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Is this an example?
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Posts: 14,955 Mar 7th 2021 at 4:01:43 AM
What index(es) should this go on?
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Posts: 1,595Mar 6th 2021 at 3:34:23 PM
How To Post Pictures
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Posts: 3May 25th 2011 at 10:11:18 AM
Trope Finder is the place for finding tropes.
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Posts: 3Apr 12th 2011 at 7:32:08 AM
Trope Launch Pad is the place for proposing new tropes.
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Posts: 1Nov 17th 2009 at 5:22:51 AM
Trope Idea Sounding Board
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Posts: 1,640 Mar 7th 2021 at 5:02:59 AM
Unwinnable by Insanity should not be a YMMV trope.
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Posts: 65 Mar 7th 2021 at 3:20:38 AM
What's Your Most Recently Launched Article?
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Posts: 1,671 Mar 7th 2021 at 12:25:01 AM
Is Or Was it a Dream? really a subtrope to Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane?
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Posts: 2Mar 6th 2021 at 6:50:05 PM
Does Hell Is That Noise require an in-universe listener?
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Posts: 2Mar 6th 2021 at 6:46:29 PM
Should In-Universe cases of Tastes Like Diabetes be spun off into a different trope?
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Posts: 2Mar 6th 2021 at 6:41:56 PM
Are these Character Tropes?
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Posts: 315Mar 6th 2021 at 6:32:15 PM
What's the point of Sliding Scale - Killer Gorilla?
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Posts: 10Mar 6th 2021 at 12:37:56 AM
Bonus Boss nuances
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Posts: 158Mar 5th 2021 at 1:42:04 PM
Author Avatar
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Posts: 1Mar 4th 2021 at 12:36:19 PM
Lore as a trope?
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Posts: 9Mar 4th 2021 at 1:54:08 AM
Duplicate tropes cleanup
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Posts: 950Mar 1st 2021 at 2:07:33 AM
Lego VIDIYO
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Posts: 1Mar 1st 2021 at 12:45:41 AM
Blind Seer and other blindness tropes
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Posts: 6Feb 28th 2021 at 6:48:39 AM
What is "Call It Karma" all about?
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Posts: 3Feb 27th 2021 at 3:15:26 AM
Pygmalion Plot is two different things.
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Posts: 9Feb 26th 2021 at 9:59:08 PM
Trope names with outdated and/or offensive language
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Posts: 164Feb 26th 2021 at 2:10:31 PM
Times when you sympathized with the “Bad Guy” in a story?
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Posts: 2Feb 26th 2021 at 7:53:59 AM
Should Bowdlerize be only examples of altering existing works, or does it include adaptations as well?
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Posts: 3Feb 25th 2021 at 10:06:04 AM
Helping Out New Tropes: The Thread
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Posts: 12Feb 25th 2021 at 4:33:09 AM
Sleep Cute has Non-Indicative Name
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Posts: 17Feb 24th 2021 at 5:35:54 PM
Just Train Wrong example gone missing
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Posts: 3Feb 23rd 2021 at 8:52:07 PM
Faces through window scenery reflections.
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Posts: 2Feb 22nd 2021 at 8:51:22 PM
Character visible behind scenery reflections in vehicle
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Posts: 2Feb 22nd 2021 at 6:37:34 AM
Martial Pacifist vs. Reluctant Warrior
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Posts: 1Feb 22nd 2021 at 5:32:01 AM
"Humans without Earth" - Is this tropeworthy?
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Posts: 3Feb 22nd 2021 at 12:23:06 AM
Production Posse Question
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Posts: 7Feb 22nd 2021 at 12:06:03 AM
Villains' big mouths?
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Posts: 2Feb 21st 2021 at 10:25:25 PM
Is Lovable Jock just an aversion of Jerk Jock?
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Posts: 12Feb 21st 2021 at 8:00:07 PM
Spiritual Successor
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Posts: 15Feb 21st 2021 at 6:06:13 PM
Making up for lost LGBT tropes
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Posts: 538Feb 21st 2021 at 4:27:46 PM
All Gays Are Pedophiles
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Posts: 32Feb 20th 2021 at 12:48:42 PM
Highly Specific Counterplay
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Posts: 11Feb 19th 2021 at 9:38:43 AM
Stable Time Loop vs Tricked Out Time
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Posts: 7Feb 16th 2021 at 11:32:19 AM
The Dog Bites Back
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Posts: 8Feb 16th 2021 at 1:44:54 AM
Changing The Title Of A Movie
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Posts: 5Feb 15th 2021 at 6:02:39 PM
The Spook vs Flat Character
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Posts: 15Feb 15th 2021 at 10:23:58 AM
Are you still collecting legacy stock phrases?
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Posts: 2Feb 14th 2021 at 5:25:21 AM
Add Gameplay Randomization to Definition-Only Pages?
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Posts: 1Feb 13th 2021 at 12:10:01 AM
Question About Talking to Himself
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Posts: 3Feb 12th 2021 at 8:01:21 PM
Should DyingForSymbolism be YMMV?
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Posts: 5Feb 12th 2021 at 2:18:54 PM
If a redirect doesn't really fit the trope it links to and I want to convert it into its own page...
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Posts: 3Feb 12th 2021 at 12:08:18 PM
Sh vs. S, Alliteration or Not?
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Posts: 336Feb 12th 2021 at 10:26:11 AM
What is the mainstream name for Crystal Spires and Togas?
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Posts: 5Feb 11th 2021 at 7:54:07 PM
Unintentional Period Piece needs a threshold.
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Posts: 244Feb 11th 2021 at 7:21:10 PM
Rage Breaking Point Duplicate Example
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Posts: 2Feb 10th 2021 at 6:59:27 PM
Was the page quote for "Nice to the Waiter" ever discussed for removal?
