We here at TV Tropes like to sort things, and it's not just because we have Super OCD. 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):
- Boléro Effect
- Last Chorus Slow-Down
- Lyrical Shoehorn
- Playground Song
- Robot or Spaceman Alter Ego
- Stuffy Old Songs About the Buttocks
- Surreal Music Video
Useful Notes pages without examples:
- John Kerry: Needs examples of his appearances in media.
Sort by Genre (videogames):
- Advanced Movement Technique
- Background Music Override
- Dead Character Walking: Needs to be sorted by media.
- Difficulty by Acceleration
- Double Unlock
- Easier Than Easy
- Easy Exp
- Enemy Chatter
- Escort Mission: Needs to be sorted by media.
- Every 10,000 Points
- 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
- First-Person Ghost
- Flip-Screen Scrolling
- Gameplay Ally Immortality
- Gameplay Derailment
- Gangplank Galleon
- Heart Container: Unsorted/other folder
- Hearts Are Health
- Hit the Ground Harder
- Idiosyncratic Combo Levels
- Idiosyncratic Difficulty Levels: Tons of unsorted examples; everything is alphabetized.
- Improbable Accessory Effect
- Instant Gravestone
- Invisible Wall
- Invulnerable Civilians
- Irrelevant Sidequest
- JerkWithAHeartOfGold.Video Games Getting long enough to benefit from genre folders
- Last Chance Hit Point
- License-Added Game
- Life Meter
- Live Item
- Marathon Boss
- Mascot with Attitude: Mostly sorted into genre folders and alphabetical order. Might need one or two touch ups.
- Mercy Rewarded
- Misaimed "Realism"
- My Name Is ??? All video games are sorted, non video game examples need to be sorted
- My Rules Are Not Your Rules
- No Canon for the Wicked
- No Cutscene Inventory Inertia
- No Fair Cheating
- No Final Boss for You
- NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished.Video Games
- Non-Entity General
- Non-Lethal Bottomless Pits
- Perpetual Beta: Needs to be sorted by media.
- Pinball Scoring
- Player and Protagonist Integration
- Player-Guided Missile
- 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: Needs to be sorted by media.
- Rare Candy
- Rat Stomp
- Real Money Trade: Needs to be sorted by media.
- Real-Time Weapon Change
- Real-Time with Pause
- Refining Resources
- Respawn on the Spot
- Rewarding Inactivity
- Roaming Enemy: Needs to be sorted by media.
- Savage Setpiece
- Save-Game Limits: Needs to be sorted by media.
- Scratch Damage
- Secret A.I. Moves
- Selective Condemnation
- Set a Mook to Kill a Mook
- Shield-Bearing Mook
- Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer
- Smart Bomb
- Solo Class
- Songs in the Key of Panic
- Sound of No Damage
- The Spiny
- Star-Shaped Coupon
- Story Breadcrumbs: "Other" folder
- Video Game Remake: Only the "Unsorted" folder needs some work; the rest is done.
Sort by Media:
- Older Than They Look: All subpages
