- Anonymous
- Joseph Addison
- Robert Alberti & Bruce Fisher
- Marliece Andrada
- Maya Angelou
- Thomas Aquinas
- Archilochus
- Dave Attell
- Augustine
- Matsuo Bashou
- Brendan Behan
- Yogi Berra
- Sara Bickley
- Berke Breathed
- Andre Breton
- Surrealism (Les Champs magnétiques)
- Samuel Butler
- Edward Carpenter
- New Eden ("After Civilization")
- William Cassidy
- Richard Chamberlain
- Mark David Chapman
- Dave Chappelle
- Bernard of Clairvaux
- Emma Coats
- Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
- Butterfly of Death and Rebirth ("Sky Lotus")
- Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo ("Sky Lotus")
- George Cockburn
- Andy Collins
- Merian C. Cooper
- Dalai Lama XIV
- Dana Delany
- Demosthenes
- Diogenes
- Mike Ditka
- Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Roger Ebert
- Actor Allusion
- Adaptation Expansion
- All Abusers Are Male
- All Girls Want Bad Boys
- Alpha Bitch
- Animation Age Ghetto
- Baraka
- Belle de Jour
- Broke the Rating Scale
- Cannot Tell a Joke
- The Chief's Daughter
- Christianity Is Catholic
- Creepy Gas Station Attendant
- Dead Horse Trope
- Defanged Horrors
- Departures
- The Devils
- The Double Life of Veronique
- Dutch Angle
- Ending Fatigue
- Evil Old Folks
- Exactly What It Says on the Tin
- Fallen Angels'
- Le Film Artistique
- Floorboard Failure
- Gambit Roulette
- Genetic Memory
- Genre Deconstruction
- The Good Thief
- Gut Punch
- Harpo Does Something Funny
- Helena Bonham-Carter
- Hou Hsiao-hsien
- I Take Offense to That Last One!
- Idiot Plot
- Incredibly Conspicuous Drag
- It's Not Supposed to Win Oscars (invoked with Gene Siskel)
- Jungles Sound Like Kookaburras
- Keep It Foreign
- Kubrick Stare
- La Belle Noiseuse
- The Last Title
- Leno Device
- Lost in Translation
- Modesty Bedsheet
- The Monkees
- Murderer P.O.V.
- My Dinner with Andre
- Nested Mouths
- Nicolas Cage
- No OSHA Compliance
- Oh Wait, This Is My Grocery List
- The Other Sister
- Pearl Harbor
- Perma-Stubble
- Posthumous Character
- A Pirate 400 Years Too Late
- Pragmatic Adaptation
- Review Ironic Echo
- Roger Rabbit Effect
- Shot-for-Shot Remake
- Some Kind of Wonderful
- Stepford Consumer
- Strawman Has a Point
- Trade Snark
- Unexplained Accent
- Videogame Movies Suck
- White Man's Burden
- William Powell
- Your Highness
- King Edward VIII
- Henry Fairfield Osborn
- W.C. Fields
- Smile Tropes (second quote)
- Dave Fischer
- Glen Foster
- Erich Fromm
- Bill Gates
- Jack Gilbert
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Samuel Goldwyn
- Colin Greenland
- Horace Greeley
- Rafael Guerra
- Jack Handey
- Daniel Handler
- T. Nielsen Hayden
- Heinrich Heine
- Adam Hills
- Hippocrates
- The Japanese Emperor Hirohito
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Elbert Hubbard
- Steve Hughes
- Connor Jessup
- Penn Jillette
- Lynn Johnston
- Ben Jonson
- Søren Kierkegaard
- Robert Kirkman
- Henry Kissinger
- Viktor Korchnoi
- R. A. Lafferty
- Future Imperfect ("And Read the Flesh Between the Lines")
- Mick LaSalle
- Harper Lee
- Robert E. Lee
- James Lileks
- Sean Lock
- D.A. Ellis Loew
- Vince Lombardi
- Richard Lovelace
- Loved I Not Honor More ("To Lucasta, Going to the Wars")
- Charles "Lucky" Luciano
- Niccolò Machiavelli
- Clyde Mandelin
- Kyle Martin
- Gabriel García Márquez
- Andrew Marvell
- Intelligence Tropes ("The Garden")
- Tropes of Innocence ("The Garden")
- Lorenzo di Medici
- Alan Minter
- Wilson Mizner
- Vyacheslav Molotov
- Dwight L. Moody
- Shemar Moore
- George Jean Nathan
- Martin Niemoeller
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Above Good and Evil
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- God is Dead
- The Hashshashin (On the Genealogy of Morals)
- He Who Fights Monsters
- Straw Nihilist
- Vincent Peranio
- Carla Pestana
- Alexander Pope
Presidents of the United States
- John Adams
- Thomas Jefferson
- Ulysses S. Grant
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Harry Truman
- John F. Kennedy
- Richard Nixon
- George W. Bush
- Joe Biden
- Billy Queen
- Paul Reiser
- Samuel Richardson
- Knute Rockne
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Yves Saint-Laurent
- William Shakespeare
- Dreaming of Things to Come (Sonnet 107)
- Home Sweet Home
- Love Tropes (Sonnet 116)
- Makeup Is Evil (Sonnet 67)
- Someone to Remember Him By (Sonnet 9)
- Bill Shankly
- Stephen Lea Sheppard
- Tom Siddell
- Sir Philip Sidney
- Lore Sjöberg
- Chest Monster
- Destined Bystander
- False Dichotomy
- Food Pills
- Hydra Problem
- Infinity +1 Sword
- Ironic Hell
- Jump Physics
- Late to the Punchline
- Luckily, My Powers Will Protect Me
- Parent Service
- Planet Eater
- Precision-Guided Boomerang
- The Scrappy
- Speech-Impaired Animal
- Time Police
- Trick Arrow
- Wolverine Publicity
- Bruce Sterling
- James H. Strobridge
- Thomas Szasz
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
- Sara Teasdale
- Humanity's Wake ("There Will Come Soft Rains")
- Reclaimed by Nature ("There Will Come Soft Rains")
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
- Mer Tropes ("The Mermaid")
- Mother Teresa
- Tertullian
- Linus Torvalds
- John Vachon
- Voltaire
- Binyavanga Wainaina
- Dionne Warwick
- Bill Watterson
- Rebecca West
- Gan Ying
- Xiang Yu
- Lin Yutang
