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
Red is the traditional Scottish police box colour, still visible in Glasgow (one of the last places where Mackenzie Trench kiosks like that are still standing).
Still think the chainsword is the more pressing issue, though, given Games Workshop's claim to ownership and their track record for taking legal action. Even if you could successfully argue that their claim to the rights is illegitimate, I kinda doubt TVT has the funds to fight a court battle over this given that the point of the badges in the first place was to raise cash to support the site.
The Post Office/Giles Gilbert Scott kiosk series, yeah. Those look different, though.
Well, I've made my point I think. Do what you think best.
edited 20th May '12 9:22:07 AM by BobbyG
Welcome To TV Tropes | How To Write An Example | Text Formatting Rules | List Of Shows That Need Summary | TV Tropes Forum | Know The StaffThere's no reason why we can't have both.
As for replacement, is there any way for the Fast One to remove the blue boxes and refund the tropies?
I'd think not, since not every herald is going to want to wear the herald badge on them at all times. You only get three slots, after all.
edited 20th May '12 9:30:56 AM by DarkConfidant
Change blue for teal, if possible and add red as a separate one, I think.
edited 20th May '12 9:52:35 AM by Adannor
I don't feel we should be in the 'eliminate all references to something because someone might file a frivolous lawsuit' camp.
I could sue TV Tropes over literally anything I wanted. It would get promptly laughed out of court.
BRB, filing lawsuit for false advertising due to not being limited to TV. Also considering wrongful imprisonment suit for my Wiki Walks.
Fresh-eyed movie blogI'd just take the damn thing down, but admittedly I'm not a Warhammer fan.
I fink, when the amount of actual danger from an action is uncertain, but the worst case scenario of it is, like, really bad, and the best isn't really much to write home about in the first place, one should just consider the action itself really unlucky, as in bad juju, and not do it. This is the sort of reason why people wear seatbelts.
Best case scenario: Games Workshop never even notices, the forum gets another few dollars from the badge that could very well be made by just about any other badge, and everything's about status quo. Worst case scenario, we get sued off of the face of the internet because Games Workshop is a lot of bastards. If we take it down, the best case scenario is pretty much unaltered, and the worst is demoted to something less virtually lethal.
I say we drop the effin' chainsword.
Ponders too much; thinks too little. Currently goes by Knowlessman.Y'know, I just thought of something Games Workshop could do if they felt like being really sneaky: They could ask a few Tropers who have bought the badge what it is, see nine dot repeating of 'em answer, "Chainsword, yo! Cost me about a buck!" decide that's evidence or summat, and then sue the wiki into the ground. You can Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp", but if somebody's got a copyright on rabbits, you can call it "the reason I'm broke."
Ponders too much; thinks too little. Currently goes by Knowlessman.It's like the TARDIS thing. Doesn't matter what you call it, it's still a chainsword and people are buying them because they are chainswords.
They aren't even that cool and could easily be replaced. There isn't a reason to keep them around.
I see you've made your decision. Now let's see you enforce it.

Here's the teal. Red tends to be more associated with phone booths though. Not police boxes.
Maybe we should make it a color that police box's actually were, historically. Though a purple box would be a nice variant.
I see you've made your decision. Now let's see you enforce it.