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"I know it's easier to portray a world filled with cynicism and anger, where problems are solved with violence...It's an easy out. What's a whole lot tougher is to offer alternatives, to present other ways conflicts can be resolved, and to show you can have a positive impact on your world. To do that, you have to put yourself out on a limb, take chances, and run the risk of being called a do-gooder."

—The 12th Doctor^note Okay, actually Jim Henson, but admit it, you read it in Peter Capaldi's voice, didn't you?

"My felt monster looks so old-fashioned next to this space-age chibi virus. "

—Myself, obviously not caring about the "one quote per page top" rule (and no, it doesn't make sense in context either).

"You're probably not two robots."

—As far as I can remember, the first thing DrNoPuma ever said to me.

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Okay, I think I got it right. I'm TropesForever, and I'm sort of like a cheap knockoff of everyone else. Y'know how if you mix all the ice cream flavours together, you end up with this weird bland purplish-grey stuff? That's me.

"He who is neither one thing nor the other has no friends."

— Aesop

Forever, this is too depressing. It ain't gonna fly off the shelves unless ya do a little exaggeration!

But this is a webpage...

I don't care!

Fine...

Once, when the very fabric of the universe was still young, Mankind was born. And almost as long as there has been man, there have been Tropes. But, the ancient ones realised that tropes are fragile things. One humble creature was chosen as the guardian of tropes. And from that day forth, he was known as... TROPES...FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!

...O...kay. Well, since some sane people are going to click on this eventually, I may as well say some vaguely useful stuff. I've been lurking this wiki since about sometime in 2014, but didn't join until the 15th of July, 2016. I was initially known as CamelCase, but then stuff happened. I've had my current name since the 5th of September, 2016. I can be found in most parts of the site, reading if not contributing.

If I had to describe myself in three fictional characters, as is so often done around here, I would...phone a friend. (But which friend?)

I make music! Here's my SoundCloud if you wanna check it out.

On the subject of nicknames, I don't really have a preference. "Tropes", "Forever" and "TF" are all fine (although Heather has advised against the last one for...reasons). Most people use "Tropes", though I have a soft spot for "Forever" as it allows me to make daft jokes, like so:

Lisa Simpson: I feel like I've been wearing the same red dress forever.

Me: You called?

I introduced my IRL friend Aveyond to this site, and I'm proud to have done so! She's also my girlfriend now, and I couldn't be happier.

Feel free to PM me any time, even if we've never met and you just randomly stumbled upon this page. In fact, especially if we've never met and you just randomly stumbled upon this page.

So...that's me in a nutshell. A very large nutshell, but a nutshell nonetheless.

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That's all, folks!











Wait, there's more?

Here's the foldercontrol before I forget: And here are the folders. Keep an eye on them for me, will you? Don't want them running off again.

Stuff I've done

• I am responsible for the deaths of Good Grief Another Peanuts Shout Out and Bowties Are Cool. Odd, since they're both based on works I love.
• I've written for The Muppets (by which I mean I added Statler and Waldorf to the Chick Magnet page, something I'm much more proud of than is strictly healthy.)
• Pages I created include Creator.Anthony Daniels, SelfDemonstrating.Larry Da Vinci, SelfDemonstrating.Attack Of The Eye Creatures, and Characters.Little Big Planet. As CamelCase, I made VideoGame.Dreams, Laconic.Little Big Planet, WesternAnimation.Soupe Opera and all its subpages, and Radar.Little Big Planet.
• I came up with the current name for Creator's Apathy. Yes! Me! I named the trope! I put the words "Creator" and "Apathy" together! With an apostrophe and an "s" in the middle! I even put the words in the right order so they don't say "Apathy's Creator"! That was all me! I feel sick.
• I currently have one TLP draft, Ambiguously the Same Individual.
• I launched the trope Musical Squares.
• I've made a lot of threads on Forum Games, but the biggest is easily the sitcom parody Play-by-Post Game Tropers: The Series (link to the actual game here). It's a bit weird a lot of the time, but it's also relatively episodic, so ask me in PMs or the discussion thread if you wanna join!
• My second-most successful thread is probably Bad ideas for forum games v2 (READ THE RULES FIRST), my second attempt at the idea after the ill-fated first version (which I won't link here) crashed and burned.

