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.
)
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
Vampire (Dracula), werewolf, whatever other Public Domain Characters may interest people?
Robin Hood('s hat)?
edited 22nd May '12 11:12:17 PM by Adannor
Think Catalogue should have gotten an artist award badge instead of a badge award badge :)
Becky: Who are you? The Mysterious Stranger: An angel. Huck: What's your name? The Mysterious Stranger: Satan.Didn't know about the P5 pages until I get the PM for one. Thanks to everyone involved!
Visit my contributor page to assist with the "I Like The Cheeses" project!At this point, shima is doing most of the work. Other than that, Best Of seems to be the mod most active with giving out the badges and Eddie might still be working on some of the coding. A few other people are creating badges, but most of us just provide the occasional idea and shima is the one putting them in the shop.
@ Badge categories: I believe shima is following the same rule I did: see what people create and put them in new categories once there are enough of them to have a clear category. I know some of the current categories have been made in the time since the shop was opened.
edited 23rd May '12 6:17:38 AM by Belian
Yu hav nat sein bod speeling unntil know. (cacke four undersandig tis)the cake is a lie!I would help in badge creation... but while I have a solid critical eye and can offer suggestions as to what does and doesn't work, I can't do visual arts to save my life.
I'm a much better writer than artist... this should surprise absolutely nobody, particularly in this thread.
EDIT: By the way, in case it wasn't clear, I love the hibiscus. Even though I'm not displaying it yet, I had to have it.
edited 23rd May '12 6:41:07 AM by 32_Footsteps
Reminder: Offscreen Villainy does not count towards Complete Monster.Unlike 32 Footsteps, I'm a graphic artist, but writing short bits of humour on the fly doesn't come easily to me. He's done a lot of work.
Catelogue, I complied that list of people whose work I used and who had helped out with the thread in various ways. If you got a badge badge, you earned it.
Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. DickI can't "make" badges, really. But I have a lot of practice with cropping and resizing, so I can make images and pieces of images badge-sized. So if there are any symbols or icons or pictures that people think will make good badges, I'm more than willing to contribute.
Join us in our quest to play all RPG video games! Moving on to disc 2 of Grandia!Shima, something tells me that there's someone who deserves a badge for helping here who hasn't got one yet. You. You deserve one perhaps more than anyone else for all your work making badges. I'm trying to decide whether to Holler this post to get one of the other mods to award you with one, as you might not want to do so yourself.
Shima already has a badge.
"If you aren't him, then you apparently got your brain from the same discount retailer, so..." - FighteerA badge by any other name would smell just as sweet.
I think that rose looks good. In addition to a black rose (Dark may not be evil, but it sure is dangerously romantic), I think a white rose would be appropriate. We could even do a subtle nod to it in the description - A mark of purity, standing against the worst of us. I'm sure some history buff will get that reference (no, it isn't one to Revolutionary Girl Utena).
EDIT: The redone rose post ninja'd me. I actually like the first better, but the higher contrast one would make for a better template for a white rose.
edited 23rd May '12 8:30:43 AM by 32_Footsteps
Reminder: Offscreen Villainy does not count towards Complete Monster.Ok, Black doesn't look good, but Purple Is the New Black and there's long been a trend of using blue highlights for black, so I did those instead:
I want the pink and purple one! It looks pretty.
Here's a basic mug I've been working on for a little while.
Great for serving Frothy Mugs of Water.
edited 23rd May '12 8:59:31 AM by DarkConfidant

I've made quite a few, and Rodney said I can ask for one. That's what I mainly do here anyway. On the other hand, I don't remember making badges... : Any new badge categories we can make?
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