We here at TV Tropes like to sort things, and it's not just because we are Obsessively Organized. It's because we like our articles to be easy-to-read and easy to navigate. Thus, when writing articles, it's considered good form to sort the examples given for a particular trope into media categories.
When a trope launches without a lot of examples, it may not get sorted right away. However, tropes grow, and when they do, a previously not-all-that-problematic block of examples can turn into an enormous thread mush of video games, TV shows, movies, commercials, EarthBound sprite comics that tanked after 7 strips, and what have you. These articles have reached that state.
If you have some spare time and feel like doing a good deed, please go to these pages and sort their examples. There are 4 ways this is usually done. You can enter the media categories using the small caps font [[AC: (text)]], use !!Headings, make a new subpage, or you can create folders for the categories.
Simply cut and paste examples into their proper categories, and then cut out those category links with no examples. It keeps things looking tidy. If you can't do them all, even partial sorting is a start.
A note on headers: Folder titles no longer produce Wiki Words, even if they're used. Wiki Words in small caps headers are OK.
And, of course, if you find a completely or partially unsorted page, add it and its subpages!
Note: Please don't remove an article from this list until it has been completely sorted. Every example needs to be in its category. If it is completely sorted, please remove it from the list. Thanks!
Music Tropes (sort by genre):
- Circle of Fifths
- Doo-Wop Progression
- Falling Bass
- "Humoresque" Progression
- "Pachelbel's Canon" Progression
- Playground Song
- Surreal Music Video
- TakeThat.Music: Plenty of items in the "to be sorted" folder.
- Three Chords and the Truth
Useful Notes pages without examples:
- John Kerry: Needs examples of his appearances in media.
Sort by Genre (videogames):
- AbusiveParents.Video Games Sorted, genres need a double-check.
- AccidentalMisnaming.Video Games Sorted, genres need a double-check.
- Advanced Movement Technique Sorted, genres need a double-check.
- After Boss Recovery
- AnyoneCanDie.Video Games
- ArtificialLimbs.Video Games
- AwesomeButImpractical.Video Games (Misc. folder)
- TheBusCameBack.Video Games
- Character Select Forcing
- Critical Annoyance (already split into video game and non-video game examples)
- Dead Character Walking: Needs to be sorted by media
- DealWithTheDevil.Video Games
- Death Is Not Permanent
- Destroyable Items
- DidNotGetTheGirl.Video Games
- Difficulty by Acceleration
- ADogNamedDog.Video Games
- Double Unlock
- Easier Than Easy: Just the "Unsorted" folder
- Easy Exp
- Enemy Chatter Just the "Unsorted" folder
- Escort Mission: Just the "Unsorted" folder
- Every 10,000 Points: Just the "Unsorted" section and perhaps the non-video game examples
- Exploding Barrels: Sorted, but genres could use a double-check
- Fan Remake: Sort by categories of enhancements working from the original engine and assets, engine recreations using the original assets and complete remakes like Black Mesa/DFMod/Starry Expanse?
- Fight Like a Card Player (already split into tabletop games and video games)
- Film at 11
- First-Person Ghost: The "other" folders in both the Examples and Exceptions sections.
- Flip-Screen Scrolling
- FollowTheLeader.Video Games
- Gameplay Ally Immortality
- HealingFactor.Video Games
- Heart Container: Unsorted/other folder
- Hearts Are Health
- Holiday Mode: already sorted into video game and non-video game examples
- Idiosyncratic Combo Levels
- Improbable Accessory Effect
- Instant Gravestone
- Interchangeable Antimatter Keys
- Invisible Wall
- Invulnerable Civilians
- Irrelevant Sidequest
- Jerkass.VideoGames
- JerkWithAHeartOfGold.Video Games Getting long enough to benefit from genre folders
- KillerRabbit.Video Games
- Last Chance Hit Point
- License-Added Game
- Life Meter
- LoopholeAbuse.Video Games (already sorted into general and work-specific examples)
- MaliciousMisnaming.Video Games
- Marathon Boss
- Mascot with Attitude: Mostly sorted into genre folders and alphabetical order. Might need one or two touch ups.
- Mercy Rewarded
- Misaimed "Realism"
- MissingMom.Video Games
- My Rules Are Not Your Rules
- No Canon for the Wicked
- No Cutscene Inventory Inertia
- No Fair Cheating
- NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished.Video Games
- Non-Entity General
- Non-Lethal Bottomless Pits
- ObviouslyEvil.Video Games
- OOCIsSeriousBusiness.Video Games
- PetTheDog.Video Games
- Perpetual Beta: Just the "other" folder
- Pinball Scoring
- Play Every Day
- Player and Protagonist Integration
- Player-Guided Missile
- Player Nudge (currently sorted into video game and non-video game examples)
- Port Town
- Post-Final Boss
- Post-Processing Video Effects
- Protection Mission
- Punch-Packing Pistol
- Purposely Overpowered
- Puzzle Boss: Everything sorted into genre folders and alphabetical order. Only thing needed is for someone to double check the genres.
- Random Drop Booster
- Random Event
- Randomly Generated Levels
- Rare Candy
- Rat Stomp
- Real Money Trade
- Real-Time Weapon Change
- Real-Time with Pause
- Recurring Location
- Refining Resources
- Respawn on the Spot
- Rewarding Inactivity
- Rewarding Vandalism
- Ring Menu
- Roaming Enemy: Needs to be sorted by media.
- Savage Setpiece
- Save-Game Limits: Needs to be sorted by media.
- Scratch Damage
- ScrewThisImOuttaHere.Video Games
- Scrolling Text
- Secret A.I. Moves
- Selective Condemnation
- Set a Mook to Kill a Mook: Just the "unsorted" folder
- ShirtlessScene.Video Games
- Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer
- Smart Bomb
- Socketed Equipment (already sorted into video game and non-video game examples)
- Solo Class
- Some Dexterity Required
- Songs in the Key of Panic
- Sound of No Damage
- Status Infliction Attack
- Story Breadcrumbs: "Other" folder
- StrongFamilyResemblance.Video Games
- SuspiciouslySpecificDenial.Video Games
- TakeThat.Video Games
- ToiletHumour.Video Games
- Unlockable Difficulty Levels
- Upgraded Boss
- UsedToBeASweetKid.Video Games
- Video Game Remake: Only the "Unsorted" folder needs some work; the rest is done.
- WrongGenreSavvy.Video Games
- YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre.Video Games
Sort by Media:
- Entry Point: It has a miscellaneous category.
- Fiction Science: It didn't have any sorting previously. I put everything I couldn't figure out where to categorize in an "unsorted" header.
- Instructional Film: Currently sorted by how the trope is played.
- Internet Mimic
- Marathon Running: Other than the example sub-pages, it's a mess.
