Meta 4: Meta Harder or Die Trying is the latest film in the Meta series. Most fans agree that, while not as good as Meta: Morphosis, it is far superior to Meta 2: The Sharkening and Meta 3: The Revenge of the Curse of the Son of Meta's Revenge Rides Again: This Time, It's Personal.
I'm a white male human living in the midwest United States. I spend too much of my free time on the internet. My taste is fickle.
I'm a bit on the ideal side of the Sliding Scale. (I was the one who launched Earn Your Happy Ending, and that is for the most part how I see the world.) I'm a moderate Splitter. The Stable Time Loop is my favorite method of Time Travel (provided the Novikov Self-Consistency Principle is in effect and there's a healthy dose of Block Time to prevent the Bootstrap Paradox). I think that Predestination and Free Will are not only compatible, but are actually two sides of the same coin.
Known elsewhere on this great big internet as Metaphizzle, Metaphoragizery, Mezzaphor, M23, and neutrino.
I tend to take my sweet time launching new tropes from YKTTW.
This troper provides examples of:
- Character Blog:
See here.No, here. - Cut Master
- Entry Pimp
- Fan Fic
- Geek and/or Nerd
- Cross Player / Real Men Use Pictures Of Cartoon Girls As Their Forum Avatars
- Nice Hat
- Splitter
If you're wondering, I used to go by Meta4. I phased out the numeral because typing those curly brackets was getting really annoying.
Here is a thing. Here is another thing.
- Gunnerkrigg Court
- Alt Text
- Our Dragons Are Different
- The Man Behind the Curtain (props to Prfnoff for the name)
- Blog
- Screen Name
- Self Explanatory
- Medium Awareness (props to Sci Vo for the name... I think)
- Lurker
- Rice Boy
- Film Noir
- Hero Ball
- The Adventures Of Dr Mc Ninja
- Star Wars Clone Wars
- Complaining About Shows You Dont Like
- Stock Shout-Outs
- Star Wars The Clone Wars
- Mood Dissonance
- Body Snatcher
- Metamorphosis
- Final Battle
- Made of Explodium (from a ykttw by Shale; props to him for the name as well)
- Camera Abuse
- Huge Guy, Tiny Girl
- Dodge the Bullet
- Magic Versus Science (from a ykttw by Erica MZDM)
- Our Tropes Are Different
- The Dark Knight Saga
- the Batman franchise page.
- Every Episode Ending
- Characters.Gunnerkrigg Court
- Shapeshifter Weapon
- Bedsheet Ghost (from a ykttw by Unknown Troper; props to Puck for the name)
- Roma (from a ykttw by Unknown Troper)
- Fauxtivational Poster (from a ykttw by Pisthetairos)
- TV Tropes Wiki Drinking Game
- Till We Have Faces
- Psychic Link
- I Am the Band
- Hellgate (from a ykttw by Unknown Troper)
- Pre-Mortem One-Liner (from a ykttw by Unknown Troper)
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here
- Brain Bleach (from a ykttw by Unknown Troper; original namer unknown)
- Shrug of God (from a ykttw by thatother1dude; props to daggerstab for the name)
- Earn Your Happy Ending (props to The Adversary for the name)
- Film.The Man Who Knew Too Little
- Mood-Swinger
- Flashback Effects
- White-Haired Pretty Girl (from near-simultaneous ykttw's by Hazel; props to silver2195 for the name)
- Roswell That Ends Well
- Gods Need Prayer Badly (from a ykttw by Unknown Troper)
- The Space Trilogy
- Overdrive (from a ykttw by Eponymous Kid)
- CS Lewis
- DarthWiki.Unpublished Works
- The Tunguska Event (from a ykttw by Echo Garrote)
- Nikola Tesla (Sort of. Kind of. Maybe. I launched it from a ykttw by Unknown Troper, with a lot of input from Fanra and Black Dragon, then within a day the entire article text had been Wiki Magicked into something better. But the header quote and picture are all me.)
- GastroPhobia
- Order Of Tales
- Silent Scenery Panel
- Chronic Hero Syndrome (from a ykttw by Unknown Troper)
- Five Iron Frenzy
- Not So Stoic (from a ykttw by Red Sweater)
- Also Sprach Zarathustra (from a ykttw by Syera)
- Raygun Gothic (from a ykttw by trouserwearingbarbarian)
- Temporal Mutability
- Fleep
- Bus Stop
- Bookhunter
- Meanwhile
- Jason Shiga
- Laconic.Chronic Hero Syndrome
- Laconic.This Is Sparta
- Musical Trigger and Laconic.Musical Trigger (from a suggestion by my roommate)
- Trivially Obvious
- Quotes Wiki
- Sufjan Stevens
- SCP Foundation
- Orphan's Ordeal
- Nay-Theist (from ykttw's by Captain Crowbar and Wizard Joni; props to Danel for the name.)
