Quotes / TV Tropes Will Ruin Your Vocabulary

Well, let's see. We have several Good Colors, Evil Colors tropes. We have hints of Obviously Evil and Sensible Heroes, Skimpy Villains going on. There could be some Inverted Tropes going on, as another commenter points out.
Well, this comment is a fair example of how TV Tropes Will Ruin Your Vocabulary.

— MPHJ on Know Your Meme.

The problem with a lot of these tips is how heavily jargonized they are by TV Tropes lingo ... A show like [Dorohedoro] could only exist beyond the frameworks of protagonist-antagonist, villain-hero, redemption arc, like all of this jargon that Lily Orchard believes is the rigid structure of storytelling. Only because they've been trapped in this fandom bubble where that's all amateurs talk about, amateurs who have done nothing.

— DireGentleman, Two Professional Writers React to Lily Orchard's "Simple Writing Tips"

Gigachad: I spend 6 hours on the TV Tropes website every night absorbing the personalities of #based people
Soyjak: That sounds kinda messed up dude. Touch grass. This isn't healthy. Who even says based anymore
Gigachad: I'm a Tragic Villain, a Broken Messiah, a Dark Genius, a Woman hater
Soyjak: Masonic

— @muridus on Twitter

Question: Gunnerkrigg Court is very well represented at TvTropes. Is there any particular reason as to why you aren't a fan?
Tom Siddell: Because the JAMES VELDT FACTOR is SKYBRICKED due to the LETS DO THAT AGAIN principle being SHORTFORM INVERSION HONEYPOT'd and FIFTEEN TO SUNDAY having less than BLUE FOAM DICE AWAY for TIMEPIECE COORDINATION so it can subvert the MOUSER MOUSER THATS WHAT SHE SAID.

— Tom Siddell's former Formspring

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