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Articles launched by Bisected (If you make an edit on these, I'll probably be scrutinising it)
Tropes:
- All Psychology Is Freudian - The idea that only Freudian psychology appears in media.
- Archaeological Arms Race - Fighting a war while racing to dig your weapons out of the wreckage.
- Avenging the Villain - A loved one of the villain appears to take on the heroes after the villain's defeat.
- Author Catchphrase - A phrase, character type, etc that an author keeps using throughout their work.
- Bodyguarding a Badass - Someone is assigned to protect a much more powerful character.
- Book Snap - Slamming a book shut because you're angry.
- Charlie and the Chocolate Parody - A Whole-Plot Reference to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (either one of the films or Roald Dahl's book)
- Canon Identifier - Player Characters without distinguishing features have specific titles so you can be clear which one you're talking about.
- Class Clown - That one kid who always has to be the centre of attention in school.
- Clone by Conversion - Creating a copy of someone by transforming somebody else into them.
- Cloudcuckoolander's Minder - They might be funny to you, but someone's got to keep an eye on them.
- Conspicuous in the Crowd - Someone in a crowd stands out because they're acting differently.
- Constrained Writing - When a writer (or similar creative mind) sets themselves some sort of limit to follow.
- Contagious Cassandra Truth - Someone finally convinces someone else of their Cassandra Truth...and nobody believes them either.
- Cool Teacher - A teacher...who is cool.
- Cooperation Gambit - Making a fair, short term deal with your enemy.
- Coup de Grâce Cutscene - When a video game boss' defeat is followed by a cutscene of the Player Character giving the finishing blow.
- Death of Personality - A person is killed by losing what makes them "them", rather than physically dying.
- Delayed Narrator Introduction - The narrator is introduced as a character part way through and points themselves out.
- UsefulNotes.Digital Distribution - A guide to electronic media being sold via downloads.
- Disability Immunity - Not being harmed by something (as opposed to being superhuman) because of a disability.
- Disguised Hostage Gambit - Disguising someone you've taken hostage to trick their own allies into attacking them.
- Dungeon-Based Economy - Dungeon Crawling is the major local industry.note
- Dying Declaration of Love - Renamed it from Going Down with the Ship to free up the title for another trope.*
- Enhanced Archaic Weapon - Supertrope for chainswords, lightsabres, rocket powered hammers, etc
- Equipment-Based Progression - Getting more powerful in a video game by getting better weapons rather than Experience Points.
- Equipment Upgrade - Modify your gear to make it better.
- Evil Luddite - A Well-Intentioned Extremist who's decided technology (and everyone who uses it) is evil.
- Exploited Immunity - Expose yourself and a (not) friend to something which will harm them, but not you!
- Expose the Villain, Get His Job - Your reward for defeating the villain is the job he held.Launched by...
- Exposition Diagram - The audience (and possibly the characters) have things explained to them with a handy diagram.
- Fictional Disability - A character has a handicap that doesn't exist in the real world.
- Game Over note - Exactly What It Says on the Tin.
- Going Down with the Ship * - A Captain must go down with his ship as it sinks (or at least be the last one off).
- UsefulNotes.Graphical Perspective - How to draw a 3D image on a 2D medium.
- Hand Hiding Sleeves - Long sleeves. Basically a YKTTW that I and a couple of other tropers salavaged, rather than one I started myself. Now cut and turned into a disambiguation.
- Hollywood Game Design - The ways in which the process of making games is portrayed.
- Horror Hates a Rulebreaker - In the horror genre, the supernatural hates rule breakers.
- I Don't Know Mortal Kombat - Someone who's good at something failing miserably at a simulation of it.
- Improbable Use of a Weapon - Using an actual weapon wrongly (not to be confused with Improbable Weapon User).
- Increasingly Lethal Enemy - The longer the fight goes on, the hard it is to defeat.
- Lady Legionnaire Wear - Segmented skirts show that a female character means business.
- Large Ham Title - A title someone frequently has appended to their name.
- Literally Prized Possession - Someone goes out of their way to win something that isn't their primary goal, showing off something about their character.