- Double Happiness
- The Man Who Saves The World
- Franchise Index
- A Light in the Distance (from a ykttw by an Unknown Troper)
- Analysis.Gunnerkrigg Court
- the X-Men franchise page.
- White Void Room
- Film.Outlander
- Starflyer 59
- Defiant to the End
- The Searchers
- Create Your Own Villain (from a ykttw by KJ Mackley)
- Superhero Paradox
- Holodeck Malfunction
- Haiku-Wiki (a brainstorm between myself, alliterator, and Dragon Quest Z; see here)
- Sonic 3 And Knuckles
- Tragic Mistake
- Heartbeat Soundtrack
- Sonic The Hedgehog 2 Special Edition
- Sonic The Hedgehog The Movie
- Sixteen Horsepower
- Woven Hand
- Havalina Rail Co
- Unwinders Tall Comics
- Brave Saint Saturn
- Deceased Crab (I'm claiming this one because I expanded it from an one-sentence stub left by an Unknown Troper.)
- Scotland PA
- Film.Hellboy
- "Its A Good Life"
- Checkerboard Nightmare
- Following
- Overside
- Walk, Don't Swim
- Step Up to the Microphone
- Hipster
- Yin-Yang Clash (props to Phenolatukas for the name)
- Unstoppable Force Meets Immovable Object (These last two were heavily reworked from a trope that spent mere hours in ykttw before getting launched and ending up on the Cut List. The author of the original ykttw has been lost to the ether.)
- Anonymous Band
- Self-Demonstrating Song
- Becoming the Boast
- Daniel Amos
- Xera
- Entertainment For The Braindead
- The One Thing I Don't Hate About You
- Glass-Shattering Sound (from ykttw's by Drawciawitch and Mr Initial Man)
- The Dingees
- Relationship-Salvaging Disaster
- Stereolab
- Hat of Power (Split off an abandoned thread started by Erpegis.)
- The Hat Makes the Man (Split off that same abandoned thread.)
- Jables's Adventure
- Empire State
- Danielson
- Duke Ellington
- Wise Blood
- Orbital
- Runforyerlife
- A Hawk and a Hacksaw
- The Idiot
- My Brightest Diamond
- Anti-Advice
- Calexico
- Jaga Jazzist
- Queen of the Wave
- Pepe DeluxƩ
- Afro Celt Sound System
- City Face
- Out of the Frying Pan
- Tealove's Steamy Adventure
- Insaneponyauthor
- Derailed
- David Byrne
- Diamond and Silver's Excellent Adventure
- Parents of Ponyville
- Half-Remembered Homage
- Horrendous Disc
- Ā”Alarma!
- DoppelgƤnger
- Vox Humana
- Fearful Symmetry
- Dream On You Crazy Princess
- "Homestar Runner Goes for the Gold"
- Abilene Paradox
- Danger Than Fiction
- Remix Album (from an old ykttw by Spain Sun)
- The Tim Tebow CFL Chronicles
- Suspicion Aesop
- First-Step Fixation
- Generation Xerox
- Dissimile
- Scrapbook Story
- Apocalypse How
- Authority Equals Asskicking
- Perma-Stubble
- Frickin' Laser Beams
- Wise Beyond Their Years
- Next Sunday A.D.
- Hyperspace Index
- Tradesnarkā¢
- Extranormal Institute
- The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body
- You Fail Nuclear Physics Forever
- Party at My Index
- Artistic Age
- Awesome McCoolname (though Fawriel deserves over half the credit for this one)
- Talk About That Thing
- Thanatos Gambit
- Fighting a Shadow
- Unexpected Gameplay Change and Gameplay Roulette (renamed from Unexpected Genre Change and Genre Roulette)
- Near-Death Clairvoyance
- Created this picture◊, originally intended for use on [Trope Name].
- Suggested the current shade of blue in use on ykttw (it's html hex #6EADDC).
- Reorganized the Fan Nickname examples, and split Troper Fan Nicknames off of it. (This was back before Troper Tales had been created.)
- Split Energy Weapon into Frickin' Laser Beams and Laser Blade (Props to Citizen for the name of the latter.)
- Retitled the old Wizarding School article to Extranormal Institute, then split off the current Wizarding School article as a subtrope.