I don't have anywhere else to put this, but it needs to go somewhere. Thanks to Caliburn Absolute EX who wrote the words, and Heather, who it was made for.

Places I'm at outside of this site

• Wikipedia, where I still go by CamelCase.
• Wikia, where I'm called Jack Busstein (not my real name either, by the way). I'm most active on the LittleBigPlanet Wiki, where I'm an admin. (That sounds a bit narcissistic, but that's what these pages are for, amirite?)
• My YouTube channel.
• Twitter!
• PM me if you want to know my Discord handle.
• If you play LittleBigPlanet, here's my LBP.me profile.
• My SoundCloud, just in case you forgot.
• I can also be contacted on tin-can phone. My number is 3.

A single userbox

You may wonder what a userbox is: it's a Wikipedia thing. Though apparently Instagram had stolen them now? Bah. We had them before it was cool.

This user tries to do the right thing. If they make a mistake, please let them know.

Headcanons

Voices

• A New Hope:
  • Luke: Mark Hamill
  • Han: Harrison Ford
  • Leia: Carrie Fisher
  • Darth Vader: James Earl Jones
  • C-3PO: Anthony Daniels
  • Obi-Wan: Alec Guinness
  • Tarkin: Peter Cushing

• The Muppets:
  • Kermit: Jim Henson
  • Miss Piggy: Frank Oz
  • Robin: Jerry Nelson
  • Gonzo: sorta like Dave Goelz's Gonzo voice

Other

• Darth Vader is Luke's father.
• The Doctor's home planet is called Gallifrey.
• Uncle Deadly's nephew is Asriel Dreemurr. Why do I think this? I don't know.

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1. Real Name: CamelCase
2. Real Real Name: Not Telling.
3. Gender: Male
4. Your teeth are about to fall out and your skin is about to turn green.
5. Myers–Briggs thingamabob: INFP.
6. Which Muppet I am according to this quiz: Fozzie. I'm proud of my result. He's not my favourite Muppet ever, but he's in the top 10.
7. Age according to "How old is the above poster?": Anywhere from 14 to 30. The average is 20.
8. Credit Card No: I'm not telling you that!

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Bye, everybody!









Oh, you've got to be kidding me...

Stuff I like

Some attempt has been made to list favourite characters too.

Literature

• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Jabberwocky and The Hunting of the Snark too. I haven't read Through the Looking-Glass, but would like to one day.)
• The Bible. I don't read it as much as I probably should, but I'm a Christian, so I should include it.

Newspaper Comics

• Peanuts

Magazines

• MAD Magazine

Music

• I tend to like individual songs (that I discover from being used in a work or random internet surfing), more than artists themselves. I would like to get into a lot more artists, but at the moment, these are the only ones I specifically follow:
• The Beatles, who I'm utterly obsessed with.
• Scott Joplin. I should really write a page for him one day.
• Queen
• Bob Dylan
• One specific song I discovered, The Windmills of Your Mind, deserves a special mention. DrNoPuma and I both love it.

Animated Films

• Yellow Submarine: As I've mentioned, I love the Beatles.
• The LEGO Movie
• The Nightmare Before Christmas
• Nearly every Pixar film, but especially Toy Story and WALL•E.
• Most entries in the Disney Animated Canon, though I haven't seen most of them for a while. My favourite is Moana because Tamatoa.

