The new TVTropes app (in beta testing)
has resurrected The Badge Shop
and moderators can now give out award badges via the app and anyone who uses the app can add any other badge to their account for free! Badges are viewable in all sections of the site on the app (Forums, Queries, Discussions, TLP and Reviews)
The new app should be available to the general public within the next couple of weeks!
NEW BADGE SUBMISSIONS:
- Users can submit designs for new badges for review via this thread. If approved by the moderators and the admins any moderator can then add that new badge to the badge shop via the Badge Shop Manager.
- New badges should be of higher quality and not appear pixelated like current older badges, we can now upload higher quality images for them.
- New badges should have a transparent background so they don't show a different color background when on night vision.
(Started this thread based on this thread/post.
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For those that are unaware, one of the ideas for bringing in some money from the forum-side of the wiki is to sell "badges" (sort-of like the Herald one) that you can buy and put up as part of your "gingerbread" .
The shop can be found by clicking on the "basket" at the top of any post. There is a 1 USD -> 1Þ exchange rate.
Each person who buys a badge will also be able to customize the hover text that people see for their particular badges. (Note: Only plain text is usable for a caption. Potholes and other wiki formatting will not work)
There are three slots under the avatar and above the "title" space to display them. You will be able to get to your gallery (where you can chose which ones you want to show and their order) by clicking on these slots.
If you wish to participate in making the badges, they need to be a max of 24x24 pix.
The only things we are completely keeping out of the store are symbols that are generally associated with any religion (the Yin-Yang and such are more known for other reasons), gender/sex/sexual orientation badges, and ones that infringe on copyrights. If you see things that you think do infringe, you probably don't have to worry about it. Those are images that don't match their originals (the heart container), are free-to-use, or the original copyright owner has lost their privilege to go after the "offending" images by not going after them in the past.
Please use this thread for everything badge-related.
The rest of this post is taken up by badge ideas, links to badges people have made, and default text ideas. NOTE: The list has not been updated in quite a while (and will probably never be) now that badge ideas/submissions appear naturally in the thread and go strait into the shop.
Mod-given
- wiki visual artist
: True Art is Taxonomical
- en-lightener
- Do a great deal of grunt work in the Wiki
- re-railing OTC threads : Rerailway Conductor
Purchased for own use
- Hey! I hang out in _____ forum! (might use the wiki images—a book for Lit—for these)
- Video Games : Wii would like to trope. | Don't throw this into the screen—again. | Got to love those pixelated llamas.
- Lit : Has a big enough book that it's a certified weapon. | An avid bookworm that had barrowed into the forum's soil. | Who needs pictures when you have paper/text? | Hardcover or paperback? The hardest choice since paper and plastic—although it's definitely paper.
- Amime/manga
- Tabletop games
- a d20
: d20 | The Troll swings at you with the stolen banhammer roll for a saving throw. | Game masters always keep a set of dice handy. | For the roleplayer who like a little...randomness.
- 6 more options for a d20
- The "20" on a d20
| You rolled a critical! Unfortunately, that could be a bad thing...
- a d20
- Wiki Talk
- IP : Can choose the right pics for a trope page easily.
- TRS
- a TRS hard hat
: Anarchitect : Trope Repair Crew
- a TRS hard hat
- Western Animation
- Webcomics
- Visual Novels
- Music : (Lady Gaga) Snap, snap, trope that hit on the radio! | (Carefull With That Ax) Careful with that dubstep!
- Live Action TV
- Live Action Film
- Comics
- Visual Arts
- Radio
- Seasonal/holiday
- Spring
- Summer
- Fall
- Halloween
- Winter
- Christmas
- Easter
- 4th of July
- "My country's birthday"
- Affiliations
- the anti-discrimination "rainbow"
| One of many QUILTBAGS.
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7 religious symbols (different religions)Vetoed - US armed forces (Army, USMC, USAF, and USN)
These do not infringe on copyright... Right?
