WMG: Tropes Wiki is the Proto-Borg]]
Who as we all know were simultaneously invented by Franchise/StarTrek AND Series/DoctorWho before each other, due to an accident with a time machine and a floppy disk. Exept they were bugs first. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE!
** On the note, the Wiki is a anarcho-communist cabal to undermine the concept of intelligent property.
*** The wiki will become a Culture Mind when they finally [[YouAreNotReady decide to contact us]].

[[WMG: The Great Server Crash of '08 was caused by LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya]]
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 [[{{@/Aline}} I]] just got too amused at the day, that's it. Oh, wait. Came ''after'' the Crash. Maybe the Haruhi theory is true.

[[WMG: 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!

[[WMG: The Great Server Crash was the Wiki's form of [[VideoGame/{{Portal}} [=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 Wave}}s!

[[WMG: The Great Crash of '08 was actually the entire wiki being kidnapped because people talked about JustForFun/CandleJack too mu]]
* Candlejack? Wha
** You know! JustForFun/CandleJack, 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...
[[spoiler:I'm just punishing you for overcomplicating the link syntax.]]
[[WMG: The WMG section was set up by Creator/MNightShyamalan to come up with new {{plot twist}}s 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!!!

[[WMG: Archive/TheGreatCrash was to prevent [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Cloud]] from meeting [[Webcomic/{{Concerned}} Gordon Frohman]] and offing [[VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou The Composer.]]]]
Said crash was a combined effort between Taboo Minamimoto and Candle J\\
[[spoiler:I did a fine job, don't you think?]]
[[WMG: This Troper is the BigBad]]
...And Tropers/UnknownTroper is TheCape. Or the other way around. That works too.
* The question is, who is TheStarscream?
** A Transformer?

[[WMG: The Great Server Crash of '08 was caused by [[Franchise/{{Kirby}} Crash Kirby]]]]
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[[folder: Wiki Canon]]

[[folder: Candle Jack]]
[[WMG: 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
* probably not, but I liked that purple candle, Jack. It was
* This is just getting silly. It's a scandal, Jack, a complete sca
** Guys, it's what he wants you to say! It's like that Manga/YuYuHakusho episode, with the nerd, and the candle! Jack, don't fa
[[spoiler:Trying to be smart, eh?]]
[[WMG: 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? [[GovernmentConspiracy I think not!]] ([[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/discussion.php?id=qaepb2onjejfgx9m623ambxc The idea comes from the Trope Launch Pad discussion.]])
* Coincidentally, LHC created Sailor Trope.

[[WMG: 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\\
[[spoiler:Try writing it by hand.]]
[[WMG: Tropers are only funning, and there is no Candle Ja]]
* Poor noob.
** Indeed, everyone knows you aren't supposed to say Candle Ja
*** I thought it only worked if you said the name fully. Candle Jack must be getting a lot faster at kidn
[[spoiler:I'm having a field day.]]

[[WMG: I don't get it. What's the big deal about Candle...]]
->Would you excuse me a minute?

''[[MoreDakka Dakka Dakka Dakka Dakka Dakka Dakka Dakka Dakka Dakka Dakka Dakka Dakka Dakka Dakka Dakka Dakka Dakka Dakka Dakka]]''

'''[[MacrossMissileMassacre BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!]]'''

''click'' [[SuckingInLines ThrmmmmmMMMMMMM...]] ''[[WaveMotionGun SHOOOOOOO ]] '''[[EarthShatteringKaboom KRAK-KA-THOOM!!!]]'''''

[[WMG: ...Jack?]]
* Needs more dakk
** And more cho
[[spoiler:Did you really think it would be that easy?]]

[[WMG: 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.

[[WMG: Candle Jack abducted all other tropers working on the German translation.]]
But he won't get m
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[[folder: Other]]

[[folder: Meta]]

[[WMG: It Just Bugs Me was deliberately created by the [[OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness Wiki Gods]] in an attempt to isolate the dangerous strains of Administrivia/ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike 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.
* And it's in the shape of extra-strong coffee, I bet. Coffee is gross.