Live-Action TV

• Doctor Who
• Blackadder
• Fawlty Towers
• The Goodies
• Horrible Histories
• The Flash (2014)

Animated TV

• Soupe Opéra (It Needs More Love, damnit!)
• The Simpsons
  • Steamed Hams videos are pretty funny too.
• Futurama
• Earthworm Jim (The TV show. Haven't played any of the games, though they seem interesting.)
• Many popular Cartoon Network shows, in increasing order of how far behind I am on them:
  • Regular Show
  • Adventure Time
  • Steven Universe

Video Games

• LittleBigPlanet. My favourite playable character is (obviously) Sackboy, and my favourite NPCs are Clive Handforth and Larry Da Vinci.
• Undertale and Deltarune
• Adventure
• Minecraft (I'm no Minecraft obsessive, but it is fun.)
• Puyo Puyo Tetris
• LEGO Star Wars, especially The Original Trilogy.
• Henry Stickmin Series

Webcomics

• xkcd, though admittedly some of them go way over my head. It's still very funny.

Web Video

• Undertale the Musical and other videos by Man On The Internet (who deserves a page by now)

Multiple Media

• The Muppets. That's right, everything on that page, including the stuff I haven't seen, though with a preference towards The Muppet Show characters. My favourite Muppet is Rowlf.
  • Jim Henson's other films and projects such as The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth.
• Star Wars.
  • I like all the films, and I love the obscure, now non-canon cartoon Droids somewhat disproportionally. Artoo and Threepio are my favourite characters.
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (well, the TV series and movie at any rate. I haven't read the books or the radio series, mostly because you can't read a radio series.)
• The Monty Python films and TV series.

Misc

• Steven Universe Presents: Something — The Movie, whose poster you saw at the top of this page. (If only it existed...)
• Photoshop, though as you can probably tell I have no idea how to design stuff that doesn't hurt people's eyes.
• Aveyond. If you're reading this, I love you. <3

Pearl: You know, Rowlf, this don't make any sense at all.
Rowlf: I know, Pearl, but we're stuck with it. Let the joust begin!

— The Muppet Show

The Joust—er, Tropes That Apply to Me

• Asperger's Syndrome: I know it's not technically a trope, but it's worth noting that I have been diagnosed with it.
• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Downplayed, and exaggerated at the same time. Isn't life funny?
• Bad Impressionists: On this very page, in fact, as well as all over the forums and in real life.
• Brief Accent Imitation: I sometimes do it on the forums, by copying the syntax of whatever or whoever comes to mind for no reason. I do this a lot in real life as well.
• Cuckoosnarker: Describes me pretty well, though I do try to hold back on my snark so I don't hurt people.
• The Ditherer: Pretty much everything on this page is inaccurate at one time or another, because I can't make up my dang mind.

• Forgetful Jones: Sometimes, occasionally, however, to an extent.
• The Gadfly: Downplayed. I do enjoy messing with people...up to a point. I'm just still working out where that point is.
• I Have Many Names: Even I don't remember them all.
• Innocently Insensitive: I have that userbox for a reason.
• The Internet Is For Fools: Well, it looks like it should be a trope.
• Jim Henson: Averted, I'm not him.
• Mad Artist: I don't do drugs. I am drugs.
• Meaningful Rename: Inverted. Neither of my handles really "means" anything, I only changed because I accidentally locked myself out of the old one.

We interrupt this troper page for an important news update.

Yesterday morning at 5:35 AM, a mysterious figure was seen vandalising TroperWall.Tropes Forever. Witnesses have described the suspect as wearing five different hats, each stacked on top of the other. Police are currently investigating.

And now back to regular programming.

• I told you, Alice, that's not how you repair a lawnmower! Wait, are we on again?
• Neutral Good: According to the internet, and the internet never lies.
• Official Couple: With Aveyond. <3
• Pet-Peeve Trope: True Art Is Angsty. I have no problem with angsty works, but I absolutely hate the idea that lighter, sillier, or more idealistic works are somehow below darker ones. I especially despise the idea that the lighter works should be "fixed" through Cerebus Syndrome.
• Ridiculous Procrastinator: This trope should be automatically included on everyone's page. It would be self-fulfilling: If you procrastinate on removing it, it applies to you, but if you can be bothered to remove it, it doesn't apply to you.
• Serial Escalation:
  • My sense of humour in general uses this a lot.
  • In particular, The musicians avatar. It started of with just Rowlf, then I added Schroeder, then the Doctor, then Marceline, then other tropers started suggesting characters...
• Situational Sociability: I'd daresay this trope applies to most tropers, in fact. Probably related to my dithering.
• Small Reference Pools: See that list of works up there? Those are about 70% of the works I'm familiar with.
• Those Two Guys: At times, with DrNoPuma.