- US Army
- US Marine Core
- US Armed Forces
- US Navy
- the anti-discrimination "rainbow"
- Other (interest and personality related come to mind)
- Ask me for help
| Better than your average help desk.
- Celebration
- References
-
Poke-ball(copyrighted) - Pynchon "bugle"
| We Await Silent Trystero's Empire!
- An Aleph null
(math term, link to
The Other Wiki)
- Slendy's Operator symbol
from The Slender Man Mythos
- Eye of Providence
as used in the US
- Script/writing
from The Lord of the Rings
- A Companion Cube
| Remains safely operational up to 4000 degrees Kelvin. | Will never threaten to stab you.
- A Cthulhu-head
- a Wug
from an English-speaking linguistics test
)
- EU
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- sports' balls (including pool balls)
- All 15 pool balls
- Baseball ball
- Basketball ball
- Weapons
- Tv Tropes references ]]
- Gems (originally based on "chaos gems")
- Anamals
- Random : a pair of rose-colored glasses : a boat/ship]]
- skull and cross bones
- Doomsday clock
- The power-button symbol
- A Fleur-de-lis
(The Other Wiki link
)
- a fire extinguisher
| No need to call 911! | Useful for extinguishing flame wars—or not.
- Omega
- Horseshoe (flipped omega)
- skull and cross bones
- Ask me for help
- Stuff that was "gift only"
- Tropers who are great at making puns
- a badge(r)
| Very punny, indeed.
Other ideas
Profile Badges that direct others to certain other accounts"have to reserve what happens by clicking a badge. So, no badges that link elsewhere."
- Possible "double" badge for Heralds
- Custom badges
Edited by kory on Feb 10th 2025 at 11:26:30 AM
Maybe we should make a Lime badge for people who took part in the ARG.
edited 30th Sep '12 2:46:22 PM by VmKid
Speaking as someone who had neither part nor interest in the ARG, that sounds like a good idea to me.
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It's actually a smiley from the Font "fixedsys".
I don't know if it's copyrighted or not, but if Toady used it in DF it probably isn't.
Evil is my favorite color.Why not a whole lime? That looks more like kiwi than anything else to me, but I know a lime when I'm looking at a whole one.
EDIT: Or at least a candy that's meant to look like one. :/
edited 30th Sep '12 3:30:59 PM by Artemis92
Ponders too much; thinks too little. Currently goes by Knowlessman.BTW, could someone explain the meme to me?
Oh yeah, and how do badges get added to the store?
edited 1st Oct '12 4:43:46 AM by TropeEater
Evil is my favorite color.The lime thing? I took a quick swing through the thread about the ARG, and it appears that several people are discussing a "Lime-Man" related to the game somehow. I'm probably missing something about its origins, but hey, if they want lime badges, we should give them lime badges. It's not like it's any difficulty.
Reminder: Offscreen Villainy does not count towards Complete Monster.Lime Man originated from a typo in one of Mr. Administrator's tweets, where "Limited" became "Limeted". Then we just ran with it, appointing Lime Man Memetic Badass status and even becoming an Ascended Meme when he was added to the plot.
edited 1st Oct '12 10:24:50 AM by VmKid
That sounds very silly. But I suppose most memes of all flavors are, and hardly the first to be spawned from a typo. I guess it would go under the TV Tropes section, since it is a meme based off the ARG.
Reminder: Offscreen Villainy does not count towards Complete Monster.Only one of the heraldry badges got in. I thought there were only a few problem badges?
The Crystal Caverns A bird's gotta sing.Is that the reason for most of the heradlry badges being absent?
The Crystal Caverns A bird's gotta sing.

I made a Dorf image that I think we might be able to use for a "reference" badge.
Which is better, the crispier one, or the antialiased one?
edited 30th Sep '12 1:05:16 PM by TropeEater
Evil is my favorite color.