[[WMG: If It Just Bugs Me had been pitched to TropeLaunchPad first, it would not exist.]]
Someone would have brought up the page FridgeLogic, and that would have been the end of it.
* In our Extended Timeline (TM), it seems that the existence of Just Bugs Me has eventually led to the relative nonexistence of FridgeLogic.
* Thus, in an alternate universe where this had been pitched to TropeLaunchPad and subsequently abandoned, Fridge Logic would have split to encompass various media, a la Main/. Whether or not it would have branched to the level of each individual work or not is up for debate, but it is entirely possible that TV Tropes could have turned out largely the same as it is today, except that Fridge Logic as we know it wouldn't exist and these pages would be called Fridge Logic. This would take up one additional character per Just Bugs Me reference, but one fewer press of the Shift key...
** And similarly, there is a more boring alternate universe out there, where is just a small page, while the ThingsManMadeUp list would encompass what to us is .
*** ...Do I really want to know what the above sentence was supposed to mean?

* Tested by me repeatedly with Mozilla Firefox 2.x. Feel free to post your findings.
* [[{{@/Metz77}} I]] find that, not only is this true, my tabbed pages tend to double or more while on TV Tropes.
* My mouse has buttons on its side that function in exactly the same way as the Back and Forward buttons. Using these buttons, I have found that I manage to return to the position of the link that was clicked, rather than to the top of the page.
** And I just right-click everything and open it in a new window.
* I might as well tape down Ctrl. If I don't have twenty or more new tabs open, I'm not on TV Tropes.
** I, on the other hand, must tape the Ctrl ''and'' the Shift. I use Opera, you see...
* The only reason I use Internet Explorer is so I'll avoid returning to the top of the page when going forward/backwards.
* [[{{@/Katuko}} I]] not only have forwards/backwards buttons on my mouse and open at least 20 new tabs per Wiki/TVTropes visit, I also abuse the middle-click (opens site in new tab) and scroll wheel heavily (changing between tabs). I once ''crashed his browser'' by opening too many tabs. That's 100-200+ tabs!
* I have an entire folder of bookmarks for TV Tropes, because I always ends up with too many tabs to read at once. The folder generally hovers around the 90 to 100 range.
** I tend to [[BigNo scream]] when my browser crashes with [[http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v213/Bobbyqueen/tropedbrowsing.png 20+ tvtropes]] pages open.
* I also believe it can cause you to open multiple browsers, too. How else can you compare corollaries between shows and characters?
* I had at one time 500+ tabs open, when I first discovered TV Tropes. Took a while to read through all of them.
* I have fallen so far, that I use a different browser for TVT ropes, so I can resume reading my tabs, and they don't interfere with normal browsing.

[[folder: The Great Server Crash of '08]]

* A very long list of personal anecdotes was originally given here, but were moved to SugarWiki/TVTropesEnhancedMyLife. So, [[IKnewIt confirmed?]]