Favourite Tropes

You're still reading this thing? I'm impressed.

• Bathos
• Bavarian Fire Drill
• Big Damn Movie
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment
• Chain of Corrections
• Dark Is Not Evil (Though I could go either way on Light Is Not Good)
• DrNoPuma: It's cool whenever he appears in a work.
• Establishing Character Moment
• Genre-Busting, Genre Mashup and Genre Roulette
• Interface Screw
• Large Ham
• Massive Multiplayer Crossover and Weird Crossover
• Overly Long Gag
• Recursive Reality: Which is obvious if you've seen my "Troper Ventriloquism" or read my review for this site...ON this site.
• Self-Deprecation: This list is almost entirely ZCEs. TropesForever should be ashamed of himself.
• Stylistic Suck
• The Walrus Was Paul
• Word Salad Humour

Troper Themes (kind of)

WIP. A fun concept stolen from DrNoPuma, Revaryk, Bluethorn and ZeroL. For a twist, all of these are Beatles songs.

Also, some of these are more abstract than others. It's weird.

• Actual Beatrice: Penny Lane
• The Advertisement Server: Taxman
• Anza_sb: Octopus's Garden
• Heather: Beautiful Days (I know I said these'd all be Beatles songs, but this is like the exception that proves the rule.)
• Bluethorn: Hello Goodbye
• Def Revenge 24601: I'm not sure. (WIP. WIP.)
• DrNoPuma: Here Comes the Sun / Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!
• EeveeGirlChey: Magical Mystery Tour
• Murataku: We Can Work It Out
• MvflG: Strawberry Fields Forever
• Random Writer 413: What's the New Mary Jane
• Raspy Mink: Let It Be
• Taco Badger: Come Together
• Tre: Because
• Totally Not An Alien: Sun King
• William Radar Storm: Only A Northern Song
• ZeroL: I Am The Walrus
• TropesForever: I'm a Loser
• WIP: WIP. WIP WIP WIP WIP.

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Misc. Stuff

• If I'm not mistaken this was my first post on the Thread Anti-Necromancy Game, and this was my first on Ask the above poster a question.

And finally, the famous "Musicians" picture.

This used to be my big the on the forum, but I haven't used it recently so you probably haven't heard of it. Note: I only know who about a quarter of these actually are.

^note Characters and their instruments in no particular order: Rowlf on piano, Schroeder on piano, Max Rebo with his weird Star Wars instrument, Marceline with her axe bass, The Second Doctor on recorder, Lisa Simpson with her saxophone, The Robot Devil and his golden fiddle, a Lyrical Nymph and the Bard Courtier from Towergirls (suggested by Tranquilis), Nikki (suggested by Cabe Bedlam), Jade Harley on the advanced bass (suggested by ZeroL), Dr. Yado on trumpet (suggested by Heather), James May on piano (suggested by MvflG), Data with a violin, Haruka Tenoh on piano, Applejack with a fiddle, Asuka Tanaka with a euphonium (suggested by Sazandora), Edward with a lute, Gustafa with a guitar or something (suggested by The Farmboy), Lyrica, Lunasa and Merlin (suggested by Revaryk), Mr. Krabs with The World's Smallest Violin, Chico Marx on piano, House on piano, a demon from Silly Symphonies on his organ and Little King John on organ (both suggested by DrNoPuma), and Ritsu Tainaka on drums. PM me if you have another suggestion.

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