- Split the nine individual alignment pages off of Character Alignment.
- The redirect Big Words.
- The icon that links to articles on
the Laconic Wiki andQuotes Wiki. - Split the other Ghost In The Shell pages off of Ghost In The Shell Stand Alone Complex.
- This button.◊ (Pixel-art Trope-tan courtesy of ccoa.)
- Renamed Unexpected Genre Change to Unexpected Gameplay Change, and split Genre Roulette off of Gameplay Roulette.
- Was called "the most important Troper" once.
Hooray for me.
Webcomics
- Gunnerkrigg Court
- Dinosaur Comics
- The Non Adventures Of Wonderella
- The Adventures Of Doctor Mc Ninja
- Wondermark
- Girl Genius
- Misunderstandings Between Friends
- Rice Boy / Order Of Tales
- No Rest for the Wicked
- GastroPhobia
- Blip
Movies
- The Incredibles
- Star Wars
- Lord Of The Rings
- Batman Begins and The Dark Knight
- Primer
- Pirates Of The Caribbean
- Groundhog Day
- The Man Who Knew Too Little
- Scotland PA
TV
- Mystery Science Theater 3000
- Monk
- Battlestar Galactica
- Star Wars Clone Wars
- Justice League
- Ghost In The Shell Stand Alone Complex
Books & Authors
Print Comicbooks
- Hellboy
- Doug TenNapel
Musicians
- Sufjan Stevens
- Starflyer 59
- Bon Voyage
- Havalina Rail Co. aka Havalina aka Matt Death and the New Intellectuals
- Gileah Taylor
- Anathallo
- Richard Swift
- Woven Hand
- Sixteen Horsepower
- Johnny Cash
- Duke Ellington
- Danielson
- Joy Electric
- Jars Of Clay
- Runforyerlife
- Five Iron Frenzy
- Flogging Molly
- Xera
- Kate Rusby
- Calexico
- Electric Light Orchestra
- The Dingees
- Demon Hunter
- Yes
- Chasing Furies
- The W's
- Korpiklaani
- Doug Burr
- Yma Sumac
- Orbital
- Entertainment For The Braindead
- Carlos Montoya
- Buena Vista Social Club (and its various members)
- Daniel Amos
- The Clash
- Stereolab
- The Kinks
- Afro Celt Sound System
- Axial
- A Hawk And A Hacksaw
- Haha what◊
- Whaaaa◊
- The worst thing in the world to say◊
- Need new eyes◊
- What was that◊
- Elated◊
- This thread again◊
- Yummy slaw◊
- I'm appalled.◊
- No! You!◊
- Gasp.◊
- Two thumbs up.◊
- Swoon.◊
- Totally fine.◊
- Hey guys, did you hear that Lauren Faust has a new cartoon?◊
- Yes.◊
- Stop all this nonsense.◊
- Trolling.◊
- Don't read it.◊
And here's some song lyrics I happen to like:
I found you trembling by yourself.
When the night falls
lightly on your right-wing shoulder,
wonderful know-it-all
slightly when the night gets colder.
I found you, star of terrifying effigies.
When the night falls,
I carry myself to the fortress
of your glorious cost.
Oh how I may seek your fortress.
When the night falls,
we see the star of wonder.
Wonderful night falls,
we see you, we see you there.
coming down there to the yard.
I see the stars coming down there,
coming down there to my heart.
So they see
It's not tired
My melody
I've been writing
Since 23
My memorial
(One more time)
Can I?
In the twinkling of an eye
Of an eye
We'll rise
Yeah that's me
You look worried?
Well yeah that's me
Is it over?
Well we'll see
My memorial
Write that for me?
It seems like it
That really spoke to me
But you made it up
You made it up
You made it up
You make it up
I know they are,
I do not need to see.
For things beyond,
the treasures hid,
the secrets that I keep.
For things behind
the bridges burned,
and those I wish I'd saved.
For things above,
a thousand tongues,
the angels and the saints.
the fury of life.
the beauty of truth,
the glory of God,
the glory of God,
the chaos of love,
the fury of life.
with the aliens
by sending them our culture and our ways of life
and all of our trends,
transmitting music and TV shows
and all the cool clothes,
hoping for approval from the aliens
but nobody knows
Whoa! They're sick of our movies!
Whoa! They're sick of our lies!
Whoa! They're coming to see us.
Baby get ready for a big surprise.
Whoa! They're bringing their weapons!
Whoa! They're gonna shove us around!
Whoa! The robots are coming
to bomb the city, destroy the town.
Hollywood is burning down.