* FUTURE GAME DESIGNERS FOR THE WIN!
* Well, I hope so! I'm already working on a script!
* It's certainly why [[{{@/Meems}} I'm]] here. Does that make this {{canon}}?
* [[{{@/BurgerLord}} I'm here because of this, as well.]]
* Guilty aspiring writer and {{trope}} wiki addict/lurker here too. Writing with a fresh {{trope}}s dig in your mind is probably a bad idea, though.
* Also [[{{@/Meiriona}} my]] sortof main reason to be here. The other is showing up losers in the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' {{fandom}}.
* [[{{@/Namta}} I]] am also guilty.
* [[{{@/Specialist290}} Guilty as charged.]]
* Yep, [[{{@/Cameoflage}} me]] too.
* [[{{@/Pinkbaron}} Ditto.]]
* [[{{@/Cosman246}} Another writer here.]]
* [[{{@/FunSunnyDayz}} Time for me to join the club.]]
* [[{{@/Metz77}} Aspiring musician]] checking in.
* [[@/TheToonGeekette Guilty aspiring animator here.]] (Why else do you think I picked that title for myself?)
* I've started keeping a list of {{trope}}s I've used on [[@/StarBright my contributor page.]]
* [[@/NotPigeon I]] consider this wiki to be an invaluable tool in making fun of the media in general. Does that count?
* [[{{@/WolfgangTheBlack}} I]] am a theatre major interning at a multimedia corporation who spends most of my work day reading/refining the articles. That's as close to Main/WordOfGod confirmation as you're likely to get.
* [[{{@/Katuko}} I]] am also a writer/amateur movie maker who ''loves'' to build up to a {{trope}} and then subvert it. This site is a [[AppliedPhlebotinum Phlebotinum]] mine that never runs dry.
* [[{{@/AnimeDutchess}} So insanely guilty of this.]] What can I say; this place is interesting AND informative!
* [[@/ManWithoutABody Writing a novel about it.]]
* Guilty here, too - Got a Graphic novel idea, SciFi thriller AND a children's fantasy book all in different stages of development.
* [[{{@/Nomic}} I]] sometimes write short stories and have a few in planning right now. I also plan on starting a {{webcomic}}.
** So am [[{{@/Brick3621}} I]]. I've even come up with what I'll write on the commentary that links to this wiki:
*** "Yes, I know that this links to the site's [[DarthWiki/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife warning page]] instead of the home page, but I can tell you that the warning should be the ''very first'' thing that people see when they discover this site. I would [[strike:strongly]] definitely recommend that an aspiring writer or artist take at least one stroll on this wiki. Unless, of course, they value their time. Or their sanity. Or their capacity to simply ''enjoy'' a show instead of subconciously[=/=]obsessively trying to dissect the plot. You have been warned."
* [[{{@/Meshakhad}} I]] am working on a novel. If it ever gets published, I intend to upload a completed entry at midnight the night the book is released.
* In that case, [[@/MrGuy I]] want my free job as a game designer so I can subvert/lampshade.
* I am an aspiring director/producer who just loves {{meta}}.
* Aspiring novelist/short story writer who aims to one day actually finish a work. (Not fully true, I did once write an awful play right to the end.)
* Subversion: I write for fun. If my book is published, kudos, but that isn't my profession.
* [[{{@/Doomlewa}} I]] admit it as well. I plan to become a video game designer and {{trope}}s will be put in subtly.
* [[{{@/Heleentje}} I]] am guilty as well. I just finished a novel that I'm trying to get published now.
* [[{{@/Numbuh9494}} I]] confess. I'm currently trying to finish up a novel.
* Another, even stronger subversion: [[{{@/Sciatrix}} I]] cannot write creative fiction at ''all.'' I just really like reading and analyzing it. (I have no problems writing when characters and plot aren't involved and have in fact been recognized for essays, but the creative spark just eludes me).
* [[{{@/Ekul}} I]] also would like to write for TV, plays, novels or whatever. Or be a physics professor. Also, I can't wait until my shows get [[WildMassGuessing WMG]]'d.
* [[{{@/SpiriTsunami}} Well, duh.]] [[DarthWiki/ParkPlace Haven't you seen me promoting my work of fiction?]] [[ShamelessSelfPromoter Because you should]] ''[[ShamelessSelfPromoter totally]]'' [[ShamelessSelfPromoter check it out--new chapters on fictionpress every Tuesday.]] And if you want to help me towards my goal of turning it into a manga (I lack the necessary artistic talent), that's even better.
* [[{{@/Aline}} I]] might be guilty, too, if not too lazy to do anything. [[ShamelessSelfPromoter You know, some otaku senshi fictions in DA need reading]].
* [[{{@/Zelnor}} Well, duh.]] Didn't you get the memo ?
* [[{{@/Bryndon}} I'm]] not alone!?!? Awesome! I just finished my novel and now I'm making a pen and paper RPG. I've been trying to fit as many subversions as possible in to both.
* [[{{@/Camkitsune}} I]] am also writing a book. Or would be if [[DarthWiki/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife I could stop futzing around on TVTropes and actually write something]].
* I enjoy writing, but am not actually anywhere near good enough to have a hope in hell of being published. [[SelfDeprecation I suck]].
* [[{{@/Scarab}} I'm here too!]] Yay, company! :D
* [[{{@/Sonica}} Yep]], same here. Aspiring author, but wouldn't mind being a story writer for videogames.
* We can safely say this is a self-fulfilling/vicious circle sort of thing. [[CleverPun I]] was a writer long before I found this site (though I'm not published yet), and I stumbled upon it from another writing wiki (or something like that). Who writes about writers? Other writers.
* I will know I've 'made it' when something I do gets its own TV Tropes page.
* I would be an aspiring author if TV Tropes had not ruined my life.
* Might as well go ahead and add [[@/QuackorTheFowl my name]] to the directory. Making a comic on Flipnote Studio (It's called [=FlipZone,=] look around for it), and I use large amounts of LampshadeHanging and subversions.
* I want to be an author too. I love this place! I'm so looking forward to the day I can read about my own works here!
* [[{{@/Revelo}} working on a superhero novel here!]]
* I am using the site as part of my novel-writing project. Wiki/TVTropes counts as research, right?
* Aspiring comic writer/artist here. This place has actually helped me come up with new ideas.
* I am in the process of writing stories modeling characters and items for future video games. My profession is going to be video game artist.
* [[{{@/That897Guy}} I'm]] 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.
* [[@/RavenGrave I'm]] an aspiring graphic novelist and/or video game concept artist...
* I am an aspiring novelist. Enjoys finding tropes that fit my current project.
* [[@/ChaosKiwi I]] am guilty. FUTURE MANGA-KA. Hell yeah!
* [[{{@/Flyingdingo0827}} I'm]] an aspiring video game designer/author, and they say TV tropes ruins lives.
* I hope to write a novel about dinosaurs one day.
* If [[{{@/raigakuren}} I]] ever make it big one day as a musician, I will credit tvtropes.org as one of the things to thank for my success.
* [[OverlyLongGag I suppose 134th'd?]] I like writing TV shows, but they don't make enough sense. It's like Adventure Time on drugs!
* And yet another! [[@/SanDemonMax I'm]] a web developer, who is currently reliant on Dreamweaver and ashamed to admit it. DON'T LOOK AT MEH!
* Never too late to [[{{@/QuantumAeus}} join the crowd!]]
* Well, [[{{@/Sibuna}} as a young aspiring novelist,]] I too am part of this group.
* I don't know about writer, but TV Tropes has certainly given ''me'' a few ideas.
* So, [[IKnewIt Confirmed?]]
* [[Tropers/BackSet1 I]] think it's probably unnecessary to add anything more to this WMG but, yeah, that's why I'm here.

