Playing With / Wiki Sandbox

Basic Trope: A place on a wiki to test formatting or generally mess around.

• Basic: The sandbox is filled with bleach.
• Acidic: This troper tests whether a spoiler can have a note^note which has [[spoiler:another spoiler in it oh god oh christ]] oh jesus. Answer is no. Thank god.
  • But a note that's not in a spoiler^note Note text Super Mario kills Bowser More note text CAN have a spoiler
    • But can a note^note This is a note[[note]]This is another note[[/note]] contain another note no probably not
    •    Evil note!^note Muahahhahahahahaaigujdnrtgq   
    •    EXTRA    evil note!^note Folder time

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    •    What if evil [[evil:within evil    lol?]]
• Amphoteric: no idea what to do here lol
• Neutral: still no idea what to do here lol
• Straight:
  • This Troper writes in the sandbox to see if Wonder Woman links to anything.
    • Or if writing text like this still links to articles.
  • That Troper uses the sandbox to post random nonsense just for the lulz.
• Exaggerated:
  • The Other Troper wants to try out all sorts of    crazy formatting    for no good reason ^{like so}

    and like so

    just to prove it can work... or not.^{And why not?} Indeed.
  • The Other Troper tries to run JavaScript snippets, as seen on the Pantheon subpage.
• Downplayed: There is a box, but it's filled with salt, not sand.
  • Someone does this thing where they add an unrelated subexample without bringing the first example down.
  • The Other Other Troper tests whether color tags can override blue potholes.
• Justified: The wiki needs somewhere for people to mess around and try what works before they mess up the main site.
• Inverted:
  • There is sand filled with boxes.
  • Sandbox.Playing With A Trope. ^note Don't make this page.
• Subverted: This Troper thinks the page is a sandbox, but it is actually a trope page about boxes filled with sand.

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• Double Subverted: However, the trope is about to be cut anyway, so That Troper spams in it as though it were a sandbox.
• Doubly Subverted: Yes, someone really wrote this. Several people, in fact.
• Triple Subverted: But That Troper realizes he is being rude so he reverts his edits.
• Parodied:
  • Alice is bored, so she finds herself writing URLs to various wikis in a literal sandbox.
  • Bob is so Hopeless with Tech that he finds himself somehow editing an antivirus's sandbox instead of the Wiki Sandbox, damaging the operating system as a result.
• Zig-Zagged: No-one is sure if the box has sand in it. Move over, Schrodinger.
• Zigzagged: (Continuing from Triple Subverted) but someone else spams on it anyway who is not That Troper.
• Averted:
  • There is no sand, nor box, nor wiki, nor Averted example. This was all a dream. Wake up.
  • There are no sandboxes in such a scenario where it wouldn't make sense for there to be any sandboxes anyways.
• Enforced: The park decides building a sandbox will increse revenue.
• Lampshaded: "That's a sandbox!"
• Invoked: Someone has sand, and puts a box under it.
• Exploited: Someone throws the sand at the man who dies when someone throws sand at him.
• Defied: "NO! THERE IS NO SAND, AND THERE ARE NO DANG BOXES! AND IF YOU *points to Bob* WANT TO PUT SAND IN A FREAKING BOX, I WILL RIP OUT YOUR INTESTINES TRACT BY TRACT!!!"
• Double-Defied: "FUCK YOU ALICE! I'M PUTTING MY SAND IN MY BOX AND IF YOU *points to Alice* WANT TO PREVENT ME FROM PUTTING SAND IN MY BOX I WILL RIP OUT YOUR INTESTINES TRACT BY TRACT!!!"
• Re-Defied: "DON'T FUCKING TEST ME, BOB! I SWEAR, I'M GOING TO LOSE IT AND IF YOU *points to Bob* WANT TO PREVENT ME FROM PREVENTING YOU FROM PUTTING SAND IN A FREAKING BOX, I WILL RIP OUT YOUR INTESTINES TRACT BY TRACT!!!
• How Many Times Do We Have To Defy And Double-Defy This: "SHUT THE FUCK UP, ALICE! I'M NOT LETTING ANYONE PREVENT ME FROM DOING WHAT I WANT, AND IF YOU *points to Alice* WANT TO PREVENT ME FROM PREVENTING YOU FROM PREVENTING ME FROM PUTTING SAND IN MY OWN FREAKING BOX, I WILL RIP OUT YOUR INTESTINES TRACT BY TRACT!!!
• Deified: Sandy the Sandbox returns the Amulet of Yendor to its god^note of whom little detail is known by human culture, but is suspected to be an entire dump truck of sand, and is awarded the status of demigod.
• Discussed: "I was on a wiki today. There was a page where people were writing nonsense for testing purposes."
• Double Discussed:
  • "Ii wwaass oonn aa wwiikkii ttooddaayy. Tthheerree wwaass aa ppaaggee wwhheerree ppeeooppllee wweerree wwrriittiinngg nnoonnsseennssee ffoorr tteessttiinngg ppuurrppoosseess."
  • "I I was was on on a a wiki wiki today today. There there was was a a page page where where people people were were writing writing nonsense nonsense for for testing testing purposes purposes."
• Conversed: Bob and Allace are watching a show, and in the show a character says "I was on a wiki today. There was a page where people were writing nonsense for testing purposes." and Allace points out how dumb that is.
• Implied: There is a sand, and someone with a box goes near it, but the scene cuts before we see someone with the box go on the sand.
  • Bob writes "I just saw a sandbox" on his Facebook page.
• Deconstructed: Bob trips on a box and breaks his legs, mouth, nose, bones, and ears. and face. The resulting hospital procedure bankrupts him and he decides to sell cryptocurrency to children.
• Reconstructed: However, the viewers decided the box wasn't so bad after all.
• Played for Laughs: There is a box. Bob thinks it is full of sand, but it is actually full of tacos, which is random.