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Posts: 3Feb 10th 2021 at 3:12:42 PM
Arbitrary Gun Power
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Posts: 2Feb 9th 2021 at 3:36:18 PM
"I should have killed you when I had the chance"
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Posts: 2Feb 8th 2021 at 11:13:26 AM
Medium Two Shot on conflicting indexes
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Posts: 2Feb 7th 2021 at 10:55:27 AM
ShaggyDogStory
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Posts: 25Feb 5th 2021 at 7:40:09 AM
Single-word trope names - when do they make sense?
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Posts: 5Feb 4th 2021 at 2:00:20 PM
How flexible is Note From Ed?
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Posts: 9Feb 2nd 2021 at 11:10:13 AM
Scope of "Not What It Looks Like"?
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Posts: 1Feb 2nd 2021 at 12:46:00 AM
Cross Cultural Kerfluffle Confusion Question
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Posts: 6Feb 1st 2021 at 9:25:52 AM
How's this trope called: Ridicoulus plan... "I'm in"
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Posts: 3Feb 1st 2021 at 5:21:12 AM
Where did the "tomato" metaphor originate?
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Posts: 4Jan 29th 2021 at 6:18:44 PM
The Dreaded (image)
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Posts: 2Jan 29th 2021 at 5:48:45 PM
"Ending Aversion" correct use?
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Posts: 4Jan 29th 2021 at 2:56:47 PM
"A curious example..." on trope pages... should it even be used?
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Posts: 2Jan 29th 2021 at 1:40:54 PM
Girlfriend wants boyfriend to be cry with movies but regrets it
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Posts: 2Jan 28th 2021 at 1:20:47 PM
Why exactly are people obsessed with Complete Monster
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Posts: 4Jan 28th 2021 at 6:33:37 AM
What even is a "Trope In Aggregate"
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Posts: 69Jan 26th 2021 at 8:28:17 AM
Difference between these name tropes?
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Posts: 2Jan 25th 2021 at 8:55:57 PM
Scope of Appendage Assimilation
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Posts: 3Jan 24th 2021 at 1:31:21 PM
Metal Scream v. Careful with that Axe
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Posts: 4Jan 23rd 2021 at 2:36:36 PM
Question about Totally Radical
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Posts: 1Jan 22nd 2021 at 12:27:36 PM
How exactly is TwoGirlsToATeam a trope?
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Posts: 16Jan 20th 2021 at 12:12:52 PM
Is there such a thing as an Image Pickin' Thread for quotes?
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Posts: 3Jan 20th 2021 at 10:27:40 AM
Bump Trope
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Posts: 2Jan 17th 2021 at 8:37:35 PM
How to reference CharacterOverlap on the page for the character's source work?
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Posts: 1Jan 16th 2021 at 11:02:04 PM
Canonical List of Subtle Trope Distinctions - what's the differences between these?
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Posts: 7Jan 16th 2021 at 6:30:31 AM
When does a work get a Shout-Out page?
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Posts: 4Jan 15th 2021 at 7:19:31 PM
"The Beard" but for straight characters?
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Posts: 9Jan 14th 2021 at 6:35:28 PM
DesignatedVillain, Hate Sink and Villainy-Free Villain: Can a character be all three at once?
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Posts: 5Jan 14th 2021 at 12:47:10 PM
Title Confusion
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Posts: 5Jan 12th 2021 at 12:06:46 PM
What constitutes sufficient context for Finger Wag?
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Posts: 1Jan 12th 2021 at 7:18:36 AM
Precisely defining Seasonal Rot
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Posts: 7Jan 11th 2021 at 8:25:13 PM
What exactly is (or isn't) Memetic Mutation?
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Posts: 59Jan 11th 2021 at 4:36:42 AM
Vengeful Ghosts crossing the Moral Event Horizon and being Karma Houdinis
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Posts: 2Jan 9th 2021 at 5:17:51 PM
Signature Scene and Signature Song are full of zero context examples.
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Posts: 1Jan 8th 2021 at 8:40:09 PM
Trope Worthy? Two archetypes from rpg.net
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Posts: 4Jan 8th 2021 at 11:25:54 AM
Misuse of Lovecraft Country
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Posts: 20Jan 7th 2021 at 10:16:00 AM
When a villain is abandoned by all those around
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Posts: 2Jan 7th 2021 at 4:42:25 AM
Dangerous "What?"
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Posts: 3Jan 6th 2021 at 8:42:02 PM
What is the Ancient Egypt trope
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Posts: 4Jan 6th 2021 at 3:52:55 PM
What is the name of trope where you're captured by an enemy and forced to learn their ways?
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Posts: 2Jan 6th 2021 at 6:31:02 AM
Should AmbiguouslyGay and AmbiguouslyBi be YMMV?
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Posts: 42Jan 4th 2021 at 12:06:27 PM
Live Action Lead Time
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Posts: 4Jan 3rd 2021 at 1:24:00 PM
About vengeful ghosts from Asian horror films and their remakes
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Posts: 4Jan 3rd 2021 at 12:01:20 PM
Name that art trope.
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Posts: 2Jan 2nd 2021 at 8:03:37 PM
Scope of Alternative Character Interpretation
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Posts: 4Dec 28th 2020 at 6:06:42 PM
Title Changing
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Posts: 4Dec 28th 2020 at 5:54:12 PM
Opposite of "Middle Child Syndrome"
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Posts: 4Dec 28th 2020 at 2:56:02 PM
Why is it called Thin Line Animation?
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Posts: 5Dec 28th 2020 at 9:25:41 AM
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