#Order of the stick tv tropes full
The site explains on its entry page that "tropes are not cliches", and that listing a work as being full of tropes is not to say it is cliche or derivative. The tropes run the gamut from fairly obvious, widespread things (such as "Mad Scientist" above), to things that are more obscure and need more explaining (the "Cue Cullen" trope).
An author page would describe tropes that the author uses. An entry around a work, such as Star Wars, would list the tropes present in that work. A trope, for example, " mad scientist", will describe works in which it is present. The way the site works, is that each entry focuses on a trope, a work or an author/ creator. However, there is also some fairly intelligent comments made about any number of mediums, including classical literature. Being on the intarweb, and thus home to many geeks, there is much focus placed on anime, manga, and video games. The site was originally focused around the use of tropes in television (thus the name), but it now encompasses almost all forms of fiction. Tvtropes, a website located at, is a user-authored website based on a wiki engine, exploring the usage of tropes in fiction. System of describing tropes invites a subversion that escapes Something like this, hasn't there? I would imagine that any formal There has to be a Gödel's incompleteness theorem that applies to Lack of reach: it does try to be complete. Say what you will about the effort, but you can't fault it for a Which tropes are subverted (the audience expects a particular trope,īut the writers deliberately subvert their expectations),ĭouble-subverted, lampshaded (that is when an operative trope isĮxplicitly pointed out for comedic effect), or inverted (where the Language endemic to the website conjured to describe situations in Then, of course, there are the meta-tropes. Named for the most memorable examples thereof. Each entryįor a trope includes a detailed list of examples and tropes are usually Insufferably arrogant, but warms up gradually to the hero). " defrosting ice queen" (a romantic interest who starts out
" Three Is Company" (a plot based on a mis-overheard conversation) and the Spit take and technobabble, the site includes entries for the Thus, alongsideĬlassics such as synecdoche and paraleipsis or standbys like the The basic concept is to provide a common language forĭescribing tropes and discussing them. Video and tabletop games, comic books, and yes, Trope-prone), film, pulp literature, newsprint, Though rooted in the realm of television situationĬomedies, thence its name, it does not limit itself to sitcoms, or Tropes you might run into in your day-to-day media consumption. Of cataloguing and indexing the complete gamut of
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