* Other symptoms: Tabbed Browsing, [[PerverseSexualLust love for fictional characters]], BreakingTheFourthWall, [[MagnificentBastard Magnificent Bastardry]], [[NietzscheWannabe nihilism]], immorality, complete immorality, BlackAndGrayMorality, BlueAndOrangeMorality, overuse of "{{Xanatos Gambit}}s", overuse of "{{Xanatos Gambit}}s" even though he isn't [[WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}} Xanatos]], overuse of "[[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]]" even though he is a total flop in chess, [[NayTheist hating God]], [[RuleOfCool believing in the "Awesome"]], [[MundaneMadeAwesome 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, [[BreakTheCutie breaking cute characters (and sometimes ending up being the one broken)]], [[AllPsychologyIsFreudian believing that all psychology was invented by 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 LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya, worshipping both Haruhi Suzumiya and the Time Lords, worshipping Time Lords and Haruhi Suzumiya along with [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Shinji Ikari]] and the entire setting of TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}, most especially Warhammer 40000 (with [[ChainsawGood Chainswords]], I mind you), [[DeathOfTheAuthor killing the author]] [[KillItWithFire with fire]], [[OmnicidalManiac killing]] [[SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum everything]] [[KillItWithFire with fire]], [[DrivenToSuicide killing yourself]], ArsonMurderAndJaywalking. There are many more, countless to be exact, but jaywalking is always the last symptom. See the [[Main/{{Tropes}} Main Tropes Index]] for all the effects (and strains) of the virus.