- Living Weapon - A weapon...that is alive. Eventually split into;
- Lower-Class Lout - The less well off counterpart to Upper-Class Twit
- "Marathon Man" Now renamed Plot-Powered Stamina - Sleep is for the
weakreal! - Manual Leader, A.I. Party - When the player in a game controls one character and has a Player Party of AI controlled allies.
- Model Dissonance - Assets in a game are fudged to look right or make the game run better, which looks weird if you peek behind the scenes.
- Mugging the Monster - When a low level crook tries to rob someone more powerful than they expected.
- Multiple Reference Pun - A pun which references several different things at once.
- Mutual Disadvantage - When two sides in a fight or battle can't get an advantage over each other, meaning its either drawn out or could go either way.
- Mysterious Backer - Does the job of a Big Good without any of the benevolence.
- Natural Weapon - Weapons which the user is born with.
- New Ability Addiction - You've got it and thus you are going to use it, dammit!
- The Nicknamer - A character who enjoys handing out nicknames.
- No Scope - Killing someone with a long range weapon (typically a Sniper Rifle) without using the attached scope.
- Not Rare Over There - You find someone who has what you've been searching for...and they're amazed you want something so trivial.
- Obsolete Mentor - A mentor of a character who hasn't kept up with the times.
- The One with a Personal Life - The one member of the crew who still has a life outside of adventuring.
- Online Alias - Usernames as they appear in fiction.
- Opposed Mentors - The hero has two mentors...and they both have very different plans for them.
- Our Robots are Non-standard note - The ways in which robots vary from work to work.
- Passive Rescue - Saving someone from captivity by giving them the means to escape rather than just breaking them out.
- Precautionary Corpse Disposal - A setting or situation where anyone who dies will become a monster, or otherwise dangerous.
- Phlebotinum Muncher - A creature which needs to eat whatever substance drives the plot to survive.
- Player Data Sharing - Exchanging user generated content between single player video game campaigns.
- Police Brutality Gambit - Pretending the cops beat you up to force them to let you go.
- Post-Adventure Adventure - A story deals with the aftermath of an adventure that took place off screen.
- Randomly Generated Loot - Loot in games has random stats and effects.
- Recruited from the Gutter - Rescuing someone from a crappy life by recruiting them to your cause or organisation.
- Restrained Revenge - "Forgiving" someone by taking a token lesser revenge rather than just letting them off the hook.
- Retro Upgrade - A new advancement gives obsolete technology a new lease of life.
- Reviving Enemy - An enemy in a video game which can't be defeated permanently (at least without exploiting some sort of weakness).
- Roaming Enemy - An enemy in a video game which in some way travels the in-game world.
- Role-Reversal Boss - A boss battle where the player controls the boss character instead.
- Scary Flashlight Face - Chin + Torch -[Upwards]-> TERROR!
- Sealed Cast in a Multipack - When the heroes and/or villains are all sealed away separately and have to be recovered.
- Series Mascot - A mascot of a given series of games, films etc or a company which produces them.
- Seriously Scruffy - When someone's too busy to groom themselves.
- Standard RPG Items - The items you get in every RPG worth its salt.
- Starter Equipment - The equipment you begin the game with.
- Sticky Fingers (rewrite, with The Kleptomaniac added as an alt title) - Someone who can't help but steal things.
- The Story That Never Was: The only way to get what you're after is to Ret-Gone the entire events of the plot!
- Subverted Punchline - An obvious joke is telegraphed...and replaced by another.
- Supernaturally-Validated Trans Person: A tran's person has their gender confirmed by a supernatural force of some sort.
- Tattoo Sharpie - When a permanent marker is permanent, even on skin.note
- The Team Benefactor - The member of the team who picks up the cheque.
- Time-Delayed Death - When someone is killed by an earlier injury.
- Translate the Loanwords, Too - A translater fails to recognise a word isn't like the others....
- The TV Tropes Cast List - A list of characters used on trope pages.
- Uniformity Exception - One of a bunch of identical characters gets a hat or something.
- Unintentionally Notorious Crime - A criminal gets away with their crime but draws unwanted attention in the process.
- Unknown Character - Someone who moves the plot along without ever being shown.
- Utility Weapon - A weapon which is used to bypass obsticles as well as kill enemies.
- Weapon Jr. - "Baby" versions of a weapon weilded by a younger version of a character or someone training for the same position.
- We Have Those, Too - When someone assumes another culture doesn't have something that they do.