wait id love to stop going on tv tropes all day like a dumb bastard but the tvt admins are brainwashing the populace!!!!!

• Played for Drama: There is a box. Bob thinks it is full of sand, but Bob suffered a serious brain injury that rendered him unable to process the contents of boxes as anything but sand.
• Played for Horror:
  • There is a box. While nobody is looking, the box does 9/11.
  • Bob is shrunk down to a tiny size while inside the sandbox, and has to avoid insects and other creatures that got inside the sandbox.
• Feigned: Bob says there is a box, but this merely is a diversion that is part of his organ harvesting scheme.

• Unparodied: The box really is just a box.
  

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• Untwisted: There is something off-screen. Bob, who owns the box, says it is a box full of sand, but Allace says it is actually an object that is not a box and or not full of sand. Then the camera pans to the box and it turns out it is a box.
  • The box, as what boxes do tend toward typically being, is straight and flat and not twisted.
• Logical Extreme: Bob opens his mouth to speak, and starts tasting sand. He then notices he can no longer breathe and tries to scream, but the sand obstructs his vocal cords. He then turns into a box full of other boxes of sand.
• Other Variations on a Trope: Bob eats a sandwich.
• Gender Inverted: The box is a girl box.
• Gender Flipped: Xoq lɹᴉƃ ɐ sᴉ xoq ǝɥʇ.

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• Intended Audience Reaction: There is a box. The audience is at first confused why there is a box, but the writer was going for an air of Dali-esque surreality.

• Intentional Audience Reaction: The audience reacts to the sandbox. This is initially thought to be a bug, but the developer reveals it isn't.
• Plotted A Good Waste: Plotted a what?
• Wasted A Good Plot: Several acres of woodlands are turned into the world's biggest sandbox. I mean, come on. That's just plain stupid.
• Plotted A Good Plot: The story is very good and the sandbox's significance sets it apart from other works of its genre.
• Wasted A Good Waste: The sandbox is used instead as a waste disposal. Where did the sand even go!?
• Gooded A Plot Waste...? Or a Waste Plot...?: At this point... We have no idea what the hell this even is.
• Invoked/Defied in vain: Bob tries to pour sand in/take sand out of a box, but then the box does not have sand poured in/took out of it.
• Square Peg, Round Trope: There is a container, but it is spherical, and it holds something, but it holds helium.
• Dan Browned: The writer thinks they are writing a box, but they are actually writing a hexahedron.
• Flanderized: Everyone is a box. They attempt to speak by rapidly flailing their flaps.
• Darker and Edgier: There is a box. While nobody is looking, the box does 9/11.
• Lighter and Softer: The box has feathers in it.
• Denser and Wackier: The box has a circus in it.
• Up to Eleven:
  • Not only does the box contain sand, it contains things other than sand! ^note Like packing pellets.
  • The sandbox is now defunct.
• Necessary Weasel: Nobody likes boxes, but the main characters are playing Minecraft, and the creators do not have the rights to redesign the boxes as balls.
• Meta-Exaggerated: There is a wiki sandbox with a Playing With subpage, and someone puts examples in there about wiki sandboxes.
• Meta-Subverted: There is a wiki, but no-one uses it.