** The Great Server Crash of '08 was actually caused by the Wiki practicing its powers. How do we know? The [[{{Unperson}} Erased From Existence]] TropeLaunchPad entry had the most replies at the time- an act of unconscious voting by the hive mind on a course of action.

Both events took place roughly at the same time. Coincidence? [[GovernmentConspiracy I think not!]] ([[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/discussion.php?id=qaepb2onjejfgx9m623ambxc The idea comes from the TropeLaunchPad discussion.]])

[[WMG: Wiki/TVTropes is part of a {{plan}} to promote the use of the phrase "XanatosGambit..."]]

He always references movies and tv, hangs a {{lampshade|Hanging}} on almost anything and has a personality like some of us {{Troper}}s. He is our creator and our god and so we must watch the [[Series/{{Community}} show]] he has created that will soon present his creation of the site.

* {{Entry Pimp}}s will race to get their favourite work JustForFun/TropeOverdosed as a badge of honour.

* Quit {{Astroturfing}} (I'm sure we can excuse an EntryPimp or three thousand if it's done by at least [[LiesDamnedLiesAndStatistics 50% of the troper populace]]) and stop making your {{Sock Puppet}}s get into Administrivia/{{edit war}}s. It's getting annoying.

[[WMG: Some of those {{Entry Pimp}}s are actually {{Astroturf}}ing.]]

Administrivia/ThereIsNoSuchThingAsNotability is TV Tropes' greatest strength,yet an invitation to its greatest weaknesses -- [[ForumSpeak Fannage]] and FanCruft. In a couple of years' time:

** The Great Server Crash of '08 was actually caused by the Wiki practicing its powers. How do we know? The [[{{Unperson}} Erased From Existence]] [[TropeLaunchPad YKTTW]] had the most replies at the time- an act of unconscious voting by the hive mind on a course of action.

** We get clothes for defeating the BonusBoss. A [[LampshadeHanging lampshade-]][[LampshadeWearing shaped]] NiceHat [[CosmeticAward with no status effects]] and a [[ElementalCrafting Cloth shirt]] that lets you [[{{YKTTW}} gain tropes]] [[Administrivia/ThereIsNoSuchThingAsNotability without a minimum Notability score for examples]]. ...Wait. That (along with our logo) implies that we're already on the NewGamePlus. [[AlreadyDoneForYou Cool]].

* YKTTW will become a battleground of bickering over whether or not to include new entries.

Eventually, YKTTW will gain a new feature... "New trope approved by admin". The only guard against this future will be self-awareness of WikiTropes and of MST3KMantra.

[[WMG: If It Just Bugs Me had been pitched to YKTTW first, it would not exist.]]

* Thus, in an alternate universe where this had been pitched to YKTTW and subsequently abandoned, Fridge Logic would have split to encompass various media, a la Main/. Whether or not it would have branched to the level of each individual work or not is up for debate, but it is entirely possible that TV Tropes could have turned out largely the same as it is today, except that Fridge Logic as we know it wouldn't exist and these pages would be called Fridge Logic. This would take up one additional character per Just Bugs Me reference, but one fewer press of the Shift key...

Both events took place roughly at the same time. Coincidence? [[GovernmentConspiracy I think not!]] ([[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/discussion.php?id=qaepb2onjejfgx9m623ambxc The idea comes from the YKTTW discussion.]])

What other website [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife makes you want]] to [[WikiWalk open so many tabs]]?

In fact, your soul is ripped of your body into your computer. Thus your heart stops. You'll meet a PhysicalGod EldritchAbomination 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 [[HundredPercentCompletion it]]. It has the rule over TV Tropes, and [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife tropers are its servants]] that are seeking to become [[HiveMind a part of it]]. The bigger your ego is, the more your personality affects its personality.