- Weirdness Search and Rescue - Someone who shows up to help a stranded character find their way home.
- You Have to Burn the Web - Burning away spider webs.
Works:
- Eliza - highly underrated Visual Novel about a burnt out former tech protege assessing the impact her work's had on the world.
- EOE: Eve of Extinction - A mediocre PS 2 title which I felt at least deserved a mention.
- The Great British Sewing Bee - A reality show along the same lines as The Great British Bake Off.
- The Hero with a Thousand Faces - A book on the plots found in classical mythology (also the trope namer for The Dragon, amongst other things).
- Hero Oh Hero - A fantasy webcomic which uses original pixel art (dun dun duuuuun!).
- Journey's End - The story of a group of officers in World War One.
- Murder in the First - A lawyer argues 3 years in a Maximum Fun Chamber is grounds for an insanity defence.
- Super Metroid - The SNES iteration of the Metroid series.
- Torchlight - A WRPG Dungeon Crawler.
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar - The classic children's picture book about a famished butterfly larva.
- Zeno Clash - An extremely strange First-Person Shooter/Beat 'em Up hybrid.
Playing With Wiki:
- PlayingWith.All Psychology Is Freudian
- PlayingWith.Archaeological Arms Race
- PlayingWith.Attack Animal
- PlayingWith.Bodyguarding A Badass
- PlayingWith.Clone By Conversion
- PlayingWith.Cloudcuckoolanders Minder
- PlayingWith.Contagious Cassandra Truth
- PlayingWith.Disability Immunity
- PlayingWith.Ballroom Blitz - Watch out for the man at the back.
- PlayingWith.Bandage Babe - Ways to play with a woman in bandages...no not like that!
- PlayingWith.Coup De Grace Cutscene
- PlayingWith.Death Of Personality
- PlayingWith.Delayed Narrator Introduction
- PlayingWith.Equipment Based Progression
- PlayingWith.Equipment Spoiler - There is a weapon in the shop which nobody in the Player Party can use. Somebody must be about to join it!
- PlayingWith.Equippable Ally
- PlayingWith.Evil Brit - Are Britons Always Chaotic Evil? Of Course not!
- PlayingWith.Evil Luddite
- PlayingWith.Exploited Immunity
- PlayingWith.Expose The Villain Get His Job - Even if I didn't get to launch the main article, I can still write the playing with! =P
- PlayingWith.Exposition Cut
- PlayingWith.Exposition Diagram
- PlayingWith.Face Monster Turn
- PlayingWith.Friendly Sniper - Because not all snipers are the Cold Sniper.
- PlayingWith.I Dont Know Mortal Kombat
- PlayingWith.Improbable Use Of A Weapon
- PlayingWith.Joggers Find Death - Watch out for corpses and killers on your morning run.
- PlayingWith.Lady Legionnaire Wear
- PlayingWith.Large Ham Title
- PlayingWith.Living Weapon
- PlayingWith.Malicious Slander - Don't believe everything you hear on the grapevine.
- PlayingWith.Manual Leader AI Party
- PlayingWith.Medals For Everyone - Feast optional.
- PlayingWith.Mysterious Backer
- PlayingWith.Not Rare Over There
- PlayingWith.Obsolete Mentor
- PlayingWith.Opposed Mentors
- PlayingWith.Pac Man Fever - To use games from after the 80's or to use modern games.
- PlayingWith.Passive Rescue
- PlayingWith.Phlebotinum Muncher
- PlayingWith.Police Brutality Gambit
- PlayingWith.Restrained Revenge
- PlayingWith.Reviving Enemy
- PlayingWith.Roaming Enemy
- PlayingWith.Sealed Cast In A Multipack
- PlayingWith.Seriously Scruffy
- PlayingWith.Spot Of Tea - Even the very British Must Have Caffeine.
- PlayingWith.Starter Equipment
- PlayingWith.Sticky Fingers
- PlayingWith.The Team Benefactor
- PlayingWith.Time Delayed Death
- PlayingWith.The Nicknamer
- PlayingWith.Uniformity Exception
- PlayingWith.Unintentionally Notorious Crime
- PlayingWith.Unknown Character
- PlayingWith.Weapon Jr
- PlayingWith.We Have Those Too
- PlayingWith.Weirdness Search And Rescue
Other:
Favourite Works
Anime and Manga
- Death Note - A boy his shinigami and his Artifact of Doom.
