Across the Wiki
- The wiki in general loves to run a joke right into the ground. Talking about Inspector Spacetime as if it were a real show is funny...until you realise how colossal the series page is. (It runs the joke into the ground so hard that it emerges from the other side of the planet, just so it could see what's there.)
- Several profanity tropes overuse their respective curses; This Is for Emphasis, Bitch! uses the word "Bitch" after every sentence and header (Bitch), Cluster F-Bomb is covered in profanity (though not as much as it should), and Symbol Swearing has, well, symbol swearing in every sentence and header.
- Egregious use of the word "egregious". See Author Vocabulary Calendar for a really egregious example (that's three sips in a single line, BTW).
- The Department of Redundancy Department.
- No real life examples, please.
- Many, many examples of Memetic Mutation.
- The jokes about zombies in the comments section of this
Mushroom Go page. The jokes start about halfway down the page and keep going. - There was a time where a ridiculous number of trope pages mentioned by way of example that they were one of The Oldest Ones in the Book. (This trend was referenced by Uncyclopedia.) This is because over 95% of recorded human history is older than the "book," which was apparently written in 1950 (when television gained popularity in the USA). It became common to see tropers avoid the repetition of that unwieldy trope name by putting it in a Pot Hole under some phrase like, "You know what that makes this..." Splitting The Oldest Ones in the Book into sub-indexes such as Older Than Dirt, Older Than Steam, and Older Than Radio has done a lot to reduce the annoyance, both because of the variety and because anything that isn't Older Than Dirt is newer than much of the book.
Now Older Than Dirt itself has become way overused and misused, being frequently applied to pages that are nowhere near old enough to count (currently the cutoff is 800 BCE; previously it was 500 BCE). Doesn't help that despite being an index, it's often treated as a trope. - I Am Not Making This Up and So Yeah ended up being discredited and finally dead. So Yeah (which met the same fate).
- ...Or So I Heard was completely reworked too.
- The members of the Permanent Red Link Club, just the members of the Permanent Red Link Club. This Troper used to see them on literally every page of the wiki. I am not making this up. So yeah.
- Obviously, That Troper Did Not Do The Research!
- Any trope that is listed on Pothole Magnet tends to become this. And That's Terrible.
Trope Pages
- The Grappling-Hook Pistol page contains an entry about or reference to Batman in nearly every folder note , to the point where the Real Life folder gratuitously mentions Batman cosplays just to continue the joke. Likewise, This Is a Drill to Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann and Wormsign to Dune.
- The page for Loads and Loads of Loading.
- The Mary Sue Classic page mentions the word "perfect" so many times that it apologizes for it no longer looking like a real word at the end.
- The entry for Monty Python on the Overused Running Gag page used to be so much, much longer, having been reduced to a shameless parroting of favorite lines from various sketches or the movies.
Work Pages
- The Filler example on the page for American Idol used to be duplicated on the page, including such trope entries as "More Filler" and "Engaging Chevrons, just to break up the monotony of the Filler", to mock Idol's constant usage of it.
- CSI: Miami *puts shades* likes some The Who. YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
- The pages describing the Final Fantasy games use increasingly ludicrous adjectives to describe the popularity of the series with each numerically subsequent game.
- The entry for the Doctor Who serial (of Rassilon) The Five Doctors (of Rassilon) made sure (until clarity [of Rassilon] became compromised) that every trope (of Rassilon) was a Trope of Rassilon. Now the tradition (of Rassilon) and gag (of Rassilon) has been moved to the article (of Rassilon).
- The entry for the Flash Gordon movie (which had a soundtrack by Queen) would like to remind you that the movie had a soundtrack done by Queen.
- The page for Rozen Maiden has every trope example ending in desu to demonstrate Suiseiseki...and /b/'s constant Memetic Mutation of it.
- The article on Strike Witches used to mention the fact that they weren't wearing any pants more or less every entry, until the Genre Shift of the show itself prompted deletion.
Sub Wiki Pages
- In DEATH BATTLE!'s Fridge Horror Battle Consequences page, many hero vs hero matchups will have (Insert obligatory scenario of another Hero Vs Hero where the loser's friends and family will go after the victor and come into conflict with the victor's friends and family and that the villains of the loser will have an easy time). So much that by Season 4, these copy-paste texts link to this trope instead of Running Gag.
- In the (now deleted) Headscratchers page describing "School", someone asked "Why do kids hate school? Can anyone give me some legit responses." After someone gave a bunch of responses... someone else responded to every single point, often repeating, "Learn to box." This prompted somebody else to respond to every "Learn to box" comment with "You get expelled for that."
- There is a discredited running gag on the YMMV pages for Sonic the Hedgehog games (still visible on YMMV.Sonic Advance Trilogy and YMMV.Sonic Rush) that prefaces the Broken Base entry with "It is a Sonic game, after all." Nowadays, it would be seen as complaining.
Just for Fun Pages
- The Better Than It Sounds entries of The Legend of Zelda consist of two parts: The actual description of the game and a convoluted explanation of where the game falls in the Continuity Snarl that is its timeline.
- The article about Candle Jack, where sentences don't complete. Remember what was said about 'losing' its entertainment value? Seriously, it gets really old really fa
- Moved to the Candle Jack discussion page. Now, don't sta
- Deadpool writing his own page is cute, until you realise the entire page is like that.
- Remember kids: On the How Not to Write an Example page, always be sure to add an entry saying how one should always duplicate examples in case someone missed it.
- Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik: Just note how many times Eggman describes each time someone betrays him in each game in his own page.Dr. Eggman: And then he turned on me.
- The beautiful useful notes: The Brazil page has a beautiful example of this with the beautiful word "beautiful".
- On the page for Seattle, "Filmed in Vancouver."