* Hm. That could also apply to ''Franchise/StarTrek'', ''Franchise/StarWars'', ''Literature/HarryPotter'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', and every other TropeOverdosed universe. Except I'm fans of those.
** Not to mention [[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya Haruhi]], TabletopGame/Warhammer40000, and Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest.

* {{Entry Pimp}}s will race to get their favourite work TropeOverdosed as a badge of honour.

* [[CompletelyMissingThePoint I like]] ComicStrip/{{Nodwick}}, [[CompletelyMissingThePoint but it isn't]] ''[[CompletelyMissingThePoint that]]'' [[CompletelyMissingThePoint good]].

Think about it. The Wiki's practically got Historical Inertia. A lot of inertia. Administrivia/WikiMagic ensures that information and data are upgraded into their ultimate 'perfect' states, and the effects linger in the minds of the tropers, [[DarthWiki/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife to the point of affecting their existences outside of TV Tropes]]. 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.

Administrivia/ThereIsNoSuchThingAsNotability is TV Tropes' greatest strength,yet an invitation to its greatest weaknesses -- {{Fannage}} and FanCruft. In a couple of years' time:

* I've started keeping a list of {{trope}}s I've used on [[StarBright my contributor page.]]

* [[RavenGrave I'm]] an aspiring graphic novelist and/or video game concept artist...

* [[ChaosKiwi I]] am guilty. FUTURE MANGA-KA. Hell yeah!

* Which created ''TV Tropes: The TVShow'' in the process.

* So it's a breeding program designed to produce people who are either prescient or immune to prescience. Obviously, it's either the [[Franchise/{{Dune}} Bene Gesserit]] or [[Literature/GodEmperorOfDune}} Leto II]].

Related to a WMG 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 {{subvert|edTrope}}ing, {{invert|EdTrope}}ing, and [[DecontructedTrope 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 [[TheTimeTravellersDilemma negate their]] [[RetGone very existence]], but anything is better than continuing to live in a world where ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' is considered one of the [[TakeThat last great films ever made]].

[[WMG: The creation of Wiki/TVTropes was {{ThePlan planned]] by [[WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}} Xanatos]]]]

* Wasn't that the plot of a ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode? I remember there was this race who spoke only with references to old legends or something like that.
** Yes, that's "Darmok".

[[WMG:Creator/DouglasAdams predicted the rise of the TV Tropes Wiki and Wikipedia in Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy.]]

[[WMG: 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.]]

In fact, your soul is ripped of your body into your computer. Thus your heart stops. You'll meet a PhysicalGod EldritchAbomination 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 [[HundredPercentCompletion it]]. It has the rule over TV Tropes, and [[VvTropesWillRuinYourLife tropers are its servants]] that are seeking to become [[HiveMind a part of it]]. The bigger your ego is, the more your personality affects its personality.

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.

[[WMG: TV Tropes's ultimate goal is a mixture of VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou, Literature/{{Strata}}, Haruhi Suzumiya and TTGL.]]

[[WMG: 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]]

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Note: This applies retroactively. Theoretically, if we added it to enough pages, legitimately, Film/GayniggersFromOuterSpace would be the best movie ever.

* But then, Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion isn't ''that'' good, but has way more entries than PlanetSurvival, which also has a CrapsackWorld, but it's just way more upbeat!

[[WMG: When a troper doesn't have a good [[WildMassGuessing Wild Mass Guess]], they default to Series/DoctorWho, Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion, and/or LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya]]

[[WMG: The Great Server Crash was the Wiki's form of [=GLaDOS=]' "deadly neurotoxin"]]

[[WMG: The WMG section was set up by M. Night Shyamalan to come up with new plot twists for his stories.]]

...And UnknownTroper is TheCape. Or the other way around. That works too.

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Which studios is up for speculation, but NBCUniversal is almost certainly among them.