- Azumanga Daioh - A series of humerous shorts staring a group of schoolgirls.
- Baccano! - Immortality, Anachronistic Order and The Mafia.
- Ghost in the Shell - Series based on the movie of the same name
- Bleach - A teenager becomes a shinigami. Swordfights ensue.
- Afro Samurai - Samual L. Jackson voices a samurai trying to avenge his father's decapitation.
- The Goon - A mob enforcer vs. zombies. As sensible as it sounds.
- Watchmen - Super heroes deconstructed...thirty-five minutes ago.
- Rush Hour (when it first came out anyway)
- Shaun of the Dead
- Jurassic Park
-
i, RobotHardwired - The Matrix
- Alien
- Ciaphas Cain
- A certain boy wizard novel which I've gone off because of the views of its author
- The works of Terry Pratchett
- And thus Discworld (particularly the city watch and Rincewind/Unseen University novels)
- The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy
- The Zombie Survival Guide
- A great deal of nonfiction books on drawing manga, programming and robotics/electronics I won't bother listing (feel free to PM me if you need some recommendations though).
- Team Fortress 2 - America's number one hat collection simulator (or a team based FPS if you prefer)
- Half-Life - The adventures of Badass Bookworm Gordon Freeman
- Portal - The cake is somewhat dishonest
- Fallout - The postapocalyptic RPG/Strategy series
- Borderlands - RPG meet FPS and Gun Porn
- Broken Sword - Classic point and click
- Left 4 Dead - co-op game in which players shoot through the undead to get to safety
- Torchlight - Addictive Dungeon Crawl RPG
- Zeno Clash - Surreal First-Person Shooter Beat 'em Up hybrid
- Metal Fatigue - an RTS based around giant robots
- Psychonauts - An awesome, under-rated platformer from Tim Schaffer himself
- Doom (including Doom 3) - The trope codifier for the entire FPS genre
- Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale - Sort of like Act Raiser, but with an item ship in place of a building sim
- Plants vs. Zombies - Tower Defence done very well indeed
- F.E.A.R. - Horror based FPS
- Oddworld - Surreal stealth based platformers
- Penumbra - Terrifying stealth based horror FPS
- Amnesia: The Dark Descent - Spiritual Successor to Penumbra.
- Serious Sam - Old school style FPS action with modern graphics
- Tomb Raider - The classic series staring Ms. Croft
- Deus Ex - The FPS with RPG Elements
- BioShock - Under the sea...(well...)
- Pokémon - Gotta catch 'em all!
- The Legend Of Zelda - Classice Action/Adventure series
- Timesplitters - Awesome trilogy of console FPS
- Final Fantasy - The JRPG series
- Resident Evil - Cheesy dialogue, pants wetting horror
- World of Warcraft (recovered addict, clean since April 2009)
- BlazBlue - Anime style beat em up action from the makers of Guilty Gear
- Disgaea - Hardcore Turn-Based Strategy grindfest
- Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero? - Platform Hell spinoff series staring the Series Mascot
- Metroid - Part of the namer for the Metroid Vania genre
- Red Vs Blue - Machinoma based on Halo
- The Adventures Of Dr McNinja - A very silly series about a ninja. Who is also a doctor.
- Gunnerkrigg Court - If Harry Potter was written by a cynical Brummie and was Science Fiction rather than fantasy.
- Looking for Group - An elf and his evil mage friend set off on an epic quest. Better than it sounds.
- Nodwick - The adventures of a hard put-upon lacky of a group of D&D style adventurers.
- PS238 - Super heroes' kids in primary school.
- A Path to Greater Good - Sprite comic following three protagonists. Updates erratically. Uses original sprites.
- Hero Oh Hero a relaunch of the above.
- The Order of the Stick - D&D done in a stylised stick figure style. The forums were what brought me to TV Tropes
- 8-Bit Theatre - The grandaddy of all Sprite Comics. Uses sprites from Final Fantasy. Series is now completed.
- How I Killed Your Master - Kung foo based shenanigans from the maker of 8BT.
- The Dreadful - Another comic written by Clevinger.