• Played for Symbolism: Bob throwing sand in a sandbox at Allace is an allegory for the assassination of JFK.
• Visual Pun: Mike Tyson conducts a gentlemens' game of fist-lobbery with someone in a desert.
• Implied for Laughs: There is probably a sand box. If there is? That's hilarious.
• Implied for Drama: Bob is seen suffocating in the sandbox in the background of one scene. We never see Bob again after this scene.
• Plot Foundation: The story takes place on a sand box.
• (Il)Logical Extreme: There an absurd amount of sand boxes.
• (Il) Cartographer: He making the maps! (Il) Cartographer! He taking no crap! (Il) Cartographer! He's gonna pin you to the mat! He's the (Il) Cartographer!
• Misused: Someone tinkles in the sandbox. What a gosh-darn cumstain.
• Intended Audience Reaction / Plot Foundation: Yeah, it's both. Don't like that? Screw you.
• Played for Comedy: What's the deal with sandboxes? I mean, really! Couldn't they have just told people to go to the beach?
• Some Optional Category That Shouldn't Be Listed Here If There's No Example Tied To It: ???
• Justified and Double Subverted: Bob thinks he sees something which is a sandbox, but it turns out it's just a wide clump of dirt and some planks. But behind that is a real sandbox. This makes sense, because there are a lot of sandboxes these days.
• Role-Inverted: A sentient box comes across a guy with sand in his mouth.
• Discussed/Conversed ^note  Depending on who's saying it "Gosh, this sandbox — which may or may not be in a show I'm watching and you should ignore this part if it isn't — sure is full of sand."
• Eastern Equivalent: The box is filled with kudzu. Wait, that's invasive. Shit.
• Backfired: Bob decides to fill a box with sand, wait for children to play in it, and hit them with surprise fees that they steal their parents' credit cards for. However, Bob has unknowingly just fed the box its main diet, and it absorbs it all and expands enough that Bob is now inside of it (and is promptly grounded into nutrients).
• Extragerrated: Theirs just a whole lot've sand boxes.

• Tropes Are Tools: A sandbox is used in a story in a manner that is particularly nuanced and that less sophisticated audiences might object to.
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: The sandbox is instated in a playground, where children play in it and make sand sculptures.
• Deconstructivism: The sandbox is a confusing mess of polygons that happens to have a basin with sand in it.

• Reconstructed: The sandbox is much thinner than normal and is slanted to the side, but those flaws make it unique and draw more attention to the area. I dunno, this one's kind of a stretch.
• Walking Spoiler: The box is sentient and whispers spoilers to various movies and TV shows to people in the box.
• Mathmetician's Answer:
  Alice: Why is there a box here?
  Bob: Yes.
• Mathematician's Answer:
  Alice: How do you spell "mathematician"?
  Bob: {puffing a cigar} Why, with letters. Same as any other word.
  {The sandbox begins to eat Bob. He extends his hand toward Alice, screaming for help, and we watch as he dissolves into the sand, his hand being the very last thing to go as his muffled voice screams helplessly. The sandbox burps and spits out his wristwatch.}
  Alice: {rolling her eyes in an exaggerated manner} Sandy!
  {Laugh Track. Musical sting that can only be described as slap bass copulating with pizzicato. Fade to commercial.}
• "Funny Aneurysm" Moment: Bob makes a joke about the box doing 9/11. While nobody is looking, the box does 9/11.
• Making A Splash: Charlie fills the box with water.
• Playing With Fire: Alice lights the box on fire.
• Shock and Awe: Bob electrocutes the box.
• Make Some Noise: Bob screams into the sandbox.
• Dishing Out Dirt: Daniel throws dirt into the sandbox.
• Double Deconstructed: Someone disassembles the sandbox. Not satisfied, they also disassemble the sand into its individual atoms.
• Double Reconstructed: Someone reassembles a broken sandbox. It's not all that structurally sound, so they add some parts to it to make it more stable.
• War of Nerves:
  • Using technical electronic surveillance tactics, the box has been recording all the conversations that have taken place over the last few days.
  • The best trope they use is the rat one. What they do is they take a rat and stick it on the sandbox. They put a copper pot on the sandbox, they strap it to the sandbox. They start a little fire on top of the pot. The top of the pot's on copper, so it's getting hot from the top down. The rat goes crazy; there's only one way out. Through the sandbox! (Ohh my god. You've got to be kidding me.) You can see it! You can see it. (You can see it?) Well, you can see it when it's in the sandbox, it keeps going through.
  • You can see it! You can see it! You can see it! You can see it! You can see it? You can see it? You can see it? You can see it? You can see when it, you can see when it, you can see when it, you can see when it
  • There's a sandbox behind your ear, motherfucker.
• The Big Guy: The Sandbox is The Team's resident powerhouse. It dumps sand all over people, causing all sorts of delightful deaths.
• All-Blue Entry: There is a box. It is filled with sand.
• All Red Entry: There is a box. It is filled with sand.
• All-Orange Entry: There is a box. It is filled with sand.
• All Green Entry: There is a box. It is filled with sand.
• All Foreground Color Entry: There is a box. It is filled with sand.
• Crazy?: I was crazy once. They locked me in a box. A sandbox. A sandbox filled with examples. And examples make me crazy.
• 100: Welcome to the first fold of infinity.
• Rival Final Boss: The Sandbox is the longtime rival of Alice and Bob, and also inexplicably speaks with a thick Scottish accent and totes around a large Claymore. It's the Final Boss of the hit parody game Tropes of Taleria.
• Role-Ending Misdemeanor: "Hey, this isn't sand! This is cocaine!"

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